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[CW: this post talks about rape with varying levels of detail and specificity. Most links have the potential to be very triggering as well.] Of all the celebrity-predator revelations this year, this is the one that’s made me feel the need to write again. I have… So. Much. I want to say here, I’m afraid I’ll make a mess of it all, but here we go. I know exactly what every moment of that date must have felt like, because I have been in that same position. More times than I can count. It’s a complicated thing, being assaulted by someone you’re actually kind of into, someone you actually kind of want to get it on with. Because you don’t want them to stop wanting to get it on with you, you just want them to pay attention and slow down, and actually show some sign that they are interested in your enjoyment, and not just following a script for their own pleasure. You just want them to let you catch up. It’s even more confusing when they keep telling you they care. When their words tell you the things you want and need to be true, when you trust, or at least trusted and want to keep trusting, that this person is good and does care, that they’ll realize how uncomfortable they’re making you and stop, that any moment now they’ll stop doing these weirdly awful, uncomfortable things and maybe you’ll actually be able to both get on the same page. But their actions? Their actions are relentless. Their actions barely even pause while they promise to give you time to relax, while they promise that they care about your comfort and enjoyment. It’s a merry-go-round of emotions, and it’s a hard one to get off of. Grace escaped before “”real”” “”sex”” happened, I guess? But if you somehow think that makes any of it any better, I don’t think your worldview is salvageable. I could have written this story, with another man in Ansari’s place. Except, fuck, I believed my rapist *loved* me. He believed it, too. I also could have written this story. If you don’t quite get what was wrong with what Ansari did, read this piece, too. It’s important. Also, read the application of the tea and consent analogy to the story. I could have written these stories. And, a few years ago? Reading these stories would have shattered me into a thousand pieces. Left me dissociated for weeks, quietly rolling through or fending off flashbacks while maintaining a calm exterior. Going through the motions of my routines without actually being productive in any aspect of my life. Reading about Ansari, Sunday morning? I was upset, I can tell you that. I was angry, but productively so. I have found myself reminded of weirdly specific moments in my relationship with my rapist, but I haven’t been overwhelmed by them. I also didn’t immediately use the word rape when I was talking about it. It wasn’t until I was a half a dozen comments deep, correcting some dude who was talking about awkwardness and suggesting that Ansari had ‘gotten himself into’ an ‘awful situation’. It did seem like our differences were actually semantic, and he was quick to acknowledge that yes, Ansari had absolutely repeatedly assaulted this woman, and that yes, it was clear that the only thing he cared about was getting laid, that he didn’t care about this woman at all beyond that and did not care to see her as a fully realized person with her own thoughts and feelings. He was still framing Ansari as the only relatable character in the story, practically erasing the woman as much Ansari had himself, and that rubbed me the wrong way. Eventually, I said: you’re using a lot of words to say ‘he clearly prioritized getting his end in above all else and doesn’t care whether he rapes people to get it.’ That is literally description of a rapist. He is a rapist. You can just say that and be done with it and not worry so much about the awful situations rapists get themselves into (the poor misguided dears) It wasn’t until that moment I’d felt ok using the word for this situation. And I know that there are people who still aren’t comfortable with it. Why? Because his penis never made it into her vagina? Really? After his penis had been forced into her hands over and over again, after she’d put his penis in her mouth without wanting to, after his fingers were shoved down her throat again and again, that’s the thing that’s going to tip this experience over into something violent and traumatic? It’s particularly telling to me that people who subsequently turned up in that thread to question my use of the word ‘rapist’ never objected to my repeated use of the word ‘assault’ to describe his actions. He assaulted her sexually, repeatedly and in various ways over the course of more than an hour, and yet somehow we all still hesitate to cry ‘rape’. That’s the power of rape culture, right there. That is how we are silenced. And I guess that’s why I needed to write about this. I’ve been… pretty quiet about rape for quite some time. I haven’t written anything here about #metoo, or about the cascade of outed predators in Hollywood in the ensuing months. I also haven’t said much (or anything?) about it on my personal facebook page. It’s not that I’ve been totally silent. I’ve participated in comment threads and conversations in other places. I just… I don’t even know. With #metoo, I was unreasonably flummoxed by specificity of it being about women, and though I know many non-binary people who rightfully found spaces for themselves there, I wasn’t comfortable with doing so for myself. I also just…. Look, I have done this. There are post on this blog that were incredibly painful for me to write. There are details and stories about my own experiences that I have shared even when doing so made me feel like I couldn’t breathe. When every word coming out of fingertips felt like it cost me dearly, but I knew that not getting them out would cost me more. I’ve cut myself open and shown you all my insides. I guess I did so a few years too early? But I’ve also healed from it. Because of it. And I don’t want to keep reopening those wounds. I don’t mean I want to forget or stop talking or caring about these things. I guess I don’t really know what I mean. I’ll keep writing about this stuff when I have the energy to, I guess. And I won’t sweat it when I don’t. But if you come away from this post with anything, please let it be an understanding that this story about Aziz Ansari is the story of a rape. And that anyone who does those things is a rapist.

The incident happened Friday night on a southbound C train platform at West 155th Street, where police say the couple harassed the 26-year-old victim. Authorities say the man asked her if she was a man and then slapped her in the face and spit on her. The woman then allegedly slapped the victim's phone out of her hand. Pablo Valle, 27, was reportedly taken into custody in New Jersey and will be extradited. Charges are pending. Authorities say he has 27 prior arrests. The female suspect has still not been located. The victim, Serena Daniari, was not seriously hurt. But she immediately took to Twitter after the incident. "I just wish people would leave me alone," she said in a video posted to social media. "I didn't do anything. I just want to be left alone." Mayor Bill de Blasio responded to the tweet from the victim, apologizing to her on behalf of the city and adding that transgender and non-binary New Yorkers deserve to travel in their city without fear. .@NYPDHateCrimes is investigating this loathsome, transphobic attack. If you have ANY information please contact them IMMEDIATELY.— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) January 26, 2020 Serena, on behalf of your city I’m so sorry this happened. Transgender and non-binary New Yorkers deserve to travel in their city without fear. https://t.co/mLM46e6a7u Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed the New York State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to assist the NYPD with its investigation. "No one should ever have to live in fear simply for being who they are," Cuomo said. "New Yorkers embrace diversity and our differences, because that's what makes us unique and that's what makes us great. On behalf of the New York family, my message to Serena Daniari is simple: We have zero tolerance for what happened to you. We are sorry for what happened to you. We stand with you in love and respect, and we will catch your attackers and bring them to justice." The victim released a statement later Sunday thanking everyone for their support but asking to respect her privacy as she moves forward. Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). In response to this incident and others like it that have led to a 42% increase in hate crimes in the transit system, the MTA announced Monday it is launching a new "Hate Has No Place in Our Transportation System" public awareness campaign. "New York is built on diversity, openness and inclusion," MTA President and CEO Patric Foye said. "Every New Yorker should be able to travel free of harassment and feel safe while riding with the MTA. We want to do what we can to put a halt to these despicable crimes. We hope that our campaign will not only help reduce bias activity but will remind everyone of the core New York values of kindness, respect and solidarity." The ads will appear on more than more than 4,000 digital screens across the subway system, 2,600 screens on buses, and 550 screens on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad. All ads feature iconic signage associated with the NYC Transit system, LIRR and Metro-North and share the message that "hate has no place" in the MTA network. The ads provide information on how to report hate crimes, concluding with the tagline: "New York rides together." * More Manhattan news * Send us a news tip * Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts * Follow us on YouTube

|Fun Places to Gay |Emerald City Theatre at the Apollo Theater| |The SoFo Tap| |Griffin Theatre Company at Theater Wit| |Profiles Theatre - The Main Stage| |Kit Kat Lounge & Supper Club| |Akvavit Theatre at the Storefront Theater| |Buzz22 Chicago at the Steppenwolf Garage| |Wilde Bar and Restaurant| |Dick's R U Crazee| |R Public House| |Dog and Pony Theatre Company at Collaboraction| |Shakers On Clark (Formerly 3160)| |Jackalope Theatre Co. at the Storefront Theater| |Goodman Theatre in the Albert Theatre| |Bailiwick Chicago at the Steppenwolf Garage| Thursday January 21st ACT HIV+ Stigma group, Center on Halsted 5:00pm - 6:30pm Center on Halsted Group Therapy and Support groups at Center on Halsted are one component of our Behavioral Health Services. We currently offer on-going therapy groups and time-limited therapy groups for individuals working on making changes in their lives. Additionally, we offer time limited support groups in both the Behavioral Health and HIV Testing and Prevention departments for individuals seeking general support. For a list of current groups, please visit our calendar. Descriptions of all of our current groups are listed below. To participate in any of our groups, interested parties will need to complete a brief registration with a group facilitator. In this registration process, you will be asked to complete a brief phone screening for support groups or an in-person registration interview for therapy groups & HIV support groups. Participation in HIV support groups is free as they are funded through a grant from the Illinois Department of Public Health. Fees for other groups vary depending on focus but range up to $15 per session (see below for fee information for specific groups). Fee negotiation may be available for those who can't afford the full amount. For general information about our groups program or inquiries about group topics not listed below, please contact us at 773.472.6469 EXT 460 or firstname.lastname@example.org ACT HIV+ Stigma Art in Response for COVID-19 Therapy Group Grief and Loss LGBTQ Black, Indigenous, + People of Color Trans, Non-Binary and Gender Non-Conforming Group Queer Body Image & Body Positivity Group Queer Women's Group ACT for HIV Stigma Thursdays · 5:00 - 6:30 pm Begins January 21 This is a therapeutic process group for individuals living with HIV to increase self-compassion and reduce feelings of shame and stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. Incorporating ideas from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and compassion-based therapy (CFT), group members will be guided to explore and challenge the stigma and shame associated with living with HIV. Participants will share experiences of HIV-related barriers and stigma, learn strategies for self-compassion, and develop goals and valued actions to lead an empowered life. To register or for more information, please contact email@example.com or 773.472.6469 EXT 460. Please check with the event organizers to see if the event is still scheduled or cancelled.

Our mission is to help build a world in which every person — regardless of their race, income, insurance, gender identity, sexual orientation, abilities, or immigration status — can access expert, compassionate sexual and reproductive health care, information, and education without shame or judgement. We are committed to advocating for policies that boldly expand access to affordable, quality health care, strengthen sexual and reproductive rights, and dismantle the systemic racism that permeates the systems that form our society. It is with intention that we pursue an agenda that honors the reproductive justice framework established by womxn of color led organizations, because true bodily autonomy lies not just in one’s ability to control their reproductive destiny, but also in their human right to live and parent in safe, healthy and sustainable communities. We at PPESA recognize that using binary or gendered language when referring to those who experience life events such as pregnancy, abortion care and other aspects of reproductive and sexual health are erasing the experiences of non-binary and transgender individuals. Understanding that these experiences are not exclusive to cisgender women, the "x" in womxn promotes inclusivity and breaks from linguistic norms that uphold the gender-binary and patriarchal norms. New York has a proud legacy of advancing access to reproductive and sexual health care. In the face of relentless federal attacks and a pandemic that is disproportionately impacting communities of color while disrupting access to care and coverage for so many, we must take measures to build upon this legacy by eliminating barriers to patient-centered, high quality, and affordable health care for all. Legislative proposals we support include but are not limited to: Funding for Reproductive and Sexual Health Care. In 2016, it was estimated that roughly 1.2 million low-income New Yorkers were in need of publicly funded primary reproductive and sexual health care services. This need is deepened by the fact that the pandemic has altered the economic and social realities of people’s lives – especially those who were already facing systemic barriers to care. A lack of access to affordable contraception, and primary and preventive reproductive health care impacts the ability of one to shape their future in ways that fundamentally impact their health and economic security. For many, reproductive health care providers are an entry point into the health care system, and primary provider of care. The state must continue its longstanding investment in the Comprehensive Family Planning and Reproductive Health Program, especially in the wake of federal attacks to the nation’s Title X program, and the growing need for access to affordable health care as New York re-builds from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Strengthening Access to and Coverage of Virtual Care. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated widespread adoption and utilization of telehealth and has forever changed the way we access care. Much of this growth was possible because of federal and state actions that loosened restrictive policies that burdened providers and established requirements that insurers pay providers for care as if it were delivered in-person. Despite these important steps, access to virtual care is far from universal. Both urban and rural communities alike face barriers to reliable and affordable internet and devices that will enable them to connect virtually to a health care provider. New York must pursue policies and investments that break down these barriers, and ensure providers have the ability to sustainably deliver patient-centered virtual care to all who need it. Failure to do so will deepen existing inequities, disproportionately impacting communities who have for far too long faced systemic barriers to care that have threatened their health and well-being. Guaranteeing Coverage of Abortion Care. The right to abortion is meaningless without the ability to access care. As with any health care service, insurance coverage is a vital enabler to access. New York is one of 16 states that covers abortion care with state funds in our Medicaid Program. In 2017, state regulations further strengthened insurance coverage of abortion care in New York, to ensure more New Yorkers had affordable access. We must build upon these policies and put into our state law a requirement for insures to broadly cover abortion care. Addressing Maternal Mortality. The rate of mortality and morbidity in the United States, especially for womxn of color, is unacceptably high. Despite our progressive policies surrounding access to womxn’s health care, New York State currently ranks 30th out of 50 states in its maternal death rate. Black womxn are 3 to 4 times more likely to be impacted compared to white womxn; in New York City, that rate hurtles to 12 times. Many of these deaths and serious complications are preventable, and we must do everything in our power to keep them from happening. New York must take steps to: Expand Medicaid coverage from 60 days to one-year post pregnancy. Research finds that disruptions in health coverage can have adverse health consequences, and that extending coverage improves health outcomes. Considering about 1 in 3 pregnancy-related deaths occur one week to a year following birth, the current 60-day coverage period is failing to meet the health care needs of womxn. Improve access to midwifery-led birthing centers. Every person has a right to give birth with dignity, in a safe and supported environment of their choosing. Midwives provide high-quality, patient-centered maternity care. Experts, including the World Health Organization, recommend midwives as an evidence-based approach for reducing maternal mortality. New York should identify opportunities to expand access to midwifery care, including passing legislation that supports the establishment of freestanding birthing centers led by licensed midwives, and advancing initiatives that will increase the diversity of midwives across the state. The right to bodily autonomy and equality is foundational to one’s ability to live fully and freely. In 2019, following a decade of advocacy and in the face of federal threats, lawmakers passed the Reproductive Health Act, aligning our state law with the federal protections provided for under Roe v. Wade. This was a historical step to modernize our law and protect the right to abortion here in New York. But it was also just the beginning. While often seen as a progressive beacon, our state constitution fails to uphold equality for all New Yorkers, preventing us from redressing the myriad of ways discrimination – particularly misogyny and racism - show up in the systems and institutions that form our society. We must continue to fight for laws and policies that respect and advance the right to self-determination, regardless of your who you are, where you live or how much money you have. Legislative proposals we support include but are not limited to: Ensuring Comprehensive Sexuality Education for all New York Youth. Information is power. When young people have the tools they need to make healthy decisions about their bodies and their relationships, they have a brighter future.Comprehensive sexuality education has been shown to improve health outcomes and benefit our youth. Unfortunately, there is no consistent requirement for this education in New York, creating a patchwork system where not all kids receive this education and in some cases are not receiving accurate information. PPESA supports legislation that would require the inclusion of comprehensive, medically accurate, culturally, age and developmentally appropriate sexuality education in publicly funded K-12 schools statewide. Because your ability to access this vital information should not be dependent upon your zip code. Advancing an Equal Rights Amendment. For decades, brilliant legal minds, and fierce advocates have fought for a vision of equality for all – challenging the ways in which antiquated notions of gender, and racial bias show up in our everyday lives. The state and federal Constitutions are the foundational documents that protect our fundamental rights. We must fight to ensure they reflect and truly protect all of us – and for that to occur they need to be amended. PPESA supports legislation that will amend our state constitution to ensure it can effectively dismantle the overt and insidious ways systems and institutions foster discrimination here in New York. Creating an Abortion Access Fund. The right to abortion is a false promise if one is unable to access care. While other states have used the pandemic as an opportunity to limit access to abortion, New York State made clear that abortion is essential care. The COVID-19 crisis has only worsened the existing legislative, financial, and logistical obstacles to abortion access across the country. PPESA supports legislation that would establish an Abortion Access Fund and permit taxpayers to voluntarily contribute to it on their state income tax return form. The money raised would be distributed to non-profit organizations providing logistical and financial support to individuals who find access to abortion care out of reach. More so now than ever, New York has a role and responsibility to expand access to this fundamental right and health care service. Exploring the Impact of Limited Service Pregnancy Centers. Anti-abortion pregnancy centers often masquerade as full-service health centers, while offering individuals limited services such as free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and biased counseling. Anecdotal evidence suggests their main intent is to persuade individuals not to seek abortion care. These actions can be deeply stigmatizing and impact access to timely reproductive health care. PPESA supports legislation that would advance a study of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers in our state to understand how they function and impact access to comprehensive reproductive health care. The right to bodily autonomy and self-determination is interconnected to the broader fight for social justice. For hundreds of years, racism, classism, misogyny, heteronormativity and white supremacy have permeated the systems that form our society. We see it in the unjust actions of our legal system. It lives in our health care system that fails communities of color, Indigenous people and immigrants. It thrives in an economy that favors the wealthy at the expense of the vulnerable. It lies within the false narrative that you have a right to decide when to begin or grow a family, but not the right to parent with resources and supports and in safe and sustainable communities. It is both explicit and implicit, intertwined in everyday actions, and the policies and laws that facilitate inequity and reinforce systems of power. It is incumbent upon all of us to name, disrupt, and dismantle the oppression experienced by far too many and build a New York where true justice and equality is the lived experience of all. Legislative proposals we support include but are not limited to: It has been said that a budget is an expression of one’s vision and values. Yet for years, we have seen our state budget balanced on the backs of the most vulnerable, and those who provide critical services to them. As the state sets forth on the path to economic recovery, it cannot be business as usual. New York is 44th in the nation in tax fairness. It is time to enact policies that raise revenue through increased taxes on those with the greatest income and wealth. Further, we must ensure those funds are invested in the communities that have been disproportionally impacted by COVID and decades of economic and racial injustice. This will bring us closer to a vision of equality for all New Yorkers. Repealing the “Walking While Trans” ban. For decades a section of the Penal Law - “loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense”- has been discriminatorily enforced. In 2018, 91% of people arrested under this statute were Black and Latinx people, and 80% identified as womxn. Since its inception, this section of the law has allowed for police profiling and harassment of LGBTQ+ communities, immigrant communities, and Black and Latinx communities. PPESA supports legislation that will repeal this discriminatory provision in the penal code. Vacating Convictions for Offenses Resulting from Sex Trafficking. During the course of their trafficking, survivors may be convicted of other types of offenses that were done at the direction of their traffickers. PPESA supports legislation that will enable survivors to seek relief from these associated convictions. Ending Solitary Confinement. The United Nations considers solitary confinement exceeding 15 days to be torture. People who experience solitary confinement can suffer severe and irreparable mental and physical harm due to sensory deprivation and lack of human interaction. PPESA supports The HALT Solitary Confinement Act which would ban special populations from isolated confinement, ensure stronger protections for vulnerable populations, set a 15-day time-cap on all segregated confinement, and improve conditions for those held in solitary. Addressing the Rights of Incarcerated Womxn. Every individual has a right to be treated with dignity and to have the necessary resources and supports that enable them to truly exercise agency in their reproductive decision making. However, we live in a society where these fundamental rights are constrained by conditioned beliefs as to who is deserving of, or entitled to, this respect and treatment under the law. These dynamics are even more pronounced in the criminal law system. Inherently, incarceration undermines reproductive autonomy. This is distinctly true for Black womxn and womxn of color, whose lives lie in the intersections of identities that are devalued and forced to exist within systems of oppression. PPESA supports legislation that takes steps towards dismantling the overt and insidious ways in which the criminal law system fails to respect and uphold the reproductive health and rights of incarcerated individuals. Expanding Access to Affordable Health Care Coverage. Everyone's health depends on access to care and coverage. More than 400,000 New Yorkers cannot enroll in health insurance because of their immigration status. This concerning reality is intensified in the face of a pandemic. New York must enact measures to ensure coverage by advancing legislation that would provide 1-year of Essential Plan coverage for people with COVID-19. This measure will temporarily extend Essential Plan coverage to New Yorkers who have had confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 and who are otherwise ineligible for coverage because of their immigration status. Additionally, passage of the Essential Plan for All will make access to affordable care a reality for undocumented New Yorkers by establishing a state-funded Essential Plan program for immigrants whose status makes them ineligible for other state and federally funded coverage. Advancing Voting Protections and Reforms. The ability to preserve and expand access to reproductive rights and dismantle oppression rests on the right to vote. Conducting elections in 2020 during the pandemic put a spotlight on deficiencies in New York state’s election system. It is critical that along with the right to vote, voters have access to the ballot. PPESA will support legislation that ensures the right to vote and access to the ballot through modernization of New York’s election system. Supporting Medical Aid in Dying. The right to bodily autonomy and self-determination is not constrained to one aspect of being, but rather the spectrum of life. PPESA supports passage of the Medical Aid in Dying Act, to provide adults with the agency to make end-of-life decisions for themselves, with dignity and compassion. Ensuring Access to Representation. The right to counsel is a fundamental component of our legal system, but one that does not extend to immigration court. PPESA supports the Access to Representation Act which will guarantee that low-income immigrants are able to access legal representation for immigration proceedings. This act will put into place resources and legal safeguards to ensure that immigrants can fight for their right to remain with their families and in their communities. Eliminating Use of the Term “Incorrigible”. The word “incorrigible” present in the Family Court Act, has a deeply problematic usage in the court system. The roots of this label were to reinforce sexist standards of behavior for young girls, and has profoundly targeted youth of color, who are far more likely to be petitioned for a status offense. PPESA supports the passage of legislation that will remove this term from the Family Court Act.

Queer Makeup Artists Coco & Shantanu On Using Makeup As A Powerful Tool Of Self-Expression For some, makeup merely means slapping on a few products before heading out the door. For others, it’s an entirely different story. When used right, makeup can be a powerful tool of self-expression—and queer makeup artists, Shantanu Dhope and Coco Ballucci, completely agree with this. In an exclusive interview with iDiva, these creative forces tell us how makeup serves as a platform to show the world their creativity, express themselves, and a lot more. On using makeup as a form of self-expression One scroll through Shantanu’s Instagram feed will reveal he is an ardent lover of colours. For him, makeup is an art form. “I have always found using colours interesting and I love that I can show my art through colours on my face,” he said. From sharp cut creases to bejewelled looks, this makeup artist is all about creating fun and vibrant looks. “I use makeup to display my artistic skills to the world. Also the type of makeup I do is impacted by the clothes, jewellery or my mood that day. A lot of things inspire my makeup looks, like fashion, trends or other artists on Instagram,” he shared. At the same time, Coco also fully understands the power of makeup as she revealed that “makeup is god for me.” She also shared that she uses it as a self-confidence booster. “Makeup is very helpful for elevating your confidence level because it is actually gonna give you confidence. So, for me, I use makeup like it’s just part of my life. If I want to present/represent myself in front of somebody, I always take help from makeup, because it has that power,” said Coco. From pairing blue sparkly eyeshadows with red lips to sporting silver holographic eyes, Coco doesn’t shy away from going all out with makeup. On first experience with makeup Coco instantly felt happy and confident after wearing makeup for the first time. But societal criticisms made her question whether she should go out like this or not. “When I first used makeup, I felt so good but I was like, ‘Should I go out with it or not?’ Because it’s makeup. Anyhow, it's gonna be visible. Sabko dikh jayega ye (everyone will be able to see it) that I’m doing makeup. But after wearing it, I was really feeling happy,” Coco shared. She has come a long way since. Apart from being a beauty influencer, Coco is a celebrity makeup artist and has even modelled for well-known publications like Vogue India. On the other hand, Shantanu has been wearing makeup since he was 16 years old. He shared with us, “I used to wear a bit of concealer ever since I was 16, but I really started to get into it when I was 19 and I did my first ever smokey eye. I remember feeling intimidated and intrigued by it because it was a very new world for me.” Over the years, he has received accolades for proving his mettle time and again. To name a few, he was on the digital cover of the leading fashion magazine, Cosmopolitan, and was also a part of a beauty campaign by Maybelline. On facing societal judgements Social media can be a toxic place, especially for a queer artist who loves makeup. It’s easier to leave a baseless hate comment on somebody’s creative work than saying it personally. This is probably why Shantanu has faced a lot of criticism online. He said, “I have never had anyone confront me about wearing makeup, but I do get the occasional stare. I think the most amount of criticism/hate I have received is online. A lot of people are threatened by a guy wearing makeup. I have reached a point in my life where I do not let it bother me anymore. I’m actually glad that I can start a conversation.” Things haven’t been different for Coco, too! “For me, being a non-binary person and staying in a society and doing makeup and roaming around in it are actaully very tough. Since people are not used to seeing makeup on men, they stare at me for long and long,” she disclosed. But like Shantanu, Coco has also learned to not care about what people think. “Nowadays, I'm getting used to it. I’ve become very habituated to people criticising me, so it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, after everything, I’m again doing my makeup, so I’m very cool about it now. And I manage them very easily. I just ignore them. That’s it,” she shared. On unlearning the concept of ‘men can’t wear makeup’ & following their heart’s desire Dismantling society’s definition of makeup being only for women, Shantanu stresses on taking small steps for any man who doesn't wear makeup for the fear of being judged. “Makeup has always been gender neutral. It is we as society who have labelled makeup to be more “feminine”. I think we just need to unlearn these concepts that have been taught to us while growing up and express ourselves, by taking tiny steps in that direction. Even if it is as simple as trying out that one concealer that you have always wanted to,” he advised. Coco also shared some thought-provoking advice. She said even if people show irritation and have problems with you wearing makeup, don’t let it affect you because, “At the end of the day, at night, you’re lying with your body, right? You’re the only person with whom you have to work. So, I think be strong and go ahead, and just fulfil your heart’s desire, whether it is to want to wear saree, do makeup, or whatever. Whatever gives you happiness, you should do it.” Social and lead image credit: Instagram/shantanudhope and Instagram/cocoballucci_ Subscribe to iDiva & get never miss out on the latest trends! 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Ezra Miller allegedly called a German woman who told the Fantastic Beasts star she was a descendant of a Holocaust survivor a “Nazi”. The woman, identified only by the name Nadia, told Variety in an exposé released Thursday that the alleged encounter with the 29-year-old, who identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/they, took place in her Berlin apartment in February. . Nadia told the publication that she met Miller in January 2020 at an art opening in Los Angeles and that they had consensual sex on the last night of her trip. She said they continued to be friends long distance, mostly through text messages, for the next two years. Due to the pandemic and their busy schedules, they didn’t see each other until February 2022, after Nadia invited the actor to stay at her apartment while the annual Berlinale Film Festival took place. She told Variety that Miller was “very sweet” and “very polite” until they started rolling a cigarette, and she told them they weren’t allowed to smoke in her house. “It just pissed them off,” Nadia said. “I asked them to leave 20 times, maybe more. They started insulting me. I’m a “transphobic piece of shit.” I am a Nazi. It became so, so stressful for me. They walked around my house, examined everything, touched everything, scattered tobacco leaves on the floor. It was disgusting and very intrusive.” She detailed this encounter later in an interview. “And I quote it word for word,” she said. “They started with ‘I create planets’. Tobacco is sacred.” Nadia said that Miller continued their “tirade” and stated that they could do “whatever they want, whenever they want”. When she stood up to insist that Miller abide by the rules of her house, “they looked at me with this really angry, stern face and told me, ‘Sit down,’ like they were ordering a dog.” At the moment she said she told them about it. According to her, they replied: “Yes, I talk to you like a dog.” “I said, ‘OK, if you’re talking to me like that, you’ve got to go,'” she said. But Miller refused and allegedly began to accuse Nadya of being “transphobic” and a “Nazi”. “I asked them if they remembered that I told them I was a descendant of Holocaust survivors, so why did they tell me that?” she said. “They shouted back at me: “Yes, but how many people from my family died?” Because many people in them the family died. I thought, “Oh, well, it’s a game of who has more injuries.” Nadya said she thought Miller “could somehow have attacked [her] physically” and described the feeling of “insecurity”. After about half an hour of persuasion, she said she finally convinced Miller to leave, but only after she called the police. Nadia filed a criminal complaint about her experience, which Variety confirmed, with the German State Attorney’s Office in April, and Miller was under investigation for trespassing. However, the prosecutor told the publication that the case was dropped after the actor left the country. “It seems to be a pattern,” Nadia said. “They are cruel to jets.” She said she feels more comfortable speaking in public now that she’s not the only person to press charges against the actor. Miller’s representatives did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment, but a source told Variety that “Miller hopes to address the allegations at some point, but they have decided to privately focus on their health and healing in the coming months.” Earlier this month, the “It’s Good to Be Quiet” star was accused of settling a young mother and her three young children in her Vermont home allegedly littered with firearms, ammunition and marijuana. The two parents also accused Miller of allegedly raising his 18-year-old child in “cult” and “psychologically manipulative” behavior, which the teen vehemently denied. A few days later, another worried parent accused the actor of inappropriate behavior towards their 12-year-old child. According to The Daily Beast, both parent and child have received a temporary restraining order against Miller. Miller was also arrested several times in Hawaii – first for disorderly conduct and harassment, and then for second-degree assault – in March and April, respectively. The actor was involved in another controversy in 2020 when a video surfaced showing them strangling a fan in a bar in Reykjavik, Iceland. #Ezra #Miller #allegedly #called #descendant #Holocaust #survivor #Nazi

(Note: I don’t usually content-warn for specific blog posts, but this one contains a lot of reflections on suicide – not as something I want to do, but what it means to me, as a person who has been suicidal and still has suicidal thoughts, so it rather merits a heads up.) I’ve been experimenting with how much design I can do without actually paying money for upgrades. As it turns out, a fair bit. Not as much as I want, but more than I thought, as long as I’m armed with Photoshop and Font Squirrel. I didn’t quite realise I could carry over so much of my developing design skills to the web; I don’t know why it took me so long to realise that I could make my own header. So expect more changes and tweaks, because it’s really quite addicting. One day I’ll have the money to either learn how to make a website from scratch or pay for the upgrades, and then I’ll really have fun. And since I’ve been updating my resume and designing business cards (I’m starting to find myself in positions where I need them) well, new domain. I dare say it’s a better investment than an Ever After High Maddie doll (and cheaper, at least here in Australia). The thing that really makes me smile is the new email address I created through having said domain – finally, I have a gender-neutral professional-resembling email! (There’s not much to see on my Port Carmila site, if anyone noticed it … yet. Why, yes, I may be editing a bunch of older short stories and turning them into ebooks. I may be writing this so I therefore have to go and do it. Accountability is awesome.) Where have I been? I have done something this year I said I was going to do – not many of the things I have to do, mind, but something I wanted. My novel (working title Something They Call Glory) is finished and has been handed over to Emanuel Cachia of Error Proof (I’ll add a link when his gorgeous new website is up) and Julia Kyle of Havering (many resources for the Australian author) for their thoughts, opinions, feelings and improvements. I have written a full-length speculative fiction novel where all three narrating protagonists are trans (trans man, trans woman, non-binary person), where most of the supporting cast are non-binary, transgender, queer and poly, where the main character is a non-binary person who uses gender-neutral pronouns, where two protagonists suffer mental illnesses (and are heroes anyway), where one suffers chronic pain (and is a hero anyway) where the vast majority of the sympathetic supporting cast are female (to the extent that most characters with power/ability to take action are women or non-binary folk), where the two children are a queer cis girl and a trans girl (both of whom know they’re queer and trans respectively), where the mentor figure is a butch intersex woman, where the main paring are an asexual man and a kinky pansexual person, and where the plot is incidental to all of the above (save one character’s disability). I really hope that paragraph is enough to convince the world that this book needs to exist. I don’t know of anything that takes a mainstream fantasy plot and serves it up with a goodly helping of trans inclusion by dint of making every narrator trans (and often some other form of queer). Sure, I know of mainstream fantasy novels that include trans characters (well, a couple) but they’re mostly supporting characters, not the outright protagonists. I know of mainstream fantasy novels that deal in gender-neutral pronouns, but mostly in aliens, fantastic ‘other’ cultures and AI … not human people, in societies not so different from ours, who look binary gender in the eye and know it’s not theirs. I wanted to create a world where trans people are romantically and sexually desirable (passing irrelevant), where gender can actually be pretty damn simple (you are what you say you are, end of) and where mental illness can be spoken of, diagnosed, acknowledged, treated and managed on the path of one’s becoming a hero. This novel matters so much to me in terms of providing the kind of heroes I should have been able to read as an eighteen-year-old, and I hope like fuck it matters to someone else, because it pains me to know that I live in a world where I am not deemed worthy of being a hero – hence my intention to provide as many different kinds of heroes in the one book as I can. (Well, except for cis men. You can hear the depth of my sorrow, I’m sure.) Strong women of all kinds, strong people, strong slightly-unconventional families who love each other to pieces, strong crazy folk, strong queer folk, strong poly folk, strong PWD folk. Most of whom aren’t white and are of migrant heritage. Now you know where I’ve been for the last few weeks. No apologies. With any luck I will get it back later this year, not be faced with an insurmountable list of things to fix, and then be able to start sending this book around to agents. I want this book to be accessible – by which I mean, on the fantasy shelves at Dymocks or Minotaur – because the eighteen-year-old me, who devoured every fantasy novel I could get my hands on, should’ve been able to pick up a book and find people like the person I’d discover myself to be in the narratives that made me cry and laugh and feel. I know that’s not going to be easy, and I know society and the publishing industry by its nature make this more difficult than it should be, but I have to try, which is why I’m wrestling with my anxiety to start this journey. Some days I can tell myself that I’m a good writer, that I’m better than some people who are published, and that has to help – and some days I wonder why the fuck I’m even doing this, because who the fuck am I to decide that I’m better than anyone or that I’m the right person to write this book? Because I will tell you: I am fucking terrified. Those strong people in my stories? I don’t feel like I’m one of them. Even though my strong folk are in fact people who struggle with depression and anxiety and fear, even though my main character would sooner attempt suicide than be a hero at one point, I still feel like a weak, broken, craven chicken in comparison, and this is the point where psychologists the world over give me that patented therapeutic look and quietly ask why I need to be so unkind to myself. Those four words are spectacularly awful ones. They are, in fact, words my characters have uttered and have begun to overcome. We know, as creatives, that not everyone is going to like what we do, but in our heart of hearts many of us are insecure people who desperately want everyone to love our art because one tiny criticism (or a few) means our art is therefore worthless. Our handling of our message can’t be powerful or compelling enough if people despise it, right? If people aren’t willing to take a risk on us, we therefore must have failed to say something meaningful? (Oh, oppression, how much I hate thee.) I know I’m not the only one that feels this way – most of us just don’t admit it, and that’s actually far more problematic than the insecurity itself. It means we anxious, silenced-by-ourselves creatives have to somehow soldier on in a world where we not only fail to be okay with the fact that people are going to hate our art, often for reasons outside our control (like, say, being an oppressed minority) but we fail to pretend to be okay with it. What the hell do we do then but curl up in our cave and tremble? Why do we have to operate in a world that sets us up for failure just because we happen to be a little more plagued by doubt (and for minorities, for people born in the world of monsters, how can we not have that doubt and anxiety?) than is permissible to acknowledge? Real bravery, the kind of courage that makes for inspirational stories and inspirational storytelling, doesn’t involve sitting there and pretending that of course it doesn’t matter if our creativity, our art, our passion and our work, is loathed. Of course it fucking matters. It fucking hurts to hear someone tell me that my fucking language, style and voice is inappropriate for the kinds of stories I write; it fucking hurts to hear someone tell me my pronouns and characters are inaccessible. The heroes that matter, though, aren’t fearless. The heroes that matter to me aren’t fearless. The teachers who confess their flaws and failings and fears are the teachers and writers I want to be – those who have the courage to admit that sometimes they too are broken by the demands of the creative life. The hero that matters to me is the hero that attempts suicide out of despair and, afterwards, takes that painful, terrifying step towards a life they can live, a life that is not easy (otherwise they wouldn’t be suicidal: suicide is never easy, and I despise depictions of it as such, but sometimes life is so damn hard it makes suicide look easier by comparison) but holds something worth the living. For me, that’s writing. I have to write. I can’t not write even though it’s the worst cause of my chronic pain. In fact, it’s more than that: I have to tell stories. In my advanced non-fiction class we’ve been discussing headline writing for news-type copy, and the more we read these sorts of articles, the more I know that I can’t write like this – write advertising copy or news journalism. I’m a storyteller. I tell stories about people, and while I do write in other forms, I need to be passionate about the subject in order for it to work, and it’s really only ever a sideline to what I do best. I tell stories about the human condition, about me, about the universe, and it’s the human connection that drives me. I write, but it’s truly just a mechanism of telling a story. (I have an assignment that involves interviewing an ESL migrant, and as someone of migrant heritage myself, someone who grew up in a family where certain stories were too horrific to tell, I’m so excited even if my sensory processing issues make interviewing and transcribing someone else’s words challenging. It’ll be worth it to be able to tell someone’s story as the treasure it is; I cried just talking to her for a few minutes. Her story, by the way, doesn’t sound particularly grand or dramatic, but a story doesn’t have to be those things to be precious.) The other jobs I do – design, layout, editing, production, now even tutoring – are still all about enabling people to tell stories, talking about telling stories or engaging with the community of storytellers. I can’t do a nine to five desk job for the rest of my life and be happy in it. I can’t do a job that isn’t, in some way, furthering the cause of story (even if that cause is ‘paying the rent so I can go and write on weekends while I try to find something better’). Story is my life, my raison d’etre, the reason I am alive. It is my communion with the sacred, my connection with the universe. The thing that drove me to contemplate suicide, three years ago, was the fact that my injury forced me to endure the reality of my old life without the ability to escape the pain through telling stories. That also started me on the road to taking the writing and creative life seriously, such that I have now been able to work on publications and write (and redraft, redraft, redraft) a novel. For me suicidal ideation was that moment of understanding that I could not live the life I was living, and, fortunately, I managed to find the right people to help me get out of that life, people who appreciate and even envy the drive I have. This is where being a minority is an advantage, because I have a clear and wonderful grasp on what it is I need to write and why. I know where I fit in the grand tapestry of taletellers. I know who I am and what I do, and I know people who have greater talent than I’ll ever possess who stagnate because of that lack. Talent is a fine and glorious thing, but it’s not all that useful without motivation and drive. You’d think, having that, the quest of story would be easy. That snort of gasping laughter is me, by the way. Suicide would have been so much easier. It would have been a tragedy, but it would have been easier. A constant war against my anxiety and self-esteem? A constant war with society, set up as it is to deny me my gender and personhood? Signing up for a life spent with my heart in my mouth, doing things that terrify me, making my thoughts and feelings and identity (because there is no such thing as death of the author, really: the author is laid bare in every word, in all their faults and strengths) plain to the world? A few moments of pain compared to a life of it? There’s nothing easy about this, nothing at all, and yet it’s not really a choice. I was suicidal because I reached a point where I could not live as the person I was, the person working eight-hour days in a non-creative job, the person ghosting through life lived without authenticity. My chronic pain just made me reach that point in my twenties; I had my mid-life crisis three decades sooner. Live or die. Both of them are steep hills to climb. This is why hero narratives matter, because this is life, the kind of life that matters – a life spent in combat with monsters, a life spent risking one’s sanity and health, a life spent in danger. Hero narratives prepare us for the vulnerability and danger of an authentic life; they teach us that monsters can be fought, dangers overcome, a happy ending achieved. I want with every breath for someone else to have written my novel. Not because I want to read it without putting in the effort – I actually love the process of writing, and I think I adore the process of redrafting and editing even more – but because I am terrified of everything that lies between me and getting this book on that shelf, and I’d dearly love for someone else to endure that suffering. I want someone else to be a hero – seriously, does anyone want to throw the ring into Mount Doom? Real heroism doesn’t involve facing down a monster as much as it involves facing down ourselves in order to then go on and face the monster. Our own fears need to be fought to make any passionate, meaningful change in the world, and that is about the hardest thing anyone can ever do. For all that we live in a society founded on grand hero narratives, we’re terrible at living them ourselves. By the by, I don’t mean that small acts of heroism aren’t equal to throwing the ring into Mount Doom: they are. I believe that as much as I believe that every story is worth telling. I mean that Western society distorts the notion of heroism so much that sporting stars and athletes and celebrities are our gods, that we are encouraged to live a kind of soulless life where exceptionalism – and to be a hero is to be exceptional in some fashion, which is I think the difference between a hero and a protagonist – is discouraged in favour of the shelter and protection of sameness and the ordinary. Think on high school, and how dangerous it is to be different; think on minorities and their lived experiences in the world, and everything they have to overcome just to exist. Society has a strong and inflexible notion of the kind of people we are expected to be – non-binary people, as just one example, live the cruel consequences of that. I don’t understand why suicide is something regarded with such despair and disdain by society, given that many people are living the still-breathing equivalent. Does the idea that someone who commits, attempts or contemplates suicide is lesser, a coward, weak, selfish or worthy of disdain come from the idea that if the people around us can surrender to rules of society, to being and acting and feeling and living without individual authenticity, those of us who can’t are broken? Are we broken because we look at the world and know that we just can’t follow those rules? Thing is, suicidal ideation doesn’t end when one is on medication or stable. It’s a habit and it lingers. (So does the need to self-harm.) I still tell myself, on a regular basis, that I should kill myself or hurt myself. Sometimes for the crime of making a mistake, but sometimes just for the so-called crime of having the guts to put myself or my work out there: I should kill myself, sayeth my brain and my socialisation, for trying to live an authentic life. I should kill myself for being different and wrong. I should kill myself for being visionary enough to know, just a little, of whom it is I actually am and what I want to do. I know that’s my brain and my upbringing and everything I ever learned about the person I am supposed to be talking, and I have to face it down every time that monster inside of me rears its head and tells me I’m not supposed to be the person I am. But damn, does it make life harder than it has to be! My psychologist says that art, real art, the kind of art that has message and meaning, isn’t created to please people. It’s created to showcase the uncomfortable, to tell a story that hasn’t been told, to make people question and consider and think. I believe this. This is why I write what I write, in the main – and it’s why I struggle to do anything with the words I write, because I’m not supposed to make people uncomfortable. I’m not supposed to write things that are different and unsafe and confronting. Except I can’t do that. I can’t sit down at the keyboard and write something that’s ‘safe’. The words don’t come. It’s not really a choice for me, at the end of the day. It’s live in fear, doing what I have to do – what the universe plainly nudged me into doing, or why else do I have the skills I do, living in the situation I am in? – or don’t live at all. The kind of hero I want to read about isn’t a hero that pretends they’re not terrified at the thought of embarking on their quest. The kind of hero I want to read about is a quaking, human wreck who admits they’re terrified and goes on their quest anyway, shaking in their boots all the while. So here I am. I’m terrified. And I’m in desperate want of a world where I can read a book about a suicidal-ideation-suffering non-binary hero (not a hero despite hir mental illness but because of it), and that, alas, requires showcasing my uncomfortable. I want my generation’s children to grow up in a world where it is safe to be different and exceptional. Did I say that I’m terrified?

On May 28, on the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion in Argentina celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. On the occasion, the movement that has been at the forefront of the struggle for abortion rights in the country, called on the citizens to mobilize virtually, demanding legalization of this integral human right. Tens of thousands of women, queer and non-binary people took part in the virtual pañuelazo or a march with green scarves, which represents the feminist struggle for legal abortion. They shared their messages and photos with green scarves on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, demanding the approval of the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (IVE) bill. Several political leaders, social activists, human rights organizations, women and LGBTQI movements also participated. — CampAbortoLegalConcordia (@AbortoLegalCdia) May 28, 2020 Hashtags such as #28M (#28May), #15AñosDeCampaña (#15YearsOfCampaign), #AbortoLegal2020 (#LegalAbortion2020), #AbortoLegalYa (#LegalizeAbortionNow), #QueSeaLey (#MayItBecomesALaw), #NiñasNoMadres (#GirlsNotMothers), #DerechoAlAborto (#RightToAbort), etc. trended on social networks. Throughout the day, the movement held several conferences, interviews and artistic performances and published the photos and videos of these events on its different social media handles. “The future is here! We celebrated 15 years of being on the streets, fighting for a law that fully recognizes the rights of pregnant people in Argentina. 15 years of a shared history. The time is now!,” wrote the National Campaign in a tweet. 🔥 ¡El futuro ya llegó! 🔥 Celebramos 15 años en las calles, luchando por una ley que reconozca plenamente los derechos de las personas gestantes en Argentina. Son 15 años de una historia compartida. ¡El tiempo es ahora! #AbortoLegal2020 💚#15AñosdeCampaña pic.twitter.com/yH5DajaIkJ — #AbortoLegal2020 💚 (@CampAbortoLegal) May 28, 2020 “We are mobilizing to demand access to and guarantee of rights to live with autonomy and to the fullest. We rebel against the policies that seek to control our bodies, govern our biographies and biologize the exercise of our identities,” tweeted the movement. “We march, we gather, we recover the history of feminism, and we embrace each other in the persistence of the struggle. We proudly raise our green scarves that symbolize life as a horizon of autonomy, fulfillment, and dignity,” wrote the Campaign in another tweet. Marchamos, nos reunimos, recuperamos la historia de los feminismos y nos abrazamos en la persistencia de la lucha. Levantamos con orgullo nuestros pañuelos verdes que simbolizan la vida como un horizonte de autonomía, plenitud y dignidad. #15AñosdeCampaña #AbortoLegal2020 💚 pic.twitter.com/ixYjVT2pKT — #AbortoLegal2020 💚 (@CampAbortoLegal) May 27, 2020 This year, with a progressive president in power, legal abortion seems within reach in Argentina. In a session in the National Assembly on March 1, President Alberto Fernández announced that within ten days he would present a bill to decriminalize abortion in the country. For the first time in the history, a head of state advocated the right to abortion. His announcement was celebrated by women, the LGBTQI community and feminist movements and organizations, who considered it a significant breakthrough for the long-demanded abortion rights in the country. However, due to the advent of the COVID-19 in Argentina around the same time, the decision couldn’t be executed. With this virtual demonstration, the feminist movements reminded the president of his promise and urged him to initiate the process as soon as possible. As of May 27, Argentina has 13,920 confirmed cases of coronavirus, with 500 deaths and 4,336 recoveries.

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Hopefully, these tips can make the process slightly less complicated and conserve you income. Legal responsibility protection for auto insurance plan is important in order to protect your self and also your house from statements of injuries or house problems. This coverage can cover the cost of defense or settlement should you be observed at fault for an accident. There are plenty of different types of coverage, so it is important to grasp the difference between them to avoid high priced surprises. Condition Farm features regular fees for various levels of coverage. It’s possible you’ll obtain it a lot more useful to decide on a medium protection degree. In many states, you are necessary to carry liability protection with your coverage, which handles damages to Others’s property and injuries to other people. Such a protection also guards you in case you lead to a mishap with An additional driver. 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This protection applies when another driver is not determined in the least plus the incident is a hit-and-operate. The Insurance Regulation SS 5217 specifies which the uninsured motorist protection has to be acquired in almost any Bodily collision, but courts have interpreted this provision to only implement in the Bodily collision. Underinsured and uninsured motorist coverage are optional in certain states, but in other states, you needs to have them both of those. Acquiring equally coverages will give you further protection in the event you should shell out professional medical bills or other costs. In the event the uninsured driver leaves you which has a damaged automobile, the uninsured motorist coverage can pay for the repairs. Although this protection is just not expected, it may be a clever strategy to hold not less than the minimum number of liability protection. 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Recently this image has been recirculating on FB. It is a capture of a tweet by Sir Ian McKellen expressing how he’s never met a person who regretted coming out [as LGBTQIA]. When a friend posted it, I commented how I’m one of those people. I came out of the closet as non-binary in May 2018. I later thought I came out as FTM but it turns out I’m just really, really genderfluid/agender-flux… and butch and queer and I prefer women. I know I’ve spoken about this before, but before I came out and I was still trying to work out who I was, I really questioned my relationship with the Gods. I questioned why Herne has stuck around, but no Goddess has ever hung around. What was that about? Was there something deeper or mysterious about it? What did that mean for me as someone with a vagina who didn’t know they don’t really identify as female? When I was undertaking the “choosing of a new name” (which I must stress not everyone feels the need to do) I knew it somehow needed to honour Herne. My father asked why I didn’t take on his mothers maiden name, or go back to my maiden name, and neither felt right because growing up I didn’t identify as either an Evans or a Jones. I knew I took on traits of the Evans family, but now I’m mid-30s I’m acknowledging I’m taking on many Clarke and Gaut traits as well. I wanted something that was meaningful to me, but tied in my Dedication to my God. I became Rowan Brian Hunter. Rowan after the tree and the Atkinson; Brian after many, many loves (Brian Molko, Brian Warner, Brian Griffin, Brian Evans my great-uncle who died when my Dad was 5 and I didn’t click til afterwards…); Hunter for Herne the Hunter. I can pinpoint the moments in time where I feel as though my relationship with Herne has grown. I remember being quite intimidated with working with him in the early days (2003ish). It was like that moment in Catholic school where you’re saying the words in prayer but you don’t know how to put oomph and meaning behind them. You know you want a relationship with Deity, but you haven’t been taught just how to really go about it. This was the days where the internet was new, Google wasn’t a thing (hey Webcrawler!) so you got out of books what you could find. I never had a teacher, I never knew my relationship with the Gods could be what it is today. I never read that within the books I began with, I never had a teacher express it to me. I had to find out for myself. Around 2012 I had this urge to go deeper again, and I became a Dedicant. I threw myself into the deep end, I needed to learn all I could about him. I read Shakespeare, the book by Eric L. Fitch, the comparisons to Odin and Woden. I got my tattoo for Him. I decided that my path, my spirituality, my Spirit, would be to Him. I’ve had stories and poetry published that I’ve written for and about Him. I’ve done the Dedicant path – made the incense, held the rituals, made the offerings. Even did the 30 Days of Devotion Blog Challenge. But when I came out, I worried how my relationship with Herne would change. I worried about what that would mean for me. I remember feeling him sitting on the fence outside where my old Coven had met up for a journey to the Underworld, Him saying he wouldn’t come closer because it was “women’s business” and I needed to go through it. But I’m not a woman… does this mean I become privy to “mens business”? Personally, I still don’t have an answer for this one. Once I had surgery, once I removed myself from the residence I shared with my ex-husband, once I legally changed my name, everything began to swing with such a force I felt knocked over. Herne took on the brunt of the stag’s horns so his King could be spared. I had surgery on my stomach to reduce my stomach size, restrict my food intake, so I could save my life. Herne took his life by hanging himself on an Oak within Windsor Forest. He made me experience that. I felt gravity pulling myself down to the Earth while my breathing restricted. I felt my body writhing, my neck breaking, my body go limp… only to wake in this world but not be of this world. I got my new tattoo symbolizing Oak and Rowan, the two trees that are synonymous with each of us. I passed a series of trials he laid out for me. I’m currently undertaking a year long journey which is opening my eyes to so much. There is so much of what I’ve learnt this year (in particular) that I wish I could write about, but I don’t have permission from Herne. There are some things I can tell my fiancé and my Clan Mother, and some things that are expressly forbidden. It is all UPG, unverified personal gnosis, there is no facts from academia behind it all. Much of this current trial is ridiculously personal – it’s about me coming to terms with my past and who I was before I was Rowan. He is bringing up every little thing to ensure I am ready to progress to the next challenge without fear, without trepidation. Part of me believes it’s for personal growth, another part knows that if I was to be faced with the Wild Hunt I may just scream and run! Since coming out as non-binary, since finding my true voice and my true self, my relationship with the Gods has become stronger than ever. My relationship with Herne has never been so personal, so emotional, such hard work. He’s allowed me to learn so much that you cannot find in a book. He’s whispered me stories that I would never gotten to know about him otherwise. He has reminded me again and again of the strength of his character that I was enamoured with in the early days and He has reminded me of how far I’ve come on my own personal journey. (Thank you Bela for prompting me to write!)

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Younger me found it hard to imagine a future, which is why LGBT+ young people need inclusive education Jamie Windust is a non-binary author and influencer, who is supporting charity Just Like Us’ #YoungerMe campaign this December, to highlight the need for inclusive education and support for LGBT+ young people Younger me was unable to see the wood from the trees. So many of us when we are younger feel like the future is unobtainable because of the ways in which our surroundings limit us. We find it hard to imagine a future where we are able to just exist - be loud, be brash and be trans. I love being non-binary and not being limited by gender. But growing up as a gender-non-conforming child wasn’t always as safe or as happy as it should be for young LGBT+ people. School, for me, was particularly tough at times. I remember being at odds with wanting to be myself – a gender-non-conforming, trans young person – and the pressures to fit in and avoid potential school bullies. There were many times where I had to compromise who I was, to escape the physical and verbal abuse. For me, the beauty of gender is being able to express who you really are and not be limited by stereotypes or gender role expectations. My gender expression had always been feminine, even before I came out as non-binary. In my book, ‘In Their Shoes’, I talk about the first time I dared to wear something I felt truly comfortable in to school. I walked into sixth form wearing a black, faux-fur vintage coat – picture a much younger but not quite as beautiful Joan Collins. I loved that coat but when I went into school people laughed at me and I was distraught. The coat became the talk of the common room when, really, I just wanted to get on with my day of sixth form. Being LGBT+ shouldn’t be turned into a barrier for education and if you can’t be yourself, that can lead to a huge impact on your wellbeing. At the very least, schools should be happy and safe spaces for young people to learn. According to recent study by Just Like Us, a British charity supporting LGBT+ young people, three in four LGBT+ young people face bullying in schools and 85% still regularly hear homophobic remarks. What’s also concerning is that this continues to play out in workplaces too, where 35% of 18 to 29-year-old LGBT+ people are not out to any of their colleagues. Imagine if all students, whether LGBT+ or allies, could simply go to school, be themselves and not have to worry about feeling ashamed or rejected because of who they are. Having finished my time in education and now being surrounded by an incredible LGBT+ chosen family, it’s easy to have the perception that things are totally better for young people. Sadly, that’s not the case and growing up LGBT+ is still unacceptably tough. Making education more inclusive is still a huge challenge. Having LGBT+ adults come into schools to give talks helps, as does mentoring. Student-led LGBT+ and ally groups in schools and colleges can give students a safe space to socialise, which is so needed during this tough period of lockdown restrictions and Christmas – both of which can be really isolating times for LGBT+ young people. To all the young LGBT+ people now also unable to see the wood from the trees: the world gets brighter, and clearer, and your chosen family and community are always there for you every step of the way.

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Whether online or through presentations and workshops, our public education program seeks to: - Inform and engage the community on all issues relating to sexual violence and to facilitate meaningful conversations on the related issues - Promote learning skills that will identify and eliminate sexual assault - Provide opportunities for thoughtful discussions, self-exploration and the application of information - Provide up-to-date information on sexual assault specific to the Ottawa area - Increase awareness of recent legal issues concerning sexual assault - Create educational campaigns that stress the importance that it is everyone’s responsibility to end sexual violence - Create partnerships in the community and to provide opportunities for schools, crisis centers, church groups, and other community institutions and organizations to work together towards the common goal of eliminating sexual violence - Increase visibility of the crisis line number and information about our services - Facilitate opportunities to dispel myths and challenge assumptions about gender roles in society - Implement innovative ways to raise funds for the centre. 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This discomfort and lack of information often results in inaccurate information being passed on. Also, because of sexist attitudes which are still prevalent in our society, discussions can often take on tones of victim blaming or may unintentionally reinforce myths about sexual violence. If that happens, it may discourage others from bringing the topic up again. More importantly, this may discourage some from speaking about their experiences of sexual assault. This is why we believe that public education is such an essential part of the work that we do at the ORCC. About our public education sessions We offer a range of presentations or workshops that can be adapted to suit your needs on request. We welcome public education requests from organisations, community groups, secondary or university classes, or other audiences who might benefit. In the past, we have addressed topics such as: - Consent and Understanding Sexual Assault/Abuse - Gender Norms and Sex in our Culture - Media Literacy and Online Harassment - Consent & Healthy Relationships - Rape Culture - Building Social Change - Sexual Harassment and Bill 168 - Community Bystander Intervention - Being a Good Support Person - Feminist Counselling - Vicarious Trauma & Compassion Fatigue In offering presentations on sexual violence in the community and engaging people in discussions, we have noticed that many people seem to have a good understanding of the issues on an intellectual level. For example, many young people will agree that the victim/survivor is never at fault, and most now know that an acquaintance rape is much more prevalent than stranger rape. However, this understanding may not translate into how they can change their attitudes and behaviors on a personal level. Many people recognize that communication is the key to preventing sexual violence, but are never given any opportunities to practice effective communication skills (verbal and non-verbal) or talk to each other about sexual activity, needs, discomfort and rights. This is why we believe that fostering challenging discussions on sexual violence can have the most impact, and why we invite men and women, particularly youth to share their perspectives during our workshops. As facilitators, we use our knowledge and our experience working with survivors to support these discussions, ensuring that they challenge myths about sexual violence, gender inequality, and other forms of oppression that exist in society. At the end of each session, if we have done nothing else, we have at least started a dialogue and encouraged reflection, something we believe will lead to change. 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Friday’s date has symbolic repetitive numbers. Could this be a sign? The weather was nice today. I went to a local walking meetup in the evening, and the evening weather felt like springtime breeziness–nature’s fan cooling people off during warm weather, which wasn’t humid yet anyway. Yesterday evening, at the book meetup at the same location as Friday’s walking meetup, I remember others were discussing that around the summer of 2023, the change of time will be removed, and it will remain daylight savings like summer’s time permanently. Anyway, I returned home and watched the below video for insights because I like to meditate on other people’s videos and see what I get out of it for fun. Friday, July 22, 2022 Francis Farmer? I saw a movie about her on the indie channel. She was very political, and the industry wanted to silence her to shut her up. She was before my time and I wasn't familiar with this model/actress Francis Farmer. But this movie about her is sad and scary. Nowadays, the industry takes actors who aren’t cooperating and electric shock their brain. It might cure depression. But it might also give them amnesia or change their memory to maybe empty their brain so that they can refill their puppets brain with bullshit for further celebrity promotions. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next is a story about mental institution and mentally ill people. It is a novel as well as a movie. Jack Nicolson was in that movie. Rothschilds and Rockefellers? Elites? Zionists? Royal Family? Gates Family? Britney Spears? Her new sexy younger husband is her new handler. Marilyn Monroe is a diamond prostitute and presidential prostitute. Yeah, and she was under MK-Ultra program to promote the dumb blonde bimbo look to the masses as well as sleep around with presidents to probably gather information and help control their actions. Say NO to Gavin Newsom as US president. He sucked as the governor of California. What do you think he would to America as president? Drew Barrymore wears a black ritual long cape? Sex rituals? Kanye West is always being sent to a mental institution for electric shock to silence him from exposing the truth to the public. U2 and Bono are the demonic Irish band who ordered a hit on Chester Bennington because Chester was trying to expose pedophilia, and U2 were most likely involved in Pedophilia. Celebrities wear sunglasses to cover up their demonic eyes. Catholic Church uses garlic and onions with vampires because it blocks the 3rd eye. Brad Pitt recently wore a skirt for humiliation ritual or promoting non-binary men. Hunter Biden? Around young girls? Armie Hammer? Arm and Hammer product? Sexual misconduct, cannibalism promotion, etc. The Arm and Hammer logo on the package looks similar to the logo for socialism/communism. And, Armie Hammer's real name is Armand Hammer. Sodomy rituals to promote inversions to the public. The media and dark cult and celebrities just love Satan so much that they cannot stop promoting him for their career, money, prestige, and power. Huma Aberdeen and Bradley Cooper? Huma Aberdeen and Hilary Clinton doing stuff to kids? They have kids to perform rituals on them and sacrifice them. Pedophiles in politics and media. Pierre Trudeau was homosexual, which is why his wife had an affair with Fidel Castro to create pussy Justin Castro. Morgan Freeman fucked his stepdaughter, and then she commits suicide. Woody Allen married his stepdaughter. Yeah, Bill Clinton slept around with other women because Hillary is a lesbian, who has weird relationships with Huma Aberdeen and others that have to do with kids and pedophilia.

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Star Gigi Goode Announces Trans/Non-Binary Identity Season 12 RuPaul’s Drag Race runner-up, Gigi Goode took to social media to announce a major transition. The queen used her platform on Instagram to come out as a trans-nonbinary person who uses she/her pronouns. Goode shared her story in a video while recovering from facial surgery. Gigi Goode Talks Her Trans Journey “Almost eight months ago, in January, right at the beginning of the year, I decided to begin the process of hormone replacement therapy,” Goode shared in her video. “Which for those of you who don’t know, is the process of taking estrogen and testosterone blockers, differing on the person, as a means of bringing in the woman and pushing out the man.” Goode also shared that her time alone during the pandemic was a crucial factor in her decision making. The process included a lot of self-reflection. She says watching the HBO Max series, Veneno, during this time was pivotal considering the characters are all trans. On RuPaul’s Drag Race, the queen identified as gender fluid. She admitted that the realization of her more suited non-binary label was something she couldn’t quite process as the episodes were airing. Goode expressed that if the world hadn’t shut down, the process of her transition would have been halted. The queen also confirmed that she now identifies as a “trans/non-binary person” who uses she/her pronouns. Goode is also in the process of legally changing her name to Gigi. The standout performer stressed that she wasn’t trying to keep her fans in the dark about her transition. However, it was important for her to take the necessary steps in private. “I knew when I started I wanted this to be a journey I was going on by myself, on my own, without any input from the outside world,” she said. “The only people that really knew that I was going through this were me and my mom and my close friends living across the street, which is exactly the way that I wanted it, up until this point.” The Queen on RuPaul’s Drag Race In 2020, Goode competed on season 12 of Drag Race. She was the youngest contestant that season and came in second place. On the show, she won the main challenge in four episodes. In her performance during the Snatch Game, Goode impersonated “Maria the Robot,” a character based on the humanoid robot, Sophia. Her delivery on this challenge was labeled “physical comedy gold” and “incredibly witty.” Goode was highlighted that season for her comedy skills and fashion. Additionally, Goode joins a long list of other trans people who have competed on Drag Race. Laganja Estranja, Gia Gunn, Gottmik, Peppermint, Kylie Sonique Love, Jiggly Caliente, and Carmen Carrera are among those who have transitioned. After her time on the show, Goode pursued modeling and walked the runway for Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty show in 2020. She also appeared in a print campaign for Moschino alongside season 13 winner, Symone, earlier this year.

South Dakota legislators recently proposed HB 1057, a bill that would criminalize medical care for any transgender patient under the age of 18, even when such care is deemed medically necessary and has the consent of the patient’s parents. The proposed legislation goes against medical care best practices for transgender youth, which are backed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other leading medical authorities. The Trevor Project recognizes these legislative attacks on transgender youth as harmful, and encourages lawmakers to instead work towards creating safe, affirming environments for all young people to thrive. “Transgender youth deserve to be loved and affirmed, not demonized by the very people elected to represent them,” said Sam Brinton (they/them pronouns), Head of Advocacy and Government Affairs at The Trevor Project. “We know based on the work we do every day at The Trevor Project that respecting and affirming a young person’s identity is critical to their health and wellbeing. Blanket bans on medically necessary care for transgender youth contradict the resounding conclusion of nearly every major medical association in the United States and would put young lives at risk in South Dakota.” In The Trevor Project’s 2019 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, 76% of LGBTQ youth felt that the recent political climate impacted their mental health or sense of self. In addition, 78% of transgender and non-binary youth reported being the subject of discrimination due to their gender identity. Over the last year, The Trevor Project has supported over 150 crisis contacts in South Dakota. As troubling as that is, that’s less than 5% of the number of South Dakota’s LGBTQ youth who we estimate to be in crisis and could benefit from our services. The Trevor Project’s experience also shows that anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation cause real harm. In 2017, The Trevor Project reported that crisis contacts from transgender youth more than doubled following the president’s tweet regarding transgender military service members and the announcement of a “bathroom bill” in the Texas legislature.

Updated: Apr 21, 2021 This week we’re tackling the transphobia toolbox’s favorite catchphrase: “you can’t argue with science.” But we’re here to lay it all out, deconstruct the idea of a biological gender binary, and translate some of the newer scientific research. Basically, The “you can’t argue with science” people would be trembling if they, you know, understood the science. Many of us have heard this statement: Gender is a social construct, but sex is biologically determined. This was considered pretty radical at one point. It concedes that gender is not determined at birth, but rather constructed as someone grows up and interacts with their cultural environments. But, this statement is still not fully correct. Here’s a statement that shouldn’t be seen as radical, considering the vast amount of scientific and sociological research supporting it: sex is not biologically determined. It’s an idea that might piss off a lot of angry Facebook mutual friends. It might shock some of our health and sexuality teachers. It shocked me when I learned it because I realized I was fully buying into the first statement, which I had been taught repeatedly. So let’s start at the biological basics: our genes. We are taught that sex is determined by our “sex chromosomes” that is, the X and the Y chromosome. The myth goes that if you have XX chromosomes then you will be female, and if you have XY chromosomes then you will be male. Unfortunately, this isn’t true (a, d). First of all, the X and Y chromosomes control over 1,400 genes, and only a few of them have anything to do with sex. Basically, “sex chromosomes” is a misnomer. Second, people can be born with any combination of X and Y chromosomes: People can be born with a single X chromosome, or possibly and XXY. and they may not correlate to physical sex characteristics at all. Third, it is not the presence of XY chromosomes that leads to “male sex characteristics” but rather the presence of the SRY gene, which leads to the development of testes in utero (a, d). This means people with XX chromosomes and the SRY gene can develop as male. Finally, none of these genes control the development of secondary sex characteristics: that is, genitalia, behavior, etc. Those arise later in life and are affected by hormone production. Next up is hormones. We are taught that if you are male, your body produces testosterone, and if you are female, your body produces estrogen. Guess what? Not true! Everyone’s body produces both estrogen and testosterone (d). Before puberty, most people have no significant difference in estrogen and testosterone levels in their bodies. In adulthood, both “males” and “females” have about equal amounts of estrogen and progesterone. There is a significant difference in testosterone levels in “men,” but studies suggest that genetics (that is, your chromosomes) only influence about 56% of testosterone production. That means that something other than biology is affecting hormone levels in men. Finally, there is evidence suggesting that social factors affect hormone levels. Activities like competitive sports, hanging out with friends, and even raising a child affect both estrogen and testosterone levels (d). So let’s tackle a pretty widespread myth about non-binary biological sex. The myth goes that intersex, meaning having physical or biological sex characteristics that fall outside of the male/female binary, is a rare medical “condition.” (Guess what? Note true.) First, being intersex isn’t a medical condition: it’s just a variation of the human body. Second, intersex traits are so common! Research suggests as many as 1 in 100 people are born with some type of intersex trait (a, c). The scientific community is slowly but thoroughly debunking the myth that biological sex is binary. So why hasn’t society caught up yet? One possible explanation is that the idea of a biological binary is fundamental to many aspects of our life, such as policies, science, and behavior. In fact, the social concept of gender may have impacted science and policy to such an extent that we created and naturalized the idea of a biological binary. The social construct of gender created the idea of biological sex. Let’s walk through this a bit: We are taught that scientific knowledge is unbiased, objective, and not situated in any singular culture. Guess what? Not true. Cultural ideas (such as the gender binary) affect every step of the scientific process. They affect what questions are asked, how experiments are designed, how data is analyzed, and how results are interpreted. This suggests that we quite literally created the idea of biological sex to support and reinforce our social hierarchy of gender. This also makes sense when we look at what identities were doing most of the research into human biology in the 1800-1900’s when the idea of biological sex became substantiated -> that is, white men. All in all, the idea of a biological binary is too simplistic to encompass the vastness of human sex and gender. Sun (2019) captures this idea well: “Transgender humans represent the complexity and diversity that are fundamental features of life, evolution and nature itself.” (d) A. Ainsworth, C. (2018, October 22). Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic. Retrieved from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/ B. M. E., Says (. (2020, December 28). Sociology of Gender. Retrieved from https://othersociologist.com/sociology-of-gender/ C. Mikkola, M. (2017, October 25). Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender. Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-gender/#BioDet D. Sun, S. D. (2019, June 13). Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia. Retrieved from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/ E. US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science. (2018, October 30). Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8

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Monday 15-01-2018 - 14:20 Monday 22 January marks International Day of Solidarity with Trans Prisoners. Here, NUS Trans Officer, Jess Bradley, outlines six things you can do to show solidarity with incarcerated trans people. Learn about the Prison Industrial Complex The Prison Industrial Complex is a network of private corporations, public bodies, quangos and other interests which financially, socially and otherwise benefit from the incarceration of people in prisons, young offender’s institutes, and asylum detention centres. Its goal is the maintenance and expansion of an increasingly privatised network of cages in order to create profit. A lot of resources on the Prison Industrial Complex are US based. Whilst the situation in the US has its own history and challenges, we have a lot to learn from US-based resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex. And our situation is not much better, we have the highest incarceration rate in Western Europe and our government is pursuing a massive prison expansion project. Useful resources here include: Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis. An accessibly written book exploring the US prison system, a must read. Available free online here. Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and Global Crises edited by Jenna Lloyd and Matt Mitchelson. Talks about the links between migration, borders, and the Prison Industrial Complex. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex – Edited by Eric Stanley and Nat Smith, foreword by Cece McDonald. Book about gender, trans issues, and the Prison Industrial Complex. Decolonization Means Prison Abolition – a film of a discussion at a conference in Portland, check it out here. Talk to your mates about alternatives to the Prison Industrial Complex A lot of people understand that prison is an expensive experiment in traumatising rather than rehabilitating those who are incarcerated but do not necessarily understand what the alternatives to punitive justice are. Restorative justice is an approach to community conflict which seeks to both address interpersonal conflict through mediation and dialogue, as well as challenging the structural oppressions and barriers which can contribute to conflict within the community. As an approach, it enjoys higher levels of victim/survivor satisfaction than prison justice. However, it doesn’t yet have much public support because of decades of “tough on crime” rhetoric from politicians and the media which seek to hide away social problems by incarcerating the people who they believe represent them, rather than address the problems directly. You can help by learning about restorative justice and other community approaches to conflict resolution and talking to your mates about them. Some good resources include: Project Salvage – UK group combatting sexual violence in activist communities. They have an excellent resource page with a comprehensive list of restorative justice resources. Resisting Gendered Violence Without Cops or Prisons – video The Revolution Starts at Home – zine about combatting domestic abuse within activist communities. Raise money for organisations supporting trans and queer prisoners Organisations working on trans and queer solidarity in the UK are often unfunded, run by unpaid volunteers, with little resources. You can help by fundraising for those organisations. Consider running a bake sale, a club night, or an open mic night. In the UK, the main organisations supporting trans and queer prisoners are: Bent Bars, who run a letter writing scheme connecting LGBT+ prisoners with LGBT+ people on the outside; Action for Trans Health, who have a prisoner solidarity fund which gives financial support to trans prisoners; Trans Equality Legal Initiative, who do strategic litigation on trans issues (including around imprisonment) and can also connect trans prisoners with good lawyers. Organise a film showing Organising a film showing can be a great way to get a group of people together to raise awareness and political consciousness. You could have a discussion after the film (perhaps invite people who are survivors of the prison industrial complex or from relevant local campaign groups) and collect donations for the organisations listed above. Some good films include: Miss Major – a film about the veteran US trans activist Miss Major, and her work supporting trans women of colour to survive and challenge the prison industrial complex. Criminal Queers – a US film about queer and trans organising against the prison industrial complex. Visions of Abolition – a film from Critical Resistance looking at the US prison abolition movement, with a particular focus on intersectional feminist challenges. Follow the work of abolitionist organisations and volunteer your time Abolitionist organisations work hard to challenge the prison industrial complex. You can help by following and sharing their work on social media and volunteering your time. Some good organisations and people to follow include: Empty Cages Collective Community Action on Prison Expansion ( also on Facebook and Twitter). They also have local groups, including in Manchester, Wigan and London Prison Culture – the account of an awesome US based abolitionist Smash IPP – campaigning against indefinite sentences (also on Facebook) Joint Enterprise Not Guilty By Association (JENGBA) – group campaigning against unjust joint enterprise charges (also on Facebook and Twitter Industrial Workers of the World Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee – union organising incarcerated workers (also on Facebook). Join these upcoming protests! [Content note for deaths in custody] On 30 December 2016, trans prisoner, Jenny Swift, was found dead in her cell. It was known that she had had her medication withheld and that she had received transmisogynistic harassment from prison guards. Action for Trans Health is holding a noise demonstration outside HMP Doncaster on the 11 February to show that Jenny will not be forgotten and to demand the following: That the transphobic guards never be allowed to work in prisons or with vulnerable people again. That hormones be available on demand to anyone who requests them, including people in prison. That the government cease all prison expansion and construction projects, including Scottish plans to create a non-binary prison, and invest the £1.3bn it has planned for new “mega prisons” in restorative justice instead of more isolation, violence and death. The Prison Industrial Complex also covers immigration detention centres, which essentially lock people up for the “crime” of existing on the wrong bit of land. UK detention centres are notorious for abuse. Morton Hall Detention Centre has had four deaths in custody over the last year. Protest group Shut Down Morton Hall are organising a demonstration there on the 20 January, pop along if you can. If you need any support organise in solidarity with trans prisoners where you are, get in touch with me at email@example.com for a chat. NUS Trans Officer

This Teenager Couldn’t Open a Bank Account Because They Don’t Identify as Any Gender Keith Farnish just wanted his child to receive the same level of respect every other kid does when opening their first bank account; an already arduous process that shouldn't be riddled with complicated obstacles placed by outdated policies. But when Kaelin, his non-binary 17 year old, attempted to do just that, the two were unable to find a single bank near their home in the Scottish Borders able to set up a bank account online without labeling somebody as a man or woman. "When you're filling something in and you don't identify as male or female and you only see those two boxes then you don't see yourself there," Farnish told Buzzfeed News. "You are absent. That must hurt, and that's what makes me angry. There's no reason for it. It doesn't need to be like this." Garnish said he filed a formal complaint after one bank told him they would respond to him within two weeks, but he never heard back. The bank informed him that, because it would require money to fix its lack of inclusion in the bank account opening process, it would not be resolving the matter for him. After Farnish's failed attempts, his child was forced to take matters into their own hands. Kaelin called another bank called First Direct to see if they would be able to set up a bank account without categorizing someone's gender without any luck. "The person I spoke to was like, 'We could look into it.' And I said, 'Well, what's the position now?' [And they replied,] 'We can't do that at the moment, but if you want you could do something over the phone where you have to put male or female initially and then afterwards we can take it off. But you can't do it online." It's not the first time Kaelin has had to face this same inability for society to exist without labels before. While applying to attend college through their country's University and Colleges Admissions service, they were forced to identify as male in order to go forward with the process. "It's not life and death, but, actually, embracing your identity and being comfortable in that identity? In many cases it is," Farnish told Buzzfeed News. h/t: Buzzfeed News

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Even though I was living in NYC, one of the queer capitals of the world, it still felt like something I shouldn’t be too loud about, like, ‘What if my boss found out? Will it hurt me professionally?’ We’re taught that it’s taboo to be attracted to anyone who isn’t the opposite sex, and the pressure of conforming to gender norms is such an integral component of the patriarchal capitalistic structure. Once I started being honest with all people in my life that I’m queer, it became less of a big deal for me and more of a ‘deal with it’ for anyone else.” Signe Pierce, artist Photo Courtesy of HBO What surprised you the most about coming out? “What’s been surprising to me is how often I have comeout to people about being non-binary trans; and this includes folks who have talked about these identities in my presence as if they were abstract or foreign, at which point, I have to come out.” Rae Tutera, clothier at Bindle & Keep, star of Suited Photo by Laura Lewis What is one way to be a strong LGBTQI ally? I think that an ally is not just someone in the community who is okay with LGBTQ people, is not homophobic, but someone who actively takes steps to try and help LGBTQ people. An ally is someone who can give blood and went and did after the Orlando shooting when a lot of gay and bi men couldn’t. That’s a real LGBT ally. You come in and use your privilege to help. Troye Sivan, musician Photo by Aaron Tredwell In your opinion, how does one be a strong and helpful LGBTQI ally? “The number one thing, especially coming out of the massacre in Orlando, is that we have to realize that just because we’re part of this acronym, we’re not a monolith. There are so many various experiences, and we exist in multiplicities. That night in that particular club, it was Latino night, it was a night where largely Puerto Rican and Hispanic people were congregating. If you look at the coverage of all of the people who were targeted and who died, you have to realize it’s a particular vulnerability to be someone that is not only an LGBTQI person but on top of that has multiplicities of race, of class. I think in being an ally, you have to see LGBT people not just as our sexual orientations and/or gender identities, but as people that come with a multiplicity of experiences. You realize then that there’s probably an experience or intersection that resonates with your own fight or the struggle you prioritize. In that way, it’s easier to not “other” us as something that’s outside of self, but as partners in this greater initiative toward liberation for all people. So that we can all express ourselves as we see fit so that we can love the people that we want to love—so that we can live without the fear of policing, violence, misogyny, borders, and documents. If we can deeply integrate our experiences beyond just those letters, it definitely helps wholly to get the allies to see how we’re more ingrained in the greater fight for liberation for all of us.” Janet Mock, writer, activist, and multihyphenate extraordinaire Photo by Luke Gilford What surprised you the most about coming out? “I think I was most surprised that everyone knew. It’s so ridiculous looking back. I wasn’t hiding it very well at all. What surprised me most was my brother; I told him and it didn’t change the rest of the day. I just told my brother, ‘Did you know that I’m gay?’ and he was like, ‘No, I didn’t.’ That was it. The easiest and least complicated was with my brother. Perfume Genius aka Mike Hadreas, musician Photo by Julieta Salgado What surprised you the most about coming out? “Deep down, I was convinced that when I came out, I would lose my momma’s love. Once, when I was 15, we were watching Oprah, and Cher and Chaz Bono were on, but, like, this was when Chaz still identified as Chastity and was coming out as a lesbian. And my mom was like, ‘If you ever come out to me as a lesbian, I won’t be having that in my house.’ And so I was shaken to death coming out. I had a friend, who worked in the financial aid department of my college, ready to help me fill out grants and financial aid forms if my folks cut me off after coming out. I had friends at the ready with lodging, food, and even a getaway car should my folks end their relationship with me. I just didn’t know what to expect. Then, outta nowhere, my beautiful, Christian, Puerto Rican momma told me that her love was something I could never lose because my existence was a gift from God and that love came from a place beyond her and within her. She loved me before I was even born. But, don’t think for a second that my mom was cool with the gay thing, because she wasn’t at all. It took her mad time to get used to it, to learn with me, and to evolve politically alongside me. But her love for me was the thing that kept her going and I pulled my mom into my community. I made her meet my queer friends and my radical friends and my lovers, and she just started loving on everyone. Now her biggest concern is when I’m gonna find me a down-ass, queer, brown wife and hatch her some grandbabies. I guess I was just surprised that moms can evolve too and that not all hope is lost when they don’t understand everything the instant you come out. Like, shit, at least, my mom deserved some space to deal, grow, and bloom. Gabby Rivera, writer, youth mentor, and editor of QTPOC content for Autostraddle.com Photo by Min Daejune What surprised you the most about your coming out experience? “What surprised me most, and continues to surprise me to this day, is just how dissonant my coming out experiences have been with the coming out experiences that I see portrayed in the media, in film, and on television. According to mainstream depictions, coming out is a dramatic, cathartic process that is supposed to have years of buildup, happen once, and then be done forever. As I’ve come to embrace more and more facets of myself, I’m realizing that the metaphor of the closet doesn’t work for me. My coming out experience has been more like an onion than anything else. I’m constantly peeling away old layers and discovering new parts of myself. I’m peeling away the ways that patriarchy and cissexism have made me think about myself, only to find that there’s more work to be done. My gender will never be complete—it’s always a work in progress, an evolution, and I’m learning to really cherish that.” Jacob Tobia, writer, speaker, artist, and activist Subscribe to NYLON's new Beauty newsletter! Enter your email address below and click 'Subscribe' to receive NYLON's Beauty newsletter.

The Asva Students’ Union has started a petition against ‘deadnaming’ – the naming or mentioning of the birth name, rather than the self-chosen name – of trans and non-binary students at graduation ceremonies. Universities typically include the birth name on diplomas which can be ‘confrontational and painful’ for a group of students, the union argues. In addition, it would lead to students being forced to come out of the closet during their graduation ceremonies. The petition is endorsed by several student clubs, including student association A.S.V. Gay, action group Diversity Forum UvA, the Communist Youth Movement and PvdA youth party Young Socialists. You can sign the petition here.

Overwhelming public opposition rose in response to Arizona’s recently vetoed bill, SB 1062. The bill, which has just been vetoed by Governor Jan Brewer, was a hateful piece of legislature that would have mad it legal for businesses in AZ to discriminate against LGBTs on the basis of “religious freedom.” Activists, politicians, celebrities, and people all over the country showed their outrage and… Sporting a small rainbow-colored pin that read “Stand With Sam”, Michael Sam faced what may have been the largest crowd ever for an individual player press conference at the annual NFL Combine Saturday in Indianapolis. The first-team All-American defensive lineman from the University of Missouri fielded questions with ease, conviction and humor showing he is ready and willing to handle the… The US ranks low on the LGBT equality index. An independent research group of the Dutch Ministry of Defense released a global ranking of countries based on their level of inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender service members in their armed forces today. Countries were judged on their level of inclusion, admission and tolerance of LGBT service members. Fans, allies, and LGBTs everywhere swooned as Ellen Page came out publicly during her speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Time to Thrive Conference on Valentine’s Day. @REFUGErestrooms Helps Non-Binary People Locate Safe Public Spaces #trans #lgbt #SanFrancisco @BarneysNY Casts Exclusively #Transgender Models in Its ‘Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters’ Campaign #brilliant A belated congratulations to @AnniseParker and Kathy Hubbard on saying your vows! Could be the most ridiculous claim ever: “We do not have them in our city.” -Anatoly Pakhomov #LGBTvisibility #Sochi2014 @Visual_AIDS Celebrated its 16th Annual ‘Postcards From The Edge’ Art Benefit Last Week Michigan State Employees Deny Services for LGBTs #discrimination #equality #LGBT

Summer Camps 2018 2018 is Gendered Intelligence's 10 year anniversary. We ran our 10th and 11th camps in July and August 2018. We celebrated by making camp supersized! Super Camp involved us taking 170 young trans and non-binary people aged 18-25 camping for 5 days and 4 nights, from the 13th – 17th August 2018. Alongside Super Camp we ran ran an 11 – 17 year olds camp for 35 young people, going for our usual 4 days and 3 nights from the 27th – 30th July 2018. Watch this space for stories and images from both camping trips. We'll be sharing information about 2019 camps early next year.

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Written by Antonella Cariello What does it mean to be a woman? This is an important question for feminism nowadays. Indeed, there is a feminist movement called TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminism), that is fostering a definition of woman as based only on sex. This question is highly divisive and problematic because it results in the creation of an exclusionary feminism which sees a woman’s identity as only based on biology and as excluding the complexity of gender identity. But, is it possible to conceive a feminism based on exclusion? Historically, feminism is rooted in the fight for equality and inclusion. So why are some feminists hesitant in including trans women as a part of the multiple experiences of being a woman? To try to better understand this issue and grasp the complex meaning of being a woman, the author interviewed an Italian trans-feminist activist, Antonia Caruso. Antonia is a writer and comic book screenwriter. She wrote for The Vision, La Falla, DWF, Frute, and she organizes trainings and activities to educate on intersectional themes. Her biggest achievement so far is the co-founding of publishing company Edizioni Minoritarie. The root of the debate between TERF and transfeminism is the question of who can be defined as a woman. How would you answer this question? I am not sure about the answer, but what I can say is that being a woman is a political matter, and that biology does not make a woman. Feminists who exclude trans women justify their position by stating that trans women have not experienced sexism. In this way, they seem to simplify the experience of all women, which instead is much more articulated and differentiated. So, first, how trans experience has been defined? Trans-subjectivities are emerging political subjects since more or less one century and in an exponentially more complex way. At the moment, much of the trans experience is the result of a psychiatric formalization started in the 50s’, according to which part of the definition of being trans derives from the adherence to certain psychiatric criteria (which at least partly serve to rule out various mental illnesses). In addition, part of the roots of the current trans movement have been in the gay movement that, as “container” of alternative and different genders with respect to a certain type of masculinity, was able also to include new forms of male femininity, even what is called effeminate. For instance, the Neapolitan tradition of femminielli represents a set of different genders, ranging from queer, to transvestite, to trans woman. The lesbian movement has been another root, but in an almost inverse sense, even if not exactly symmetrical to the gay movement, for the possibility to incorporate and live a female masculinity. This double story has acted as incubators for a certain type of trans femininity and trans masculinity that exist regardless of the medical technique of hormones and surgery. Why do you think it’s so hard to think the concept of woman as including trans women? Obviously, certain feminism in the past has had to confront these gender variations. In the case of trans femininity, [it was seen] as a negative incursion of a male into the female, especially towards not operated trans women that, from a certain point of view, become only penis carriers and that are completely missing some experiences and some central physical attributes namely those related to pregnancy, motherhood, abortion, systematic rape (especially in childhood or very young age), subordinate roles and the millennial history of women oppression. This enormous but at the same time relativizable difference, I believe, puts the trans-exclusionary feminists in a position of defence of the biologically intended female subject, because to bring claims of people without a history of gender oppression risks to erase the female subject as it is intended. If we really want to talk about oppression, trans exclusionary feminists do not want in any way to recognize the oppression that trans women begin to live as women or as trans, denying both misogyny and transmisogyny altogether, and denying the individual and collective oppression experienced before making a transition path, either social, or medical, family, economic etc. At the same time the lesbian movement, which at its beginning was enraged by hetero feminists themselves, also had discriminatory attitudes towards those operating a transition towards a trans masculinity as “traitors” of female lesbian identity. Do you think it is possible to focus on similarities? It is obvious that on a given level, which is strictly the biological and social (for example on sexism and violence during childhood) the experience of cis and trans women is different and not comparable. But on many others, there is a common and systemic oppression of women. Whether they are cis or trans, women are perceived according to a non-self-determined scheme, that forces them in stereotypes conceived for the use and the consumption of the male cis hetero and, more generally, of the patriarchy. [Women are] divided into sexualizable, reproductive or not, suitable for care or not, more or less socially expendable, and so on. And to get back to the beginning, that emerging subject who from the ’50s to the ’80s was almost only the heterosexual trans woman, expanded to include trans men, non-heterosexual sexuality, people and minor gender variants, non-binary people, and even trans binary people. How does binarism affect the exclusion of trans women? Binarism is the basis of sexist discrimination. Reducing everything to a dual contrast is a form of simplification that can be useful in some cases, but it must be a temporary and functional reduction. Most of all, binary vision excludes non-binary persons and trans persons who decide not to undertake a non-medical path, namely without or with a very limited use of medical technique. These can be micro doses of hormones and partial or unconnected surgery with hormone replacement therapy, such as mastectomy which would then not be included. Do you believe that the media and cultural representation of trans people has influenced the acceptance of trans women? Media and cultural representations in Italy are disastrous. Abroad it seems to be a bit better, but I don’t want to say that in Italy everything is always worse. The narrative about trans women still suffers from the past, when a trans woman was expected to be a prostitute. This was partly true, not out of vice but out of necessity, since there was no other way to live, given the transphobic discrimination. The idea of viado reflects the idea of trans women as hypersexualised predators and aliens. From there on, we passed to a hyper normalization, where television takes advantage of heart-breaking stories by telling narrations of pain, as a try to redeem the past. The fact is that this kind of narration of the suffering of the trans person “trapped in the wrong body” focuses only on the person, almost always taking for granted his/her heterosexuality and trying at the most to understand the reactions of the family but excluding aspects like gender, social and professional life and class. Being trans has much to do with the social class, namely all the aspects more “political” of a person. With this separation between sex doll/victim of destiny, which in some way mirrors that of the whore/saint woman, obviously a trans woman who deviates from these two models is perceived as a miracle and an isolated case. What do you think are the effects of these debates on feminism? Trans subjectivities are some of the “other” and minorities subjectivities of transfeminism and raise the issue of self-determination. The question from a certain point of view is simple. How much does self-determination count? How the female subject (understood as the subject of trans exclusive feminists) stands in relation to those who, in the first place, determine themselves as women, and who therefore oppose a psychiatric and pathological system based on the overlap between sex and gender, and especially between genitals and gender, and who is in fact the victim of the same sexist oppression? The fact that the sex assigned to the birth of trans women is the male one, can determine an experience in the male privilege in a part of their life. It is undeniable, but it is also an essentialist and almost quantitative vision of life because it does not take into consideration how these years have been lived. The oppression of every person however definitely depends also on race and class, and it increases exponentially for anyone who is not a cis hetero male. It would be important not to turn the un-chosen privilege into an Eternal Guilt that in fact excludes a real and constructive confrontation between people who seek to collectively destroy the cage of patriarchy that uses these divisions into opposing factions as an instrument of fragmentation, based on homologated and non-existent models. Every person is different and, ironically, what we have in common is oppression.

What’s going on in the heads of two people in a relationship? Each person holds an entire world of thoughts. A queer/genderqueer couple shares both of their perspectives. I’ll admit, I was nervous. I tried very hard to enter into new relationships with hope and cautious optimism: the person who was straight, so incredibly straight, and could accept my queerness only if it was appropriately mediated for their gaze and for their benefit; the person who, when with me, experienced homophobic abuse and perhaps realised that being with me would mean that they would no longer be read as straight; the person who, I suspect, went through my desk drawers, found my medication and finished things shortly afterwards. I wrote a piece about it. I perform it sometimes, when I am feeling confrontational and frustrated and tired: I will always be too awkward and difficult. I will become your transgressive experience, residing in stories that begin “I once dated someone who…” and you will fill in the blanks: who was brown, who was genderqueer, who was queer. This will make you seem like an open-minded and generous lover, willing to consort with such a weird, awkward body. Interesting enough to flirt with, perhaps sleep with – but ultimately, I, with my dysphoria and sometimes achingly bad mental health, am a hard person to love. After all, we are told that no one will ever love you if you can’t love yourself. We read countless times that trans people’s partners are tremendously inspiring for bringing themselves to touch us. We read it in dating profiles (no blacks, no rice, no spice). We get it at gay bars, these supposed havens for lesbian and gay community where we cannot use the toilet or get asked if we speak English or get aggressively and creepily hit on to be someone’s transgressive experience for the night. Eventually, I got to the point where I was comfortable with myself and comfortable living as someone whose gender and race appeared ambiguous to others and whose gender lacked a convenient label, comfortable living in the spaces and in-betweens. There’s a lot about myself and my physicality that I learned to accept, even enjoy. I wasn’t sure if anyone else would want to embrace my messy, complicated whole but I knew I was not longer prepared to deny crucial aspects of myself in order to fit into someone else’s ideas of an acceptable partner. And then I met someone for whom this wasn’t an issue. I held my breath for months, years, waiting for it all to become too much for her. I am still holding my breath, still tensed for the inevitable heartache that has not come. Perhaps I can cautiously hope it will never come. For me, the bigger issue had to do with entering another long-distance relationship, not my partner’s gender identity or lack thereof. I’ve never felt it was my job to be the queer police or the gender police. It seems so stupid to stop being attracted to someone based on their body parts. It’s been explained, very patiently, to me that this is not how other people see the world. That’s not to say that being in a relationship with my partner is always easy. For example, the hardest part for me is dealing with my partners’ pronouns and getting everyone else to do it too. I try my best, but several of my friends are non-native speakers of English who struggle with the idea of singular “they” applied to an individual rather than “he” or “she”. It’s tough, and even I mess up more often than I would like. They look great when binding (and when not binding too – but they don’t like to acknowledge this. The bits of flesh hanging off a body aren’t the only thing that makes someone attractive). They especially look amazing in their button-down shirts. But after 5 years of ongoing binding, their binder hurts them. We talk about it like a sausage casing: it keeps their bits in, but it’s not really ideal. Binding means my partner is really reluctant do anything that requires wearing a binder more than they have to. Luckily they have a flexible working arrangement, which lets them work at home most of the time. They don’t wear their binder at home, but it means that when I’m around all the tasks like grocery shopping and answering the door for the postman and running errands fall to me. I wonder what they do when I’m not around. Fun date days to a museum or an all-day or all-afternoon event at the weekend are often out of the question, as it means one more day of wearing a binder. I don’t complain though – as many cis women know, bras are awful enough; imagine having to wrap yourself in a sausage casing to feel like yourself every day! It’s tough to hear about the trials and tribulations of the gender clinic. Here in the UK the gender clinic is covered by the NHS; in my home country, this is inconceivable. Even though the kind of coverage the NHS gender clinics offer is apparently very inconsistent, with lots of moving, flaming hoops to jump through, it is still taken out of taxpayer money. At home, there are fewer hoops to jump through but any surgery contributing to body modification costs big bucks out of your own pocket. That can be hard to reconcile. We argue about the merits, difficulties and indignities of these different systems a lot. All healthcare should be accessible and it’s terrible that the road to a legal non-binary identity is so complex, but at least in the UK medical treatment free. This isn’t much comfort to my partner who endures appointment after appointment of disbelief and reluctance to act. I worry a lot about my partner: that by choosing to love me, she has chosen difficulty. She has chosen awkward pronouns, chosen tricky explanations, chosen to allow my identity as a genderqueer person to shape hers as a queer woman, chosen a life that will come with footnotes and caveats. I have to trust that she makes this choice freely and willingly and lovingly, and trust that she can and will say no. For my part, every day I take a leap of faith that this person is okay with our relationship, okay with me, okay with dealing with things she wouldn’t have to deal with if she had a cis partner. But despite all the things I’ve said above, being with my partner is great. We have our own little queer universe together, full of our own inside jokes. They are non-judgemental of my gender identity as a cis woman, And they’re enormously handsome and cute and attractive every day, regardless of the bits of skin attached to them. (Oh, and they have a great butt.) About the Authors The authors are a queer cis woman and a queer non-white genderqueer person both living in the UK. 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Lovelace was the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella "Annabella" Milbanke, Lady Wentworth. All of Byron's other children were born out of wedlock to other women. Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was born and left England forever four months later. He commemorated the parting in a poem that begins, "Is thy face like thy mother's my fair child! ADA! sole daughter of my house and heart?". He died of disease in the Greek War of Independence when Ada was eight years old. Her mother remained bitter and promoted Ada's interest in mathematics and logic in an effort to prevent her from developing her father's perceived insanity. Despite this, Ada remained interested in Byron and was, upon her eventual death, buried next to him at her request. She was often ill in her childhood. Ada married William King in 1835. King was made Earl of Lovelace in 1838, and Ada in turn became Countess of Lovelace. Her educational and social exploits brought her into contact with scientists such as Andrew Crosse, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone, Michael Faraday and the author Charles Dickens, contacts which she used to further her education. Ada described her approach as "poetical science" and herself as an "Analyst (& Metaphysician)". When she was a teenager, her mathematical talents led her to a long working relationship and friendship with fellow British mathematician Charles Babbage, also known as "the father of computers", and in particular, Babbage's work on the Analytical Engine. Lovelace first met him in June 1833, through their mutual friend, and her private tutor, Mary Somerville. Between 1842 and 1843, Ada translated an article by Italian military engineer Luigi Menabrea on the engine, supplementing it with an elaborate set of notes, simply called Notes. These notes contain what many consider to be the first computer program—that is, an algorithm designed to be carried out by a machine. Lovelace's notes are important in the early history of computers. She also developed a vision of the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching, while many others, including Babbage himself, focused only on those capabilities. Her mindset of "poetical science" led her to ask questions about the Analytical Engine (as shown in her notes) examining how individuals and society relate to technology as a collaborative tool. She died of uterine cancer in 1852 at the age of 36. Byron expected his baby to be a "glorious boy" and was disappointed when his wife gave birth to a girl. Augusta was named after Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh, and was called "Ada" by Byron himself. On 16 January 1816, Ada's mother, Annabella, at Byron's command, left for her parents' home at Kirkby Mallory, taking one-month-old Ada with her. Although English law at the time gave fathers full custody of their children in cases of separation, Byron made no attempt to claim his parental rights but did request that his sister keep him informed of Ada's welfare. On 21 April, Byron signed the Deed of Separation, although very reluctantly, and left England for good a few days later. Aside from an acrimonious separation, Annabella continually made allegations about Byron's immoral behaviour throughout her life. This set of events made Ada famous in Victorian society. Byron did not have a relationship with his daughter, and never saw her again. He died in 1824 when she was eight years old. Her mother was the only significant parental figure in her life. Ada was not shown the family portrait of her father (covered in green shroud) until her twentieth birthday. Her mother became Baroness Wentworth in her own right in 1856. Annabella did not have a close relationship with the young Ada and often left her in the care of her own mother Judith, Hon. Lady Milbanke, who doted on her grandchild. However, because of societal attitudes of the time—which favoured the husband in any separation, with the welfare of any child acting as mitigation—Annabella had to present herself as a loving mother to the rest of society. This included writing anxious letters to Lady Milbanke about Ada's welfare, with a cover note saying to retain the letters in case she had to use them to show maternal concern. In one letter to Lady Milbanke, she referred to Ada as "it": "I talk to it for your satisfaction, not my own, and shall be very glad when you have it under your own." In her teenage years, several of her mother's close friends watched Ada for any sign of moral deviation. Ada dubbed these observers the "Furies" and later complained they exaggerated and invented stories about her. Ada was often ill, beginning in early childhood. At the age of eight, she experienced headaches that obscured her vision. In June 1829, she was paralysed after a bout of measles. She was subjected to continuous bed rest for nearly a year, something which may have extended her period of disability. By 1831, she was able to walk with crutches. Despite being ill, Ada developed her mathematical and technological skills. At age 12 this future "Lady Fairy", as Charles Babbage affectionately called her, decided she wanted to fly. Ada went about the project methodically, thoughtfully, with imagination and passion. Her first step, in February 1828, was to construct wings. She investigated different material and sizes. She considered various materials for the wings: paper, oilsilk, wires, and feathers. She examined the anatomy of birds to determine the right proportion between the wings and the body. She decided to write a book, Flyology, illustrating, with plates, some of her findings. She decided what equipment she would need; for example, a compass, to "cut across the country by the most direct road", so that she could surmount mountains, rivers, and valleys. Her final step was to integrate steam with the "art of flying". In early 1833, Ada had an affair with a tutor. After being caught, she tried to elope with him but the tutor's relatives recognised her and contacted her mother. Annabella and her friends covered the incident up to prevent a public scandal. Ada never met her younger half-sister, Allegra, the daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont. Allegra died in 1822 at the age of five. Ada did have some contact with Elizabeth Medora Leigh, the daughter of Byron's half-sister Augusta Leigh, who purposely avoided Ada as much as possible when introduced at Court. Lovelace became close friends with her tutor Mary Somerville, who introduced her to Charles Babbage in 1833. She had a strong respect and affection for Somerville, and they corresponded for many years. Other acquaintances included the scientists Andrew Crosse, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone, Michael Faraday and the author Charles Dickens. She was presented at Court at the age of seventeen "and became a popular belle of the season" in part because of her "brilliant mind." By 1834 Ada was a regular at Court and started attending various events. She danced often and was able to charm many people, and was described by most people as being dainty, although John Hobhouse, Byron's friend, described her as "a large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth". This description followed their meeting on 24 February 1834 in which Ada made it clear to Hobhouse that she did not like him, probably because of the influence of her mother, which led her to dislike all of her father's friends. This first impression was not to last, and they later became friends. On 8 July 1835, she married William, 8th Baron King, becoming Lady King. They had three homes: Ockham Park, Surrey; a Scottish estate on Loch Torridon in Ross-shire; and a house in London. They spent their honeymoon at Worthy Manor in Ashley Combe near Porlock Weir, Somerset. The Manor had been built as a hunting lodge in 1799 and was improved by King in preparation for their honeymoon. It later became their summer retreat and was further improved during this time. From 1845 the family's main house was East Horsley Towers, rebuilt in the Victorian Gothic fashion by the architect of the Houses of Parliament, Charles Barry. They had three children: Byron (born 12 May 1836); Anne Isabella (called Annabella; born 22 September 1837); and Ralph Gordon (born 2 July 1839). Immediately after the birth of Annabella, Lady King experienced "a tedious and suffering illness, which took months to cure." Ada was a descendant of the extinct Barons Lovelace and in 1838, her husband was made Earl of Lovelace and Viscount Ockham, meaning Ada became the Countess of Lovelace. In 1843–44, Ada's mother assigned William Benjamin Carpenter to teach Ada's children and to act as a "moral" instructor for Ada. He quickly fell for her and encouraged her to express any frustrated affections, claiming that his marriage meant he would never act in an "unbecoming" manner. When it became clear that Carpenter was trying to start an affair, Ada cut it off. In 1841 Lovelace and Medora Leigh (the daughter of Lord Byron's half-sister Augusta Leigh) were told by Ada's mother that her father was also Medora's father. On 27 February 1841, Ada wrote to her mother: "I am not in the least astonished. In fact, you merely confirm what I have for years and years felt scarcely a doubt about, but should have considered it most improper in me to hint to you that I in any way suspected." She did not blame the incestuous relationship on Byron, but instead blamed Augusta Leigh: "I fear she is more inherently wicked than he ever was." In the 1840s Ada flirted with scandals: first, from a relaxed relationship with men who were not her husband, which led to rumours of affairs—and secondly, her love of gambling. She apparently lost more than £3,000 on the horses during the later 1840s. The gambling led to her forming a syndicate with male friends, and an ambitious attempt in 1851 to create a mathematical model for successful large bets. This went disastrously wrong, leaving her thousands of pounds in debt to the syndicate, forcing her to admit it all to her husband. She had a shadowy relationship with Andrew Crosse's son John from 1844 onwards. John Crosse destroyed most of their correspondence after her death as part of a legal agreement. She bequeathed him the only heirlooms her father had personally left to her. During her final illness, she would panic at the idea of the younger Crosse being kept from visiting her. Throughout her illnesses, she continued her education. Her mother's obsession with rooting out any of the insanity of which she accused Byron was one of the reasons that Ada was taught mathematics from an early age. She was privately schooled in mathematics and science by William Frend, William King,[lower-alpha 1] and Mary Somerville, the noted researcher and scientific author of the 19th century. One of her later tutors was the mathematician and logician Augustus De Morgan. From 1832, when she was seventeen, her mathematical abilities began to emerge, and her interest in mathematics dominated the majority of her adult life. In a letter to Lady Byron, De Morgan suggested that her daughter's skill in mathematics could lead her to become "an original mathematical investigator, perhaps of first-rate eminence". Lovelace often questioned basic assumptions by integrating poetry and science. While studying differential calculus, she wrote to De Morgan: I may remark that the curious transformations many formulae can undergo, the unsuspected and to a beginner apparently impossible identity of forms exceedingly dissimilar at first sight, is I think one of the chief difficulties in the early part of mathematical studies. I am often reminded of certain sprites and fairies one reads of, who are at one's elbows in one shape now, and the next minute in a form most dissimilar Lovelace believed that intuition and imagination were critical to effectively applying mathematical and scientific concepts. She valued metaphysics as much as mathematics, viewing both as tools for exploring "the unseen worlds around us". Lovelace died at the age of 36 – the same age that her father had died – on 27 November 1852, from uterine cancer probably exacerbated by bloodletting by her physicians. The illness lasted several months, in which time Annabella took command over whom Ada saw, and excluded all of her friends and confidants. Under her mother's influence, she had a religious transformation and was coaxed into repenting of her previous conduct and making Annabella her executor. She lost contact with her husband after she confessed something to him on 30 August which caused him to abandon her bedside. What she told him is unknown. She was buried, at her request, next to her father at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. A memorial plaque in Latin to her and her father is in the chapel attached to Horsley Towers. Throughout her life, Lovelace was strongly interested in scientific developments and fads of the day, including phrenology and mesmerism. After her work with Babbage, Lovelace continued to work on other projects. In 1844 she commented to a friend Woronzow Greig about her desire to create a mathematical model for how the brain gives rise to thoughts and nerves to feelings ("a calculus of the nervous system"). She never achieved this, however. In part, her interest in the brain came from a long-running pre-occupation, inherited from her mother, about her 'potential' madness. As part of her research into this project, she visited the electrical engineer Andrew Crosse in 1844 to learn how to carry out electrical experiments. In the same year, she wrote a review of a paper by Baron Karl von Reichenbach, Researches on Magnetism, but this was not published and does not appear to have progressed past the first draft. In 1851, the year before her cancer struck, she wrote to her mother mentioning "certain productions" she was working on regarding the relation of maths and music. Lovelace first met Charles Babbage in June 1833, through their mutual friend Mary Somerville. Later that month Babbage invited Lovelace to see the prototype for his Difference Engine. She became fascinated with the machine and used her relationship with Somerville to visit Babbage as often as she could. Babbage was impressed by Lovelace's intellect and analytic skills. He called her "The Enchantress of Number".[lower-alpha 2] In 1843 he wrote to her: Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans—every thing in short but the Enchantress of Number. During a nine-month period in 1842–43, Lovelace translated the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea's article on Babbage's newest proposed machine, the Analytical Engine. With the article, she appended a set of notes. Explaining the Analytical Engine's function was a difficult task, as even many other scientists did not really grasp the concept and the British establishment was uninterested in it. Lovelace's notes even had to explain how the Analytical Engine differed from the original Difference Engine. Her work was well received at the time; the scientist Michael Faraday described himself as a supporter of her writing. The notes are around three times longer than the article itself and include (in Section G), in complete detail, a method for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers with the Engine, which could have run correctly had Babbage's Analytical Engine been built. (Only his Difference Engine has been built, completed in London in 2002.) Based on this work Lovelace is now widely considered the first computer programmer and her method is recognised as the world's first computer program. Section G also contains Lovelace's dismissal of artificial intelligence. She wrote that "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths." This objection has been the subject of much debate and rebuttal, for example by Alan Turing in his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Lovelace and Babbage had a minor falling out when the papers were published when he tried to leave his own statement (a criticism of the government's treatment of his Engine) as an unsigned preface—which would imply that she had written that also. When Taylor's Scientific Memoirs ruled that the statement should be signed, Babbage wrote to Lovelace asking her to withdraw the paper. This was the first that she knew he was leaving it unsigned, and she wrote back refusing to withdraw the paper. The historian Benjamin Woolley theorised that: "His actions suggested he had so enthusiastically sought Ada's involvement, and so happily indulged her ... because of her 'celebrated name'." Their friendship recovered, and they continued to correspond. On 12 August 1851, when she was dying of cancer, Lovelace wrote to him asking him to be her executor, though this letter did not give him the necessary legal authority. Part of the terrace at Worthy Manor was known as Philosopher's Walk, as it was there that Lovelace and Babbage were reputed to have walked while discussing mathematical principles. First computer program In 1840, Babbage was invited to give a seminar at the University of Turin about his Analytical Engine. Luigi Menabrea, a young Italian engineer and the future Prime Minister of Italy, transcribed Babbage's lecture into French, and this transcript was subsequently published in the Bibliothèque universelle de Genève in October 1842. Babbage's friend Charles Wheatstone commissioned Ada Lovelace to translate Menabrea's paper into English. She then augmented the paper with notes, which were added to the translation. Ada Lovelace spent the better part of a year doing this, assisted with input from Babbage. These notes, which are more extensive than Menabrea's paper, were then published in the September 1843 edition of Taylor's Scientific Memoirs under the initialism AAL. Ada Lovelace's notes were labelled alphabetically from A to G. In note G, she describes an algorithm for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers. It is considered the first published algorithm ever specifically tailored for implementation on a computer, and Ada Lovelace has often been cited as the first computer programmer for this reason. The engine was never completed so her program was never tested. In 1953, more than a century after her death, Ada Lovelace's notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine were republished as an appendix to B.V. Bowden's Faster than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines. The engine has now been recognised as an early model for a computer and her notes as a description of a computer and software. In her notes, Lovelace emphasised the difference between the Analytical Engine and previous calculating machines, particularly its ability to be programmed to solve problems of any complexity. She realised the potential of the device extended far beyond mere number crunching. In her notes, she wrote: [The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine...Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent. This analysis was an important development from previous ideas about the capabilities of computing devices and anticipated the implications of modern computing one hundred years before they were realised. Walter Isaacson ascribes Lovelace's insight regarding the application of computing to any process based on logical symbols to an observation about textiles: "When she saw some mechanical looms that used punchcards to direct the weaving of beautiful patterns, it reminded her of how Babbage's engine used punched cards to make calculations." This insight is seen as significant by writers such as Betty Toole and Benjamin Woolley, as well as the programmer John Graham-Cumming, whose project Plan 28 has the aim of constructing the first complete Analytical Engine. According to the historian of computing and Babbage specialist Doron Swade: Ada saw something that Babbage in some sense failed to see. In Babbage's world his engines were bound by number...What Lovelace saw—what Ada Byron saw—was that number could represent entities other than quantity. So once you had a machine for manipulating numbers, if those numbers represented other things, letters, musical notes, then the machine could manipulate symbols of which number was one instance, according to rules. It is this fundamental transition from a machine which is a number cruncher to a machine for manipulating symbols according to rules that is the fundamental transition from calculation to computation—to general-purpose computation—and looking back from the present high ground of modern computing, if we are looking and sifting history for that transition, then that transition was made explicitly by Ada in that 1843 paper. Controversy over extent of contributions Though Lovelace is referred to as the first computer programmer, some biographers and historians of computing claim otherwise. Allan G. Bromley, in the 1990 article Difference and Analytical Engines: All but one of the programs cited in her notes had been prepared by Babbage from three to seven years earlier. The exception was prepared by Babbage for her, although she did detect a 'bug' in it. Not only is there no evidence that Ada ever prepared a program for the Analytical Engine, but her correspondence with Babbage shows that she did not have the knowledge to do so. Bruce Collier, who later wrote a biography of Babbage, wrote in his 1970 Harvard University PhD thesis that Lovelace "made a considerable contribution to publicizing the Analytical Engine, but there is no evidence that she advanced the design or theory of it in any way". Eugene Eric Kim and Betty Alexandra Toole consider it "incorrect" to regard Lovelace as the first computer programmer, as Babbage wrote the initial programs for his Analytical Engine, although the majority were never published. Bromley notes several dozen sample programs prepared by Babbage between 1837 and 1840, all substantially predating Lovelace's notes. Dorothy K. Stein regards Lovelace's notes as "more a reflection of the mathematical uncertainty of the author, the political purposes of the inventor, and, above all, of the social and cultural context in which it was written, than a blueprint for a scientific development". In his book, Idea Makers, Stephen Wolfram defends Lovelace's contributions. While acknowledging that Babbage wrote several unpublished algorithms for the Analytical Engine prior to Lovelace's notes, Wolfram argues that "there's nothing as sophisticated—or as clean—as Ada's computation of the Bernoulli numbers. Babbage certainly helped and commented on Ada's work, but she was definitely the driver of it." Wolfram then suggests that Lovelace's main achievement was to distill from Babbage's correspondence "a clear exposition of the abstract operation of the machine—something which Babbage never did." Doron Swade, a specialist on history of computing known for his work on Babbage, analyzed four claims about Lovelace during a lecture on Babbage's analytical engine: - She was a mathematical genius - She made an influential contribution to the analytical engine - She was the first computer programmer - She was a prophet of the computer age According to him, only the fourth claim had "any substance at all". He explained that Ada was only a "promising beginner" instead of genius in mathematics, that she began studying basic concepts of mathematics five years after Babbage conceived the analytical engine so she couldn't have made important contributions to it, and that she only published the first computer program instead of actually writing it. But he agrees that Ada was the only person to see the potential of the analytical engine as a machine capable of expressing entities other than quantities. In popular culture Lovelace has been portrayed in Romulus Linney's 1977 play Childe Byron, the 1990 steampunk novel The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, the 1997 film Conceiving Ada, and in John Crowley's 2005 novel Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land, where she is featured as an unseen character whose personality is forcefully depicted in her annotations and anti-heroic efforts to archive her father's lost novel. In Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia, the precocious teenage genius Thomasina Coverly (a character "apparently based" on Ada Lovelace—the play also involves Lord Byron) comes to understand chaos theory, and theorises the second law of thermodynamics, before either is officially recognised. The 2015 play Ada and the Memory Engine by Lauren Gunderson portrays Lovelace and Charles Babbage in unrequited love, and it imagines a post-death meeting between Lovelace and her father. Lovelace and Babbage are the main characters in Sydney Padua's webcomic and graphic novel The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. The comic features extensive footnotes on the history of Ada Lovelace, and many lines of dialogue are drawn from actual correspondence. Lovelace and Mary Shelley as teenagers are the central characters in Jordan Stratford's steampunk series, The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. In 2018, Lady Lovelace appears as a character in the second season of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, played by Emerald Fennell. On February 2, 2018, Satellogic, a high-resolution Earth observation imaging and analytics company, launched a ÑuSat type micro-satellite named in honor of Ada Lovelace. In July 2018 a rare copy of Ada Lovelace's Notes was sold at auction to an anonymous buyer. According to the auction house Moore Allen & Innocent, this is one of six known copies of her original publication. The copy of the Notes sold for £95,000. The computer language Ada, created on behalf of the United States Department of Defense, was named after Lovelace. The reference manual for the language was approved on 10 December 1980 and the Department of Defense Military Standard for the language, MIL-STD-1815, was given the number of the year of her birth. In 1981, the Association for Women in Computing inaugurated its Ada Lovelace Award. Since 1998 the British Computer Society (BCS) has awarded the Lovelace Medal, and in 2008 initiated an annual competition for women students. BCSWomen sponsors the Lovelace Colloquium, an annual conference for women undergraduates. Ada College is a further-education college in Tottenham Hale, London, focused on digital skills. Ada Lovelace Day is an annual event celebrated on the second Tuesday of October, whose goal is to "... raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering, and maths," and to "create new role models for girls and women" in these fields. Events have included Wikipedia edit-a-thons with the aim of improving the representation of women on Wikipedia in terms of articles and editors to reduce unintended gender bias on Wikipedia. The Ada Initiative was a non-profit organisation dedicated to increasing the involvement of women in the free culture and open source movements. The Engineering in Computer Science and Telecommunications College building in Zaragoza University is called the Ada Byron Building. The computer centre in the village of Porlock, near where Lovelace lived, is named after her. Ada Lovelace House is a council-owned building in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, near where Lovelace spent her infancy; the building was once an internet centre She is also the inspiration and influence for the Ada Developers Academy in Seattle, Washington. The academy is a non-profit that seeks to increase diversity in tech by training women, trans and non-binary people to be software engineers. In 2018, The New York Times published a belated obituary for Ada Lovelace. On 27 July 2018 Senator Ron Wyden Submitted in the United States Senate, the designation of October 9, 2018, as National Ada Lovelace Day: "To honor the life and contributions of Ada Lovelace as a leading woman in science and mathematics". The resolution (S.Res.592) was considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by unanimous consent. |Ancestors of Ada Lovelace| The bicentenary of Ada Lovelace's birth was celebrated with a number of events, including: - The Ada Lovelace Bicentenary Lectures on Computability, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, 20 December 2015 – 31 January 2016. - Ada Lovelace Symposium, University of Oxford, 13–14 October 2015. - Ada.Ada.Ada, a one-woman show about the life and work of Ada Lovelace (using an LED dress), premiered at Edinburgh International Science Festival on 11 April 2015, and continues to touring internationally to promote diversity on STEM at technology conferences, businesses, government and educational organisations. - Menabrea, Luigi Federico; Lovelace, Ada (1843). "Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage... with notes by the translator. Translated by Ada Lovelace". In Richard Taylor. Scientific Memoirs. 3. London: Richard and John E. 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Tinder has taken the world by storm after its introduction in 2012. By 2014, it was registering about one billion “swipes” per day. Tinder was one of the first apps to use the “swiping motion”. Users could swipe Left or Right on profiles. Left denoting “dislike” which would then present the next profile. Right denoting “like” or a potential match. When two people swipe Right on each other, they are a match. This allows them to chat with each other. In October 2015, Tinder made way for a Super Like feature. When you Super Like someone or swipe Up, you show your extra interest in them. The app notifies the user if they are Super Liked with a blue border around the person who Super Likes. The app allows the user to Swipe Left or Right even on these blue border profiles. Non-Tinder Plus users get one free Super Like per day, whereas Tinder Plus users get five. Tinder says that Super Likes increases the chance of a match by up to 3 times. In 2019, Tinder took a big step. A new survey from Tinder shows more than half of its LGBTQ+ users sharing an interest in using a dating app that expresses their sexual orientation. The sexual orientation of the person should help in finding matches. A lot of apps in the dating field have an option to show your interests in binary genders, but none have a sexual orientation feature. That’s why Tinder took it upon themselves and with the help of GLAAD have brought sexual orientation as a feature. GLAAD or formerly known as Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is an American NGO by LGBTQ+ people, for LGBTQ+ people. Users now have the option to add up to 3 options to their sexual orientation. One can choose from 9 pre-fed options: straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, demisexual, pansexual, queer and questioning. You can further choose if you want the orientation that you choose to show on your profile. This helps people who aren’t ready to come out but want to avail the same privileges in choice surges. How to do so? It’s very user-friendly, simple select edit-info in your profile setting. Go down to the sexual orientation section and select a max of 3 that you identify with. “We want all of our users to feel empowered expressing who they are while connecting with new people — and we’re always working to make that easier for our users on Tinder,” Elie Seidman, CEO of Tinder, said in a press release sent to Bustle. “Dating apps are invaluable platforms for connecting the LGBTQ+ community, and we’re beyond proud to continue our efforts, in partnership with GLAAD, to improve the community’s experience on Tinder.” This isn’t the first time that Tinder has teamed up with GLAAD. In 2016, they brought an update wherein users could select the gender identity they feel best describes them. It was initially launched only in USA, UK, and Canada. They rolled out 37 gender identity options to include a range of non-binary identities that are usually clubbed under the umbrella of transgender. In 2018, this was introduced to the Indian market in early 2018. However, for its India edition, they teamed up with Humsafar Trust, an LGBTQ+ organization, and Parmesh Shahani, a gay rights activist. The team sat and brought down the 37 international categories to 23, adding specific options to fit the Indian society. Here are the 23 options: - Gender- nonconforming - Female to Male - Male to Female . The company says that More Genders has resulted in over 80 million new matches. Also read: India’s Top 5 LGBT Dating Apps

