Category: Announcements

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Actively seeking the help of Transgendered MTF seniors, ages 55+,interested in participating in extensive on-camera interviews for a documentary film on Women and Aging. Participants may identify across the spectrum of the Trans experience from crossdresser to transsexual. The film will be based on the lived experiences and reflections on the aging processes of Transgendered and Genetic women. My film company, Stop the World Films, is located in the Boston area, but some travel is possible.

I am a transgender. I have lived a life of 72 years as a woman in the body of a man. Norma?s Voice is the story of that life.

http://www.pdpublishing.com/normasvoiceendpage.htm

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 agarry@calstatela.edu

RESEARCHER ON LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER RIGHTS
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program
(New York Office)
Deadline for applications: October 16, 2006

Thursday June 22, 2006 -Boston
Where are we, where are we going, and why does it matter?
A presentation by National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Join National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director, Matt Foreman, and other staff of the Task Force for a compelling presentation of data from the Task Force's national polling on support for transgender-inclusive non-discrimination laws. Following the presentation, we will have a lively discussion of the status of the transgender rights movement at the local, state, and national level.

?The next twelve months are going to be the most challenging time in the history of the International Foundation for Gender Education? declared Yvonne Cook-Riley, newly elected Chair of IFGE, as she addressed hundreds of people gathered at IFGE's 20th Conference.

?Over the last twenty years our community has evolved, and our community urgently needs IFGE to evolve to meet their needs?, said Cook-Riley. ?Effective immediately, this board has a mandate to effect an immediate change of direction and to refocus on our mission to serve the entire transgender community?? (April 7, 2006 Philadelphia, PA)

Mark your calendar now for May 12 ?14, 2006 , and plan on joining the Tiffany Club of New England for three fun-filled days in one of the most open, non-judgmental communities in the world, Provincetown. Located on the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown combines the quintessential New England fishing port with the relaxed feeling of one of the oldest artist colonies in the country.

IFGE Executive Director Denise Leclair co-hosted GenderTalk radio on March 11 and March 18, along with Ethan St.Pierre, while regular hosts Nancy Nangeroni and Gordene MacKenzie took some well deserved time off. Tune in Saturdays at 8:00 pm to WMBR, 88.1 Cambridge or listen to the streaming audio feed at www.GenderTalk.com!

When: February 10 - 12
Where: American University - 6th floor of the Butler Pavilion and in the Mary Graydon Center nearby
Fee: $10 for employed persons, and $5 for students, those between jobs, and others with limited income

Program Committee, Lavender Languages XI
c/o Department of Anthropology, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington DC 20016

202-885-1831
wlm@american.edu
http://www.american.edu/cas/anthro/lavenderlanguages/index.html