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A Block to Organize With

Compensation

Wimmin with a Mission Productions
Stills from the 1999 film, Compensation are shared including a scene from the film where conflicting access needs around audism & literacy is depicted. In the narrative, a man approaches a woman on the beach - he is selling fresh caught fish. He asks her if she would like to buy some and because she is Deaf she cannot hear his question. She pulls out a writing block which she writes to him on, saying “I do not speak like you”, to which he replies, captioned in the film as: “I can’t read miss”. The scene ends when he plays a baroque ukulele and she rests her hand on the instrument, feeling the strum and vibration of the music, potentially finding a third communication method.

Zeinabu Irene Davis: Director, Producer, Editor

Marc Arthur Chéry: Producer, Writer

Pierre Désir: Cinematographer

John Jelks: Cast

Michelle A. Banks: Cast

Nirvana Cobb: Cast

Kevin L. Davis: Cast

Christopher Smith: Cast

1. This film still is from the film Compensation, and is of three Black people on a beach. Two femmes in dresses rest on a blanket in long white dresses, one lays under a beach umbrella - maybe taking a nap. The other sits up and looks at a man who she is communicating with. Her hands cover her ears and the man stands next to her holding a ukulele, wearing a bag slung over his shoulder and a large harpoon pole for catching fish.
2. This still is from the same film, and is another moment in the same scene. The same woman is now writing on a block with chalk, the man gazes over at what she is writing on this block.
3. Still in the same scene, the woman holds up her block towards the man presumably with words on it and he steps back - regarding it.
4. Another still from the same film, its a slide decorated with Art Deco edges and a design of two heads with the words between them “WIMMIN WITH A MISSION PRODUCTIONS”. In the middle of the designed slide is the text “I do not speak like you”. 
5. Coming back to the beach scene, we see the man’s face up close. He is wearing a hat and many ropes and bags. The captions on the screen state “I can’t read Miss.”.
6. Back to the wide view of the three people on the beach we see the man squatting down next to the woman. Her hand is on the ukulele and he seems to be strumming it. We can infer that she is feeling the vibration of the strum. 

Top/Bottom Surgery - Gender Affirming Surgeries

.pdf’s - pads - phone trees - whisper networks - lots of data shared between trans* support networks

Various blocks waiting to be filled with “to do’s”. Here is a gender affirming surgery organizing pad. Loving community members write their names down and support in healing by taking on roles. “Cook”, “Grocery Shopper”, “Laundry/Cleaning Supporter”, “Plant Queer Extraordinaire”. Another example has various colored blocks from an excel spreadsheet that tells its users when to take medications, ask for support, move one’s body: when to do this but not that. Blocks full of color indicate yes & no. In another example, procedure notes: pre & post are named alongside the surgeon or physician, start time, date, duration. Blocks long and short, heavy with needs, desires, pain and healing.

1. This is a screenshot of a pad from the feminist technology collective Constant. It is empty, no text populating the pad. It begins on the left on line 101. At the top are commands for the text like “bold” or “italic” or “underline”. Above earlier in the lines on the pad there is a lot of community organizing, hidden from view.
2. This is a screenshot of a bunch of blocks from an excel sheet. There are various hues of blue, gray, green, orange & purple shown - in various intensities. Over the sheet the colors are sometimes becoming more intense and other times starting and stopping. There seems to be logic of color and time happening between the blocks.
3. This is another document with information on it like ‘Date:”, “Start Time:”, “Duration;”, “Surgeon/Physician:”, “Facility/Location:”, Post-Surgery Notes:”, and “Pre-Surgery Notes;”. All of the boxes remain empty, full of possibility. 
4. This is a collection of boxes, looooooong short looooooooong in repetition across the image. All of them are empty, waiting to be filled. 

IQP Berlin: for anti colonial, antiracist, anticapitalist liberation: Telegram Channel

IQP Berlin
During the Internationalist Queer Pride there were many blocs. Covid Safety Bloc, Disability Justice Bloc, Red Pink Bloc, Palestine Bloc, Antifa Bloc, Anarchist Bloc, Rhythms of Resistance Berlin Bloc, Armenian Bloc, D.R.A.G. Bloc, Queer Afghanistan Bloc, Black Resistance Bloc, Whore Bloc, Transfem Bloc, Tea Cups Trans* Bloc, Queer SWANA and Arab* Bloc, Queer Kurdish Bloc, Bloque Latino Americano, Dalit Queer Bloc, Central and North Asia Pride Bloc, Queer Anti-Imperialist Asian Bloc & the Queer Vegan Liberation Bloc. Another Bloc not named was the asyncronous Bloc enabled by the Telegram Channel, still online as of 18 September 2025. Enabling connection to the protest from bed when your friend sent you the link, or for those who stayed until they could and left when they got too sensorially overwhelmed - like me. Protesting in Bed Bloc.
1. This is a photo of a big speaker with a neon paper taped to it. The tops of heads in the street are shown, no faces are visible. There peaks out a rainbow flag on the bottom left of the image. The neon paper has a big QR code on it, a URL and some text inviting protestors to join a telegram chat for live updates, transcriptions & translations of the demo info IQP Berlin. 
2. Now, we’re in a screenshot of the IQP Berlin Telegram channel. Shown is a post from ‘IQPBerlin’. Its a Bloc Map with people doodled as dots and the names of all the blocks lined up so you know where to go based on what bloc you wanted to join in the demo. 
3. Still in the Telegram Channel, a bit further down, we see designed posts also from the ‘IQPBerlin’ account with information about Covid Safety & 2025: Covid is not over. 14 people have ‘hearted' this, one person put a “thumbs up”, and one person put a ‘fire heart’ emoji as a reaction to this post. 
4. More about Covid is shared in six different languages in this same Telegram channel.