M2Q

Xposted to boy2boitrans, genderqueer etc...

As part of the last class in my gender studies program, I'm going to be writing something on gender variance (androgyny, butchyness, masculinity, drag kinging, male cross-dressing etc...) in MtFs and also gender-variance in other male-bodied non-male-identified people.

When I'm done, I don't want it to sit in a drawer, I want to post it publicly so that other people can use it .

Questions:

What would you like to see in this? What would be most useful to you? What would have been most useful to you in the past? What would be most useful to other people that you know of? What topics would you like me to cover?

What should I do with it when I'm done? Where should I post it? Should I print it and send it somewhere?

Where would you recommend looking for sources? Digging up this information is going to be a real challenge.

This is hard to do but this is something I wanted to get out in the open.
While Lj helps admit and talk about my being transgendered.
Some things are still hard to talk about even among the most liberal and accepting of people this is something I haven't talked about before for fear of rejection and that I thought I only wanted people to perceive me a certain way. But I realize I'm just holding something from me and I would miss out on alot. I need to get this out,so people will know who I am, so I know who I am....

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So last night I finally admitted to myself that I know longer want to identify as butch. This mostly made sense to me since I had stopped using Butch as a noun for myself some time ago, quite organically. In part that was because I had started using Crowdagger as an identity noun, since I had coined it as an intentional identity for butch transwomen and it seems to be spreading slowly with some popularity. Last night just involved finally ditching the adjective form of Butch as well even though at present I still dress the same. But I guess this is kind of a big deal and worth posting about really, because not only have I stopped identifying as a butch or even just butch, I am now identifying as femme.

A femme crowdagger, but femme all the same. Who knows what that looks like?

In large part I am vaguely uncertain as to how I should proceed with all of this. On the one hand I am still identifying as a crowdagger, which was originally intended to be a term for butch transwomen. So does this mean that I am basically embracing a "butch in a dress" identity? If so then I am pretty much okay with that. Also how do I present femme in such a way as to make it not gender normative. Not just gender variant, but still recognizable as coming from an origin point of masculinity? This is the hardest part because (and I have kept this a secret too long I think) to a grand extent I love trashy trashy dresses and bad makeup and I am kind of getting tired of pants.

Giving this all a lot of thought. More later.

Hi! How are you all doing?

This was posted to the a list I moderate and I'm forwarding it to the group with no more information than what is below.

Fresh Meat Productions is currently accepting submissions for our
Third Annual Fresh Meat in the Gallery exhibition to be held this June in San Francisco. Please go to our website at www.freshmeatproductions.org for full details.

Fresh Meat in the Gallery is an historic annual exhibition of visual art by transgender, intersex and genderqueer artists. A driving force in building the trans art movement, this exhibition creates a visual dialogue about gender, the body and society. It initiates an open discourse with and about subjects often left unseen or undiscussed, both within the queer community and in society at large.

We invite transgender, intersex and genderqueer artists to submit original works of art, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture and mixed media.

Part of the National Queer Arts Festival, Fresh Meat in the Gallery accompanies Fresh Meat 2006, the Fifth Anniversary festival of transgender and queer performance that runs June 15, 16 and 17 at ODC Theater in San Francisco www.freshmeatproductions.org

Deadline for submissions is May 5, 2006.
Artists will hear back from us by mid-May.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Please submit ALL of the following on a CD

Up to three images, as high-resolution JPEGs (images scanned at 200 dpi or higher)

1) A document listing ALL of the following information for each work:
* Title (if any),
* Year made,
* Medium, and
* Dimensions of the artwork submitted.
2)A short (200 words or less) bio about yourself and your work, INCLUDING
* your full name,
* address,
* phone, and
* email address

NOTES:

Please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish to have your submission returned.
Please do NOT send original artwork.
If for any reason you're having trouble getting your images onto a CD, please contact us to arrange something.

Deadline for submissions is MAY 5, 2006. Late submissions will not be considered. Early submissions are much appreciated!! Artists will hear back from us by mid-May.

SEND YOUR SUBMISSION MATERIALS TO:
Fresh Meat in the Gallery
c/o Billie Mandel
Cranky Pants Studio
651-A Scott Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

EXHIBITION DATES:

Fresh Meat in the Gallery
ODC Theater Gallery
June 4 ? June 30, 2006
3153 17th Street (at Shotwell), SF
Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 2pm-5pm
Admission: FREE
Opening Reception: June 16, post-performance (Fresh Meat 2006)

Info: www.freshmeatproductions.org

QUESTIONS/INFO: Contact Billie at billiemandel@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing your work!

Cross-Posted to transphoto, genderqueer, and m2q.

I was born male, live as a girl, identify as genderqueer and here I am as a drag king for a drag show (just going, not performing) / Halloween...

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X-posted to genderqueer and m2q

So, I'm still genderqueer. Came out at 16, parents put a stop to that (well, they can't touch what I do at school) so I explored being gender-variant and genderqueer (I was always a rather girly boy). I started transitioning at 19 and I'm almost 21 now. Everything seems to be going well and I pass decently but I'm still genderqueer.

I guess I look more tomboyish than average straight girls on campus but I do own a skirt and I do have long hair and stuff. Point is that I want to look butchier than I do but still pass. I don't want to be like super-Harley riding, leather-wearing beer-chugging butch, I just want to look more boish than I do now. I've been looking in the little boys section of the thrift store but I haven't been seeing anything I like (a cub scout uniform would rock -- wish I could have said that 10 years ago... ^_^).

A few months ago, I took my girlfriend out clubbing and I butched it up with a suit jacket that I used to wear. It was way too big for me now but I loved going out and showing my girl off. I need to get my hair cut soon and I'm trying to figure out how to do it. I keep trying to tell myself that next summer I'll pass better and then I can do all this but that's frustrating.

I guess I'm going for yet-another-andro-dyke, any tips?

So I don't know if any of y'all read the queer advice communities suckitupdyke or whateverfaggot here on LJ, but if you don't, you should -- they're fun! So I decided to start one for trans people. Check it out: trans_advice



If this is not okay to post here, please feel free to remove it. X-posted, like, everywhere.

Show your support for transwoman in Spokane, WA USA
kimpossible68 is reporting to the County Jail for 7 days tomorrow. Kim is being held in contempt of court for being transgendered and refusing to dress like a man in order to get a job. Kim, a full time student and parent of two awesome girls, has been ordered to pay $1000 a month in child support. After losing her previous job because she was outed, the judge refused to reduce the amount of the support order and held Kim in contempt saying that being transgendered "is a choice, just like being a punk rocker". In the past, Kim has been ordered not to pick her girls up at school because having a transgendered parent will embarass them. (No one asked the girls, by the way). Kim is to report to County Jail at 10 a.m. At 9 a.m. we want all fair minded people to show up and make some noise. Let's give Kim a big sendoff and show the court that transgendered people have our support and discrimination will not go be tolerated. For more info on Kim's story, listen to KYRS (92.3 or 95.3 fm) today at 4 p.m., Kim will be interviewed on the show Queer Sounds. For those not in Spokane, www.kyrs.org You can listen via webcast. Call in at 509.747.3807 wherever you are to show your support. Kim volunteers for Stop The Clock and CounterCrisis NW, she is a caring, generous friend and she got the Spokane audience to give her a three minute ovation after she performed in the Vagina Monologues. In other words, she's completely amazing. We love you Kim. Cross post this everywhere you like!

x-posted everywhere I can
taken from genderqueer

If anyone is interested, the Equality and Parity: A Statewide Action for Transgender HIV Prevention and Care conference which took place in early May of this year has a bunch of the sessions available online at The Body website. You can listen to something like 12 sessions. Please pass the word on.