https://oakchezar.com oakchezar2 Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:40:01 +0000 https://oakchezar.com en https://oakchezar.com/Index Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:08:41 +0000 oakchezar2 https://oakchezar.com/Index Activist.&nbsp; Scholar.&nbsp; Heretic.&nbsp; Cultural Chronicler.&nbsp; Retired Barbarian. <img width="1936" height="2592" width_o="1936" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4299f7be9214a4fb99120246d5fb6bb99d5f72626827324f2eaab468d1ee8e8/1.jpeg" data-mid="121565054" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4299f7be9214a4fb99120246d5fb6bb99d5f72626827324f2eaab468d1ee8e8/1.jpeg" /><img width="2448" height="3264" width_o="2448" height_o="3264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bc69fc58d87d83f825dbf4ae0965dbc2b665973e665a1be764c9305ed2267a0/2.jpg" data-mid="121565056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bc69fc58d87d83f825dbf4ae0965dbc2b665973e665a1be764c9305ed2267a0/2.jpg" /><img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a333970b7c981a4f93a6ef8213840cf24860bb869775f9e5ba4f63171538a30d/MercVampyra.JPG" data-mid="142528842" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/a333970b7c981a4f93a6ef8213840cf24860bb869775f9e5ba4f63171538a30d/MercVampyra.JPG" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25143ec5a6847d248e45113b2b82070dc2356cf8990f4fd6575ad6917d500d04/3.jpeg" data-mid="121565057" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25143ec5a6847d248e45113b2b82070dc2356cf8990f4fd6575ad6917d500d04/3.jpeg" /> <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3d43ef98e6ff202d2f209ab7837a140d565d63f770aad3ec42c93f0f560774f/HOME_PHOTO_3.jpeg" data-mid="113918521" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3d43ef98e6ff202d2f209ab7837a140d565d63f770aad3ec42c93f0f560774f/HOME_PHOTO_3.jpeg" /> <img width="2400" height="1896" width_o="2400" height_o="1896" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c93a0d094ae5bc4e13e59a08b9cc166712d629e1a0cbb66f9f8111c42a97dd35/MercRead2.jpg" data-mid="142529062" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c93a0d094ae5bc4e13e59a08b9cc166712d629e1a0cbb66f9f8111c42a97dd35/MercRead2.jpg" /> <img width="2448" height="2448" width_o="2448" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e3df06b4bab0d735aa6c5beb602ad12c6e2deb95c0fe18d0de0de9d01190def/This-Writing-Mind-2.jpg" data-mid="121566226" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e3df06b4bab0d735aa6c5beb602ad12c6e2deb95c0fe18d0de0de9d01190def/This-Writing-Mind-2.jpg" /> https://oakchezar.com/Bio Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:08:42 +0000 oakchezar2 https://oakchezar.com/Bio <img width="2248" height="1500" width_o="2248" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d35e4578d9ee37a07dd2472020fa442f2374f98cee1895e62c5b05750b2597f8/BIO_1.jpg" data-mid="113987830" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d35e4578d9ee37a07dd2472020fa442f2374f98cee1895e62c5b05750b2597f8/BIO_1.jpg" /> A re-wilded-eco-feminist-poet-philosopher-comedian of joyful defiance, social critique and repair, I’ve always been a woman seduced by language. A retired front-lines activist, I’ve impersonated an anti-nuclear warrior, a psychotherapist, performance artist, womyn’s land resident, and Women’s Studies professor, &amp; now am a proud full-time space artist practicing breathing. Kin with forests and clouds and creatures, now a semi-retired barbarian flitting around in an off-grid, hand-built, recycled straw-bale temple at 7200 feet in the Rocky Mountains. A Neo-Luddite, my sole life’s goal is to be a good human-animal. I imagine my intellectual work as a social service, a deep pocket of some shared dreams from a public defender.. I’ve earned what I reckon is a PhD and a half with two Masters’ degrees—in Literature from CSU, and Transpersonal Psychotherapy from Naropa University.&nbsp; M.A. + M.A. = MAMA.&nbsp; *This is the sum arithmetical formula of my educational career. Instead of children, I’ve planted trees and activists in this world. For decades as a professor and a performer, I raised rebels and protectors, aiming them in the direction of social and earth justice. The purpose of my research and writing, my teaching and performance and my life, is to illuminate oppressions and our struggle for justice. I focus wide on the elemental crises of Nature, of war, rape, racism, misogyny, poverty, fascism, and assaults on the Earth. As an activist, I target patriarchy’s vicious snarl of institutions. As Cassandra, I raise a storm to warn my people. As a witch I speak for the land. I’ve always been a radical dyke. Following three years spent