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Monday, June 20, 2011
5:40PM - MELBOURNE: ZBGC workshop July 3rd 2011 x-posted
Hi folks,
Just spreading the word...
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Negotiating sex & relationships with sex and gender diverse people
Are you interested in the issues around negotiating sex and
relationships with partners & lovers and sex & gender diverse people?
Zoe Belle Gender Centre is running this workshop specifically for
people of all genders and sexual identities interested in these
topics. And you don’t specifically have to be in a relationship to
attend. With psychologist Vikki Sinnott facilitating this safe and supportive
space, you’ll be able to raise any issues around sex and relationships
with sex and gender diverse people.
Whatever your personal, sexual or gender identity, you are welcome to
attend this workshop.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
2:15PM - Melbourne: Still Fierce! x-posted
Hi folks,
Just spreading the word re the newly formed Still Fierce Melbourne crew.
Cheers,
Ash
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This is an introductory letter from Still Fierce! Melbourne, a newly formed collective of intersex, sex and/or gender diverse people and our allies and supporters. We are writing to you to say hi, and to let you know what projects and events we are working on and to invite you to participate in our collective or in our events, or both, or to voice our interest in networking with your organization!
Still Fierce Melbourne was formed a month or so ago, inspired by the work of Still Fierce Sydney, a similar collective. While we haven't fully established our manifesto we have established that we are an open collective, and that we are interested in working on political lobbing for ISGD rights at a national level, in creating stronger social and political networks for ISGD people and in doing consciousness raising work in the community about ISGD people and our experiences and issues. We have yet to establish the details of our relationship to Still fierce! Sydney, right now all that is in concrete is that we are using the same name and are supporting their list of demands for the rally in Canberra.
What is ISGD?
If you haven’t heard this acronym before, don’t worry, neither had most of us up to a year ago. It stands for Intersex, Sex and/or Gender Diverse. We decided as a group to use this new term instead
of transgender, transsexual, intersex, cross dressers etc etc because we are interested in moving away from the border wars that we have seen happen between different sex/gender diverse identity groups in the past, and to overcome the generational differences in what language people use
to describe themselves, and basically just to encompass all sex and gender diverse people when we are lobbying for rights, when we are talking about discrimination and when we are talking about our peers.
Here is a brief rundown of what we are working on right now:
The first major project we are working on is getting a 45 seater bus to take to a rally for ISGD rights in Canberra on the 11th of May. The tickets are on a sliding scale basis (starting from $20 to as much as each individual can afford). The bus will be leaving approximately around 1 am
on Friday morning and departing that evening after the rally and driving through the night to arrive back in Melbourne late that night. We will make the bus times public as soon as we know!
To confirm a seat on the bus or find out more information about the rally please email: stillfiercemelbourne@gmail.com
We have been meeting fortnightly but have yet to find a regular venue, so if you are interested in coming to our meetings (all welcome!) Email us at still-fierce-melbourne@googlegroups.com and we'll met you know the details!
We are very excited about networking with other trans/ ISGD groups in Melbourne and Victoria and learning more about what other groups are doing and exploring the possibilities of how we can work together!
We look forward to meeting you soon,
Much love,
Still Fierce Melbourne
To find out what’s going on and to stay in touch about events join the Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_195648087132139
Or to get involved in some of the behind the scenes stuff join the Still Fierce! Melbourne Google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/still-fierce-melbourne?hl=en
Details about the national Intersex, Sex and/or Gender Diverse Rally:
This is a video about the rally in Canberra on May 4th 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BitN38AuKMc
The rally is supported by Still Fierce Sydney, Still Fierce Melbourne, and Sex And Gender Education Australia, Australian Health and Education Centre, Australian Federal Greens Party, Australian Socialists Alliance, Femme Guild Sydney, Scarlet Alliance, Equal Love Canberra, Young Lawyers Human Rights Committee (NSW), CRAVE Metropolitan Community Church (Sydney), Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Student Union Queer Department [RUSU Queer Department], The University of Melbourne Student Union Queer Department [UMSU Queer],
WA Gender Project, The Seahorse Society of NSW, University of Sydney Queer Students, National Union of Students [NUS]
Still Fierce and Allied Organizations are calling on the federal and state Governments to implement the recommendations of the 2009 Australian Human Rights Commission’s Sex Files Report, review inequalities in the law for ISGD people and to outlaw unethical medical practices forced on intersex
Children. We invite other groups to join us in rallying for the rights of ISGD groups of people and we are open to suggestions for further addition to our demands.
We are calling for equal rights for ISGD People; our Memorandum of Demands
follows:
1/ Implementation of the AHRC Sex Files (2009) recommendations
2/ Legal protection against enforced medical treatment of ISGD children
3/ Federal antidiscrimination laws protecting all ISGD people
4/ Full Medicare funding for medical and psychological procedures needed by any ISGD people
5/ Full Marriage rights for ISGD People.
6/ Enshrinement of the right to establish ones’ own sex and/or gender identity in federal law.
For more info on the Sex Files Report:
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/genderdiversity/sex_files2009.html
<3 Stay Fierce! <3
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
8:21PM - Melbourne: All The Lovers - x-posted
Join Zoe Belle Gender Centre on Friday 19 November for All the Lovers, a social event for lovers and significant others of trans folk. All are welcome, regardless of relationship status, sexuality or gender!
Polly Cocktail Bar - 401 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Australia
7pm for Lovers and/or Significant others. 9pm Trans* folk
All are welcome regardless of relationship status, sexuality or gender.
Please feel free to contact us at info@gendercentre.com if you have any questions.
NB: ZBGC would like to acknowledge that we were unable to locate a suitable fully accessible venue for the All the Lovers event after a number of great venues with fully accessible and gender neutral bathrooms have closed their doors over the last 12 months. Polly is accessible but the bathroom is regretably not. We have located the nearest fully accessible public toilet at the corner of Kerr and Smith Streets in Collingwood. However, Red Tongue Cafe (just down the road at 275 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy) have always in our experience allowed those who need to use the bathroom to use theirs, as they understand that fully accessible bathrooms are extremely lacking in the area. You can check out other accessible bathrooms in the area by visiting www.toilart.org.
Monday, February 2, 2009
1:06PM - upstart alley VIII - Sat Feb 7th 09 - x-posted widely
Upstart Alley VIII - Pervy performance, rocking music, seedy side show entertainment and debauchery for all you misfits, queers and trans folk!
Gasworks Theatre, Gasworks Arts Park
Corner Graham and Pickles Streets, Albert Park
Sat, February 7th, Bar opens 8.30pm, Show start 9pm
Tickets 13concessionorgroupbookings/full13 concession or group bookings/full 13concessionorgroupbookings/full20
Bookings: t: 9699 3253 or www. gasworks. org. au
Monday, January 12, 2009
11:35AM - Melbourne (Australia): Upstart Alley VIII - Sat Feb 7th 09 - x-posted widely
Hi folks,
Just spreading the word, its shaping up to be a good one!
cheers,
ash
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Upstart Alley VIII Sat Feburary 7th 2009 - www.myspace.com/upstartalley
Pervy performance, rocking music, seedy side show entertainment and debauchery for all you misfits, queers and trans folk!
Topping off Gasworks’ Midsumma season the Upstart Alley troupe brings you another raucous performance party, teeming with dazzling displays of bent pervy performance, gender piracy and rocking tunes. Step right up for an action packed show from performers from near and far including Kelli Jean Drinkwater (Syd), Yumi Umiumare, Wes Snelling, Kaboobie (Adel), The Bad Father (Adel) and music from psychobilly rockers The Vaudevillains, DJ Linx and more!
Upstart Alley VIII boasts a grimy vaudeville style show featuring seedy side show entertainment and rocking live music. Belt yourselves into your seats to witness spectacular feats of gender defiance and glamorous rebellion by our outstanding and outlandish performers. Upstart Alley has been rockin Melbourne audiences for the last two years, jump starting thoughts and libidos. We refuse to force people into ill-fitting gender (or other) categories and create spaces where the whole range of identities bump and grind against each other and redefine and mess with the binaries that box us all in.
Upstart Alley VIII
Gasworks Theatre, Gasworks Arts Park
Corner Graham and Pickles Streets, Albert Park
Sat, February 7th, Bar opens 8.30pm, Show start 9pm
Tickets 13concessionorgroupbookings/full13 concession or group bookings/full 13concessionorgroupbookings/full20
Bookings: t: 9699 3253 or www.gasworks.org.au
Media Contact: Liz Alexander t: 0403 699 810: email address: upstartalley@yahoo.com.au
Monday, November 3, 2008
3:54PM - MELBOURNE: Zoe Belle Gender Centre Afternoon Tea Saturday 29th November .. x-posted widely
*The Zoe Belle Gender Centre Afternoon Tea*
"Celebrate our progress. Hear where we're at and how you can get involved."
Zoe Belle Gender Centre will be a centre to support and improve the health and wellbeing of people of all genders.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
2:35PM - Melbourne: ToilArt has mapped 100 toilets!! x-posted
CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU!
Thanks to your submissions and the solid effort put in by the ToilArt survey crews, we now have over 100 gender neutral, unisex and/or wheelchair accessible toilets on our map of Melbourne (and surrounds)!
If you’d like to find out more about what we do and why we do it, check out our website at www.toilart.org.
If you’d like to get more involved by joining the Google group or simply attending a meeting or survey, drop us a line at toilartproject [dot] gmail [dot] com.
If you’d like to submit a toilet that’s not already on the map, visit www.genderproject.net.au/toilart.
Thanks once again – may the next hundred toilets be mapped soon!
Saturday, June 7, 2008
9:25AM - (Melbourne, Australia) ToilArt project update... x-posted
Hi all,
We just thought we’d send out a reminder about ToilArt (www.toilart.org), a project connected to TMGP (www.genderproject.net.au). The ToilArt Project is dedicated to mapping gender neutral, unisex and accessible toilets and bathrooms around Melbourne, and we strongly believe that everyone, regardless of gender identification, presentation or ability has the right to access safe and dignified bathroom facilities without fear of harassment, judgement or violence.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
12:41PM - SPUNK MAG!!! - x-posted
SPUNK is a new magazine exploring masculinities and male genders.
We want to make a space were we can create our own visions of sexiness, fluid and diverse, reflecting, celebrating and reinventing our cultures and communities.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
12:14PM - upstart alley VI is coming... saturday may 3rd!!
Upstart Alley brings you their numero 6 show! Once again mixing it up cabaret style with a range of performances including dirty shenanigans from superhost Wife (Syd), racey rhymes form Melbourne’s very own femcee, emcee pash and readings and words from bryan Andy, Juan Lamas (Syd), and Maria Zajkowski who will be reading pieces based around scarring moments, choices, experiences, encounters, loves…cos some wounds leave their mark. Next, hold onto your socks as the Transylvanian Gypsy Kings rock em off with the latest horas from Bucharest, traditional boys dances where they slap themselves, and hit pop songs from non-stop Romanian bars, and a whole lotta leather & macho jewelry to boot! Then party til yr pants fall off as the Evelyn has a 3am license and we have two of Melb’s finest DJs Toupee and Kapitolina for your enjoyment.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
10:56AM - upstart alley saturday may 3rd - x-posted
Upstart Alley brings you their numero 6 show! Once again mixing it up cabaret style with a range of performances including dirty shenanigans from superhost Wife (Syd), racey rhymes form Melbourne’s very own femcee, emcee pash and readings and words from bryan Andy, Juan Lamas (Syd), and Maria Zajkowski who will be reading pieces based around scarring moments, choices, experiences, encounters, loves…cos some wounds leave their mark. Next, hold onto your socks as the Transylvanian Gypsy Kings rock em off with the latest horas from Bucharest, traditional boys dances where they slap themselves, and hit pop songs from non-stop Romanian bars, and a whole lotta leather & macho jewelry to boot! Then party til yr pants fall off as the Evelyn has a 3am license and we have two of Melb’s finest DJs Toupee and Kapitolina for your enjoyment.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
10:59AM - MELBOURNE: know any existing gender neutral and/or wheelchair accessible bathrooms? cross posted
hi folks please circulate through your networks
cheers,
ash
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TOIL/ART PROJECT
We strongly believe that everyone, regardless of gender identification, presentation or ability has the right to access safe and dignified bathroom facilities without fear of harassment, judgment or violence. Toil/Art will work to raise awareness around issues of bathroom accessibility and gender neutral facilities, map bathrooms in Melbourne, and foster a sense of community for the users of these bathrooms through creative and artistic endeavours.
