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"Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine" now available!

maggot — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:56:44 GMT

RESYST Seattle is proud to announce the release of "Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine," co-edited by Colin Kennedy Donovan and Qwo-Li Driskill.

Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories--funny, sexy, and complex--as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.

Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain Cuthand, Louis Esmé Cruz, Sharon Deevey, Loree Erickson, romham padraig gallacher, Raven Gildea, emi k, Dani Frances Montgomery, Peggy Munson , billie rain, Tsi-ge'-yu/Beloved Sharp, Captain Snowden, suki valentine, and Sharon Wachsler.

Available at:
http://www.cripqueer.wearetheones.org/pity.htm

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submissions wanted: my gender cookbook!

maggot — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:04:38 GMT

My Gender Cookbook, a gender and cooking anthology, seeks submissions of creative nonfiction essays and recipes that explore how gender and sexual identities affect our cooking choices: how we eat, what we eat, and with whom we eat. We are also interested in the effect of socio-economics, ethnicity, politics, personal taste, cooking ability and anything else you may think of. Gender identity, like a good recipe, is a combination of ingredients. In both gender and food preparation, one cannot always be meticulous and one does not always know how it will turn out. How does your gender identity relate to your taste in food? How does your cooking style parallel your gender construction?

Essay submissions will not be considered without a recipe and should be between 500 and 3000 words. Please include a brief bio, email contact info and your essay and recipe as word document attachments. Only previously unpublished materials will be considered.

Submissions will be accepted no later than February 1st 2008. Please send submissions to Nisa Malli and Chiara Klaiman at mygendercookbook@gmail.com

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Julia Serano -- "On the Outside Looking In"

catuskoti — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:08:51 GMT

You might want to check out a collection of essays by Julia Serano,
called On the Outside Looking In. Go to www.juliaserano.com, click on
stuff to buy and then click on On the Outside Looking In. The full
text'll come up. Please forward it, especially to people you know who attended, or who weren't against attending, this year's MWMF.

Amy

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artists opinions on the policy

jenkiper — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:04:54 GMT

there have long been discussions about artists who perform at michigan. folks have been boycotted and confronted and pamphleted. actions have mostly been informative and have helped to educate and inform folks about the policy and create their own position and decisions about how to support the artists or not. below are links to responses from two artists about michigan's womyn born womyn policy.

ember is performing for the first time and i've talked to both her and lyndell about the policy and the possibility of performing. i appreciated ember's thoughts on mwmf and found many of them in agreement with my own views.

http://www.emberswift.com/v2/musings/

the other is from alix olson who has performed at fest for several years. i've always heard that alix was pretty adamant about the policy, but the post seems much more conflicted.

http://www.alixolson.com/diary.php3

what are yr responses? is this tactic of internal action, action within the fest, useful or just wishful thinking? as someone engaged with this type of action, i want to be more effective. to work in alliance with those who boycott and work to change the policy by other means. i guess i hope that multiple approaches will accomplish more than one.

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Trans March Volunteers Needed

Fluid — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 19:55:43 GMT

Trans March Friday June 24

Trans March

The 2nd Annual Trans March will take place Friday June 24th in Dolores Park, San Francisco. Live bands, transgender and gender-variant speakers, drag kings, and musicians will perform from 3 pm till 7 pm, and the March itself will begin at 7 pm.

The Trans March is a grassroots, community-building political event, welcoming transgender, genderqueer, intersex, and all genders of people, as well as allies. It is a demonstration of trans visibility, celebrating the growth of a gender movement. The purpose of this event is to:
1. Demonstrate that the violence and discrimination directed against the transgender community will not be tolerated.
2. Celebrate the struggles of the trans community for respect, acceptance, and civil rights.
3. Build a supportive, unified trans community bringing together diverse genders, ages, ethnic backgrounds along with our allies.

Last year’s historic, first-ever Trans March brought together an estimated 2000-3000 people for an amazing community-driven grassroots demonstration on the weekend of LGBT Pride. This year’s Trans March will offer live bands and performers including punk rock legends Tribe 8 on a sound stage in Dolores Park.

Organizers and supporters of this event include:
Many individual trans community activists
United Genders of the Universe
FTM International
SF TEAM
Transgender San Francisco
Good Vibrations

Volunteer Needs

during the march:

- 5 stagehands to carry sound equipment, set up and tear down stage - must arrive early, by 2 pm.
- 1 march leader, must have cell phone and be cop-friendly in case of confrontation.
- 1 march tail, must have cell phone and be cop-friendly.
- 5 cleanup crew members to collect trash before march leaves the park, including one responsible crew leader who will have keys to lock dumpster and portapotties, one with camera to photograph us leaving the park super clean, and three head count people to
estimate # of people at the march.
- 20 safety monitors on march route - must attend a training organized through tgsf.
- 2 security people to clear space for performers to get to and from the stage
- someone who is part of critical mass, to connect with critical mass because they might run into us, to suggest they join us to lead the march.

and here's what we need before the march, during the
next 3 weeks:

- sound technicians who can help get performers' instruments set up on stage
- artists to design flyers for the trans march
- folks to distribute flyers and forward emails and send out press releases and generally spread the word.
- folks to warn people that if they bring alcohol, cops might come and might pour out their beers (some new regulation about dolores park because of the
playground there?)

