August 2011
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New Book by & for Trans People Seeks POC,...
SEEKING PEOPLE OF COLOR, IMMIGRANTS, TRANS WOMEN AND POOR/LOW-COME FOLKS FOR A NEW RESOURCE GUIDE BY AND FOR TRANS PEOPLE
New Book by and for Trans People Seeks POC, Trans Women, Immigrants & Poor/Low-Income Authors/Interviewees A new resource guide by and for trans people is looking for people of color, immigrants, poor/low-income folks and people on the feminine spectrum who are interested...
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Some thoughts on Queer rurality: a reblog →
Reblogging this video posted by my friend and his beautiful partner, thoughts on being queer in the midwest. Queer, midwestern, and a bit rural, after migrating from metropolitan, urban areas: what does queer rurality look like, what does it feel like, what is it? And is it what we (who come from urban areas) believed it would be?
torn1990:
Queers in the Midwest (by mekongmaiden)
Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis ed. by... →
I highly recommend Lock Swarr & Nagar’s Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis (SUNY Press, 2010). I am a big fan of this volume, particularly because of the ways the writers challenge binarisms of activist/academic, theory/practice, and even global North/South. First book I have read that has included the activism of women of color dance and performance group, Ananya Dance Theatre,...
Call for Papers: Queering Fat Embodiment
Circulating this great Call for Papers for a possible new anthology:
Call for Papers ~ Tentative title: Queering Fat Embodiment Type: Edited book Submission deadline: January 15th, 2012 Contacts and editors: Samantha Murray - Samantha.murray@mq.edu.au (Main contact) Cat Paus - c.pause@massey.ac.nz Jackie Wykes - wykesj@unimelb.edu.au Scope: Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation...
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Black Domestic Worker Solving Mysteries. Not quite... →
Several weeks ago, I was doing some internet research on the book The Help because 1) the buzz around the book had me curious and 2) I heard it was being made into a Hollywood movie (which immediately worried me). In that research, I found a great review of the book The Help by a Black woman writer who, in turn, brought my attention to this book with an African American female domestic worker...