Check out our website for more info at www.toilart.org
Saturday, January 19, 2008
11:19AM - MELBOURNE: Transdestinations Festival sun jan 27th - cross posted
Transdestinations : A symposium and gathering for trans* and trans*-connected people.
Held over one day and two nights, Transdestinations surveys the current state of play and future possibilities for trans-connected communities. It includes forums, workshops, and arts events ranging from spoken word, music and performance to visual arts exhibitions.
The forum program begins on Sunday 27 January with Trans* Health and Wellbeing – a two-part discussion looking at issues of both health and culture. After a lunch break and some poetry and performances, the afternoon session - Living Politics - will kick off with a facilitated discussion about the legal and political realities of everyday trans*life before delving more deeply into issues around the law and legislation. The afternoon will also feature the Trans Sexuality Workshop, focusing on sex-positivity, issues around gender dysphoria, porn, and psychologically- safe sex.
All participants will then have the chance to share in a very special Tiwi Islands Gay & Sista Girls performance, included in the days ticket price.
The Transdestinations symposium and gathering runs in association with spoken-word event Tranzlezbian Gendermash (Sat 26 Jan at 10.15pm), ButchFemmeTrans Melbourne’s A Sunset Soiree cocktail party (Sun 27 Jan at 5.30pm), and genderqueer cabaret/party Upstart Alley (Sun 27 Jan at 9pm) to create a weekend of trans-positive discussion and entertainment.
Date: Sunday 27 January
Venue: Gasworks. Cnr Graham & Pickles Sts, Albert Park.
Time: 9.30am to 5pm
Tickets: 20/20/20/15 - lunch is an extra $5 on the day or bring your own.
Bookings: t: 9699 3253 or www.gasworks. org.au
More info: T: 03 8606 4200 or E: frontdesk@gasworks. org.au
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Friday, November 23, 2007
8:35PM - MELBOURNE: transmen, translated - x posted
hi everyone
we just helping a friend get the word out.
check it out.
cheers,
ash
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‘ Transmen translated ’
Photographs for Exhibition during Midsumma
Seeking casual * Transmasculine * portraits, self-portraits, snaps. Images to be used as part of large photo wall.
Artwork is based on Gender Dysphoria and researches historical and contemporary images of butch.
Please contact me if you are interested in contributing your pics or have any queries regarding the show at all
Cheers,
Jess Moss
Jesslyn99@yahoo.com.au
0431 702 658
Friday, November 16, 2007
4:42PM - Melbourne: Upstart Alley IV - Saturday 24th November - with Ikochi (Japan) - cross posted
Come on down to the Northcote Social Club to witness the (not so) straight out punk and rockabilly antics of Ikochi all the way from Tokyo. This three piece outfit-with the gender defying stage singer/guitarist Chikako and death defying bass player Minato Kota-are ready to shake things up. With support from Melbourne's The Minority delivering their unashamedly daring, queer electro rock! More tunes from DJ Linx and DJ Aztek with the fabulous Roxy Bullwinkle playing host!
Upstart Alley is a not for profit crew putting on a range of events that welcome all you misfits who punch and leak outta the boxes and beyond. At Upstart Alley freaks and queers lurk in the dark corners doing dirty beautiful things and all the gender fuckers are dancing on the pavement, making their own meanings and building their own communities.
Monday, October 8, 2007
12:03PM - ***public meeting - community consultation for proposed gender centre*** (cross posted)
PUBLIC MEETING: COMMUNITY CONSULTATION FOR PROPOSED GENDER CENTRE
Dear all,
Since July 2007, a group has been meeting to establish a health centre for trans and gender variant people in Melbourne. The centre would provide a wide range of social, support and health services to Victoria's trans*** and gender variant population.
