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

Hippy BINGO 08-25-08 for Aids Walk 2008

Join us at ICEPICS Video Bar (31st and McDowell) for Hippy BINGO next Monday August 25th and raise funds for Phoenix AIDS Walk 2008!

And some pics from tonight's BINGO: