#Morgan Bassichis

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Morgan Bassichis, Questions to Ask Beforehand, Bridget Donahue, NYC (March 25 - May 14, 2022)

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It was during those years that this group of queer weirdos and so many others before and since then modeled for me how to do friendship. Friendship was not an idea or a status you took for granted, but something you did, over and over. When your friend is flying into town, you find a car and pick them up at the airport, and you take them to get burgers at In-N-Out. When it's your friend's birthday, you bake their favorite cake (Earl Grey if you're lucky) and make them a beautiful card from thick pieces of paper and stickers you have collected for the purpose. When your friend needs a place to stay because they are visiting town or recovering from surgery or getting out of prison, you make them a bed from the extra pair of sheets and pillow you keep for visitors, and you leave them a snack in the fridge. In the shadow of structural abandonment, political alienation, family rejection, chronic illness, state violence, and medical neglect, queer friendship saves us. Queer friendship — that thing that is sometimes called mutual solidarity, disability justice, care, organizing, abolition, or maybe just love — is what raised me in San Francisco, and what forms the lifeblood of this book. Bobby inscribed my copy, "Come home soon."

Morgan Bassichis, from the intro to The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell

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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals

The protesters called on Schumer – who is among a minority of Democrats to recently criticize the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – to stop arming Israel’s military, which relies heavily on US weapons, jet fuel and other military equipment.

“We as American Jews will not be used, we will not be complicit and we will not be silent. Judaism is a beautiful, thousands-year-old tradition, and Israel is a 76-year-old colonial apartheid state,” Morgan Bassichis, an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, told the crowd.

“This is the Passover that we take our exodus from Zionism. Not in our name. Let Gaza live.”

The mass arrests came after the seder rituals. Speakers included journalist and author Naomi Klein, Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour, and several Jewish students suspended from Columbia University and Barnard College over the protests that have rocked US campuses in recent days.

Rabbi Miriam Grossman, from Brooklyn, led a prayer before the first cup of ritual wine. “We pray for everyone besieged, for everyone facing starvation and mass bombardment.”

Klein spoke after eating the bitter herbs that represent the bitterness of slavery at the seder. “Our Judaism cannot be contained by an ethnostate, for our Judaism is internationalist by its very nature. Our Judaism cannot be protected by the rampaging military of that ethnostate, for all that military does is sow sorrow and reap hatred, including hatred against us as Jews.”

Jewish communities have often used Passover to protest about global injustice. Tuesday’s protest, organizers said, was inspired by the 1969 Freedom Seder, organized by Arthur Waskow on the anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s death. The original Freedom Seder sought to connect the Jewish exodus story with the struggle for civil rights in the US and against the war in Vietnam.

One protester, a 31-year-old Jewish woman who asked not to be named for security reasons, said: “Passover is about liberation. In our family, Palestinians have always been part of our celebration and mourning. The call for liberation is more important now than ever … As Americans, the billions of our tax dollars in the Israeli military bill is outrageous and horrifying.”

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Next Week: Palestine Festival of Literature's 'How Empires End'

Palestine Festival of Literature is organizing an event next Wednesday “to hear from crucial voices about the ongoing war on Gaza and what we can do to stop it.” The line-up includes writers Raymond Antrobus, Omar Barghouti, Morgan Bassichis, Mohammed El-Kurd, Soweto Kinch, Sabrina Mahfouz, Max Porter, and Kamila Shamsie. Find further information, including on where to buy tickets, on PalFest’s…

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Not in Our Name: On Jews Rejecting Zionism by Morgan Bassichis

Watch this powerful speech given by the artist, writer and anti-imperial organiser, Morgan Bassichis (@morgankindof), at our recent event in London, where they told the audience about the latest in Jewish anti-Zionist organising in the United States.

“American media tries to characterise the massive growth of anti-Zionism amongst American Jews as merely a marginal position amongst young people - but we know better. It is not a generational rift. It is an intergenerational legacy.

“We are proud to come from generations of Jews who opposed each and every form of oppression, including Zionism. Who saw Zionism for what it was, a false solution for the crimes of European antisemitism, that would be used to dispossess indigenous Palestinians of their land. Who connected their own activism against racism and patriarchy at home, to wars and colonialism abroad, and saw a common enemy: white supremacy and empire.”

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Fundraiser for Adalah Justice Project

In honor of Shatzi Weisberger, Jewish anti-Zionist/LGBTQ+ activist, AIDS nurse, abolitionist, and so much more - please join me in donating to this fundraiser in her honor. She was the ancestor we should all aspire to be. May her memory be for a revolution, and may you join me in picking up the torch!