For more information, please contact Sam Davis at samdavis66@sbcglobal.net

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www.questioningtransgender.org

catuskoti — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:07:22 GMT

Hi,

If you haven't seen it yet, there are lots of polemics against transpeople and essays defending trans-exclusive women-only spaces at www.questioningtransgender.org. This new site is titled "Questioning Trans Politics" and the essays are written by self-identified radical feminists.

Perhaps the material there can help to jump-start discussions here? Someone else first though please -- the essays are pretty disheartening, for me anyway.

Best wishes,

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New tribe for Transsexuals seeking relationships

ChristineJensen — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:41:36 GMT

http://translove.tribe.net/

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the fest "trans" policy...

Yvonne — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:03:29 GMT

i would love to continue this topic and brainstorm together for possible POA's (plan of action). For people like me let's start from the beginning....
please help me define the "policy" that stands in place now. all i know is that it has to do with trans and about not letting some in and letting others in but i don't know what defines admittance to the fest....
is it to be found somewhere on their website or is a "hidden" policy...is it written or just known....
please help.
Thanks...
let's do this..

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Introduce yrself......

jenkiper — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 04:03:16 GMT

As a way to get started, can everyone introduce themselves? here's some suggestions, feel free to add/subtract/modify/embellish.....

30 yrs old
living in kansas city, mo
in terms of identity i find myself in these spheres/groupings: genderqueer, female, faggy butch, sometimes "seen" by others as woman and other times boi/y, queer, dyke (of course its a partial list;-)

want to continue discussions about what gender means to me in my life and in a larger political/social context, on a community level(town and social), nationally and beyond.

ideas/theories/expressions/understandings of gender change over time and i want to discuss these changes/trends/variations with people from across a spectrum of experiences/identites/locations/ages

im concerned that the mich trans policy is devisive and needs to change, but im not sure how and i want to discuss it with lots of people

facilitate connections between thirdwave/2ndwave feminism/genderqueer/radical feminism and other emerging movements/groupings/people

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where is the third wave going???

Yvonne — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:06:18 GMT

any thoughts on third wave femminism where it's going and what's going on with femminsim and lesbianism...
talk to me goose....i need some objective insight to my internal wars...please advise...

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Must have Gender books

margoeve — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 04:49:44 GMT

So I just finished writing an anotated bibliography for a class and I thought some of the entries would be appreciated by this list. Here are the entries I made for books about gender (I have some interesting articles too, but that's for another post):

Bem, S. L. (1993). The Lenses of Gender. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

The Author, famous for her gender measuring instrument known as the Bem Sex-Role Indicator (BSRI), revisits how we look at gender. First, she proposes three ‘lenses’ that shape the view of gender: Biological Essentialism, Androcentrism (or Male-centrism), and Gender Polarization. She then goes on to explore the psychology of the individual to introduce an expansion of her previous ‘gender schema theory’ which she calls the Lens of Enculturation. Finally she presents an argument for the abolishment of the lenses of Gender Polarization and Androcentrism that is highly utopian in nature.

Butler, J. (1999). Gender Trouble (Rev. ed.) New York: Routledge.

The author builds on the work of Michele Foucault in order to dissect modern discourse on gender. Many newer theories of gender (ie. queer theories,” depolarization theories, and intersexed theories) in turn use Butler work as support. This text uses very dense language to pull apart the social construction of gender through the discovery of how sex is also socially constructed. The author praises efforts to subvert gender through means of cross-dressing or “bending” gender expectations within the self.

Fausto-Sterling, A. (1992). Myths of Gender (2nd ed). New York: Basic Books.

This text is a response to earlier commercial publications that claim biological deterministic difference between genders based on factors such as brain size, hormone levels, and right-brained/left-brained activity. The author addresses each of these popular claims as myths (or urban legends) to debunk. Scientific biological evidence is used to refute these biological deterministic myths so that sociological judgments based on these myths do not hinder equal opportunity for both sexes regardless of gender displays.

Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000). Sexing the Body. New York: Basic Books.

The author of this text takes the idea of biological determinism in regard to sex and gender and puts it under a microscope. She makes the argument that our notion of sex as a binary is constructed through medical politics more than through actual biological reality. Using evidence of biological research on sex differences in conjunction with medical practices of assigning sex to perceived intersexed infants, the author calls for a holistic view of gender and sexuality. By this she means that we can not break down an organism to its basic biological parts and have it retain all of its characteristics, rather we should view the body as a whole, sex, sexuality gender and all.

