REDESIGN August 31, 2009
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Jenna Rink, editor extraordinaire for Poise magazine.
If you have experience in publication, or if you ever saw 13 going 30, you will understand the gravity of this word. Redesign entails the overhaul and replacement of an existing set of guiding principles in favor of an entirely new style, aesthetic, form, and content.
My life since graduation has been undergoing redesign. This process is ongoing and it may not ever end. As a part of that process, this blog has been its own exploration — a way for me to explore how to blog and what to blog about. As my ideas and life choices crystalize, this blog needs to move out of beta.
drepoetic is going under redesign.
This means drepoetic as you know it is coming to an end.
The rare of you who noticed the absence of posts this summer may have wondered what was boiling in Adrien’s wondermind. Or more probably you didn’t. Nevertheless, there have indeed been some strange potions brewing!
In accordance with recent re-imaginings of my own life, I am re-orienting my web musings towards synchronicity with my passions.
What the hell does that mean? It means some things shiny and new will arise from the ashes of drepoetic!
It means … new blogs! Gasp!
Stay tuned as further developments are revealed.
Cross-post: Adrien Salazar – wiqaable’s newest double agent August 31, 2009
Posted by Adrien in projects.Tags: Asian, queer, wiqaable
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I am now a contributing writer to wiqaable.com, the online source for unraveling the enigmatic question: “what is queer and asian?” Wooohooo!
From my introductory post:
Hello everyone!
I just wanted to introduce myself, Adrien, your newest wiqaa-blogger.
I am a poet, community builder, and whatever else you want me to be. My interests are constantly transforming but currently are condensing around pop culture, art, music, politics, community development, and social media.
In the future you can expect from me some biting social commentary on every day life and gargantuan issues that make every day life look like a holiday, all-spiced with some fierce queer and Asian one-two punches.
We’re live in 5, 4, 3, 2 … August 26, 2009
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I went to a yoga class for the first time at Yoga to the People in Berkeley yesterday. My body is now more awake than ever. Mind you, this is my first exercise in years that isn’t walking to and from the BART station.
Smart choice I made — it was the most intense workout I’ve had since endurance running cross country in high school. The class is power yoga in the vinyasa-style and by the end I was covered in sweat in the hot room, while at the same time calm, relaxed, and energized.
This is the metaphor of my life right now. After months and months of reflection, I’m going live. Full immersion-style whether I like it or not.
Last week I went to Chicago for a Neighborworks America conference on social media and community. The conference was a wake up call for me, not so much for its content but for the very fact that my work sent me to the conference. I didn’t expect to be attending conferences in my first year of work as an admin assistant. But here I am.
What I’ve realized now is that I sit atop a mass of opportunity and life experiences that are at my fingertips if I wake up from my self-induced slumber and start making some bold choices.
Philosopher Alfred D. Souza wrote,
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
I haven’t felt obstacles so much as a lack of direction. Life would begin when I decided what life I wanted to live. And it dawned on me — this is my life now. The figuring it out, the experiments, the missteps — all this is my life. It came to me like lightning that I know how I want to live. I have known this for years. I have been moving in this direction the whole time.
I am a community builder and a writer. I am an activist and a scholar. I am an artist and a history-maker. It’s taken me a while to visualize the path of this life, but I realize that the way is right in front of me. I work for the Chinatown Community Development Center for gossakes.
I have been taking the steps all along. But now I move decidedly, with purpose. I am making the life I dream of real. I am awake now. My life is moving in waves whether I feel it or not. I am taking hold of the surfboard and diving in.
