Our hope for the BUTCH Voices Regional Conferences is to provide a similar, regionally-focused events with the same awesome, open spirit and attitude. We will also be including substantial programming around health and wellness. The BUTCH Voices 2010 Regional Conferences will be an amazing opportunity to create local and regional community awareness, to share butch voices, and critical thinking about who we are. These Conferences are a place to: talk about why we identify in the ways we do, learn how to tell our stories, address femininity, masculinity, discuss areas of overlap and intersection that are none of the above. We will talk about sex, embodiment, community building, our physical and mental health, and issues that stand in the way of Butch-identified solidarity and justice. Most importantly, BUTCH Voices is the place where we can be ourselves with one another.
This is our Call for Submissions. We welcome workshop ideas of all kinds, films, performances, skill shares, especially on topics which speak to the cultural, sexual, emotional, physical, and psychological relationships that arise in the lives of Butches, Studs, Tombois, Aggressives, Machas, etc. We are open to all perspectives–queer, feminist, womanist, neither or beyond! We particularly encourage proposals by and for people-over sixty, under twenty-one, working-class, and people of color or persons with disabilities.
Deadline for Submissions for BUTCH Voices NYC, Portland, and LA is August 1, 2010. Please submit your proposal or abstract to particular city in which you are interested in presenting or performing BVNYC2010@gmail.com, BVPortland2010@gmail.com, or BVLA2010@gmail.com along with a short bio of yourself and any other presenter.
Please forward this widely to all who may be interested in participating.
SAVE THE DATES!
Dallas, TX Regional Conference June 5th
9am-6pm
John Thomas Gay & Lesbian Community Center - Resource Center of Dallas
2701 Reagan Street
Dallas, TX 75219-3403
$20 registration $10 student $10 volunteer
Includes full day of workshops and speakers, lunch and FREE admission to Sue Ellen's on the night of June 5th!
More info including our Keynote Speaker - Jessica Pettitt as well as some of the workshops we're offering AND to register online for the BUTCH Voices Dallas Regional Conference:
http://www.butchvoices.com/regional-conferences/dallas/
New York, NY Regional Conference September 25th
For questions or to submit proposals please email: BVNYC2010@gmail.com
Call for Submissions for BUTCH Voices NYC:
http://www.butchvoices.com/regional-...r-submissions/
More info and to register for the BUTCH Voices New York Regional Conference:
http://www.butchvoices.com/regional-...nces/new-york/
Portland, OR Regional Conference October 2nd
9am-6pm
Portland State University
Smith Memorial Student Union
1825 Southwest Broadway
Portland, OR 97201
For questions or to submit proposals please email: BVPortland2010@gmail.com
Call for Submissions for BUTCH Voices Portland:
http://www.butchvoices.com/regional-...r-submissions/
More info and to register for the BUTCH Voices Portland Regional Conference:
http://www.butchvoices.com/regional-...nces/portland/
Los Angeles, CA Regional Conference October 8th-10th
Friday night 6pm to Sunday afternoon 1 pm
Plummer Park Community Center
7377 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA
For questions or to submit proposals please email: BVLA2010@gmail.com
Call for Submissions for BUTCH Voices LA:
http://www.butchvoices.com/regional-...r-submissions/
More info on the BUTCH Voices Los Angeles Regional Conference:
http://www.butchvoices.com/regional-...s/los-angeles/
To register for BUTCH Voices LA:
http://www.bvla2010.com/
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT BUTCH VOICES...
BUTCH Voices is a grassroots organization dedicated to all self identified Butches, Studs, Aggressives, other similar identities, and their Allies. We, at BUTCH Voices, feel it is important to bring together our diverse communities, build bridges, make connections, and use our collective voices to gain better understanding of each other and promote positive visibility.
We are woman-identified Butches. We are trans-masculine Studs. We are faggot-identified Aggressives. We are noun Butches, adjective Studs and pronoun-shunning Aggressives. We are she, he, hy, ze, zie and hir. We are you, and we are me. The point is, we don’t decide who is Butch, Stud or Aggressive. You get to decide for yourself.
BUTCH Voices is dedicated to community building, economic/social justice and physical/mental health for all self identified Butches, Studs, Aggressives, our allies, and the general public.
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