RadioFree Transburgh

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Discussion of Alice Dreger’s essay concerning JMB’s book “The Man Who Would Be Queen” recently published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. She wrote this in order to outline the accusations made against Bailey and the events regarding the protests of that book.
http://bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/work/dreger/controversy_tmwwbq.pdf

Julia Serano and Talia Bettcher both wrote responses to Alice Dreger’s essay:

Julia Serano is a biologist. She has a Ph.D in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from Columbia University and is currently a researcher at UC Berkeley in the field of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology. Julia is the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, a collection of personal essays that examines the ways in which misogyny frames many popular stereotypes and assumptions about transsexual women. Her other writings have appeared in queer, feminist, and pop culture magazines such as Bitch, Clamor, Kitchen Sink, LiP, make/shift, and Transgender Tapestry, and excerpts of her work have appeared in The Believer, The San Francisco Chronicle, and on NPR. In recent years, Julia has gained noteriety in transgender, queer, and feminist circles for her unique insights into gender. She has been invited to speak about transgender and trans women’s issues at numerous univerisites, at queer, women's studies, psychology and philosophy-themed conferences, and her writings have been used as teaching materials in college-level gender studies courses across the United States.

http://www.juliaserano.com
http://www.juliaserano.com/av/Serano_DregerCommentary.pdf
http://www.juliaserano.com/TSetiology.html


Talia Mae Bettcher is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. She received her PhD at UCLA and her BA at Glendon College, York University. Her research interests include early modern philosophy, philosophy of the self and philosophy of gender and sexuality. A Canadian who resides in the Unites States, Talia is currently active in the Los Angeles trans community and grassroots politics. She is also a community-based performance artist, using her art to explore intersections between narrative, performance, theory, and identity

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/tbettch/
http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/tbettch/BettcherDreger.pdf

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Diego Sanchez
Diego is Director of Public Relations & External Affairs, AIDS Action Committee, New England’s first and largest AIDS organization. Hispanic Business magazine named him among the Top 100 Most Powerful Latino/as in Corporate America. He formerly led the nation’s first transgender healthcare access program supported by a department of public health. A leading trans health trainer, writer, speaker and presenter, Diego dedicates his community involvement to social justice. He was a founding Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, Board Secretary of Boston’s Public Relations Society of America chapter, Steering Committee member and Chair of the Diversity Committee of Boston’s Human Rights Campaign chapter, a founding Board member of Somos Latino/as LGBT Coalition and the National Center for Transgender Equality. Accredited by PRSA, Diego is a Rhodes Scholar candidate and a UMass/Boston Emerging Leaders Senior Fellow. Diego is also the first transgender person appointed by a DNC Chair to the DNC Platform Committee and was named a Party Leader and At-Large Delegate. A former LGBT National Advisory Committee member for Hillary Clinton, he serves on Sen. Obama's LGBT Advisory Team and on the Transgender Working Group.

Amanda Simpson
Amanda Simpson, is a senior employee of over twenty years at Raytheon Missile Systems. She remained in the same position since prior to her gender transition, working with management and human resources to smooth concerns. Since her successful workplace transition, Amanda has consulted and advised numerous employers and gender variant employees. Amanda became the first openly transgender candidate to win a primary election in the United States in her run for the Arizona State Legislature in 2004. 2004 Tucson YWCA Woman on the Move Award, 2005 Arizona Human Rights Fund Individual honoree.

Marisa Richmond, PhD
Marisa Richmond is President of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Equality Project & Board of Advisors of NCTE. she is a former Board Member of AEGIS, IFGE, NTAC, & Nashville's Rainbow Community Center. She served as Co-Chair of Southern Comfort in 2001, chaired the host committee of the 2002 IFGE Convention in Nashville, & served on the Planning Committee for Nashville Black Pride in 2004. She won the Trinity Award in 2002 & the HRC Equality Award in 2007.

