GendBloc Meetings for Spring Semester 816 Swift - Every Thursday at 7PM!

From GenderBloc:

GenderBloc will meet in 816 Swift for spring semester. We look forward to seeing you!

GenderBloc: Queer radicals on the loose!

Join us every Thursday at 7:00 PM in 816 Swift.
Find more information on our website, follow us on Twitter, follow us on Tumblr, or like us on Facebook!

Fall 2012 Genderf*ck Drag Show - Nov 30th!

From Colors of Pride:

Fall 2012 Genderf*ck Drag Show
Friday, November 30th
9PM-11PM
Catskeller

Come support Genderbloc and Colors of Pride as we challenge gender roles by f*cking them up! Get there early to get a seat!

Join UC for Cincinnati Pride on June 30th! - Sign Up Today to be a Parade and/or Festival Volunteer!

From the UC LGBTQ Center:

It’s almost time for Cincinnati Pride! What is Cincinnati Pride you ask? The mission of Cincinnati Pride is to provide the Greater Cincinnati LGBT community and allies a forum celebrating and affirming our individuality and importance to the Greater Cincinnati area by giving expression to our community's rich history and diversity and renewing our dedication to promoting acceptance of all individuals regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

They provide information, support local economic growth by partnering with the community to attract individuals to the Greater Cincinnati area, collaborate with other organizations through outreach programs, citizen involvement, and events, and educational resources to those inside and outside of the LGBT community.

This year, the LGBTQ Center, Alliance, Colors of Pride and GenderBloc will not only have a table at Cincinnati Pride representing the University of Cincinnati, but we will also be participating in the Pride Parade which will take place the morning of Saturday, June 30th! 

This is where we hope we can get your support. We would love to have a large, strong University of Cincinnati group that will walk with us in the Pride Parade. Below are two links. The first one is a very short survey to see who is available to walk and/or help work the table (greeting folks, passing out information) and the second link is to the Cincinnati Pride website. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Share your availability to walk and/or work the table!

Cincinnati Pride website!

QueerCat Pride Week - Apr 30th to May 5th!

From the UC LGBTQ Center:

QueerCat Pride Week
It's that time of year again … for UC's LGBTQ community and its allied friends to celebrate diversity! Join us for all of the great events that the LGBTQ Center has planned for Queercat Pride Week 2012!

MONDAY, 04/30
• Rainbow Flash Mob ..... 11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m., Main Street
• Queer Movie Monday ..... 7:00 p.m., Swift 500 (Food will be provided.)

TUESDAY, 05/01
• Ally Day
• Purple People Eater Picnic ..... 12:30 – 2:00 p.m., McMicken Commons (Show your support. Wear purple. Pick up your ally button.)
• Sara Montiel as a Gay Icon in Theatre, Cinema and Literature within the Hispanic World Today ..... 4:30 – 6:30 p.m., Baur Room, CCM
• Speaker: Genny Beemyn, Ph.D., Director, the Stonewall Center, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst ..... 6:00 p.m., Braunstein 301
• Queer Game Night ..... 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., Daniels Hall (Bring your favorite game. Snacks will be provided.)

WEDNESDAY, 05/02
• Ally Day (Wear your ally button.)
• Free HIV Testing ..... 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., TUC 415
• UC Monologues / Open Minded Mic Night ..... 7:00 p.m., Baba Budan’s
• Alternative to the Alternative Dance Party ..... 9:30 p.m., Baba Budan’s

THURSDAY, 05/03
• Queer Zumba w/ Carlos Gooden ..... 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., McMicken Commons
• (Un)heard: Transmasculine People of Color Speak! / Building Solidarity: An LGBTQ-Focused Anti-Racism Workshop ..... 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., AACRC (Gallery display at start of program.)

FRIDAY, 05/04
• Same-Sex Hand Holding Day
• Genderf*ck Drag Show .... 9 p.m., Catskeller
• Guerilla Queer Bar ..... After the drag show, location TBA

For more info contact:
LGBTQ Center (565 Steger), 513-556-4329

www.uc.edu/lgbtq
http://uc-lgbtq.blogspot.com/
www.twitter.com/UC_LGBTQcenter

Co‐sponsored by:
LGBTQ Center, UC Alliance, GenderBloc, Colors of Pride, UC Women’s Center, Student Wellness Center, Student Government, SALD, UBSA.

Creating Trans* Inclusive Campus Policies & the Legal Rights of Trans* People - May 1st!

From the UC LGBTQ Center:

Genny Beemyn, co-author of The Lives of Transgender People, presents

Creating Trans* Inclusive Campus Policies & the Legal Rights of Trans* People


Tuesday, May 1st
Braunstein 301
6PM

From hate crime law to college health services, make UC a better place for students of all gender expressions & identities.

LGBTQ Center & GenderBloc

RAPP Spotlight: Tyler T, Speaker Extraordinaire

RAPP Spotlight is a column that we briefly had on the RAPP blog that we're now reviving.  What better place to start than with a RAPPer who's done much in the spotlight lately: Tyler Thompson!

Tyler is a graduate of RAPP XXV, a graduate of the inaugural class of the Social Justice League, and is a Peer Leader with RAPP XXVII this year.  He's a third-year student studying neuroscience and psychology.

Tyler is involved in several organizations on campus, including GenderBloc, Colors of Pride, and Advocates for Youth.  It's his involvement in these that put him in the spotlight on campus and in Greater Cincinnati this past week.

This past Saturday, November 20th, was the annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance.  Tyler helped Cincinnati recognize this in several ways.

On Wednesday, November 17th, Tyler was the closing speaker for the city-wide event - he provided a brief but inspiring reflection on achievements toward and a call to action for continued work on trans* equality.

On Friday, November 19th, Tyler put on a rousing performance during the quarterly GenderBloc Genderf*ck Drag Show, which recognized Transgender Day of Remembrance as well as raised funds for TransOhio and awareness of Ohio issues and legislation around sexual health and education.

Thank you Tyler for all that you do!

Tyler delivering the Closing Reflection at the Greater Cincinnati Transgender Day of Remembrance event.

Genderbloc Genderf*ck DRAG SHOW - Nov 18th!

From GenderBloc:


Genderbloc Genderf*ck DRAG SHOW
Friday, November 18 at 9:00pm - November 19 at 12:00am

Catskeller, Tangeman University Center

It's that time of year again! 

Come one, come all Genderbloc's Fall Genderf*ck Drag Show honoring Transgender Day of Rememberance, on Friday November 19 at 9PM. 

The Drag Show is FREE to the public, but we will be accepting donations which will benefit both TransOhio and Genderbloc. Make sure to get there early, because Catskeller will fill up fast!

There will also be a raffle with sexy prizes!

Make sure you come out to see all your favorite performers as well as a few new ones.

Challenge gender roles by f*cking them up!

Race & Sexuality Program Follow-Up: Thoughts on Inclusion & Exclusion

On Wednesday evening, RAPPORT came together with members of UC Alliance, Genderbloc, Stratford Heights complex, RA Class candidates, ROTC members, The Edge House and other parts of our UC community for a workshop called "Race & Sexuality Dialogue."

The event was organized by Lisa Watkins, RAPP XXIV grad and RA in Stratford Heights.  UC Alliance and GenderBloc helped heavily promote it.  Thanks to everyone's hard work 55+ people participated in this two hour dialogue.

Participants worked through several activities where we explored and shared our experiences throughout life around race and sexuality.  Our final activity of the night involved reacting to a quote and talking about ways we create and/or combat the situation/feelings it describes.

Here's the quote, from Movement in Black by Pat Parker:

If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere, and not have to say to one of them, "No, you stay home tonight, you won't be welcome," because I'm going to an all-white party where I can be gay, but not Black.  Or I'm going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are antihomosexual, or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me.  The day all the different parts of me can come along, we would have what I would call a revolution.

In groups, participants reacted to the quote and shared their understanding of it and experiences related to it.

Then, each group compiled a list of things they've seen others do or done themselves that created situations where people felt like the poet described - where only part of themself was welcome rather than the whole.  Below is a word cloud of what the groups stated (the larger the words, the more groups that said it).  Click the picture to see the full image:

The groups also spent time recording things they've seen others do or done themselves that combat situations like the poet described, creating environments where people are welcome as the whole, complex being they are.  Here is a word cloud of that - again, click the image to see the full image:



Many thanks to all the people who attended and participated in the program on Wednesday!

Want a similar program?  Or, any other program?  Be sure to check out the RAPP Outreach page and see what we can do!

QueerCat Pride Week - May 1st-6th!

From the UC LGBTQ Center:

QueerCat Pride Week is a week dedicated to educating the UC community on LGBTQ issues and concerns and having some QueerCat fun! During this week, we show the campus community that the UC LGBTQ community is here and proud to be Bearcats!

Sunday, May 1st
3:00 p.m. Queer Paint Party. @ Steger Student Life Center

Monday, May 2nd
12:00 p.m. Lunch and Learn: Same Sex Financial Planning. @ The Alumni Center. Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by Student Activities and Leadership Development and the Alumni Association.

7:00 p.m. Andrea Gibson. @ ERC 427. Sponsored by GenderBloc.

Tuesday, May 3rd
12:00 p.m. Lunch and Learn: Queer Sexual Health. @ The Max Kade German Cultural Center, 736 Old Chemistry. Lunch will be provided.