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“The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions,” 2019 edition with the intro by Morgan Bassichis

It was during those years that this group of queer weirdos and so many others before and since then modeled for me how to do friend- ship. Friendship was not an idea or a status you took for granted, but something you did, over and over: When your friend is flying into town, you find a car and pick them up at the airport, and you take them to get burgers at In-N-Out. When it's your friend's birthday, you bake their favorite cake (Earl Grey if you're lucky) and make them a beautiful card from thick pieces of paper and stickers you have collected for the purpose. When your friend needs a place to stay because they are visiting town or recovering from surgery or getting out of prison, you make them a bed from the extra pair of sheets and pillow you keep for visitors, and you leave them a snack in the fridge. In the shadow of structural abandonment, political alienation, family rejection, chronic illness, state violence, and medi- cal neglect, queer friendship saves us. Queer friendship-that thing that is sometimes called mutual aid, solidarity, disability justice, care, organizing, abolition, or maybe just love-is what raised me in San Francisco, and what forms the lifeblood of this book. Bobby inscribed my copy, "Come home soon." [End ID]

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75 Jahre Tod

Manova: »„Solidarität mit Israel“ wird in der Politik Deutschlands und anderer Länder heute großgeschrieben. Aber von welchem Israel sprechen wir eigentlich? Von dem der Gewalttäter und Rassisten, die in Gaza unvorstellbares Leid verursachen? Oder von einem Israel, in dem sich wachsender Widerstand gegen die faschistische Politik eines Benjamin Netanjahu regt. Verallgemeinerungen waren schon immer schädlich und irreführend. Wenn man über jüdische Identität und Politik reden möchte, so sollte man dabei die Jüdische Stimme für den Frieden nicht vergessen, die sich seit vielen Jahren für Gerechtigkeit und Versöhnung einsetzt. Morgan Bassichis wendet sich in dieser Rede gegen das allgemeine Schweigen zum Gaza-Massaker. Wer wirklich gegen Antisemitismus und für die Sicherheit von Juden eintreten wolle, der müsste heute Militarismus und Apartheid bekämpfen, nicht die Palästinenser. http://dlvr.it/T53T16 «

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The Sparkling Standup of Morgan Bassichis https://t.co/SWqkVf1dIz

The Sparkling Standup of Morgan Bassichis https://t.co/SWqkVf1dIz

— Karen Spears (@Kar3nSpears) Mar 28, 2023

from Twitter https://twitter.com/Kar3nSpears

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Morgan Bassichis

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: Born 1983

Ethnicity: White

Occupation: Comedian, writer, artist, musician, activist

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Sasha Wortzel (American). Still from We Have Always Been on Fire, 2018.  Part of Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall at the Brooklyn Museum. 

We Have Always Been on Fire is a collaboration between filmmaker Sasha Wortzel and musician and performer Morgan Bassichis. In this music video, Bassichis sings a track off of More Protest Songs! (2018) from within the dunes of Cherry Grove on Fire Island, New York. Bassichis describes the album, whose title can be understood as both an imperative (Listen to more protest songs!) and an eye roll (Not another protest song!), as “falling somewhere between adult lullabies and practical spells.” Simple chords and lyrical repetition offer up an incantation to the ghosts of Cherry Grove, a decades-long site of sanctuary for queer communities.

As Bassichis intones that “We have always been on fire / We have always been let down / We have always been an island,” Wortzel echoes this refrain visually, interweaving seaside imagery she captured in recent years on Fire Island with found footage by documentarian Nelson Sullivan from July 4, 1976, before the onset of HIV/AIDS. We Have Always Been on Fire culminates with Bassichis serenading the viewer from within the halo of a disco ball, evoking an intergenerational sense of loss and disappointment in the ongoing struggle for queer liberation.

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Opening May 3, Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising—a multiway rebellion ignited by a routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City—and explores its profound legacy within contemporary art and visual culture today. Taking its title from the rallying words of transgender artist and activist Marsha P. Johnson, the exhibition presents the work of twenty-two LGBTQ+ artists, all born after 1969, who pay tribute to activist foreparents and ask how we will care for future generations. 

The featured artists form part of the vanguard of queer artistic production, and include Mark Aguhar, Felipe Baeza, Morgan Bassichis, David Antonio Cruz, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, John Edmonds, Mohammed Fayaz, Camilo Godoy, Jeffrey Gibson, Hugo Gyrl, Juliana Huxtable, Rindon Johnson, Elektra KB, Linda LaBeija, Park McArthur, Elle Pérez, LJ Roberts, Tuesday Smillie, Tourmaline, Kiyan Williams, Sasha Wortzel, and Constantina Zavitsanos.

Tuesday Smillie (American, born 1981). S.T.A.R., 2012. Watercolor, collage on board. Courtesy of the artist. © Tuesday Smillie

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"I think that “72 and still naked” is a great way to describe the book." -Tourmaline.

Interview Magazine talked with Tourmaline and Morgan Bassichis on the queer cult classic now out from Nightboat Books.

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“To Do 7/31/17” by Morgan Bassichis

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On November 6, 2016, High Line Art hosted an afternoon of readings and performances in response to Zoe Leonard’s I want a president (1992), which is on view on the western pillar of The Standard, High Line, through March 2017. 

Readings and performances were presented by Morgan Bassichis, Justin Vivian Bond, Nath Ann Carrera, Mel Elberg, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, Sharon Hayes, Layli Long Soldier, Fred Moten, Eileen Myles, Pamela Sneed, and Wu Tsang. You can watch the full program here!