Melissa Sklarz
Melissa Sklarz became the first transgender person elected to office in New York in 1999 when she was elected Judicial Delegate from the 66th Assembly District. In 2004, Melissa became the first transgender person from New York to be part of the state delegation at the Democratic National Convention, by being appointed to the Credentials Committee. She has also been appointed to the Rules Committee for the 2008 Convention. In 2003, Melissa was elected to the executive board of the National Stonewall Democrats and has served 6 years on the Executive Board of Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats (GLID) in Manhattan and served 5 years on Community Board #2 in Greenwich Village. She also serves as Director of the New York Trans Rights Organization (NYTRO). In 2005, Melissa appeared in a featured role in the film TRANSAMERICA

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is a writer, activist, and troublemaker living in San Francisco, CA. She has written and edited the following books:
• Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
• Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003) ---
• So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (forthcoming Fall/Winter 2008 on City Lights)
• That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (expanded second edition expected on Soft Skull in June 2008)
• Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004)
• Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write about Their Clients (Haworth 2000, Italian version Effepi Libri 2007)

Her articles, essays, interviews, reviews, and stories appear regularly in a variety of publications, including the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Bitch, Utne Reader, and The Gay & Lesbian Review, and she writes a monthly column in Maximumrocknroll.

She is also the reviews editor at the feminist magazine Make/shift, where she also writes a column.

Her activism has included ACT UP in the early ‘90s, Fed Up Queers in the late ‘90s, Gay Shame, and numerous lesser-known (or even unnamed) groups.

Mattilda lives in San Francisco, but tours regularly, and is available for bookings. In the past, she has appeared in independent bookstores, community centers, performance venues and universities including Yale, Brown, University of Chicago, Wesleyan, Macalester, NYU, UCLA, University of Massachusetts, DePauw, DePaul, Mills, Antioch, University of Michigan, Wagner, University of Oregon, UC Santa Cruz, Georgetown, and others.

She blogs at:
http://nobodypasses.blogspot.com/

For more information about her writing and activities:
http://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/

Her myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/nobodypasses

She is also working on a new anthology called Why Are Faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?: Flaming challenges to masculinity, objectification and the desire to conform:
http://nobodypasses.blogspot.com/2007/06/heres-my-new-call-for-submissions-yay.html

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 Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, spoken word performer, trans activist, and biologist. Julia is the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (to be published by Seal Press in June, 2007), a collection of personal essays that examines the ways in which misogyny frames many popular stereotypes and assumptions about transsexual women. Her other writings have appeared in queer, feminist, and pop culture magazines such as Bitch, Clamor, Kitchen Sink, LiP, make/shift, and Transgender Tapestry, and excerpts of her work have appeared in The Believer, The San Francisco Chronicle, and on NPR. In recent years, Julia has gained noteriety in transgender, queer, and feminist circles for her unique insights into gender. She has been invited to speak about transgender and trans women’s issues at numerous univerisites, at queer, women's studies, psychology and philosophy-themed conferences, and her writings have been used as teaching materials in college-level gender studies courses across the United States.

http://www.juliaserano.com
Her music can be found here:
http://www.bitesize.net/

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Charlie Anders co-edited the anthology She's Such A Geek. Her first novel, Choir Boy, won a Lambda Literary Award. Her speculative fiction has appeared in StrangeHorizons.com, Space & Time, Paraspheres, GUD and The Urban Bizarre. Her other writing has appeared in ZYZZYVA, McSweeney's.net, Pindeldyboyz, Monkeybicycle, Salon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Press, Publishers Weekly and a number of anthologies. She publishes other magazine www.othermag.org and is the host of the Writers With Drinks reading series.

Charlie Anders' website:
http://www.charlieanders.com/

Charlie Anders' WisCon discussion:
http://charliegrrrl.livejournal.com/153006.html

B. C. lives and writes in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Strange Horizons,
Aboriginal Science Fiction, Challenge Magazine, and a number of smaller circulation publications. For more about her and her work, see her website.

B.C. Holmes' Website
http://www.bcholmes.org/

B.C. Holmes' WisCon discussion
http://bcholmes.livejournal.com/298598.html

Both participated in the Transsexualism as Trope session at WisCon 2007.

http://www.wiscon.info/

Online version of Runaways #25 (that has the bit I quoted from about Xavin).
http://whedonesque.com/runaways/

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Alicia E. Goranson is a local Boston author. Her writing appears in the anthology Pinned Down By Pronouns and Other Magazine. Her first novel Supervillainz is the co-winner of the 2005 Project QueerLit award, and is available from Suspect Thoughts Press.

