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Julia update July 2009

1.    new writings!
2.    Julia in Tulsa, OK!
3.    another Bitesize show!

hi everyone,

just wanted to let you know about some recent goings on:

1. new writings

OK, so I have a couple new writings that are floating around out there.

First, my spoken word piece “Ophelia Revisited” appears in the new anthology “She's Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out and fighting back.” As you may have guessed, it was edited by the wonderful folks at Shameless Magazine (http://www.shamelessmag.com). Definitely look for it in your local bookstore! If you can’t find it there, here is the Amazon page for it:

http://www.amazon.ca/Shes-Shameless-growing-rocking-fighting/dp/0978335198

In other news, I have finally updated my “TS Psychology” webpage to include links to four new pieces: my Feministing.com piece about the impending DSM revision, my speech from May’s APA protest in San Francisco, my speech from last month’s Trans March (also in San Francisco), and my keynote talk from last month’s Philly Trans-Health Conference. Lots of me raging against the machine. Enjoy...

Also, there has been much brouhaha in the webosphere (or the cyberverse, or whatever you wanna call it) regarding cis/trans terminology and the concept of cis privilege (both of which I forwarded in WG). To clarify some of the misperceptions that are out there, back in May I wrote an FAQ about the issue - it can be found here:

http://juliaserano.livejournal.com/14700.html

also, Ethan St.Pierre recently had me on his show (TransFM.org) to talk about the issue – you can listen to that interview here:

http://www.archive.org/details/RadTrans-2009-7-05-TransFM

and finally, some of you may remember that Gina de Vries and I co-curated a show for last month’s National Queer Arts Festival called Girl Talk: A Cis and Trans Woman Dialogue. Since lots of out-of-town folks were interested but could not attend, we recently posted an mp3 of the entire event for anyone to listen to! It can be found here:

http://www.juliaserano.com/av/6_17_09-GirlTalk09.mp3

links to all of the details of the show and the cast (including a breakdown of the times each performer comes on in the mp3) can be found here:

http://juliaserano.livejournal.com/15219.html

once again, enjoy...

2. Julia in Tulsa, OK

Yes, I will be performing spoken word in Oklahoma later this month! Here are the details:

July 24, 2009
at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center
http://www.okeq.org
621 E. 4th in Tulsa, OK
the event will begin at 7pm

3. another Bitesize show!

On the heels of our March reunion show, my band Bitesize will be playing yet again! btw, for those who haven’t heard us before, we have free mp3s available for your listening pleasure at http://bitesize.net/mp3s.html

here are the details:

This upcoming Sunday (July 12th), Bitesize will be participating in "The Festival of Drums" at the Stork Club in Oakland. Basically, every band is including extra drummers and/or percussionists, and audience members are encouraged to bring percussion instruments to the event! And every band is supposed to end their sets with an "all-star" jam (open to interpretation, of course). [note: read the recent East Bay Express article about the show!]

We already have some excellent beatboxing and finger-cymbaling lined up, and we may be adding some other impromptu drummy stuff into our set on the day of the show (so if you have any brilliant ideas for participation, please let us know!). We are also planning to end our set with a Hey-Jude-meets-We-Are-the-World version of The Bee's Knees - so if you know the tune, we encourage you to join us onstage at the end of the song for a seemingly endless sing along!

Also, a bonus: it is a BBQ show! It starts fairly early (5pm) and we go on promptly at 7-ish - so if you wanna bang away with us, be sure to get there on time...

Okay, so here are all the details:

Sun 7/12/09
Sunday, July 12th @ 5pm

Stork Club
2330 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, 94612
Cost:$7
storkcluboakland.com
510-444-6174

A torrent of drums.  A hurricane of drums.  Class 6 rapids of drums.  7 bands adding countless drummers at the Festival of Drums.  More thunder than the drum corps.  More power than the solo in "Wipeout."  More drum solos than a Led Zeppelin concert.  More fun than the post-apocalypse.  The theme of this BBQ is "graduation" and it will also be Bunny Numpkins & the Kill Blow-Up Reaction's cd release.  So dust off your double kick petals, tablas, and kettle drums and get ready to rumble.

5:00 DJ Mole, DJ Tidbit, Kelsey on Accordion

5:45 David & Joanna www.myspace.com/davidandjoanna
6:30 Harlan Hollander www.myspace.com/musicbyharlan

7:15 Bitesize www.bitesize.net
8:00 Bunny Numpkins and the Kill Blow-Up Reaction www.myspace.com/bunnynumpkinsandthekillblowupreaction
8:45 The Happy Clams www.thehappyclams.com
9:30 Siddhartha www.myspace.com/siddharthamusic

10:15 The New Dysfunctions www.myspace.com/dylanchampagne

11:00 Static Mind-Fi www.myspace.com/staticmindfi

OK, that’s it for the update, hope some of you can make it out to the shows!
-julia
http://www.juliaserano.com

Hi all,

As some of you may know, I recently contributed an essay called "Why Nice Guys Finish Last" to the anthology Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti. It's a really amazing collection, so I highly encourage you to check it out!

For those of you who are interested, you have a couple of opportunities in the next week or so to hear a little bit more about the book:

1) today (Wednesday, April 29)  Jill Filipovic and I about will be interviewed about our respective Yes Means Yes essays on KPFA (a Berkeley public radio station). The show is called Against the Grain, it will take place between 12-1pm Pacific time. You can either listen live on the web at kpfa.org, or you might be able to find it archived for a period of time on the Against the Grain website. You can also obtain it by subscribing to the Against the Grain podcast...

2) next week there will be two Bay Area Yes Means Yes! book readings! I will be appearing at both:

Thursday, May 7, 7:30 pm at Modern Times, 888 Valencia in San Francisco
Saturday, May 9, 7:30 pm at Pegasus Downtown 2349 Shattuck in Berkeley

hope you can make it!
-julia

**addendum: the aforementioned interview can be found here.

My family recently sent me this article about a trans child in 3rd grade who has begun attending school as a girl rather than a boy. I see stories like these all the time, but this one particularly touched me because the child is attending Chatham Park elementary school, which is where I went to 5th & 6th grade. In fact, it is the school I was attending when I first began coming to terms with the fact that I wanted to be a girl, so the article really touched me.

I can't even begin to imagine how different my life would be if I would have been able to begin living as a girl back then...

In completely unrelated news: people have been asking me about the details of my Northwestern talk this week. Here they are:

Thursday, May 15 , 2008
5:30 PM
University Hall 122
Northwestern University 

The title of me talk will be "Debunking Autogynephilia"... just kidding (he he he). No, the actual title will be "Transsexual and Trans Feminine Perspectives of Sexism."

-julia