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SF Fluid Mtg Sunday!

2005-02-03T06:55:24Z

Please forward widely!!!

The San Francisco chapter of Fluid is now holding regular support and discussion group meetings every first and second Sunday of the month, from 1 PM - 3 PM, at Femina Potens. Femina Potens is located at 465 South Van Ness @16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, just a few blocks from the 16th St. BART station.

WHO: Folks who don’t fit into the sex, gender, gender expression, and sexual orientation binaries

WHAT: Support & Discussion Group Meetings

WHEN: Every first & second Sunday of the month, from 1 PM - 3 PM

WHERE: Femina Potens-- 465 South Van Ness @16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Fluid...

Fluid provides a comfortable, safe space to talk for people who don’t fit into conventional categories of sex, gender, gender expression, and sexual orientation, the boxes of female and male, woman and man, feminine and masculine, femme and butch, bottom and top, lesbian, gay, and straight.

Many folks in Fluid identify as queer, fluid, FTM, androgynous, power queer, polyamorous, intersex, MTF, genderqueer, bi-gender, a-gendered, switch, bisexual, bisensual, inter-gender, heteroflexible, transgendersexual, homoflexible, and pansexual, and many do not identify with any labels in relation to their sex, gender, gender expression, and/or sexual orientation. Allies and people who would like to learn more are also welcome at Fluid gatherings.

At Fluid support and discussion group meetings, social events, and speaker presentations, you can get to know people like and unlike yourself, discuss related experiences, and support each other. Come prepared to laugh, learn, meet new folks, and have fun.

**To learn more about Fluid and to sign up for the email listserves, please visit the following sites**

SF Fluid Events & Announcements: www.groups.yahoo.com/group/SFFluid

Berkeley Fluid Events & Announcements: www.groups.yahoo.com/group/fluid
queer.berkeley.edu/fluid

Fluid Online Discussion Group:
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/Fluid_Discussions

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fluidity validity

2004-12-23T18:11:05Z

The people that I associate with are all up and becoming trans out of nowhere, and while I don't really have a prob with that, I think that maybe it's just another way of giving in to the gender binary system. See, at first, I thought - wow, what an open minded group of people - but soon it started to feel like pressure to define myself as either female or transgender - which was exactly what I was trying to get away from. I personally feel like all and none - then one or the other at different points in time. But why all the pressure to define one's-self? Why is it that the people who preach so much gender fluidity don't just accept the lack of any specific gender association? I don't know - maybe were trained for so long to see only two sides to gender - so it's so engrained in us that we feel like we'll be all alone if we don't pick one or the other. I'm tired of picking one or the other. I'm tired of boxes. What do others think?

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Blender Settings

2004-12-03T22:54:24Z

Hmmmm-Descibe what blender setting suits you.
1-Fold
2-Stir
3-Mix
4-Blend
5-Combine
6-Beat
7-Cream
8-Fluff
9-Frappe
10-Whip
I am a combination of mix,stir,and fluff.

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Election Coverage

2004-11-02T17:26:15Z

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Election Coverage

2004-11-02T17:25:49Z

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re: dfferent self genderblending

2004-06-11T14:24:52Z

You know sometimes I see myself as a queer boy in a lesbian's body- At other times a drag kingy boi. And occasionally a tomboyish dyke. Yet at other times- a macho daddy needing little girls to love and take care of. Anyone else go through a bit of genderblending within themselves? Not confining themselves to a singular personality or dare I say 'label'?

Filthy

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re: idke chicago

2004-06-08T14:41:01Z

who's gonna go? idkechicago.com

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Pilot Chicago!

2004-05-30T11:52:02Z

Call for submissions!

Get INvolved!

Calling all trans-activists, women, queers, male feminists, media activists, intersexed hackers, radical educators, genderchangers, direct-actors, performance artists, anti-racists, mothers, documentarians, prop collectors, youth video collectives, squatters, fence-climbers, cyberfeminists, urban farmers, prison abolitionists, women’s health-care providers, all-girl graffiti crews, resistant bodies and trespassers of all kinds!!!

