Friends, Activity Partners

Jun 2004

Los Angeles

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Queer Women of Color Organization and Publication

Tongues

Zines. Magazines. Activism. Politics. Queer Womyn of Color Artistic and Cultural Production

Tongues is a Los Angeles-based not-for-profit organization and magazine run for and by queer women of color.

Check out our new website: www.tonguesla.org
Our Mission

Tongues is a non-profit collective of Queer Women of Color organizing towards building a movement that inspires new conceptualizations of activism, identity, and politics; motivates cross-collaborations; and addresses social issues across our vast communities.

While in the hopes of reconstructing a language of our own, we use the word "Queer" to connote the range of identifiers with which we currently engage ourselves to include lesbian, bisexual, same-gender loving, gay,
two-spirited, jota, dyke, etc. We choose "Tongues" as a symbol of our rhythmic instrument on which we depend to communicate our realities and unleash our desires; give voice to the traditionally silent, and epitomize our sensuality; mobilize our communities, and make and
share erotic pleasure.

People interested in the multiple manifestations of and approaches to activism; racialized and class-based experiences and identities that intersect with queerness; analyses of power and privilege. Non-Apologists. Fieras. Computers. Jotas. Homos. Ladies. Gentlemyn. Allies. The World.