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IUSB: Blurr zine calls for submissions

Call for submissions... on gender.

Greetings!

Gender Project is well underway at Indiana University of South Bend. We are a new, student organized, gender advocacy group on campus associated with GenderPAC.

Last month we distributed our first issue of Blurr, a new zine with a focus on gender. It was a great success here at IUSB and soon we hope to be able to share the zine with a much larger audience by making the publication available online.

In the meantime, we are currently compiling works for the second issue. We hope to begin printing in just a few short weeks.

This zine is a focus on all aspects of gender and how it crosses lines of socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, and more.

A call for submissions... more info below.

With as much diversity as we have among our students and faculty here at IUSB (and the larger community), I know there is just as wide a range of creativity. I would like to use these creative voices in order to educate and advocate the versatility and complications of gender as they are portrayed and interpreted in our society.

We're looking for artists, poets, essayists, personal stories, etc. -anything that can be related to gender, be it positive or negative.

Can you help or do you know someone who would be interested? If you would like to send us a submission or if you have questions, please contact us via e-mail.

Karrie Blevins
Coordinator, The Gender Project
Indiana University at South Bend

For submissions:
E-mail: blurr@iusb.edu

For questions:
E-mail: kblevins@iusb.edu

For snail mail:

The Gender Project
Indiana University South Bend
1700 Mishawaka Ave
South Bend, IN 46634

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IUSB: The Gender Project

Hey all! Hope everyone is enjoying their summer. I know I am
especially enjoying the 14509345823049 degree heat. Yum. :/

Right. Well, back to business....

"The Gender Project" will be the name of our GenderYOUTH group here
at IUSB, at least to start off with. We're working on a couple
things before classes start in the Fall.

A website is being developed and we plan to have it up and running
by mid-August.

We're also hoping to get the G-Zine printed around the same time.

As mentioned in our last post, we are looking for submissions that
would be topic related - drawings, poems, OpEds, etc.

As for the website, we welcome suggestions for information,
materials, etc. to be included.

Looking forward to hearing from many of you before school starts.

X-posted

For equality & diversity,
Karee

Zine: IUSB chapter calls for submissions...

We are working on putting a zine together for the beginning of the Fall semester here at IU-South Bend. This first issue will be geared towards incoming freshmen students and student organizations getting back into the swing of things. This is a call for submissions (or suggestions)... So, if you have some artistic talent that you'd like to share... along the lines of gender, stereotypes, labels, etc., let us hear 'em! Interesting articles, poems, or other written works would be greatly appreciated too. (Plus, we can send you a copy once its ready to distribute.) *Feel free to pass this message along to any person(s) or group(s) you feel might be interested. Karee B. e-mail: karee23@hotmail.com

University of Utah events

At the University of Utah, much of the organizing is done through the gender studies department. They hosted a GenderBOOT camp in which folks dressed up as a certain gender and visited the masculinity corner for some boxing. In a Digital Gender party, participants played different games and talked about the role of gender in the video games. They helped organize a gender studies sports team. At movie nights, participants watched films and discussed gender in the films, including the new Derrida documentary. They hosted a poetry slam and an inclusive breast monologues/dialogues where trans people presented too. They protested in response to a traditional wedding held on campus by a conservative group. They hosted a drag show with fraternities that included a pre-discussion. They proposed a weekly Queeries radio show on queer theory and queer issues that is scheduled to launch in September of 2004 and deal with issues of gender and identity.

Community Involvement at Johnson County Community College

Johnson County Community College students scheduled presentations with at least two youth groups in November of 2003. They planned to speak to a church for outreach as well as to a four-year school. Tentatively, they have discussed hosting an event bringing all of these groups together (GenderCONNECTIONS maybe). The GenderPAC chapter leader will serve on the Board of Directors of the Kansas City Democratic Organization this year. The chapter will table at Kentucky Gay Pride. They are also working to help uphold the Domestic Partner Registry Ordinance, which will serve as a springboard for more community involvement. In doing so, chapter members stress how GenderYOUTH helps young people of any background that face oppression due to gender non-conformity.

Radio show from Katie Farley at the University of Utah

I was invited to speak about GenderROOTS and gender issues on a community based radio show here in Salt Lake called "Radioactive". The whole goal of the show is to create dialogue with the community about issues that don't normally get addressed. Response to my commentary was overwhelming- we had the largest amount of calls in the history of Radioactive. I guess it just goes to show how volatile the topic of gender actually is. I should be getting a copy of the show in the next week or so and I can send you out a copy if you would like.