[tw for transmisogynistic slur]
Today someone asked me what I think of the event called “Hey tranny, it’s tranny” occuring during Seattle Pride. Here’s what I had to say
For me, it’s a lot less about the word being a “bad” word or someone being bad for using it as much as it is about being…
Backstory: a few weeks ago, I accepted an internship with the DC Center for LGBT Resources. My father found out, threatened to kick me out if I did it, and basically raged on and on for a while. My flight to DC is on May 24th, and I’m pretty sure my father was going to keep me from catching it.
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Here’s an unfolded copy of our very first zine, “Trans Women Belong Everywhere”!
Below are instructions on how to make this into a tiny pocket book:
1. Print. This should come out to fit 8.5x11.
2. Use steps 3 through 9 of these instructions to fold and cut the zine. The section that says “Trans Women Belong Everywhere” is the front cover. Once you fold it in half lengthwise (hamburger, not hot dog) make the cut in the middle between Wonder Woman/CeCe McDonald (or “Mourn The Dead”/I Am A Trans Woman Pt 2).This looks especially good on thicker purple paper!
from Dean Spade:
CeCe just took a plea deal—2nd degree manslaughter with a recommended 41 month sentence (actual sentencing hearing will be in a month). Horrifying to watch her forced to recount the events of her attack on the stand, to watch the judge speak…
This is not justice. We are angry and sad. FREE CECE
Closing Night is tomorrow!!! Come out and see us to help us support queer youth! If you already have, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Butterfly in Effect: Beyond Binary April 13th to 15th in San Francisco
BUTTERFLY IN EFFECT: BEYOND BINARY explores themes of environment, gender and the space between. All performers self identify somewhere on a Trans, Gender-Queer, Gender-Fluid, or Gender Non-Conforming spectrum with interpretations of environment ranging anywhere from the outdoors to religion. Proceeds to go to local LGBTQ youth organizations.
Advance tickets recommended, one weekend only
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BUTTERFLY IN EFFECT: BEYOND BINARY-a benefit for LGBTQ youth
April 13-15 2012
(Fri-Sat 7PM // Sun 5 PM)
WOMEN’S BUILDING: 3543 18 th St. #18
TICKETS: $10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Advanced tickets recommended
BOX OFFICE: http://butterflyineffect.eventbrite.com/
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Performers include:
SAN CHA
San Cha is your mistress, your slut. The one you say took a piece of
your other half. Many have stamped her as a “tramp” as have all the
others. Envious of her freedom, they’ve already fallen for the trap.
…but she doesn’t want you whole, she’s not asking for your soul.
San Cha only wants to let you in for a small glimpse in her black hole
Lil Miss Hot Mess
Since her debut in 2008, Lil Miss Hot Mess has been bedazzling San Francisco audiences with a unique blend of camp, choreography, and radical politics. She has performed at such, um, esteemed venues around San Francisco including Trannyshack, Charlie Horse, Homo A Go Go, Red Hots Burlesque, Werk Hard, Mary Go Round, Hard French, Rally The Troupes, Radar, the Kentucky Fried Woman Show, the National Queer Arts Festival, SOME THING, the local RuPaul’s Drag Race tour, and many more. She has also performed in New York and Los Angeles, and is looking to take her message to the masses in Europe this summer.
Dottie Lux
Producer of SF’s only weekly burlesque show (NOW TWICE WEEKLY), Red Hots Burlesque, instructor and performer. Available for performances near and far. Seen in New York Times, SF Chronicle, NBC, KOFY TV, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and many more publications, festivals and venues. Bring the best bump and grind to your next event and make it RED HOT! She now has her own school of shimmy!
http://www.dottielux.com/
http://www.redhotsburlesque.com/
Jesse Paradox
Jesse Paradox is a genderqueer creator in Oakland seeking to better understand human consciousness through writing transformative music about existence, queer experience, and the universe. Check out his website: www.reverbnation.com/jesseparadox
Your Uncle Bill Gemini
Wolf Painter
Black Dahlia Parton
Violent Vickie
Kai West
AND MANY MORE
Each Performance will have different acts!
Like Pokemon, ya gotta catch them all.
Proceeds to go to:
Larkin Street Youth Services
Founded in 1984, San Francisco’s Larkin Street Youth Services is an internationally recognized leader providing innovative, effective housing, medical, social and educational services to at-risk homeless and runaway youth ages 12-24 across 25 programs and 15 sites. Three out of four of the youth who complete Larkin Street’s comprehensive programs exit street life. For more information, please visit www.larkinstreetyouth.org.
Our Space
In partnership with LGBTQ youth, adults and allies, Our Space creates safe and affirming space where LGBTQ youth can socialize, build community, develop leadership skills and access culturally relevant mental health services. Our Space holds the experiences, strengths and needs of youth impacted by poverty, homelessness and the child welfare and juvenile justice systems at its core, and recognizes these youth as fierce and fabulous change-agents in our communities.
Our Space envisions a diverse society where LGBTQ youth are embraced for who they are and supported and celebrated as leaders in their communities. We use holistic approaches to support LGBTQ youth in building a foundation of self-reliance, self-esteem, and self-confidence to promote individual and community based sustainability. At its heart, Our Space envisions a world where LGBTQ youth are empowered to show fierce love for themselves and their communities.
The Pacific Center
the Pacific Center is the third oldest LGBTQI centers in the United States.Through funding from the City of Berkeley and other foundation partners (the San Francisco Foundation and Horizons
Foundation being prominent) we offer additional mental health services specifically for youth and their families. Our youth
group meets three times a week after school in a safe, accepting space that is set aside just for their use. Over 75 youth attend our after school program every year. In addition to accessing the educational and support services we offer, our youth group actively participates in addressing LGBTQ issues in the local community by organizing and participating in our LGBT
Safer Schools Speakers’ Project in Berkeley public schools. Over 800 youth are reached annually by this peer-driven program which also serves as a training opportunity for the future leaders of our immediate community
Tomorrow night from 745 to 9 at the Pacific Center in Berkeley!
“Transmasculine voices”This voice workshop, presented by Lal Zimman, PhD candidate at the the University of Colorado, provides a linguistic perspective on gender and the voice or folks on the transmasculine spectrum. He will discuss vocal anatomy, other linguists’ findings on gender differences in the voice, and his own dissertation research on the changes in pitch and speaking style that occur for transmasculine folks on testosterone. Resources for further reading and recording your own voice will also be covered