This week we picked two VERY different movies about food to discuss. First, we cover Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s delightful documentary JULIA (2:12), about chef Julia Child, which is chock full of great interviews, insights, and shots of food. Next, we review Lee Haven Jones’s Welsh foreboding, slow-burn folk horror film THE FEAST (15:12), starring Annes Elwy, which features some gruesome moments that we have varying reactions to. To completely change gears, we close with Destin Daniel Cretton’s entertaining Marvel Asian American superhero movie SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (35:40), in honor of its arrival on Disney+, starring Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Leung, and Michelle Yeoh. And in this week’s Patreon exclusive audio, we talk about David Fincher’s 2002 home-invasion thriller PANIC ROOM, starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, and Forest Whitaker. We open the show by reviewing Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s compelling documentary MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY (2:01). The film celebrates the life of Pauli Murray, a non-binary lawyer, poet, and priest, who you’ve probably never heard of, but definitely should have because of their enormous impact on civil rights in the U.S. Next, we take on Jonah Feingold’s DATING & NEW YORK (20:04), a disappointingly derivative rom-com that’s neither rom nor com to any of us. Lastly, we cover James Wan’s MALIGNANT (38:48), a bonkers film that we all had a blast watching, and have just as much fun spoiling, but has us arguing whether it qualifies as “horror” or a “psychological thriller.” And on this week’s Patreon exclusive audio, we talk about the 2009 Richard Curtis film PIRATE RADIO aka THE BOAT THAT ROCKED.

Objectives To establish the level of observer variation for the current ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT criteria for a diagnosis of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) on CT among a large group of thoracic radiologists of varying levels of experience. Materials and methods 112 observers (96 of whom were thoracic radiologists) categorised CTs of 150 consecutive patients with fibrotic lung disease using the ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria for a UIP pattern (3 categories—UIP, possibly UIP and inconsistent with UIP). The presence of honeycombing, traction bronchiectasis and emphysema was also scored using a 3-point scale (definitely present, possibly present, absent). Observer agreement for the UIP categorisation and for the 3 CT patterns in the entire observer group and in subgroups stratified by observer experience, were evaluated. Results Interobserver agreement across the diagnosis category scores among the 112 observers was moderate, ranging from 0.48 (IQR 0.18) for general radiologists to 0.52 (IQR 0.20) for thoracic radiologists of 10–20 years’ experience. A binary score for UIP versus possible or inconsistent with UIP was examined. Observer agreement for this binary score was only moderate. No significant differences in agreement levels were identified when the CTs were stratified according to multidisciplinary team (MDT) diagnosis or patient age or when observers were categorised according to experience. Observer agreement for each of honeycombing, traction bronchiectasis and emphysema were 0.59±0.12, 0.42±0.15 and 0.43±0.18, respectively. Conclusions Interobserver agreement for the current ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria for UIP is only moderate among thoracic radiologists, irrespective of their experience, and did not vary with patient age or the MDT diagnosis. - Interstitial Fibrosis - Imaging/CT MRI etc - Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Statistics from Altmetric.com What is the key question? What is the interobserver agreement for the current ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria for usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) among radiologists? What is the bottom line? Interobserver agreement among radiologists for the ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT criteria for a UIP pattern on CT is moderate. Why read on? CT plays a critical role in the evaluation of patients with suspected idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and once performed, significantly influences subsequent management decisions. Accurate diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis/usual interstitial pneumonia (IPF/UIP) is essential to ensure prompt initiation of appropriate treatment and enrolment in clinical trials. CT has a key role in making the diagnosis of IPF/UIP.1 ,2 The most recent guidelines published by American Thoracic Society (ATS)/European Respiratory Society (ERS)/Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS)/Latin American Thoracic Association (ALAT) specify the CT appearances of three diagnostic categories: UIP, possible UIP and inconsistent with UIP patterns.2 Imaging criteria for the diagnosis of UIP include the presence of honeycombing in a basal and subpleural distribution without features considered incompatible with a diagnosis of IPF/UIP. In the correct clinical context, these appearances are considered sufficient to diagnose IPF/UIP without surgical lung biopsy (SLB).2–4 If the CT appearances are not those of UIP, the diagnosis of IPF cannot be made on imaging alone. Therefore CT plays a critical role in the evaluation of patients with suspected IPF and once performed, significantly influences subsequent management decisions. Reasonable levels of observer agreement are a requisite for diagnostic criteria to be clinically useful. Several studies have reported on the observer agreement for a CT diagnosis of IPF/UIP based upon earlier guidelines, with conflicting results.5–7 However, all of these studies involved expert thoracic radiologists, selectively chosen for their experience in the interpretation of diffuse lung diseases on CT. In contrast, thoracic radiologists, working in non-specialist centres may also be required to provide opinions on CTs of patients with suspected IPF/UIP. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate interobserver agreement for the ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria for UIP among an international group of thoracic radiologists of varying levels of experience. As it has been reported that traction bronchiectasis and emphysema may confound the identification of honeycombing,8 observer agreement for the presence of honeycombing, traction bronchiectasis and emphysema were also evaluated in this study. Case selection and CT protocol CTs from consecutive patients with a multidisciplinary team (MDT) diagnosis of idiopathic fibrotic lung disease, chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHP) or fibrotic lung disease associated with a connective tissue disease, diagnosed at the interstitial lung disease unit of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, UK, between 1 January 2004 and 31 June 2010 were selected. CTs were clinically indicated in all cases and for the purposes of a retrospective examination of these data, informed consent was not required by the institutional review board. Cases with an MDT diagnosis of fibrotic sarcoidosis were excluded from the study as it was considered that these cases might disproportionately increase the number of cases fulfilling the ‘inconsistent with UIP’ CT diagnostic criteria. CTs were performed on a 64-slice multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) (Somatom Sensation 64, Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) or a 4-slice MDCT (Siemens Volume Zoom, Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) in all cases. Images were reconstructed at section thickness of 1.5 mm (4-slice) or 1 mm (64-slice) using a high spatial frequency algorithm. All patients were examined in the supine position from lung apices to lung bases at full-suspended inspiration using standard acquisition parameters: ∼90 mA, 120 kVp. An invitation for observers to participate in the study was approved by the officers of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI), Society of Thoracic Radiologists (STR), British Society of Thoracic Imaging (BSTI), the Italian Society of Chest Radiologists (ISCR) and the Korean Society of Thoracic Radiologists (KSTR), and was sent to each society's membership. Observers were required to provide their specialty (chest radiologist, general radiologist or thoracic radiology fellow) and number of years experience practising in that specialty. Case distribution and scoring Scoring of cases was performed in two stages: For the first stage, in order to distribute the cases to a large number of observers from different countries, a web-based image viewing application with 32-bit encrypted password access was used. Fifteen interspaced sections from each anonymised CT were selected. All images were loaded into the viewing application as TIFF (tagged file format) images, uncompressed and with an image resolution of 600 pixels per inch. For each case, observers were asked to assign a diagnosis category score based upon the current ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria for UIP (3 point score—UIP, possible UIP, inconsistent with UIP). These guidelines were provided on the web application for reference.2 The identification of honeycombing is critical in assigning a diagnosis of ‘UIP’ and traction bronchiectasis and emphysema are known to potentially confound this determination. For this reason, observers were also required to score the presence of these three CT patterns (honeycombing, traction bronchiectasis and emphysema) using a 3-point score; definitely present, possibly present or absent (CT pattern score). No definitions for these patterns were given to the observers before participating in the study and no training was given to the observers. For the second stage of the study, two subsets of observers were selected randomly from the participants of first stage of the study—one made up of thoracic radiologists with greater than 20 years experience and one made up of thoracic radiologists with less than 10 years experience. These two groups were given the full volumetric thin-section CT data in digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) format from a new cohort of patients with fibrotic lung disease. As in the first stage of the study, the observers scored the presence of the three CT patterns described above and assigned a diagnosis category based upon the current ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria for UIP. Data are given as means with SDs, medians with IQR, or number of patients and percentage, where appropriate. Statistical analyses were performed using STATA V.12 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas). Cohen's weighted κ coefficient (κw) was used to evaluate interobserver agreement for diagnosis category score and each of the three CT pattern scores. Weighting the κ coefficient allows the degree of disagreement to be quantified by assigning greater emphasis to large differences between scores.9 Weighted κ coefficients were categorised as follows: poor (0<κw≤0.20), fair (0.20<κw≤0.40), moderate (0.40<κw≤0.60), good (0.60<κw≤0.80) and excellent (0.80<κw≤1.00). 9 As the aim of the study was to evaluate interobserver agreement rather than accuracy, a defined gold standard for the diagnosis and pattern scores was not required. For binary scores (eg, UIP vs not possible UIP or inconsistent with UIP), interobserver agreement was expressed as an unweighted κ coefficient (κ), expressed as a single figure calculated for multiple observers. For non-binary scores, weighted κ coefficients were calculated for each unique unordered pair of observers and expressed as means with SDs for each high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) variable. Patient population and observer groups For the first stage of the study (scoring of online cases), a total of 472 consecutive patients presenting to the interstitial lung disease unit were identified. From this cohort 92 patients with an MDT diagnosis of fibrotic sarcoidosis were excluded. From the remaining 380 patients, 150 cases were randomly selected. Of these 150 patients, 78 were female. Mean age at the time of CT was 61.5 years (SD=12.2 years). MDT diagnoses of the study group were as follows: Idiopathic fibrotic lung disease (IPF n=34, biopsy proven=3, fibrotic non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) n=21, biopsy proven n=3), connective tissue disease related fibrotic lung disease (n=51, biopsy proven n=4) and CHP (n=44, biopsy proven n=12). A total of 112 observers completed the first stage of the study (each scoring all 150 cases). Ninety-six were thoracic radiologists, 16 general radiologists. Thoracic imaging society representation for the 112 radiologists was STR (n=42), ESTI (n=39), Italian society of thoracic radiology (ISTR) (n=15), BSTI (n=12) and KSTR (n=4). Mean experience was 11.9 years (SD=8.5 years) (table 1). For the second stage of the study (scoring of volumetric thin-section DICOM images), a new cohort of 75 cases of fibrotic lung disease was selected. MDT diagnoses for these cases were as follows: Idiopathic fibrotic lung disease (n=25, biopsy proven n=5), connective tissue disease related fibrotic lung disease (n=25, biopsy proven n=4) and CHP (n=25, biopsy proven n=12). A total of 22 thoracic radiologists completed this stage of the study (<10 years experience n=10, >20 years experience n=12). Interobserver agreement for scoring of online cases Diagnosis category scores For the first stage of the study, interobserver agreement across the diagnosis category scores (UIP, possible UIP, inconsistent with UIP) among the 112 observers was moderate, ranging from 0.48 (IQR 0.18) for general radiologists to 0.52 (IQR 0.20) for thoracic radiologists of 10–20 years experience (table 2, figures 1A–D and 2A–D). At the extremes of the experience spectrum, interobserver agreement among thoracic imaging fellows was 0.50 (IQR 0.10) and for thoracic radiologists of greater than 20 years experience, 0.51 (IQR 0.18). The diagnosis category scores were converted to a binary ‘UIP versus possible UIP or inconsistent with UIP’ score. Mean interobserver agreement for this binary score was moderate ranging from 0.36 for thoracic imaging fellows to 0.42 for thoracic radiologists of less than 10 years experience (table 2). A second analysis was performed to investigate whether patient age, or MDT diagnosis varied with observer agreement for the binary diagnosis score. No significant differences were identified for these subgroups (table 3). Emerging reports suggest that SLB might not be required in patients with a ‘possibly UIP’ pattern on CT.10 Therefore, a second binary score (‘UIP or possible UIP’ vs inconsistent with UIP) was also evaluated. Interobserver agreement for this distinction was also moderate ranging from 0.39 for thoracic imaging fellows to 0.45 for thoracic radiologists of greater than 20 years experience. CT pattern scores Weighted κ values for the presence of honeycombing using the 3-point score: definitely present, possibly present or absent, ranged from 0.56 (IQR 0.12) (for thoracic radiologists with more than 20 years experience) to 0.65 (IQR 0.23) (for thoracic radiology fellows) (table 4). Weighted κ values for the 3-point traction bronchiectasis score ranged from 0.32 (IQR 0.25) (for thoracic radiology fellows) to 0.45 (IQR 0.18) (for thoracic radiologists of more than 20 years experience) (table 4). Weighted κ values for the 3-point emphysema score ranged from 0.40 (IQR 0.13) (for thoracic radiology fellows) to 0.55 (IQR 0.22) (for thoracic radiologists of less than 10 years experience) (table 4). Interobserver agreement for scoring of volumetric thin-section CT For the second stage of the study, interobserver agreement across the diagnosis category scores (UIP, possible UIP, inconsistent with UIP) when cases were evaluated on volumetric thin-section CT was for thoracic radiologists with less than 10 years experience, 0.54 (IQR 0.17) and for thoracic radiologists of greater than 20 years experience, 0.40 (IQR 0.12). Interobserver agreement for each of the CT patterns scores is shown in table 5. The key finding in the present study is that interobserver agreement among a large cohort of thoracic radiologists, for the radiological diagnosis of UIP based upon the most recent ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT guidelines is at best moderate, and is not significantly increased among thoracic radiologists with greater levels of experience. IPF is a chronic progressive fibrosing interstitial pneumonia, which is characterised by a histopathological and/or a radiological pattern of UIP.1 ,11 The distinction of IPF/UIP from other chronic fibrosing lung diseases is important because IPF/UIP has a particularly poor prognosis. Diagnosing IPF however, may be challenging because it requires an integrated multidisciplinary approach involving physicians, radiologists and pathologists and indirect evidence suggests that early expert assessment is important.1 ,2 ,11 ,12 Prompt and accurate diagnosis allows commencement of treatment, as well as access to clinical trials and evaluation for lung transplantation. The most recent evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and management of IPF represent the collaborative effort of the American Thoracic Society, the European Respiratory Society, the Japanese Respiratory Society and the Latin American Thoracic Society and clearly specifies the CT features which stratify patients into one of three radiologic categories, ‘UIP’, ‘possible UIP’ and ‘inconsistent with UIP’.2 In the correct clinical context, a radiological diagnosis of ‘UIP’ secures a diagnosis of IPF.13–16 In patients whose CT diagnosis is ‘possible UIP’ or ‘inconsistent with UIP’, SLB should be considered, although at least one study reports that a diagnosis of ‘possible UIP’ may be sufficient to diagnose IPF/UIP in the proper clinical setting.10 Therefore CT plays a critical role in the evaluation of patients with suspected IPF and once performed, significantly influences subsequent management decisions. Reasonable levels of observer agreement are a requisite for diagnostic criteria to be clinically useful. As up to two-thirds of patients with IPF/UIP are diagnosed based upon CT appearances alone, the issue of interobserver agreement between radiologists for this diagnosis is important.2 ,3 ,16 Despite this, the interobserver agreement for the most recent ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria for IPF/UIP is not known. In a study by Aziz et al, observer agreement between 11 thoracic radiologists was evaluated for diagnosis of 131 cases of different diffuse lung diseases. In this study, agreement for a diagnosis of IPF/UIP was reported as good (κw=0.63). 7 In contrast, a study by Lynch et al,5 which involved 315 cases of IPF/UIP, reported low levels of observer agreement between two expert thoracic radiologists for a CT pattern considered ‘consistent with IPF’ (κw=0.33). Thomeer et al6 reported similar, low levels of agreement between three expert thoracic radiologists for a radiological diagnosis of typical UIP (κw=0.40). Most recently, in a paper by Assayag et al,17 CT appearances of 69 cases of biopsy proven rheumatoid-related interstitial lung were evaluated by two experienced thoracic radiologists applying a binary score of ‘definite UIP’ or ‘not’ (based upon current ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria), and reported a κ coefficient of 0.67 for this score. A limitation of these studies is that all, with the exception of one,17 predate the most recent diagnostic guidelines and therefore may not easily be interpreted in the context of current recommendations. In addition, all employed small numbers of academic radiologists from tertiary referral centres with specific expertise in the evaluation of patients with IPF.5 ,6 In contrast, the results of our study demonstrate that, in a large diverse group of thoracic radiologists, the interobserver agreement for the current CT criteria for a diagnosis of IPF/UIP is only moderate. Furthermore, no significant differences in agreement were demonstrated between observer subgroups of different levels of experience. These results are reinforced by the finding that interobserver agreement was not improved among thoracic radiologists of greater than 20 years experience, when the study was repeated using thin-section volumetric CT. The rationale for converting the 3-point diagnosis score (UIP, possible UIP, inconsistent with UIP) to a binary score (UIP or possible UIP/inconsistent with UIP) was that based upon current guidelines, the key radiological determination is identifying patients whose CT allows a confident diagnosis of IPF/UIP to be made, therefore avoiding the need for SLB. In addition, this distinction has prognostic implications in the setting of IPF—a typical UIP pattern on CT may confer a worse prognosis than those cases of IPF who present with atypical CT appearances of UIP.18 The overall level of interobserver agreement for the entire cohort of observers for this binary diagnosis score was moderate, regardless of observer experience, whether the observer was a thoracic radiologist or general radiologist. Recently, Gruden et al10 reported that in the absence of honeycombing, a heterogeneous pattern of fibrosis on CT maybe sufficient to secure a diagnosis of UIP. In our study, a second binary score of ‘UIP and possible UIP’ versus ‘inconsistent with UIP’ was generated and interobserver agreement for this categorisation was also moderate. Given the results of the current study, it might be that the best use of HRCT in this setting may be as the starting point of a diagnostic process which is dynamic, includes disease behaviour and prognostic biomarkers, and which focuses less stringently on specific HRCT patterns. The level of agreement for honeycombing might be an explanation for the source of disagreement between the UIP diagnosis categories. Interobserver agreement for honeycombing was moderately better than for the UIP diagnosis categories. This suggests that although some disagreement for the diagnosis of UIP may have been caused by discrepancies with regards to the presence of honeycombing (the difference between a ‘UIP’ and ‘possible UIP’), a smaller proportion of disagreement may have related to the distribution of the honeycombing change (the difference between ‘UIP’ and an ‘inconsistent with UIP’ CT pattern). For example, in cases where emphysema and fibrosis coexist, observers might agree that honeycombing was present, but might disagree on nature of upper lobe cystic change, with some observers calling this honeycombing (and therefore regarding the distribution of honeycombing as atypical for UIP) but others calling these changes emphysema and deciding that the true honeycomb change predominated in the lower lobes (figure 1A–D). Recently, Watadani et al reported levels of observer agreement for honeycombing similar to those demonstrated in the current study.8 The current study extends the findings of Watadani et al by relating interobserver agreement for honeycombing to the evaluation of CT appearances in patients with suspected IPF/UIP. Although speculative, agreement on the individual features considered ‘inconsistent with a UIP pattern’ might also have impacted overall agreement on the diagnosis categories. For example, the presence of subtle mosaic attenuation or ground glass opacification (both of which may be seen in cardiac failure—a complication of IPF/UIP) on a HRCT which otherwise has typical UIP features might result in a diagnosis category of ‘inconsistent with UIP’. A limitation of the current study is that in cases considered inconsistent with UIP, we did not require observers to specify why. A number of issues with regards to our methodology warrant discussion. First, the study was performed in two stages: the first stage involved the scoring of cases online and the second involved the scoring of full volumetric thin-section CT data. The decision to perform the second stage of the study was made after the results of the first stage of the study were available and was designed to test if the level of interobserver agreement was improved when observers had access to full volumetric thin-section CT. Second, we intentionally did not supply observers with clinical data. The primary aim of the study was to evaluate interobserver agreement for the ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria for IPF/UIP, which do not specify clinical criteria.2 Interobserver agreement for a MDT diagnosis (which is a related but separate issue and would include all available clinical information) in the setting of fibrotic lung disease might be a logical follow-up study. Third, in common with other studies of interobserver agreement, we did not use an independent ‘gold standard’ against which observers’ scores were evaluated.7 The primary goal of the study was to quantify levels of observer agreement for a CT diagnosis of UIP based upon current ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria rather than accuracy of CT diagnosis, which is a separate, albeit related, issue. Fourth, our patient population was a selection of consecutive cases of fibrotic lung disease referred to our interstitial lung disease unit. We excluded cases of fibrotic sarcoidosis on the basis that this diagnosis is in most cases straightforward and because inclusion of these patients might disproportionately increase the number of cases with an ‘inconsistent with UIP’ CT diagnosis. The usual diagnostic difficulty encountered on CT, in the context of fibrotic lung disease, is the separation of patients with IPF/UIP, fibrotic NSIP and CHP which can only be achieved based on CT appearances alone in approximately 50% of cases.19 Furthermore, when IPF/UIP presents with non-classical CT appearances, the usual alternative diagnoses are fibrotic NSIP or CHP.20 Fifth, we did not confine cases to those with a biopsy proven diagnosis, as this would effectively eliminate patients with typical UIP features. We had no control over the observers who participated in the study. An open invitation was made to one national (BSTI) and four international (ESTI, STR, KSTR, ISCR) thoracic imaging societies without any exclusion criteria. However, in order to evaluate the performance of general thoracic radiologists who routinely provide opinions on CT studies, our approach for enrolling observers was necessarily broad. This is in contrast to most previous studies where observers are preselected because of their expertise, which conceivably may reduce their clinical applicability to the general thoracic radiologist population. As it has been suggested by some that the current ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT guidelines require expertise that may not always be available, evaluating the performance of thoracic radiologists of varying levels of expertise is clinically important. In conclusion, we have demonstrated in a large number of thoracic radiologists, of varying levels of experience, that interobserver agreement for the most recent ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT CT criteria for a diagnosis of IPF/UIP is at best only moderate. As CT diagnosis plays an important role in influencing management decisions during the initial evaluation of patients with suspected IPF, accurate and consistent application of these guidelines among thoracic radiologists is clinically important. Based upon the results of this study, modification of these criteria may be necessary to improve observer agreement. Collaborators The UIP Observer Consort are Joseph Jacob, Anand Devaraj, Giampaola Gavelli, Hrudaya Nath, Joseph Tashjian, Denis Tack, Zsuzsanna Monostori, Takeshi Johkoh, Anne Davies, Maurizio Zompatori, Roberta Polverosi, Ennio Vincenzo Sassani, Gilbert R Ferretti, Can Zafer Karaman, Gianluigi Sergiacomi, Tomas Franquet, Kavita Garg, Richard Mannion, Paula Campos, Robert Karl, Paul Burrowes, Franco Quagliarini, Louise Norlen, John T Murchison, Antoine Khalil, Sundeep M Nayak, Alain Nchimi, Nevzat Karabulut, Anna Rita Larici, Suzanne Matthews, Eva Castañer, Juan Arenas-Jimenez, Ralph Drosten, Ryoko Egashira, Hyun-Ju Lee, Santiago Rossi, Mosleh Al-Raddadi, Anastasia Oikonomou, Anagha P Parkar, Pierre Yves Brillet, Wagner Diniz de Paula, Laurent Medart, Florian Poschenrieder, Igor Pozek, Taiwo Senbanjo, Katharina Marten-Engelke, Juntima Euathrongchit, Cal Delaplain, Giancarlo Cortese, Gian Alberto Soardi, Aleksandar Grgic, Jeffrey Kanne, Michelle Muller, John Bruzzi, Adrien Jankowski, Gracijela Bozovic, Andrea Goncalves, Justus Roos, Daniel Vargas, Mark Elias, Djenaba Bradford-Kennedy, Danielle Seaman, Brett Memauri, Humera Chaudhary, Foong Wong, Julia Alegria, H Henry Guo, Helmut Prosch, Luce Cantin, Goffredo Serra, Elisa Baratella, Rosalba Silecchia, Aziza Icksan, Adam Wallis, Sidhdharth Damani, Rahul Renapurkar, Samanjit Hare, Annemilia del Ciello, Jennifer Jung, Mario Silva, Sushilkumar Sonavane, Sue Thomas, Anna Beattie, Benedikt Kislinger, Leo Ca, Girish Shroff, Hester Gietema, Yuranga Weerakkody, Stephen Hobbs, Shinyu Izumi, Tomoo Kishaba, Akira Shiraki, Yuko Waseda, Maria Chiara Castoldi, Vincent Herpels, Antonio Pais, Roger Matus, Enrico Lubin, Ben Wilson, Mathias Mueller, Shadha Ahmed Alzubaidi, Alain Ortiz, lara Sequeiros, Nicola Boscolo Bariga, Mark Wills, Sze Mun Mak, Giuseppe Aquaro, Esin Cakmakci Midia, Nicola Schembri, Joseph A M Sheehan, Alexia Farrugia, Jennifer Tomich, J M Fernandez Garcia-Hierro. 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A warning sign? Atmosphere above epicentre of deadly Japan earthquake heated up 'rapidly' in days before disaster - Scientists hope they will one day be able to predict quakes uses air ionisation data The atmosphere directly above the fault zone which produced Japan's recent devastating earthquake heated up significantly in the days before the disaster, a study has shown. Before the March 11 earthquake, the total electron content in a part of the upper atmosphere, called the ionosphere, increased dramatically over the earthquake's epicentre, reaching a maximum three days before the quake struck. It is believed that in the days before an earthquake, the stresses on geological faults in the Earth's crust causes the release of large amounts of radon gas. Satellite images showing changes in the heat of the atmosphere above the epicentre of the March 11 earthquake between March 1 and March 12. The total electron content in the ionosphere increased dramatically before the quake This radioactive gas ionises the air, giving it a charge, and since water is polar it is attracted to the charged particles in the air. This then leads to the water molecules in the air condensing (turning into liquid) - a process which releases heat. It was this excess heat which was observed in the form of infrared radiation in recordings taken three days before the deadly magnitude 9 earthquake struck. 'Our first results show that on March 8 a rapid increase of emitted infrared radiation was observed from the satellite data,' said Dimitar Ouzounov at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, one of the scientists behind the findings. Because Japan is a known earthquake hotspot, scientists had set up atmospheric monitoring stations there, using satellites to measure the state of the atmosphere before an earthquake. A massive wave from a tsunami caused by the March 11 earthquake under the sea off the coast of Japan crashes over a street in Miyako City, in northeastern Japan. A 'rapid increase' of infrared radiation was noticed in the atmosphere before the quake A man walks next to port area destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami in Kessenuma town, in Miyagi prefecture on March 28. It is hoped studies on the atmosphere could one day be used to predict earthquakes It is hoped the findings could lead to similar data one day being used to predict earthquakes. The March 11 earthquake was the most powerful known earthquake to have hit Japan, The earthquake struck under the sea off the coast of Japan. The epicentre was approximately 43 miles east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku. So far over 15,000 deaths have been confirmed and nearly 10,000 more are missing. Most watched News videos - Whale of a tale! Kayaker's thrilling encounter with 30ft animal - Shakespeare's Globe releases teaser for powerful new play I, Joan - Kim Jong-Un's sisters admits he had Covid-19 while audience cries - Globe Theatre portrays Joan of Arc as non-binary in 'queer' new play - Ryan Giggs arrives for third day of domestic assault trial - Kyiv claims video proves Russia shelled Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant - Large explosions leave damage at Novofedorivka airbase in Crimea - Neighbours use 'pathetic' ploy to ensure parking space is saved - Shocking moment Evansville house explodes captured on Ring cam - Russian 'holidaymaker' breaks down in tears after fleeing Crimea - Dramatic moment £20m superyacht goes up in flames off Formentera - Salman Rushdie airlifted to hospital after being stabbed in the neck

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The Scottish government has postponed a planned update of gender recognition laws after concluding that it had failed to address concerns about the impact of its proposals. Shirley Anne Somerville, the equalities secretary, said she would launch new consultations to ensure that anxieties that women and girls could fall victim to predatory men or lose access to single-sex services were properly addressed. Somerville said the Scottish government was determined to update the legal rights of trans men and women, with a simpler, quicker process to allow people to get a new gender recognition certificate through self-declaration rather than requiring medical evidence. Ministers wanted to allow trans men and women to get a certificate six months after starting to live in their acquired gender, after signing a legally binding statutory declaration. They could apply after living in their acquired gender for three months and get their certificate after a further three months’ “reflection period”. At present applicants must live in their acquired gender for at least two years and provide psychiatric and medical reports, requirements that are to be dropped. Somerville heard accounts “of the anxiety and trauma the current process causes trans people and the difference that reform of the law would make to their ability to live their lives with dignity and acceptance”. There was transphobia that needed to be challenged, she said. “However, I am acutely aware of how divided opinion is on this issue and I want to proceed in a way that builds maximum consensus and allows valid concerns to be properly addressed,” she said. Some of the public arguments about this area had been “toxic”, she said. Instead of pushing through a new Gender Recognition Act, the government will now commission assessments to ensure the measures do not damage other people’s rights. Critics of the Scottish government’s handling of the changes, including some Scottish National party and Labour MSPs and women’s groups, have attacked its previous failure to commission assessments. Somerville insisted the previous proposals did not undermine women’s rights under the Equality Act 2010, including protecting some single-sex services and spaces. The new proposals would continue to make it an imprisonable offence for someone to lie about their gender. The equalities impact assessment will be published this summer alongside a new draft gender recognition bill, which will be put out to consultation. Somerville said the Scottish government would also: Withdraw its current guidance for schools, which allows transgender young people full access to single-sex spaces, because it risked excluding some girls who wanted female-only spaces. New guidance will be issued. Provide updated official guidance on the rights of women and trans women. Launch a review of whether official data collection recognises the impact of biological and physical differences between people born as men or women. Consult on whether to lower the minimum age to apply for a gender recognition certificate from 18 to 16, and improve support for children considering changing gender. Set up a working group on how to extend legal gender recognition to non-binary people. Her decision to reassess and delay the legislation was widely welcomed at Holyrood and by women’s groups who had campaigned for a review of the government’s original proposals. However, Patrick Harvie, a co-leader of the Scottish Green party, urged the government to introduce the new legislation before the 2021 Scottish parliament election. “Trans people have been waiting a long time for this reform and they have support from across the political spectrum and from well-respected women’s and feminist organisations across Scotland,” he said. James Morton, a manager of the Scottish Trans alliance, said the 16-month delay since the first consultation on the original Gender Recognition Act ended had caused trans people stress and it was vital that ministers published the new draft bill quickly. “Long delays between announcements and actions embolden those who are prejudiced against trans people and create intense distress for many vulnerable trans people,” he said. Kath Murray, an academic with MurrayBlackburnMackenzie, a policy research group that criticised the previous proposals, welcomed the reviews but said the government needed to be open-minded about the evidence gaps on self-declaration. “A more measured and inclusive approach should result in better policy and legislative outcomes, for all affected groups,” Murray said.

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Whenever I join a language-learning website, I am inundated by messages from men whose language I am not learning. This is not news. This is very run-of-the-mill, the kind of thing that women find happens on a daily basis. Instinct and habit is to brush it off, just like the harassment we get in the street. Pretend it’s not a serious problem. Even other women advise us not to pay any attention to it. But it’s a nuisance for me – and it’s way more than that. It’s a symptom of a very serious problem: gender inequality. This time, I decided to start replying, and it yielded some interesting and quite illustrative results. Here is one of the conversations that ensued. why are you messaging me when you can see I’m learning spanish? dont you know how to be polite I’m just bored of the fact that, whenever I sign up to a language-learning website, ALL the messages I get are from arabic/hindi/nepali-speaking men. I’m not even learning those languages. so you arent here to learn its to teach and help others too actually the idea is that you do both, in tandem sorry foryour time precious time thank you for the apology. my time is indeed precious yes i got it. tell me when you send ola to a spanish native who wanna learn other languages This demonstrates quite well a number of issues. - dont you know how to be polite Women are expected to comply with what men want, and if we don’t do this, we are ‘not polite’. Our value is in complying with what men want. - you arent here to learn Actually, that is the reason I had joined and the main reason the site exists! Women are supposed to ‘teach and help others’; our needs don’t matter. - sorry foryour time precious time The idea that women’s time is ‘precious’ is clearly ludicrous. If we think our time is ‘precious’ then we deserve to be mocked for that. - tell me when you send ola to a spanish native who wanna learn other languages I will be unable to find a language-learning Spanish native (xenophobic much?) and therefore I should give him my attention. He inherently merits my attention, for some reason other than my language goals. These messages are not new to us. We come up against these messages time and again in our daily lives. We grew up with them. Our sense of self is shaped by them. This person’s patriarchal sense of entitlement and superiority would be shocking and sickening to anyone coming upon the human race for the first time. Gender inequality is a problem that results in its extreme in women being attacked, raped, and killed; and subjects us to a daily violence, a psychological and practical reality of existing for men’s pleasure, of having to work harder than men to be taken seriously, of having more expected of us than men. Although it’s my interlocutor’s responsibility to learn about gender inequality and transcend these norms, it’s not his fault that he has grown up with them. Sadly it’s ingrained in us – both victim and perpetrator – to brush this off. But it’s a violence that’s wrought on us every day, all of us. I don’t want the men in my life, the men I love, to be tarnished with the brush of gender-based violence any more than I want women or non-binary folk to be subjected to it. Please note, the ‘men in my life, the men I love’ include men of Middle Eastern / South Asian identity and ethnic origin, and I’m not aiming to say anything in particular about ethnicity or race with this post. The men who bother me in this specific situation happen usually to have those as their first languages: that is all. When we look at life in general, I have been harassed and had my space invaded by men of many different ethnic, national, and economic backgrounds. Gender inequality is a global phenomenon and affects all of us. Let me stress once again: this is nothing out of the ordinary. Women experience this on a daily basis. What’s out of the ordinary is that I currently have the (a) time and mental space, and (b) educative / cultural capital to reflect on it and take the time to respond via blog post. Any woman could have joined that website on any day, at any time, and very quickly the same thing would have happened. Millions of ‘small’ events like this happen on a daily basis, symptomatic of the culture of oppression, fear, and violence we all have to endure.

