Gender & Sexuality

July 2, 2008 (Update) New information is in Red

PRESS RELEASE

From: Rochester's Anti-Racism Movement

As we promised during our press conference on Friday, June 27, 2008 (following our meeting with representatives of WHAM'S management), we are going to take our protests directly to businesses that sponsor the Bob Lonsberry show. Our first action is scheduled for 6:00 PM on Thursday, July 3, 2008.

Dan Kliman

* El Libertario published in its 51st edition (Venezuela, Novermber - Dicember 2007) a text compilation that expresses important aspects of what anarchism proposes may be done to face the growing problem of gender violence.

This Sunday, June 1, our next meeting for the queer radical reading group will meet. Now instead of giving you the location I will give you a discussion of sorts that you must interpret in order to figure out the possible locations and time. It's a critical scavenger hunt for those who wish to partake.

This Sunday May, 18th at 5pm will be the next meeting of the Queer Radical Reading Group. The essay is "Gender: For a Marxist Dictionary" by Donna Haraway. The essay is from the book "Simians, Cyborgs, and Women".

Radical is about different ideas coming together so that we can better understand our world. My way of understanding things comes in conflict with your way of understanding things. By discussing and working through our differences we can change how we see the world and then use that understanding to change our actions.

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For those who could not attend the first meeting, there is exciting news. You have until this Sunday April 20th at 5pm to find a copy of Jeanette Winterson's "Written on the Body" and read some portion of it.

I realize that this could be the most perilous of tasks. If you see your radical peers eyeing the book sitting so isolated among its heterosexual counterparts on the library shelves, do not use force. Peaceful solidarity is key. Say, hello queer friend, I realize that we both desire that book, but why don't we think of a way of dealing with this dilemma co-operatively.

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