BETTY: Heroine Holidays (NYC Performance Featuring Emily Saliers and Gloria Steinem)
BETTY: Heroine Holidays will be held on December 21st, December 22nd, and December 23rd at The Public Theater. Join BETTY in a Winter Solstice celebration of wine, women and song, three nights long. The Rock/Pop band - whose theme song…
World AIDS Day edition of the International Carnival of Pozitivities
The International Carnival of Pozitivities is "a blog carnival for people living with HIV/AIDS around the world." From the carnival's online home: "The intent of this carnival is to provide an international forum for interaction among those of us who…
Are you a woman who lives in Atlanta and who identifies as femme or feminine?
Amy Palder, a Georgia State University Doctoral Candidate, is seeking interviewees for her research study to determine what femininity looks like when bio-males are out of the equation. You must partner exclusively with other women, transmen and/or genderqueers (you can…
Submissions for December’s carnival are due today!
Last call! The anniversary edition of the Carnival of Bent Attractions will be hosted at Spectrum Bloggers on December 10th. Submit your posts here. You can find Maria on MySpace here and read her current call for essays on femme…
Spreading a meme
This post will assist Scott Eric Kaufman in his quest to measure "the speed of meme." From Acephalous: What is the speed of meme? People write in general (typically truimphant) terms about how swiftly a single voice can travel from…
A Short Interview with An Xiao
I recently posted about trans//face, an exhibition by An Xiao. An Xiao took some time to share a little more about her exhibition with me: How long did you shoot for this show, and were you able to take photos…
The Carnival of Bent Attractions’ Anniversary Edition
The Carnival of Bent Attractions, the only queer blog carnival on the Web, is a year old on December 10th! The anniversary edition will be hosted at Spectrum Bloggers. Submissions are due by 12:01am on December 2nd. Don't forget to…
5 days left to send that email!
To: Subject: Weblog Awards Best GLBT News Blog: 429 News X Daily Dose of Queer PageOneQ Queerty Towleroad Previous post: "Make Daily Dose of Queer the Winner of the 2006 Verve Best GLBT News Blog Award!" You can find Maria…
Trans Photo Exhibition Showcases Portraits of Hate Crime Survivors
trans//face, "a new exhibition by photographer and activist An Xiao explor the lives and words of survivors of anti-transgender violence and their allies," opened yesterday at Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City. In striking portraits of transgender and queer New…
Bad news: We’ve disappointed a straight person
A plea from Hope for humanity (*snicker*): So please, why don't you be "GAY" and let other people live their lives? Hope thinks the entire queer community co-wrote And Tango Makes Three: Now they wrote this book about these penguins…