Green and Bop are a society at the University of Sheffield founded in November 2019, by Eleanor King and Florenne Earle Ledger. The focus of our group is to encourage students to live a more sustainable lifestyle and we wanted to take this opportunity to tell you a bit more about what we do! How the idea came about. In the summer of 2018 Eleanor King and I were looking back on our first year of university. It had been an exciting year, but we felt like we wanted to do something more worthwhile with our time. Due to a common interest, something sustainability focused seemed like a good idea. We considered making earrings or headbands out of recycled materials, but all of it had been done before and nothing seemed plausible. We got thinking what we had enjoyed over the last 8 months, as it was our first year we had been on many nights out. It came to our attention how unsustainable a lot of the elements of student going out culture were (and still are). So then came the idea of creating a society that would promote an eco-friendly lifestyle at university, by appealing to students who enjoy socializing and care enough about the environment to consider making some small changes. We want Green and Bop to be a light-hearted, environment focused collective that takes the anxiety and pressure out of trying to be more sustainable. Where the name came from. The name Green and Bop is a play on words referencing the song Lean & Bop by J Hus. As we aim to make student going out culture more sustainable the name of the society references dancing as well as being ‘green’. We want to reach the many students out there who care about the environment, but not enough to partake in serious climate focused events run by other amazing sustainability groups at the university. Not to say that we don’t hugely respect these societies, but we aim to appeal to an audience that are interested in becoming more eco-friendly, but not as interested in the facts and figures behind it. To do this our first point of call was to tackle the un-environmentally friendly elements of nights out. Our plan to make student culture more sustainable. The major flaws we identified within student culture were a lot of single use plastic being used both in clubs and late night takeaways. As well as this, nights out often give people an excuse to unnecessarily buy brand new outfits, potentially from unsustainable fast fashion companies rather than wearing what they own already or shopping second hand. We also considered how the use of taxis harms the planet, encouraging large groups to walk to venues rather than getting several Ubers to and from, contributing to CO2 emissions. I should add that we do not condone people walking around late at night alone or in small groups; this was a suggestion specifically for a large party. Based off this we fashioned our idea of an eco-friendly night out consisting of a slow fashion outfit, walking to and from the venue and not buying a takeaway sold with single use plastic forks or unrecyclable containers. We also formulated plans to appeal to clubs and venues (including the Sheffield SU club, Foundry) to stop using single use plastic. We also had plans to host our own live music events with recycling bins for bottles, preventing people from supporting businesses that use single use plastic and getting like-minded, eco-conscious individuals all in one place. Due to COVID-19, our focus has deviated from nightlife, we now focus on promoting little changes people can make to live a more environmentally friendly life, like supporting slow fashion and small independent businesses around Sheffield. We promote vegan and veggie cooking/dining and plastic free shower products etc. Our favourite moments as a society so far. One of our main successes as a society is our clothes swaps. We hosted two events at Foodhall, one in November and one in February. Anyone and everyone was encouraged to bring something of their own and swap it, or even to take things without bringing their own. The aim of this was to reach out to all members of the community and bring them together to celebrate slow fashion to see how easy and ethical it can be. We would have liked to host more of these events but Coronavirus made this impossible. Foodhall are an amazing organization, they run a ‘pay what you feel café’ and make meals for anyone who wants one! Prior to Coronavirus they hosted all kinds of events from woman and non-binary DJ nights, to pottery classes. We love to support and promote organisations like this that are Sheffield based and have a positive impact on our community. In May 2020 we worked alongside the sustainability committee at the university, proposing a bill to the SU to cut all ties with fast fashion brands. The sustainability committee pioneered the event, we were only a small part but never the less we are very proud to say it was successful and the Students’ Union is no longer affiliated with fast fashion brands! This means that sample sales in Fresher’s week will no longer go ahead and university merchandise will be more ethically sourced. Our plans going forward. Our plans for the future are to keep our online presence thriving as much as possible with our blog and Instagram remaining active, in the hope of reaching a wider audience when we can host in-person events soon. The blog which has just launched is another part of how our society plans to move online, we have planned articles to follow on the likes of sustainable Sheffield eateries and eco-feminism! We are also accepting submissions if you are interested in writing for us, email or DM us. We plan to do some more online collaborations with other organisations. In November we worked with Solidaritee, another society at Sheffield university raising money and awareness for refugees. Keep an eye on our socials @greenandbop on Instagram to see what we are up to. You can also like our Facebook page or email us email@example.com to join our mailing list to be the first to know of our upcoming events. Florenne Earle Ledger

What a genderful world There I am, a non-binary Arts enthusiast, in one of the most beautiful museums in the Netherlands. It’s been years since I saw the inside of the Tropenmuseum, but an exhibition named ‘What a Genderful World’ is something I obviously can’t skip. The first thing I notice as I go up the stairs is how sparingly the spaces are lit. The museum mostly uses bright spotlights, spaced out on the ceiling. It gives the stately rooms a very contemporary feel, but it also means that I really have to get to some of the signs to be able to read what’s on them. Whether or not it’s practical, the shadowy spaces seem to take the visitor on a journey. Some of the glass cases require me to actually press a button to activate the lighting inside. The sparsely lit rooms make it almost impossible to look ahead to see what’s next. The Tropenmuseum gives a podium to cultures all over the globe, focusing on the human story. Their exhibitions deal with universal human topics. One of those topics is the notion of gender. In ‘What a Genderful World’, the different ways cultures handle gender are highlighted, and visitors are confronted with the way they look at gender themselves. The further I progress through the exhibition, the more I discover about the meaning of gender and it’s different cultural expressions: Samoan fa’afafines, Albanian burneshas, Zapotec muxes, Native American two-spirit people and Southeast Asian hijras are all covered. It becomes clear that this exhibition is mostly focused on people who are unfamiliar with the different ways cultures all over the world interpret gender. That’s not a bad thing, of course, but for people with some more gender knowledge, it might mean this exhibition might be somewhat superficial. In the tit pit I find a life buoy that states ‘Breasts don’t define me’ I stay in the same room. There are two giant emoji-shaped punching bags hanging from the ceiling: one in the shape of an eggplant, the other shaped like a taco. Anybody who knows anything about innuendo-laden online emoji language knows that these are supposed to be a penis and a vulva. I’m invited to put on a pair of boxing gloves and give the punching bags a whack. I appreciate this interactive part of the exhibition, but the space is small. As soon as a group of overly enthusiastic kids start punching away, I opt to quickly head for safety. For me, That Lady Thing’s ‘Sea of Objectification’ is a standout piece. Shaped like a ball pit, it’s filled with small round breasts instead of plastic balls. I’m invited to get into the ball pit and pose with one of the life buoys surrounding it. The buoys have different phrases on them. I read them and find the buoy that speaks to me. ‘Breasts don’t define me.’ I love that that specific statement is in there. The question ‘But what about your breasts?’ is one that pops up frequently in my own gender journey. As if those breasts make me less non-binary. For me, they don’t take anything away from my non-binary identity. There is the lead singer of Aerosmith, who I always labelled as ‘man’ After I climb out of the tit pit, I resume my journey. I enter a bright red room, with large pieces of fabric draped down from the ceiling in a circle. The pieces have huge pictures of celebrities printed on them. Every picture is accompanied by a quote from that person about gender: Sam Smith, who came out as non-binary in 2019. Conchita Wurst, the bearded Eurovision winner. The usual celebs you expect to see when talking about gender. But there’s also a piece of fabric with a larger than life picture of Steven Tyler: the lead singer of Aerosmith. His quote? ‘I’ve been misquoted in saying that I’m more female than male. Let me set the record straight – it’s more half and half.’ Steven Tyler seems to play with gender. I pride myself on keeping an open mind and not putting a label on people, but I never would’ve said this rugged rockstar was anything other than ‘man’. It was refreshing and confronting to realise that I still have my own biases when it comes to gender. The journey concludes with a dark room containing six highlighted panels in rainbow colours. They take up the entire wall. Every panel has a question in all capitals. Underneath the questions, visitors have space to put up notes with their answer to the question. I take a look at the questions and try to give an answer before I read the notes. In which gender box do you fit? A happy genderfree world? Who are your gender role models? High heels: power or powerlessness? How do you break gender norms? When are you playful with gender? The exhibition ‘What a Genderful World’ contains so much more than I could write about. It’s a journey for inexperienced gender adventurers, but there’s plenty to learn for the more seasoned gender explorers as well. Things that stayed with me, might not interest you at all. And what seems obvious to me, might be completely new to you. So don’t hesitate to go on a journey yourself in the Tropenmuseum! The exhibition is open until January 3rd, 2021.

Several Penguin Random House Canada employees confronted management about the company’s decision to publish a new book by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson at an emotional town hall Monday, and dozens more have filed anonymous complaints, according to four workers who spoke to VICE World News. On Monday, Penguin Random House Canada, Canada’s largest book publisher and a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, announced it will be publishing Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Peterson, to be released in March 2021. The book will be published by Portfolio in the U.S. and Penguin Press in the U.K., both part of the Penguin Random House empire. Four Penguin Random House Canada employees, who did not want to be named due to concerns over their employment, said the company held a town hall about the book Monday, during which executives defended the decision to publish Peterson while employees cited their concerns about platforming someone who is popular in far-right circles. “He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I’m not proud to work for a company that publishes him,” a junior employee who is a member of the LGBTQ community and who attended the town hall told VICE World News. Another employee said “people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives.” They said one co-worker discussed how Peterson had radicalized their father and another talked about how publishing the book will negatively affect their non-binary friend. “The company since June has been doing all these anti-racist and allyship things and them publishing Peterson’s book completely goes against this. It just makes all of their previous efforts seem completely performative,” the employee added. A third employee told VICE World News the company’s diversity and inclusion committee received at least 70 anonymous messages about Peterson’s book, and only a couple are in favour of the decision to publish it. In an email statement, Penguin Random House Canada said it is open to its employees’ feedback. “We announced yesterday that we will publish Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order this coming March. Immediately following the announcement, we held a forum and provided a space for our employees to express their views and offer feedback. Our employees have started an anonymous feedback channel, which we fully support. We are open to hearing our employees’ feedback and answering all of their questions. We remain committed to publishing a range of voices and viewpoints,” the statement said. The company did not answer any of the specific questions sent by VICE World News. Peterson, 58, a University of Toronto professor of psychology turned anti-political correctness crusader, first ignited international controversy in September 2016, when he posted a lecture to YouTube stating he refused to use gender neutral pronouns for students and condemning Bill C-16, legislation that increased protections for trans and non-binary Canadians. He quickly became popular in right-wing and libertarian circles across the globe, becoming a regular guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast. He amassed 3.25 million YouTube followers, who tuned into his lectures on why white privilege isn’t real, and how masculinity is under attack. At one point he was making $80,000 a month on Patreon. His book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, included instructions like “stand up straight with your shoulders back” and “set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world,” and sold more than 5 million copies worldwide, according to Penguin Random House. The Penguin Random House Canada employees said the company was secretive about releasing Peterson’s new book; one said the title didn’t appear in an internal database that normally includes all future books. “I feel it was deliberately hidden and dropped on us once it was too late to change course,” said the junior employee who is a member of the LGBTQ community. The employee said workers would have otherwise considered a walkout, similar to what Hachette employees did when the publisher announced it would be publishing Woody Allen’s memoir; Hachette later dropped the book. In an email viewed by VICE World News, Kristin Cochrane, chief executive officer of Penguin Random House Canada, invited staff to discuss the announcement with Anne Collins, publisher of Knopf Random Canada Publishing Group, the imprint under which Peterson’s book will be published. “How we think about our publishing—and the range of books and authors that we publish—is an evolving process and part of an ever-changing conversation, and one I’m eager to have in a bigger way with all of you,” Cochrane said in the email, referencing a larger meeting planned for the new year. “In the meantime, though, I realize some of you might have thoughts to share on this particular publication, and so shortly following this note you will receive an invitation from Anne Collins…where she will share more information about this new book and, more importantly, our reasons for publishing it.” Collins opened the meeting by talking about how Peterson has “helped millions of people who are on the fringes of society who would otherwise be radicalized by alt-right groups,” according to one of the four employees who spoke to VICE World News. “She was trying to kind of spin it as a positive to be publishing this book,” the employee said. “(But) he’s the one who’s responsible for radicalizing and causing this surge of alt-right groups, especially on university campuses.” The employee said Collins noted her background in journalism and that it’s important to be publishing “a variety of voices.” The employee said Scott Sellers, director of marketing strategy, spoke about how the company has to work with writers whose views “we don’t necessarily support,” but that Sellers also defended Peterson by stating that he supports same-sex marriage. The employee said when Peterson previously came into the office to talk about 12 Rules for Life, “they would kind of do it secretly.” “They knew what they were doing wasn’t right and they knew so many people in the company were upset about him.” The employee said they believe Penguin Random House Canada is publishing Peterson’s new book because 12 Rules for Life was incredibly successful—but that wasn’t a part of Monday’s conversation. “They’re not going to acknowledge the reason they're doing it is for money. I feel that would be the more honest route to go rather than making up excuses for Jordan Peterson,” they said. The employee said the company’s diversity and inclusion committee aired concerns about how this will affect other authors. “We publish a lot of people in the LGBTQ+ community and what is the company going to do about making sure these authors are still feeling supported by a company that is supporting somebody who denies their existence,” the employee said. According to the employee, another person said they were instructed not to post anything critical of Peterson on their social media feeds when 12 Rules for Life was published; the employee said Cochrane said she didn’t recall that policy. All of the workers who spoke to VICE World News said if the book isn’t cancelled, they would like Penguin Random House Canada to consider donating the profits from the book to LGBTQ organizations. They said the company has not elaborated on how it will respond to the critical feedback, but as the book is being published in March, it will likely go to print soon. Peterson has maintained a very low-profile over the past year, as he has been dealing with serious health issues, which, according to his daughter, included a medically induced coma as he attempted to detox in Russia for a benzo dependence. In a subdued YouTube video released Monday, Peterson said he had been working on his 12 Rules sequel for the past three years. Correction: A previous version of this story said a non-binary employee spoke about how Peterson’s new book will negatively impact them. In fact, the employee was speaking about their non-binary friend. Follow Manisha Krishnan on Twitter

Sam Smith has asked fans to refer to them using the pronouns they/them – six months after coming out as non-binary. In a post to their 13.4 million followers on Instagram, the chart-topping singer-songwriter said they had come to the decision after spending “a lifetime of being at war” with their gender. Smith, 27, revealed earlier this year that they had questioned their gender and had at one time considered a sex change. A person who identifies as non-binary does not define themselves exclusively as masculine or feminine and generally prefers they/them pronouns, rather than he/she. Smith said: “Today is a good day so here goes. I’ve decided I am changing my pronouns to THEY/THEM after a lifetime of being at war with my gender I’ve decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out. And to the extent that you get to define what we call you fine. Do recall that if we call you something else we’re just being impolite, not oppressive. One question from an old codger though, before being a they Sam Smith was a he or a she? With Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu and Rabbit Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu and Rabbit (1972) with the Faces Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners (1974) You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1974) He retired from the music industry in the mid 1990s and moved to the countryside with his family to live a quiet life, refusing to speak to anyone from the press. He considers it juvenile and vain for people his age to still be performing rock and roll, and refused invitations to take part in a Faces reunion. Billed as “Britain’s Shirley Temple” and “the Singing Sweetheart”, Clark went on to record hundreds of songs for the forces and toured the UK by train. She recalls sleeping in the luggage racks alongside Julie Andrews, three years her senior. “Now, she could really sing,” says Clark. “We’d get off the train, do our little things, get back on and go home. It was fun – and not a lot of kids were having fun.” If you’ve got someone like that saying you can really sing then I guess you really can sing. What would have happened if John Lennon ended up playing bass? You can hear the answer by listening to ‘The Long and Winding Road’, on which he actually did play bass. I will simply quote Ian Macdonald’s assessment, from p. 339 of Revolution in the Head: Recurring wrong notes at 0:28, 2:10 and 3:07; mis-strikes ar 2:39 and 2:52; drop-outs at 2:59 and 3:14; a fumble at 0:19; a vague glissando at 1:03; a missed final push at 3:26. I’ve just listened to the song, and these are only some of the mistakes Lennon made. As Macdonald points out, at 1:59, as McCartney sings ‘You left me standing here…’, you can hear him grinning at how badly Lennon’s playing. A man of conservative tastes and values, Reed regarded Jones’s libidinous lifestyle with wariness, but rated him the best male singer British pop music had ever produced. “He loved good lyrics and he liked melodies with a little blues touch, and once you’ve got that, you’re home.” Yep, sure, you can disagree if you want to. And when you’ve managed to do this…..: It may have been simple, even corny, but the formula was mightily effective. Reed composed more than 2,000 songs and produced or arranged many more. He wrote hits for Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Petula Clark, Des O’Connor and Sandie Shaw, and in America his songs were covered by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Perry Como. ….then perhaps we’ll consider your opinion on the subject. And if we’re honest about it if I ever manage to do anything quite as sublime as Delilah – no, I don’t mean write a song, but just achieve any one thing, anything, that matches that excellence – then I’ll still die screaming and insisting it’s not my time yet but content that I had, through chance perhaps, already touched that Hand….. Bergling’s family have also announced the creation of the Tim Bergling Foundation, which will benefit organisations supporting groups involved with mental health and suicide prevention. The musician’s net profits from the album will be donated to the charity. “Net ” is such an interesting word, isn’t it? And as is common in American such foundations, family members do need salaries to run the family foundation. A Grammy-nominated rapper who built his reputation on a tough upbringing in Atlanta, Georgia surrounded by drugs and guns is actually British, it has been revealed, as other rap artists share their shock that he may be deported. US immigration officers detained 21 Savage, whose real name is Sheyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, on Sunday for allegedly overstaying his visa. Designing the background to fit current fashion is nothing new in popular music With hundreds of ticket sales, legions of social media followers and adoring messages posted online from teenage fans, Californian metal band Threatin appeared more than ready to conquer the UK music scene. Venue managers liaised with an apparent booking agent and record label, gladly signing them up in the hope of sell-out crowds. The reality was a rather different story. This band was unknown, they had no fans and no management. They toured the country playing to completely empty gig venues and as they did so last week, their story began to unravel. The band, and in particular the sole permanent member Jered Threatin, has been accused of creating a fake legion of fans in order to land the UK tour. All done with fake likes on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, apparently. So, a senior job in social media management here we come, eh? For rock music to survive it will have to cut back on testosterone This is to confuse music played on the traditional rock instruments – guitars and drums – with rock itself. Like saying that stuff on the violin is classical music. A couple of decent enough recentish rock songs. Both of which are testosterone encapsulated. That actually being the point. This isn’t to insist that only men can play rock. Nor is it to say that other interesting things can’t be done with the same lineups, instruments. It is though rather to insist that rock actually is that primal scream of testosterone leaking out through eyeballs. That being the it of it, the grandfathers’ shovel of it. ‘Devoid of personality’: BBC verdict on early Bowie audition unearthed A new documentary reveals the scathing dismissal of the BBC Talent Selection Group on one of Bowie’s first groups, the Lower Third The audition took place four years before Bowie found fame with his eponymous 1969 album and the single Space Oddity. While the BBC’s decision looks comic in retrospect, no Bowie aficionado would suggest that his mid-60s output contained much intimation of his future genius. I’ve said this before and there’s a truth to it even if it’s not the whole and entire such. He adopted a personality along the way. There’s much more of Bowie being an actor performing a role in each song – perhaps album, perhaps character across a few – than there is with most. Yes, extremely talented musician and all the rest. But an untrue but useful view is that he performed a series of 3 minute skits in character rather than was “Bowie.” As to why, well, Davy Jones didn’t cut it, did he? But if the children aren’t forced to learn the crumhorn then how will we all collect our Arts Council subsidies for pieces that require the crumhorn? They are the big beasts of the orchestra, famous for their booming depths and resounding crescendos. But the days of the oboe, bassoon, french horn and tuba could be numbered, an arts chief has warned, as interest from the younger generations has dwindled to such a low that the instruments now risk becoming extinct. Lucy Noble, the Royal Albert Hall’s artistic and commercial director, has blamed the demise of these orchestral instruments on the fact that the “YouTube generation” has less exposure to live music. There is actually an easy answer here. The process of learning to play an instrument comes in two parts. Learning the instrument and learning music. Once that second is learned then it’s very, very, much easier to learn another of the first. So, change the relative wages for these instruments an we’ll get, say, clarinettists or saxophone players lining up to perform on the contrabassoon. It’s really not necessary to start at age 5 on one in order to be able to play it when 25 you know.

Prior to attending Hacker Summer Camp, there were whispers (or roars) of the infestation of grasshoppers in Las Vegas, Nevada. Local and national news outlets shared horrifying images that would surely haunt any entomophobia dreams. We have to admit, we shared in the panic. What were we going to do when we descended to Vegas and were haunted by the chirping masses? And yet when we landed, there was no sight of the creatures. Hacker Summer Camp, sprawled out over several locations of iconic Vegas. BSides LV, Black Hat USA, h1-702 and DefCon, were virtually bugless. Of course, any hacker knows that just because you can’t see a bug immediately, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. And the hackers of h1-702 certainly found bugs. The largest amount of participating hackers ever for a live event submitted over 1,049 security flaws to customers over 3 days. This was the highest amount of vulnerabilities reported during a live event. The creativity and hard work it took to report more bugs than ever before resulted in a record-breaking nearly 2 million dollars in bounties being paid out to hackers from the three participating organizations. Swinging into Action — To celebrate the start of an un-fore-gettable event, hackers gathered at Top Golf for great food, conversation, and golfing. The crew enjoyed practicing their golf swings while mingling with other attendees of h1-702. Live hacking events, like h1-702, are a unique type of bug bounty engagement in which hackers from all over the globe participate in a timeboxed testing period focusing on a targeted set of assets. The relaxing outdoor atmosphere of Top Golf was the perfect way for the crew to gear up for an invigorating challenge of three nights of hacking. Viva Hack Vegas — Hosted at the SLS hotel, hackers and customers enjoyed four floors of custom-designed hacker-space, including a wet deck with technology-equipped cabanas. With the intention to celebrate the hacker in all of us, h1-702’s space fostered and reflected the same creativity needed from the team to break through the tough targets of h1-702. With a contagious energy, hackers diligently collaborated through the evening hours to find critical vulnerabilities in the first target. As hacking wrapped at midnight, the first night of h1-702 resulted in 637 report submissions and over $745,164 in bounties awarded! To wrap up this incredible first day, we concluded with the fan-favorite — Show and Tell. During Show and Tell, selected hackers shared with their peers the coolest, or most challenging bug they found. When Show and Tell concluded, awards were handed out to uproarious applause on this historic night. Hack Life — Powered by the vitality of the first night’s success, hackers were ready to meet the second day of h1-702 with gusto. In 2014, GitHub launched its Security Bug Bounty program. Motivated by the desire to keep GitHub users and the platform secure, the team has continuously worked closely with hackers through their program. “Inviting hackers from around the world to hack the GitHub platform has been one of the most rewarding components of our bug bounty program to date,” said Greg Ose, Application Security Engineering Manager at GitHub. “Spending time with the hackers with whom we’ve worked with for half a decade, and getting to meet new hackers who just filed their first bugs to our program, has been invaluable. This is one of our favorite parts of participating in live hacking events. Our relationship with the hacker community is critical to the success of our bug bounty program." Furthering the spirit of collaboration, h1-702 was also home to a well-rounded community and mentorship program. 75 non-binary and women-identifying individuals were invited to hands-on hacking training. The night started off strong with Jesse Kinser's overview of bug bounty hacking. Jesse introduced the new hackers to security concepts and great tools and reminded them that the most important tools a hacker uses are patience and creativity. Prepared for the life-long learning ahead of them, Head of Education, Cody Brocious, (@daeken), took the stage and taught participants the basics of the hacker mindset, how various vulnerabilities function, and how to hunt for bugs. Attendees then proved their skills on the Hacker101 CTF with the help of Hackeronies and Elite Hackers who took time out of hacking to be on hand for questions. Several attendees even earned their first private program invitations during the session! We cannot wait to see these hackers join our elite ranks at future events. As we’ve said before, fostering and growing the hacker community takes a village. We’re incredibly proud to partner with amazing groups like Women In Security and Privacy (WISP) and Cyberjujitsu to continue supporting our mission of building a safer internet, which we believe is possible with the problem-solving attributes a diverse community provides. With a mentorship program devoted to bringing out the best in our hackers, we were thrilled to partner h1-702 hackers and mentees together to collaborate during the event this year. Five mentees were partnered with four hacker mentors. The mentees had a recon workshop, taught by recon king Ben Sadeghipour (@nahamsec), a Burp Suite lesson by Cody (@daeken), and a methodology workshop by Inti De Ceukelaire (@securinti) prior to the event. “Being immersed and involved in the onsite event overall. Aside from the technical aspects, feeling the "energy" of everyone hacking is motivating. Having access to mentors and other hackers was truly helpful.” - Mentee attendee, @cyberjin Crit City — Verizon Media is synonymous with stellar live hacking events. h1-702 2019 was its sixth live hacking event in two years. The security team, aptly named The Paranoids, was intended to build on their well-earned event reputation as a live hacking powerhouse. Through the talent of the hackers and collaboration from The Paranoids, Verizon Media paid out the highest amount of bounties in a live event...ever. “We consider our bug bounty researchers an extension of our team, and these live hacking events help us strengthen our relationships and empower our community. Not only did we reward participating hackers a record-breaking $1 million over a 10 hour time period, but also celebrated our own Mark Litchfield (@mlitchfield) surpassing over $1 million in bounties collectively on the platform. The passion we see from these hackers about our program is palpable, and that enthusiasm for finding bugs within our brands ultimately strengthens the security of our platforms.” The record-shattering evening was the perfect denouement to an astounding h1-702. Started five years ago, h1-702 has grown leaps and bounds. This is thanks to amazing customers, like GitHub and Verizon Media, and, of course, it would absolutely not be possible without the talent, passion, and drive of the hacker community. “Five years ago, the first h1-702 was an impromptu gathering of about 20 people in an MGM Skyloft,” said HackerOne co-founder Jobert Abma. “Some cool bugs were found, but nothing out of the ordinary. It was analogous with the state of the community: we worked alone and didn’t share. About $100,000 was paid in rewards. Over the years, something changed. People started to see that working together resulted in more creative, more severe vulnerabilities and that people were there to celebrate and have fun together. This year, 100 hackers gathered at h1-702, some of whom were also at the first edition. It was a lively, collaborative environment where people shared their knowledge and celebrated together. It resulted in nearly $2 million in rewards.” Here’s to Hackers — Every contribution from participating h1-702 hackers was an incredible testament to the power of crowdsourced security, but some submissions stood above the rest. We are incredibly proud to recognize these hackers as the best hackers over the three days of h1-702, and, of course, the recognition for the entire event’s Most Valuable Hacker. Congratulations to @try_to_hack, @corb3nik, and @mayonaise for winning the top nightly honors. At the conclusion of three consecutive nights of hacking, customers and HackerOne staff selected the top overall MVH — or Most Valuable Hacker — of the weekend, @inhibitor181. Our team is thrilled to continue to build live events that foster collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and diversity. We are dedicated to giving the best experience to the community and customers who enable us to build on our mission of making the internet a safer place to be, and we thank them for the opportunity to continue to do what we love. We have more great events coming up soon: September 21, 2019 - Vancouver, Canada November 7, 2019 - November 9, 2019 - Los Angeles, California Stay tuned for more details and, as always, happy hacking!

Title: Hurricane Diane. Playwright: Elizabeth George At: Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave; www.theaterwit.org/ . Tickets: $25-$48. Runs through: July 31 If you had an exceptionally audacious lit professor, you probably read The Bacchae for your Greek Tragedy class and, thus, already know about Dionysus (or Dionysos, as it's sometimes spelled; or, in Rome, Bacchus). You know that Dionysus is the founder of wine and all the beneficial social rituals arising therefrom (including theater);, does not adhere to conventional moral behavior; and is very, very sexy. At the four annual Dionysia festivals celebrated by the Greeks, attendees' civic duty demanded they drinkbut only to the point of intoxicationand then allow your actions to be guided by the deity's whim. In ancient times, this might include the (mostly) female worshippers rending animals, and even men, limb from limb in a frenzy, but later was reduced to rites honoring the land's fertile abundance. Oh, and since Dionysus is one of those shape-shifting gods, Elizabeth George has this Olympian rebel appear in her play as a non-binary lesbian landscaper with the suave charisma of a country crooner. Diane, as the disguised demigod is now called, has come to woo converts into saving the earth from climate change by replacing their lawns with life-sustaining permaculture botanicals. She begins her quest in New Jersey, with four wives who dwell in the kind of tract homes where every house has the same floor plan as its neighbor. Renee is already a Green enthusiast. Carol, however, prefers an English lawn with Victorian furnishings; Pam wants Italian fountains and flora like the mural in the local deli; and shy Beth, recently divorced and ready to experience ecstasy, wants an Arthur Rackham-style fairy garden where she can lie in the grass and indulge in innocent fancies. Guess who succumbs first. At this juncture, Apollo may strike you with a bolt from the blue: This is not 405 BCor 1956, for that matterand what was plausible in Euripedes' or Grace Metalious' day may not reflect today's society. If a stranger of tradesman status invaded YOUR community, wouldn't your suspicions be aroused along with your hormones, and wouldn't you notify the police (or the Better Business Bureau, at least)? Too, if you haven't given a thought to the structural components of Attic drama since your schooldays, the hymnal epilogue that follows the spectacular tech-heavy apocalypse will leave you utterly bewildered. Fortunately, these middle-class matrons transcend their superficial stereotypess to exude so much sincere charm that even playgoers who don't know a parabasis from a paralegal can have some fun trashing these would-be maenads, and if you happen to be a fire-breathing eco-warrior, you can revel in portents of armageddon delivered in nannyishly severe tonesor you can just sit back and watch Diane (as portrayed by the always welcome Kelli Simpkins) cast her seductive pagan spell.

The Transgender Group Nijmegen is a fun and diverse Group of transgenders, transmen, transwomen, transvestites, genderqueers and anyone who feels connected to the transgender community. We’ve been meeting each other and working on transgender visibility with COC Regio Nijmegen since February 2007. We organize monthly meetings and frequent lectures, workshops, movie nights and other social activities. Our Café Night No matter what kind of transgender you are, meeting people with similar experiences is important to many and it’s just fun. That is why every second Thursday of the month and every 4th Friday of the month we have a café night, also at 20.00 at the Pink House, located on St. Antoniusstraat 1, Nijmegen. Interested? Just drop by. Our doors are open to all: transgender people, trans men, trans women, non-binary people, queers, crossdressers, people on journeys of self-exploration, partners, family, friends, ect. How you dress and whether you identify with any label doesn’t matter. Are you nervous about visiting or do you have questions? Fill in our contact form or contact us at email@example.com and one of us will answer your questions, introduce you to the group and ensure that you do not have to take your first steps on your own. We organize many other activities like our Beyond the Binary day. We try to expand our English information on these activities but not all activities have English descriptions at this time. Feel free to contact us if you have questions.

Pink Boots Society Membership is open to all women (cis, trans, female identifying, and non-binary individuals) who meet the following qualifications: 1) Professional Membership: Current or Retired Fermented/Alcoholic Beverage Industry Professionals who are either actively employed and receiving 25% or more of their income from the industry, or retired from a career (minimum 15 years) in the Fermented/Alcoholic Beverage Industry. 2) Business in Planning Membership: Individuals in the process of opening an Alcoholic Beverage Industry Business, such as a brewery, taproom, brewpub, tasting room, bar, bottle shop or other establishments with a TTB approval and/or lease in place. 3) Student Membership: Students currently enrolled in a Fermented/Alcoholic Beverage Industry accredited program. To be added to the Pink Boots Society membership roster, apply now!

Gendered rules of genderqueerness When I came out as non-binary, I had no gender diverse friends, family or acquaintances. With no role models or anyone in solidarity with me, I took to the Internet. These online sources shaped what I thought I ought to feel and look like as a non-binary person. Also via the Internet, I began to make non-binary friends. These people were extremely influential in my understanding of being non-binary. These sources of information, however, were nowhere near helpful. In fact, they were pretty detrimental to my understanding and acceptance of my identity. In no time, I went from loving femininity, girlhood and myself, to chopping my hair, concealing my body, trying to lower my voice and developing hatred and disgust towards my body and myself. I thought I was way too feminine. I learnt I wasn’t a valid non-binary person unless I was strictly embracing masculinity. This meant short hair, no makeup, a thin androgynous body and dysphoria. I tried going with this narrow conception of non-binary gender, but I was miserable. I went through so much unlearning to get to where I am with my gender(s) today, but now I love my femininity, masculinity and androgyny all together and understand that there is no one way to be non-binary. Feminine Menstrual products I’m non-binary. I get periods. I’m tired of period products being referred to as “feminine”. I’m all for pushing to call these things “menstrual products”. “Menstrual” is way more accurate than “feminine” anyway. These products are for menstruation, and menstruation shouldn’t be gendered. Anyone can menstruate, regardless of any gendered designations. There’s nothing feminine about my non-binary uterus lining shedding; there’s nothing feminine about a trans-masculine or trans-male person’s uterus lining shedding; there’s nothing feminine about a masculine woman’s uterus lining shedding. A uterus is not inherently feminine; reproductive organs have no gender; they’re socially constructed as such. I didn’t think anything of my period pre-identifying-as-non-binary, but due to gender essentialist social constructions of reproductive organs, when I came out, I began experiencing immense, sometimes even debilitating dysphoria about my set of organs. It was especially distressing during menstruation. I put in a lot of work towards unlearning this essentialist, binary gendering and unearning my internalized transphobia, and while this took a lot of time, I finally am comfortable again with my body and its functions, and I can confidently assert that there’s nothing feminine about my non-binary menstruation cycle or the menstruation products I use. Bras, binders, bumless panties and boxers I don’t know why, I mean no one’s going to see my underwear, but wearing gender affirming undergarments makes all the difference in my self-validation and overall confidence. With my vast collection of underwear, from bras I haven’t worn since adopting the term ‘non-binary’, to binders, to sports bras, to bralets, to boxers, briefs, bikinis, and backless panties, it’s almost like I can achieve any gender identity through matching up my underwear to my internal sense of identity. Choosing my coveted combinations allows me to engage with self-determination and validation of my subconscious perception of gender. So, every morning before getting ready for the day, I sit down with myself and contemplate, “what’s my gender today?”. With limitless possibilities, this reflection could go in any direction. Sometimes it’s an easy answer. Popular conclusions include: Dickies Dyke, femme boy, trans masc, femme, soft butch slutty, anything, all of it, and/or nothing at all. Sometimes I just won’t be able to find any clothes that feel good and right. On unfortunate occasions, it’s a distressing introspection into dysphoria and internalized erasure. Regardless, the most important step of getting ready is always selecting precisely the right gendered combination of undergarments. Hairy, man-hating, bra-burning, lesbian feminist I stopped shaving my legs in grade 10. It wasn’t political; I just couldn’t be bothered to upkeep the hairless legs I thought I was supposed to have. Then I started seeing posts about it being radical to stop shaving. These were mainly made by white and/or liberal feminists, and while I roll my eyes at them now, these strains of feminism were my gateways into the intersectional feminism that I now embrace. At the time, I hadn’t yet had my non-binary awakening. I remember thinking to myself, “huh, this is a way to keep women subordinate… Fuck that. I’m gonna flaunt my hairy legs with pride now”. And although there are way more radical acts of resistance, and despite being exhausted by liberal feminists constantly talking about their long blue armpit hair and nothing else, not shaving my legs really is quite liberating; first, as a fuck you to patriarchal Western beauty standards, second in my own identity as a dyke and a trans non-binary genderqueer femme boy. Although they’re generalizations aimed to depreciate feminism and pigeon-hole feminists, I find the stereotypes of a feminist personally amusing… Hairy, man-hating, bra-burning, lesbians? I pretty much check all of those boxes. Consequences of presenting femme I pass a man on the street. He looks at me, I smile faintly, he smiles back. His eyes burn into me. They crawl up my legs. He doesn’t even speak to me, but I feel violated. I’m late. I have no time to dwell. I think to myself, “I look femme today, so I guess this is how it’s gonna go… I do make a hot femme…” I shrug. Without a second thought, earphones in, I keep speed walking. He chases me. He must have walked a couple blocks in the other direction then turned around and ran – sprinted – down the street after me. Out of breath, he runs up behind me. I take an earphone out. He tells me he doesn’t mean to scare me but I’m cute and he had to tell me. He asks me out. I say I have a girlfriend. I keep speed walking. He follows. He asks, “you’re gay?”. I say yes. He asks me if I “want to try straight”. This is what I was wearing. (Note: he was East Asian, I look extra EA wearing an oriental shirt, I wonder if this had anything to do with his interest in me). If you like me, you’re gay. If you’re not down with the gays, get lost. I’m vocal on my social media about my disdain towards men. I have been since high school, which is when I realized I was gay, and also, probably more importantly, when I confidently established that men are trash. Then I realized I was non-binary. I’m vocal about that too. Social media (well, some platforms) is a place where I can assert myself confidently and safely. I post about social justice, emphasis on LGBTQ+ justice and intersectionality. I post sometimes about the harassment I face; I talk about how I face an increase in harassment when I present as femme. I reblog spells on Tumblr to repel and curse homophobes and transphobes who may visit my blog. I lose a lot of (straight, white, cisgender, male, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic) followers for this reason. I think this is a nice cleanse. I posted this meme one time on Instagram, I think in 1st year, and captioned it “@ cishet men: if you like me, you’re gay, so either admit you’re gay or leave me the f*ck alone”. I lost so many male followers, hahaha. Mainly the guys from high school who hadn’t unfollowed me yet for my other posts calling men out. My cheongsams and other Chinese clothing represent the intersection of my gender and ethnicity. I own both women’s and men’s Chinese clothing, partially because I don’t care for the gendering of clothing, but mainly because I find it all beautiful, and a way to connect to my culture through diaspora. I used to feel ashamed of my Chinese ethnicity and hated being mixed-race because of Eurocentrism and internalized racism, but after years of repressing my Chineseness, I now feel so content and connected in my Chinese attire. Aside from wearing clothing regardless of gender, I also embody the symbolism of the dragon and the phoenix. Both associated with prosperity, the former is associated with masculinity and the latter with femininity. Together they are harmonious, like the symbolism of yin and yang. I feel empowered by my embodiment of both the dragon and the phoenix, as well as by my ability to wear both phoenix and dragon symbols and to wear both “women’s” and “men’s” clothing. Flower-like beautiful boy Until researching for this project, I only knew of binary terms for Chinese lesbians: T and Po. These are comparable to butch and femme respectively. Being genderqueer, I didn’t know which I’d be categorized as, and I had no other language for the conjunction of my sexuality and gender outside of these terms. I was pleasantly surprised, however, when I read Hu (2017) and learnt some new terms. While T and po are connoted with lesbian gender expression, I learnt that in Chinese and other East Asian cultures, zhongxing and huameinan are used to describe gender expression more broadly (Hu 2017). Hu focuses on the term zhongxing, which literally means “gender neutrality,” but also mentions that huameinan means “flower-like beautiful boys” (183). I love being a beautiful boy and adore the idea of being a flower-like beautiful boy. Despite being genderless by literal translation, zhongxing is increasingly used to describe women whose gender expression leans towards masculine (Hu 2017). This term resonates with me too, and I especially like the way Hu describes zhongxing style: Typical outfits include stylish short hair commonly seen in popular men’s fashion magazines, well-tailored shirts or polo shirts in a masculine style, loose jeans or khakis, name brand sneakers, and sometimes sports bras or breast binders. Swaggering steps and dauntless attitudes often characterize the ways they carry themselves. (183) This pretty accurately describes how I generally like to dress and carry myself. I love having these new terms to describe myself, relating to both my gender and ethnicity. I started calling myself a Dickies Dyke. Firstly, because I like the consonance. Secondly, I very stereotypically love my Dickies. Lastly, I love the word dyke. Roberts (1979) traces the trajectory of the word, outlining its connotation with masculine lesbians, addressing the traditional derogatory meaning, and discussing the politicized reclamation. My foreparents’ reclaimed meaning of “dyke” is associated with activism, resistance, strength, pride, independence and self-determination. Although generally reclaimed regarding sexual orientation, and while I am a dyke in this sense, I feel like “dyke” accurately describes my gender. I know it typically refers to a masculine gay woman, but despite not being a woman, the term really resonates. In a sense I have reappropriated “dyke” again for my own self-determination. To me, as an AFAB person attracted to femininity whose gender fluctuates through femme, femme boy, trans-masc, agender, and several other gender designations, I feel that my sexual orientation in conjunction with my gender accurately places me in the realm of dykeyness. I’m a dyke. I love women and femmes. I’m not as masc as a butch, nor as strictly fem as a femme. I’m strong and independent. I’m an activist. I’m super queer and proud. Everything is drag (reflections on makeup and genderfluidity, genderfluxivity) I was trying to choose a new profile picture, so I was going through my best selfies. I narrowed it down to two options and couldn’t help but laugh at myself. Not to reduce gender to mutually exclusive binary categories, but I really selected the most masc photo of myself and the most femme. I’m in straight up drag makeup in these two photos; the first being masc drag, the second being femme, both done by my talented girlfriend. I know that when I posted the femme photo earlier on Instagram, most people just saw a g*rl in glam makeup, but my girlfriend and I know that I was a boy that day and that she asked to doll me up in femme glam drag. The masc drag photo is pretty clearly drag. I wish that people saw the femme photo as drag too. And I mean honestly, being genderfluid and genderflux, any makeup I ever have on borders drag. It’s all a way to manipulate my appearance anywhere from genderless to an all-encompassing gender, from masculine to feminine, anywhere in ambiguity and androgyny. Hu, Yu-Ying. “Mainstreaming female masculinity, signifying lesbian visibility: The rise of the zhongxing phenomenon in transnational Taiwan”. Sexualities, vol. 22, no. 1-2, 2019, pp. 182-202. Sage Journals, doi:10.1177/1363460717701690. Accessed 10 Oct 2019. Roberts, JR. “In America They Call Us Dykes: Notes on the Etymology and Usage of ‘Dyke’”. Edited by Harriet Desmoines and Catherine Nicholson. Sinister Wisdom, vol. 9, 1979, pp. 2-11. http://sinisterwisdom.org/sites/default/files/Sinister%20Wisdom%209.pdf. Accessed 19 Oct 2019. Entrepreneurship & Monetization. Hm. I have a background in businesses and entrepreneurship, so our talk from Trevor was a lot of things I have already heard through marketing classes, but it was interesting to hear in terms of publishing our unique websites. It seems funny to put a price tag on art and creative work, but for artists and creatives, this is what they deal with everyday. I have some friends that are musicians, and I’ve heard many times from them about how it can be frustrating to self-promote and sell tickets to shows when really all you care about is the art of creating. I think for this to be sustainable and not a ‘sell-out’ situation, monetization has to be carefully thought out with lots of emphasis put into maintaining your core values. This is the struggle shown by the “The Toast is Toast” reading (Carpenter, 2016). This blog had incredible content and a strong following; however they weren’t able to get enough financial support, and the administrative tasks of website upkeep became two much for the blogging duo. This is the danger of wanting art to remain separate from business. In considering my own website, I have linked to a lot of related bloggers and products that my readers may be interested in. If I was to monetize, I would like to carefully curate the businesses being addressed on my site, and preferably I would like to have relationships with the companies I am linking to. This way I could monitor what is being promoted through my voice. For this semester, I will refrain from installing ads on my website and instead reach out to some bloggers that may be interested in collaborating with me! This photo essay delves into the complexity of drag culture and non-binary identity through an auto-ethnographic study. With the help of my girlfriend, I transform into several drag looks then reflect on the process in relation to gender identity. Each look has a drag name, pronouns, a unique persona, and a song that they would perform to. The project explores drag in relation to gender performativity and gender roles. In the process, I find that drag, for me, functions as an extension of my gender and allows me to perform and embody heightened gendered expressions. Tuxedhoe Masc is a femme boy. He is here and he is queer. He is gay and here to say, ‘down with toxic masculinity!’ A play on Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon, the ideal dream boy, Tuxedhoe Masc is indeed a dreamboat. He is tall, dark and handsome. He is mysterious like Tuxedo Mask, but still emotionally available. He is in touch with his feminine side, his masculinity, and the fluidity of his gender, while still being a confident ladies’ man. Tuxedhoe Masc performs feminist masculinities, disrupting traditional gendered expectations, rejecting male dominance and female degradation, and reinventing masculinity as queer (Basaliere, 2019). Feminist masculinities acknowledge the overarching social contexts in which gendered performances play out, and creates a space for new, healthy masculinities. Ms Dyswhoria is a bit of a slut. She uses her femininity to play the patriarchal system and get what she wants. She’s a queer queen who fakes straight when she wants something she couldn’t otherwise attain. This act of ‘realness’ (Bailey, 2011) is an act of resilience. The name of this drag look is a play on gender dysphoria. As an AFAB non-binary person, who hasn’t undergone any transition except for some chest binding, in a world where gender roles are rampant, I experience so much social dysphoria. By performing a heightened femininity, I feel as though I’m sticking it to those who dictate that non-binary has a certain look (androgynous, thin, white). I can be hyper-femme and non-binary. Further, I can use that hyper-femininity to exploit the binary gender system that enforces the roles that make me feel this dysphoria. Song: XS – Rina Sawayama Stoned Priestx is so extra. Xe doesn’t conform to any rules. This look was the most fun and most difficult to create. Not wanting to conform to masculinity or femininity in anyway, Stoned Priestx beats xyr face to reject traditional gender roles and create endless queer gender possibilities. To xem, traditional gender roles mean nothing; xe envisions a future of queerness and fluidity when it comes to gender. Stoned Priestx breaks the binary and embraces a matrix of infinite gender possibilities. Xe performs to XS by Rina Sawayama as the song is about wanting “more, more, more, more, more,” and Stoned Priestx wants to be the most. Xe is inspired by club kid style and culture which centralizes gender fluidity, extravagance, and DIY aesthetics (Boulay, 2020). Song: Dynasty – Rina Sawayama Mixxxed Dynasty is all mixxxed up. In terms of gender, they are queer and fluid. Racially, she is a mix of Chinese, Irish, English and Welsh heritage. This look is an act of reclamation of the appropriation of xyr Chinese culture that frequents the mainstream. White girls is cheongsams, white boys in changshans, popular brands using traditional oriental patterns and materials… The list goes on. Mixxxed Dynasty may be all mixxxed up, but he is sure of one thing: He is tired of the appropriation and bastardization of his culture and he wants to take it back. Mixxxed Dynasty performs to Dynasty by Rina Sawayama, who is also queer and of East Asian descent. Song: Immaterial – SOPHIE Dimsumdyke is just as their name suggests: A big ol’ dyke. This final look portrays how, for me, everything is drag. Even my day to day looks feel like drag as non-binary, genderfluid individual. Dimsumdyke’s look is a casual look, nothing campy or extra about it at all, as Dimsumdyke is very shy by nature. They perform to Immaterial by SOPHIE as the lyrics reflect the binary that they feel simultaneously caught between and outside. Further, the more camp-like nature of the song contrasts their shy nature to reflect the internal conflict between being a raging genderqueer dyke and the constraints of conforming to society and appearing ‘acceptable’. Drag is an art form that can be embodied infinitely. For some drag performers, a drag persona is separate from their day-to-day self (CBC Arts, 2020). Conversely, for other performers, including myself, it is nearly impossible to differentiate between drag and day-to-day gender. This project unveiled realms of gendered possibilities for me, all of which overlap in one way or another. The fluidity of gender is quite apparent in my transformations and queering and rejection of traditional gendered expectations. My drag functions to dismantle oppressive systems and create new, healthy, infinite gender possibilities. Bailey, Marlon. “Gender/ Racial Realness: Theorizing the Gender System in Ballroom Culture.” Feminist Studies, 37.2 (2011): 365-386. Basilere, Jae. “Staging Dissents: Drag kings, resistance, and feminist masculinities.” Signs, 44.4 (2019): pp. 979- 999. Boulay, Nadine. “Week 5- June 12th.” Simon Fraser University, 12 June 2020. CBC Arts. “We are not worthy of the talents of non-binary ‘drag thing’ Rose Butch.” 14 Feb 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJaOzlAyoLo. Below are some Gifs that inspired my art and styling this month. I admire the use of bold colours (specifically a large amount of primary colours), the abstract patterns, and the strong energy of the models. Here’s a little bit of me! *The above image was taken from Nishita’s Blog. A peer review on audience and channels Nishita’s Blog is vibrant and eclectic gallery of multi-media art. The overall aesthetics are consistent, easy to navigate, and convey a style that seems to be very reflective of Nishita herself: on her about page Nishita shares her love of hip hop, which is ever-present in the style and colours for this blog. The pages themselves are purposely monochromatic: the dark background acts as the perfect wall, drawing all attention to the images of art. As Travis Gerts explains in his article Design Machines: How to survive the digital apocalypse, “nothing makes a drop of colour brighter than when it’s set against a wall of grey”. Most of the images are vibrant, and bright pieces of art, contrasting well against the simple and dark theme. With this in mind, I find the title of her blog really hard to read against the busy background – changing the font colour from black to white, or even to the same red as the paper garland would allow for the title of the blog to pop, and become a lot more legible. While navigating Nishita’s website, the first noticeable graphics were the large Instagram icons on the right, under the blog tab. There is a main instagram page that is private, as well as public art page While this is a wonderful way of building a following and audience, I would recommend linking your blog to your Instagram, which would allow for a stronger use of this cross-promotion. In addition, I would recommend making the main page public to allow for greater audience and reach – especially as it is labeled main, which leaves me to assume that traffic would be preferably diverted here as opposed to the accompanying art page. If this is not the case, I would remove the main link altogether. This seesaw between personal blog and art blog speaks to the multidisciplinary qualities of social media, and the undefined rules of online networks, which are “bringing change to all forms of information” (Kissane). The mixed modes of art is really wonderful: this blog truly highlights Nishita’s talent and versatility. When it comes to videos, however, I could be cautious with the auto-play. For example, the blog tab automatically plays the last video at the bottom of the page – a vibrant alleyway filled with colourful street art and vendors. At first, its hard to say where the sound is coming: I check all my other tabs to see if there might be an add somewhere, or a video that popped up. We’ve all seen those people I class, in a café, or in a library, who interrupt the silence with an unexpected video, and panic trying to turn the sound off. Similarly, I often find myself browsing websites in a public space, and exit the website immediately as opposed to taking time to find the source of the sound. Keeping this in mind, especially if this blog is looking at retention, lower bounce rate, and overall keeping track of the analytics. If the auto-play function is something particularly desired, perhaps the blog could have a pop up muted video, like in Lonely Planet’s landing page, so the user immediately knows where the sound is coming from. Similarly, having a preview of the post as opposed to the entire post would allow for reduced scrolling, and potentially more retention: the easier it is to find what you need, the better the experience for the user, which means a higher chance of returning to the blog. These simple suggestions could help elevate the blog to the next level, creating a stronger sense of legitimacy, and foster a strong following. Overall, Nishita does a beautiful job of curating her website to best highlight her art. If you’re an art enthusiast, or an artist yourself, I recommend you check out her work here! Like most projects I do they start with an ideal outcome. An outcome that I do not achieve, not even in the sense of an unideal outcome, more of a man-did-I-fluff-this-up outcome. Recently I’ve gotten into cutting shapes, patterns, lines etc. into the backs of old t-shirts. Hense my Pinterest page old t-shirts. I tried this one When everything was said and done, the wings were a little too big, or one could argue that I was too small… but the first option is a little more plausible. It just showed a little more than what I was planning for it to show. However I didn’t want to let all my work go to waste go to waste, so I found a piece of cardboard, used chalk pastel to fill in the feathers, and covered the thing with a crap ton of hairspray (aka fixative for people who are too cheap to buy actual fixative) You will need… - one piece of cardboard as the canvas. size depends on how big you make the wings - one piece of construction paper for the stencil - an exact knife - chalk pastel - Draw the general shape of the wing onto the construction paper. Then start to fill it with feather-like shapes, or to put it more accurately; leaf-like shapes. - Using the exact knife (under a non-scrapeable surface), cut the feathers out - Marl the middle of the cardboard canvas and lay the stencil on one half - Slightly take the stencil down. chalk pastel can get smudged very easily. If you want the feathers to all to be opaque then have at it and start colouring in. however, if you want the wings to fade out and or be translucent in the middle: - put a heavy layer of pastel around the outer edge of the stencil. Take your finger and first smudge around the edge, then into the centre. - For the next level of feathers do a medium layer around the top part of the feather and lighter layer at the bottoms. Smudge in focusing more on the top - When you get down to the last few bottom feather very lightly touch the top part with the pastel, and then smudge that using it for most of the feather. - Hairspray time. Keeping in mind that the hairspray will most likely cause the cardboard (if it’s weak like mine) to bend try to put weights on the edges. Now have at it! You’ll probably want to do 2-4 layers. The first one or two just being lights spray, whereas 3 and 4 will be heavy.

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July 17-31, 2021 Exhibition hours (July 17-31 only): Monday-Saturday, 1-6 p.m. Closed Sundays. Free and open to the public. The gallery is not hosting any receptions or in-person programming at this time. Please review our campus COVID policies prior to visiting. Health screenings are not required for gallery visitors. This exhibition showcases the work recent participants have made at the 2021 Women's Art Institute—a summer art course at St. Catherine University for contemporary women and non-binary artists of all ages and backgrounds. As a community that shares, reflects and creates, this culmination of four weeks of intensive studio work and study reveals the concerns of women and non-binary artists today. Artist Participants: Kylee Danks, Christy Dickinson, Shannon Dallenbach Durbin, Blue Edwards, Mary Gallagher, Susan Gangsei, Georgia A. Greeley, Alyssa Hahn, Heather E. Kemper, Lin Lacy, Ellie Leonard, Megan O. McNinch, Courtney Miller Bellairs, Sydney Ockenga, Rebecca Oehler, Bunny Portia, Amy Usdin Faculty: Patricia Olson & Paige Tighe Teaching Assistants: Ellie Kingsbury & Gwen Partin About the Women's Art Institute The Women’s Art Institute at St. Catherine University annually offers the fully accredited Summer Studio Intensive, a rigorous four-week program for advanced women and non-binary artists and art students focusing on issues that arise through the combination of open studio work, inspiring conversation, and critique with guest artists, curators, and art historians. The Institute began at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1999 and moved to St. Catherine University in fall 2012. Participants gain insights into the work of contemporary women artists; achieve philosophical, aesthetic, and historical knowledge that will help them define their goals as artists; are given opportunities for intensive studio work and individual tutoring, and develop a body of work based on the exploration of selected questions brought by the participants and discussed during the Summer Studio Intensive. The Women’s Art Institute is sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History at St. Catherine University and co-sponsored by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. For more information about the Women’s Art Institute, visit www.stkate.edu/wai. Exhibition image: Kathy Michaelson, Targeted (detail), 2017, fabric, mirror, beads. Image courtesy of the Women's Art Institute. What is my responsibility/opportunity to confront/engage/interrogate the art historical canon? What are the characteristics of the community I would want to make art in and how would I engage and contribute to it? These were two of the questions established for consideration by the participants in the 2021 Women’s Art Institute Summer Studio Intensive in their just-completed four-week course. Each of the 17 women and non-binary artists created a new portfolio of work from which this exhibition is curated by co-instructors Paige Tighe and myself. Pandemic protocols changed things this year: we met daily and engaged with artists, art historians, and art curator presentations via Zoom. Students were able to work in the Visual Art Building’s studio classrooms. Ranging in age from 21 to 73, the participants explored a wide range of new directions, often surprising themselves and asking: How do I start thinking creatively? How can I trust the process when in the middle of it? How do I know when a piece is finished? - Patricia Olson, Director of the Women's Art Institute Professor Emerita of the Department of Art and Art History of St. Catherine University, Olson is a founding member of WARM (Women’s Art Resources of Minnesota) and holds an MFA in Visual Studies from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. A painter and designer, her work addresses myths, cultural stories and art history from a woman’s perspective. She has exhibited her work nationally, and public collections include Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota Historical Society and Wilson Library, University of Minnesota. Olson and founder Elizabeth Erickson have been designated “Changemakers” by the Minnesota Women’s Press in 2009 and 2014 for their work with the Women’s Art Institute. Olson is an artist member of Form+Content Gallery in Minneapolis. Paige Tighe is an artist, educator, and curator. They have a BA in studio art and art history from the University of Minnesota-Morris and an MFA in public practice art from Otis College of Art and Design. Their first year of graduate school was spent intensely working as an assistant production manager for Suzanne Lacy's Ford Foundation-funded project, Reunion:Reunión in Laton, California. Their performance piece Walk with ME has been shown nationally and internationally. In a world where human connection is shifting and changing, their artwork explores what we hold onto and what we let go of.

About Rose City Rollers: The Rose City Rollers serve women and girls who want to play the team sport of roller derby, connect with an inclusive community, and realize their power both on skates and off. They are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, formed in 2004, and a founding member of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association. RCR currently serves more than 600 skaters and is supported by over 800 volunteers. About Rock ‘N’ Roll Camp For Girls Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls (RNRC4G) is a 501(c)3 non-profit that amplifies the voices of campers aged 9–17 as they form bands, learn an instrument, write an original song, and perform together live before an audience of their families, friends, and peers. We provide a fun, fearless, and supportive environment for girls who are cis-female, transgender (regardless of identity), and gender non-binary to explore music, art, and creative self-expression. Our programs of empowerment cultivate youth leadership, encourage the pursuit of positive social change, and contribute to the vitality of our communities.

Comment peut-on détester quelqu'un au présent et l'aimer dans le passé ? C'est ce que Fliss va découvrir en lisant le journal intime de sa grand-mère Margot. Cette incursion dans l'Histoire et dans les liens familiaux va changer sa vie. Dans un parc d'attractions, Jana, seize ans, se fait repérer par un agent de mannequins. Après hésitation, la jeune fille accepte et signe un contrat. Elle défile bientôt pour les plus grands noms de la mode et évolue dans un milieu glamour mais cruel. Afin de gérer la pression, l'adolescente prend des tranquillisants et des somnifères. C'est le début d'un cauchemar qui poussera Jana à révéler au monde entier combien l'univers de la beauté peut être laid... When three very different siblings, Fern, Rowan and Willow, go home for a Christmas reunion at their family home in Edinburgh, it''s not long before some VERY BIG SECRETS threaten their cosy holiday ... The McAllister house on Arboretum Road has seen 120 Christmases since its completion. This year, FERN is bringing her gorgeous boyfriend home and she wants everything to be perfect. But her twin brother ROWAN would rather go on the pull than pull crackers with the family. And their younger sister WILLOW is terrified of Christmas Day. With FOUR sleeps till Christmas, THREE secretive siblings, TWO hot houseguests, And ONE juicy secret ... This Christmas, there will be some BIG surprises under the tree. Sometimes at Christmas, you don''t get what you want, you get what you need... Sweet and sour, funny and moving, and very, very Christmassy - the perfect book to curl up with this holiday. Come aboard this riverboat tour discovering what it means to be a young transgender or non-binary person in the twenty-first century. In What's the T? , Stonewall ambassador, bestselling trans author and former PSHE teacher Juno Dawson defines a myriad of labels and identities and offers uncensored advice on coming out, sex and relationships with her trademark humour and lightness of touch. Juno has also invited her trans and non-binary friends to make contributions, ensuring this inclusive book reflects as many experiences as possible, and features the likes of Travis Alabanza and Jay Hulme. The companion title to the groundbreaking This Book Is Gay , What's the T? tackles the complex realities of growing up trans with honesty and humour, and is joyfully illustrated by non-binary artist Soofiya. 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Connecting the LGBTQ+ Community in Costa Rica Through Travel Portland couple, Ash Morgan and Mac Rosenquist, Host a LGBTQ+ TrovaTrip to Costa Rica, cultivating safe spaces for the queer community. Portland-based couple Ash and Mac are great advocates for all things LGBTQ+ and are well-loved by their large social media community. When we approached them about hosting an LGBTQ+ friendly trip using the TrovaTrip platform, they jumped at the chance and immediately started planning their experience Ash and Mac loved the idea of hosting a trip to a tropical location that was also safe for LGBTQ+ travelers. With Bali, Thailand, and Costa Rica trending as top destinations on their audience survey, they planned and launched trips to all three. Knowing how impactful an opportunity to bring the queer community together on a vacation would be, they marketed their retreats as “Big Gay Trips to meet new queer friends and connect with the LGBTQ community." This messaging hit home for so many and created such a buzz, that their first two trips each sold out in a couple of hours! LGBTQ+ Friendly Costa Rica Costa Rica is famous for its temperate climate, serene beaches and amazing coffee. But besides the beautiful coastlines on both the Caribbean and Pacific oceans, Costa Rica is also the first country in Central America to legalize same-sex marriage, creating a safe and enjoyable travel destination for LGBTQ+ travelers. In 2020, Costa Rica passed multiple pieces of legislation to strengthen anti-discrimination laws on the basis of sexual orientation, further protecting the rights of its citizens and the many queer travelers each year. While no place in the world is safe from crimes of hate, queer travelers are mostly treated with respect by locals who live by their Pura Vida (pure life) mantra, with gay-friendly nightclubs, bars and beaches popping up all around the country. At TrovaTrip, our mission is to make travel safer and more accessible to everyone. To that end, we vet each destination and operator to ensure our safety and inclusion goals are met for all our travelers. To further ensure we’re best serving the LGBTQ+ community, we partner with the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA), the world’s leading network of LGBTQ+ friendly tourism businesses. IGLTA provides free LGBTQ+ resources and promotes equality and safety in the travel industry. The importance of bringing the queer community together - an interview with Creator Ash Morgan. Ash & Mac hosted their first TrovaTrip to Costa Rica in March of 2022 with 15 excited members of their community. We had the opportunity to speak with Ash about the trip and she had much to say about the group’s bonding experience. What about this trip made you feel renewed and inspired again? To me, social media had started to feel like a fake and very unsocial machine that expected constant content or else I would get punished. I was feeling so burnt out and creatively bankrupt and like I wasn’t cultivating real connections or creating anything meaningful. Creating content was feeling pointless and stressful. But after having such a life-changing experience in Costa Rica where I realized how important bringing the queer community together is, especially in the travel sphere, something clicked in me. I want to continue to cultivate these safe spaces with REAL people. I’m SO excited about the future of our queer trips and creating community for so many who feel lost in their coming out journeys right now. What is your “why” for hosting trips with your community? Everything I just said above! Creating a safe space for queer women and AFAB people to feel SEEN, to know they aren’t alone. To build family, but also experience the world in a safe way! Did you feel safe traveling in Costa Rica while staying true to your LGBTQ+ identity? Absolutely! Everyone was so kind to us and our guide made us feel super safe, even teaching everyone how to say “lesbian” in Spanish. Never once did I feel unsafe or did any of my Travelers say anything negative about our experience! What’s your favorite activity from the Costa Rica trip? I loooooved canyoneering and getting adventurous, as well as just getting to sit in the waves at the beach. Everything just felt at PEACE. Nature is so calming and nourishing. What’s your favorite spot you visited while in Costa Rica? Probably the private beach we kayaked to! It was stunning – we were close to cute crab holes, we were under shade, there were pretty seashells, soft sand, warm beaches and our guides prepared a beautiful and delicious picnic on the side of a stunning blue canoe. Everything was SO PICTURE PERFECT, I felt like I was in a paradise from a movie. What was the most meaningful moment on the trip for you? Probably the farewell dinner. Almost all of us were crying and multiple people mentioned how this trip was life-changing for them (myself included). Most of the Travelers on our trip were queer people who didn’t have a queer community at home. They felt like they had to hide a big side of themselves around a lot of their social circle at home. Someone mentioned that this was the first time they could just be free and use queer terminology and not worry about censoring themselves and their words and how that was so validating for them. We truly became one big happy queer family. Mac Rosenquist, Ash’s partner and co-Host on the Costa Rica TrovaTrip, also shared how she felt about her experience on Instagram. A huge thing that struck me on our first queer trip in Costa Rica was that some of the incredible humans who came did so because they didn’t have a like-minded community to surround themselves with a home and were looking to find that. Which they did. "I cried real tears about being able to facilitate relationships in that way for members of our community, so I really want to extend my big gay open arms to those of you who may feel the same, and let you know that you deserve all the love and adventure and beautiful friendships in the world and WE WANT TO TRAVEL WITH YOU!!” If you want to go on a future trip with Ash and Mac, you’re in luck – they’re hosting three more this year. Bali in June, Ireland in August and Greece in September. Go here to learn more about their awesome trips. They’d love for you to join them. Meaningful moments and navigating our environments while queer - Austin Lindsey weighs in. TrovaTrip’s own Austin Lindsey joined the trip with Ash and Mac for his one-year work anniversary. Austin shared some of his experiences and learnings while traveling with the group. What was the most meaningful moment on the trip for you? The most memorable moments for me were the welcome and farewell dinners. As an icebreaker at the welcome dinner, we went around the table and talked about our coming-out stories. As LGBTQ people, we are all on different journeys, but we are connected through the common thread of navigating our environments while queer. It was really incredible to hear how different we all were, but how much we had in common with our struggles, insecurities and desire to be seen and accepted for who we truly are. Then at the farewell dinner, everyone opened up about how impactful it was to let our guards down, be ourselves completely, and be understood, accepted and uplifted by each other. For a lot of us, this was the first time we went an entire week without worrying about what parts of ourselves we had to hide. As a Traveler, were you surprised about the connections you made on the trip? As the only male on this trip, I was worried a bit beforehand that I would be the odd one out. But that fear was immediately diminished the moment the group got together. Everyone was so warm and inviting. People were there to connect with each other, and that’s exactly what happened. Favorite spot you visited in Costa Rica? Manuel Antonio National Park! You hike through a rainforest searching for monkeys, sloths, colorful birds and more wildlife only to stumble into one of the most beautiful, pristine white sand beaches you’ve ever seen. It was magical. How was your guide? IVAN! Oh, I adore that guy. He was funny, friendly, courteous, knowledgeable and above all, kind. I invited him to visit here in Portland so I can play tour guide and show him all the beautiful nature, craft beers and bike paths this place I call home has to offer. It’s only fair after he shared the beauty of his home with us. I hope he really comes one day! Can you tell us about your role at TrovaTrip and why you are so passionate about what you do? I am an Account Manager specializing in and supporting our Hosts in the Empowerment and Self-Development categories. I work with our trip experience team to build itineraries specifically for communities that have been previously underrepresented in the travel industry. I engage these creators and leaders who represent these communities to Host trips or retreats focused on these types of itineraries. My passion lies in lifting up groups of people who have been made to feel like travel just isn’t for them. I want to help create safe experiences that enable these groups to get out there and prove that travel IS for everyone. To learn more about being a Host with TrovaTrip click here. Resources and Guides for Safe LGBTQ+ Travel: - IGLTA LGBTQ+ Travel Safely Guide - IGLTA Travel Tips for Transgender, Genderqueer and Non-Binary Travelers - LGBTQ+ Guide for Costa Rica - World Nomads Safety Tips for LGBTQ Couples Traveling Together

Tonight, ABC TV broadcasted an episode of Four Corners that focussed on four Australian non-binary young people – Dakota, Riley, Audrey and Olivia. I ended up crying because I was so happy for them. They had supportive families and so early in their lives had figured out who they were and what they needed, in terms of gender. Suddenly I felt like writing again. I get sick to death of talking about gender. The more I say, the more I notice, and the more fed up I grow. Occasionally someone will intimate that trans people are obsessed about gender. I’d say that it’s society in general that’s obsessed and we’re the messengers being shot at (or the coal-mine-dwelling canaries, if you’d like a less violent metaphor). My own discomfort with the status quo just sucked up all the air in the room, man. Once I received the medical care I needed, life improved so drastically that I considered everything else to be gravy. I’d much rather talk about the critters I saw at the river, or the latest book I devoured in one sitting. Or, quite frankly, not talk at all. I started this blog as a way to confront my own anxiety around being seen. For most of my life I’ve known who I was but lacked the ability to get my needs met. At different points in my life I didn’t have the words, the confidence in others’ listening capacities, or the confidence in the existing social systems to support me. (Or, let’s face it, the cash.) Now I finally have those words and have received support. The wider community’s willingness to listen has increased somewhat, along with the predictable pushback. Social change takes time, we know, and I’m so happy to see and hear these kids talk about their lives. From time to time I wonder why the heck I’m still blogging at all, given that I’m now less anxious and would prefer to stop banging on about gender. When I revisit earlier posts, I see that I intended to help both myself and others. I intended to be the person I needed to read about when I had felt alone and interminably weird. So although I deviate into book reviews and nature observations, I keep trying to share my life in a way that may be useful to others. Lately I’ve been quiet because my head’s full of static. There’s nothing useful there, for now. I’m doing some things that are constructively challenging, shall we say. It’s good, it’s growth and there’s nothing I wish to share about that now, so moving on… My first love recently told me that I’m still very much the person they knew, all those years ago. “Thank God!” I said, laughing. The point of all this gender transition palaver was to make my outside match my inside, not to become someone new.

As we celebrated the 50th anniversary of CIIS, the primary goal of the Diversity and Inclusion Symposium was to bring together our learning community in order to capture, interpret, explain, and describe varying perspectives and viewpoints in relation to diversity, inclusion, and social innovation. What emerged were thought provoking and inspirational ways of knowing by faculty, staff, students, and alumni. In our first year of the symposium, we featured over 50 presenters and had 140 people in attendance. The symposium was one of the ODI's offerings this year to engage in critical discourse, develop multicultural competencies and build recognition of the complexity of race, access and personal identity. Below are a few videos that provide a glimpse into the richness of this event, and some of the presentations: CIIS Dean of Diversity, Denise Boston, PhD provides an overview of the day, along with footage from the symposium: CIIS Professor, Alec McLeod, MFA, discusses his workshop for the symposium titled, "Unconscious Assumptions of White Supremacy" and how he came up with the theme for his presentation: Associate Director of the CIIS library, Kelly Sundin, MLIS, discusses their presentation for the symposium entitled, "More than Two: Embracing Non-Binary Gender, Gender Fluidity, and Gender Non-Conformity": CIIS Professor, Sara Salazar, PhD, discusses her presentation for the symposium entitled, "Multicultural Pedagogies for a Multicultural World": CIIS Professor, Daniela Koenig, MFT, discusses her Poster Presentation about the ICP Diversity Pilot Program: CIIS Program Coordinator, Felipe Restrepo discusses the symposium and the 5oth anniversary of CIIS: |SATURDAY||February 24, 2018| |9:00 am||Opening ceremony (CIIS Lobby)| |3 Hour Morning Sessions:| |9:30 am - 12:30 pm|| "Synergic Inquiry: A Tool for Engaging Diversity and Inclusion" - Room 307 Presenters: May Elawar, PhD; Joanne Gozawa, PhD |9:30 am - 12:30 pm|| "Somatics 2.0: Diverse Bodies, Diverse Perspectives"- Room 304 Presenters:Tayla Ealom, Stephanie Francis, BA; Roger Kuhn, MFT; Haruhiko Murakawa, PhD; Jules Pashall; Muriel Jamille Vinson; Kurt Wagner, MFT; Nick Walker, MA; Alyssa Zelaya, MA; Antoinette Reyes, MFT; Don Hanlon Johnson, PhD |9:30am - 12:30am|| "Sensing/Feeling and Thinking our Way into Wellness"- Room 210 Presenters: Laura Coelho, MPH; Robin Gurung; Nafisa Jumahan, BS; Nicole Naramura, BA; Roshmi Rayamjhi, MA; Patricia Rojas-Zambrano, MA; Jaq Nguyen Victor |1.5 Hours Morning Sessions:| |9:30 am - 11:00 am|| "Diversity: Individuation, Strategic Essentialism, and Integralism" - Room 308 Presenters: Debashish Banerji, PhD; Felipe Restrepo |9:30 am - 11:00 am|| "Multicultural Pedagogies for a Multicultural World"- Room 306 Presenters: Danielle Drake, MA; Mara Keller, PhD; Sara Salazar, PhD; Annette Williams, PhD |9:30 am - 11:00 am|| "Making a Way out of No Way: How Building a Community of Sisterhood Impacts the Graduate Experience for Clinicians Identified as Women of the African Diaspora "- Room 216 Presenters: Tayybah Hasan, MA, MFTI; Lynesha Kately, MA, MFTI; Yvonne Hendricks, MA, MFTI |9:30 am - 11:00 am|| "Song Exchange: Sharing Refrains from All Over the World" Room 311 Presenter: Bryan Ritchey, BA |11:15 am - 12:45 pm|| "An Expressive Arts Approach to Exploring Filipino Adolescent Youth Acculturation Processes (Using a Decolonization Framework)" - Room 550 Presenters: Stephanie Balon, MA, MFTI |11:15 am - 12:45 pm|| "Self-Empowerment, Community Engagement and Social Justice- A Buddhist Perspective" - Room 308 Presenters: Keiko Kubo; Tia Waller-Pryde MEd; Roberta Giordano, BS |11:15 am - 12:45 pm|| "Coalition Classrooms: Communication Across Complex Difference in a Democratizing University" - Room 306 Presenter: Kai Lundren- Williams, PhD |11:15 am - 12:45 am|| "Crucial Conversations: Seeking Peace and Conflict Resolution Through Dialogue" - Room 565 Presenters: Kathryn Ryan, L.Ac, Hannah Stack, MBA |12:00 pm- 2:00 pm||Lunch and Poster Networking Session - Namaste Hall| |3 Hour Afternoon Sessions:| |2:00 pm - 5:00 pm|| "Collaborative Pedagogy for Liberation and Transformation: Addressing Diversity in the Classroom Through Ensemble Teaching" - Room 304 Presenters: Danielle Drake, MA/PhDc; Shoshana Simons, PhD |2:00 pm - 5:00 pm|| "Loving our Roots: Expressive Arts and Self-Care Through a Bi-Cultural Lens"- Room 306 Presenters: Emilio Juri-Martinez, MFT; Kiona Medina, MFT |2:00 pm - 5:00 pm|| "Unconscious Assumptions of White Supremacy"- Room 216 Presenter: Alec MacLeod, MFA |1.5 Hours Afternoon Sessions:| |2:00 pm - 3:30 pm|| "More than Two: Embracing Non-Binary Gender, Gender Fluidity, and Gender Non-Conformity"-Room 308 Presenter: Kelly Sundin, MLIS; Ari Kleinman, MSLIS |2:00 pm - 3:30 pm|| "A Participatory Look at The Artist is Present"- Room 218 Presenter: Amy Anderson, MFA |2:00 pm - 3:30 pm|| "Embodied Supervision: Somatic Relational Approaches to Working Across Differences"- Room 311 Presenters: Ellen Balis, EdD; Marsha Hiller, MFT |2:00 pm - 3:30 pm|| "Healing Epistemic Wounds: 2e Perspectives"- Room 565 Presenters: Bisola Marignay, PhD; Jaq Nguyen Victor |2:00 pm - 3:30 pm|| "On Taking up Space: Citational Politics on the Frontlines of a Changing Academy" - Room 550 Presenter: Michelle Marzullo, PhD |2:00 pm - 3:30 pm|| "LET'S TAKE THE NEXT STEP: African Cosmology and Western Science" - Room 560 Presenters: Brian Swimme, PhD: Annette Williams, PhD |3:45 pm - 5:15 pm|| "Neighborly: Ethnographic Theater Facilitated By Drama Therapists Toward Community Behavioral Health"- Namaste Hall Presenters: Deborah French-Frisher; Brittany Carey, BA |3:45 pm - 5:15 pm|| "Bridging Possibility: Exploration into Developing Inclusive Action in Global Citizens"- Room 565 Presenters: Rebecca Crapps, BA; Angela Reed, PhD |3:45 pm - 5:15 pm|| "Co-Creating a Nurturance Culture: The Power of 'WITH'"- Room 210 Presenter: Ashanti Monts-Tréviska, MA |3:45 pm - 5:15 pm|| "Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces: Moving the CIIS Values Forward"- Room 560 Presenter: Irene L. Plunkett, PhD |3:45 pm - 5:15 pm|| "Reconciling Transcendence and Immanence in Spiritually-Aware Social Justice Work"- Room 307 Presenters: Gary Raucher, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT; Felipe Restrepo; Matt Segall, PhD; Joanne Gozawa, PhD |5:30 pm - 6:00 pm|| Closing Ceremony - CIIS Lobby "Synergic Inquiry: A Tool for Engaging Diversity and Inclusion" May Elawar, PhD; Joanne Gozawa, PhD Synergic Inquiry is a participatory method-effective for supporting discussion that trigger our fears. For this workshop, we chose White Supremacy as the trigger. Participants explore a provocative idea: White Supremacists, like many of us, fear losing individual autonomy. Come experience self, other, and holding differences in the face of deep fears. 1) To employ a Synergic Inquiry process to create mutual space 2) To engage authentically in a potentially triggering experience within a diverse community 3)To generate deeper questions about White Supremacy and its influence on our personal and national mythos. "Somatics 2.0: Diverse Bodies, Diverse Perspectives" Tayla Ealom, Stephanie Francis, BA; Roger Kuhn, MFT; Haruhiko Murakawa, PhD; Jules Pashall; Muriel Jamille Vinson; Kurt Wagner, MFT; Nick Walker, MA; Alyssa Zelaya, MA; Antoinette Reyes, MFT; Don Hanlon Johnson, PhD "Somatics" as a collaborative project in education, healing, and research, was created some 50 years ago out of the climate of two World Wars and the Cold War, the Holocaust, and the residues of slavery in the US. It was a gathering of methods of touch, sensing, breathing, feeling, and moving not only, or even primarily, as aimed at personal well-being, but as methods for reshaping the institutions of a sick social order. As this community crafted common education and research projects, a body of literature, the clinics, it faces the obvious challenge of expanding voices that are calling out from other peoples and regions, yearning for healing out of different kinds of historical conditions. Each of these scholars represent diverse viewpoints on the challenge of embodiment, and have been working with strategies to communicate a broader range of healing directions, embedded in experiential and theoretical approaches which they will address in this workshop. 1) How we may work more cooperatively with people radically different from ourselves; 2) How we may discern experiential resistances to others and modulate their impact; 3) A more intricate understanding of how different embodied selves lead to varying strategies of working with oneself and with others. "Sensing/Feeling and Thinking our Way into Wellness" Laura Coelho, MPH; Robin Gurung; Nafisa Jumahan, BS; Nicole Naramura, BA, Roshmi Rayamjhi, MA; Patricia Rojas-Zambrano, MA; Jaq Nguyen Victor In this workshop participants interested in increasing diversity in the mental health field will have first hand experience of the liberatory practices used by Wellness in Action (WiA). Presenters share personal narratives of what works for them to feel a central part of a diverse space, while transcending token inclusion. 1) Learn about the experience of diverse community leaders and their process of engaging and participating in the community health mental field. 2) Learn and have a direct experience of liberatory arts-based learning practices. 3) Share with other workshop participants about their own experiences in diverse educational and work settings "Diversity: Individuation, Strategic Essentialism, and Integralism" Debashish Banerji, PhD; Felipe Restrepo At the base of diversity is the idea of pluralism. Yet individuals are culturally branded and interpellated by dominant cultures robbing them of their power of expression and experience. Cultural histories also have an evolving reality to which the individual belongs even if s/he is unaware of it or consciously rejects it. At the same time, modernity is a world history in-the-making to which the modern individual also belongs as a participant. Thus one may talk of internal relations and hybrid formations among local, subcultural and global subjectivities in each individual. This internal dialog has external formations of political alliance or constellation and organizations of neutrality and hostility. This political contest of cultural signs is an internal and external praxis of the individual that is self-critical and creative. Critique is an awareness of cultural codes and their locations and possibilities in a field of power. Creativity is the micropolitics of the performance of codes moving towards individuation. Such an individuation is also a becoming-universal of the individual and a becoming-individual of the universe. We may also call this an individuation towards an integral consciousness and a planetization which is an integral culture. This presentation explores these ideas through a talk and conversation, followed by a discussion 1) Be able to describe and discuss the cultural situatedness of the individual 2) Be able to describe and discuss the process of individuation in terms of cultural relations and of integrality 2) Be able to analyze and discuss the politics of diversity in terms of individuation (micropolitics) and integrality (macropolitics) "Multicultural Pedagogies for a Multicultural World" Danielle Drake, MA, PhDc; Mara Keller, PhD; Sara Salazar, PhD; Annette Williams, PhD As our country becomes increasingly multicultural, our educational approaches will need to engage students with more multicultural course content, diverse learning modalities, and skillful means of inter-relating the differences among students, their worldviews, and goals. Specific teaching methods include the use of altars, integrating spirituality, addressing student traumas, and developing integrative multicultural curricula and perspectives. 1) Gain knowledge and appreciation of how altars can be used to augment learning Development of teaching tools and diversity awareness that include spirituality 2) Increase the participant's ability to recognize and work with academic trauma in the classroom 3) Share best practices for integrative multicultural teaching and learning "Making a Way out of No Way: How Building a Community of Sisterhood Impacts the Graduate Experience for Clinicians Identified as Women of the African Diaspora " Tayybah Hasan, MA, MFTI; Lynesha Kately, MA, MFTI; Yvonne Hendricks, MA, MFTI This workshop explores the benefits of support groups for people of color attending predominantly white institutions. The model of creating a space for women of a common ethnic and/or cultural background is not a phenomena and is one that has been used by women of the African Diaspora for centuries. Women have created sister circles, quilting clubs, sororities, book clubs, vacation clubs, etc., all in the name of having a space to call our own. These spaces are often critical to our well-being and are a model of communal care that we cultivate for ourselves. Women of the Diaspora is an example of this model and one that can be replicated in other spaces or institutions. In this workshop, we will discuss how to consider our communal care and sisterhood as a part of our self-care within the many obstacles of attending a predominantly white institution. 1) How to navigate systematic oppression in an institution. 2) How to build an additional support system outside of family and existing friends. 3) How to process death, loss, and grief of family during the graduate process. "Song Exchange: Sharing Refrains from All Over the World" Bryan Ritchey, BA Song Exchange -This workshop invites each person to share and teach a folk song from anywhere in the world. Participants will be taught how to pass along songs in an oral tradition. Proposed songs should be memorized so that they can be taught without the aide of written music or instruments. 1) Attendees will know how to pass along songs in an oral tradition, instructing through sound, body presence, and mirroring. 2) Attendees will learn how to embody a song using the power of ensemble, including how to mix harmonies and follow rhythms without the aid of written music or instruments. 3) Attendees will learn new, kinesthetic ways of listening to oral music "An Expressive Arts Approach to Exploring Filipino Adolescent Youth Acculturation Processes (Using a Decolonization Framework)" Stephanie Balon, MA, MFTI The presentation examines culturally relevant approaches to working with Filipinx/Filipinx-American adolescent teens using various expressive art therapy interventions. The contextualized backdrop is grounded in a decolonization framework interpreted by renowned Filipino Psychologist, Kevin Nadal, Ph.D and adapted accordingly to integrate narrative-based art therapy practices by the presenter. Clinicians and providers who may serve the Filipinx/Filipinx-American population; and those interested in learning about the Filipinx/Filipinx-American experience are welcome. Format engages the audience interactively with a case presentation and an experiential activity. 1) To gain practical knowledge on culturally sensitive therapeutic expressive arts-based techniques in working with the Filipinx/Filipinx-American population. 2) To identify potential risk factors and detrimental effects of a colonial mentality and intergenerational trauma may have on a Filipinx/Filipinx-American adolescent teen's cultural identity formation. 3) To develop a wider lens of varied Filipinx/Filipinx-American experiences that may unfold as a youth, such as the onset of depression precipitated from cumulative effects of migration stressors, acculturation, and historical trauma. "Coalition Classrooms: Communication Across Complex Difference in a Democratizing University" Kai Lundren- Williams, PhD Bernice Johnson Reagon distinguishes between "home places"-where distinctive and embattled identities can be nurtured-and coalition spaces, where subjectivities, meanings, values, and practices need to be painstakingly negotiated across complex differences. What would it mean to consider our classrooms as coalition spaces? What can guide our practice? 1) Explore the meaning of coalition applied to pedagogy 2) Apply approaches developed in Women of Color Feminism and Postmodern ethics to classroom practice 3) Develop resources (intellectual and institutional) to support non-dominant, emergent, and democratizing subjectivities "Self-Empowerment, Community Engagement and Social Justice- A Buddhist Perspective" Keiko Kubo; Roberta Giordano, BS; Tia Waller-Pryde, MEd What words come to mind when you think of Buddhism? Perhaps it's something along the lines of meditation, mindfulness, impermanence and detachment. This workshop sheds light on a Buddhist perspective that emphasizes its less mainstream and often overlooked principles of self-empowerment, community engagement and social justice. Together, we will explore the historical context of Buddhism in the West that made this so; study the practical application of this approach as applied by a global people's movement of Nichiren Buddhists, Soka Gakkai International (SGI), and exchange ways in which we enact self-empowerment, community engagement and social justice in our everyday lives. 1) Explore Buddhism's perspective on self-empowerment, community engagement and social justice from an historical and doctrinal standpoint. 2) Study the model of SGI as a movement in its practical application of the aforementioned principles. 3) Interact with other participants to share and learn ways of exercising self-empowerment, community engagement and social justice in daily life. "Crucial Conversations: Seeking Peace and Conflict Resolution Through Dialogue" Kathryn Ryan, L.Ac, Hannah Stack, MBA In this interactive discussion-based presentation, we will discuss barriers (such as echo chambers) and introduce usable skills for having difficult conversations in a polarized world. This talk is for anyone who wishes to respectfully speak their truth, listen to opposing views, and create an opportunity for inclusion in their day-to-day interactions. 1) Using mindfulness practices to set an intention for the session and assess emotions in hard conversation 2) Introducing a identity/diversity activity to challenge how we define ourselves/others while finding common ground 3) Dialogue prompts/exercises to practice listening skills and build better conflict resolution styles "Collaborative Pedagogy for Liberation and Transformation: Addressing Diversity in the Classroom Through Ensemble Teaching" Danielle Drake, MA/PhDc; Shoshana Simons, PhD This experiential workshop will draw from liberatory educational theory, narrative therapy, and cultural and feminist frameworks to demonstrate the use of collaborative pedagogy to facilitate the inclusion of diverse experiences and epistemologies into the university classroom. It is geared toward educators, clinical trainers, and those interested in collaborative teaching. A narrative collective expressive arts practice titled "Laundry of Life" will assist participants in accessing creative ways to liberate and transform educational praxis. Participants will come away with: 1) A greater understanding of inclusive frameworks that support diverse pedagogy in the university classroom; 2) Ways in which to think collaboratively across faculty, programs, and departments; 3) Expressive arts-based tools to invite creativity and diversity into the classroom from both faculty and students "Loving our Roots: Expressive Arts and Self-Care Through a Bi-Cultural Lens" Emilio Juri-Martinez, MFT; Kiona Medina, MFT We create a safe space and container for anyone interested in connecting to their cultural roots and allow them to inform their self care practices. Our experiential workshop explores our diverse and rich backgrounds and stories using the expressive arts to enrich how we care for ourselves in our different environments. 1.To use expressive arts to honor our stories while understanding our multifaceted roles as clinicians, therapists, members of communities. 2. To create a forum for participants to address the current needs of the communities participants are part of. 3. Participants will take concrete expressive arts self-care practices and tools for themselves and the people they serve. "Unconscious Assumptions of White Supremacy" Alec MacLeod, MFA Participants are guided to consider the assumptions underlying "white supremacist consciousness." This highly charged phrase refers to taken-for-granted assumptions of superiority of white norms and the legitimacy of white privilege. By exploring the myths supporting white supremacy and identifying cultural narratives participants can understand how their own beliefs are shaped.. 1) An understanding of the use of critical thinking to challenge cultural assumptions about race 2) Greater awareness of individual assumptions about race 3) Tools for deeper analyses of the foundations of structural racism "More than Two: Embracing Non-Binary Gender, Gender Fluidity, and Gender Non-Conformity" Kelly Sundin, MLIS; Ari Kleinman, MSLIS In this phenomenological exploration of gender in wild variation, Kelly will discuss non-binary gender, attempt to disentangle sex and gender, explore impacts of essentialized cultural practices and normative gender, consider embodiment in binary paradigms, present options for gender-neutral pronouns, and examine California's new Gender Recognition Act (SB-179). 1) An in-depth understanding of the gender binary and variations within, without, and regardless. 2) Suggestions for engaging with gender-neutral pronouns. 3) Approaches for making space for gendervariant folk, and to open minds and hearts to the experiences of those whose gender identities are not easy to explain, not tidily categorized or that tend to shift. "A Participatory Look at The Artist is Present" Amy Anderson, MFA This workshop is a participatory event that embodies the transformative potential of fine art. We look, specifically, at Marina Abromavic's performance piece, The Artist is Present. Attendees participate in a mindfulness activity modeled after Abromavic's art piece. Following the activity, we discuss the effects it had within us. 1) Fine Art carries powerful transformative potential 2) Creative presentations of knowing are very effective within the individual 3) Participants will gain a new tool for developing empathy and compassion (to be used on an individual basis, or in the classroom, if the participant is an educator) "Embodied Supervision: Somatic Relational Approaches to Working Across Differences" Ellen Balis, EdD; Marsha Hiller, MFT This is a clinical psychology experiential workshop in which we will explore how intersectional identities and power dynamics impact clinical work. Developing some ideas of Jon Sletvold and Anne Krantz, we will use expressive movement approaches to see how supervisors, therapists and clients implicitly communicate our relational processes and sociocultural locations. We are literally shaped by these messages, and can use these insights in supervision. 1) Describe how racial identity and racism, disability and ability, poverty and wealth, genders, sexual preferences, spiritual traditions, age are all embodied experiences. 2) Implement gathering implicit information through embodiment practices. 3) Identify non-verbal data such as posture, gesture, prosody, eye contact, nervous system regulation and dysregulation, affect, and breath, in oneself and in another. "Healing Epistemic Wounds: 2e Perspectives " Bisola Marignay, PhD; Jaq Nguyen Victor The academy can be a wounding place when you're an outsider. What happens when you lack the appropriate conceptual tools to understand your social experience and the language in which concepts and theories are presented? This workshop will address such "wounds of knowledge," that is, the hermeneutical injustice that students face in higher education. It will place special attention on the hidden margins of identity, namely at the intersection of dis/ability and other identities that are not widely recognized. It will also introduce Twice Exceptionality (2e), a concept that refers to learners who are both intellectually gifted and disabled, and address ways to best support those with paradoxically presenting needs. The content and structure of this workshop will acquaint students, teachers, and administrators with hermeneutical power, that is, the knowledge to anticipate, support, and heal wounds that otherwise go unnoticed.. 1) To practice compassionate self-interrogation. 2) To initiate internal change for more self-accepting productivity. 3) To quiet hierarchical judgement of others. 4) To determine the specifics of individuals' learning needs and seek ways to support them. "On Taking up Space: Citational Politics on the Frontlines of a Changing Academy" Michelle Marzullo, PhD Citational politics in the academy are informed by how scholars write and cite. This interactive discussion invites reflection on the citational politics of participants through the lens of microaggressions. We share best practices for writers on anti-oppression writing gleaned from respected journals and disciplinary organizations. The sessions applies to students, professors and those interested in improving the practice of higher education. 1) Define citational politics 2) Apply the concept of microaggressions to professional and scholarly practices 3) Identify best practices for anti-oppression writing "LET'S TAKE THE NEXT STEP: African Cosmology and Western Science" Brian Swimme, PhD: Annette Williams, PhD Western empirical science synthesized with African cosmology offers a new vision for the human community. Following brief presentations by Annette and Brian, attendees, through dialogue and discussion, join the world-wide adventure in speculative philosophy aimed at reinventing the human at the species level. 1) Participants will learn core cosmological wisdom of African spirituality. 2) Participants will learn western science's principal achievement. 3) Participants will learn how to participate in reinventing the human species. "Neighborly: Ethnographic Theater Facilitated By Drama Therapists Toward Community Behavioral Health" Deborah French Frisher, MPA, RDT; Brittany Carey, BA Neighborly is a multicultural arts-based move toward behavioral health in the bay area and the title of a new play, inspired by the writing of James Baldwin and voice of Billie Holiday. This table reading of excerpts, performed with live jazz, transforms into a facilitated conversation about how people treat each other. 1) Learn to reflect with others about how people treat each other and the impact that related behavioral health issues have on health in the bay area-individual, corporate, and public. 2) Learn how historic and current fine art and visionary writers inform and inspire practices of inclusion and equity in multicultural institutions of learning, corporate workplaces, and civic neighborhoods. 3) Learn or refresh your micropractice of how to discern and take an actionable step toward healthy and neighborly relating at the specific intersections where you live and work "Bridging Possibility: Exploration into Developing Inclusive Action in Global Citizens" Rebecca Crapps, BA; Angela Reed, PhD Inclusive wellness embraces all aspects of community with the intention of serving the greater whole. In this experiential workshop, we delve into creative processing and reflective work for constructing common ground and creating mindset for inclusive thinking. Audience: Individuals interested in social justice, community service, civic action, and bridge work. 1) Cultivate a deeper understanding of diversity and how one's perspective contributes to participation in the global community. 2) Utilize creative modalities for reflection as a technique for expanding the mind beyond linear thinking into the creative mind of possibility needed for bridge building work and inclusive thinking. 3) Generate strategies for ongoing reflection and collaborative work for addressing diversity issues and incorporate this awareness into action steps supporting inclusive wellness and well-action. "Co-Creating a Nurturance Culture: The Power of 'WITH'" Ashanti Monts-Tréviska, MA When it comes to social justice & equity strategic organizing, one of the common problem is the lack of understanding of equity within social justice spaces. This presentational workshop will guide you as a transformative participant to gain insights on the meaning of the collaborative power within the word of ‘WITH'. This workshop will also address critical issues of social exclusivity, community dialogues and status quo mindset. This is the first step to disrupt mainstream worldviews on doing things for people of lesser community or collective voices by understanding what it takes to be a different kind of transformative activist through healthy approaches. Ready to change the collaborative game? "Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces: Moving the CIIS Values Forward" Irene L. Plunkett, PhD This workshop is for teachers and examines three parts of a safe and inclusive classroom-self- knowledge, the de-mystification of academic cultures, and acknowledgment of the students' cultural backgrounds. "Reconciling Transcendence and Immanence in Spiritually-Aware Social Justice Work" Gary Raucher, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT; Felipe Restrepo; Matt Segall, PhD; Joanne Gozawa, PhD Activists and practitioners of engaged spirituality both pursue diversity/inclusion, but from seemingly different paradigms, one horizontal/objective, the other vertical/subjective. This panel discussion is convened in an effort to cultivate "both/and" thinking and advance our understanding of how spiritual practice and social justice work can be mutually inclusive and enhancing. This session will be of particular interest to people who have pondered the paradoxes of confronting systemic injustice through compassionate inclusiveness.· Understand and be able to articulate worldview differences that have, at times, kept politically and spiritually oriented activists from mutual understanding and cooperation.· Understand and be able to articulate worldview differences that have, at times, kept politically and spiritually oriented activists from mutual understanding and cooperation.· Understand and be able to articulate worldview differences that have, at times, kept politically and spiritually oriented activists from mutual understanding and cooperation. 1) Understand and be able to articulate worldview differences that have, at times, kept politically and spiritually oriented activists from mutual understanding and cooperation. 2) Discover perspectives and practices that can foster "both/and" thinking and reconcile spiritual and socio-political approaches to achieving inclusive justice. 3) Recognize the contributions of spiritual practice to the healing of collective trauma. May Elawar, PhD has been a faculty member in the Transformative Inquiry Department since 2015. Prior to that she was an adjunct professor in the Women's Spirituality and the BAC Programs. Her research interests include: postcolonial feminisms and other critical research approaches, participatory and community based epistemologies and methodologies; women's spirituality and spiritual activism; restorative justice philosophies and practice; and the transformative potential of hybrid "third" spaces. Joanne Gozawa, PhD is Associate Professor in the Transformative Inquiry Department. She has taught at CIIS for 16 years both face-to-face and online. As an educator, her prevailing inquiry asks whether the learning environment evokes a compassionate presence or simply a contentious one. The former enables learners to bear witness to their unconscious assumptions and meaning perspectives and to intersubjectively learn with diverse others. Her scholarly work has incorporated the contemporary Jungian idea of the cultural complex and Shin Buddhism's jiriki-tariki to illuminate learners' resistance and surrender to transformative change. Tayla Ealom: an Earth and Water protector working to weave the worlds of social and ecological justice in an embodied way as a trained somatic counselor and bodyworker. She draws on her many lineages that tie her to the Cherokee, Haiti, and European cultural intersections, and cross-cultural women's work that offers access to powerful healing modalities for all genders. She strives to brings these awarenesses and practices into activist spaces so healing can remain at the forefront of social and ecological movements. Over the past year, she has been exploring the theme of how the human body is both shaped by, and shapes contemporary society through workshops in the larger Northern California community. Her contribution is a reflection on these experiences and how embodied exploration is the key to moving toward a more just society. Stephanie Francis, BA: Stephanie is a second-year graduate student at CIIS pursuing her master's degree in Counseling Psychology focused in Somatic Psychology. She received her undergraduate degree in Africana Studies with a Psychology minor from Bowling Green State University. Stephanie writes from the perspective of her biracial identity with particular interest in her embodied experience. Roger Kuhn, MFT is a Somatic Sex Therapist and a member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. His work is informed from a social and sexual justice perspective. His current academic and activist focus centers on the concept of decolonizing sexuality. He is currently completing a PhD in Human Sexuality as an active participant in the Two-Spirit community in the Bay Area of California. Haruhiko Murakawa, PhD: professor in the doctoral program of body practices at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan. A scholar of the role of the Japanese martial arts in the transformation of consciousness. Organizer of several conferences on this topic in Japan, and one of the founders of Somatic Psychology there. Jules Pashall, MFT: a white, Jewish, fat, and queer femme working as an artist and activist to support people living in marginalized bodies. Her work as a director of fat and queer centered theater, a facilitator of anti-oppression workshops, and training as a Somatic psychotherapist informs her work of envisioning how Somatics can reshape its practices and values to make space for bodies outside of the normative. Antoinette Santos Reyes: a queer cisgender Pinay who comes from a long line of healers and resisters. Having completed a masters in somatic psychology, they are focusing on integrating their therapeutic practice by centering indigenous and decolonized praxis through the ongoing study of women's spirituality. They support the healing of collective trauma by framing human relationship through an intersectional, feminist, and somato-spiritual lens. Muriel Jamille Vinson: an African American scholar, dancer, musician, writer, activist. As a descendant of enslaved Africans and a practitioner of West African drum and dance, Muriel has personally engaged with the dynamics and healing potential present in Africentric embodiment practices including song, drum and dance. Currently training as a somatic psychotherapist, Muriel seeks to highlight Africentric somatic practices, including practices of the African Diaspora, and contextualize their potential use in addressing intergenerational trauma. Kurt Wagner, MFT: Somatic Psychotherapist, researcher, and activist within the gay community. His doctoral research on the possible hormonal variations in the body of birth has led to his articulating the groundwork for understanding the multiplicity of variants in one's erotic proclivities and gender identity. Nick Walker, MA: an autistic Aikido teacher, author, speaker, educator, and somatics practitioner, and a faculty member at California Institute of Integral Studies and Sofia University, founding editor of Autonomous Press. Since 2004 he has been a central figure in the development of Autistic culture and a leading thinker in the Neurodiversity Movement. His eclectic work explores the intersections of somatics, spirituality, neurodiversity, empathy, and creativity. His writings include Loud Hands: Autistic People Speaking, The Real Experts: Readings for Parents of Autistic Children, The Spoon Knife Anthology, and Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber. He has been featured in the documentary films Orphans of Delirium, Dreambody/Earthbody, and Spectrum: A Story of the Mind. Alyssa Zelaya, MFT: a Somatic Psychotherapist, a Lukumi priestess (Olosha) crowned to Shango in 2002, a professional bodyworker (massage therapy and Reiki), and former Aztec dancer. Under these various exposures of religious initiation, folk practices, and professional training, she became interested in helping to heal or resolve the constant "disconnection to self" and imbalances that result when traumas occur. From this perspective, she is currently specializing in trauma work, which includes physical, emotional, and sexual abuses and trauma, specifically, and not limited to, children and adolescents of color. Don Hanlon Johnson, PhD: founder of the Somatics Psychology Program. For several decades, his writing and teaching have focused on the role of the experienced body in crafting a more just and inclusive social order. Laura Coelho , MPH is the Wellness in Action Program Designer and Evaluator. Laura is a Filipina-Indian American and received her MPH from UC Berkeley, where she studies health and social behavior. She designs and implements programs and evaluations with local nonprofits and community-based organizations that work with and for immigrant and refugee communities in the Bay Area. Robin Gurung is a Bhutanese refugee community organizer who is passionate about empowering refugee youths and their families. Robin's project with Wellness in Action, "Bridging the Gap", focuses on resolving inter-generational conflict by building inter generational alliances. Robin now serves as the President of Bhutanese Community in California (BCC), a non profit organization that represents the Bhutanese people in the state of California. Nafisa Jumahan holds BS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Facilitator of Afghan women's support group, through WiA. Bringing awareness about mental health for the Afghan community and breaking cultural misunderstandings about mental health and other social issues, through fun art projects and group meetings. Nicole Naramura holds a B.A. Human Biology and Society, UCLA. She is a Japanese Filipina Bay Area native whose project with WiA is to create a community support group for organizers in Anakbayan East Bay and other sister organizations working for genuine democracy and just peace in the Philippines. Today, she works as an emergency medical technician, a teacher, local photographer, and an apprentice doula with hopes to continue her higher purpose by offering support on the ground. Roshmi Rayamjhi is Wellness in Action Coordinator. She holds Master's degree in Public Health from The Arctic University of Norway, and is a registered nurse in Nepal. She believes Mental health issues are burning problems in modern society and has learned through her work that for the Nepalese community stigma is an issue that deprives people from seeking proper treatment. Patricia Rojas-Zambrano is the Wellness in Action Program Director. Originally from Colombia, she immigrated to the US to study at CIIS. She holds an MA from the Expressive Arts Therapy Program at CIIS and provides Clinical Supervision for third year EXA students as well as a BIS adjunct faculty. She has worked for over twenty years in the arts and community mental health field, beginning in her native Colombia. Today, in addition to her work with Wellness in Action she combines her love of teaching, the arts and healing in her private practice and studio and with other community based organizations. Jaq Nguyen Victor is a Vietnamese, queer, trans, neurodivergent graduate student in the Drama Therapy Program at CIIS. They are also the Director of Dig & Demand, a healing justice program with WiA. Jaq was honored to receive a 2017 Soma Award for "Outstanding Activism Inspired by Spiritual Wisdom" from the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and a 2015 nomination for "Best Featured Actress" by the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle. Lynesha Monet Kately, MA MFTi is dedicated to serving the community. She is a graduate of the Expressive Arts Therapy program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and has over 10 year's experience serving children, youth and families with agencies such as Larkin Street Youth Services, WestCoast Children's Clinic and Seneca Family of Agencies. Lynesha uses her background in expressive arts therapy, compassionate spirit, and sense of humor to connect with her current middle school clients. Tayyibah Hasan, M.A., MFTi currently works for Seneca Family of Agencies as a clinical intervention specialist in an elementary school in Richmond, CA. She works with children and families to provide creative and holistic mental health care. She received her graduate degree in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Expressive Arts Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2017. Tayyibah is dedicated to working creatively with and for communities of color through volunteerism. Her lifelong goal is to live an abundant life full of joy, creativity, and peace. Yvonne Lynn Hendricks, MA MFTi from California Institute of Integral Studies. She studied Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Expressive Arts Therapy. Yvonne is a Marriage and Family Intern at The Marina Counseling Center where she works with individuals, children, and families. She also works as a behavioral therapist doing early intervention with children on the Autism Spectrum. Her theoretical orientation uses NTU psychology with a combination of indigenous ritual and expressive arts interventions (dance, art, and drama), with a collective framework. Yvonne believes that working as a collective will bring healing and prosperity. Felipe Restrepo A native Colombian, Felipe is the Program Coordinator for the CIIS Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and will be graduating from CIIS' Bachelor of Arts Completion program in the spring of 2018. Felipe plans on continuing his studies, and will be pursuing a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology starting in the fall of 2018. He is an artist and a musician, and has a deep commitment to cultivating and practicing an engaged spirituality rooted in embodied nondual awareness. Danielle Drake, MA/PhDc is Assistant Professor and alum of the Expressive Arts Therapy MA program at CIIS, and a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate University. Her research studies focus on the ways in which African Americans use creativity and spirituality towards cultural empowerment, communal relationality and liberation. Her work as an Expressive Arts Therapist engages clients in creative writing, poetry, music, and visual arts processes. She uses a humanistic and narrative informed theoretical approach that incorporates womanist (black feminist), indigenous, African-centered, and liberation psychologies with Emotion Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and contemplative practices. Mara Keller, PhD is a Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Women's Spirituality. As Program Director of Women's Spirituality at CIIS from 1998-2008, she produced dozens of special events on women's sacred arts and scholarship, most recently, a joint art exhibition with CERES Gallery in New York on Ineffable/Woman. She is a philosopher, thealogian, and specialist on the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone. Her articles include "The Ritual Path of Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries," "Ancient Crete of the Earth Mother Goddess: Sacred Arts and Communal Ritual;" "Goddesses around the World," "Violence against Women and Children in Religious Scriptures and in the Home," and "Women's Spirituality and Higher Education." She believes that "Freedom of Religion to worship Goddess is a social justice issue," a message she delivered to the Parliament of the World's Religions at the Women's Plenary in 2015. Sara Salazar, PhD is a second-generation Chicana and was the first in her family to attend college. She holds a BA in English Literature from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana and an MA and PhD in Philosophy and Religion with an emphasis in Women's Spirituality from the California Institute of Integral Studies. An educator for 15 years, she has taught in various schools around the world from the elementary level to the graduate level. As an educator, Sara is informed by critical pedagogy and feminist theory. Her research interests include healing, spirituality, curanderismo, Mesoamerican art, restorative justice, and activism with special emphasis in Chicana/o communities, communities of color, women, and education. In particular, she is interested in the intersections of art, spirituality, and activism. In addition to teaching in the School of Undergraduate Studies, she is also part-time faculty in Philosophy, Religion, and Integrative Studies at Holy Names University in Oakland, CA. Annette Williams holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Women's Spirituality from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco as well an M.A. in psychology with an emphasis in Jungian and archetypal approaches. Research interests have centered on healing from sexual trauma at the level of the soul that involves reclamation of the powerful erotic (à la Audre Lorde) and libidinal (à la Jung) energies suppressed by assault. While at CIIS she has continued to explore the theme of damaged female sexuality, expanding the discussion to more fully expound upon socio-historical and cultural influences. From 2009-10 she served as co-chairperson of the Goddess Studies section of the American Academy of Religion/Western Region. An initiate within and student of the Yorùbá Ifá tradition, Annette has had the privilege of lecturing on the philosophy and lived reality of this West African religion. Her dissertation, "Our Mysterious Mothers: The Primordial Feminine Power of Àjé in the Cosmology, Mythology, and Historical Reality of the West African Yoruba," takes up the theme of women's spiritual power and agency within the tradition.Lynesha Monet Kately, MA MFTi is dedicated to serving the community. She is a graduate of the Expressive Arts Therapy program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and has over 10 year's experience serving children, youth and families with agencies such as Larkin Street Youth Services, WestCoast Children's Clinic and Seneca Family of Agencies. Lynesha uses her background in expressive arts therapy, compassionate spirit, and sense of humor to connect with her current middle school clients. Bryan Ritchey,BA is a 30-year old 1st-year Drama Therapy student from Cleveland Heights, Ohio. In 2009, he attained his BA in Dramatic Arts from Cleveland State University. He's performed in over 60 plays since he was 10 years old, and his dream is to teach people about magic and how to find it in themselves using theatre. In addition to performing, Bryan is also a teaching artist, sound designer, and writer. From 2013-2017, he worked closely with NACL Theatre in Highland Lake, NY, helping craft plays that integrated songs and stories from all over the world. Stephanie Balón. MA, MFTI is an Expressive Arts Therapist at the Daly City Youth Health Center and high schools in Northern San Mateo County. The center offers primary health care, counseling services, and comprehensive sexual health education for youth. Stephanie integrates music, visual art, role-play, ritual, writing, and poetry in her practice. With a Masters in Counseling Psychology (Expressive Art Therapy) from CIIS and an undergraduate degree in Sociology from University of Washington, her work is rooted in trauma-informed care, narrative therapy, person-centered therapy, relational-cultural, and systemic therapy. As Filipino Mental Health Initiative Chair of San Mateo County, Stephanie has an extensive non-profit background in community mental health addressing health inequities amongst underserved populations. Kai Lundgren-Williams, PhD, studied political economy and fiction writing at the New School for Social Research, finished his BA in Social Sciences and Political Theory at Oberlin College, and received his PhD in Philosophy in 2001 from the Philosophy Interpretation and Culture program, State University of New York in Binghamton. He has taught at SUNY Binghamton, De Anza College, Laney College, the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, San Francisco State, and at New College of California where he helped develop the Activism and Social Change emphasis BA Completion and MA programs. He has published and given talks on alternatives to the modern capitalist devotion to scarcity as a way of being. Keiko Kubo is a current CIIS student in the Counseling Psychology, Community Mental Health Master's program. As a former Study Programs Fellow of grassroots Buddhist movement, Soka Gakkai International-USA (SGI-USA), Keiko brings her knowledge of Buddhist doctrinal studies, as well as the application of those studies on an individual and organizational capacity. Having done non-profit social work across the United States and the Southern Hemisphere, Keiko has collaborated with community leaders and peacebuilders who work to transform the devastating effects of colonization, genocide, nuclear weapons and capitalism. It is her passion to share principles of Buddhist philosophy as a tool to promote healing, empowerment and social change. Roberta Giordano holds a Bachelor in Science in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management with an emphasis in Global Environmental Politics from the University Of California, Berkeley (UCB). Born and raised in Rome, Italy, she has spent most of her life working as a grassroots organizer in the fields of social and environmental justice. Roberta relocated to the US in 2008, and since then, she helped students organize across California around environmental justice issues. In 2012 she co-founded the Student Environmental Resource Center at UCB, and in 2013 she co-founded Students Against Fracking. She is actively involved with legislative advocacy in the Bay Area and California to halt the financing of extractive projects and companies that are violating indigenous rights and exacerbating climate change. She currently serves as Development Associate at Amazon Watch, a non profit organization that works to protect the Amazon rainforest by advancing indigenous rights. Roberta has been an active member of the Soka Gakkai International-USA since 2008 and uses her Buddhist practice as a tool for self improvement and to effect positive change in her community. Tia Waller-Pryde, MEd. For over 20 years, Tia Waller-Pryde has worked to improve the lives of vulnerable children and families through philanthropy. She has served as Director of Programs for the Freddie Mac Foundation in McLean, Virginia and as Education Program Manager for the Clorox Company Foundation in Oakland. Among her most satisfying accomplishments has been using foundation resources to increase the number of highly effective teachers and principals working in low-income communities in Washington, DC. Additionally, she facilitated and invested in initiatives within the DC region that reduced the number of homeless families by providing housing with support services. Prior to her career in philanthropy, Tia served as a legislative assistant to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Director of Training for Coro in San Francisco. Coro conducts leadership development programs for youth, young adults, and professionals who want to ignite change in our society. Shortly after moving to the Bay Area in 1974, she founded Nia House Learning Center, a Berkeley-based Montessori childcare program whose families continue to reflect the income and ethnic diversity of the community. Tia has a B.A. in history from Howard University in Washington, D.C and a M.Ed. with a specialization in the Montessori Method from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is also a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in San Francisco. Tia has been a practitioner of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism with the Soka Gakkai International-USA for over 43 years. She is retired and derives great fulfillment from supporting members in developing their Buddhist practice. She is also an avid skier who is determined to finally outdo her husband on the slopes this year. Hannah Strack MBA, has an undergraduate degree in Communication Studies from Luther College and an MBA in Leadership and Personal Development from the University of Iowa's CIMBA Italy Program. During her liberal arts studies, Hannah welcomed new multicultural students as a coordinator for the Diversity Center and studied abroad to countries such as the Canary Islands, Malta, and more; learning how to connect and communicate across cultural divides. She has taught English in the Republic of Georgia and volunteered for several multicultural organizations. Hannah is currently the Admissions Counselor for ACTCM at CIIS and is enthusiastic about engaging and inspiring others to be inclusive and acknowledge unique perspectives. Kathryn Ryan L.Ac., has been a Licensed Acupuncturist for over 30 years, and has enjoyed teaching at ACTCM at CIIS for 20 years. Before becoming an acupuncturist, Kathryn received a degree from UC Berkeley in Dramatic Art. In the 1990s, she worked at Quan Yin Healing Arts Center in San Francisco treating HIV patients. She was also honored to work with the transgender community. Shoshana Simons, PhD, RDT is a drama therapist, voice-over artist, leadership coach and Professor and Chair of the Expressive Arts Therapy Program at CIIS. She received her PhD in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. Shoshana has over 30 years of experience as a transdisciplinary scholar-artist-practitioner-educator. At the heart of all her work is a passion for transforming educational and human service systems into environments that actively welcome in the voices, experiences, cultures and traditions of people across difference. Shoshana's writings and applied research are in the fields of narrative collective expressive arts practices and performative approaches to change. Kiona Medina is a Colombian-born expressive arts therapist intern graduate from CIIS with 10 years of experience working in diverse communities in the Bay Area and has presented her work internationally. She is deeply passionate about empowerment and connection through arts and play. She currently works in Richmond as a family therapist and big-hearted community facilitator. Emilio Juri is an Argentinian-born Reiki Master and expressive arts therapist intern graduate from CIIS. He has experience working with diverse communities in the Bay Area and is currently working as a Mental Health Specialist at an inpatient adolescent unit struggling with depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. Emilio has also presented his work internationally. Alec MacLeod, MFA is a white educator, artist, and scholar at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has thirty years of experience as a facilitator of learning and change in a wide range of contexts, from formal educational environments to organizational and corporate interventions. He is especially interested in education for anti-racism, multicultural awareness and change, and in issues of whiteness. He has furthered his understanding of multicultural change through training with Equity Institute and VISIONS, Inc. and has been a consultant with the latter for over ten years. Kelly Sundin, MLIS Balladeer, geek, logophile and memetic drifter, Kelly Sundin is a librarian at CIIS, and has been working within the CIIS community for over 8 years. Kelly identifies as queer and gendervariant and is steeped in daily efforts to cultivate dignity, equity and respect for all beings and the earth, and embraces anti-oppression and anti-racist practices as major frameworks in their lifelong learning. A San Francisco native, Kelly proudly attended City College of San Francisco, studied the origins of oppression in western society at UC Berkeley with a BA in Medieval History magna cum laude, and attained their MLIS from San José State University. Singing, reading and helping others are deeply spiritual and healing practices for them and, in becoming a parent last year, they embarked on their biggest adventure so far. Ari Kleinman, MSLIS works in the CIIS library as a cataloging librarian, where they strive to provide equitable access to information resources. They are queer, agender, and non-binary, and use they/them pronouns. Ari studied Literature, Media, and Communication at American Jewish University, and recently graduated with their MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. In addition to their work in the library at CIIS, they also volunteer as a librarian at Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, a communist library and archive in Oakland. Amy Anderson, MA Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Amy M. Anderson studied Studio Art, as well as, Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Amy received her Master of Fine Arts from Western Carolina University, her Master of Liberal Studies from UNC-Wilmington and is currently pursuing a PhD in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies with a focus in contemplative, transformative pedagogy in higher education. Amy is an art instructor and a visiting artist at international artist residencies, specializing in conceptual, site-specific installations. Ellen Balis, EdD Ellen's relational psychodynamic orientation is enriched by over 30 years of meditation practice, as well as her early training in feminist therapy, family therapy, and psychodrama. She is on the faculty of the Wright Institute, where she teaches courses in Supervision and Multicultural Awareness, and she has a private practice with a sub-specialty working with LGBTQ clients and couples. She has supervised pre-doctoral interns and post-doc fellows since 1986. Marsha Hiller, MFT has been teaching graduate psychology students at John F. Kennedy University and CIIS, and supervising for over 20 years. She has extensive personal and professional experience and passion for living and working cross-culturally. Her private practice and supervision experience include working with people from the LGBTQ community, folks of different races and she is a Transracial Adoption Consultant for Pact, an Adoption Alliance working with white adoptive parents of children of color. Her private practice is in North Berkeley, and her work is informed by psychoanalytic, relational, somatic, developmental, feminist and social justice theories. Bisola Marignay, Ph.D. has taught and provided individual and group writing support for students at CIIS for the past eleven years. She developed the process of Creative Writing Therapy to address the emotional issues that are commonly the source of students' academic struggles. The objective of her work is to guide learners past their anxiety into awareness of their specific intellectual competencies. Simultaneously, she instructs writing skills that give learners confidence to use lived experience as foundations for writing lucid critiques, arguments, and creative expression. Bisola has also contributed technical assistance for improvement of the university's overall approach to providing academic support services for students. Presently, she supports groups and individuals within her private practice of Creative Writing Therapy. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.org Michelle A. Marzullo, Ph.D. is a practicing anthropologist and academic who serves as Chair and Professor for the Human Sexuality PhD Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr. Marzullo's work currently engages sexuality policy and economic issues in the United States, LGBTQ access to higher education, issues of ethics in internet research methodology, and workplace diversity and inclusion issues. She has earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Western Connecticut State University, a Master's Degree in Human Sexuality Studies from San Francisco State University, and a PhD in Anthropology concentrating on Race, Gender and Social Justice from American University in Washington, DC. Michelle is honored to be a past recipient of the Point Foundation Scholarship, the American University College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, the St. Clair Drake Grant from the Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA), the Carlos Enrique Cisneros Scholarship for LGBT students of distinction attending American University, Genentech's Out & Equal Scholarship, and the Grant Larsen Fellowship at San Francisco State University. Dr. Marzullo has been featured on CNN, in the Washington Post, the Advocate and regularly provides expert advice to various media requests. Brian Thomas Swimme received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon for work in gravitational dynamics. He brings the context of narrative to our understanding of the fourteen billion year trajectory of the universe. Such a narrative, he feels, will assist in the emergence of a flourishing Earth community. Swimme is the author of The Universe is a Green Dragon, and creator of the educational video series: "Canticle to the Cosmos." He is core faculty in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness, (PCC) and in Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion (ESR). Angela Reed, Ph.D., received her doctorate in Transformative Studies from CIIS in 2014. She currently teaches physical education in North Carolina with 25 years' experience and continues her research with young people in the areas of global and planetary wellness. She has a patent pending for a tool she created from her dissertation research, Mandala in Motion, and is in the process of designing a resource kit for educators to bring diversity, inclusion, and global awareness into the classroom through experiential learning that empowers. Rebecca Craps holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology and Communication Studies from Clemson University. She has facilitated district level Social Studies professional development with an emphasis on inquiry-based learning and informed action. She currently teaches fifth grade in North Carolina. She is co-author of an article published in the September/October 2016 issue of Studies and the Young Learner that focuses on using inquiry in the classroom. Ashanti Monts-Tréviska, MA is the co-founder and the creative visionary of Cascadia Deaf Nation, a For Profit Social Enterprise of Deaf Black Indigenous People of Color (DBIPOC*) where it focuses on bringing creative solutions to dismantle socio-economic and social injustices through its transformative cooperative model. Ashanti demonstrates that Deafhood is the first step to bringing transformative narratives into co-creating collaborative relationship between Deaf and Hearing communities. Through this understanding, she offers spiritual insights on activism, human connection, the meaning of community, and education, and believes in the creative arts of deep listening and communication to convey the need to transform human connections.Ashanti holds Master's degree in Transpersonal Psychology and Certificate in Spiritual Psychology from Sofia University and is currently a Doctoral student in Transformative Studies and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She enjoys coloring mandalas and writing poems as her meditative hobbies. She jogs frequently and is always unpredictable when it comes to her leisure activities. Ashanti understands that deep change has to start at the individual level before the actual changes reach the community level based on her current transformative activism framework model. She seeks to reframe and transform current reductive worldviews of Deaf people globally. Irene L. Plunkett, Ph.D., is faculty emeritus of Chabot College where she taught ESL, English, Women's Studies, and Religious Studies for 35 years. This college is in Hayward, CA, the third most diverse city in the U.S. The campus is a minority-majority school in which there is no racial, ethnic, or cultural majority, and where English is most commonly not the first language of the students whose numbers include both immigrants and refugees. Dr. Plunkett completed her doctoral work at CIIS in the Women's Spirituality program. Gary Raucher, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT: Core Faculty with the CIIS Drama Therapy Program; licensed MFT; Registered Drama Therapist; Board Certified Trainer of Drama Therapists. He has broad clinical experience in community agencies, hospitals, and private practice working with individuals, families, and groups. He has presented internationally on applications of drama therapy in diversity and social justice work, and serves on the CIIS Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Committee, which has adopted these conference presentations for community use. A firm believer in the mutual efficacy of spiritual practice and social justice advocacy, Gary is a certified instructor of The Wisdom Foundation, offering classes in Wisdom Meditation and Wisdom-Informed Therapy. He is a past Board Member and Vice-President of The North American Drama Therapy Association, and received its 2015 Annual Service Award. His publications include numerous articles and book chapters, several bridging transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies to drama therapy. Matthew T. Segall, PhD, teaches German Idealism and process-relational philosophy for the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His Spring 2018 online course at CIIS, Process and Difference in the Pluriverse, aims to address the challenge of thinking and acting with creativity and compassion in an increasingly complex and pluralistic set of social, political, and ecological contexts. He has published articles on metaphysics, participatory theory, psychedelics, religious studies, and is the author of Physics of the World-Soul: The Relevance of Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism to Contemporary Scientific Cosmology (2016). He blogs regularly at footnotes2plato.com.

We all know the excitement of waiting for the birth of a child. We may be waiting by the phone and when it rings hearing the words. “It’s a girl” or “It’s a boy”. The moment we get that news we begin to imagine a live for the little one based on the description of their gender. Its hard not to. We are wired that way in our dualistic world. You are one or the other in so many definitions and gender is just one of hem. By virtue of your gender you are placed in a box of expectations and social mores that will impact on you for the rest of your life. How you dress, do your hair, who you marry, the type of work you may do and whether you are good at makeup, cooking or tinkering with cars and which church you can become a priest in. Dualism is often the only choice we have – this or that. In recent times there has arisen a new way to describe gender – non-binary or gender fluid – implying that one’s gender is not fixed but in fact can and does move across a spectrum from one to another, often sitting somewhere in between. There has been much discussion about transgender where one chooses to be the other in a definite choice, but non-binary or gender fluid allows you to move according to where you find yourself within yourself and responding to the world around you as appropriate in that moment. When Jesus was born, the news spread even without FaceBook – “It’s a boy” – and immediately a set of expectations appropriate to his culture came into play. Yet was Jesus a boy, in the sense he wasn’t a girl? Or was Jesus different. In the next few minutes I am going to explore three non-binary ideas about Jesus which are important this Christmas. Jesus was a boy in a non-binary way. Yes for all intents and purpose Jesus was a boy – apparently he had the appropriate plumbing. Yet throughout his life Jesus was more than the gender he was born with. He was aware of his completeness as a human being and was able to engage with the full breadth of his humanity – his feminine and masculine traits being visible in his engagement with those he shared his life and those he encountered. He was just at home with a women suffering from what we would now discreetly call women’s problems and with men struggling to fit the stereotype of wealth and success deemed necessary for a good provider; he understood the softer moments with his friends Mary and Martha as well as the blokey stuff with Peter and the boys. While the Gospel writers concentrate on the boys in the story Jesus was well aware of the role women played and how vital they were to his very existence. Jesus was no stereotypical bloke and he was, in this sense, gender fluid. How different life in world would be if we could embrace this sense of non-binary or gender fluidity within both the church and society. Perhaps if we did so we would see less of the violence against women, be it sexual, domestic or simply the closed doors in male dominated hierarchies like the church. Perhaps if we could understand that to be completely human we are to be non-binary in our understanding of ourselves and therefore more at ease with the diversity of gender within ourselves and others. Jesus was an adult and a child in a non-binary way. When a child is born we go all-gooey and wax lyrical about beauty, innocent and cuteness in a way that should embarrass us. But at some point that comes to an abrupt stop and we hope that they mature quickly because their antics somewhere between baby and adult can be trying. The little things that we used to think were cute and innocent cease to be so when they are 20, 30 or 40 and we are over it. Yet childlikeness is an important trait I hope we never lose, even though it may annoy our parents and our partners. One day, on High Street, I noticed a grandmother and a 3 year ol;d on the foot path. The grandmother was ahead of the child who was dawdling along looking at everything. Noticing a tree she went up to it and sat on her haunches and looked at it for a number of minutes, then giving it a knowing touch she slowly moved on. Jesus’ life was both mature and childlike and often somewhere in between. Unless you become like a little child he both said and practiced. You see, Jesus saw through the eyes of a child the value of others not valued by society, he had no problems sitting down with the outcast and difficult. When our daughter was young and we were in the Salvos, where ever we were in NSW we would often get visited by an old time swagman we knew as Old Bill. He would turn up on our doorstep with his swag and his battered old guitar. A man of fewer than few words he would share a meal and then sit with Katrina, a very small child and they would sing and clap and share the joy of life together. It did not matter to her that he smelt a bit, wasn’t dressed well or had few teeth. He was Bill and she loved him for being Bill. Jesus, like a child was able to see the world and the things of creation and reading them in a way that informed his life. He had a childlike understanding of what is right and wrong, what to hold on to and what not. Jesus was both an adult and a child but in a non-binary way. Finally, Jesus was God and human in a non-binary. Yes Jesus was born as a little person, a fully human little person with all the evidence of being one of us. He grew and matured Just as we do. He had emotions and feeling, he laughed and cried, he hurt and rejoiced just as we do. Yet at the same time he was more than this bundle of bones held together by tissue weight skin – he was God- he was, as he said to us, one with God. I wonder if he said to God – I am one with them? I am sure he did. His identity was not either or but both at the same time. This is important for us to understand – at Christmas God became human so that humans could come to grips with the potentiality alive with in them- within you and me – to be Godlike in all that we are and do. Not God like that we are to be the centre of the world but Godlike in compassion, love, awareness, other focus, selflessness, sacrifice and strength to hold to what is right even though it will take us to the Cross in some way. Like Jesus we are humans in a non-binary way. If we are able to understand the incredible possibility that comes to us wrapped in the ordinariness of a baby this day, that is the ultimate gift of Christmas.

Title: Weekend Girl Series: Weekend Girl, Book One Author: Alex Powell Publisher: NineStar Press Release Date: 06/21/2021 Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex Genre: Contemporary, LGBTQIA+, Canada, alloromantic, aromantic, agender, pansexual, genderfluid, college, sexual harassment, manties, cross-dressing, transgender, #ownvoices, new adult Ashley Kingston is a genderfluid university student with a major crush on attractive and charming Nolan. He seems just too perfect to be true. What happens when Ash meets Nolan while dressed as both a man, and a woman? And even more confusing, what happens when Nolan seems enamoured of both versions of Ash? A twisty-turny romance filled with fun and shenanigans. Ashley Kingston sat in the bustling Davie Street cafe staring into his—Wait! Their cup. Their. They had managed to misgender themself again, and honestly, it was getting old. Realizing they might not be a cis dude was like trying to find a bra that would fit their frame—sometimes it poked them in places not meant to be poked. Speaking of bras, Ash had two new ones in their bag on the floor next to their feet. Normally, Ash wouldn’t have gone to a store to purchase clothes not meant for men, but their friend Bei Bei had gotten Ash’s measurements and pretended the bras were for her. One was a perfectly sensible beige number, but the other was fire-engine red, at Bei Bei’s insistence. Ash was nervous about trying them on, even when no one else was around, but what were they to do? Progress was progress. They glanced over at their friend from the corner of their eye. Bei Bei was on her phone texting someone, running her hand through the short hair on one side of her head. Her undercut was brand spanking new. Still not used to it? Ash frowned. The two of them were both trying something on for size. Bei Bei said she wanted to be the butchest of butch lesbians. She’d gone into the salon and had all of her long black hair cut off just that morning. Ash had watched as Bei Bei transformed before their eyes. What was it like to have long hair? Ash ran a hand through their own dark-brown hair and sighed. Maybe one day. “What are you moping for?” Bei Bei demanded. “We just had shopping therapy. I thought for sure you’d be happier now.” “I’m not unhappy,” Ash started. “But you are,” Bei Bei finished. “I was just thinking—” Ash sighed again. “—what it might be like to have long hair, and I just…” They shrugged. “Is that all?” Bei Bei said. “We can get you a wig.” “I’m a starving student! As if I could afford a quality wig!” “It doesn’t have to be expensive,” Bei Bei said. “I’ll help you find something nice but affordable online.” “Okay,” Ash said, somewhat mollified. “I guess I was just blowing things out of proportion—again.” “You really need to chill.” Bei Bei patted their arm. “I know, anxiety sucks.” “At least my meds are somewhat stable. I have a mate back home who can hardly go outside some days.” Bei Bei nodded sympathetically. The two sat in silence for a few moments, and Ash took a sip of their now-lukewarm London Fog. They licked a bit of foam off their lip. The world went on by outside the cafe window, and Ash watched from their place perched atop a bar-style stool, elbows resting on the counter running along the inside of the window. “Ooh,” Bei Bei said. “She’s hot.” A very tall Black girl with bantu knots and long legs walked by outside. Ash nodded. She was very attractive, and her barely there black shorts hugged her hips. Ash, who had known they were pansexual long before they figured out their gender, considered themself an equal-opportunity lover. That is, when they even had a lover. Ash struggled to keep relationships, and they could never figure out why. It wasn’t a lack of attraction, and Ash enjoyed dating. But something always made the situation go sour. The girl stopped for the traffic light on Davie and Granville, and Bei Bei and Ash looked on with interest. A loud group of tourists passed by the window, and when the group cleared, the girl looked back at them. Ash pretended to be very interested in the dregs of their drink. Of course, Bei Bei kept on staring. The girl turned and came towards them. Ash didn’t know what to do, so it was lucky their attention was on Bei Bei. The girl came into the cafe, making her way to where Ash and Bei Bei were sitting. “Can I help you?” the Black girl asked. Bei Bei’s eyes sparkled. “I’ve lost my phone. Do you mind calling it for me?” The girl’s mouth twitched. “That the best you got?” “Not by a long shot,” Bei Bei replied. Bei Bei and the girl, who eventually introduced herself as Ouma, flirted away beside Ash. Ash pretended they had no idea who Bei Bei was, in spite of the fact she was sitting right there next to them. Bei Bei kept running her hand through her newly shorn hair and biting her lip in obvious signs of attraction. Ouma was standing beside them with her hip cocked, head tilted. Ash looked at their phone and their Twitter page for a bit, waiting for Bei Bei and Ouma to finish with their flirting. “Bye,” Ouma said, flashing a wave as she walked out the door. “Oh my god, you are incorrigible,” said Ash as soon as Ouma was out of earshot. “Got her number though,” Bei Bei smirked. Ash rolled their eyes. “You’ve got game, girl.” “You just need more confidence, Ash,” Bei Bei said. “You’re plenty attractive to those who like enbies.” The real problem was that Ash didn’t look non-binary. They looked like a cis guy. That could cause them trouble in the long run. “I guess?” Ash said with another shrug. “I’m mostly worried that… Well. I’m trans. It’s a thing that gets a lot of people killed in a lot of places, especially when it comes to dating and sex.” “Truth bomb time, I guess.” Bei Bei scratched the side of her head. “It’s hard enough being an Asian lesbian. Being trans is a whole other thing.” Ash just nodded, tried to take another drink, and grimaced when they found their cup empty. “I’d date a trans lesbian,” Bei Bei continued. “I know it doesn’t really make me special or anything. But I know of a ton of TERF lesbians who wouldn’t.” Ash made a face at the mention of TERFs. They had enough to deal with at university without having to listen to some transphobe calling herself a feminist saying that trans people were gross. They felt gross a lot of the time anyway, but it got worse when people started calling trans people trash. Ash’s anxiety always skyrocketed if they saw people arguing on social media about it. “I just want to find a person who would accept me for being genderfluid,” Ash said. “I’m always worried that anyone I’m interested in will turn out to be one of those binary sex-pushing assholes.” It happened sometimes on Twitter. Somebody with a cute profile pic turned out to be awful, and it always made Ash angry, but also ashamed in a strange way. They hated that they felt ashamed sometimes of something like their identity, but it was still there sometimes, throbbing in their chest. “I get it,” Bei Bei said. “I know you gotta be careful. But don’t shut yourself off completely.” “I guess,” Ash said. “It’s not like I’m even used to thinking of myself as non-binary in the first place.” “You have to start somewhere,” Bei Bei said. Ash acknowledged this with a nod. Bei Bei got up to get another iced caramel macchiato, and Ash stared out the window at the people going by. Things were tough right now, so Ash had to be tougher. Meet the Author Alex is an author of LGBTQ+ romance. They live in northern Canada where it snows six months of the year. Currently, they are pursuing a PhD in English, but that won’t stop them from writing about space vampires or cyberpunk hackers or whatever else pops into their head. Mostly a SFF writer, Alex sometimes dabbles in other genres including contemporary romance.

A news station decided to pull a documentary on transgenders after a filmmaker alleged that the documentary would create transphobia. CBC had originally planned to air “Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best” at 10 p.m. ET Tuesday, according to the Toronto Star, but pulled the documentary from its lineup after a non-binary trans filmmaker, Joshua M. Ferguson, called on the news outlet to retract the documentary from its program. “The film has been widely discredited by experts & will feed transphobia with its unbalanced representation,” Ferguson tweeted to the CBC Docs account Tuesday, asking others to join him in his call to pull the broadcast. CBC claims that it compiled the documentary largely because there has been an exponential increase in the number of children being referred to gender clinics around the world, and the documentary seeks to investigate why this phenomena is occurring and what roles parents should play. “In light of our own further review of the doc, coupled with audience reaction, we have decided not to air Transgender Kids. We think there are other docs that better offer insight into the realities of the transgender community and we look forward to airing those in the future,” CBC Docs tweeted Tuesday. The documentary features a conversation with one of the world’s leading experts in childhood gender dysphoria, Dr. Kenneth Zucker, who lost his job for “challenging the new orthodoxy that children know best,” according to the film’s synopsis. Zucker presents evidence in the documentary that most children with gender dysphoria eventually overcome the feelings without transitioning. The documentary also includes the experience of a woman who had a double mastectomy as part of transitioning to a man and is haunted by her decision, explaining that she wishes her gender dysphoria had been treated as a mental health issue. The documentary also includes comments from Zucker’s critics, gender affirmation supporters, transgender activists, and other leading medical experts who disagree with Zucker’s assessment. “I’m one of many people who would be happy to discuss balanced trans representation with you for future new programming,” Ferguson tweeted, thanking the news outlet for “making the right decision” not to air the program. He has been fighting for Canada to legally recognize non-binary people, advocating for non-binary markers on IDs and birth certificates. The Daily Caller News Foundation is working hard to balance out the biased American media. For as little as $3, you can help us. Freedom of speech isn’t free. Make a one-time donation to support the quality, independent journalism of the Daily Caller News Foundation. We’re not dependent on commercial or political support and we do not accept any government funding. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact firstname.lastname@example.org.

The majority of us still grow up thinking and being taught about people that either they are a girl or a boy. As we get older our definition might expand to include that women and men can look all sorts of ways, but they ultimately have to fit into these 2 distinct categories. Turns out we humans are a bit more diverse than that with gender identities. Meet my adorable friend, the gingerbread person: Let’s start with the concept of gender identity. As you can see in the image above, this is the concept in someone’s head about their gender. And the options for this actually fall on a spectrum, with man/woman being the two ends of the spectrum, and there is a whole lot of middle to go around. Note that this might be similar or different (to varying degrees) to one’s sex which as you can see is defined by what’s between one’s legs (and all the other sex related physical characteristics such as hormones, internal organs, etc.). (Throughout in this article I will be referring to assigned sex at birth, referring to how people were identified as being a certain sex and matching gender when they were born) So for people whose sex and gender identity align, we use the term cisgender, and for those whom it differs, we use the term transgender. Also as the image above illustrates, gender identity and sex are separate, independent parts of one’s identity. In the same way, one’s sexual orientation (to what kind of gender identities one is attracted to romantically and/or sexually) is separate from these other two elements. Now, on this gender identity spectrum, those who are not on the two endpoints we are used to (man or woman) fall under the non-binary category. They might just define that as being on neither end of the spectrum or that they are closer to one or the other, or they might move around on this spectrum. Everyone defines non-binary for themselves. Some labels under this umbrella term include: non-binary (as a label itself), genderqueer, gender non-conforming, genderfluid, agender (someone who feels that they don’t have a gender at all), bigender, grey gender, etc. Here is a list of more identities and their definitions. (Since for non-binary people, their gender identity technically doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth, some consider themselves to be part of the trans community and will identify as trans non-binary.) More information on non-binary identities and how to be supportive, here. Some more resources on the basics: “What is a nonbinary gender?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruST0GPi68s&ab_channel=RileyJ.Dennis “Living as a non-binary in a binary world” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pvLDHFCEWk&ab_channel=TEDxTalks “Are Nonbinary People Trans Enough?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABSOXepvhTA&ab_channel=JacksonBird Above I mentioned that gender identity is something that is in your head, how you define yourself. But really, we only know this about other people if we go up to them and ask them. But before we would get there (if it’s even appropriate in the situation) we already make assumptions about people based on how they look. This is what we call gender expression: how you dress, act, what are your hobbies, etc. This is also a spectrum, with feminine at the one end and masculine at the other, some flavor of androgynous in the middle (more on the difference between non-binary gender identities and androgyny here). This element plays into how we describe someone as a feminine man, a masculine woman, or an androgynous woman and so on. So what does someone with a non-binary identity look like? Well, their bodies might be male, female, or intersex. They might experience gender dysphoria (discomfort that one feels about their gender identity not matching their assigned sex at birth; not to be confused with body dysmorphia) and in order to alleviate that, choose to alter their body to better match up with their gender identity. This is what we refer to as medical transition (an umbrella term for many different medical procedures such as hormone replacement therapy, different top or bottom surgeries, etc.) Not everyone undergoes medical translation, but almost all people who are trans in some way, go through social transition. This involves coming out to different groups of people and might involve changing one’s name, using different pronouns, or asking others to use different gendered language. Some more resources on gender expression and transitioning: “Why I’m Not a Boy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EDzapkuN34&ab_channel=AshHardell “A Non-Binary Transition” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvHWfdEnkmE&ab_channel=TEDxTalks How to be a good ally? Some of you reading this article might have realized, that they are not actually cisgender, and that’s okay. I encourage you to look up a non-binary community near you or online. I recommend you read this article. Some of you might feel that all this is fine but what does it have to do with me? To you I say: If you are cisgender, you can still make all of the difference in someone’s life who is trans and/or non-binary. For that matter, so can you binary trans people. - Be aware of the use of pronouns, gendered language, and inclusive spaces - Don’t assume someone’s gender – ask what pronouns they prefer and/or what sort of gendered language. - If you mess up, that’s okay, apologies and you’ll get it right eventually. (Don’t apologize at length, it’s just awkward for all involved.) - Whatever our gender identity, we all receive pressure from society at large to conform to binary gender expression. - Binary trans people feel this when they want to “pass” (ie. the goal is for other’s to perceive them as the gender identity they identify with and not their sex assigned at birth) - For non-binary trans folks though, because they are not distinctly feminine or masculine-presenting, they are often perceived to be younger than they are because society links “looking like an adult” to presenting either distinctly feminine or masculine. - And remember: “You cannot be what you cannot see” (Marian Wright Edelman).If you are in a position to give trans and/or non-binary people the spotlight then please do so. Non-binary entertainment needed! If they are invisible, they might as well not exist. More on this subject in this talk. The takeaway: you are free to experiment with what really feels comfortable for you (questioning is valid), there is no rush for you to be certain. Your preferences might change. And regardless of your gender identity, always feel free to play around with your gender expression. Many terms discussed in this article are discussed in more detail in the Trans 101 YouTube video series: watch here.

Join us as we explore sexual liberation for all within an established realm that only benefits some. We love Michaela Coel and would love for you to listen even if you haven't watched the TV show. Trigger warnings for rape, trauma and assault. We are not experts so please reach out to the below resources if you are seeking help/advice. Arabella: Prior to being raped, I never took much notice of being a woman. I was busy being black and poor. Over the past two decades, sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls in conflict situations has received increasing attention , leading to a marked progress in research and the development of interventions to identify survivors and support their health and protection needs. At the same time, however, the health of men, boys, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and other non-binary people exposed to sexual violence in conflict has been insufficiently addressed by research and the UN policy agenda the study points to the significance of feelings of injustice as an internal mechanism for evoking a desire for revenge and associated fantasies, which may endow the victim with a sense of control after the trauma. Although the natural tendency to seek revenge and revenge fantasies tend to be regarded in the literature as a negative component while the concept of forgiveness is seen as a positive step towards healing (Hargrave and Anderson, 2013; Tener and Eisikovits, 2017) along with the conversion of anger and resentment toward the perpetrator or the self into positive feelings such as compassion and empathy (McCullough et al., 2013), when practitioners develop intervention programs for individuals, who have experienced various traumatic events they may benefit by viewing the role of feelings of injustice, the desire for revenge and fantasies of revenge as necessary ingredients for healing prior to forgiveness. 89% of trials end in exoneration Nearly half of Americans always or sometimes feel alone (46%) or left out (47%). Fully 54% said they always or sometimes feel that no one knows them well. Loneliness isn’t just a U.S. phenomenon. In a nationwide survey released in October from the BBC, a third of Britons said that they often or very often feel lonely. Nearly half of Britons over 65 consider the television or a pet their main source of company. In Japan, there are more than half a million people under 40 who haven’t left their house or interacted with anyone for at least six months. In Canada, the share of solo households is now 28%. Across the European Union, it’s 34%. 2008: According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), indigenous (also known as “old-growth”) forests in Africa are being cut down at a rate of more than 4 mn hectares per year — twice the world’s deforestation average. According to the FAO, losses totalled more than 10 per cent of the continent’s total forest cover between 1980 and 1995 alone. https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/january-2008/saving-africa%E2%80%99s-forests-%E2%80%98lungs-world%E2%80%99 WWF: Between 1990 and 2000, approximately 91,000 km2 of forests were lost in Central Africa, an area about three times the size of Belgium. WWF: Between 2000 and 2012, East Africa lost around 6 million hectares of forest. WWF projects that the region will lose 12 million hectares between 2010 and 2030 if current trends continue.

All the winners from the 18th Julia Margaret Cameron awards are featured in this month’s Fotonostrum magazine. I was absolutely delighted to have my work chosen and be announced as the winner in three categories. Huge thanks again to the judges for making their selections, and also to the talented team involved in the fashion image, and to Kate Morrissey and her son for their generosity of time whilst I created the documentary image. For more pictures and full credits for these stories click fashion, documentary, landscape. I am extremely honored to have this project selected by the judges – Jennie Ricketts trustee at Autograph Gallery and the Martin Parr Foundation, and Isabelle Von Ribbentrop the Executive Director of the Prix Pictet. The Greenham Women’s Peace Camp was the largest female-led protest since suffrage, and led to the international ban of Cruise missiles. But this extraordinary event has largely been written out of history. Last year the activist group Greenham Women Everywhere recreated the protest march from Cardiff to Newbury [that started the Peace Camp] to once again highlight the achievements of these remarkable women. It was an honor to walk alongside and document this new protest march from Cardiff to Greenham Common. Below is a series of 15 selected works, from this extensive project, that have been shortlisted for the 37th Association of Photographers(AOP)Awards. Walking for 110 miles over nine days, the pain of polluted roads and thunderous traffic was accompanied by camaraderie and song. Original Greenham Women shared inspiring, and sometimes terrifying stories, of their time spent at the peace camp, with a new generation of impassioned activists. Their aim, to highlight the urgent crises of the climate emergency, nuclear weapons escalation, daily violence against women, extreme hunger, and social inequality, could not be more timely. Having my work chosen for this category, in a genre I am not generally known for, really means a lot to me. I hope that my photography will help highlight the important work initiated by Greenham Women Everywhere. Many thanks to The Times for featuring one of my images from the Greenham Women 110 mile protest march. Bringing together original Greenham Women with a new generation of activists. “Walking in the footsteps of our foremothers to highlight the multi crises of the climate emergency, nuclear weapons escalation, extreme hunger, social inequality, daily violence against women, and more.” A series of this work has been chosen as a finalist in the 37th AOP photography awards. Women Photograph aims to reshape the makeup of the photojournalism community, ensuring “…the industry’s chief storytellers are as diverse as the communities they hope to represent.” Established in 2017 Women Photograph is a non-profit created to elevate the voices of women & non-binary photographers. My thanks to Women Photograph founder Daniella Zalcman for inviting me to join and support this important group of 1000 female photojournalists, representing 100 countries. Every day the Women Photograph team records the lead photo bylines from the front pages of eight major international newspapers, including The New York Times, Le Monde and TheGuardian. Here are the stats from the most recent quarter: To accompany the opening of Actions of Art and Solidarity at the Kunstnernes Hus Norway this week, the curatorial team at the Office for Contemporary Art, Norway invited participating artists to contribute ideas for a protestplaylist. “…includes works by both national and international artists operating in the name of cultural, socio-political and environmental solidarity across various geographies and contexts…” I am of course disappointed that I can’t be in Norway for the opening events, but I am hoping that I may get to see the exhibition [and meet the team] at the Kunstnernes Hus before it closes on March 21st. My sincere thanks to Katya Garcia-Anton, director and chief curator at OCA; Elsa Itzel Archundia Esquivel; Liv Brissach; also Astrid Vostermans the contemporary art publisher and founder of Valiz who is publishing the accompanying reader. “Solidarity has re-entered the global zeitgeist with resounding force in the last decade. It has driven new thinking focused on countering systemic failures and outright abuses related to climate, economy, surveillance, health, gender and race amongst other issues. Actions of Art and Solidarity considers the central role that artists play within this historical shift in the new millenium, drawing parallels to synergic cases of the twentiethcentury.“ The good people at adam&eveDDB have created an online Art Auction to raise funds for The Avenues Youth Project a North London Youth Club offering fun out-of-school activities for young people. The auction brief asked for work which focuses on championing diversity and the stories of people of colour. Click here to view [and bid on] exciting photography and art by a diverse group of creatives – look out for my personal favourite, Stay at Home by collage artist Anna Bu Kliewer – and help raise funds for a great group of kids at The Avenues. I found it incredibly moving watching this exhibition. At a time when visiting galleries has been difficult or impossible, the clever people at the British Journal of Photography have created something quite magical. “400 photographs [from the 2019 and 2020 Portrait of Humanity award] ascending 130,000 feet into the stratosphere, broadcasting a message of peace and unity from humankind to space – and possibly even our extra-terrestrial counterparts.” “There is more that unites us than sets us apart“ From take-off to landing, enjoy the whole exhibition here. As always, my thanks to Emma Slade, Madeleine Smith, Julie Read, Betty Brigstock-Williams and the Parker family. Thanks also to the teams at Portrait of Humanity and British Journal of Photography. My sister has lived in the Puglia region of Italy for most of her adult life. This week, as the Italian government eases it’s lockdown restrictions, she can leave her home for the first time in two months. It’s also her birthday, so I thought it would be nice to show some photography from her adoptive home. Happy birthday Lynn Carrig x Ciao bella x Last Easter I began creating a series of photography projects on the Dymchurch Sea Wall – documenting the beach it fronts, the low-lying land it protects, and how both locals and visitors use and respond to the wall. This Easter, with so much having changed in the world, it feels timely to start sharing some of this work. Here are a few selects from Bank Holiday. Dymchurch Wall has been a vital sea defence on the Kent coast since it was first established by the Romans. It’s current construction connects pale concrete walkways with art deco influenced design; four miles of wall straddle flat marshland and vast sands, and a big sky gives an exquisite quality of light. The surrealist artist Paul Nash made many paintings of the wall most famously The Shore, and the actor and novelist Russell Thorndike based his Dr.Syn stories here at Dymchurch-under-the-Wall. More recently a Banksy rat has appeared surfing the wall’s concrete curves. As a photographer I am also inspired. Last Easter I began photographing my own response to the wall, documenting the beach it fronts, the low-lying land it protects, and the people that are drawn there. This Easter, with so much changed in the world, it feels timely to revisit this project. “Serve God, honour the King, but first maintain the Wall” Respecting current government regulations I now walk to my Mother’s house everyday; a journey along familiar roads I have driven a thousand times and more, and which I am seeing for the first time. Here are some more pictures from The Road To Wellville #stayhome #protectthenhs #savelives I’ll be out on the pavement again this evening, making some noise in appreciation of ALL the brave keyworkers working hard in difficult circumstances to keep us safe. Until normal service is resumed I would like to continue my photo-blog by sharing with you (over the next few weeks/months?) recently published commissions, as well as previously unpublished archive photography. Meanwhile this is the beginning of a new personal project (respecting current government regulations) recording the daily walk to my mother’s house in the London suburbs. Here are a few pictures from my first week on The Road to Wellville A unique event discussing law and protest by leading protest practitioners and hosted by Doughty Street Chambers London. This event aims to leave you inspired by protest, by providing an overview of the state of protest law, and mapping the changing nature of policing protest from Greenham Common to Extinction Rebellion. The event is combined with my COMMON PEOPLE photography exhibition which is currently on show in the Doughty Street Chambers private gallery and will form a visual backdrop to the evening. If you would like to attend the talk on Thursday 26th March, please message Many thanks to Feng Gu at The China Photography Association for featuring my work in their magazine. Here is a translation of the interview : 1Could you tell me your experiences in photography?I studied photography at Salisbury College of Art before moving to London to work for four years as an apprentice, mainly to the music and portrait photographer Mike Owen; he introduced me to the legendary surrealist photographer Angus McBean whom I also had the pleasure of working with.I set up on my own in 1990.2 Introduce your job of commercial photography? Do you take documentary photography now? How do you deal with the relationship of commercial photography and documentary photography?Most of my commercial work comes via A&R Creative Agency – a wonderful team who have represented me for 25 years. I am regularly commissioned for fashion, beauty, lifestyle and portraiture assignments - recent clients include NBC/The Bi-Life, Triumph, Elle Germany and Stella Telegraph magazine.I am also known for my portrait photography. My work has been selected for both catalogue cover and poster campaign for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at The National Portrait Gallery London; and I have won the AOP best in category award for portraiture at the Association of Photographer’s Awards. Recent sittings include the Olympian athlete Tessa Sanderson CBE, the MP Dr.Rosena Allin-Khan, Buddhist nun Emma Slade, the girl band Bananarama, and Ayda Field Williams.I am considering working on a new documentary project, but nothing has been decided upon yet.3 What is the Greenham Common Peace Camp? Could you introduce it to our Chinese readers? Greenham Common is aformer British RAF (Royal Air Force) base. During the Cold War period in the 1980s the British government allowed American nuclear missiles to be installed there. Many people were outraged at this act and a group of women demonstrators made a peaceful protest by walking 100 miles from Wales to Greenham Common. The number of protestorseventually grew into thousands and Peace Camps were set upencircling the base and became women-only. Their mission, to peacefully disrupt the movement and deployment of nuclear missiles.4Did you join it? Tell some stories about it and you?I was a photography student during the mid-1980s and visited the Peace Camp for my final year project. I stayed at Greenham for a couple of weeks during a very cold winter - sleeping under tarpaulin, eating donated food and wearing donated clothes. Every morning police and bailiffs would evict us from the site, and as soon as they had left we would return to relight the campfire for warmth, tea, talk and songs; and some women would plot and plan and eventually by nightfall would cut through the wire fence that surrounded the base, and often be arrested found sitting alongside a nuclear missile.5When you shot these photos of COMMON PEOPLEdid you you think there will be an exhibition of your work 30 years later?No, not at all, the pictures have been stored in my negative files until only last year. 6 What do you want to convey through these photos?My pictures mainly show quiet, domestic life at the Peace Camp.I realise now that this vision is possibly unique, as by excludingall men from the camps would have also meant excluding most photographers, as photography at that time was very much male dominated. 7 How do you think the photography experiences affected your later photography career?As a student I was interested in both documentary and fashion photography. As a professional photographer Ifell into working in the fashion industry as I was inspired by the photographers, mainly fashion photographers, whomI had assisted. In recent years I have been working towards more portrait commissions as I like to show a reality and truth in my work. Re-visiting my Greenham pictures has made me reconsider my early thoughts on documentary photography and I am now looking for new ways I can take this forward in my career.8 What do you think about as a woman photographer in shooting beauty, fashion,lifestyle photography?I believe that whatever genre of photography I choose to work in – beauty, fashion, lifestyle, portraiture, documentary etc - my creative style as a photographer is as individual and unique as the personality of any photographer, regardless of gender.9 How many years do you take photography as a career? And How do you keep your passion alive in photography?Next year I will be celebrating thirty years as a professional photographer. The advent of digital cameras was definitely a moment thatboosted my passion for photography –I often prefer to work with daylight, so the extra film and shutter speeds combined with auto-focusing allowed me to push the boundaries of my vision.10Could you give some advice to our readers about how to take a nice photo?A ‘nice’ photograph doesn’t have to be technically perfect, but I think it does have to convey something of a message to it’s audience. There is usually a reason for taking a photograph so it is important that your audience understands the message or story you are trying to convey.Photography like art is only ‘nice’ if the viewer believes it to be so. I always question my own work by asking myself “Is it real..?” “do I believe..?”. COMMON PEOPLE can be seen at the Greenham Common Control Tower until this Saturday 9th March. My COMMON PEOPLE photography exhibition continues at Greenham Common Control Tower Thursday-Sunday until 9th March 2019. The gallery will then open on Sunday 10th March for a private view, where Dr.Meg Thomas from the Tower will be in conversation with myself, and Beccy Trowler QC who is featured in the exhibition and whose image is on the exhibition poster. Tickets for this event are £8.50 available from Greenham Common ControlTower

How many times have you uttered the word “iconic” to describe some celebrity who just came to prominence, like, five minutes ago? Five times just today? We get it. We’re also obsessed with what’s brand-spanking-new. But that doesn’t mean we can forget the queer icons: the head honchos, the power lesbians, the queer trailblazers, the goddesses, the ultimate LGBTQ babes that came before us. Those who have broken barriers, those who have changed the entertainment industry, those who are actually still doing some pretty cool things. Check out these power babes to remind yourself of some of your favorite queer heroes, or maybe discover brand-new ones to obsess over. Behold: 8 truly iconic queers. It’s no secret that country music has been slow to accept queer people. But in 2010, Chely Wright came out as a lesbian and, as the first big-name out country singer changed the face of country music forever. She released a memoir that same year called “Like Me,” and in 2011 a documentary called “Wish Me Away.” Though most of her coming out was positive, it wasn’t easy: she received death threats. Thanks to Wright’s bravery, she has helped make it easier for other queer folks in country to come out, with artists like Ty Herndon following in her footsteps. Wright is married to Lauren Blitzer, who coauthored the immortal lesbian self-help guide “Same Sex in the City” (it’s worth a read), and they have two kids together. Wright’s last album was “I Am The Rain,” released in 2016. Jill Soloway’s resume includes having written for “Six Feet Under,” and producing “Grey’s Anatomy” and “United States of Tara,” but they broke out, of course, with “Transparent.” “Transparent” is the Amazon Prime show that was very personal, based on Jill’s own trans parent. As the show progressed, Soloway began exploring their sexuality and gender identity – going from identifying as a straight cis woman to a femme lesbian (entering into a relationship with poet Eileen Myles) and eventually announced that they were genderqueer and non-binary. Non-binary representation is always important, but Soloway’s is especially so because there are few examples of older, out, non-binary celebs, leading many to feel like it’s just a young person’s “thing” rather than an identity that could apply to anyone. Soloway is bringing awareness to non-binary identity. Oh, and how can we forget Soloway’s statement during the 2016 Emmys to “topple the patriarchy?” Amen. Soloway is releasing a memoir called “She Wants It” October 9, and we want it. Like now. If you’re here on this site, you don’t need us to tell you how important “The L Word” is. We can thank Ilene Chaiken, along with Kathy Greenberg, and Michele Abbott, for that. They gave us a “Sex and the City” to call our own, with characters we could admire and relate to, not to mention crush on heavily. No, “The L Word” wasn’t always perfect – Jenny Schecter made sure of that – but it reflected our lives. It even had the first regularly appearing trans male character – Max, played by Daniela Sea. There have been lesbian characters and shows since, but nothing that has had that kind of monumental impact on the community. These days, Chaiken is working on a pilot for Fox and also – wait for it – going to be executive producing an “L Word” reboot. We hope they do the godly thing and bring Dana back. In addition to being incredibly funny, Wanda Sykes also has the distinction of being both the first African-American woman and the first out gay person to do stand-up at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (under President Obama). It was a long road to that point, and Sykes, who cites Carol Burnett as an influence, certainly paid her dues. In her early twenties, Sykes performed in the Coors Light Super Talent Showcase. After that, a comedy career was inevitable. Chris Rock discovered her talent and she became an opening act for him, as well as a writer on his “Chris Rock Show.” She has appeared in films like “Nutty Professor II,” “Evan Almighty,” and “Monster-in-Law,” and joined “Seinfeld” alum Larry David on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and another “Seinfeld” alum, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, on “The New Adventures of Old Christine.” Sykes is not afraid to be real in stand-up specials like “I’ma Be Me” and “What Happened … Ms. Sykes?” (in which she talks about how bad her wife’s cooking is). Yvonne Orji of “Insecure” was moved enough by Sykes to write her a love letter recently in Glamour, saying the comic “helped me find humor in what makes me different.” You may remember Kate Bornstein from the reality series “I Am Cait,” as part of Caitlyn Jenner’s friend group, but there is so much more to one of the coolest 70-year-olds in the world. The activist and pioneer was talking about gender issues years before the rest of us, years before some of us were even born, with the book “Gender Outlaw,” published in 1994, and “My New Gender Workbook.” Bornstein, who identifies as non-binary, has also written the suicide prevention book “Hello, Cruel World” and “A Queer and Pleasant Danger,” their memoir, and is currently working on a book called “Trans! Just for the Fun of It.” This summer, they are appearing in “Straight White Men” on Broadway. How you know the incredibly talented Holland Taylor depends on who you are. Those of us who were around in the 80s might remember her from the gender-bending show “Bosom Buddies” with a very young Tom Hanks; “Two and a Half Men” fans undoubtedly know her as the wonderfully sarcastic Evelyn Harper; lesbians know her as Peggy Peabody on “The L Word;” theater fans know her for her roles in “Ann;” and gossip hounds know her as Sarah Paulson’s girlfriend. She officially came out at 72 (hey, it’s never too late) in a 2015 interview with radio station WNYC. We eventually excitedly learned that her mystery girlfriend was Sarah Paulson, some 32 years younger. “It’s the most wonderful, extraordinary thing that could have ever possibly happened in my life,” the 72-year-old said on WNYC’s Death, Sex and Money podcast. (It’s also the most wonderful, extraordinary thing to happen to those of us who are watching this romance with a box of hot, buttered popcorn in front of us, but that’s another story.) About two decades before Hayley Kiyoko was telling us that “Girls Like Girls” – as if we didn’t already know — Melissa Etheridge was getting the world ready. The child prodigy began playing guitar at 8, and was discovered in her twenties and later got signed by legendary Chris Blackwell of Island Records in 1986. Two years after, she was nominated for her first Grammy for the fiery rock song “Bring Me Some Water.” She came out fairly early in her career, in 1993, during an event celebrating President Bill Clinton. “I remember walking up, and on the microphone, with thousands of people, going, ‘Well, you know, I’m proud to have been a lesbian all my life,’” she said to CNN. “And I’m like, ‘Oh, wow. I just came out.’” The same year she released one of her most successful albums “Yes I Am.” Authentic through and through, in 2004, Etheridge came out about her breast cancer diagnosis, and sang Janis Joplin’s “Piece of My Heart” with a shaved head at the 2005 Grammys. In September, she’ll be going on tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Yes I Am.” (In the course of our research we also discovered she has her own marijuana brand, but, um, you didn’t hear that from us.) Obviously queen Ellen had to be on our list. Today, there are so many queer characters on television you can’t keep them straight. However, the landscape was very different in the years before 1997, when Ellen (the character and the woman who played her) came out. Ellen played the first openly queer lead character on a prime-time TV show. She absolutely changed television and the culture at large, especially with her willingness to talk about her personal life on “Oprah.” And yet, all that honesty didn’t come without a price in a world that was far from ready for queer folks to be authentic. She reflected on this difficult period in her life to Jerry Seinfeld recently, in the Netflix show “Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.” “I was bitter and sad and angry. How did this change everything, just by me being honest and saying I’m gay? Why is this such a shock to people? Why is it such a big deal?” But in the end, it all worked out, as Ellen is exactly where she should be – hosting a talk show that is the perfect reflection of her goofy personality. In 2008, she married Portia de Rossi, and they’ve been one of our favorite lesbian couples ever since. Who are your favorite queer icons? Let us know in the comments!

