December 2011
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Transgender Group Starting January 12 Oakland
Title: Transgender Group Therapy Date: Thursdays starting January 12th, 2012. Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Repeats: This event repeats every week. Location: 725 Washington St. Suite 213 Oakland, CA 94607. Limit: 8-10 people. Rates: $35-50 per session. Contact: Call to schedule an intake: Kellen 415 320-0141, www.bennettpsychservices.com Notes: This group is for those...
November 2011
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Occupy Oakland 12:54
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
Alameda Sheriffs and Concord Police gas protesters at 16th and Telegraph.
September 2011
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it’s not just in your head: ATTENTION QUEERS →
queeragripoetics:
I’m doing research for a project at my work (I’m a domestic violence advocate) on violence in LGBT relationships and I’d love your imput. If you have experience with dating/domestic/intimate partner violence in a queer relationship and you are comfortable sharing…
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Click here to DEFEND THE LAND →
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yodelmachine:
Auntie Pixelante sez:
i thought i was over caring about the michigan womyn’s music festival – a “women-born-women”-only festival on the basis of some arbitrary essentialist standard. but today i found out that a “michfest” blog posted a list of trans women who, despite the vitriol, discrimination and hatred they face at such an event, are brave enough to attend or have...
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Lesbian Werewolf Party with Biting Booth | Mission... →
kukkurovaca:
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Oh I don’t know…wolves, lesbians- it could be fun. Or disturbing. Or both!
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BreakOut! Fighting the Criminalization of LGBTQ... →
fuckyeahlgbtqlatinxs:
“BreakOUT! organizes LGBTQ youth ages 13-24 who are most impacted by the criminal justice system through weekly “Building Our Power” meetings. In the first section, youth build off of knowledge and experiences they already have through a curriculum that includes workshops on LGBTQ Radical History, Gendered Police Repression and History of the Prison Industrial...
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Free gay workout and $9 bottomless... →
via dykealicious
pain and champagne…
If I worked out like for real with a bunch of dykes and then drank a lot of champagne I’m pretty sure I’d die- but maybe I’d die happy. It is just the champagne that’s bottomless right?
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Women's Initiative for Self Employment →
Women’s Initiative for Self Employment provides high-potential, low-income women with the training, funding and ongoing support to start their own businesses and become financially self sufficient. The women who go through our program significantly increase their income and assets while launching businesses, creating jobs and stimulating the local economy. We have five offices and 18...
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August 2011
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“Here’s another way students are cheated. In elementary school, which I teach, we...”
– “Poverty Is the Problem” With our Public Schools, Not Teachers’ Unions | | AlterNet
This is just incredibly true and important and pressing and you should all read it right now because it is vital. I’m completely serious.
(via heavenearthandhoratio)
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sexgenderbody: Suggestion for new holiday:... →
sexgenderbody:
One day out of the year where humanity simply ignores every single word out said by white men.
Ron Paul spouting off about not helping hurricane victims because somehow it will get done without government. Seriously, this is as insulting as it is asinine. If a black guy or a brown skinned man…
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Anatomy of Pleasure with the Doctors SF 8/28
Anatomy of Pleasure with the Doctors Sunday, 8/28, 1-5 pm At CSC, 1349 Mission Sliding scale $5-$60 Members half-price! (Can you become a member at the door? Why, yes!) Want to know more about the senses? Who doesn’t? Find new combinations to make you and yours hotter. Join us for a thoroughly eye (and flesh) opening tour of the body with way more area covered than just that enticing...
“Billy sent out a series of now-deleted tweets about Ever’s “piece of shit”...”
– Billy Corgan gets in a nasty Internet fight with a guitar pedal engineer and trans advocate | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club Chicago
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Queer Artists age 18-25 SF September 12
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011Art ClassFor Queer Artists age 18-25 interested in Queer History. All Supplies Included. Exhibition at LGBT Center Jan/Feb 2012. Class will start on Sept 12 at SOMArts, 934 Brannan Street, SF. Space limited - to apply for entry must go to a drop-in class on Aug. 1, 8, 22 or 29, 6-9pm and submit an application. To reserve a spot in the drop-in class, receive an application, or for...
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Fat Queer Cheap Clothing Oakland August 28th
TimeSunday, August 28 · 12:00pm - 4:00pm
LocationHumanist Hall
Created ByBig Moves Bay Area
More InfoHooray, it’s back! The fat-friendly, gender-inclusive clothing and bake sale where only the prices are small. Clothing for all genders in sizes large and up, up, up! Shoes and accessories too! Cheap, sustainable shopping with baked goods, benefitting wonderful, body-positive...