PILOT is a hybrid activist convergence taking the form of a do-it-yourself television studio. Rejecting more passive models of conferences and demonstrations, we invite you to take part in 4 days and nights of participatory, creative problem-solving to rethink how we “stage” protest. Help us turn a three-story Chicago building into a fully functioning hollywood studio, replete with fantastical sets, collaborative crews, and improvised madness.
Stage a panel discussion as a talk show, lead a workshop as a cooking show, get behind a camera, sew a costume, party all night, or just show up and get involved in the conversation. PILOT will be an open-ended space for those of us involved in the global anticapitalist movement to come together in sweat-space, build momentum, and strategize our biopolitical resistance on (and off) camera.
As the last vestiges of public space, natural resources, and community-control are bought-off, our bodies will continue to be the final line in the struggle for autonomy. Join us at the PILOT laboratory for 4 days of fleshy resistance, aesthetic experiments and tactical performance! Trespass the corporate control of media with nomadic TV, pirate radio broadcasts, and guerrilla drive-in screenings! Visit the PILOTWOOD sign and help make a “Walk of Flames”! Enjoy parties, community meals, and finish the weekend with us as we RECLAIM-THE-STREETS as an on-location shoot FOR OUR TV PILOT! Do things on camera that you could never do legally in real life!
The PILOT TV convergence is a non-hierarchical, no-budget event currently being organized by a loose collective of trans/genderqueer activists, artists, and fence-cutters. Please get involved! All resources, skill-sets, and ideas for collaboratio nare welcomed!

check out www.pilotchicago.org for more info

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HRC

2004-05-08T14:13:48Z

IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR

REBECCA JURO

For years now, we've been hearing the same thing from the Human Rights
Campaign, Barney Frank, and their political bedfellows over and over:
“You're not ready...there aren't enough votes in Congress to support a
transgender-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act or hate crimes
protection bill. No one understands you, more education is needed. Just
wait, be patient, we'll fight for you when the time is right.”

We always suspected it, and now we know it for a certainty. They've been
lying through their teeth, and not just to us.

It all started in the last week of April, when transgender activists of all
stripes descended on Washington, DC. I was there, as both a journalist and
a participant. The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition's Lobby Days
event, where the organization spent two days lobbying Congress for the
inclusion of gender identity and gender expression protections in the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and the hate crimes bill, boasted
an active and committed group of transgender activists. GenderPAC (GPAC)
was there, holding its National Conference on Gender, the Transgender
American Veterans Association (TAVA) was gathering for its March to the
Wall, and a team of transgender activists drawn mainly from the membership
of Out For Democracy – Transgender met with the GLBT Outreach leaders of
both the Kerry campaign and the Democratic National Committee, the first
time such a meeting has ever taken place.

Literally hundreds of politically-active Transgender Americans had come to
our nation's capital to be seen, be heard, and to send a clear message to
our country's leaders that we will no longer be invisible, ignored, or
silent. The history books will record these days as the moment our
community truly came out of the closet, as a valid minority constituency,
as a political force, and as a community, with a social, political, and
cultural identity all our own.

As is so often the case with breaking news stories, this one started with
just a small kernel of information, but grew and grew, spiraling ever
upward and outward...

The kernel was the stunning tidbit NTAC lobbyists heard when visiting the
office of a major Republican co-sponsor of ENDA. When asked if the
congressman would be willing to support a version of ENDA that is inclusive
of gender identity and expression protections, a closely-placed source
responded, “If HRC would just get on board with this, it would be so much
easier.” Those in many other congressional offices, while generally
supportive of protecting Transgender Americans in civil rights legislation,
were curious as to why HRC isn't supporting a trans-inclusive ENDA.

The seed expands and bursts, takes root, and begins to sprout...

More information began to trickle in. We learned that HRC has been
pressuring GLBT advocacy organizations that have historically been very
supportive and proactive in fighting for civil rights legislation that
includes gender identity and gender expression protections to abandon their
support of our community and support the non-inclusive “gay and lesbian
only” bills HRC has been promoting. We also learned that most of these
organizations are resisting HRC's efforts to curtail their support of
Transgender Americans...most, but not all.

The sprout grows, its leaves unfurl and expand. The stalk lengthens,
raising the still tightly wrapped bud toward the sun...

At about 2:30pm DC time on Friday, April 30th, a group of about 15
protesters, some wearing Transsexual Menace t-shirts, along with documentary
filmmaker Tim Watts and his cameraman Kwan, there to record the protest for
inclusion in their upcoming documentary film about Lobby Days and
transgender activism, arrived at HRC headquarters and began picketing on
the sidewalk outside the lavishly appointed building. We held signs with
slogans proclaiming “These T's Are Not Silent!”, “Separate and Unequal!”,
“GLB...Where's the T?”, “HRC...Where Are We?”, and “Ten Years of
Exclusion”. We stood, we marched, we chanted our slogans, and waved our
signs at the shiny floor-to-ceiling HRC office windows for about half an
hour, until an HRC representative came outside to invite us all into the
building to talk.

Some of us immediately realized that what they were trying to do by
inviting us all inside was to take the protest off of their sidewalk and
out of public view, so we sent Gwen Smith, the well-read community
columnist and webmistress of the Remembering Our Dead website, and Ethan
St.Pierre, host of the Internet radio show Trans-FM, into the building with
the HRC rep while I and the rest of our group remained outside and
continued the protest.

A few of those entering or leaving the building and passers-by stopped to
ask us what was going on, and we told them. It was street-level education
at its most effective, if perhaps not at its most efficient. We let these
folks see the faces and hear the voices of a community HRC has been doing
everything it can to marginalize and disempower in the interests of
exclusively promoting the equal treatment and civil rights of its mostly
wealthy, mostly white, mostly straight-looking, mostly gay male major donor
base while, at the same time, publicly proclaiming itself an advocate of
Transgender Americans, and supportive of our equality and our civil rights.

Inside the building, Gwen and Ethan met with several HRC folks, who offered
them cold water (which they refused), soothing, inclusive platitudes of
“open door” policies and tales of tearful meetings discussing trans
inclusion, and the promise of yet another upcoming discussion of a
trans-inclusive ENDA to take place sometime this summer, all with Tim and
Kwan keeping the microphone hot and the camera rolling despite the
objections of the HRC reps.

When Gwen and Ethan emerged from the building, we wrapped up the protest
and headed back toward the Dupont Circle Metro station, where we went our
separate ways, most heading back to the train to reunite with the groups
they'd come from to join us.

Finally, the bud blossoms into fullness, spreading its petals and revealing
the true colors of its face to meet the light of day...

It wasn't until after we'd all returned to our respective homes days later
that we learned the true impact of what we'd done. Our little protest,
small in number though we were, hadn't gone unnoticed. Soon, Gwen and Ethan
began receiving messages from other segments of the GLBT community that HRC
has failed to support and represent fairly and honestly because they don't
fit the organization's conservative public image. Drag queens, leather
community members, and gay groups from as far away as Louisiana all checked
in with statements of solidarity and support for the protest and its message.

We also learned that we'd just happened to show up to protest on a day when
HRC was holding a fund-raising event for some of its major donors.
Apparently, the event had to be quickly moved to another location, no doubt
to avoid having to answer inconvenient questions from these folks about why
we were out there. Yes, boys, girls, and everyone else, the Goddess is
trans-inclusive, even though some of Her children aren't.

So, you might ask, what happens now?

This, my friends, is just the beginning. The first step is this, the column
you are reading right now, and what you'll soon be seeing, hearing, and
reading from a variety of media resources about what happened and what we
learned in DC, what we're going to do about it, and how you can help make
it happen.

There will be more columns and more protests. You'll hear about it on
community radio shows, you'll read about it in GLBT newspapers and on
websites, and your community needs you to do your part. Call your
Congressman, call your Pride Center, call your friends and neighbors. Tell
them you're not going to support HRC or their elitist political games and
ask them not to do it, either. If you're a member of HRC, rip up your
membership card, send it back to them in pieces, and tell them why you're
doing it. Don't buy another t-shirt or donate another nickel to these
people until they're willing to truly honor the words emblazoned on the
wall of their obscenely opulent office building:

Working for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality

At long last, our time has come. We've grown up as a community, as a
political force, and as a culture. We've seen through the lies, the
misrepresentations, the double-dealing, and the thinly-veiled bigotries. No
longer will we sit quietly and idly by as others promote themselves and
their own fair and equal treatment at our expense. We are speaking out, and
our voices are being heard, on the street, in the media, and in the halls
of Congress. And as we are speaking, so are we listening.

We know the truth now.

The time of lies is over.

These T's are NOT silent!

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tonight on TransFM - 7PM EDT

2003-10-12T16:23:14Z

Tonight on TransFM
Lexie and Ethan will discuss:

***Gender Identity VS. sexual orientation.

***HRC raised 28 million dollars to purchase and renovate
their new building in DuPont Circle which was open and ready
for yesterday's National coming out day.
(Ethan has a field day on this one.)

***How to get involved with activism in the T community.

ON THE FLIP SIDE
Lexie and Ethan Discuss:
***LadySlippers

***The Blink response.

***TransFM is proud to present: The Assholes of America Award!

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