Interviewer: Jennah Martens-Forrester, CommunityWise Interviewees: Erin Trout and Carmen Nashchuk, WTEP What is the name of your organization? We’re Together Ending Poverty Can you summarize what your organization’s main objectives are? What are the mission/vision/values that guide your organization? We are a diverse, grassroots group of activists who are working to educate and empower ourselves and others to take action on the root causes of poverty. We also want to create mutually supportive relationships that encompass learning and sharing. We want to transcend practices of oppression in our relationships. We welcome all who self-identify as women or non-binary. Our values are as follows: - We believe charity does not solve the root causes of poverty - We believe that to understand the root causes of poverty we need to examine our society from many different perspectives including but not limited to: gender, race, class, ability, age and sexual orientation - We believe diverse voices of lived experiences need to be central to making change - We believe the concentration of wealth in a few hands, locally and globally, and the continued existence of patriarchal and classist attitudes and practices are fundamental causes of poverty - We believe working for permanent systemic changes in our political, economic and social systems to improve the lives of those living in poverty benefits everyone - We believe in equity, which means we strive for programs such as, but not limited to universal childcare, a living wage for everyone, and affordable housing. When was your organization founded / How long have you been doing this work? In early 2008. How has your organization changed over time? We have kept working on our analysis of oppression and intersectionality and we are striving to become more inclusive. What lead to the creation of this organization? In late 2007 and early 2008, there was a project in Calgary called Poverty Talks. The project held discussion groups throughout the city to discuss issues of poverty. One of those groups was held at the Women’s Centre of Calgary and at the end of that sessions one of the participants said we shouldn’t end the discussion here, we should form a women’s group because poverty effects women differentially. Women who were interested kept meeting and together formed Women Together Ending Poverty. In late spring 2018 the group helped organize a grab inclusive workshop alongside Skipping Stone and moved to welcome all who self-identify as women, as over the years the group has felt that inclusivity is an important part of grassroots advocacy efforts and is cognizant of the personalized and fluid nature of gender identity. This has led to WTEP’s name change from Women Together Ending Poverty to We’re Together Ending Poverty and is welcoming to those who identify as non-binary as of January 2019. What is it like to work with WTEP? What is a typical day for you? It has been both humbling and inspiring to be surrounded by a group of people with such diverse skill sets accompanied with the motivation and desire to make change around the root issues of poverty on a grassroots level. The amount of collaboration and support that unfolds within WTEP meetings and otherwise has been the most influential aspect of this journey, and am grateful for the relationships and connects that have been created within the group and Calgary communities. As of right now the day-to-day responsibilities include gathering in-depth research through an anti-oppressive and gendered-lens on issues of poverty within Alberta and Calgary contexts. Expanding social media outlets to be able to provide information around poverty to more Calgarians. Assisting with and developing inclusive workshops for Calgarians around issues of poverty in the city, such as areas of colonization and basic income. What are some challenges you encounter working with WTEP? It is important to understand that WTEP is a group of volunteers that have come together to advocate around the root causes of poverty, and that is only one aspect of our individual lives. There are many challenges in being able to balance other aspects of our lives with the responsibilities and efforts associated with WTEP, and is why creating momentum through knowledge, information, and action with scarce resources has been WTEP’s main challenge this year. Therefore, WTEP continues to build relationships and collaborations with other organizations and community members to be able to carry out the appropriate advocacy efforts in supporting those living in poverty. How has being a member of CommunityWise impacted the work done by your organization? CommunityWise has provided great meeting space for workshops and for coalitions that we have been a part of. We have also used the space for special events which have allowed us to pull together different groups of people. Over the last few years, the existence of the Anti-Racism Organizational Change Project has really impacted our work and made us more conscious of the need to be more inclusive than we are. Are there any new projects/initiatives you are working on at the moment? WTEP is currently working alongside RAM in collecting information from Alberta Political parties through surveys on issues around rent control and future efforts around social supports for those living in poverty – considering future elections. WTEP is also working on a Basic Income Workshop for community members held at CommunityWise at the end of April, 2019, with the goal of holding future workshops around Basic Income in the fall. Is your organization hosting any events or campaigns coming up soon that people might be interested in? We encourage people to contact the Renters Action Movement and find out how they can support the Rent Control Campaign and tenants’ rights. We also encourage people to contact WTEP if they are interested in the Calgary Anti-Oppression Network. What can the community do to best help support your organization and the work you do? They can join WTEP, RAM, and/or the Calgary Anti-Oppression Network. They can also donate money or contribute ideas! Where can people go for more information about your organization?

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Questions over whether Teesside is doing enough for its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities have lingered amid fears it is losing young, talented people to bigger cities. Members of Stockton Council’s crime and disorder select committee are scrutinising hate crime in the borough. Most abuse and recorded hate crime centres around race and religion but a significant chunk, 11.9%, is related to sexual orientation. These figures sparked Cllr Steve Nelson to offer a warning at the meeting of a potential “brain drain” of young, bright people choosing to live outside Stockton and Teesside due to the lack of a thriving LBGT+ scene. “There is an economic impact as well,” added Cllr Nelson. “I’m not sure of the scale but talking to people, that was what was coming across.” Total recorded hate crime has increased in Stockton by 87% since 2014 - a rise mirrored nationally. The crime and disorder panel has worked with LGBT+ charity Hart Gables and Trans Aware, in Stockton , to try to support victims of hate crime and get to the root of some of its causes in the borough. Hart Gables launched a project in April to help young gay, bisexual and transgender individuals focus in on mental health through its “behind the eyes” project after they found a high percentage of youngsters accessing their services suffered from poor mental health. Ellie Lowther set up Trans Aware to help transgender and non-binary people from the charity’s base at Gloucester House in the centre of Stockton. Speaking outside the meeting, Ellie did not think Stockton or Teesside had a problem with trans or non-binary people leaving the area or a lack of LBG activity going on. But she did say she would not be as “mis-gendered” in big cities as much as she was in Middlesbrough . “Culturally, you do not get a true figure of hate crime from transgender people as you get problems from law abiding people,” she added. “It’s a cultural issue - we are a third party crime centre and we hardly report any hate crime. “I have a group of 100 people and I put a question to them about who reported hate crime - they said they didn’t and if they did they would never leave the police station.” She also had misgivings about transgender people being lumped together in the LGBT+ acronym. “Gender identity has got nothing to do with sexual orientation - bit by bit people are getting it. “When we see people without labels we can stop people dying.” Satnam Singh, Stockton Council’s senior cohesion and diversity manager, told the crime panel how more volunteers from the LGBT+ community were being recruited as “community champions” and being signed up as volunteers. “It’s about trust and confidence,” said Mr Singh. Teesside’s last pride march came in 2014 and organisers from Tees Valley Community Pride have rallied to revive the festival in Middlesbrough later this summer. A vigil will be held tomorrow on Tuesday at the Centre Square, in Middlesbrough, at 6pm to mark the two year anniversary of the Orlando shootings where 49 people were killed in a gay nightclub.

