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    August 11th, 2010MorganBoecherBlog, Call for Submissions, Paradigm Shift Event

    Call for guest blog, video, and graphic art submissions in preparation for Paradigm Shift’s next event:

    BODY TYPED short films on perfection

    Screening & Discussion Featuring

    JESSE EPSTEIN, Sundance award-winning Filmmaker

    BODY TYPED is a series of short films about body image, media, and cultural identity that will be combined to make a feature documentary. The films use humor to raise serious concerns about the marketplace of commercial illusion and unrealizable standards of physical perfection.

    WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES
    When Dee-Dee the barber learns about the art of photo-retouching, he may never look at his “wall of beauty” the same way again.
    Short Subject Jury Award, 2004 Sundance Film Festival

    THE GUARANTEE
    A dancer’s hilarious story about his prominent nose and the effect if has on his career.
    Best Short Film, 2007 Newport International Film Festival

    34×25×36
    A look at mannequins, religion, and perfection.
    SXSW, Full Frame, True/False, National PBS Broadcast on POV

    WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18th at 6:30 pm
    Just outside the Feminist District

    The Tank- 354 West 45th Street (between 8th & 9th Ave.)
    Subway: A,C,E to 42nd Street/Times Square

    Cost: $12 students/ pre-paid, $15 at door
    BUY TICKETS NOW- LIMITED SEATING:
    http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/117245

    Facebook invite: http://bit.ly/cofvXX

    Submission Deadline- August 22
    Use these prompts as guidelines for submissions; essays, poetry, and artwork in all forms accepted:

    - the effect of stereotypes on bodies

    - body image and health

    - expectations that friends and family have of our bodies

    - how appearances intersect with gender and sexuality

    - the portrayal of bodies in the media

    - body empowerment

    - social acceptance versus personal acceptance

    Submit responses to blog@paradigmshiftnyc.com Please include how you would like to be credited (name, anonymous etc). Video submissions- please submit YouTube private link. Email subject line: Your Name- Blog post- 3/30 Event.

    ParadigmShiftNYC.com content is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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    August 8th, 2010meredithBlog, Events, Partner Event
    August 14, 2010
    10:00 amto12:00 pm

    Have Breakfast with NOW-NY State Political Action Committee and

    Meet the Candidates for NYS Governor and NYS Attorney General
    Sponsored by the National Organization for Women-NYS PAC
    (Candidates for these offices have been contacted.)

    Candidates for Governor Andrew Cuomo (not confirmed)
    Andi Weiss Bartczak (confirmed)
    Warren Redlich (confirmed)
    Howie Hawkins, (confirmed)


    *****
    Confirmed NYS Attorney General Candidates:
    Kathleen Rice, Nassau County District Attorney
    Eric Schneiderman, NYS Senator
    Richard Brodsky, NYS Assembly Member
    Eric Dinallo, Professor at NYU
    Sean Coffey, Former Prosecutor (not confirmed)


    Date: August 14th, 2010
    Time: 10:00 am


    Location: 155 Washington Avenue,
    Albany, NY (SEIU Building)


    Cost $20 per person
    Pay online at http://www.nownys.org/pac_donate.html

    Seating limited! For more info: Call 518-452-3944
    or
    email
    Info@nownys.org

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    August 4th, 2010MorganBoecherBlog, Events, Partner Event
    August 14, 2010
    11:00 amto10:00 pm

    The Big She-Bang, organized by For The Birds Collective, is being held on Saturday, August 14th at Church of the Messiah, located at 129 Russell Street (Lower Level), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY from 11AM to 10pm.

    The Big She-Bang is an all-day event of workshops, panel discussions, visual art, and music by and for women-identified artists & community members. The Big She-Bang strives to cultivate a space for women to share creative endeavors, exchange ideas, and provide support in a safe and open-minded environment. It is a multimedia event that serves as a platform for women artists and activists. This year’s She-Bang festival will include workshops and panel discussions, live musical performances, an all-day art show and tabling by various feminist organizations from New York. The event is always all ages, and everyone is welcome.

    THIS YEAR, our theme is – Feminist Communication.

    Throughout the day, there will be an art show exhibiting different mediums of work created by various women in New York City:

    PATTY BOWMAN
    MOLLY FAIR
    XANDER MARRO
    BETH SLUTZKY

    MEG TURNER
    MICHAELA ZACCHILI

    Workshops and panel discussions will also be happening throughout the day, covering topics such as:


    on FEMINISM THROUGH CREATIVITY
    presented by members of Sister Spit & YOUNITY

    on CONSENT & INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
    presented by Support New York & Fuckin’ (A)

    on YOUTH & MEDIA
    presented by Femmedia, Nicole Acosta, & Nydia Swaby

    The event will end with performances by:

    DES ARK

    BLESS ROXWELL

    AYE NAKO (ex-Fleabag)

    BELL’S ROAR

    & 1 more TBA

    We are asking for a $6 to $10 sliding scale donation, although no will be turned away. A tape and CD compilation of bands fronted by female and woman-identified rockers, including some of those performing, will be available for purchase.


    The collective that organizes The Big She-Bang is called FOR THE BIRDS. For The Birds is a collective of New York women whose main intent is fostering the creative empowerment of women, as well as the dissemination of feminist projects: art, music, information, and scholarly work. A large part of this feminist info-sharing occurs in the form of a distro and a label imprint. In our distro, we carry writing, art, and music by feminists and women-identified folks. On our label imprint, we continue to publish similar work.


    The Big She-Bang was previously a celebration thrown by the Long Island Womyn’s Collective. Information on The Big She-Bang 1 & 2 can be found here: http://myspace.com/liwomynscollective

    All information on The Big She-Bang 3, 4 & 5 can be found here: http://myspace.com/thebig_shebang

    or

    http://www.forthebirdscollective.org/about2/herstory/

    DIRECTIONS

    http://www.messiahbrooklyn.org/
    129 Russell Street — Brooklyn NY 11222 — 718.389.0854
    messiahgreenpoint@gmail.com

    SUBWAY:


    FROM THE G TRAIN
    Take the G to Nassau Ave. Exit near intersection of Nassau Ave. and Manhattan Ave. Walk East on Nassau towards Leonard St. (about 7 blocks), make a Right on Russel St. when you reach McGolrick Park.

    FROM THE L TRAIN
    Take the L to Lorimer St. Exit near the intersection of Lorimer and Metropolitan Ave. Walk north on Lorimer towards Conselyea Ave. where you will pick up the B48 Bus and take it to the intersection of Nassau and Humboldt Streets.  Walk one block east on Nassau to Russel St and turn right.  Church will be on your right.

    BUSES:


    The B48 stops at Humboldt and Nassau Aves. Walk one block east on Nassau to Russel St and turn right.  Church will be on your right.

    Take the B62 to Manhattan and Nassau Aves.  Walk east on Nassau towards Leonard St. for 7 blocks and make a right on Russel St. when you reach McGolrick Park.

    For any further questions or press contact, please contact us at forthebirdscollective@gmail.com

    Contact: thebigshebang@gmail.com

    FORTHEBIRDSCOLLECTIVE.ORG

    myspace.com/forthebirdsnyc

    twitter.com/forthebirdsnyc

    Day of event inquiries: call Kathleen at (717) 725-2176

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    August 3rd, 2010MorganBoecherBlog, Events, Partner Event
    November 30, 1999
    12:00 am
    August 4, 2010
    6:00 pmto8:00 pm

    NARAL Pro-Choice New York
    470 Park Avenue South, 7th Floor

    Please join for a fundraising phone bank to benefit our Political
    Action Committee. We need your help! In the upcoming elections, we
    need to elect only those candidates who have made a clear commitment
    to standing up for the women and families of this state and the values
    we hold dear. With your help, we can have the resources necessary to
    make real pro-choice political change this fall.


    Training and pizza dinner will be provided.

    To RSVP, please contact Lalena at lhoward@prochoiceny.org or 646-520-3506

    Sign the Reproductive Health Act petition on-line!:

    http://www.prochoiceny.org/getinvolved/rhapetition.shtml

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    July 22nd, 2010MorganBoecherBlog, Events, Partner Event
    September 12, 2010

    NEW YORK, NY - The Jewish Museum will present Shulie: A Film by Elisabeth Subrin from September 12, 2010 through January 30, 2011 in the Museum’s Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center. Shulie (1997) is a shot-by-shot remake of a little-known documentary about 1960s feminist Shulamith Firestone. Author of the treatise The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Firestone was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967 when four male directors selected her as a subject for a film about the so-called Now Generation. Shot in the style of direct cinema, the original Shulie featured Firestone discussing religion, the limitations of motherhood, and racial and class issues in the workplace. Thirty years later, Elisabeth Subrin recreated Shulie using actors in many of the original locations. The resulting film is a nostalgic and somewhat cynical reflection on the legacy of second-wave feminism. Subrin writes, “in the compulsion to remake, to produce a fake document, to repeat a specific experience I never actually had, what I have offered up is the performance of a resonant, repetitive, emotional trauma that has yet to be healed.” The exhibition also includes four new digital photographs of enlarged film stills from Shulie, two of which will be shown for the first time. Shulie is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism.

    Elisabeth Subrin’s award-winning work has screened widely in the US and abroad, including in solo shows at P.S.1, The Museum of Modern Art, The Vienna International Film Festival, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Harvard Film Archives and The San Francisco Cinematheque; and in group shows and festivals at The Whitney Biennial, The Guggenheim Museum, The Walker Art Center, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The New York Film Festival, and The Rotterdam International Film Festival. She has received grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller, Guggenheim, Annenberg, and The Creative Capital Foundations, and participated in the Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Directing Fellowships with her first feature-length narrative film, in development with Forensic Films in New York. She has received film commissions from The MacDowell Colony and The Danish Arts Council for recent projects, The Caretakers and Sweet Ruin. A solo exhibition curated by Lia Gangitano will take place at PARTICIPANT, INC. in New York in 2011. She is currently Assistant Professor of Film and Media Art at Temple University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

    Located on the third floor of The Jewish Museum, the Goodkind Media Center houses a digital library of radio and television programs from the Museum’s National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting (NJAB). It also features a changing exhibition space dedicated to video and new media. Using computer workstations, visitors are able to search material by keyword and by categories such as art, comedy, drama, news, music, kids, Israel, and the Holocaust.

    Media programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

    About the National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting

    The National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting, founded in 1981 in association with the Charles H. Revson Foundation, is the largest and most comprehensive body of broadcast materials on 20th century Jewish culture in the United States. With a mission to collect, preserve and exhibit television and radio programs related to the Jewish experience, the NJAB is an important educational resource for critical examination of how Jews have been portrayed and portray themselves, and how the mass media has addressed issues of ethnicity and diversity. Its collection is comprised of 4,300 broadcast and cable television and radio programs.

    About The Jewish Museum

    Widely admired for its exhibitions and educational programs that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is the preeminent United States institution exploring the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture. The Jewish Museum was established in 1904, when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, the Museum maintains an important collection of 26,000 objects—paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media.

    General Information

    Museum hours are Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, 11am to 5:45pm; Thursday, 11am to 8pm; and Friday, 11am to 4pm. Museum admission is $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens, $7.50 for students, free for children under 12 and Jewish Museum members. Admission is free on Saturdays. For general information on The Jewish Museum, the public may visit the Museum’s Web site at http://www.thejewishmuseum.org or call 212.423.3200. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

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    July 21st, 2010MorganBoecherBlog, Cristina Dominguez

    I’m learning more and more
    the space between each l e t t e r
    now further apart with you,
    now that I’m a part of you,
    they aren’t even near
    they can’t touch the meaning
    inside and around them

    they are leaning
    trying to see
    to understand
    to hear in their own echo
    the purpose,
    the beautiful curse,
    that found them first…

    usually the story starts
    and finds the beauty,
    lying in the darkness,
    the kind that no one saw
    there all along
    the hidden familiar
    the meant to be
    created reality
    a meaningless song
    that only has meaning
    because it has been repeated
    for far too long

    those stories miss
    the perfections in the flaws,
    the inflections of light
    that live in a darkness
    so dense
    so permanent in presence
    so pregnant with heart-wrenching potential
    that sight can’t find them,
    our eyes can’t see them,
    only once
    they give up trying,
    close and closed
    they open up,
    they erupt
    and cry
    tears breaking
    their seals
    losing
    and lost again

    what no one knows
    you’ll learn there
    thick
    true
    black
    light
    never
    lies
    white lies
    fairy tales
    are blinding
    and binding

    the monster
    is a princess
    who thinks
    who feels
    who wants

    the monster
    is the princess
    that is real

    the webs we weave
    don’t tap into
    a tapestry of harmony

    but tangled
    mangled
    contorted and tortured
    I’m wrapped
    in the craft
    in the work
    that taught me my worth

    I’m sleeping
    in the clouds
    that clear my mind

    The nightmare
    that we share
    is a dream
    in the darkness
    not ready
    to be seen

    won’t regret
    won’t white wash
    sugar coat
    or paint over
    the pain I feel
    everyday
    the pain
    the stir

    inside
    behind my eyes
    behind my lies
    the intensity
    that keeps me
    from staying
    in line

    stray with me
    fall into the spaces
    between
    the cracks
    and ruins
    where what is right
    is what feels right

    tread in trouble
    with me
    be buried
    alive
    in the art
    of my arteries

    I’m the dragon that guards
    the haunted castle
    because I know
    how the light
    bakes
    and mistakes
    the shapes
    that lay
    the mystery

    warm
    wet
    not ready yet
    wait with me
    take me back
    to where
    I never knew
    I could start again
    to where
    I don’t
    have to begin

    Nothing about
    the darkness
    goes against
    my will

    Terror is
    the way
    they keep you still

    I’m
    mutating
    and
    you’re circulating
    captivating
    and cultivating
    we’re waiting…

    happily ever after
    means there is a place
    where risk and danger
    are endangered
    where life becomes monotony

    the complexity
    and endlessness of the dark
    unrests me

    I forever want to be
    the monster
    they make of me

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    July 11th, 2010MorganBoecherBlog, Partner Event

    Premiere Stages at Kean University (Union, NJ) presents a dynamic mix of original plays. The professional theatre’s season includes a powerful new drama, an important new play in a co-production with Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, and the development of a speedy new comedy. Family-friendly musical theatre productions and special initiatives for children and students make the season enjoyable for all audiences.

    The Good Counselor is Kathryn Grant’s drama about a chosen son’s quest for truth. A bright, young public defender struggles to represent two neglectful mothers, one his client, the other his own. A thought-provoking and beautifully written new play, The Good Counselor literally prompts the audience to serve as the jury in determining what it means to be a good parent. This Premiere Stages Festival Winner, selected from over three hundred submissions, opens Thursday, July 15, in the Zella Fry Theatre and continues through Sunday, August 1.

    Collaborating with Playwrights’ Theatre of New Jersey, Premiere Stages presents Tammy Ryan’s Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods (September 2 trough 19). In this timely new work, Gabriel, an optimistic former “lost boy” from Sudan meets Christine, a suburban mother in desperate need of attention and adventure. What begins as an unlikely friendship becomes an unbreakable bond that changes the pair and leads them to a better understanding of their place in the world.

    “We workshopped the play in staged readings,” stated John Wooten, Premiere Stages’ Artistic Director. “The response was incredible. It was clear that this was not a story that should be told, it was one that had to be told.”

    The campus community agrees. The Human Rights Institute at Kean University, the Darfur Rehabilitation Project, and the Kean Department of Theatre are collaborating with Premiere Stages to bring this important story to the stage. A special opening night pre-show reception for donors will be held on September 3rd in Kean University’s new Human Rights Institute and a champagne toast with the cast follows the performance.

    “I am pleased to have these important partners working with us to bring the play to life. It’s an amazing story and another example of how the arts often bring important issues to the forefront.”

    In a similar developmental process, Premiere Stages will advance Gino Dilorio’s The Jag. In this evolving new comedy, a father and son struggle to find missing parts as they reconstruct a car that was never meant to be finished. Through an intensive one-week process, interactive staged readings are presented to the public (June 25 through 27).

    Premiere Stages’ Musical Fun Series features two of New Jersey’s finest Actors’ Equity Association theatre companies for young audiences. Running Rabbit Family Theatre presents Pinocchio and Pushcart Players offers Stone Soup and Other Stories and Cuentos Del Arbol .

    Premiere Stages launches the brand new Premiere’s Holiday Workshop. A special holiday treat for the entire family, the Workshop features readings of three holiday-themed plays and includes hot cider and treats for everyone. Admission is free; patrons need only to bring a new, unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots.

    All performances take place on the Kean University campus, located at 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, N.J. Premiere Stages offers affordable prices, air-conditioned facilities and free parking close to the theatres. Premiere Stages provides free or discounted tickets to patrons with disabilities. All Premiere Stages facilities are fully accessible spaces. Please call for a list of sign-interpreted, audio-described or open-captioned performances. Assistive listening devices and large print programs are available at all times. Publications are available with advanced notice in alternate formats.

    Tickets for productions range from $15 to $25, with discounts for groups (Musical Fun tickets are $12 with discounts for groups). The Premiere Package (a new subscription series) saves patrons up to $30.00 and includes free admission to staged readings and other special events. For more information, call 908-737-4092 or visit www.kean.edu/premierestages .

    Premiere Stages is made possible in part through funding from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Kean’s Quality First Initiative, The Westfield Foundation, The Gleason Family Foundation, The Provident Bank Foundation, and through the generous support of individual patrons.

    _______________________________________________

    Schedule of Events:

    The Jag
    FREE staged readings in the Murphy Dunn Theatre (Vaughn Eames Fine Arts Building)
    Friday, June 25, 7 p.m.
    Saturday, June 26, 7 p.m.
    Sunday, June 27, 3 p.m.

    The Good Counselor
    Zella Fry Theatre (Vaughn Eames Fine Arts Building)
    Thursday, July 15 – Sunday, August 1
    Thursday - Saturday performances begin at 8 p.m.
    Saturday and Sunday matinee performances begin at 3 p.m.

    Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods
    Zella Fry Theatre (Vaughn Eames Fine Arts Building)
    Friday, September 2 – Sunday, September 19
    Fridays and Saturday performances begin at 8 p.m.
    Saturday and Sunday matinee performances begin at 3 p.m.
    “Pizza Preview” Performance on Thursday, September 2 at 8pm
    VIP Opening Night Fundraiser and Performance on Friday, September 3 at 8pm
    Special “Early Curtain” performances on Weds, September 8, at 10 a.m. and Thursday, September 16 at 5 p.m.

    Premiere’s Holiday Workshop
    December 9 – 11, 2010 time(s) to be announced

    Musical Fun Series

    All Musical Fun performances will be presented in the Little Theatre, with ticket prices ranging from $10 to $12.

    PINOCCHIO
    Tuesday, July 13 at 11:00 am and 1:30 pm..
    Wednesday, July 14 at 11:00 am and 1:30 pm..

    CUENTOS del ARBOL
    Thursday, July 15 at 11:00 am

    STONE SOUP…and other stories
    Wednesday, July 21 at 11:00 am and 1:00 pm

    CUENTOS del ARBOL
    Wednesday, July 28 at 11:00 am

    This press release is also available online at:
    http://www.kean.edu/about_press.html

    Contact Information:

    To order tickets, join our mailing list, and/or to request a season brochure, please call the Kean Stage Box Office at 908-737-SHOW (7469).
    For groups, call Paul Whelihan at 908-737-4077.
    For Camp and the Premiere Residency Program, please call Erica Nagel at 908-737-4092, or visit Premiere Stages online at www.kean.edu/premierestages.

    For specifics of the season, please contact Artistic Director John Wooten at jwooten@kean.edu or 908-737-4360.

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    July 8th, 2010MorganBoecherBlog, Cristina Dominguez

    Alone with myself
    alone with thoughts of you,
    dreams that we might pursue
    the metaphor that is something more

    Do you have plans in store for me?
    Something locked away?
    Will I, can I, find the key?
    Or are you just as lost in this feeling
    as I am, and finding me
    only out of your desperate need
    to not be the lone and forlorn refugee

    Spontaneity craving
    the all too unsurprising predictability
    that I do not have the ability to willingly
    conjure up, for your fearful gut that undermines
    your revolutionary desires
    the very thing that inspires
    this all new, unconventional concoction
    of love in me

    Stagnant in your opposition to compromise
    but positioned to compose around
    something safe and sound
    that I can’t be

    Why can’t we both remain wild and free?
    Liberty meets love, and lives in it liberally
    instead of denying and dying
    the part that defies a love that’s limiting.
    Packed away are my overt attempts to
    create and break free that love within me.
    But will that love be too different
    too strange to move your eyes to see
    The love I know you have for me?

    It isn’t easy
    It isn’t what you need to satisfy and pacify your fears
    Ready to challenge me but you stay
    securely still in your stubborn habit
    of thirsting for security

    I won’t be part of the assembly line of lovers
    replacing the past
    enslaving myself to your repetitive defense mechanisms
    that mass produced flat and failed relationships

    The dimensions we’ve mentioned
    philosophically talking with the top down in your cool convertible
    free and versatile
    in thought, in mind, in spirit.
    But though you can hear it
    you can’t take to heart
    the part that would free
    your heart

    You aren’t fearful of who would leave you
    but frightened by what it would mean if someone would stay~
    Would sway in the wind and the water that is you,
    flowing in a stream to a stream of consciousness
    as wide eyed and open as the ocean
    Not hindered by the currents currently claiming
    calming and inhibiting
    the independent spirit
    in an uninhabitable love

    That body of water
    that body of love
    a mirror reflecting–
    how you won’t
    how you refuse
    to look
    to see
    the you, you love sufficiently
    for you have efficiently
    not let it be tied down
    but do not love enough to embrace fully..
    to let it be lifted up
    to give up,
    not surrendering
    but rendering
    it free.

    Let your expectations
    like their limitations
    be obsolete.
    You’re wading in a pool of your own possibility
    I’m waiting for you to dive into
    the depths of our opportunity.
    There will be no death of you or me,
    we can coexist in this discovery
    you can feel it
    now believe it
    you can be free
    in loving me

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    July 2nd, 2010MorganBoecherBlog, Morgan Boecher

    by Morgan Boecher

    Last weekend was my first time attending a Pride event of a New-York-City scale. My only other experience was when I was a teenager during the sleepy summer months in Gainesville, Florida. The festival that happened in our downtown plaza was an inspiring effort, with all the Roy G. Biv decorations and dildo raffles, but it never overwhelmed like NYC Pride does.

    What overwhelmed me the most, more than the campy getups and the countless people streaming through 5th Avenue, was the comfort of finding queer folks around every corner. It made me feel a little more at home, at least. As a transsexual man with an undeniably feminine physique, I have trouble fitting within the everyday cissexual (non-trans) world. When I go butch, I look lesbian, which gets it all wrong.

    However, NYC Pride weekend, subsuming all in delightful queerness, made my gender identity matter a little less. At least when I was walking around the streets being one in the crowd. At other times it mattered more.

    Preceding the Sunday parade was the Dyke March, a politically charged protest demanding equal rights, the end of LBTQ violence, and visibility. Considering how cis-male-centric mainstream images of LGBTQ culture are, the Dyke March is a wonderful way for queer women to claim their space. Being someone who does not in any way identify as a dyke, I respectfully stood aside. Giving oppressed groups a chance to their own space is powerful and important. I did get to chat with a friend of mine who participated in the march, though.

    Our talk of gendered space led us to ruminate over the displacement of trans people. Cissexual people are often confused about where trans men and women ought and ought not be. The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival is a good example, with their reluctance to allow trans womyn access to the “womyn-born-womyn” space. Anyway, while discussing the gendered barriers of the Dyke March, my friend told me that she met someone there who expressed skepticism about trans men.

    “I just don’t understand trans men because I enjoy being a woman so much,” she said.

    *Sigh.* Just the same sentiment I met when I came out to some proudly womyn-born-womyn friends of mine. Despite the beautiful mélange of gender and sexual diversity crowding the streets of NYC, trans experiences are still going misunderstood. It’s not that trans men devalue womanhood; it’s just that they don’t identify with it.

    The Dyke March is an empowering step toward recognizing a greater range of human experience, but some trans visibility could stretch that recognition even further.

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    June 30th, 2010MorganBoecherBlog, Events, Partner Event
    July 9, 2010
    7:30 pm

    The Bowery Poetry Club
    Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 7:30PM

    featuring
    Tara Betts, Timothy Liu, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Jeffrey Perkins
    Devi Lockwood, Jon Sands & Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
    with special guest David Henderson

    We are pleased to announce the publication of phati’tude
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    OF A NEW PERSPECTIVE
    and our Summer issue, THE LAVENDER ISSUE:
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    Come join us! It’ll be great to see old friends and meet new
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