See My Talk: Transmedia Transgender Storytelling as Radical Action - Monday Feb 27th, Online and at UCIrvine
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Exciting news and a forthcoming event that you can attend online!
I'm the recipient of an Illuminations grant from University of California, Irvine. l'll be in CA for a month, during which I'm going to be a part of some classes and co-headlining this talk with Theresa Jean Tanenbaum:
MONDAY FEB 27th 5:30PM-7PM PST (8:30-10 EST)
Transmedia Transgender Storytelling as Radical Action: A Conversation Between Cat Blackard and Theresa Jean Tanenbaum
REGISTRATION LINK:
https://campusgroups.uci.edu/Illuminations/rsvp_boot?id=1926069
"When these two dynamic storytellers collide, the only thing certain is that the conversation will be fun, illuminating, and unpredictable. Join Cat and Tess as they explore the intersections of media, music, narrative, magic, activism, identity, fantasy, gender and sexuality, role-playing games, and autobiography.
In their public conversation, they will discuss their backgrounds and experiences in media and storytelling, their current projects and research, the role that autobiography plays in their work, and how the very act of sharing their stories is a form of radical activism."
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Sun Myung Moon invested nearly $3 million in a cruel chinchilla farm at Boonville
Chinchillas are smart: dolphins, porpoises and chinchillas can retain the ability to differentiate between 'p' and 'b', but they don’t develop language. They suffer when they live their lives in small cages.
Wikipedia:
Chinchillas are easily distressed, and when they are unhappy, they may exhibit physical symptoms.
In nature, chinchillas live in social groups that resemble colonies, but are properly called herds. Herd sizes can range from 14 members up to 100, this is both for social interaction as well as protection from predators.
As pets, Chinchilla not only need scrupulous physically care, like temperature control, diet control, but also psychological care, which refers to simply, playing with them. It is probably correct to say that the chinchilla is more sensitive psychologically than physically. It can survive an astonishingly bad diet, mistreatment and poor physical environment if psychological factors such as those caused by moving the animal from its accustomed quarters or shipping it.
▲ Chinchillas in their natural habitat in Chile
Paul Werner on Moon’s chinchilla providence:
“In October 1983 we acquired our second farm and upon Father's request, started breeding chinchillas, in October 1984, after investing some time and money to accommodate them. They are very sensitive animals and require a certain temperature, meaning we had to install a heating system for the wintertime and air-conditioning for the summer. They are also most content listening to classical music.”
from the Personal Testimony of Rev. Paul Werner, May 1985
The business was probably called “American Chinchillas” which was connected to One Mind Farm, Inc., 14751 Hwy 128, Boonville, CA 95415.
One Mind Farm, Inc (Active). Date Established: Feb 17, 1981. The entity has been operating for 41 years and 9 months. In 1981 it may have been registered at 818 West Seventh St. 2nd Fl., Los Angeles, CA 90017
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Sun Myung Moon’s teaching of the three blessings meant nothing to him.
Second blessing: Moon had illegitimate children (Hee-jin Moon +) while married to his first wife (Sun-gil Choi), and another (Sam Park) while married to Hak Ja Han. He showered her with cash and luxury goods. (ref. Nansook Hong)
Third blessing: While out fishing, Moon threw trash in the oceans and watched ginseng bottles as they bobbed into the distance. Moon condemned chinchillas to lives of suffering for the gain of his own family.
Some of these businesses may have been used for laundering money, as Nansook Hong explained. A lot of cash came in from Japan. (link below)
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Hak Ja Han owned, or had a close connection to, a luxury clothes store, Christina Bahn Incorporated, in New York. It sold dresses and skirts – and coats, hats, stoles and muffs all made of fur. Wholesale furrier 401 5th Avenue, NY.
Registered Agent: Haengmi Skulstad – Nicholas Skulstad (second gen) may be her son. He was connected with Sean Moon’s Rod of Iron.
Quote from the New York Times:
The Untold Story of Sushi in America
By Daniel Fromson
Unification Church International would turn out to be much more than a sushi holding company. Sometimes directly and sometimes via a shell company, it would finance Moon’s media properties, his anti-Communist activism, his ballet company, his tax-fraud appeal by Laurence Tribe, even a chinchilla ranch in Northern California (which received nearly $3 million). But it would also be a vehicle through which the religion guided the seafood business.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sushi-us.html
▲ Chinchillas are social creatures
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The Moonie recruitment camps in Northern California
By Gaye LeBaron The Press Democrat 1993
The Boonville ranch became a farm. Most of the land is now leased for cattle grazing. A few followers of Moon still raise chinchillas [for fur] there.
▲ Pelts from dead chinchillas
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Christina Bahn coats for sale in Japan:
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Sun Myung Moon’s forgery and tax fraud case
Sun-gil Choi, Moon’s first wife
Dong-sook (True Child) born 1955 (She attended Moon’s funeral)
Hee-Jin Moon born 1955 (hidden in Japan to protect Moon)
Sam Park was born in 1966
Nansook Hong on money laundering, etc.
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