protesting nuclear war at Greenham Common Womyn’s Peace Camp, and another five living on Lesbian Lands, I returned to the world of our shared problematic humanity. I worked for 23 years as a radical feminist performer and writer for Vox Feminista, joyfully tossing pollen to the winds of change. I was the children’s therapist for our local Safehouse for seven years, taught Conflict Resolution in Elementary, Middle and High Schools, and then Women’s Studies classes for 11 years at Front Range Community College. I’ve been arrested for peace eleven times. Contact Info — oak.chezar@gmail.com https://oakchezar.com/About-the-Navigation Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:08:42 +0000 oakchezar2 https://oakchezar.com/About-the-Navigation First of all, WELCOME to this archive! Need help figuring out this web site? Here are a few quick tips: To get back to the starting page from any page, click my name in the upper left corner. I’ve organized my content into categories—Vox performances, poetry, and so on. They’re all listed on the left side of every page; just click the category you want.Within each category, there are links at the top of the page to the subcategories of that selection. (For example, this category has Bio, About the Navigation, Photo Gallery and Contact subcategories.)There’s a link at the bottom of each page that will take you back up to the top, or you can just scroll on through. You can click any of the subcategories at the top of the page or any of the categories on the left (About, Performance, Poetry, etc.), or click my logo in the upper left to get back to the home page. It’s so very strange to be a writer, tossing this hefty message in a digital bottle out into the deep ocean of minds. Not to know how far into the future these words can reach when i’m gone, or how they’ll be received. Such an odd intimacy to launch my heart like this out to you, when i don’t know who you are or what you like. Don’t know what to expect from you or what you’ll expect from me. What will your standards be for expression? Your ideas about the limits of symbiotic relationship or the event horizon of connection?&nbsp;This is a harvest from a 66 year old garden of thought.&nbsp; Feels like birthing a bursting star of fractured pixels, an un-calm, never-finished gyre of geodrift orbiting your browse.&nbsp; I hope you find this wild site pleasing to your heart-mind, and can feel the love within. For the purposes of definition and clarity, I’ve struggle with the challenge of separating all these words into distinct Categories and Sub-Categories. While chaos is a creative principle, the goal here is ease of navigation. As a directional dyslexic, navigation has always been a weak point for me and clarity holds me hostage at gunpoint, it’s taken me many months to organize this website, who’s point is to organize a writing life. &nbsp; The&nbsp; challenge of separating and classifying meaning has been steep.&nbsp;I associate separation and division with the hierarchical rankings of patriarchy, the splitting of humans from nature, the atomization of nuclear weaponry, and all the terrible isms of our culture—I want nothing to do with it in describing and presenting my work to you. As for classification, everything here is&nbsp;True Stories; it’s all Activism and Radical Feminist Criticism. It’s all&nbsp; Creative Writing, and Memoir. Every line is a Work in Progress, and every sentence is an Excerpt. Same with the categories of Comedy and Tragedy. &nbsp; There’s a lot of crossover and bleed-thru here, confluences that flow together. The existential and the economic. The spiritual and the social. The political and the private. Here are poems accompanied by images on video, and poems as text on the page. Vampyra videos and Vampyra scripts. Memoir fragments in poetic form, and lectures on Feminism which became fantasies, poems, essays, memoirs, and performance pieces. Simply said, Dear Reader, there are loads of sub-categories. I trust you will figure it out. If you get lost, all the better.&nbsp; Enjoy the chaos. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://oakchezar.com/Contact Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:08:43 +0000 oakchezar2 https://oakchezar.com/Contact If you would like to reach Oak Chezar, please send an email to oak.chezar@gmail.com. https://oakchezar.com/Community Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:08:44 +0000 oakchezar2 https://oakchezar.com/Community CommUNITY <img width="1844" height="1512" width_o="1844" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/174f8310b836e66a89ad46124ecb6c8d5859dcb91165406a4bff65a6f898241a/1.jpeg" data-mid="121465185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/174f8310b836e66a89ad46124ecb6c8d5859dcb91165406a4bff65a6f898241a/1.jpeg" /> Kara, Mo and I—2021—Vox’s first time out into the blizzard of Covid to celebrate our alma-mater, the Mercury Café.