Her website is http://www.alicia-goranson.com/index.html
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We talk about her book Supervillainz as well as about trans experiences in comic books and other fiction (scifi/fantasy).

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I redid the Transfeminism discussion I did with Krista Scott-Dixon and Talia Mae Bettcher. Krista and Talia should be easier to hear.

Trans/forming Feminisms: Transfeminist Voices Speak Out.

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Transfeminism discussion with Krista Scott-Dixon and Talia Mae Bettcher, the editor and contributor to the book Trans/forming Feminisms: Transfeminist Voices Speak Out.

We will speak about their book and trans issues within feminism in general (especially as it relates to both US and Canadian societies.

Krista Scott-Dixon has a PhD in Women’s Studies and currently teaches and does research at York University. Along with trans and feminist issues, her research interests include gender, work, and technology. As her secret identity Mistress Krista, she is one of the editors of Trans-health.com, an online health and fitness zine for trans people.

http://www.stumptuous.com

http://www.trans-health.com/

Talia Mae Bettcher is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. She received her PhD at UCLA and her BA at Glendon College, York University. Her research interests include early modern philosophy, philosophy of the self and philosophy of gender and sexuality. A Canadian who resides in the Unites States, Talia is currently active in the Los Angeles trans community and grassroots politics. She is also a community-based performance artist, using her art to explore intersections between narrative, performance, theory, and identity

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/tbettch/



Call For Papers:

For a Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities

Edited by Talia Mae Bettcher and Ann Garry

The recent publication of The Transgender Studies Reader (ed. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, New York: Routledge, 2006) marks a watershed in the development of trans studies. Arising in the early nineties in close relation to queer theory, trans studies is characterized by the coming-to-voice of trans people, long the theorized and researched objects of sexology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and even feminist theory.

Sandy Stone’s groundbreaking “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto” sought the end of monolithic accounts of trans people (authored by non-trans) to reveal a multiplicity of trans narratives told by trans people themselves. By recognizing trans people as flesh and blood human beings with particular access to experiences of “transness” and transphobic oppression, as its starting point, trans studies opens up a way of theorizing “transgender”--for trans and non-trans people alike--that ideally resists, rather than reinforces, mechanisms of transphobia. This raises important questions in feminist theory and politics. How can feminist theory best understand transphobia and trans resistance? Where do feminist and trans politics meet? Where are the overlaps and gaps, the points of connection and disconnection?

Hypatia invites submissions to a special issue on transgender studies and feminism, which recognizes the emergence of trans studies.

We welcome articles that investigate the relations between feminism and transgender studies. Articles exploring the intersections of multiple oppressions are especially welcome, as are submissions that come from subject-positions outside the United States (and North America more generally). We seek a collection of papers that is international in scope.

We also welcome articles that focus on issues specific to trans studies, trans politics, and trans people. This includes (but is hardly limited to) the following: medical regulations of trans bodies; transphobic violence; transphobia in housing, employment, education, medical treatment, and the like; sexual violence against trans people; critiques and concerns about various views within trans studies or politics, tensions between queer theory and trans studies.

Submissions need not be limited to the discipline of philosophy; we encourage interdisciplinary submissions. Regardless of disciplinary orientation, all submissions need to be theoretically sophisticated. Submissions that show a sensitivity to the interrelations among theory, politics, and real impacts upon flesh and blood human beings are especially welcome.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 75 words. Please provide a cover letter identifying your paper as a submission for the special issue “Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities.”

The deadline for submissions is 15 April, 2008. Papers should be submitted by electronic attachment in Word to Ann Garry at agarry@calstatela.edu. Submissions should follow Hypatia guidelines (see http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/). Please address all correspondence, questions and suggestions to Ann Garry or Talia Bettcher at tbettch@calstatela.edu.

I attended Namoli Brennet's concert at Pitt. Here's a short podcast of it.

For more information check out Persad's website at www.persadcenter.org and Namoli's website at www.namolibrennet.com




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