We would like to invite all trans* and gender variant individuals and communities in Victoria to attend a public meeting about the centre, so you can contribute your visions and feedback about the proposed health centre.
The meeting's purpose is twofold. Firstly, we aim to canvass the level of need for such a service. Secondly, we wish this project to be run and maintained by and for trans and gender variant people of all kinds. Consulting the trans and gender variant communities of Melbourne, in all of your diversity, is the first step along this road.
Our vision is a gender centre for Victoria that will support the health needs of trans* and gender variant people, and their significant others, families, friends and allies. The centre will provide complementary services to those medical services that already exist to service trans and gender variant people's needs.
Date: Saturday 13 October
Venue: Dantes, 150-156 Gertrude Street
(cnr Napier Street) Fitzroy
Time: 2pm – 5:30pm
*Online Questionnaire*
To give more private feedback, interested parties can also complete an online feedback questionnaire about their healthcare needs and the services they might use at the centre. The survey is located at:
http://gendercentrevictoria.blogsome.com/online-survey/
*Who We Are*
We are a group of trans* and gender-variant people and allies in Victoria who believe that trans and gender variant people in Victoria should have access to the best, most comprehensive healthcare possible. The proposed gender centre was initiated by Trans Melbourne Gender Project (TMGP), but it will be run by a diverse range of people. Some of
us have been/are involved with TMGP, Gender Schmender, TransGender Victoria, Camp Betty, Upstart Alley and other groups.
Phone Contact: Aren 0403 215 271 or Tom 0431 345 356
Email: gendercentrevic@yahoo.com.
Friday, August 24, 2007
7:18PM
Find details here: http://www.myspace.com/Fabrik_aus
Diversity for the diverse can only be a good thing. hopefully the community will find time to commune here and make it memorable.
Cheers,
Teague
Saturday, September 22, 2007
10:50AM - Melbourne's Toil/Art Project - cross posted
hi folks please circulate through your networks
TOIL/ART PROJECT
We strongly believe that everyone, regardless of gender identification, presentation or ability has the right to access safe and dignified bathroom facilities without fear of harassment, judgment or violence. Toil/Art will work to raise awareness around issues of bathroom accessibility and gender neutral facilities, map bathrooms in Melbourne, and foster a sense of community for the users of these bathrooms through creative and artistic endeavours.
MAPPING:
Increasing awareness of existing gender neutral (or unisex) and accessible bathrooms in Melbourne. This will involve collecting locations of such facilities online at www.genderproject.net.au/toilart, collating a suburb/street guide, and eventually publishing maps (online or hard copy depending on funding).
EDUCATING:
Increasing awareness of issues surrounding gender diversity and accessibility and the need for safe and dignified bathroom facilities. This will hopefully involve a comprehensive survey of CBD toilets, distribution of a pamphlet to businesses and individuals outlining the politics of pissing. We might even make stickers for front windows of business that have gender neutral toilets!
CREATING:
Increasing creativity, community and artistic skills in a progressive and visible way. Putting the art in Toil/Art. Perhaps an exhibition on toilet doors, maybe a zine with stories and images, photos, graffiti, getting permission to take over the walls of our favourite places. . . all we know is it’s gonna be awesome!
Stage one of Toil/Art is ready to go so right now we need your help with collating lists of already existing gender neutral and/or wheelchair accessible bathrooms in Melbourne!
Do you know of a gender neutral, unisex and/or accessible toilet in Melbourne? Tell the rest of us!
Report accessible bathrooms at the toil/art website www.genderproject.net.au/toilart
TOIL/ART would love to hear to hear from any artists who wish to donate or produce art work for an auction to raise funds for the project including producing the maps as well as artists who would like to assist in running queer/trans friendly and accessible workshops to produce art for the auction.
TOIL/art welcomes the participation or advice of anyone with an interest in surveying restrooms in the cities of Yarra and Melbourne eg cafes, bars and public bathrooms about accessibility with a focus on wheel chair accessible and gender neutral bathrooms
For more informatio please email toilartproject@gmail.com
Cheers,
The Toil/Art Collective
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