&nbsp; <img width="1381" height="1933" width_o="1381" height_o="1933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/865b241dbb4997e655159aea2d307f747db6856462f93edcfc07ec40e1476e82/3.jpeg" data-mid="121465252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/865b241dbb4997e655159aea2d307f747db6856462f93edcfc07ec40e1476e82/3.jpeg" /> Joy setting up paintings and frames for Vox show at the Mercury Cafe. <img width="3779" height="2860" width_o="3779" height_o="2860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/417f5be33531deeb959f045ef69bd482a999f66b08177d3763cefa9d0b884286/4.jpeg" data-mid="122080853" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/417f5be33531deeb959f045ef69bd482a999f66b08177d3763cefa9d0b884286/4.jpeg" /> Women Who Run With Scissors show. Erica, Nancy, Andrea, Magic, Naneki, Mo, and I on the Pearl Street Mall, Boulder. <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41583a7629317461bdf5174f3e8bbe1cff7be387337f1a567f241321da8f40a6/5.JPG" data-mid="121465190" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41583a7629317461bdf5174f3e8bbe1cff7be387337f1a567f241321da8f40a6/5.JPG" />Eagle, Sandi and I— tribe for life. <img width="535" height="863" width_o="535" height_o="863" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/234b4d18d6638bda2d6900c183e7f16e4924d625771f164d75151eaaa3f31daa/6.jpg" data-mid="121465270" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/535/i/234b4d18d6638bda2d6900c183e7f16e4924d625771f164d75151eaaa3f31daa/6.jpg" />Dear friend, Alison Bailey and I, 1986, on break from Greenham on the cliffs of Cornwall. <img width="3991" height="2984" width_o="3991" height_o="2984" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02855252b39f4aafaebac67a0c73429cca6b78094fe3f098dbe527fbb0555a9e/7.jpeg" data-mid="121465407" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02855252b39f4aafaebac67a0c73429cca6b78094fe3f098dbe527fbb0555a9e/7.jpeg" />Kathleen Sullivan and I, Jamestown 1997. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d114e39e16702faefab72bc6aaab2342005ca18bd79a7974774ea39fc40787d/8.jpg" data-mid="121465193" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d114e39e16702faefab72bc6aaab2342005ca18bd79a7974774ea39fc40787d/8.jpg" />First women’s march. With state senator John Kefales. We were arrested together in 1983 blockading The White Train. Now he is State Senator. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46d62c8a62bc6b9d62299f74d3740257daf5536f69d9ae5af39f8ea03a710901/12.jpeg" data-mid="121465197" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46d62c8a62bc6b9d62299f74d3740257daf5536f69d9ae5af39f8ea03a710901/12.jpeg" />Naneki, Mamie, Nancy, me, Joy, Raven, Mo, Erica, Magic. Late 90’s publicity shot.. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa86f39c6ab8d6ddb6f5a3af4908ccdaf109e959f2b2066c8a9cc59ab580a2ec/15.jpeg" data-mid="121465200" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa86f39c6ab8d6ddb6f5a3af4908ccdaf109e959f2b2066c8a9cc59ab580a2ec/15.jpeg" /> Andrea, Raven, Phil, Michele, Osha, Shannon, Joy, me, Kara, Nancy, Mo. “Noasis: Last Call For Water” 2002, Mercury Café. <img width="2467" height="1583" width_o="2467" height_o="1583" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad00af370d8b75aaf1afeb6ecbe9d5185806b84f82542ecc8046fca303a91b7c/18.jpg" data-mid="121465756" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad00af370d8b75aaf1afeb6ecbe9d5185806b84f82542ecc8046fca303a91b7c/18.jpg" />Nancy, Mo, oak, Raven, Andrea. White Privilege, inspired by Peggy McIntosh, “White Lies” show, 2005. <img width="2472" height="1815" width_o="2472" height_o="1815" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c50d327eb2cbd08f5b3f496ca68f56f0eb9df6a409cd00e024a7979e6538365/21.jpeg" data-mid="121465805" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c50d327eb2cbd08f5b3f496ca68f56f0eb9df6a409cd00e024a7979e6538365/21.jpeg" /> Naneki, Mo, Erica, me, Joy, Magic, Raven, Nancy,“Garlic Girls Reek Revenge”, 2001. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d233066497e74fe0dd30b4d05c24d5d0ef4064a3840ef49fe0ae64e0dccdd102/25.jpeg" data-mid="121465210" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d233066497e74fe0dd30b4d05c24d5d0ef4064a3840ef49fe0ae64e0dccdd102/25.jpeg" /> Vox, The Designer Vagina Clinic— Various vaginas and Dr. Dickis, about to make the cut. back to list https://oakchezar.com/Home Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:08:45 +0000 oakchezar2 https://oakchezar.com/Home Home <img width="3892" height="2861" width_o="3892" height_o="2861" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be344247fe0e7866778fde50af7e1d058891ada0eb58086f205a42aa2e6a25c2/1.jpeg" data-mid="121465957" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be344247fe0e7866778fde50af7e1d058891ada0eb58086f205a42aa2e6a25c2/1.jpeg" /> Planting a flag atop the building site. 1999—The strawbale house we build will be called Yashi— from Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood— the name for the second heart that grows in a person and holds all the memories of one’s ancestors. May it be so. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ece164664dc4c8ec4dd9412222a089f9bcf33069cf04150ad90cb92cb87e5878/2.jpeg" data-mid="121465920" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ece164664dc4c8ec4dd9412222a089f9bcf33069cf04150ad90cb92cb87e5878/2.jpeg" /> On the scaffold, stuffing clay into straw. <img width="360" height="270" width_o="360" height_o="270" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88537bca4f2ced0a7760dfada3c7b7c92c01485d20ebd16b6d7fd9f1d88ed4b7/3.jpg" data-mid="121465921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/360/i/88537bca4f2ced0a7760dfada3c7b7c92c01485d20ebd16b6d7fd9f1d88ed4b7/3.jpg" /> Yashi, finished. <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01dbee5327da4a1273027d90e6a4a64ba78fd32c312e8bc068f9ff8f5f8fe1b7/4.JPG" data-mid="121465922" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01dbee5327da4a1273027d90e6a4a64ba78fd32c312e8bc068f9ff8f5f8fe1b7/4.JPG" /> Off-grid solar shed, January. <img width="4320" height="3240" width_o="4320" height_o="3240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69249290e8c4ad06a6114bcf5b2e60b3c4f56deb017e3822aecf88ec10773ea4/5.JPG" data-mid="121465923" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69249290e8c4ad06a6114bcf5b2e60b3c4f56deb017e3822aecf88ec10773ea4/5.JPG" />We call the land Laughing Bird, and crows, magpies, and wild turkeys visit us daily. <img width="4281" height="3236" width_o="4281" height_o="3236" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0093749c0de09836af52309fa9e8083ac2bf22b0e220e76a0be0e148eb676815/10-new.jpg" data-mid="121466482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0093749c0de09836af52309fa9e8083ac2bf22b0e220e76a0be0e148eb676815/10-new.jpg" />Storm clearing. <img width="4320" height="3240" width_o="4320" height_o="3240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ff82387d65af38be12f95262a1abd0aaedbb1338c9bf7bdd4f04e160069ed07/12.jpg" data-mid="121465930" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ff82387d65af38be12f95262a1abd0aaedbb1338c9bf7bdd4f04e160069ed07/12.jpg" />Yashi inside. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f646a73d3d9685d8f85051fba5409033f35f7169e6d658c884e307d81683e55f/13.jpg" data-mid="121465931" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f646a73d3d9685d8f85051fba5409033f35f7169e6d658c884e307d81683e55f/13.jpg" />Winter night, warm inside. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95eb3c96b98159709f19710e4123d02208c7f36f7782065d7b264f793f212e3a/16.jpg" data-mid="121465934" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95eb3c96b98159709f19710e4123d02208c7f36f7782065d7b264f793f212e3a/16.jpg" />Growing in summer, legal at last! <img width="2884" height="2483" width_o="2884" height_o="2483" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afcf5d82b6505a659bfa25273399ebf81645cdace486a3a4e1edad0f341b354b/17.jpg" data-mid="121465935" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afcf5d82b6505a659bfa25273399ebf81645cdace486a3a4e1edad0f341b354b/17.jpg" />Reading my hot-off-the-presses new poetry book to human and dog friends.&nbsp; <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e143419aaf68d3382e6ca0507db8a131f1cc437799a8c2be1a903697ced274e/19.jpg" data-mid="121465937" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e143419aaf68d3382e6ca0507db8a131f1cc437799a8c2be1a903697ced274e/19.jpg" />My parents’ grave, just up the hill—springtime-blooming in mullein. back to list https://oakchezar.com/Family Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:08:45 +0000 oakchezar2 https://oakchezar.com/Family Family <img width="1124" height="1222" width_o="1124" height_o="1222" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/552403f7dc1bde6c73edfe01b333aceceff9814445d20e0d03317b815d66cbc6/1.jpeg" data-mid="121466629" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/552403f7dc1bde6c73edfe01b333aceceff9814445d20e0d03317b815d66cbc6/1.jpeg" /> Lillian Chezar, my beautiful Mama. . <img