Johnson, A. G. (1997). The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press

The author attempts to address issues of gender bias by examining a “Patriarchal Legacy.” He puts forth the argument that the patriarchy prevails in everything we do and taints our view of women and men alike. Further, the author contends that the patriarchy is an ideological construct, an ‘it’ rather than a ‘he’ or ‘she.’ He believes that everyone is responsible for perpetuating the patriarchy and blame for the gender bases woes of society (i.e. domestic violence, the glass ceiling) lies in us all.

Kessler, S., & McKenna, W. (1978). Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

This breakthrough text on gender studies is arguably the first to make the claim that gender is a social construct that is varied across culture. The authors separate gender from biological sex using an ethnomethodological approach and cross referencing with existing data from biology, sociology, anthropology and psychology. This text lays the foundation for the paradigm found in most communications scholars view of how gender is formed through communication.

Laqueur, T, (1990). Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

In this text the author traces the history of how the biology of sex is viewed. Historical medical drawings, dating as far back as the 1400s, are used to punctuate the historical data. Laqueur makes a strong case by virtue of historical evidence that everything said about sex is comes from an intrinsically gendered perspective. In other words, from ancient times to today, we make judgments about biology through our socialized assumptions about what men and women should be.

Preves, S. E. (2003). Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

The author breaks ground in the study of intersexed individuals and their relation to gender. As sex is closely socially linked to gender, the personal and social identity of those born with “ambiguous genitalia” is often thrust upon them with out consultation. The text explores the result of quantitative interviews of 37 intersexed individuals and their struggle to find their own identity outside the gender/sex binary. This research serves as evidence for anyone seeking to generate theory to try to depolarize gender and sex.

Wood, J. T. (2001). Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture (4th ed). Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth.

As a textbook on Gender Communication, this text is a thorough survey of all the polarized issues one would study as a communication scholar looking at gender and sex. It covers theories of how gender is created as well as looks at Feminist and Masculinist movements. The text has a particularly feminist slant and points out inequalities perpetuated by the media, the education system and in places of employment. Notably Missing from this text is any mention of intersexed or transgendered issues, though blues legend Billy Tipton gets a passing nod in order to begin readers questioning assumptions about gender identity.

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Why I joined this tribe

margoeve — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:50:51 GMT

I joined because I study Gender Communication. The theory is, that while Sex is physical/biological is basis, Gender is a social construct. There are other shades of Gender Communication theory, like works by Judith Butler which go into the theory that Sex is socialy constructed as well (which is supported by the works of Anne Fausto-Sterling and others who work on how our social expectations dictate how the medical community assigns sex).

So where as the Michagan Womyn's Fest issues gave spark to this tribe's creation, from reading the first two sentances in the description, and given the name, I thought this tribe expanded beyond the issues surrounding ONE event.

Am I wrong?

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New Research

margoeve — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:32:06 GMT

This article may be of interest. I am not sure how I feel about it. Personally I'd like to see the actual study.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/10/20/sexuality.brain.reut/index.html

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Cyborg in the Pink

Chris — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:11:16 GMT

How's that for a gender bend? Kristiana Loken, the T3 villain. Oh hell, I'm just liking the scenery.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2003471123,00.html

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shameless plug

charliegirl — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:40:51 GMT

I just wanted to introduce myself and mention that there's a discussion on "genders of the future" happening over in the othermagazine tribe, which you are all cordially invited to join. :)

Hey all, I'm Charlie Anders. I publish a magazine called other, which is all about pop culture and politics for the new outcasts. A lot of our content has to do with gender issues, including the ways corporate databases force you to pick a gender. We're just printing our third issue, which includes my piece about the "boundary police" who try to keep people in (or out of) different identity groups.

Anyway, just wanted to say hi and encourage you guys to check out the other magazine tribe! :) You can get to it from my profile page. Thanks!

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where do we go form here?

Dy — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:53:54 GMT

Hi. I am DY. I consider myself a person who objectively looks at the problems and thinks about suggestions. But my questions is IS MIchingan A safe place for trans women?

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archive link

hybridity — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:23:06 GMT

Hello all.

This is a very nifty link that contains archived documents from many perspectives on the Michigan Women's Festival women-only/trans issues controversy, including statements & articles by Alix Dobkin, Mr. Lady, Emi Koyama, Camp Trans, etc.
*Wheeew....*

http://eminism.org/michigan/documents.html

Cheers,
Fatma, who promises to introduce herself soon... :)

"Do you know those slightly annoying Visa ads on television about the cost of things? Well, I am tired of the price of Michigan sisterhood being so fucking expensive and available to only certain members of the tribe. Let's try this instead: Airline ticket to Grand Rapids: $280. Camping equipment: $400. Festival ticket: $340. Room for all kinds of womyn: priceless."
-Tristan Taormino

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