juliaserano ([info]juliaserano) wrote,
@ 2009-06-03 07:38:00
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Girl Talk: A Cis and Trans Woman Dialogue
Happy Pride month everyone!

I just wanted to let everyone know about a 2009 National Queer Arts Festival show I will be participating in this month. It is called Girl Talk: A Cis and Trans Woman Dialogue - it is a spoken word event that I have co-curated with Gina de Vries (and featuring an awesome cast!) on a topic that is very near and dear to my heart. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area on June 17th, I highly encourage you to come out for it! All the details and a description of the show are below. Please be sure to order advance tickets online, as the event may sell out...

The National Queer Arts Festival Presents:
Girl Talk: A Cis & Trans Woman Dialogue
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QFest09/GirlTalk.html
Curated by Gina de Vries & Julia Serano
Wednesday, June 17th
LGBT Center - Ceremonial Room
1800 Market Street, San Francisco
7:30pm
Tickets: $12-$20
Buy Tickets on-line!!:  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66001

Featuring the lovely & fabulous!:
Ryka Aoki de la Cruz
Tina D’Elia
Gina de Vries
Dorian Katz
Nomy Lamm
Julia Serano
Rose Sims (aka Little Light)
Lauren Steely

Queer cisgender women and queer transgender women are allies, friends, support systems, lovers, and partners to each other. Trans and cis women are allies to each other every day -- from activism that includes everything from Take Back the Night to Camp Trans; to supporting each other in having “othered” bodies in a world that is obsessed with idealized body types; to loving, having sex, and building family with each other in a world that wants us to disappear. Girl Talk is a spoken word show fostering and promoting dialogue about these relationships. Trans and cis women will read about their relationships of all kinds – sexual and romantic, chosen and blood family, friendships, support networks, activist alliances. Join us for a night of stories about sex, bodies, feminism, activism, challenging exclusion in masculine-centric dyke spaces, dating and breaking up, finding each other, and finding love and family.

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note added on 6-20-09 (i.e., after the show):
The show was amazing! For those who were not able to make it, you can listen to an mp3 of the show, which (for the foreseeable future) will be available here:
http://www.juliaserano.com/av/6_17_09-GirlTalk09.mp3

here are the times for those interested:

0:00:00        Pam's introduction
0:03:16        Gina
0:17:39        Ryka
0:32:26        Tina
0:42:26        Lauren
1:06:23        Nomy
1:19:23        Rose
1:33:09        Dorian
1:46:17        Julia

enjoy!


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[info]writer_grrrrl
2009-06-03 04:11 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I wish I could be there!

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[info]fall_of_sophia
2009-06-03 08:22 pm UTC (link)
oh gosh, that looks amazing. and i've never seen a picture of little light before.

"Dorian is a cis woman whose gender presentation is fairly consistent, although she has been known to switch from species to species."

that sort of thing really bothers me though - it's like the dumb displays of cis privilege you get during preferred pronoun checks.

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some context
[info]ginoushka
2009-06-14 09:47 pm UTC (link)
Hey, fall_of_sophia -- my name is Gina, I'm co-curating the event, and I'm good friends with both Julia and Dorian. Both Julia and I are psyched to have Dorian in the show.

I can sympathize with why that line in D.'s would bother you, esp. without context. I also wanted to offer some context for what Dorian is talking about, because I'm not sure it's clear:

Dorian and her girlfriend Marlene (who is a trans woman) are kinky -- more specifically, they both play in animal personas. She and Marlene have an art project about being a cis/trans dyke couple *and* about doing animal persona play called "The Hyena Report," which they will be showing slides of at Girl Talk.

Clearly, you're entitled to your opinions and feelings... But I wanted to offer up some more info about that line.

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[info]fall_of_sophia
2009-06-14 09:57 pm UTC (link)
yeah, that makes sense and i wasn't launching an attack on her. it just inadvertently reminded me of the awful "you can call me 'he,' you can call me 'she,' just don't call me late for dinner!" cliche thing that cis people have been known to do at preferred pronoun checks. looks like an awesome event and i wish you all the best of luck.

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[info]ginoushka
2009-06-14 10:10 pm UTC (link)
Word, I feel that. "WOW, I've never thought of my pronoun before! How COOL! I guess I don't care what you call me, etc etc." Yeah. Gag me.

And thanks! I wish you could be in the audience!

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[info]buruna_enu
2009-06-18 01:46 am UTC (link)
Hi.

As I am typing this, you're event is just starting.

I'm no where near you, though I wish I could see this.

It doesn't say so on my profile, but I'm trans and intersexed (m2f/i2f), a dyke, and very femme.

I've been out about all that since I was 15, and I've been starved for community almost all of that time.

Trans-misogyny has made my life so difficult to bear, I'm surprised I'm still alive.

Thank Goddess for my wife!

" challenging exclusion in masculine-centric dyke spaces"

THANK YOU.

I don't know when femme trans-women became every f***ing angry bitch dyke's scapegoat, or when femme started to sound dangerously like a racial or sexist slur, but damn. WTF, girls.

Anyway, preaching to the choir, right?

Are you planning to put on more work like this, or did you record the show?

I'd like to read your journal, if that's cool with you.

Good luck sister. Life's a bitch in the trenches of the gender wars...

~ Buruna ~

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