Wednesday, May 4th
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. QueerCat Pride Tent. @ McMicken Commons. Hang out with us, get to know us and pick up resources!

7:00 p.m. Open Mic Night. @ Catskeller. Sponsored by The Alliance.

Thursday, May 5th
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. QueerCat Pride Tent. @ McMicken Commons. Hang out with us, get to know us and pick up resources!

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lube-a-Palozza. @ McMicken Commons. Sponsored by the Wellness Center.

7:00 p.m. Dinner & A Movie: A Fish Out of Water. @ CRC 3240. Sponsored by GenderBloc.

Friday, May 6th
9:00 p.m. Gender F*ck Drag Show. @ Catskeller. Sponsored by GenderBloc.

UC Monologues - Tonight!

Support UC students as they perform an array of personal original comic and dramatic monologues that deal with issues of gender, sexuality, and other identities in the UC Monologues.

Friday, April 15 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm Catskellar in TUC

Event is held in conjunction with Sexual Health Week. Co-sponsored by UC Women's Center, Friday Night Live, and GenderBloc.

Sexual Responsibility Week 2011

The UC Wellness Center, GenderBloc, Cincinnati Advocates, Stop AIDS, LGBTQ Center, UC Women's Center, and Friday Night Live  present "Great Sexpectations" for Sexual Responsibility Week, the week of April 11 - 15.

• Monday - "Lunch & Learn: The Criminalization of HIV" @ 12pm in 400B TUC, free lunch provided.
• Tuesday - "Dinner & Movie: Shortbus" @ 7pm in CRC 3210, free dinner provided.
• Wednesday - "Quick Response Team Info Booth" from 10am - 12pm in TUC Atrium and "Beyond the Bedroom: A Discussion on Relationships and Religion" @ 5pm in 417 TUC.
• Thursday - "Free HIV Testing" from 10am - 2pm in 400C TUC and "Ask the Sexperts!" @ 7pm in 427 TUC
• Friday - "National Day of Silence" from 11am - 2pm in 743 Steger Center and "UC Monologues" @ 7pm in Catskeller

For more information on these events, please check out the Great Sexpectations schedule.

GenderBloc GenderF*ck Drag Show - Nov 19

UC student group GenderBloc presents the GenderBloc GenderF*ck Drag Show on Friday, November 19th in the Catskeller in TUC at 9PM!

GenderBloc's drag shows are a huge hit on campus - usually filling the Catskeller to capacity and spilling outside of TUC.  All are welcome and encouraged to attend!

National Coming Out Day on Campus

On Monday, Oct. 11th from 11am - 2pm, join fellow students in participating in National Coming Out Day. Events will be held in McMicken Commons (across from TUC).

For more information contact Brittany Carbonara at carbonby@mail.uc.edu or call her in the LGBTQ Center at 513-556-4329; or just stop by the Center on the 6th Floor of the Steger Student Life Center building.

Come out, come out, wherever you are!

GenderBloc Kick-off Tonight @ 7PM, 519 Swift Hall

From our friends in GenderBloc:

Join us for our first meeting of the year, it's going to be AWESOME!!! We are celebrating K.D.'s birthday so there will be "mocktails" (non-alcoholic cocktails), snacks, games, prizes and much much more.  

Location: Swift Hall, Room 519 Time & Date: Thursday, September 30th at 7:00pm What to Bring: Yourself, a friend and enthusiasm  Attire: Classy/Casual/Whatever

Queer Canon Call for Submissions

From our friends at GenderBloc:

Hello everyone! The Queer Canon deadline for submissions is Friday, Sept. 3!

GenderBloc, the University of Cincinnati’s radical queer group that focuses on transgender activism, is placing a call for submissions for its quarterly zine. Submissions can be submitted by anyone, not just UC students. Please send to queercanon@gmail.com. Past issues ofThe Queer Canon are available here. Please pass this information along!

The Queer Canon submission guidelines:

Word Limit:

§ Maximum word limit is between 1500-2000 words.

§ There is no minimum word limit.

Examples of written work:

-Short stories
-Poetry and prose
-Academic and theoretical work
-Letters
-Songs

Artwork and Images:

Acceptable Formats:

§ JPEG file

§ GIF file

(Color work may be submitted, but will be printed in black and white.)

Maximum file size:

§ Under 10MB

Examples of images:

-Photography
-Drawings and sketches
-Paintings
-Comics and caricature’s
-Digital work
-Graphics, charts and graphs

Editing Process

There is a simple reviewing process of works submitted. No works are out-right rejected. If a work is not accepted for a particular issue it will be returned to the author for revision. The author may then, if they choose, submit the work again.

We try hard to preserve the original layout and fonts of each work submitted; butsometimes small edits are made when we are creating the final layout for the zine. If there is special instruction for you piece, please include it in the submission email.