A. Minetta Gould A. Minetta Gould was raised in The Mittens by a beautician and crane operator. She is the author of four chapbooks, most recently from FAMILY (Black Warrior Review, 2013) and the forthcoming MASS. (The New Megaphone, 2014). A. Minetta recently transplanted herself from Boston, MA to Denver, CO and is the managing editor for Black Ocean. A. Zachary lives in Toronto. Their first novel is The End, by Anna, out now with Metatron. Aaron Nielsen's writing has appeared in the following publications Mythym (PictureBox, 2008), Userlands: New Fiction Writers from the Blogging Underground (Akashic Books, 2007), Instant City, Fresh Men 2: New Voices in Gay Fiction (Carroll & Graf, 2005), Mirage #4 Period(ical) and The Chabot Review. He has been featured on KQED’s podcast The Writer’s Block and was the editor of the short lived but critically acclaimed ‘zine Jouissance. Aaron holds a Bachelor’s in English Literature and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. He lives in San Francisco, California. Adam DeGraff was born in Missouri, raised in Kansas, moved through Denver to San Francisco and now lives in Queens. His most recent book, Wherewithal, selected poems 1994-2014, was edited by Anselm Berrigan for Subpress. He hosts the reading series Kith & Kin with Tyler Burba at the SculptureCenter in Queens. Adam Fleming Petty Adam Fleming Petty is the author of the novella Followers (Etchings Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in Electric Literature, the Millions, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the Paris Review Daily. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife and two daughters, and recently completed a novel about Dungeons & Dragons in Iraq. Adam Ganderson has written for the Village Voice, Art Forum, and Terrorizer UK among others. Adam Good is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on appropriation and remixing of cultural materials. His performances and installations emphasize participation and interaction with systems of knowledge. He has performed in, or created experiences for: Ignite DC, Washington Project for the Arts, Porch Projects, the Phillips Collection, the Textile Museum, Pulse Miami, (e)merge, and the Transmodern Festival. He lives on a communal farm in Pittsboro, NC with his wife and son. Adam Lampton currently teaches photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Emerson College in Boston. He received his MFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art. Artist born in NYC, works in a wide variety of media but with an emphasis on video. Recently, has exhibited at Derek Eller Gallery (NYC), Sandroni Rey (LA) and the Musee de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In addition, has organized the lecture series "Passing Time" at Tracy Williams ltd. and three nights of screenings at the Whitney Museum at Altria. He is also the editor of the self-published "Into the Abyss" (2003). Is currently being represented by Sandroni Rey gallery. Adam Putnam's work can be viewed at http://www.sevenseven.com Adam Robinson runs Publishing Genius Press and lives in Atlanta, where he plays softball. Adam Rokhsar is an artist, psychologist, and software developer whose work focuses on making the invisible visible. Adam Shemper was born in Hattiesburg, Mississpi. He earned his masters from The University of California at Berkeley. He has published with Time, the Oxford American, Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, etc. Selected photographs from his Sardis Lake series were included in the 2003 International Center of Photography's on-line exhibition, Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. He is currently working on a series of images of the people and spaces of Hong Kong. Adam Tedesco is a founding editor of REALITY BEACH, and contributing editor for Drunk In A Midnight Choir. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Funhouse, Souvenir, Prelude, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown and elsewhere. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Heart Sutra (REALITY BEACH), and ABLAZA, forthcoming from Lithic Press. Adam Underhill is a producer, writer, and traveler living in New York City. He has worked in television and radio for seven years, first as an intern on The Late Show with David Letterman and later on such programs as Last Call with Carson Daly and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. As a writer, Adam has been published on NBC.com, McSweeneys.net, and TheFanzine.com. Links to his other works can be found on his website,LittleEarthquake.com. Adriana Green is currently a student in the MFA in Writing and Activism Program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is working on her first manuscript and writes about race, death, grieving, and America. Alain Ginsberg (they/them) is a transgender author and performer from Baltimore City, MD. Their work has been featured or is forthcoming with Lambda Literary, Shabby Doll House, Metatron, and elsewhere as well as in the chapbooks "Until The Cows Come Home" (Elation Press, 2016) and "Loathe/Love/Lathe" (Nostrovia! Press, 2017). Alain is a barista, a bartender, and a Taurus. Alan Gilbert’s writings on art, poetry, culture, and politics have appeared in a variety of publications, including Artforum, Time Out New York, and the Village Voice. Recent poems have appeared in The Baffler, Brooklyn Rail, and Chicago Review. A collection of his critical writings entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight was published in the spring of 2006 by Wesleyan University Press. Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford is a poet, video artist, & game designer living in Brooklyn, NY. http://amjc.tv Alex Cuff lives in Brooklyn where she teaches at a public high school and edits No, Dear magazine. Alex Higley has been published by, or has stories forthcoming from, New World Writing, PANK, Hobart, The Adroit Journal, Burrow Press Review, and elsewhere. He contributed text to Alec Soth's The Frank Album. A graduate of the Northwestern University MFA program, he lives and works in Phoenix. Alex Kalamaroff is a writer in Boston, MA. His articles and essays have appeared in The Millions, The Rumpus, Lambda Literary, and elsewhere. He is the Book Reviews Editor for Entropy. @alexkalamaroff Alex Manley was born and raised in Montreal. He graduated from Concordia University's creative writing program in 2013. His work has appeared at Shabby Doll House, Everyday Genius, Banango Street andMaisonneuve magazine, among others. He is left-handed. Alexandra Hemrick is a graduate of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA as a Public Policy major and completed two years with Teach for America teaching Visual Art in the Mississippi Delta May 2012. Her work has appeared at the Delta Bohemian and Downright Fiction. Alexandra Wuest is a writer and poet based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The Bohemyth, Reality Hands, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, and Hobart. Her online home can be found at bagelcat.tumblr.com Alexandro Segade is a founding member of the performance group My Barbarian, and has presented solo video and performance work at LAXART, Artist Curated Projects, Anthology Film Archive, and Sundown Salon. His multi-media gay science fiction theater piece, “Replicant VS Separatist,” will be included in the 2010 New Original Works Festival at the REDCAT, Los Angeles. Segade has written for publications including Art Lies, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, ArtUS, and Useless. Segade curates The Imaginary Film Festival at Imprenta, Los, Angeles, has a blog, The Universal Separatist. Segade received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from UCLA in 2009. Alissa Nutting received her MFA degree from the University of Alabama, where she served as Editor for the Black Warrior Review. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Fence, BOMB, the fairy tale anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, and many other journals. She is the author of the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone, 2010). Alissa is currently a PhD candidate at UNLV, where she has received Cobain and Schaeffer Fellowships in Fiction. She is fiction editor of the literary journal Witness and managing editor of Fairy Tale Review. Allison Grimaldi-Donahue’s work has appeared in places like Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Words Without Borders, Dead King Magazine, Cosmonauts Avenue and Funhouse Magazine. She is fiction editor at Queen Mob’s Teahouse and associate translation editor at Drunken Boat. Her chapbook Body to Mineral was published in October 2016 by Publication Studio Vancouver. Ally Harris lives, writes, and works in Portland, OR. She has a chapbook called Her Twin Was After Me (Slim Princess Holdings, 2014) and another called Floor Baby (dancing girl press, 2011). You can read other poems by her in Sixth Finch, CutBank, Tarpaulin Sky, Sink Review, TYPO, and elsewhere. Alyssa Pavley attends college and lives in New York. She spends her time writing things, drawing things, reading various other things and listening to French electronic music. Her artwork has been exhibited in a couple of small towns in New Jersey. She currently covers art for Fanzine's New York section. Amabel Barraclough lives and works in London. She has written for The Independent and Variety. She is currently working on her first children's novel. Amanda Goldblatt's work has been published or is forthcoming in NOON, Fence, Hobart, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago, and teaches creative writing at Northeastern Illinois University and StoryStudio Chicago. More info is available at amandagoldblatt.com. Amanda McCormick is an outdoorswoman / poet / cook / founding curator of Ink Press Productions in Baltimore. Amanda Mills is a deep believer in the affective change that DIY media brings. Her work is entrenched in this belief. She is the Executive Director of Murmur Media, a community resource for DIY and ephemeral media. Her organizing experience includes the Atlanta Zine Fest, Atlanta Zine Library, and--in the past--Faces of Feminism. She also runs local tape label, Big Blonde Records. She eagerly awaits your email about a potential collaboration (yes, you, dear reader!). Amber Sparks is the author of the short story collection May We Shed These Human Bodies, and co-author (with Robert Kloss and Matt Kish) of the hybrid text novella The Desert Places, just published by Curbside Splendor. You can find her most days on Twitter at @ambernoelle, or read her work at ambernoellesparks.com. Ambika Thompson has been living in Berlin, Germany for the past 10 years. She is currently focused on writing short stories, and playing guitar, and singing in the band The Anna Thompsons. Amelia Saul is a Brooklyn-based artist from Seattle. Her work, including performance, video, drawing and audio, has been exhibited in New York, Hiroshima, Paris, and Lisbon. Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry and nonfiction living in Los Angeles. Her most recent books of poems are GHOST GIRL, MEDICINE, NERVE STORM and CROWN OF WEEDS. She teaches in the Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College, in Bennington Vermont, and at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Amy Lukau is the daughter of African immigrants from Angola. She graduated from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Molecular Biosciences & Biotechnology and B.A. in Religious Studies. Amy is the Executive Director of Girls Education International, a not for profit organization based in Colorado that supports educational opportunities for underserved females in remote and underdeveloped regions of the world ( girlsed.org ). She is currently an MFA candidate in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Amy McDaniel runs 421 Atlanta, a center of literary attention and chapbook press. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Tin House, PANK, The Agriculture Reader, Saveur, H_NGM_N, and elsewhere. She also edits EAT GENIUS, the annual food edition of the online literary journal Everyday Genius. Her most recent chapbook is Collected Adult Lessons. Amy Meyerson is a writer currently living in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Bloomsbury Review, JMWW, Obit Magazine, The Denver Syntax, and the Aspen Times. Ana Carette is the author of Baby Babe. Analeah Loschiavo is a writer living in Chicago by way of Miami. Her work can also be found at Queen Mob's Teahouse. André Babyn's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Little Brother, Maisonneuve, Hobart, Grain, Pank, and elsewhere. In 2015 he was the recipient of the Adam Penn Gilders Scholarship in Creative Writing, and in 2010 he won the Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing. He is also the Fiction Editor of the Puritan. Andrea Kneeland's work has appeared in more than 50 journals and anthologies. She likes kittens, cheesecake and Werner Herzog. More info at www.andreakneeland.com. Andrea Lambert is the author of Jet Set Desolate, Lorazepam & the Valley of Skin and the chapbook G(u)lit. Her work has appeared in HTMLGIANT, 3:AM Magazine, Entropy Queer Mental Health, and Enclave. She has been anthologized in Writing the Walls Down, Off the Rocks #16, The L.A. Telephone Book, You’ve Probably Read This Before, and Chronometry. She is a visual artist and CalArts MFA. She is currently working on a memoir called Diary of a Hollywood Hedgewitch, an autobiographical fantasy called Scaffolding, and a poetry manuscript called Bleed Almond. Find her online at andreaklambert.com Andrea Rexilius is the author of Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012) and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011). She is an Assistant Professor of English at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she is also the Summer Writing Program Coordinator, the Editor-in-Chief of Bombay Gin Literary Journal, and the Co-Founder and coordinator (with Michelle Naka Pierce) of the biennial conference [Dis]Embodied. Andrew Berardini recently graduated with an MFA in Writing from the California Institute of the Arts. He has done work for Afterall, interReview, and Artforum.com. He is currently Assistant Editor at Semiotext(e) Press and finishing a novel set in French West Africa. His most recent project is a revised translation of Jean Baudrillard's In the Shadow of the Silent Majority, forthcoming in Spring 2007. Andrew Duncan Worthington Andrew Duncan Worthington is the author of the novel Walls [CCM, 2014] and the poetry e-book HOT DOGS! [NAP, 2014]. He is also the founding editor of Keep This Bag Away From Children [keepthisbagawayfromchildren.com]. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and works as an English and special education teacher. More: andrewduncanworthington.com Andrew Haley is a business reporter for the Salt Lake Enterprise. His poems, translations and short stories have appeared in Girls With Insurance, Zone, Otis Nebula, Quarterly West, Western Humanities Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Sugar House Review and Stop Smiling. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories called Signals. Andrew K. Peterson Andrew K. Peterson is the author of three books of poetry, most recently some deer left the yard moving day (BlazeVox 2013). His chapbook bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (published by Fact-Simile, 2011) was recently featured in an exhibition on poet's maps at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center. He edits summer stock, an online literary journal, and lives in the Boston area. Andrew Lewis Conn Andrew Lewis Conn is the author of P (Soft Skull Press, 2003) Andrew Miller is author of the addiction and mental health focused essay collection "If Only the Names Were Changed" (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2016) and an MFA candidate at Miami University. His next book on Traumatic Brain Injury and returning Veterans, "Turn the Lights On", will be available later this year. Andrew-Miller.com. Aneesa Davenport lives in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Beeswax Magazine, Kitchen Sink, Monday Night, After Hours, Spectrum, and The South Carolina Review. Angel Dominguez is a Latinx Los Angeles born writer and performance artist forming Dzonots with notebooks along the California coast. He is the author of Black Lavender Milk (Timeless Infinite Light, 2015), an experimental lyric-novel that functions as an extended meditation on writing in relation to the body; time, loss, ancestry, ritual and dreaming His work can be found in The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Bombay Gin, and online at Open House Poetry and spiralorb.com, with work forthcoming in FENCE. He was the co-founding editor of Tract/Trace: an investigative journal, and presently curates the ongoing series: Bodies/Pages. Along with Hannah Kezema, he co-founded the performance art collaborative: Dream Tigers. Anhvu Buchanan is the author of The Disordered (sunnyoutside press 2013) and Backhanded Compliments & Other Ways to Say I Love You (Works on Paper Press 2013). He received an Individual Artists Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. His poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Harpur Palate, The Journal, kill author, The Minnesota Review, Parthenon West Review, word for/ word, Vinyl Poetry, and ZYZZYVA. He currently is a Teaching Artist for WritersCorp. Anna Crews (b.1995) is a writer living in Melbourne. Anna Vitale writes through wealth, poverty, sex, race, bodies, and the city; she writes through dreams and song and performs associative patterns of the unconscious, offering something like psychoanalytic practices as part poetic practice. Her dissertation is about suicide and language. Some of her short books include Unknown Pleasures (Perfect Lovers) and Anna Vitale’s Pop Poems (OMG). The still above is from a short video called “Street View Lyric,” which hinges on Jodeci’s “Come and Talk to Me,” is online at Gauss PDF. Anne Boyer is a poet who lives in Kansas. Anne-Marie Kinney is the author of the novel Radio Iris (Two Dollar Radio), and her shorter work has appeared in Black Clock, The Collagist, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Rattling Wall, Entropy and elsewhere. Annie Liontas' debut novel, LET ME EXPLAIN YOU, is forthcoming from Scribner in 2015. Her story “Two Planes in Love” was selected as runner-up in BOMB Magazine’s 2013 Fiction Prize Contest and was published by BOMB in December. She is the recent recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for her newest work BADEYE, which also received Honorary Mention in the 2013 Dana Awards. Annie will be attending the 2014 Disquiet International Literary Program and WritingxWriters Conference in Tomales Bay on fellowship. She is a graduate of Syracuse's MFA Program, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of SALT HILL. Annie currently co-hosts the TireFire Reading Series in Philly. Antarah Crawley is Washington, D.C.-born verse and prose writer and artist. He studied English at The George Washington University and is currently writing and painting out of Brooklyn. His work at large concerns human understanding of human and non-human systems, and he is composing a Syllabus to that end. Anthony Madrid & Mark Fletcher Anthony Madrid lives in Victoria, Texas. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2013, Boston Review, Fence, Harvard Review, Lana Turner, LIT, and Poetry. His first book is called I AM YOUR SLAVE NOW DO WHAT I SAY (Canarium Books, 2012). Mark Fletcher is an illustrator and cartoonist. His work has been published in Boston Review, B O D Y and Poetry. Mark earned his BFA and BA in Art History from the University of Colorado. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Ashley Bethard is a writer whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, PANK Magazine and Hobart, among others. She lives on the internet at ashleybethard.com and tweets at @ashleybethard. Ashley Hutson lives in rural Maryland. Her work has appeared in Wigleaf, Fiction International, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, matchbook, SmokeLong, Conium Review, and elsewhere. Read more at aahutson.com. Find more of her at augustevans.com Aurelia Guo (b. 1989, Harbin, China) is a poet living in Melbourne. Avren Keating is a poet and visual artist who lives in the East Bay Area. They're keeping busy pursuing an MFA at Mills College in Oakland, raising a new puppy, and interviewing other transgender and gender-variant poets for their podcast “Waves Breaking.” You can find Avren at @MxAvren on Twitter and the podcast at wavesbreaking.com Barbara Browning has a PhD in comparative literature from Yale. She teacahes in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She's also a poet and a dancer. She lives with her son in Greenwich Village. The Correspondence Artist is her first novel. Photo credit: Jonathon Conklin Barrett White is an editor for Tagvverk. Becca Schuh is a writer based in Brooklyn. Her reviews and interviews have recently been published in Bookforum, 3:AM Magazine, and Electric Literature. She is working on a memoir about dissolving social boundaries through alternative education based on her time at an interdisciplinary program in California. Follow her on Twitter @tamingofdeschuh. Becca Yenser is a writer of fiction and poetry who finds herself in New Mexico. She is a recent graduate of the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, Oregon, and will join the MFA Creative Writing program at Wichita State University in the fall 0f 2017. Her work appears or is forthcoming in 1001 Editors, Paper Darts, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown, Eclectica Magazine, decomP, HOOT, Swimmers Club, CHEAP POP, Entropy, Metazen, and Filter Literary Journal. Find her newest poems at Ink Node. Ben Bush has contributed to the San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, Poets and Writers, Bitch, XLR8R, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Portland Mercury, Alternet and Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? from Houghton-Mifflin. He is currently an assistant editor at The Fanzine. Ben Estes is an artist, a poet, and ½ of The Song Cave. He lives in Western Massachusetts. Ben Fama is the author of New Waves, Aquarius Rising, and the artist book Mall Witch. He is the co-editor of Wonder. His work appears in The Brooklyn Rail, Action Yes, Jubilat, notnostrums, LIT, Poor Claudia, Denver Quarterly, Maggy, and on the Best American Poetry Blog. He lives in New York City. Ben Gross's poems/fictions/essays have appeared in Everyday Genius, Word Riot, Keep This Bag Away From Children, Witch Craft Magazine, and Hobart, where he edits fiction for the website (www.hobartpulp.com). Ben Mirov is the author of Hider Roser (Octopus Books, 2012). He is also the author of Ghost Machine (Caketrain, 2010). He grew up in Northern California and lives in Oakland. Benito del Pliego Benito del Pliego (Madrid, 1970) has lived in the States since 1997. He was a member of Delta Nueve, a poetry and visual artists group that worked in Madrid the last half of the 90´s. Fisiones (Fissions) was his first book of poetry; it was published in Madrid in 1997. The 2nd. one, Alcance the la mano (Reach of a hand) appeared in New Orleans one year later. In June 2001 a symphonic poem, composed by Gustado David Pineda based on poems of the author, was presented at the Atlanta High Museum of Art. One of his object-poems received the 2003 “City of Badajoz” Experimental Poetry Award. A year after, Índice, his third book of poems, obtained the “Gabriel Celaya” International Poetry Award. He has collaborated with Autogiro, Solaria, Animal Stories Magazine, El Mono Adivino, Tse-Tse and Hispanic Poetry Review. He is a professor at Appalachian State University´s Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures in North Carolina. Benjamin Allocco lives and teaches in Upstate New York. He received his MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato. His work has appeared in The Conium Review, Prick of the Spindle, and Fiction Southeast. For more on his work, check out www.benjaminallocco.com. Benjamin Strong lives in Brooklyn. Benoît Lelièvre is the owner/editor in chief of Dead End Follies (www.deadendfollies.com) and the host of basketball podcast Hardwood Radio. He lives in Montreal with his better half Josie and his dog Scarlett. Bett Williams is the author of Girl Walking Backwards and The Wrestling Party. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Blake Bergeron is a poet living in Florence, MA. He is currently attending the MFA Program in Creative Writing at UMass Amherst. Blake Butler's most recent book is 300,000,000 (Harper Perennial). He lives in Atlanta. Bobby Power lives in Durham with his wife, son, and daughter and co-owns the Geographic North imprint. His writing has appeared in AdHoc, Decoder Magazine, Thump/Vice, Creative Loafing, Flagpole, and Tabs Out. Bogdan Petcu is an emerging poet and currently a double major in history and philosophy at the University Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His poems appear in various Romanian publications, including eCreator and Revista Timpul. Most recently, his prose won the first prize in a competition organized by the magazine 'Revista Cuvinte' and his poetry was awarded the 'Ars Poetica' prize by the Cultural Centre Jean Bart in Tulcea. Bonnie Ellman is a native New Yorker who studied Literatures of Modernity at the University of London. She enjoys drawing, photography and comic books. Her work has been featured on OffManhattan.com and MrBellersNeighborhood. Brad Lapin is a self-described gentleman of letters, Los Angeles born and bred, who divides his time between Atlanta, Ga and Rome, Italy. He is currently working on a novel entitled "The Man Who Invented History" which has absorbed his attention for the past decade. In past incarnations, he has been, among other things, a radio show talk host, a theatrical director, an author, columnist and journalist as well as the publisher, editor and founder of both Damage Magazine and Pug, an E-zine. A raconteur, round-table wit and all-around permanent absurdity, Lapin remains dedicated to the proposition that, all things being equal, diamonds are a girl's best friend. Brad Phillips is an artist and writer, born in 1974. He lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica. Bradford Nordeen is a writer and curator who, in January 2011 launched Dirty Looks, a monthly platform for queer experimental film and video, and in July 2012, Dirty Looks: On Location, a month of queer interventions in New York City spaces. Nordeen has organized screenings internationally at venues like PARTICIPANT INC, The Kitchen, the Hammer Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, White Columns, Artists Space and Judson Memorial Church. His writing has been published in Art In America, the Huffington Post, Lambda Literary, Little Joe, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly and Butt Magazine, amongst others. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Bradyn Sloan is a recent University of Washington graduate with a degree in art history and communication. She works as the director of a non-profit arts center near Seattle, and thrives off of black coffee, great art experiences, and the people with whom she shares them. Brandi Wells is the author of Please Don’t Be Upset (Tiny Hardcore Press) and This Boring Apocalypse (Civil Coping Mechanisms). In the fall, she’ll be a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. Brandon Brown is the author of three books, The Persians By Aeschylus, The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, and most recently Flowering Mall. He is an editor at Krupskaya, and occasionally publishes small press materials under the imprint OMG! In 2014, Roof will publish a new book, Top 40. Brandon Caro is the author of the debut novel, Old Silk Road (Post Hill Press, October 13, 2015). He was a Navy corpsman (combat medic) and advisor to the Afghan National Army in Afghanistan from 2006-2007. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Texas State University, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing from The New School. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas. Brandon Scott Gorrell Brandon Scott Gorrell (b. 1984) is the author of during my nervous breakdown i want to have a biographer present, a poetry book published by Muumuu House in 2009, and a forthcoming novella titled my hair will defeat you. Brandon has been featured at NYLON, Plan B, the Poetry Foundation and more. He is co-founder of a copywriting service called Fresh Copy and currently blogs at Thought Catalog. He lives in Seattle. Brandon Shimoda was born in California. His books include Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions, 2015) and To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader, which he co-edited with Thom Donovan (Nightboat Books, 2014). He lives and travels with the poet Dot Devota. Brandon Stosuy, Stereogum’s Senior Writer and a Contributing Editor at The Believer, writes a metal column at Pitchfork called Show No Mercy. "Formulas Fatal To The Flesh," his essay for Matthew Barney's exhibition at Sammlung Goetz this past fall, was named after a Morbid Angel album, though he doesn't think the gallery realized it. He's currently at work on a book-length oral history of non-Scandinavian black metal. He lives in New York. Brett Ortler is a writer and an editor from the Twin Cities. His essays and humor pieces have appeared on Yahoo! Parents, Fatherly, Salon, Babble, ScaryMommy, PopSugar and The Nervous Breakdown, and in a number of literary magazines. He’s written several non-fiction books and is the editor of Knockout Literary Magazine and the founder of Left Hooks (lefthooks.net), a website dedicated to politics and nonfiction with a puncher’s chance. Brett Price is a poet and editor. He’s been a curator for the Friday Late Night Series at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York City and the general manager for Ugly Duckling Presse, for which he now serves on the advisory board. He lives in Cincinnati these days, where he serves beer on the weekends and teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati during the week. Recent work can be found in Big Bell #9 and Portable Boog Reader #9. Brian Allen Carr Brian Allen Carr's most recent book, The Last Horror Novel in the History of the World, is out with Lazy Fascist Press this May. His short fiction has run in Ninth Letter, McSweeney's Small Chair, Hobart, Boulevard and others. Brian Fitzpatrick lives and works in Washington, DC, where he writes poetry and comedy pieces. His work has appeared in-print and online in places like Rattle and on DC's Pink Line Project. Brian Foley is the author of The Constitution, which will be available from Black Ocean in April, 2014. His poems have recently appeared in The Boston Review, The Volta & The Paris American. He lives in Northampton, MA. Brian Howe's arts and entertainment journalism appears regularly in Pitchfork Media, North Carolina's The Independent Weekly, The Fanzine, and Paste Magazine, where he is a Senior Contributing Editor. His poems and sound art have appeared in many print and online journals, including Fascicle, Soft Targets, Cannibal, Octopus, Effing, and MiPOesias. He is the author of three chapbooks: Guitar Smash (3rdness Press; 2006), Foreign Letter (Beard of Bees; 2008), and This is the Motherfucking Remix (Scantily Clad; forthcoming), which was written in collaboration with Marcus Slease. Howe is a member of the Lucifer Poetics Group, a blogger at the collective mp3 blog Moistworks.com, and the creator of the multimedia Glossolalia project (http://glossolalia-blacksail.blogspot.com/). Brian Joseph Davis Brian Joseph Davis is an artist and writer based in Toronto. He's the author of Portable Altamont (Coach House), the novel I, Tania (ECW), and the upcoming short fiction collection, Ronald Reagan, My Father. L.A. Weekly recently declared, “Davis has an amazing head for aural experiments—creating expansive compositions out of found sounds and computer manipulations—that are smart on paper and fascinating in execution.” Slate.com called I, Tania, “The book of your fever dreams.” He is the co-founder of Joyland.ca. Brian Oliu is originally from New Jersey & currently lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is the author of So You Know It's Me, a collection of Craigslist Missed Connections, Level End, a series of lyric essays about videogame boss battles, & the forthcoming Leave Luck to Heaven, an ode to 8-bit video games. He played trivia on Sunday by himself & lost, badly, under the name 'Stone Cold Jane Austen'. Brian Pera is the author of Troublemaker (St. Martin's Press) and the writer/director of the feature film Other Way Round. He lives in Memphis, TN. Brian Warfield writes short stories and fake reviews. He lives in Philadelphia. Bridget Talone lives in Ridgewood, Queens and is co-curating the Segue reading series for February and March. Recent poems have appeared in The Volta, No, Dear, and Prelude. Brooke Ellsworth is author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Serenade, from Octopus Books in 2017. She lives and writes in Peekskill, NY. For more information:brookeellsworth.com. Bryan Woods is a computer programmer from Brooklyn, New York who is slowly working on a collection of personal essays. His writing has recently appeared in Potluck Magazine, Queen Mob's Tea House, and on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bryanwoods Bud Smith grew up in NJ, and currently lives in NYC with a bunch of records and VHS he bought at the flea market for $1. His books are the short story collection, Or Something Like That, the novel Tollbooth and the poetry collection Everything Neon. His writing has appeared at The Nervous Breakdown, Wordriot, Metazen, TheNewerYork, the Bicycle Review, among others. He hosts The Unknown Show; edits at Jmww and Uno Kudo; works heavy construction in power plants and refineries. C. A. Kaufman C. A. KAUFMAN’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Green Mountains Review, Southeast Review, Wigleaf, Hobart, Everyday Genius, and elsewhere. She is currently an editor at Bedford/St. Martin’s and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Calum Lockey is an artist based in Australia and the co-director of Suicidal Oil Piglet. Candace Williams's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hyperallergic, Lambda Literary Review, Copper Nickel, and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2017), among other places. She’s earned a MA in Elementary Education from Stanford University, a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, Pushcart and Best of the Net 2016 nominations, and scholarships from Cave Canem. Her first chapbook, Spells for Black Wizards, is a winner of the TAR Chapbook Series and will be published in 2017 (The Atlas Review). Carla Murphy is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn. Since she’s originally from Barbados, she sometimes craves fresh fish from Oistins, a good wuk up and the smell of ripe bay grapes. She has edited or written for Sable LitMag and O, The Oprah Magazine and is a graduate of New York University and the London School of Economics. She comments on geopolitics, race and gender relations and culture at seemurphy.blogspot.com. Carlos Kotkin is a comedian/writer based in Los Angeles, California. He performs spoken word shows regularly at The Comedy Central Stage in Hollywood, California and stand-up around the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, including Seattle, Washington. He also wrote, directed and starred in the short film Overcoming Shyness, which has been viewed over 35 times on Youtube. Carolyn DeCarlo lives in Wellington, New Zealand, where she runs the reading collective Food Court. She is the author of two chapbooks, Strawberry Hill (Pangur Ban Party 2013) and Green Place (Enjoy Journal 2015), and co-author of Twilight Zone (NAP 2013) and Bound: An Ode to Falling in Love (Compound Press 2014), with Jackson Nieuwland. She has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Maryland College Park. Her writing has been published by or is forthcoming from PANK, Heavy Feather Review, The Lit Pub, West Wind Review, Sweet Mammalian and elsewhere. Carrie Lorig is the author of The Pulp vs. The Throne (Artifice Books), which is her first full-length work. Her chapbooks include nods. (Magic Helicopter), Reading as a Wildflower Activist (H_NGM_N), stone poems (with Sara Woods, Solar Luxuriance), and Labor Day (with Nick Sturm, Forklift Ohio). Casey Michael Henry Casey Michael Henry has previously published in The Huffington Post, had plays produced in New York, and is currently a PhD candidate in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also presently at work on a novella entitled The Topiary. Cassandra Troyan will release two books in 2014: "BLACKEN ME BLACKEN ME, GROWLED," from Tiny Hardcore, and KILL MANUAL (Kept In Lacerated Light) from Artifice Books. Charity Coleman is the author of Julyiary (O'clock Press, 2015). Her work can be found in BOMB, Dolce Stil Criollo, Joans Digest, No, Dear, and elsewhere. Chelsea Hodson is the author of the forthcoming essay collection Awful Form and the chapbook Pity the Animal. Chelsea Hodson & Jon-Michael Frank Chelsea Hodson is the author of two chapbooks: Pity the Animal (Future Tense Books, Emily Books) and Beach Camp (Swill Children). She is an MFA candidate at Bennington College and was a 2012 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Jon-Michael Frank is the author of two chapbooks: Diana Ross & The Supremes (Birds, LLC & Black Cake Records) and Here It Is My Beautiful Fucking Heart (El Aleph Press). He is the acquisitions editor for the small press BIRDS, LLC and runs a reading series called Fun Party. More at jonmichaelfrank.com. Chika Onyenezi is a writer living in United States. Born in Owerri, Nigeria, he holds two degrees, including an MA from European Peace University. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming in Identity Theory, Litro Magazine, Ninth Letter Magazine, and elsewhere. He received Honorable Mention in the 2016 Glimmer Train Fiction Open. He spends most of his time daydreaming, and collecting wish trinket from sea waves. His website is: www.chikaonyenezi.com. CHRIS HOLDAWAY is a poet / editor / linguist from New Zealand. He directs Compound Press, & is a candidate in the MFA programme at Notre Dame. He received his MA(Hons) in linguistics from the University of Auckland, where he also studied cosmology & astrophysics. Work (to) appear(s) in Prelude, Requited, & Small Po[r]tions. Chris McCreary is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is [ neüro / mäntic ] (Furniture Press). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Elderly and Lungfull! and online at Philadelphia Review of Books. Chris Okum lives in Los Angeles, California. His work has appeared at McSweeney's, Metazen, The Olentangy Review, The Alarmist, and others. Chris Toll was a poet and collage maker. He lived in Baltimore, Maryland. He co-curated the Benevolent Armchair Reading Series. Chris passed away in 2012. Chris Vitiello is a freelance arts, performance, and hockey writer and poet in Durham, NC. He is a chief contributor for the Independent Weekly, organizer of the Mixtape reading and performance series, and creative writing teacher in a variety of settings. His poetry books include Nouns Swarm A Verb (Xurban, 1999), Irresponsibility (Ahsahta, 2008), and Obedience (Ahsahta, 2011). Father to two terrific daughters, he also performs toy plays and writes custom poems on demand on a manual typewriter as the Poetry Fox. Christian TeBordo has published three novels and a collection of short stories. "Things to See in Uglahoma" is an excerpt from a book called Toughlahoma, which will be published as part of Rescue Press's Open Prose Series in the spring of 2015. He lives in Chicago where he is the director of the MFA program at Roosevelt University. Christian Williams writes about comic books, regular books, video games, rock music, and movies from Washington, DC where he was assistant city editor of The A.V. Club's local branch, but now mostly reviews things and scribbles on great works of literature. Christina Chalmers (b. Edinburgh) is a poet based in New York. Her poems have appeared in and on The Claudius App, Hi Zero, SCREE, and Asphodel. She is the author of WORK SONGS (Shit Valley Press, 2014) and WILLINGNESS (Materials, 2017). Christina Lee is a freelance writer based in Atlanta, where she’s still trying to find a venue she likes more than D.C.’s 9:30 Club. She once drank Ted Leo’s beer (by accident), shook Mannie Fresh’s hand, and watched Gucci Mane read a press release when he was released from prison in 2010. Her writing has appeared in eMusic, New York, Washington City Paper, and Paste. Christine Shan Shan Hou Christine Shan Shan Hou is a poet and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her publications include Accumulations (Publication Studio 2010) and CONCRETE SOUND, a collaborative artist's book with Audra Wolowiec (2011). Additional poems and/or artwork appear in iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, Weekday, Bone Bouquet, Belladonna*, Gwarlingo, ILK, LIT, The Atlas Review, tender, Lemon Hound, and Two Serious Ladies amongst others. She has received awards from Key West Literary Seminar, The Flow Chart Foundation/The Academy for American Poets, and Naropa University. More info at: christinehou.com. Christopher Bundy is the author of essays, short fiction, and the novel Baby, You’re a Rich Man. He lives in Atlanta, GA. Christopher James lives, works and writes in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has previously been published online in many venues, including Tin House, McSweeney’s, Smokelong, and Wigleaf. He is the editor of Jellyfish Review. Christopher Parks’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, Touchstone, Collagist, Red Cedar Review, and others. He is a psychologist who works with people who are homeless in Detroit, MI. Christopher Rey Pérez Christopher Rey Pérez is a poet from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This excerpt is from a simulated forum that sets up a personal curriculum of angelology in preparation for a forensic investigation of a series of crimes. Part of his forthcoming book, gauguin’s notebook (&Now Books) that's slated for a Fall 2016 release, this forum begins to write through Gauguin’s Tahitian journal that chronicles an intense period of artistic, amorous, and fundamentally colonialist production for the painter. Christy Crutchfield is the author of the novel How to Catch a Coyote (Publishing Genius, July 2014). Her work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Salt Hill Journal, Juked, The Good Men Project, and others. She writes and teaches in Western Massachusetts. Chuck Young is less the worst today than he was yesterday and less the worst yesterday than he was the day before that and he hopes to die the least worst he has ever been. He has published online and in print with various journals and is currently working on two children's books. Cynthia Arrieu-King wrote People are Tiny in Paintings of China (Octopus 2010), Manifest (Switchback 2013), and collaboratively wrote Unlikely Conditions (1913 Press 2016) with the late Hillary Gravendyk. She lives on the East Coast and sometimes Kentucky. Claire Donato (http://www.somanytumbleweeds.com) is the author of Burial (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013), a not-novel novel, and The Second Body (Poor Claudia, 2016), a collection of poems. Recent work has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry Society of America, PLINTH, BOMB, BOAAT, and Ninth Letter. At Babycastles Gallery in Manhattan, she co-curates WordHack, a monthly series focused on digital language art. Currently, she is working on a collection of interconnected short stories about love, death, vegetarian cooking and the cloud called Gravity and Grace, The Chicken and the Egg, or: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, along with an accompanying series of vegan new media edible language sculptures calledMaterial Studies (http://www.vimeo.com/clairedonato). She lives in Brooklyn, is a 2016-2017 Digital Studies Center Fellow at Rutgers University, and teaches in the Architecture and BFA Writing Programs at Pratt Institute. Coda Wei lives in Philly and does mostly nothing. She has a chapbook from Perfect Lovers Press. She likes making unusual trades. Email her at wei.coda5 [at] gmail [dot] com. Colette Arrand currently lives in Athens, Georgia, where she is a student at the University of Georgia. Her work has appeared in Gigantic Sequins, The Atlas Review, CutBank, and elsewhere, and her criticism can be found online at Fear of a Ghost Planet. Cornelia Barber is a New York writer working on developing strategies for radical intimacy in poetry, friendship, and community. She edits the online journal Queen Mobs Teahouse, curates two reading series, Segue and Garden Series. Her writing is published in Prelude, The Felt, Berfrois, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Weird-Sister, Entropy and more. Her Chapbook Unconditional is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press in June. Courtney K. Bambrick Courtney K. Bambrick is the poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Apiary, Certain Circuits, Dirty Napkin, Philadelphia Poets, Mad Poets Review, and the Schuylkill Valley Journal. Courtney currently teaches composition, creative writing, and literature at Holy Family University, Philadelphia University and Rosemont College. Courtney Kersten’s Moon is in Aquarius. Her Mars trines Venus, her Sun is in Aries, and her Jupiter is in the 12th house. She studies in the University of Idaho’s MFA in Creative Writing program. Courtney Maum is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, from Touchstone Books/Simon and Schuster, and an essay contributor to the New York Times bestseller, Worn Stories. The humor columnist behind the “Celebrity Book Review” on Electric Literature and an advice columnist for Tin House, she lives in the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts. Cristine Brache is an artist and poet. She lives and works in London. http://cristinebrache.info/ Cristine Brache & Jesse Darling Cristine Brache is an artist and poet. She lives and works in London. Jesse Darling is an artist living and working mostly in london if u can call this living but i guess it's working. Dagmar Mimi Harlow Dagmar Mimi Harlow refuses to wear a chastity belt for her thoughts. She is currently a BA candidate in Contemporary Critical Theory and Visual Studies at Bard College. Dallas Hudgens is the author of the novel Drive Like Hell and Season of the Gene. Dalton Day is the author of two chapbooks, FAKE KNIFE & Tandem, & an editor for Freezeray Poetry. His poems have been featured in PANK, Hobart, Columbia Poetry Review, and Everyday Genius, among others. He can be found at myshoesuntied.tumblr.com, & on Twitter @lilghosthands. Packard is an underground indie filmmaker/editor/DP who has written, produced and directed a prolific body of work over the past three decades. His films, including Reflections of Evil, a wide variety of festivals, venues, galleries and cinemas including the NYFF, American Cinemtheque, Tate Modern and Union Galleries London, Australia, Belgium, Germany, and many many more. Dan Magers’s first book of poems, Partyknife, is published by Birds, LLC. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review, an online poetry journal, founder and editor of Immaculate Disciples Press, a handmade chapbook press focused on poetry and visual arts collaborations. He lives in Brooklyn. Dana Ward is the author of Some Other Deaths of Bas Jan Ader (Flowers & Cream), The Crisis of Infinite Worlds (Futurepoem), and This Can't Be Life (Edge Books). He lives in Cincinnati, OH. Daniel Beauregard lives in Atlanta, where he works for a local newspaper. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ilk, NAP, Brown God, Keep This Bag Away from Children, Gesture, Poor Claudia, H_NGM_N, Jellyfish, Stoked and elsewhere. His chapbook “Before You Were Born” is available from 421 Atlanta. A subsequent chapbook titled, “HELLO MY MEAT” will be released in fall 2014 by Lame House Press. Follow him @666ICECREAM. Daniel Hamilton is a writer from Massachusetts living in Los Angeles. Daniel Lamb is an Atlanta-based musician, writer, and performer. He is the cofounder of the new literary journal, gutwrench., and his work has appeared in Paste, Edge Media Atlanta, Scene Missing Magazine, Write Club Atlanta's print anthology, Tender Bloodsport: Volume 1., and in the forthcoming flash fiction anthology from The Five Hundred. Daniel Owen is a writer and member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective. He is the author of Toot Sweet (United Artists Books) and the chapbook Authentic Other Landscape (Diez). His writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Elderly, Lana Turner, A Perimeter, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. Daniel Poppick's poems have recently appeared in BOMB, Granta, The New Republic, The Volta, Prelude, and elsewhere. His first book, The Police, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2017. He lives in Brooklyn, where he co-edits the Catenary Press with Rob Schlegel and Rawaan Alkhatib. Daniel Torday is the author of a novella, The Sensualist, winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction. His first full-length novel, The Last Flight of Poxl West, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in winter 2015. Daniel Vidales (M. Music, University of Houston) is a teacher, musician, and developing scholar. His thesis, "'Open Your Door': Alternative Tunings of Three Texas Bluesmen" can be found in the deepest, least frequented sections of the University of Houston's vast library, or upon request via email. Though currently based in Seattle, Daniel is set to move to parts unknown. Contact him about doing a music podcast at email@example.com Danielle Wheeler is the author of Teenage Exorcists (Slim Princess Holdings), her first chapbook. She can be found online at dcwheeler.blogspot.com. Danniel Schoonebeek’s first book of poems, American Barricade, was published by YesYes Books in 2014. His work has appeared in Poetry, Tin House, Iowa Review, Fence, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and elsewhere. He hosts the Hatchet Job reading series and edits the PEN Poetry Series. In 2015, Poor Claudia will release his second book, a travelogue called C’est la guerre. Danny Jock, Fanzine's chief Illustrator, travelled through Southern California, the Midwest and Upstate New York for five years before returning to New York City. His drawings are a hilarious odyssey through suburbs, dive bars, theme parks, vets clubs and all-you-can-eat buffets. From envelope-sized snapshots of strangers on the streets to large, collage-like pieces, his subject is hunger - for food, drink or love - and the mess of a world created whilst fulfilling those hungers. For more see www.dannyjock.net and you can contact Mr. Jock at firstname.lastname@example.org. Darius James has authored some books published in the U.S. and Europe. He cannot recall their titles as they are out of print. Currently, he is developing a documentary exploring the impact of Voodoo on American popular culture with film-maker Oliver Hardt. He is really glad he missed the Bush years in the U.S. as he was living in Berlin at the time. He made some great friends there and he misses them much. Photo credit: Graham Hains Darren Bader lives in New York City. He's published art-books with Rivington Arms Gallery, New York: coai(t)ag:(hd-di(0058)):gtcte, "bis,"acil,cp AKA James Earl Scones (2005) and 2nd Cannons L.A.: “pulturebook” (Spring 2008 release). He is also represented by Rivington Arms Gallery, New York. He frequently curates too. In his spare time, he writes and is working on “exquisite corpse gaming”. David Berridge is a writer based in London. He curates VerySmallKitchen. Essays, poetry, and fiction appear in fillip, jacket, Syntax, Raft and others. He has two books forthcoming in 2011: P.Z.T.C (The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press) and Lemonade (LemonMelon). A play I DID NOT KNOW THAT LENIN WAS LENIN is currently part of the Merzman Festival in Manchester, England. In 2010 he curated DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS, exploring connections of language and art practice, at the AC Institute, New York. email@example.com David Moscovich is a Romanian-American writer whose novella of one-page fictions, You Are Make Very Important Bathtime, available from Journal of Experimental Fiction, was nominated for an &NOW Award. A finalist for the 2013 Eric Hoffer Award for Best New Writing, Moscovich lives in New York City and runs Louffa Press, a micro-press dedicated to printing innovative fiction. David Peak is the author of a horror novella, The River Through the Trees, and a book of short stories, Glowing in the Dark. He lives in Chicago. David Rice is a writer and animator living in New York. His stories have appeared in Black Clock, The Collagist, The New Haven Review, Birkensnake, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He's online at: www.raviddice.com. David Schuman teaches writing and directs the MFA Program at Washington University in St. Louis. His writing has appeared in Catapult, Joyland, Conjunctions, Missouri Review, the Pushcart Prize Anthology and other magazines and anthologies. On Twitter @d_schuman. Deirdre Sugiuchi is writing her fundamentalist Christian boot camp captivity narrative, Unreformed. She’s been interviewed about her reform school by Newsweek, the Raw Story, and NUVO. Sugiuchi's work has been featured in Electric Literature, Guernica, the Rumpus, and other places. She lives in Athens, GA with her husband and son, where she curates the New Town Revue music and literature series. She’s also a school librarian. Dennis Cooper is the author of the 5 novel George Miles Cycle, as well as My Loose Thread, The Sluts, and most recently God Jr. He is also a poet, playwright, critic, curator and a journalist. Born in LA, he is currently based in Paris, France. For more info and his blog see his website at http://www.denniscooper.net. Fanzine will be launching a publishing imprint in the coming months. A limited edition of Cooper's latest poetry collection The Weaklings (with accompanying art by Jarrod Anderson) is in the design stage of production and will be the first book published by Fanzine Books. To preorder write firstname.lastname@example.org. Dennis James Sweeney Dennis James Sweeney hails from Cincinnati, Ohio. He's the author of the chapbook What They Took Away and writing that has appeared in Alice Blue, DIAGRAM, Juked, and Unstuck. Find him in Corvallis, Oregon. Derek McCormack is the author of Grab Bag, The Haunted Hillbilly, and The Show That Smells, ETC. He lives in Toronto. Derick Dupre is a founding editor of The White Elephant. His work has appeared in publications including Hobart, Untoward, Neutrons Protons, and the New Orleans Review. He lives in Los Angeles. Desiree Burch is a Yale Graduate and NYC-based actor, writer, comedian and New York Neo-Futurist. One of New York magazine’s “10 New Comedians that Funny People Find Funny,” Desiree has supplied laughter for MTV, VH1, NBC News, NY Post, Comedy Central, Huffington Post and her acclaimed solo show “52 Man Pickup” has toured theaters in New York, New Orleans, Hollywood, London and Edinburgh. She is the creator of four full-length solo works and and various monologues for women and has also blogged for the Huffington Post. www.desireeburch.com Devin Kelly earned his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and co-hosts the Dead Rabbits Reading Series in New York City. He is the author of the collaborative chapbook with Melissa Smyth, This Cup of Absence (Anchor & Plume) and the forthcoming collection, In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen (ELJ Publications). He has been nominated for both the Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes. He works as a college advisor in Queens, teaches poetry at Bronx Community College, and lives in Harlem. You can find him on twitter @themoneyiowe. Devon Magee left his native Seattle to find functioning, mass urban transportation. Today, to his exaltation, he spends hours underground on the metro in his adopted Paris. A red-nosed wine enthusiast, he pours glasses in a Paris bar à vin. He is the author of numerous unpublished essays and short stories, including one novel, Calle San Antón 4. Dianna Dragonetti is an artist, activist, & angel boy. He can be found at @aliteralwerther and at http://angelboyangelboy.tumblr.com/. Dina Hardy, author of the limited-edition chapbook Selections from The World Book (Convulsive Editions), has earned fine art degrees from Pratt Art Institute and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Agni, Black Warrior Review, Transom, Lo-Ball, and Meridian's Best New Poets anthology. She and her husband recently moved from Los Angeles to Dubai. She welcomes you to follow her observations at spfoneten.com : Dubai in broad spectrum. Dodie Bellamy's is a poet and novelist whose latest book is the buddhist (from Publication Studio). She is also the author of Academonia, from Factory School Press. Other books include Pink Steam (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004) and The Letters of Mina Harker (reprinted by the University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). Her book Cunt-Ups (Tender Buttons) won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. She blogs at http://dodie-bellamy.blogspot.com/ Dodie Bellamy's Writing Workshop For the purpose of not confusing our sometimes quirky database admin, we had to group all of these fine writers, all students of Dodie Bellamy, under one name for a group project/ode to Kevin Killian's Amazon Reviews. You can read the individual bios of participants Jasson Flick, Lee Stegner, Maria Suarez, Megan O'Patry, Michele Hayes, Jim Nelson, Radhika Sharma, Tom Andes, Renato Escudero elsewhere on this page. Donal Mosher is a filmmaker, photographer, writer, and occasionally a musician living in Portland, OR. His award winning film October Country (directed with Michael Palmieri) is based on his photographs and essays. His visual work has been shown in Los Angeles, New York, Portland, and San Francisco's SF Camerawork. His fiction and nonfiction writings have appeared in Instant City, Satellite, Frozen Tears, Life as We Show it––Writings On Film, and the Lambda Award-winning Portland Queer Anthology. He is currently working on a new documentary involving pharmaceuticals, God, suicide and Bigfoot. Selections of his writing and photographic work can be found at ghosttype.blogspot.com. Donald Dunbar lives in Portland, Oregon. He edits poetry for draft: The Journal of Process, helps run If Not For Kidnap, and writes the column POEMHACK. He is author of Eyelid Lick (Fence Books) and Slow Motion German Adjectives (Mammoth Editions). The Poet Dot Devota was taking notes last night in Greater St. Mark Family Church in Ferguson, MO while Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Rev. Starsky Wilson Cornel West, Bree Newsome, Marc Lamont Hill, Rev. Traci Blackmon, Rev. Renita Lamkin, Rev. Michael McBride, and Min. Rahiel Tesfamariam spoke on the anniversary of Mike Brown's death. Afterwards, St. Louis County cops aggravated crowds and shot another black American. Savage is Fanzine's chief executive designer, currently resides in Spain developing a cure for narcolepsy, and one day hopes it possible to return to the Great Satan. He can be contacted at pyko.net. Drew Dickerson is a writer living in Chicago. He has written previously at The Onion and ClickHole, and his fiction has appeared at Queen Mob's Tea House. As a baby, Drew Jennings was found abandoned in a field of bluebonnets during the hottest Texas summer in history. He writes fiction, essays, and poetry, and his work has been featured in Vice, Revolver, Atticus Review, and The San Antonio Current among others. He is at work on a novel. Find more of his stuff at DrewJennings.org. Drew Kalbach is from Philadelphia. He holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and writes about contemporary poetry and media for Actuary Lit. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, Whole Beast Rag, and others. Drew Toal is a freelance writer and photo booth operator. He currently resides in Brooklyn. Some of his tattoos were featured in the 2010 book, The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos From Bookworms Worldwide. Duncan B. Barlow duncan b. barlow is the author of The City, Awake (Stalking Horse 2017), Of Flesh and Fur (The Cupboard 2016) , and Super Cell Anemia (2008). His work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, Banango Street, Calamari Press, Word Riot, The Apeiron Review, Meat for Tea, Matter Press, and Masque and Spectacle. He teaches creative writing and publishing at the University of South Dakota, where he is publisher at Astrophil Press and the managing editor at South Dakota Review. He has also edited for Tarpaulin Sky and The Bombay Gin, among others. Dylan Angell is a North Carolinian, a musician, a writer and is currently based in Queens, New York. In 2016 he released the book "An Index of Strangers Whom I Will Never Forget A-Z," via his Basic Battles Books imprint. In early 2017 he released "I'll Just Keep On Dreaming And Being The Way I Am," a collaboration with the photographer Erin Taylor Kennedy. Dylan Byron is a poet from New York. Ed Luker is a poet and writer based in London. He is finishing a PhD on the poetry of JH Prynne. He organises the sporadic reading series RIVET. He is currently seeking a publisher for his latest chapbook ‘Compound Out the Fractured World’. You can see his work at www.edluker.co.uk. Ed Steck is the author of The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013) and sleep as information/the fountain is a water feature (The Center for Ongoing Research and Projects, 2014). His writing has appeared in Deluge, Brooklyn Rail, Intercourse, and No Infinite. Eîlot Tuerie lives in Seale, Alabama. Elaine Kahn is the author of A Voluptuous Dream During an Eclipse (Poor Claudia, 2012), Customer (Ecstatic Peace Library, 2010), and Radiant Bottle Caps (Glasseye, 2008). She performs music under the name Horsebladder with releases previous and forthcoming from Night People, Ecstatic Peace, Yod Tapes, and Hot Releases. Elaine is the managing editor of Flowers & Cream press and lives in Oakland, California. Eleanor Jane is a writer who lives in New York. Eleanor Levine’s work has appeared in The Evergreen Review, Fiction, The Denver Quarterly, Midway Journal, The Toronto Quarterly, The California State Quarterly, Prime Mincer, Happy, Penumbra, The Coachella Review, OVS Magazine, Gertrude, Atticus Review, fortyouncebachelors.com, Lunch Ticket Magazine, The Red Booth Review, Educe Journal, Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry, Downtown Poets (anthology), New York Sex (anthology), The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Blade and other publications. She has work forthcoming in Northwind Magazine and the Bicycle Review. In 2007 she received an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. Eleanor is currently a copy editor and lives in Philadelphia, PA. Eli S. Evans Eli S. Evans is a writer no longer living in a barn Elizabeth Ellen is the author of the story collection Fast Machine, a book of poetry Bridget Fonda, and a couple other books to be released later this year. Elizabeth Mikesch is the author of Niceties: Aural Ardor, Pardon Me (Calamari Press). Her work has appeared in Unsaid, Bomb, Spork, and elsewhere. Elizabeth Searle is perhaps the only 'literary fiction' author ever to appear on ESPN Hollywood. She is the author of three books of fiction and the librettist of Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera. Her Rock Opera, based on the Harding/Kerrigan skating scandal, premiered in 2008 with Tonya Harding in enthusiastic attendence and with national media attention from Good Morning America, FOX, CBS, ESPN Hollywood, MSNBC, the AP, National Public Radio and CNN. She was interviewed by Jaime Clarke for his premiere Fanzine 'Talk Show.' Her books are A Four Sided Bed, My Body To You, forthcoming in paperback, and most recently Celebrities in Disgrace, forthcoming from Bravo Sierra as a short film. Searle's website is www.elizabethsearle.net. Ella Longpre is the author of the chapbook, The Odor of the Hoax Was Gone (Monkey Puzzle Press 2013). Her writing has appeared in elimae, Everyday Genius, and elsewhere. She is the 2013 recipient of the Anne Waldman Fellowship at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. Elle Nash is the author of the poetry chapbook i can remember the meaning of every tarot card but i can’t remember what i texted you last night (Nostrovia Press, 2016). She is a founding editor at Witch Craft Magazine and a fiction editor at Hobart Pulp. Her novel, Animals Eat Each Other, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books this fall. Emcee C.M., Master Emcee C.M., Master of None, grew up in a family of six boys, played outside a lot, studied linguistics, Russian and sculpture, worked in a Siberian village school, got interested in foraging and homesteading, worked on a goat farm, and then moved to New York to start doing odd jobs and voluntary work sometimes regarded as art. This year he co-organized a tree planting, storytelling circle, boulder field and legendary boat installation at i-park in East Haddam, CT, and was named a 2011 resident at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Emilie is a graduate student (who knew you could get an MS in publishing?) living in Brooklyn. She enjoys crossword puzzles, picking up heads-up pennies, writing and Fanzining. Emily Carter's fiction has been published in The New Yorker and been included in The Best American Short Stories of 1998, and her book Glory Goes and Gets Some was included in Barnes & Nobles best new authors of 2000. During her career Carter's work has received The National Magazine Award for short fiction and the Whiting Foundation Award. Recently her non-fiction, for which she has won a Minnesota Journalist Association award for Best Article, appears monthly in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her partner Johnnie. Emily Kendal Frey Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of several chapbooks and chapbook collaborations, including FRANCES, AIRPORT, BAGUETTE, and THE NEW PLANET. THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE, her first full-length collection, won the Norma Farber First Book Award from The Poetry Society of America in 2012. Her second collection, SORROW ARROW, was published in 2014 by Octopus Books and won the Oregon Book Award in 2015. Emily Schultz is the co-founder of Joyland. Her novel, Heaven Is Small, was published by House of Anansi Press in Canada in 2009, and is forthcoming in the United States for fall 2010. She has recently published in Black Warrior Review and the Noir anthology series by Akashic Books. Emily Toder is the author of Science (Coconut Books, 2012) and the chapbooks Brushes With (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010), I Hear a Boat (Duets, 2012), and No Land (forthcoming 2013 from Brave Men Press). A graduate of the MFA Program at UMass Amherst, she also holds degrees in literary translation and library science. She lives in Brooklyn. Emily Vizzo is a San Diego poet, journalist, and educator whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in FIELD, Blackbird, The Journal, North American Review, The Normal School, and the Los Angeles Times. Her essay, “A Personal History of Dirt,” was listed as a notable essay for Best American Essays 2013. A San Diego Area Writing Project fellow, Emily Vizzo serves as assistant managing editor at Drunken Boat, volunteers with VIDA and Poetry International, and teaches yoga at the University of San Diego. An August 2013 Vermont Studio Center resident, she completed her MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. From the Author's Private Collection (Birds, LLC) is the debut book from Eric Amling. Eric G. Wilson Eric G. Wilson has recently placed fiction in The Collagist and The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review and prose poetry in decomP and apt. He has published several books of creative nonfiction, including Against Happiness and Keep It Fake (both from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), and his essays have appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Oxford American, The Georgia Review, Salon, and The Paris Review Daily. He teaches at Wake Forest University. Eric Gelsinger is an ex-pat from Buffalo who currently lives in the Osa Peninsula. He is a translator and poet, and he's just completed two poetry novels. He is also the editor of Poets' Fiction which publishes fiction & translations by poets. Eric Nelson is a fiction writer and critic living in Queens and the author of The Walt Whitman House and The Silk City Series. His e.p. of recorded stories "They Make a Wasteland, They Call It Pastiche" is forthcoming from Diabetic Koala in late spring of 2013. Eric Wallgren lives in Chicago, IL and plays bass for mtvghosts. He's online at ericwallgren.tumblr.com. Erica Peplin a writer from Detroit. She has been published by Hobart, The Brooklyn Rail and McSweeney’s. She lives in Brooklyn. Erin M. Bertram Erin M. Bertram is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Memento Mori, and her work has appeared in Handsome, So to Speak, Fourteen Hills, and Diagram as a finalist in their 2013 Essay Contest. She's working on a PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and also interns at Outlinc, an LGBTQ advocacy organization. Erin Wisti decided to move to Los Angeles while on the vacation mentioned in this essay and currently resides in East Hollywood. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago and her work has previously appeared in The Butter, Role Reboot, Bayou Magazine, Chicago Literati, and other places. She started writing around the age of three, when her father informed her becoming a pot belly pig when she grew up was impossible. Erin retains a love of pigs to this day, as well as cats, Tom Waits, Alice Munro, and doing a Vince Vaughn impression people either find hilarious or incredibly off-putting. You can follow her on Twitter: @ErinWisti. Ernesto is a Venezuelan living in Barcelona, Spain. He worked for a big dotcom and is now currently working for a design studio as a web developer. Heavily addicted to all kind of video games, but kind of frustrated of not having enough time to play anymore, he was Fanzine's chief programmer at inception. Ethan Saul Bull Ethan Saul Bull currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Ethan is boring. Ethan studied poetry at The University of Arizona. His formative years were spent in Indiana, England and Mexico. His first book of poems, entitled Inside Narratives, came out from BlazeVOX Books in 2010 and his work has been a finalist in the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest and a semi-finalist for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize and Slope Editions. His poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, EOAGH, Octopus, The Delinquent, Sub-lit, Spring Gun, Diode and others, and his chapbook In the Hour and a Bedroom Later came out from Slash Pine Press in 2012. His newest collection, Shut Off the Flowers, is forthcoming from Pavement Saw Press, eventually. Eugene Lim is the author of the novels Fog & Car (Ellipsis Press, 2008), The Strangers (Black Square Editions, 2013) and Dear Cyborgs (FSG Originals, 2017). Evan Lavender-Smith is at www.el-s.net. Ezra Carlsen lives in Portland. He received his MFA from the University of Oregon. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Fogged Clarity, The Masters Review, and Southern Humanities Review. Read more at ezracarlsen.com Felix Bernstein & Vanessa Place Fiona Helmsley is a writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. Her writing can be found in various anthologies like Ladyland and The Best Sex Writing of the Year and online at websites like The Weeklings, The Hairpin, PANK, and The Rumpus. Her book of essays and stories, My Body Would be the Kindest of Strangers is forthcoming this year. Fitz Fitzgerald once beat Oprah in a footrace. His reviews have appeared in Octopus, Real Pants, First Intensity and elsewhere. Florencia Walfisch (translated by Alexis Almeida) Florencia Walfisch was born in Buenos Aires. She writes and makes textile art. She has participated in various individual and group shows, interdisciplinary projects, and poetry readings. With Ana Lafferranderie, she curates the reading series at Fedro, a bookstore and cultural center in San Telmo. Her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies. In 2004, Sopa de Ajo y Mezcal received the Jaime Sabines prize from Coneculta in Chiapas. She lives and works in her hometown. Fortunato Salazar lives in Los Angeles. Frances E. Chiem writes fiction and essays. Her works has appeared in various places online and in print. G. Pascal Zachary G. Pascal Zachary (www.gpascalzachary.com) is a professor of practice in science and technology studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of four books, most recently Married to Africa (2009, Scribner). Zachary has made 30 research trips to sub-Saharan Africa since 2000, including visits to Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Botswana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Malawi and Zambia. More of his writings on African affairs can be found at www.africaworksgpz.com. Gabby Bess is the author of the poetry and short story collection, Alone With Other People. Her essays on feminism, digital art, and culture have been published in Dazed and Confused Magazine, Paper Magazine, The Daily Beast, Topical Cream, and various other places in print and online. Gabe Durham is the author of Fun Camp and the editor of Boss Fight Books. He lives in Los Angeles. Gabriel Blackwell is the author of three books, the most recent of which is The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men. His fiction and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, Tin House, DIAGRAM, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. With Matthew Olzmann, he edits The Collagist. Gabriel Gudding is the author of Literature for Nonhumans (Ahsahta, 2015), Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2007) and A Defense of Poetry (Pitt, 2002). His essays and poems appear in such periodicals as Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, and Journal of the History of Ideas, in such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems, Best American Poetry, Best American Experimental Writing, and &Now: Best Innovative Writing. His translations from Spanish appear in anthologies such as The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, Poems for the Millennium, and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry. Gabriel Ojeda-Sague is a Latino queer Leo living in Philadelphia, PA. His first collection, Oil and Candle (Timeless Infinite Light, March 2016), is a set of writings on Santeria, war, and the precarity of Latino-American lives. He is also the author of the chapbooks JOGS (2013), a re-writing of The Joy of Gay Sex, Nite [Chickadee]'s (GaussPDF, 2015), a collection of Cher's tweets on systematic racism and violence, and Where Everything is in Halves (Be About It, 2015), poems against death through The Legend of Zelda. His work can be found here. Gail Hosking Gilberg Gail Hosking Gilberg is the author of Snake's Daughter: The Roads in and out of War, published by University of Iowa Press. Her essays and poems have appeared in literary journals and newspapers for years. She has an MFA from Bennington College and teaches writing at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. GARETT STRICKLAND is the editor of .PLINTH., ICHNOS, and other publications of the Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia. He is the author of a long-poem, WHOA DONT CARE (Jerkpoet, 2015), and UNGULA (forthcoming from Solar▲Luxuriance). He's an ordealist. Garret Travis is a writer from Louisiana currently pursuing his MFA at the University of Notre Dame. He's writing a novel, and he's on twitter @garrettravis. Gary J. Shipley Gary J Shipley’s latest books are Gumma Homo (Blue Square, forthcoming), and You With Your Memory Are Dead (Civil Coping Mechanisms, forthcoming) More details can be found at Thek Prosthetics. Gary Sheppard co-edits Kitty Snacks Magazine and The Yalobusha Review. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi where he is a Grisham fellow at the University of Mississippi. His fiction and poetry can be found in upcoming issues of New York Tyrant, Requited Journal, and Corium Magazine. GB Gabbler is the editor/annotator and partner to the author/narrator of a href="https://circodelherreroseries.com/vol-1/">THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series, a mythpunk novel which puts a postmodern spin on how we interpret myth and literature. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads—oh, and Vulcan’s shit list. Gabbler’s work typically explores ways in which robots and religion intersect. You can read more of their work at circodelherreroseries.com. Gean Moreno is a Miami-based artist. Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle has been published in Aufgabe, Beaubourg/Pompidou Editions, The Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Jacket, The Paris Times, Purple, and Verse, etc. His film credits included Tremors (Universal), Finding Forrester (dir. Gus Van Sant), and Our City Dreams (dir. Chiara Clemente). George Barber has studied Chinese and spent time in China, where he taught and studied. Ginger Ko writes from Wyoming. Her poetry collection MOTHERLOVER is forthcoming from Coconut Books. Gordon Massman is the author of The Essential Numbers 1991 - 2008, from Tarpaulin Sky Press. He lives in Medford, MA, and Frenchboro, ME. Grace Krilanovich is the author of The Orange Eats Creeps, published by Two Dollar Radio and excerpted twice in Black Clock. She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a finalist for the Starcherone Prize and was selected as one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" honorees for 2010. Grace Shuyi Liew Grace Shuyi Liew's work can be found in West Branch, cream city review, Twelfth House, Puerto del Sol, Madison Review, H_ngm_n, TYPO, Winter Tangerine Review, PANK, and others. She reads for Waxwing magazine. She is from Malaysia. Graham Foust is the author of six books of poems, including To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems (Flood Editions 2013), a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award, and Time Down to Mind (Flood Editions, 2015). With Samuel Frederick, he has also translated three books by the late German poet Ernst Meister, including Wallless Space (Wave Books, 2014). He works at the University of Denver. Grant Maierhofer is the author of Ode to a Vincent Gallo Nightingale, Marcel, and The Persistence of Crows. Grant Weber has created a world that revolves around reading, running, writing and grilling on the weekends. Greg Gerke's fiction and non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, LA Review of Books, Film Comment, The Kenyon Review Online, Denver Quarterly, and Mississippi Review. Queens Ferry Press will publish a book of short stories, My Brooklyn Writer Friend, in September 2015. Gregg Murray is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University and Editor-in-Chief of Muse /A Journal. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota and has written essays for The Huffington Post, Continent., The Chattahoochee Review, Real Pants, KurzweilAI, and others. He also writes poetry. Guillaume Morissette is a Canadian fiction writer and poet based in Montreal, Quebec. His most recent book is New Tab. Guillaume Morissette and Tyler Crawford Guillaume Morissette is the author of the novel New Tab (Vehicule Press, 2014). He lives in Montreal. Tyler Crawford is a single dad with no kids based out of Montreal. He works as an audio engineer and tweets like a teen at http://www.twitter.com/tech4thestarz. Guy Benjamin Brookshire Guy Benjamin Brookshire was born in Searcy, Arkansas in 1977, got covered in fire ants in 1980, and traveled widely. He studied poetry at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, where he met and later married librarian Amanda Choi. They have two girls, Beatrix and Blythe, and live in Northern California. He is the author of The Universe War and New Oldestland. Haley Markbreiter lives in New York and works in a bakery. You can read her poems in The Hypocrite Reader and The Kenyon Review. Hanif Abdurraqib & Mike Young Hannah Gamble is working on her second book of poems. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from the American Poetry Review, The Believer, POETRY, Black Warrior Review, Court Green, and a chapbook from coldfront magazine, featuring new work from the authors of readers' favorite poetry collections of 2012. She lives in Chicago, where she is developing an arts-based learning workshop at the Museum of Science and Industry for a team of innovators seeking to address the city's problem of urban nutrition. Heather Christle is the author of three poetry collections, most recently What Is Amazing. She lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she is working on a book about crying. Henry Hoke was a child in the south and an adult in New York and California. His work appears in Electric Literature, PANK, Gigantic, Birkensnake, Entropy, and is forthcoming in The Synchronia Project. His plays have been produced on the west coast and at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival and published by Snail Press. He co-created and directs ENTER>text, a living literary journal in Los Angeles. 3 years, a book about ENTER>text, is out now. Hez Stalcup is an Atlanta-based Dance Artist. They are currently a Leap Year Resident with MINT Gallery. Hilary Leichter's writing has appeared in The Southern Review, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, n+1, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from The Edward F. Albee Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Hilary Plum is the author of They Dragged Them Through the Streets (FC2, 2013). She is an editor with the Kenyon Review and co-edits Rescue Press’s Open Prose Series. She lives and teaches in Philadelphia. Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Cryptic Endearments from Knives Forks & Spoons Press. He has a number of forthcoming chapbooks including Elephant Gun from Dog on a Chain Press, The Death of Me from Pig Ear Press, and Strange Roads from Puddle of Sky Press. Hugh Sheehy is the author of The Invisibles (University of Georgia Press). He teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Isabel Balée received her MFA from Brown in 2015. Her work has appeared in Blazevox, Alice Blue Review, A Bad Penny Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Tulane University. Isabelle Davis is an editor and writer for probably crying review and avid drinker of boxed wine. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Skydeer Helpking, glitterMOB, Quaint, the NewerYork, and others. Jac Jemc lives in Chicago where she writes fiction and poetry. Her first novel, My Only Wife (Dzanc Books) was named a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award. Her first full-length collection of stories, A Different Bed Every Time, came out in October 2014, also from Dzanc. Jace Brittain lives in Los Angeles or Berlin or Indiana. He is a retired radio DJ. His writing has appeared in The Destroyer, Deluge, and elsewhere. He is currently a MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame. Jackie Wang is the author of Against Innocence (Semiotex(e)), as well as the zines On Being Hard Femme, Memoirs of a Queer Hapa, The Adventures of Loneberry, and The Phallic Titty Manifesto. In her critical essays she writes about queer sexuality, race, gender, the politics of writing, mixed-race identity, prisons and police, the politics of safety and innocence, and revolutionary struggles. She is currently working on a book or two. She blogs at Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns and @Loneberry on Twitter. Jackson Nieuwland likes unicorns. Jacob Perkins lives in Brooklyn, NY where he runs Mellow Pages Library with Matt Nelson. His writing can be found in NonCanon Quarterly, Hobart Web, and forthcoming in Hobart 15 and SP CE. Jacob Sunderlin received his MFA from Purdue University, where he worked for Sycamore Review. He is a 2012-2013 poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Poems appear or are forthcoming from Forklift, OH, Caketrain, and La Petite Zine. He is from Lafayette, IN. Jacqueline Waters's One Sleeps the Other Doesn't was published by Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the author of one previous collection, A Minute without Danger (Adventures in Poetry), and edits The Physiocrats, a pamphlet press. Jaime Fountaine was raised by "wolves." Her work as appeared in PANK, Monkeybicycle, and 3:AM Magazine. Jamalieh Haley lives in Portland, Oregon where she co-curates If Not For Kidnap and teaches writing. Her work has appeared in Interrupture, Sink Review, Everyday Genius, Sixth Finch, Queen Mob's Teahouse, and she is the author of Strange Tarot (Poor Claudia, 2014). James Gendron is the author of Sexual Boat (Sex Boats) and the chapbook Money Poems. Weirde Sister is forthcoming from Octopus Books. James Greer is the author of the novels Artificial Light (LHotB/Akashic 2006) and The Failure (Akashic 2010), and the non-fiction book Guided By Voices: A Brief History, a biography of a band for which he once played bass guitar. He is a Contributing Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. James Yates is an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He works as a Fiction Editor for Longform.org and as a bookseller. His fiction has appeared in Hobart, and his nonfiction has appeared in/ is forthcoming in The Chicago Reader and Necessary Fiction. He lives in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. Jameson Fitzpatrick’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications) and teaches writing at NYU. Jamie Gadette is a writer and music editor living in Salt Lake City. Her work has appeared in VenusZine, Blurt, Harp and Salt Lake City Weekly. She dreams of one day riding in the Cash Cab. Jamie Iredell is the author of, most recently, I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac. Jamie Perez lives in Baltimore and works in DC. He was part of Narrow House for years, an independent small press in Baltimore putting out occasional books and more. His work as appeared in a variety of places online and in print. He plays bass and other instruments in the Casual Band (and in Sweatpants before that). He blogs at www.verymostgood.com. Jan Wiezorek writes from Chicago. His fiction has appeared at TheWriteMag.com, CommuterLit.com, RustyNailMag.com, PressboardPress.com, Ozone Park Journal, Picayune Magazine, Steel Toe Review, Midwestern Gothic, CracktheSpine.com, Seeds Literary Arts Journal in Chicago, Sleepytown Press, AbsintheRevival.net, Our Day’s Encounter, Blinking Cursor, and The April Reader. He is author of Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing (New York: Scholastic, 2011). For many years his feature stories of unsung heroes appeared in the Chicago Tribune. He holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts Education from Columbia College Chicago and a B.A. in Journalism from Iowa State University. Jan also studied fiction writing at Northeastern Illinois University. He enjoys biking along the backroads of Michigan’s Harbor Country. Visit him at teachwrite.net. Jana du Plessis Jana du Plessis is a copywriter, lecturer and author living in Cape Town, South Africa. She has co-written, directed and produced a stage play and is the author of two popular fiction novels, Vat ’n gap (2011) and Mieke rock uit (2012) (both NB Publishers). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in various publications, and she is currently obsessed with her spirit-sisters, Lidia Yuknavitch, Kate Zambreno, Michelle Tea and Chris Kraus. Jane Wong holds an MFA from the University of Iowa. She has been awarded a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to Hong Kong and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Salt Hill, The Volta, CutBank, Best New Poets 2012, and others. She lives in Seattle and teaches at the University of Washington and the Richard Hugo House. Janey Smith lives in San Francisco and edits Metazen. She is writer of The Snow Poems and Animals. In 2014 Civil Coping Mechanisms will publish her writing in 40 Likely To Die Before 40: An Introduction to Alt Lit. Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation(Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). She is Editor of the imprint #RECURRENT for Civil Coping Mechanisms, Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy, and Assistant Editor at Fanzine. After living for over 30 years in California, she will be moving to Portland, Oregon this summer to teach at Portland State University. Janice Lee & Michael du Plessis Janice Lobo Sapigao is a Pinay poet, writer, and educator born and raised in San José, CA. Her first book microchips for millions will be forthcoming from PAWA, Inc in Fall 2016. She is also the author of the forthcoming chapbook toxic city (tinder tender press, 2015). She earned her M.F.A. in Critical Studies/Writing at CalArts. She co-founded an open mic in Los Angeles called the Sunday Jump. She lives in the Bay Area and teaches at Skyline College and San José City College. Please visit her website: janicewrites.com JARETT KOBEK is an American author and essayist living in California. His book ATTA (Semiotexte, 2011) is a fictionalized psychedelic biography of the lead 9/11 terrorist and If You Won’t Read, Then Why Should I Write? was published in 2012 by Penny-Ante Editions. His most recent criticism, «Je suis devenu un magicien noir», was published as a catalogue essay by White Cube of London. His new novel BTW is forthcoming in November. Jason Jude Chan Jason Jude Chan has written for Flavorpill, Flavorwire, GOOD, Time Out, and Interview. He maintains a blog (Trafficjamsandtea.com) from his bare apartment in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint area and has pondered, in an effort informed by his Polish environs, changing his name to Jaslowiczanka. Jason McBride is an editor at Toronto Life magazine and has written for Cinema Scope, the Village Voice and The Believer. He's currently working on his first novel. He is also writing Fanzine's Toronto event listings. Jaswinder Bolina is an American poet and essayist. His first book Carrier Wave was awarded the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry and published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University in 2007. His second book Phantom Camera was awarded the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry by New Issues Press and will be published in Spring 2013. Bolina earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan in 2003, and a Ph.D. in English from Ohio University in 2010. He teaches in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Miam. Jay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger, forthcoming from YesYes Books. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Sixth Finch, Blunderbuss, Atlas Review, Forklift Ohio, Handsome, and elsewhere. Essays have been published in Slate, The New Republic, The Millions, and Jacket 2. A winner of the Scotti Merrill Memorial Award and Narrative’s Annual Poetry Contest, he lives in Brooklyn. Read more at www.jaydeshpande.com. Jayme Russell is the author of two chapbooks: PINKification (Dancing Girl Press, 2017) and PINKpoems (Adjunct Press 2017). Her writing can also be found in Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. She received her M.A. in Poetry from Ohio University and her MFA in Poetry from The University of Notre Dame. Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of the full-length collection THIS LAST TIME WILL BE THE FIRST. Other work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Boston Review and four chapbooks. The name of Jeff’s dog is Beckett Long Snout. The name of Jeff's micro-press is Dikembe Press. Jeff Jackson is the author of the novel Mira Corpora, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Vice, and The Collagist. Five of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award winning Collapsable Giraffe theater company. Jeff T. Johnson Jeff T. Johnson’s writing has appeared in The Encyclopedia Project, Kitchen Sink, Coldfront, and Pitchfork; his poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in 1913 a journal of forms, Boston Review, Slope, VOLT, Caketrain, and The Laurel Review, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, and is on the editorial staff at LIT and Dewclaw. Jen May makes drawings and books and a lot of her drawings are words written. Coffee and popcorn are very important to her, and she loves it when people say "You go, Girl!" in a genuine way. She is a Scorpio, and really likes Neil Young and Patti Smith. Jen illustrates the rock and roll blog Strawberry Fields Whatever. Jenna Le's reviews have been published in the past by such venues as The Rumpus, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, and The Pharos, while her poetry has appeared widely, including two published poetry collections, Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011) and A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Anchor & Plume Press, 2016). Jennifer Blowdryer, nee Waters, grew up in a town that will never ever want her back, but has successfully bullied her way into the social life of New York City and, at times, San Francisco. Her most recent book was killed by Harper Perennial, a dubious distinction, but the happily published Good Advice For Young Trendy People of all Ages (Manic D Press, SF) retains an eternal half life on the internet sales machines. She hopes to make a documentary of the 86ed project, which for now can only be found by typing in this entire URL: WWW.86edstories.com - bon chance! Jennifer Calkins is an evolutionary biologist and writer who lives in Seattle. Her website is http://thequaildiaries.com. Jennifer Krasinski is a writer who lives in los angeles. Jennifer Militello is the author of A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments (Tupelo Press, 2016), Body Thesaurus (Tupelo Press, 2013), and Flinch of Song, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North American Review, The Paris Review, and Best New Poets. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College. Jennifer Nelson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She formerly edited poetry at Epiphany and Washington Square Review. She holds degrees from Yale University, New York University, the Courtauld Institute, and Harvard College. Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife is her first full-length book of poems. Jennifer BARRRRFFFF Tamayo is a New York-based performer, writer, and activist. JT is the author of three collections of art and writing; her latest book YOU DA ONE is forthcoming from Coconut Books (Fall 2014). Her work has most recently appeared in Poetry, Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath), and is forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing 2014 (Omnidawn). JT lives in Brooklyn and since 2010 has served as the Managing Editor of Futurepoem. www.jennifertamayo.com Jerimee Bloemeke was born in Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1987. His work has been published in the following journals and magazines: Novembre, Artifice, The Claudius App, NOÖ Journal, Hinchas de Poesia, and The Iowa Review (forthcoming, December 2013), among others. He is also the author of the recent chapbooks, 25¢ CASH (Slim Princess Holdings, 2013) and Cosmic Latte (Floating Wolf Quarterly, forthcoming, September 2013). He has a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Iowa City. Jess Shaefer lives, eats, and drinks in Barcelona, where she happily and incessantly indulges her addiction to stinky cheeses, cured meats, and vino tinto. Some days the whole "Mediterranean thing"—i.e . sun, beach, beer, music, sex, and generally too much happiness—gets to be a bit much and she glares at people, hides under her babushka [see photo] and reads Tolstoy with the curtains drawn. But the rest of the time she's into it. Jess is currently starting up Esentia Tours, a culinary tour company, in the hopes that she can make eating, drinking and traveling into a viable profession. She is also learning how to drive a large motorcycle. Jesse Bransford is a Brooklyn-based artist whose drawings and wall works are exhibited internationally. He is also a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Art at NYU. He is represented by Feature Inc. in New York. Jesse's art can be viewed at http://www.sevenseven.com Jesse Hudson is a writer from Colquitt GA. His first novel is forthcoming on Dennis Cooper's Little House on The Bowery Series on Akashic books. Jessica Berger is a Chicago-based writer and a founding editor of Grimoire Magazine. Her work has been featured (or is forthcoming) in Pank, Ninth Letter, trnsfr, Gamut, The Spectacle, Maudlin House, Moonsick, Shirley Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. She may or may not belong to an elite and secret group of Andrzej Żuławski enthusiasts. Jessica O. Marsh is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming with Flying Object Press, Lana Turner, Vinyl Poetry, Patient Presses and Prelude. She resides on Long Island. Jim Nelson's work has appeared or will soon appear in SmokeLong, Watchword, Transfer, Red Wheelbarrow, and other publications. He lives in San Francisco's Tenderloin and has yet to be mugged. Jim Ruland is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and the author of the novel Forest of Fortune, the short story collection Big Lonesome and co-author with Scott Campbell, Jr. of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch of Giving the Finger. He is currently collaborating with Keith Morris on My Damage: 40 Years in the Trenches of Punk Rock. He runs the Southern California-based reading series Vermin on the Mount, now in its eleventh year. JoAnna Novak is the author of I Must Have You (Skyhorse Publishing 2017) and Noirmania (forthcoming from Inside the Castle 2018). Her fiction, essays, poetry, and criticism have appeared in publications including Salon, Guernica, BOMB, The Rumpus, Conjunctions, and Joyland. A co-founder of the literary journal and chapbook publisher, Tammy, she lives in Los Angeles. Joe Fritsch is a poet and critic. His writing has appeared in Underwater New York, Mad House Journal, and elsewhere. Joe Hall is the author of three books of poems: Pigafetta Is My Wife, The Devotional Poems, and, in collaboration with Chad Hardy, The Container Store Vols I & II. He lives with fellow poet Cheryl Quimba in Buffalo, New York where he is currently studying waste flows (piss and shit). Joe Jock was born an hour from Yankee Stadium in Connecticut and is a fan of all things New York, but resides in Southern California, as he is also a fan of the sun. His field is Human Resources, but his passions include writing - for which he has gained accolades from the English Department of his college - and History. Joe plans to attend UC-Santa Barbara in the Fall as a History major. Joseph Pfister’s fiction has appeared in PANK, Juked, decomP, Right Hand Pointing, among others, and was long-listed by The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions 2013. He is a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their dog, Roary. He is currently at work on his first novel. Visit him online at josephspfister.com or @joe_pfister. Joe Wenderoth has numerous numerous publications. Numerous. He teaches at UC Davis, where police keep order with pepper spray. he is invisible. Joel Westendorf has done lots of things. Some of which you might be interested in, some.. not so much. His work has appeared in the magazines Spin, Index, and Detour, been displayed at Marianne Boesky Gallery in NYC and Sister Gallery in Los Angeles, and can be found on the covers of 7 novels. Currently he likes taking and working with photographs of anything that isn't man-made, especially animals. His graphics have been featured on Fanzine from the site's inception Johannes Göransson is the author of five books, including most recently Haute Surveillance (Tarpaulin Sky, 2013), and the translator of several more, including works by Aase Berg, Johan Jönson and Henry Parland. He edits Action Books and Action, Yes, writes for Montevidayo.com and teaches at the University of Notre Dame. This poem is from his forthcoming book The Sugar Book (Tarpaulin Sky, 2015). John Beer is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Last year brought the chapbook Lucinda I-IV (Spork) & the edited volume Poems (1962-1997) by Robert Lax (Wave); the full-length Lucinda will appear in 2016. He teaches creative writing at Portland State University. John Farley is a writer from Ellicott City, Maryland. He currently lives in Mexico City, where co-edits the literary zine Call of the Void. His fiction and journalism have appeared in Full-Stop, Hologramma, Outpost Journal, PBS.org, Tell Us a Story and elsewhere. John Henry Fleming John Henry Fleming is the author of The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman, a novel, Fearsome Creatures of Florida, an eco-conscious literary bestiary, The Book I Will Write, a novel-in-emails originally published serially, and Songs for the Deaf, his recent story collection. His short stories have appeared in journals such as McSweeney’s, The North American Review, Mississippi Review, Fourteen Hills, Kugelmass, Better: Culture and Lit, Atticus Review, and Carve john mortara is a sad unicorn shivering in boston, ma. john mortara is an assortment of 'fun size' candies. john mortara has a new collection called 'some planet' forthcoming from yesyes books. john mortara is less funny and more bone. they have a website called johnmortara.com. john mortara is the exact amount of time it will take for neil armstrong's 'one small step' footprint to have eroded away from the sea of tranquility completely. john mortara is poet laureate of FEELING VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. John Rufo reads and writes poetry at Hamilton College. His work has been previously published, or is forthcoming, in Ploughshares, Prelude, Entropy, Queen Mob's Tea House, and HTMLGiant. He interns for Maggy and co-runs Red Weather, a literary arts magazine, with Zoë Bodzas. You can hang out with him online at dadtalkshow.tumblr.com. John Russell was a teenage hustler who’d been pimped out as a cross-dressed prostitute by his mother at truck stops throughout the South, until he landed on the streets of San Francisco in the early-to-mid-nineties. He is now an artist, curator, editor of the Frozen Tears book series, and football fan based in London. John Trefry is the author of the novel PLATS, the caprice THY DECAY THOU SEEST BY THY DESIRE, and the forthcoming APPARITIONS OF THE LIVING, proprietor of Inside the Castle press, contributor to entropymag.org and minorliteratures.com, architect with the work.group @ sisyphean.com. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas. John Venegas is a half-Mexican writer and editor, living in the San Fernando Valley, with a BA in creative writing from California State University at Northridge. He is the Lead Editor and Book Review Editor for Angel City Review and assistant editor for the #Recurrent series at CCM. He sells pool supplies, works as a handyman, and tutors students to pay the bills. He likes long walks on the beach, going to the opera, and really stupid dad jokes. Johnny Drago is an Atlanta-based performer and writer. His first novel, co-written with poet EC Crandall, is available at www.executiveprivilegebook.com. Jon Cone lives in Iowa City. He recently completed the script for a comic book series to be called LIMINAL: SHADOW AGENT. Jon Cone & Rauan Klassnik Jon Cone lives in Iowa City. He recently completed the script for a comic book series to be called LIMINAL: SHADOW AGENT. Rauan Klassnik is the author of Holy Land and a few other books. Most recently he helped edit ALL THE MESSIAHS for Schism Press. Born and raised in NYC, Jon Frosch has lived in Paris for the last 4 years, where he currently works at the International Herald Tribune. His NYU Masters thesis was on "The New French-Jewish Cinema," and his work has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, The Stranger, Santa Fe Reporter, Pasadena Weekly, Film Journal International, AlterNet, GoGo Magazine, Time Out Paris, Paris Voice, Courrier International (translated into French), Variety, Willamette Week, PopMatters, The Portland Mercury, and the District Weekly. Jon Leon is a New York based poet and novellaist. His books include The Hot Tub with Dan Hoy's Glory Hole (mal-o-mar editions, 2009), Hit Wave (Kitchen Press, 2008), and Right Now the Music and the Life Rule (Hathaway, 2006). In Italy, La Camera Verde brought out a translation of his Diphasic Rumors in 2008. He is an occasional contributer to Art in America. Waiting for his real bio, while we get his first piece up, but he's a big sports fan, lives in New York and is a friend of Danny Jock's and I hope this is him in the pic I grabbed from a private myspace page by the same name (ha!). From 1987 until 2007, Jonathan Rosenbaum was principal film critic at the Chicago Reader. His books include Moving Places, Placing Movies, Film: The Front Line 1983, Midnight Movies (with J. Hoberman), Greed, Dead Man, Movies as Politics, Movie Wars, Abbas Kiarostami (with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa), Essential Cinema, Discovering Orson Welles, and, as editor or coeditor, Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich's This is Orson Welles and (with Adrian Martin) Movie Mutations. His web site is at jonathanrosenbaum.com Jordan Castro (b. 1992 / @jordan_castro) is the author of YOUNG AMERICANS (2013) and if i really wanted to feel happy i'd feel happy already (2014). Jos Charles is a southern California writer and founding-editor at THEM—a trans* literary journal. Jos is also a founding-editor of Sol&Res. Their work has appeared in BLOOM, Radioactive Moat, and variously online. They are making amends with their situation. Josalyn Knapic lives in Chicago, IL. She is editor of South Loop Review and the assistant fiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine. Her writing has been featured in DIAGRAM, South Loop Review, and other venues. Contact her at email@example.com. Joseph Houlihan lives and writes in Minneapolis, MN. Joseph Mosconi is a writer and taxonomist based in Los Angeles. He codirects the Poetic Research Bureau and coedits Area Sneaks. He is the author of Fright Catalog (Insert Blanc Press, 2013) and Demon Miso/Fashion in Child (Make Now Press, 2014). Josh Bell's next book of poems comes out, from Copper Canyon, in early 2016. He teaches creative writing at Harvard and is the author of No Planets Strike. Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is a trans woman poet living in California. Her work has been featured in The Offing, PEN America, The Feminist Wire, and elsewhere. Her first full-length collection THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in August 2016. Joshua Jones is a writer and animator residing in Maryland. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Necessary Fiction, The Tishman Review, Juked, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter @jnjoneswriter. Joyelle McSweeney is the author of Salamandrine: 8 Gothics (Tarpaulin Sky) and Percussion Grenade (Fence). She edits Action Books, contributes to Montevidayo, and teaches at Notre Dame. Judyth Emanuel has short stories published in Overland Literary Magazine, Electric Literature Recommended Reading, Intrinsick, STORGY, One Page and forthcoming in PULP Literature. Her story TARTS is a finalist in The Raven Short Story Contest. Her story Treacle Eyes has been longlisted in The Margaret River Short Story Competition. www.judythemanuel.com Julia Cohen's most recent book is a hybrid collection of lyric essays, I Was Not Born (Noemi Press, 2014). Her other books are Collateral Light (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014) and Triggermoon Triggermoon (Black Lawrence Press, 2011). Her work appears in journals like DIAGRAM, Colorado Review, Entropy, The Destroyer, and Kenyon Review Online. She's currently translating with Jens Bjering the Danish poet Theis Ørntoft. She lives in Chicago and is looking for snowpants. Julia Dixon Evans Julia Dixon Evans is the author of the novel Other Burning Places, forthcoming from Dzanc Books. Her work can be found or is forthcoming at Paper Darts, Barrelhouse, Monkeybicycle, and elsewhere. Julian Modugno is a writer and filmmaker from Atlanta, GA. His films have appeared in a variety of film festivals, as well as being featured in a vitriolic hate-rant on The O'Reilly Factor. He would trade it all for one shot at being a wizard in the Iron Kingdoms fantasy setting. For more of Julian’s film work, please visit http://www.blandhack.com Born and raised on the banks of the Hudson River, Julie Perini now makes her home in Buffalo, NY where she recently received her MFA in Media Study from the University at Buffalo. She is about to relocate to Portland, OR so's to indulge in "some kind of hippy fantasy" (quote uncertain). Julie’s artwork in video, film, installation, mail, and performance has been exhibited nationally and internationally at a variety of theaters, galleries, clubs, sidewalks, warehouses, hotels, and living rooms. Julie Reverb is the author of No Moon (Calamari Press). Juliet Escoria is the author of Black Cloud (CCM/Emily Books, 2014) and Witch Hunt (Lazy Fascist, 2016). She lives in West Virginia. For more, go to julietescoria.com. Justin Caguiat is co-director of Manila Institute & is based in Chinatown, NYC. Justin Dobbs lives in Seattle. Author of Billy's Room. Justin Stewart's writing on cinema has appeared in the L Magazine, Reverse Shot, Film Comment and elsewhere. K. Silem Mohammad K. Silem Mohammad is the author of several books of poetry, including Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises Press, 2003), Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008), and The Front (Roof Books, 2009). He is a professor of creative writing at Southern Oregon University. Kaptain Carbon writes for Tapewyrmmetal.com, Hollywoodmetal.com, and is a moderator for Reddit’s r/metal, r/vintageobscura, and r/exotica. Kara Vernor’s fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Hobart, No Tokens, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere and has been included in Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions, the Best Small Fictions finalists, and Outpost 19’s Golden State 2017 anthology. She has received scholarships from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference, and her fiction chapbook, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song, is available from Split Lip Press. Kari Larsen (@karileelarsen) is a writer and editor dwelling on the banks of the mighty Susquehanna. Her book Lessons for Girls is coming soon from Lost Angelene Press. For more information see www.cold-rubies.com. Karsten Krejcarek is Brooklyn-based artist who works primarily in sculpture and video. He is a level-two boundary disillusionist, with apparent leanings toward the fourth quadrant. Katherine Botten is an Australian interdisciplinary artist. Her works are primarily voiced in the first person, often blurring the distinction between artist and object of study. “Katherine Botten” as performed by Katherine Botten explores the construction and destabilization of identity in Post Capitalist conditions, and the distress of living and consuming. She is represented by Suicidal Oil Piglet and currently squats instagram.com/katherinebotten1er. Katherine Osborne is a writer in Massachusetts and editor of Little River. She is the author of Fire Sign. Kati Heng is a writer living in Chicago. Her work has been featured in CityPages.com, The Newer York and Where Magazine. Katie Burke is a writer living in Chicago. She is a reviewer for Probably Crying and her work has been published by Electric Cereal. You can find her on twitter @STOKEDabtbutts. Katie Ebbitt is a poet and social worker living in New York City. Her chapbook, ANOTHER LIFE, was published by Counterpath Press. Her work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky and Queen Mobs. Katie Foster was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She recently adopted a grey cat after a lifetime of living with dogs. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Katie Jean Shinkle Katy Mongeau lives in Providence, RI where she is an MFA candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University. She is assistant editor at Caketrain, a journal and press. Kaya Oakes’ nonfiction book, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, was published by Henry Holt in June of 2009. She’s also the author of a collection of poetry, Telegraph, which received the Transcontinental Poetry Prize from Pavement Saw Press. Kaya was the co-founder and senior editor of Kitchen Sink magazine. Since 1999, she’s taught writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Kaya has been the recipient of teaching fellowships from the Mellon Faculty Institute and the Bay Area Writing Project, as well as writing awards from the Academy of American Poets. She’s also twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in nonfiction. Her website is www.oakestown.org. Kelly Schirmann & Tyler Brewington Kent Shaw (born August 4, 1971) is a contemporary American poet. Kevin Catalano is the author of The Word Made Flesh (firthFORTH Books). His stories have appeared in PANK, Gargoyle Magazine, storySouth, Monkey Bicycle, and other places. He teaches film and writing at Rutgers University-Newark. www.kevincatalano.com Kevin Killian, one of the original “New Narrative” writers, has written three novels, Shy (1989), Arctic Summer (1997), and Spreadeagle (2012), a book of memoirs , and three books of stories. He has also written two books of poetry, Argento Series (2001), and Action Kylie (2008). A third will appear in March 2014—Tweaky Village, from Wonder Books. Recent projects include The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985, edited with David Brazil; Tagged (2013), edited by Darin Klein, introduction by Rob Halpern, Killian’s intimate photographs of poets, artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers and intellectuals; and forthcoming, with Dodie Bellamy, The Nightboat Anthology of New Narrative Writing 1975-1995. Kevin Maloney is the author of Cult of Loretta (Lazy Fascist Press, 2015). His fiction has appeared in Hobart, Barrelhouse, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and a number of other lit journals. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his girlfriend and daughter. Kevin Paul Giordano KEVIN PAUL GIORDANO has written for the New York Times and the New York Post. He previously taught journalism at Brooklyn College. He currently lives in Orlando, Florida, where he teaches at the University of Central Florida. Kevin Sampsell is the author of a memoir, A Common Pornography, which has been praised by both Penthouse and Harper's Magazine. He lives in Portland, Oregon, which is like the red light district/smut capital of the west coast. Kim Yi-deum has earned degrees in German and Korean Literatures. She teaches at Gyeongsang National University. She has written five books of poetry - including Star-Shaped Stain, Cheer up, Femme Fatale, Inexpressible Love, Song of Berlin, Dahlem, Hysteria - and one novel, Blood Sisters. Her writing has been used in scripts for a play (The metamorphosis, 2014) and independent film (After school, 2015). She has received numerous literary awards for her work, including Poetry and the World Literary Award, Kim Daljin Changwon Literary Award, