I found this beautiful poem while searching for archival remnants of Sylvia and Marsha
For Marsha P. (Pay It No Mind!) Johnson
Qwo-Li Driskill
found floating in the Hudson River shortly after NYC Pride, 1992
“You are the one whose spirit is present in the dappled stars.”
– Joy Harjo, from “For [...]
December 27, 20091:00 pmto3:30 pmSunday, Dec. 27
On the one year memorial of the horrific Gaza Massacre and in solidarity with a thousand Americans who will attempt to break [...]
December 11, 20097:00 pmto11:00 pmif you are looking for something fun to do friday, check out this great dance event by our comrade Adrienne. All for a good cause!
Come Dance the night away
Get ready for the Holiday spirit
Enjoy tons of different dances, Cha Cha, Waltz, Tango, [...]
Did you know that the fight for women’s rights was born in the late 19th century struggle for socialism? Did you know that in the first years of the first socialist revolution in the world, women gained free abortion on demand, and a [...]
The following video was compiled for World AIDS Day 2007 by TransAdvocacy. Collage from Flames in the Looking Glass and some other HIV/AIDS trans related clips.
Click here to view video in higher quality
[...]The Intersection of Health and Law Conference
Saturday April 17, 2010
First, many thanks to all of you who have submitted some excellent workshop proposals. For others who have not yet sent in your proposal, you still have a few days. Deadline is Dec 5, 2009.
In [...]
From My Words To Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix — Performing Transgender Rage by Susan Stryker
(link to full text)
Ms. Stryker explores the evolution of her own feelings about transsexual embodiment and ultimately reclaims the word “monster” (!) for herself and for any transgender persons courageous [...]
The following is a very interesting read touching many issues around “Asian Queer Studies” and the import of Queer, a term rooted in an Anglo-American discourse. The piece is from: Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 14, November 2
Introduction: Of Queer Import(s):
November 29, 20095:00 pmto8:00 pmCome Out, Come Out Wherever You Are for a Queer discussion around Queer organizing in Connecticut!
Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009
Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Metropolitan Community Church
Street: 155 Wyllys St
City/Town: Hartford, CT
download flyer
Marriage equality represents a [...]
December 1, 200911:00 amto1:00 pmHartford’s World AIDS Day event will take place on December 1st, 11 AM - 12, at the Connections Drop-in Center, located at the Institute for Community Research, 146 Wyllys St, Hartford.
Hartford City Councilman Luis Cotto, will be the keynote speaker,' [...]
As the capitalist media, corporations and their soulless management prepare for the “holiday” onslaught of constant media brainwashing, senseless greed, manipulation, practices of usury to enslave, and on and on and on; not to mention the sickening music with which to march the lemmings to their malls of worship ~ [...]
We have all seen and felt the devastating impacts of so-called Free Market Capitalism. We are now experiencing “officially” reported double digit unemployment, when including the “underemployed” we know unemployment exceeds 15%, while exceeding 30% within a number of communities. Connecticut reports an 8.8% unemployment rate though we know that [...]
We have had reports that the blog has been looking kinda funky and we suspect it may have been one of the prior posts. So we have put this test post on the main page to see if folks are still experiencing problems seeing just this one post. Please submit [...]
http://blogs.courant.com/cityline/2009/11/downtown-no-freeze-shelter-con.html
Downtown “No Freeze” Shelter Concerns Residents, Business Owners
By Jeffrey B. Cohen
on November 17, 2009 12:32 PM
The city plans to open a men’s “no freeze” shelter for the homeless in an annex of Center Church in the heart of downtown, but the idea has raised concerns of nearby residents and business [...]
I just came across this old Love and Rage newspaper article and thought it looked relevant and interesting. The Love and Rage Archive can be viewed here.
The ongoing challenge in feminist discourse over social constructionist versus biological determinist views of gender often remove us from the people feminists would hope [...]
The Ct TransAdvocacy Coalition, MCC/Hartford and many of our allies and community will be Remembering those individuals who are brutally murdered simply because they did not conform to societies standards of what a “real man or woman” looks or acts like.
Friday, November 20, 2009
5:15 PM [...]
The following statement is from our comrades at SRLP and also available online at [srlp.org]
For the reasons stated below, we believe that a law that links our community’s experiences of violence and death to a demand for increased criminal punishment, as well as further funding for imperialist war, [...]http://www.anarkismo.net/article/14923
Refusing to Wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality
“Without justice there can be no love.”–bell hooks
Deric Shannon (WSA/NEFAC) and J. Rogue (WSA/Common Action)
Anarchism can learn a lot from the feminist movement. In many respects it already has. Anarcha-feminists have developed analyses of patriarchy that link it to the state form. We have learned [...]
Jay Toole and Lucia Leandro Gimeno in a warm and intimate conversation about queer life now and then.
[...]
November 8, 20092:00 pmto4:00 pmSunday November 8th @ 2PM
Trinity College, Vernon Center
114 Vernon St, Hartford, CT 06106 [map]
Join your comrades from QWB and WSA-Ct at this Sunday’s Speak Out for Reproductive Justice!
A woman’s right to choose is under attack. From health care reform to [...]
In August, 2005, three weeks before his nationally televised declaration that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” Kanye West made a statement he’d later describe as braver and more difficult than his attack on the White [...]
Forwarded from Sharon and the great folks at the Danbury Women’s Center!
CALLING ALL LESBIAN, BI, and TRANS WOMEN
THE WOMEN’S CENTER OF GREATER DANBURY
ANNUAL TURKEY DAY POTLUCK
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
AT THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
68 DANBURY ROAD (Route 7), New Milford, CT @ 6:00
BRING A DISH, A DONATION, [...]
forwarded from our comrade Billy.
Iranian transsexuals in fact experience humiliation, assault and abuse, if not outright death - and not just by government agents, but also by neighbours, family members, and those considered friends. We have received reports very recently from our contacts in Iran exemplifying the torment endured by [...]
There is appearing in the press recently the story about a 17-year-old trans girl who was physically attacked by other residents and verbally abused by staff every day for almost a year and a half [click here to view one of the many pieces]. Sadly this is a story [...]
Though the last TBC was back in 2006, it is an amazing conference and if you have never attended it before you have missed out on some amazing workshops, people and networking! Sadly it conflicts with the North American Anarchist Studies Network [...]
After a year of slow work on the library collection formerly housed at Project 100, the Queer Community Library will be OPEN FOR BUSINESS beginning in November. Join us for the official opening–an open [...]
Tel Aviv, Israel, October 11, 2009
On Sunday afternoon local Palestinian and Jewish LGBT\queer activists held a protest against promoting LGBT tourism to Israel in front of the Tel Aviv gay center. The protesters intercepted a group of travel agents and other guests [...]
[queerkidssaynomarriage.wordpress.com]
Resist the Gay Marriage Agenda!By queerkidssaynomarriage
It’s hard for us to believe what we’re hearing these days. Thousands are losing their homes, and gays want a day named after Harvey Milk. The U.S. military is continuing its path of destruction, and gays want to be allowed to [...]
Michael Moore’s latest documentary is a critique of capitalism- in mainstream theaters- pretty big deal. “Capitalism: A Love Story” starts off comparing the US to the Roman Empire- a fairly easy task. In addition to other commentary, the documentary seems to be focused on the anti-capitalist stance of various Catholic [...]
The creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project, which since 2000 has been one of the most performed plays in America, will premiere a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to the original piece. [...]
October 11, 20095:00 pmto8:00 pm
Friends! Comrades! Lend us your eyes!
Join us on Sunday, Oct. 11th for Shelter: A Squatumentary by filmaker/Indymedia writer Hannah E. Dobbz.
**When: Sunday, Oct. 11th
**Where: Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave, Hartford, CT. Downstairs in the large Art Gallery, www.charteroakcenter.org
**Time: 5pm,
~5-5:30 [...]
ISSUED BY:
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, Toronto
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Queer BDS activists from Israel
On October 10-16, 2009, the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) is planning to hold a tourism conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, aimed at boosting lesbian, gay, bisexual and [...]
September 19, 20091:00 pmto3:00 pm [...] hbeftmwu9n
Since 2005, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) communities in New York City have been urging the Human Resources Administration (HRA) to address the rampant Transphobia, discrimination, and harassment that Trans and Gender Non-Conforming people in New York City face when seeking to access welfare/public assistance.
In [...]
Queers without Borders recognizes ASWAT ~ Palestinian Gay Women Organization (Haifa, Israel) that provides a safe space and serves as a critical resource for Palestinian women who self-identify as lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgender or intersex. As they note, their mission is to raise our voices to echo in the [...]
QwB note: An excellent statement that embraces all peoples of diverse gender identities and expressions and their rights to not be coerced by a Transphobic Society into a medical system and/or diagnoses that simply works to subjugate ourselves into State mandated concepts of gender and sex! As a result of [...]
from justdetention international
Prison officials need to do more to protect inmates from sexual assault. And there is one group of inmates whose vulnerability has gone all but unnoticed — and that’s people who are transgender.
The majority of U.S. corrections systems house inmates based on their birth gender, disregarding other [...]
A really great piece is reposted below and all readers of qwb are encouraged to check this piece out! Also reference some other qwb written postings: Viability of an LGB”T” movement and Tyranny of the State and TransLiberation.
From Wayne Besen Weekly Commentary
The latest anti-gay terrorism in Iraq — is gluing shut the anuses of homosexuals, while forcing the victims to ingest a form of Ex-Lax. The special glue can only be removed by surgery — thus often leading to a painful death.
It [...]
Michaelangelo Galloza at the memorial for Sylvia Rivera noted that he and Rivera had been “lifted up by the Young Lords and the Black Panther Party.” He said the oppressors “still haven’t realized that all the oppression fuels the flames of desire. Galloza described the common ties that he and [...]
On the evening of August 1st in Tel Aviv, [...]
Check out this great animation titled “Three Queer Mice” by Daniel
In 2007, Daniel at SupaFriends and two other queer youth producers created an animation called Three Queer Mice. Their piece was based on their approach to, and research of, nursery rhymes. Daniel and his co-conspirators imagined [...]
The following is a press release from Gender DynamiX [first African based organisation solely focussing on the transgender community] regarding the negative and transphobic reporting of Caster Semenya, an 18-year-old who had never competed outside of Africa, before this week who aroused suspicions when she posted the fastest 800m time [...]
From Human Rights Watch
Click here to view in full screen at HRW
On June 23, 2009, the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission released its final Report and proposed Standards to prevent, detect, respond to and monitor sexual abuse of incarcerated or detained individuals throughout the United States. To view the report in detail, click here.
Note: For information regarding prison abolition we [...]
Below is a must watch video for all those aspiring IMPERIALISTS. the amazing comrades over at the PinkyShow.Org have created another masterpiece one page zine, with the above titled name. us queers here at qwb could not resist bringing this one page zine to life and so created the [...]
crossposted from Queers for Economic Justice, posting by kenyon
The purpose of Act Queer! is to connect grassroots LGBTQ racial and economic justice organizations with national queer and/or allied coalitions and organizations to share information and strategies on racial and economic justice research, organizing and advocacy.
Our July 30, 2009 teleconference [...]
A great piece and a MUST READ of why as Queers we cannot hand over increasing power of our bodies, lives and essence to the [Tyranny of the] State. There is no liberation from such efforts.
From our comrades over at blackandpink.org
Many liberal, and even self-proclaimed progressive, organizations are [...]
**** PUBLIC SCHOOLS CLOSING, CHARTERS OPENING ****
“Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.” — Malcolm X
>: JOIN THE CIPHER! :<
WHO: Youth 13 - 24
DATE: Thursday Aug 20, 2009
TIME: 5 - 7 PM
There will be refreshments!
St. Katherine Drexel Parrish
175 Ruggles [...]
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