width="1936" height="2592" width_o="1936" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/383514a7fcaece19b1b205f49c3a90e17a450e764e596f29de794d215ef13b20/4.jpeg" data-mid="121466632" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/383514a7fcaece19b1b205f49c3a90e17a450e764e596f29de794d215ef13b20/4.jpeg" /> Mama lighting Friday Shabbas candles. <img width="2153" height="1849" width_o="2153" height_o="1849" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5e43a524a0596f0bb5eb31171c2a8f3dce794b2d348827d298c94171bbc3cca/5.jpeg" data-mid="121466633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5e43a524a0596f0bb5eb31171c2a8f3dce794b2d348827d298c94171bbc3cca/5.jpeg" /> Mama with Copal and me. <img width="2100" height="1837" width_o="2100" height_o="1837" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f056e2c33f85668e244d1b1e445b7cedb2e3fdf2381a73aef1d1ac90839579c8/6.jpeg" data-mid="121466634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f056e2c33f85668e244d1b1e445b7cedb2e3fdf2381a73aef1d1ac90839579c8/6.jpeg" /> Papi with Copal. <img width="3120" height="2727" width_o="3120" height_o="2727" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/791cbd9007414340a439029b819afdf466421607f239b3fd9ce6d8a13177edde/7.jpeg" data-mid="121466635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/791cbd9007414340a439029b819afdf466421607f239b3fd9ce6d8a13177edde/7.jpeg" /> Two strands—Chezar means ‘strands of the rope’. <img width="320" height="240" width_o="320" height_o="240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58ce1c3e9b476b138da2f6af8e3b9c34fd9ba8b30b9013a97a0366a3bb6fe6c8/8.jpg" data-mid="121466636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/320/i/58ce1c3e9b476b138da2f6af8e3b9c34fd9ba8b30b9013a97a0366a3bb6fe6c8/8.jpg" />My beloved horse, Fiddler. 1975, Colorado. <img width="2016" height="1512" width_o="2016" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98d473010d7f7160e029ce985781ee7f180a630d8c52c1c9abd046fcf9517f86/9.jpg" data-mid="121466637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98d473010d7f7160e029ce985781ee7f180a630d8c52c1c9abd046fcf9517f86/9.jpg" /> Copal and Shambo, a dogs’ life on womyn’s land. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f249617eee8f814813e4f814524f37431760bd0dd93ed8d323aa5f462d973b82/10.jpeg" data-mid="121466638" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f249617eee8f814813e4f814524f37431760bd0dd93ed8d323aa5f462d973b82/10.jpeg" />Joy in the columbines. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7e7bff95f8e12fd70c3bef8e0416fc759f2b296fc0516952f37616fde43a748/13.jpeg" data-mid="121466641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7e7bff95f8e12fd70c3bef8e0416fc759f2b296fc0516952f37616fde43a748/13.jpeg" /> With Barny and Lupe, rescued wolf-dogs, in high summer. <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80fabc255cf7087c634d574cf72202eae026de376e5b86fa76e05418c27a4a17/14.JPG" data-mid="121466642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80fabc255cf7087c634d574cf72202eae026de376e5b86fa76e05418c27a4a17/14.JPG" /> With Sandi. <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/987d1d9c01e7641d0b69aee59bb419b930a430ba93c8d69fed3f2e3503c26b93/15.jpg" data-mid="121466644" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/987d1d9c01e7641d0b69aee59bb419b930a430ba93c8d69fed3f2e3503c26b93/15.jpg" /> Tuba, me and Aron—Port Townsend. <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02f4d0ef645ff9b07337b4f1b4326fd61684953d936779b62c0eb1892e125681/16.JPG" data-mid="121466645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02f4d0ef645ff9b07337b4f1b4326fd61684953d936779b62c0eb1892e125681/16.JPG" /> Pearl. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c9007d0bfc7a420639614a1f42a64ca492e302a4fadd9709b3cbe034aaf7a2e/18.jpg" data-mid="121466647" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c9007d0bfc7a420639614a1f42a64ca492e302a4fadd9709b3cbe034aaf7a2e/18.jpg" /> Wild scullcap—a rarity here—blooming on Mama’s grave. Perfect herb for her anxiety.&nbsp; <img width="4320" height="3240" width_o="4320" height_o="3240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c044a6babbc8568129778c9b06712ae41ab2334f408250abc072dac2caec8ac7/19.JPG" data-mid="121466648" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c044a6babbc8568129778c9b06712ae41ab2334f408250abc072dac2caec8ac7/19.JPG" /> Joy and Sunflower. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ab220e6dd0669365e5ad8ac77929d3f5d3d73cf7fade11d994b11defe47ab03/20.jpg" data-mid="121466649" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ab220e6dd0669365e5ad8ac77929d3f5d3d73cf7fade11d994b11defe47ab03/20.jpg" /> Joy with Copal. <img width="867" height="740" width_o="867" height_o="740" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd84fd29b2363e41a5e7f0f5102672a4356227f3ec062270235cc426ef7c8c0b/21.jpeg" data-mid="121466650" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/867/i/bd84fd29b2363e41a5e7f0f5102672a4356227f3ec062270235cc426ef7c8c0b/21.jpeg" /> Julio Luigi. <img width="2028" height="1670" width_o="2028" height_o="1670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c05e0022d3a6ededd6feadb72df31456f3f3bc0c21b59111847a19952b832cbb/22.jpeg" data-mid="121466651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c05e0022d3a6ededd6feadb72df31456f3f3bc0c21b59111847a19952b832cbb/22.jpeg" /> The Bally-Lama. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f942437cee7bb355e8c73c5f2eeb5e5991a3992ae99a045b4cbb2e399ce6273d/23.jpg" data-mid="121466652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f942437cee7bb355e8c73c5f2eeb5e5991a3992ae99a045b4cbb2e399ce6273d/23.jpg" /> Tchatzke, hat. <img width="2197" height="2926" width_o="2197" height_o="2926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50f47dfaffea38b4dee0234cb4c2e1f127b6b2223dae083e7ac9da76793e0b7f/24.jpg" data-mid="121466653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50f47dfaffea38b4dee0234cb4c2e1f127b6b2223dae083e7ac9da76793e0b7f/24.jpg" /> Lydia, Tchatzke and me in the meadow. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11b715b81c26c20b65c6b66faf49b89392a82ed6fd3a2cf3f561541af6fc62b1/26.jpg" data-mid="121466655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11b715b81c26c20b65c6b66faf49b89392a82ed6fd3a2cf3f561541af6fc62b1/26.jpg" /> Dogs in snow. <img width="534" height="399" width_o="534" height_o="399" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/621dfef87d964a765e05ec267096b3c4d93f645199d2000c36b076ea513d5525/27.jpg" data-mid="121466656" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/534/i/621dfef87d964a765e05ec267096b3c4d93f645199d2000c36b076ea513d5525/27.jpg" /> Julio, my short consort.&nbsp; back to list https://oakchezar.com/Nature Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:08:46 +0000 oakchezar2 https://oakchezar.com/Nature Nature <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb0316f30aca87959c7641057453ca21b94108d875ade8d972ccad3fab45498e/1.jpeg" data-mid="121466768" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb0316f30aca87959c7641057453ca21b94108d875ade8d972ccad3fab45498e/1.jpeg" />High in the Rockies. <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd75014d9cf9e217be2b4fb6bc677f52b18403ffe03ac7143a036d1ec47021dd/2.JPG" data-mid="121466769" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd75014d9cf9e217be2b4fb6bc677f52b18403ffe03ac7143a036d1ec47021dd/2.JPG" /> By the falls. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3501df83aa3cddac0e252b56668afd03333fef6861837291b74173a2dc1e984e/3.jpg" data-mid="121466771" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3501df83aa3cddac0e252b56668afd03333fef6861837291b74173a2dc1e984e/3.jpg" /> Wild male turkeys, strutting in springtime. <img width="1225" height="919" width_o="1225" height_o="919" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4fb1414402622b2de569ca25f5fdeac9c1e0a98031839ea76d75ce35496ebfc9/4.jpg" data-mid="121466772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4fb1414402622b2de569ca25f5fdeac9c1e0a98031839ea76d75ce35496ebfc9/4.jpg" /> October birthday hike. Fall aspens. <img width="1960" height="4032" width_o="1960" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3f81249ba8988443bac3a9cc02879a210fa9ba689795528ed2cdf9a29f26be1/6.jpg" data-mid="121466774" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3f81249ba8988443bac3a9cc02879a210fa9ba689795528ed2cdf9a29f26be1/6.jpg" />In the Mamarock with Shelby &amp; Julio. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5356659d574281fbd8e8d1b39806e7cdff5a3c208ca482ee66119d218efc7c60/7.JPG" data-mid="121466775" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5356659d574281fbd8e8d1b39806e7cdff5a3c208ca482ee66119d218efc7c60/7.JPG" />Agnes the Aspen, a dear covid friend on the trail. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d1248324d96ec284c3d391debb2b613451110519660a0ebdf79df0f0098db31/8.jpg" data-mid="121466776" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d1248324d96ec284c3d391debb2b613451110519660a0ebdf79df0f0098db31/8.jpg" /> Wildfires, close—2020. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9727742ce61308aab4da94a5d67bb1050e5bb94fd0d2b53913fca9939d8844b2/9.jpg" data-mid="121466777" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9727742ce61308aab4da94a5d67bb1050e5bb94fd0d2b53913fca9939d8844b2/9.jpg" /> Later in the evening, fire’s closer. <img width="1063" height="1600" width_o="1063" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aba153479f6bb4f56fe2d2dc35b18ae677657eddad7c3cb7118fffa67b18d532/10.jpg" data-mid="121466778" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aba153479f6bb4f56fe2d2dc35b18ae677657eddad7c3cb7118fffa67b18d532/10.jpg" />With Pearlie on the bridge over James Creek. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/609f30296fac82dbfd72064767bb02239b7dd0e86b867b83d69e7ddff5d08433/11.jpg" data-mid="121466779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/609f30296fac82dbfd72064767bb02239b7dd0e86b867b83d69e7ddff5d08433/11.jpg" /> Deer and turkeys on the snowy patio. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2af81509be7ab7407de9fce5fa4b380de10f18ddfb56444d30fb90b1960793b1/12.jpeg" data-mid="121466780" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2af81509be7ab7407de9fce5fa4b380de10f18ddfb56444d30fb90b1960793b1/12.jpeg" /> View from my porch, a mountain called Porphrey’s Dyke—makes me smile everyday. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41e56f953e1e439f14f661135da173c87308d1e2935fac04a663f93be52bdd8c/13.jpg" data-mid="121466781" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41e56f953e1e439f14f661135da173c87308d1e2935fac04a663f93be52bdd8c/13.jpg" /> Rare that I don’t wish I was a bird. Snow turkeys. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efc96afca8e6a1abca6257889d9781df256cc9f11687eaeca85f309713089001/14.jpg" data-mid="121466782" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efc96afca8e6a1abca6257889d9781df256cc9f11687eaeca85f309713089001/14.jpg" />Summer aspen grove with 4 dogs. <img width="1932" height="2576" width_o="1932" height_o="2576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d683f37f721d122792c4e478d12584d8bb1466efa7cb782d4b3e4a7004a88a8/16.jpg" data-mid="121466784" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d683f37f721d122792c4e478d12584d8bb1466efa7cb782d4b3e4a7004a88a8/16.jpg" />Julio in wildflower meadow. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/256615066b09a7f5f902a8ade76c6e5810475da5fb60feabebf3ec3d9c3fce06/17.jpg" data-mid="121466785" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/256615066b09a7f5f902a8ade76c6e5810475da5fb60feabebf3ec3d9c3fce06/17.jpg" /> Oak in the oaks on womyn’s land. Arf, 1995. <img width="960" height="720" width_o="960" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd5f945f09926645688a92c376ed32bd0af35ab9b52c7cb6e381366cebf6c980/18.jpg" data-mid="121466786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/fd5f945f09926645688a92c376ed32bd0af35ab9b52c7cb6e381366cebf6c980/18.jpg" /> Jamestown Flood. Nature bats last. <img width="940" height="720" width_o="940" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/daab808e2d830f710665ab2532f3d83cef3258503b8d6e3a524047548da34337/19.jpg" data-mid="121466787" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/940/i/daab808e2d830f710665ab2532f3d83cef3258503b8d6e3a524047548da34337/19.jpg" /> Autumn aspens with Tchatzke and Julio. Turkey butts. <img width="1204" height="1059" width_o="1204" height_o="1059" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4077eea8b8ceabeb205a0cd49ab96a641a151c56d96e69bf90b554ba7e929ccd/21.jpeg" data-mid="121466789" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4077eea8b8ceabeb205a0cd49ab96a641a151c56d96e69bf90b554ba7e929ccd/21.jpeg" /> Poppy &amp; bee. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6347cdb711a7c351676655fde749df193b8ef7b1ee9ac3f96d7795b04bc1518/22.jpg" data-mid="121466790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6347cdb711a7c351676655fde749df193b8ef7b1ee9ac3f96d7795b04bc1518/22.jpg" /> Meadow with Tchatzke and Lydia. <img width="2592" height="1936" width_o="2592" height_o="1936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9febae3e249f3735e3108793c80297da672a48ec36ff01bde8f7e36167078d67/23.jpg" data-mid="121466791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9febae3e249f3735e3108793c80297da672a48ec36ff01bde8f7e36167078d67/23.jpg" /> Crows. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cc20721d36668f501f03f275d6f7ea865d61ad80ac07f52bff6bcf773196768/24.jpeg" data-mid="121466792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cc20721d36668f501f03f275d6f7ea865d61ad80ac07f52bff6bcf773196768/24.jpeg" /> Birthday hike out the door. back to list https://oakchezar.com/Performance-Intro Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:08:46 +0000 oakchezar2 https://oakchezar.com/Performance-Intro Web site rollout performance at The Muse. Pic of Samantha Emmitt, opening. VOX Feminista&nbsp; Vox Feminista was a multi-media, multi-passionate performance tribe of radical womyn. Our motto—To comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”. For 23 years, we performed radical feminist political theater from our base in Boulder Colorado. Spinning around a central core was a diverse and shifting crew of ever-renewed members, each driven by love for each other and the work, and bent upon her own quantum leap of revolution. For two decades, we wrote and performed two shows a year, each a deep dive into a single theme of power—War. Water. Oil. Money. White Privilege. Religion. Food. Democracy. Fascism—to name a few. Note that sound levels in these recordings are set to maximum. If the audio is too loud (or too soft), you may want to adjust the sound on your device. KGNU Interview with Oak and Levi about the life and times of Vox Feminista. KGNU interview with Oak about the last Vox show. <img width="1724" height="1769" width_o="1724" height_o="1769" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e0fca0e8fea300be24d1ad9072ac013e66df675ecbf9ace408ea46f01cd8a14/1Vox.jpeg" data-mid="121467281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e0fca0e8fea300be24d1ad9072ac013e66df675ecbf9ace408ea46f01cd8a14/1Vox.jpeg" /> From the show, Tattooed Church Ladies on the Precipice of a New Paradigm, here we are dressed for a stealth invasion of The Focus on the Family Center, an ultra-right wing fundamentalist institution in Colorado Springs, where snuck in a big camera and shot a satire video for the show. From the left, Denise, Oak, Naneki,&nbsp; Mona, Joy.&nbsp; <img width="2578" height="1902" width_o="2578" height_o="1902" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f25796350860dfcc9f31a19a4873f1b2bbbdd880a6c16f637be70efed71a2e0/2Vox.jpeg" data-mid="121467286" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f25796350860dfcc9f31a19a4873f1b2bbbdd880a6c16f637be70efed71a2e0/2Vox.jpeg" /> From the show, Noasis: Last Call For Water. Mona, Andrea, Raven, Phil, Michele, Oak, Osha, Joy, Shannon, Meagan, Kara, Nancy. The Dairy, Boulder. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/854b1d9d77204a950791b224b8ea786f214524224e836d813ccaa767ce67907a/3Vox.jpeg" data-mid="121467287" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/854b1d9d77204a950791b224b8ea786f214524224e836d813ccaa767ce67907a/3Vox.jpeg" /> Mercury Cafe, Denver; From the show, Plop Goes the Patriarchy, Ellen, Andrea, Levi, Oak, Mona. <img width="2296" height="1830" width_o="2296" height_o="1830" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bca6a706d6d1b6e42f305d4e107a6d7c232c386bf6ac1d41089d4677716f1ee/4Vox.jpeg" data-mid="121467291" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bca6a706d6d1b6e42f305d4e107a6d7c232c386bf6ac1d41089d4677716f1ee/4Vox.jpeg" /> From Shooting Stars in Retrograde: Alienated on Earth. Erica, Michele. Oak, Naneki, Andrea, Diane, Mona, Lesley, Nancy. back to list https://oakchezar.com/Vampyra-Reviews Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:40:01 +0000 oakchezar2 https://oakchezar.com/Vampyra-Reviews Vampyra Reviews Strange Cages — The Human Zoo Daily Camera review "Oak Chezar narrates the history of a 19-year women’s group effort at Greenham, England, one in which women endured brutality and imprisonment and eventually helped broker a nuclear disarmament treaty. Chezar spent three years at Greenham." The Last Supper To Go Daily Camera review "Vampyra — played by Oak Chezar — brings us commentary on current news. Her rage-fueled rant takes aim at politicians on both sides of the aisle, and it is as pointed and funny as most anything you’d see on Comedy Central’s 'The Daily Show.'" The Velocity of Outrage Daily Camera review&nbsp; "Chezar says, 'explaining white privilege to white people is like trying to explain water to fish.'" And the Pursuit of Happiness Daily Camera review "Chezar reprises her 'rated R for Rage' political comic Vampyra, too. Vampyra is trying to maintain her happy mood these days in the wake of Barack Obama’s presidential win, even if his cabinet is being filled with Clinton re-treads. And though she says she may find some other material before the show’s run is over, her Borscht Belt-style riffs on Sarah Palin are funnier than anything the late-night guys could come up with earlier this fall." Occupy 2012: Womyn Who Glow in the Dark Daily Camera review "Oak Chezar’s feisty alter-ego character... delivers whipcrack punch lines wrapped in social critiques. She talks about bankers ('the other white meat'), the problems with fracking, class warfare (the top warring on those below) and offers some lessons on non-violent civil disobedience." back to list