Queer Blogs

Julia Serano was at the University of Cincinnati on Wednesday, April 22, lecturing on transsexual and transfeminine perspectives on feminism. Serano is the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman On Sexism And The Scapegoating Of Feminity , and she regularly lectures on the intersections of being transgender and identifying and being perceived as female. One interesting point that Serano brought up was the idea of facsimilation in regards to having a queer identity. Her example of this was the illegalization of gay marriage in most the the U.S.: Gay marriage is just an inferior copy of and is not as good as a ... Read Full Story

Today members of GenderBloc , a radical queer organization on the University of Cincinnati’s campus, observed Transgender Day of Remembrance by placing white flags on McMicken Commons, one for each person who dies yearly because of hate crime perpetrated against a transgender person. The students also chalked messages explaining the flags and denouncing hate. Posted in activism, cincinnati, ftm, gender, GenderBloc, hate crime, mtf, Ohio, TDOR, trans, University of Cincinnati Tagged: asexual, bisexual, ftm, gay, gender, GenderBloc, genderqueer, GLBT, GLBTQ, glbtqia, hate crime, Intersex, lesbian, LGBT, LGBTQ, lgbtqia, mtf, pansexual, queer, TDOR, trans, transgender, transgender day of remembrance, transsexual, UC, University of Cincinnati Read Full Story

GenderBloc , the University of Cincinnati’s radical queer organization that focuses on trans activism, has produced a survival guide to help trangender people navigate UC’s tricky policies and resources. GenderBloc members contacted administrators to see what their current policies and resources were for trans students, and worked with them to form policies where there were none. Some of the topics can be generalized to most schools, and the guide can serve as a template for other places to make a guide of their own. Questions answered in the “Trans Survival Guide” are ones like, “Can I officially change my name or gender marker with ... Read Full Story

www.twitter.com/katebornstein I love Kate Bornstein's description of Ann Coulter via Twitter. They are both lecturing at the same time at the same campus. That should be interesting. Posted in LGBTQ Tagged: ally, ann coulter, bisexual, Black Mondays, butch, cincinnati, civil rights, Clifton, DOMA, drag, drag king, ENDA, equality, Equality Cincinnati, Equality Ohio, femme, gay, GenderBloc, genderqueer, GLBT, GLBTQ, HRC, Intersectionality, Jamie, kate bornstein, L-Word, lesbian, Lez, Lezzie, LGBT, LGBTQ, Ohio, out, Out On Campus, pansexual, politics, Prop. 8, Proposition 8, queer, queer center, questioning, SheBar, The L-Word, twitter, UC, University of Cincinnati Read Full Story

Posted in LGBTQ Tagged: ally, bisexual, Black Mondays, butch, cincinnati, civil rights, Clifton, DOMA, drag, drag king, drag queen, ENDA, equality, Equality Cincinnati, Equality Ohio, femme, gay, GenderBloc, genderqueer, GLBT, GLBTQ, HRC, Intersectionality, Jamie, L-Word, lesbian, Lez, Lezzie, LGBT, LGBTQ, Ohio, out, Out On Campus, pansexual, politics, Prop. 8, Proposition 8, queer, queer center, questioning, scott turner schofield, SheBar, The L-Word, trans, transgender, two truths and a lie, UC, University of Cincinnati Read Full Story