Authoring

Pieces can be submitted under a name, assumed name/pen name, or anonymously. Non-original work (work created by someone other than the person submitting it) may be submitted only if it is accompanied by the proper citations. Non-original, un-cited works will not be printed.

Thanks,
Jamie Royce
http://stuffqueerpeopleneedtoknow.wordpress.com

GenderBloc Accomplishments for the School Year

Via email from GenderBloc:

Everyone at GenderBloc has been working very hard this year and we wanted to share with you what all we have accomplished!

• We have changed the gender maker policy!
  Now, you can change your gender marker with the registrar by going to uc.edu/registrar. Click “policies and procedures” on the left-side menu and then click “gender marker changes” on the resulting page. A gender marker change does require a letter from an M.D., but does not require a diagnosis of gender identity disorder! Currently, a preferred name policy is in the works with the Office of the Registrar so that your preferred name as well as your legal name will show up on class rosters.
  
• We Updated the Trans Survival Guide.
  The Trans Survival Guide has been updated and will be in print again for next year. It contains valuable information for all queer students at UC!
  
• We now have Gender Neutral Restrooms!
  “The University of Cincinnati is dedicated to meeting the diverse needs and interests of its students, faculty, staff, and visitors including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or are questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity (LGBTQ). In an effort to meet the diverse needs, all new buildings and buildings undergoing half-life renovations (a major renovation where the majority of a building’s systems is being replaced or upgraded) shall have a unisex/gender neutral restroom.”
  
• We created a Teacher Ally Pamphlet.
  This pamphlet is useful in many aspects but especially for your teachers. It will help them understand how to adapt to your needs.Lastly, there will be a full time LGBTQ coordinator and a GA for the LGBTQ office next year.

LGBTQ Pride Week!

May 3rd to 7th is LGBTQ Pride Week here at the University of Cincinnati! This year's pride week is organized by the LGBTQ Office, the Women's Center, GenderBloc, UC Alliance, the Wellness Center, and Friday Night Live.
MONDAY

Info & Potluck Tent- 11-3pm McMicken Commons

F to e(M)body- 7pm Catskeller

TUESDAY

Lube-a-Palooza- 11-1pm McMicken Commons

Tent- 11-3pm McMicken Commons

WEDNESDAY

Tent- 11-3pm McMicken Commons

TV & Talk- 3-5pm UC Women’s Center (571 Steger)

THURSDAY

LGBTQ Office Visibility- 11-3pm McMicken Commons

FRIDAY

Tent- 11-3pm McMicken Commons

PRIDE Festival- 6-9pm McMicken Commons

GenderF*ck Drag Show- 9pm Catskeller

GenderBloc Call for Performers

From Kimmins, RAPP XXIII member, RAPP XXV Peer Leader, and activist extraordinaire:

It's that time again, for the GenderBloc GenderF*ck drag show and we need performers. Please e-mail Jamie at jamiearoyce@gmail.com if you are interested in performing. Please forward this to appropriate Listserves.

Important upcoming dates:
Music due April 23rd
Mandatory Practice April 28th
Numbers due April 9th
Semi-Mandatory Practice April 14th

Opportunity for Publishing: Queer Canon Call for Submissions

GenderBloc, the University of Cincinnati’s radical queer student group that focuses on transgender activism, is placing a call for submissions for its quarterly zine.

Submissions can be submitted by anyone, not just UC students, and can be art, writing or anything that can be printed on a page. We use the definition of queer loosely, so please don't see it as a limit.

Please send to them queercanon@gmail.com or stuffqueerpeopleneedtoknow@gmail.com.

Past issues of The Queer Canon are available here . Please pass this information along!

The Queer Canon submission guidelines:

Word Limit:

* Maximum word limit is between 1500-2000 words.

* There is no minimum word limit.

Examples of written work: Short stories, poetry and prose, academic and theoretical work, letters, songs

Artwork and Images

Acceptable Formats: JPEG file, GIF file

(Color work may be submitted, but will be printed in black and white.)

Maximum file size: Under 10MB

Examples of images: Photography, drawings and sketches, paintings, comics and caricatures, digital work, graphics, charts and graphs

Editing Process

There is a simple reviewing process of works submitted. No works are out-right rejected. If a work is not accepted for a particular issue it will be returned to the author for revision. The author may then, if they choose, submit the work again.

We try hard to preserve the original layout and fonts of each work submitted; butsometimes small edits are made when we are creating the final layout for the zine. If there is special instruction for you piece, please include it in the submission email.

Authoring

Pieces can be submitted under a name, assumed name/pen name, or anonymously. Non-original work (work created by someone other than the person submitting it) may be submitted only if it is accompanied by the proper citations. Non-original, un-cited works will not be printed.