Journal seeks writing on obsessions - [places for... →
carte blanche is now accepting poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translation, graphic fiction, and photography for its Fall Issue (#14). Special feature on obsessions (passions, compulsions, and preoccupations). Deadline: September 15, 2011. Guidelines
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Touched →
Amazing, complex, gorgeous and heartbreaking piece of work.
Note: This piece deals with sexual violation.
July 2011
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“David Alan Blair “Blair”, age 43, born September 19th 1967, passed away Saturday...”
– Hope that rises from the ashes of despair | Remembering D. Blair (via communicatinginthed)
June 2011
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Scholarships for [US American] LGBTQ & Allied... →
pinkpanthers:
The HRC website hosts a list that features scholarships, fellowships, and grants for LGBTQ and allied students at both the undergraduate and graduate-level. There are both national and state specific listings, so it’s an excellent resource for all you students out there.
Check it out!
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Nicole Daedone and the Invisibility of Asexuality →
Charlie Glickman
Interesting reading- love the comment exchange.
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Library People- MLIS program at SJSU San Jose
Hey Library people! Do you know anyone in the MLIS program at SJSU? Tell them to sign up for LIBR 220-04—Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer/Questioning Resources and Services. There are not enough students registered and this important class is only offered once every three years.
Crazy- SJSU- what’s up with that?
sm4ck asked: hi, could you give me the domain of tumblr "absinthium"? please
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Two Spirits KQED June 23- 11:00 PM →
Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.
Missed it last night. Looks like it airs again on June Thursday, June 23 — 11:00pm
9 - KQEDTwo SpiritsThe Season...
“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via petitefeministe)
Eye opening.
(via black-culture)
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“But there’s something screwy about this. Because the main moral lesson we – as...”
– X-Men: First Class — Crooked Timber
How very fascinating. Now I’m filled with a desire to do a search and replace in “Black Skin, White Masks” with “mutant” and “human. (If you aren’t familiar, part of what “Black Skin, White Masks” is about is the painful experience of trying to be an educated,...
May 2011
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tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
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TONIGHT!!! ROXIE CINEMA! Gush
TONIGHT!!! ROXIE CINEMA! On May 5th Carol Queen will host the celebration for the world premiere of Good Releasing’s newest explicit educational film - Gush: The Official Guide to the G-Spot and Female Ejaculation! Female-directed and penned and hosted by Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen, Gush features real life couples, adult stars, and first time performers in intimate explicit...
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Call to Action- H.R. 3's radical assault on a...
The House is set to vote Wednesday on a bill that could force rape and incest survivors to prove to the IRS that they were assaulted.1
It’s beyond outrageous, it’s horrifying.
And to make matters worse, the bill would impose tax penalties on small businesses and many individuals who buy abortion coverage with their own money—with exceptions only for cases of rape, incest, and when...
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Being Gay In Uganda: An interview with Tadej... →
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A Gay Girl In Damascus- My Father The Hero →
“We had a visit from the security services:
it was late at night, in the wee small hours. Everyone was fast asleep. I woke when I heard the clamor and immediately guessed what had happened.”
Powerful story. Courageous writer, courageous father.
April 2011
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Trans Etiquette 101: No Offense, But That’s... →
transpride:
1. Ask permission to ask questions. Even if you think you know they are comfortable answering, they may actually not be or maybe not in that setting, and it is just rude and pretty off-putting to not ask. Say, “Hey do you mind if I ask you some things about your transition? I’ve been a little curious – feel free to not answer or say no.”
2. Avoid private and personal questions....
Survey about Queer Intimate Partner Violence →
treeself:
itsthefirstday:
avry:
Hey y’all! My friend is conducting a survey about queer intimate partner violence (that is, domestic violence and sexual assault within queer relationships). The survey is 100% anonymous and any identifying information will be changed if used in the literature created based on this research. If you haven’t experienced violence in your relationships, please...
Angels In America →
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Senior Computer Classes LGBT Center SF
Senior Computer Classes at the Center! Openhouse and the LGBT Center are pleased to announce free beginning computing classes: “Using the Computer as Typewriter and Internet Basics!” and a regular computer lab time at the LGBT Center, dedicated especially to older adults. These labs will be staffed by instructor Kevin Fox and Center volunteers who are aware of the issues, fears, and...