Wild Nunling in Natural Habitat

Back to the 70's with Disco BINGO!

Don't forget to dust off your 70's finest and join us at Icepics tonight 8 - 10:30 for Disco BINGO benefiting Project Hard Hat!!!!
Icepics is right next to the Red Devil
3108 E Mc Dowell Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85008

Wear your big hat if you want discounts on drinks, and bring some extra funds for those delicious Perpetual Pudding Shots! $2 for 1, $5 for 3!

Exorcise those Devil Duckies for AIDS Walk!

Sister Scavenger Hunt

On Saturday September 27, 2008 Several Bars in the Downtown Phoenix Metropolitan Area will join forces To Find a Cure!

The Grand Canyon Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence need your help finding “Dastardly Devil Duckies” that have escaped from a local laboratory and are said to be infecting queer bars all over town! They have been spreading hatred and striking fear in the hearts of Valley Residents, with their hatemongering and right wing rhetoric. One recent victim said, “They are worse than Fred Phelps at a Pride March”! Demonic Duckies have been overheard spreading vicious lies about the Phoenix GLBTQ Community and its’ inability to come together for a common cause. They will surely continue down this Fowl Path and attempt to crush anyone that stands in the way of their hatred, if something is not done immediately!


Therefore, The Grand Canyon Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence would like for you to join them in Defeating Those Devil Duckies! Meet at Ice Pics Video Bar 3108 E McDowell Road between 6-8pm on Saturday September 27, 2008. Once there, you will be asked to split into teams of 3-4 people (one person on each team must be a Designated Driver) to go and search for the Demonic Ducks beginning at 8pm. You will be provided with a list of bars that have recently been affected by this feathery scourge and you will be given some of the necessary tools needed to find and capture them. They must be delivered back to Ice Pics by the stroke of midnight on 8/28/08. At that time, The Sisters will attempt to do a proper exorcism in order to return the Duckies back to their original, more peaceful state of mind and hopefully rid the community of this plague, once and for all. The local bars are so distraught about this preposterous predicament; they have offered to donate 10% of their proceeds, for the evening, to the team that gathers the Most Devil Duckies. Winners/Sponsors donation will be announced at AIDS Walk 2008

Please join us on this historic night! Together We Can Make A Difference!
For more information go to…

http://www.azsisters.org/aidswalk2008 or http://www.aidswalk2008.org

Proceeds From This Event To Benefit Phoenix AIDS Walk 2008

Help Hydrate the Homeless

Drop off bottled water at any of the following locations before October 6th.

Water will be delivered to Central Arizona Shelters (CASS)

• Mama Java's
• Pumphouse II
• Cash Inn
• Tuff Stuff Leather
• Melrose Pharmacy
• Charlie's
• Apollo's
• Bunkhouse
• The 70's Shop and Hookah Lounge
• Friends
• Boom Boom Larue's
• The Antique Shoppe
• Modified Arts
• 1 Voice Community Center
  
• La Roca (The Rock)
  
• Unique Urban Boutique
• Chute
• Off Chute
• Fair Trade Cafe

Reading, Singing, Speaking, Fighting for Equality

Transgender Voices was a fun event and Alternatives/1 VCC saw a good crowd that day! The raffle raised $100 towards This is How. Thank you to James and all the fabulous people at Alternatives for such fun raffle prizes!

There was sharing heard from a woman who has been helped by This is How during a very difficult time in her life. There are more fundraisers to help that worthy cause coming up, so stay tuned and of course you can always check out their website at http://www.thisishowhome.org/

After Lori Girshick (http://www.loribgirshick.com/) read her book Transgender Voices and lead an interesting discussion, we were blessed by the dulcet tones of miss Namoli Brennet. If you haven't heard her, check out her website at www.namolibrennet.com or go check her out in person at one of her upcoming performances, that girl gets around!

At the Transgender Voices event Lori Girshick read stories from her book and discussed gender policing and how protection policies for Gender Identity and Expression can help keep students safe at our local schools which really ties in to where I was last night. A few of my friends who are college students in the Maricopa Community College District went and spoke up at the board meeting to explain why such protections are needed.

Kudos to their board for taking on such an important issue when many of them didn't even realize gender varient students and employees were encountering obstacles at their schools. Last night they heard brief 3 minute presentations from each of 8 people for the protections, and 1 against. If memory serves there were 6 students, (5 trans identified and 1 intersexed) and a local doctor we call Dr Becky. All in all, an inspiring evening. It was encouraging to see so many community members there. Not only students but professors, counselors, spouses and friends. I am told they will hold a special meeting on October 13th to consider this issue, so of course it's on my calendar.

Transgender Voices TODAY!

Don't Forget, Lori Girshick and Namoli Brennet at 3 PM today!

And bring those extra bucks for raffle tickets to win a prize donated by Alternatives/1 VCC!

Finding Devil Duckies for AIDS Walk 2008

Come find the Devil Duckies and raise money for AIDS walk just by bar hopping and collecting devil duckies with your friends. All sponsering bars will donate a percentage of their take for the night to AIDS Walk 2008 (aidswalk2008.org) and the winning scaenger team will have the amount collected the night of the hunt donated to the Phoenix Aids Walk in their name.


More details here: http://www.azsisters.org/aidswalk2008/

First Friday Drum Circle

Every First Friday the Burning Bush Drum Circle takes place in Phoenix's famed First Friday Art Walk by gathering outside the 1 Voice Community Center/Alternatives Health and Wellness to drum their hearts out. Any person of any gender and orientation is welcome.

There are poi spinners, people breathing fire like a phoenix on crack, and every type drum you can imagine that doesn't routinely show up in rock bands. What a night!

Lauren gave me a ride over to 1 VCC where we hung out with some people from the community center, flirted with cute boys, drank Italian sodas, and I played my HAPI drum as you can see in the video below. Then we headed over to the drum circle where we danced and drummed (Well Lauren danced, I drummed) until we couldn't feel our hands and feet anymore! Now that's a drum circle!

Transgender Voices Cometh

Transgender Voices – Beyond Men and Women

An enlightening discussion, lead by Lori Girshick

Join us September 21^st at 3 PM

1 Voice Community Center/Alternatives Health and Wellness

4314 N. 7^th Avenue (In the Melrose Center near 7^th Ave and Indian School)

Phoenix, AZ 85013

Voluntary donations accepted at the door for This Is How.

In her extraordinary book, based on 150 in-depth interviews, Lori B. Girshick, a sociologist and social justice activist, brings together the voices of sex- and gender-diverse people who speak with absolute candor about their lives. Girshick offers readers transpeople speaking in their own voices about identity, coming out, passing, sexual orientation, relationship negotiations and the dynamics of attraction, homophobia, and bullying. She exposes how the gender binary (man OR woman) as an organizing framework does not work for people, how “gender police” attempt to exert control, and how an individual’s sense of their own gender should be their own to decide.

Lori B. Girshick is a sociologist and community activist. Her work focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues, specifically gender identity, domestic violence, and sexual assault. She is the author of four books, including Woman-to-Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call it Rape?, the first book to focus on this topic. She has published numerous articles on LGBT domestic and sexual violence. She is the former coordinator of the Wingspan Anti-Violence Project in Tucson, AZ. She wrote the books No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison and Soledad Women: Wives of Prisoners Speak Out. Her most recent book is Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men, a work based on interviews with 150 transgender people. Currently she teaches sociology at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Chandler, AZ.

Afterwards stick around to socialize in the Alternatives Coffee Lounge. Who knows, we may have a surprise performer there to entertain you!

Sponsered by:

Alternatives Health and Wellness/1VCC
AZ Trans Alliance
Grand Canyon Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence