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QWOC WEEK: Call for LGBTQ People of Color Spoken Word and Performance Artists
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on June 15th, 2009
QWOC+ Boston would like to invite local LGBT performers and spoken word artists of color to submit their profiles, bios, and experience for performance consideration at OUTSPOKEN, our annual queer people of color spoken word and performance showcase, which takes place this year on Wednesday August 5th during our 2nd Annual QWOC WEEK.
Please send along any materials that will help us learn about your work and we will reach out to you to discuss your participation if we foresee an opportunity for you to perform/be involved this year. You may use the guidelines below to submit an inquiry:
Send an email to events@qwocboston.org with the following information:
- SUBJECT: Performer for OUTSPOKEN*
- Full Name + Stage Name (if applicable)
- Phone Number
- Link to online profile/website
- Some past performances
- Brief Bio or Summary of Work
- Please mention how you identify with or support the LGBTQ community of color
Note: Individual musicians/bands/DJs will also be considered for this event. Furthermore, if you think you would make a great MC for the event, please contact us!
We look forward to hearing from you!
Facebook Disabled QWOC+ Boston’s Account: Please Write Them on Our Behalf
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on May 20th, 2009
As it turns out, Facebook has disabled QWOC+ Boston’s account and is claiming that we violated some terms of use. This appears to be highly suspect given the number of times we were unable to access the account over the past couple of days, and the number of times an organizer had to request a password reset. We think that they shut us down due to the perception that someone else was trying to gain access to the account.
We need your help! We know how LONG it takes facebook to respond to inquiries – we can’t afford this delay right before pride season – but we also know that they are VERY responsive to grassroot movements. So, we are asking YOU to write to them at disabled@facebook.com with the subject: “Please Re-Enable QWOC Boston’s Facebook Account!” and tell them that they are ridding the community of a very valuable resource just before pride season.
After you’ve done this, please update your facebook/myspace/twitter status with the following message:
Facebook disabled QWOC Boston’s account! Please help them get it re-enabled by emailing disabled@facebook.com with the header “Please Re-Enable QWOC Boston’s Facebook Account!” and a few other kind words about the group! Diversity Speaks. Spread the word.
In the meantime, please check the website/twitter for updates. Our facebook group is still alive and well, so if you hadn’t joined it, now is the time to do so!
Conference Call for Submissions: Butch Voices (Deadline June 1st)
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on May 18th, 2009
Hello –
I am the Programming Chair for the Butch Voices Conference, to be held in Oakland from August 20 to 23 of this year. Butch Voices is a grassroots organization dedicated to all self-identified butches, studs, aggressives, those of similar identities, and their allies. We can be found online at www.butchvoices.com.
It is extremely important to us that the POC community be heard and represented, and we STRONGLY ENCOURAGE QWOC’s members to submit ideas/proposals to the Programming Committee.
We really hope to see you in Oakland this August.
I thank you in advance for your time and attention, and look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Nico Carbellano
Programming Chair
We invite you to join us for three days of workshops, panels, and performances intended to reflect the diversity and complexity of butch gender, identity, and action. On the one hand, butch, stud, and aggressive are hyper-visible identities; on the other, our voices too often go unheard or are misunderstood.
This conference is an opportunity for us to speak, both to one another and to our allies. To talk about why we identify in the ways we do; about how we can tell our stories when the words available to us simply don’t fit; about masculinity and maleness, femininity and femaleness, areas of overlap, and areas of none of the above; about sex and embodiment; about community and about placelessness; about homelessness and about the search for home.
Submissions of all kinds are welcome, though we especially welcome those that grapple with difficult questions:
• Desire and relationships
• Various “border wars” (and what we can do about them)
• Drag, passing, and failing to pass
• Misogyny
• Penis envy (or our lack thereof)
• Community-building
• Race
• Class
• Trans-generational dialogue
• Culture, faith, and nation.
We particularly encourage proposals by and for people of color, working-class people, and people with disabilities. We hope to draw participants from across disciplinary, social, and formal boundaries. Relevant proposals from non-butch, stud, or aggressive presenters and allies are also welcome.
Contributions may include, but are not limited to:
• Workshops
• Performances
• Presentations
• Skill shares
• Photography/ visual art
• Video
To apply to be a presenter, please submit your proposal (no more than 500-750 words) and a completed submissions form to us atprogramming@butchvoices.com.
Submission deadline is June 1, 2009.
To learn more about us and our mission, and to contact us with any questions, comments or concerns, please find us atwww.butchvoices.com.
Action Alert from the National Coalition for LGBT Health
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on May 1st, 2009
CALL TODAY!!!!
Ask Your Senator to Sign On in Support of an LGBT Question on the National Health Interview Survey
As we let you know last week, Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) is leading the charge in the Senate to rally support for appropriating the $2 million necessary to add an LGBT demographic question to the National Health Interview Survey. The Senator has begun circulating a sign-on “Dear Colleague” letter in the Senate.
Contact your Senator today to ask them to sign onto the Whitehouse Letter in the Senate.
To contact your Senator, please call the Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121, tell them your state, and ask to speak to your Senator. When you are connected to your Senator’s office, ask for the staff member who works on Health and Human Services appropriations. Tell them that you are a constituent who supports appropriating an additional $2 million for the National Health Interview Survey and that you would like them to sign on. In order to sign on, they need to contact Jordanna Davis in Senator Whitehouse’s office by close of business on Friday, May 1st.
