Please submit any news for the weekly QA newsletter to Sam Klugman at news@queer.brown.edu by 11:59pm each Saturday.
The dance committee is looking for warm (hot?) bodies to party manage for SexPowerGod (Sat, Nov 12). Two and four hour shifts are available. Anyone interested should attend an informational meeting this MONDAY, at 9PM, in the LGBTQ Resource Center (323 Faunce). We need more party managers this year than ever, so please definitely pass the word on to your friends.
Questions? Interested? Hot?
Email dance@queer.brown.edu
Meet us in Faunce 323 on Tuesday, October 25th at 9 PM. We'll provide food, coloring projects, and the opportunity to discuss issues of bisexuality in a confidential space. Remember, you don't have to be bi to take a BiTE with us!
Email JessicaFH@gmail.com or Rob_Cohen@brown.edu for more information. We hope to see you there!
Thursday October 27th, 12:00-1:00
LGBTQ Resource Center (323 Faunce)
Drinks and Dessert Provided
"Queering Latin America: An Activist/Scholar's Journey through Academia."
with James N. Green, Associate Professor of Latin American History, Brown Univeristy
Director, Center for Latin American Studies
[James N. Green is the author of Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil (University of Chicago 1999) and numerous articles about gender and sexuality in Latin America. He is past President of the Brazilian Studies Assocation, a co-founder of the Brazilian LGBT movement in the 1970s, and a founding member of Pride at Work, a LGBT labor advocacy organization.]
RISD's Straight and Gay Alliance is having a movie night Thursday, October 27th @ 7pm in the taproom! We will be showing "Touch of Pink", a comedy about a boy living in Britain who has not yet come out to his mother whom is coming to visit him. The taproom is located above the RISD Mailroom on benefit street between waterman and college street. All are welcome!
Questioning? Coming out?
QUEST, Sunday night at 9 in the Sarah Doyle Women's Center, Room 201
QUEST is a confidential support group for queer, questioning, and coming-out students coming to understand sexual and gender identity. All are welcome.
email elliot_epstein@brown.edu for questions
With this co-sponsorship, the Queer Alliance renews its commitment to the advancement of cultural awareness and combating the marginalization of minority groups both here at the university and at large. We join others in the Brown community in celebrating Southeast Asian Heritage Week, and hope that our membership participates in the many exciting events being planned.
Stay tuned for more info!
The Muffin is a newspaper written by the students to inform the community about gay culture. It's factual and simultaneously quirky. We are currently looking for writers. One story that needs to be covered is an overview of gay rights, gay marriage, and gays in the army/draft. We're also looking for people to submit poetry, comment on their preferences of local bars and clubs, and write a blurb about Brown's QA; meetings, events, locations & times. We are also having a section of non-gay articles written by members of RISD's SAGA and Brown's QA. If you are interest in writing about any of the above suggestions or if you have you have a new idea for an article you'd like to write, please clear it with us first by emailing SAGA@risd.edu.
What lies are people forced to tell in order to gain acceptance as "real?" When someone passes -- as the "right" gender, race, class, sexuality, age, ability, body type, health status, ethnicity -- or a member of the dominant religion, political party, social/educational institution, exercise trend, fashion cult or sexual practice -- someone else fails. How do we break the rules and make the tools to skewer dominant cultural norms and open space for those in the margins?
Mattilda is looking for essays that explore and critique the various systems of power seen (or not seen) in the act o f passing. Mattilda is seeking not only scathing critiques of passing into the mainstream, but also essays that examine unconventional passings and standards for inclusion in subcultures and cultures of resistance. What does it take to pass as nonmonogamous, on the DL, genderqueer, totally broke, spiritual, ghetto fabulous, anti-capitalist, outside the beauty myth, differently-abled or completely uninterested in passing as anything? How healthy can a sick person feel? What about passing as crazy in order to get disability benefits, passing as Latino or Asian to avoid being targeted as an Arab, or passing as a woman in order to marry a man for citizenship (when you've recently transitioned from female to male)?
We're looking for essays that confront the perilous intersections of identity, categorization and community in order to challenge the very notion of belonging. We're especially interested in confronting gender normativity within trans communities and racial profiling by individuals already marginalized by race, as well as rules of passing enforced by model minority mythologies, class striving obsessions and cultural appropriation scams.
Realness Is Overrated will make sure that nothing escapes scrutiny. If we eliminate the requirement to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create?
Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore is the editor, most recently, of That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2004) and the author of Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003). Mattilda spoke at Brown in the fall of 2004, and was brought to campus by RUQUS, a subgroup of the Queer Alliance.
www.mattbernsteinsycamore.com
November 18 - 20 (Friday to Sunday), 2005
Cornell University
FREE REGISTRATION (Deadline: Friday, October 21st)
mosaic_conference05@yahoo.com
This conference aims to help LGBT Students of Color build skills and knowledge to amplify their voices in campus, state, and regional contexts and connect them to regional and national resources. By strengthening these students' networks and skills, we hope to further our communities' ability to shape awareness at our respective campuses.
Our conference is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, transgender, intersex, queer, and same gender loving college or graduate students of color (including but not limited to Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, latina/o, Middle Eastern, and Native American students of color). We encourage participation from students of color with disabilities, women, genderqueer, and transgender students of color.
Attendance will be capped at 150 students. Each student must register individually. We prioritize representation from a large number of campuses.
Registration is FREE.
Attendees must provide for their own transportation and housing costs. Call the Holiday Inn (www.hiithaca.com, 607.272.1000) and get a room at the special rate by saying you are with the "Building Bridges" conference. All attendees will be responsible for booking/paying for their own lodging. If any of this is a problem, please contact us; special arrangements may be made on a case-by-case basis.
ROOM TYPES: Each room has TWO queen size beds (Sleeps 4 max.)
ONE PERSON / ROOM = $280.00 for total stay (2 nights).
TWO PEOPLE / ROOM = $140.00 for total stay per person.
THREE PEOPLE/ROOM = $94.00 for total stay per person.
FOUR PEOPLE /ROOM = $70.00 for total stay per person.
If you need help finding a roommate(s), http://mosaicconf.proboards27.com/
The conference will be hosted by CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
We're located in *cold* Ithaca, NY.
For inquiries and further updates, please e-mail mosaic_conference05@yahoo.com.
Upcoming Updates: Final Detailed Schedule & Website.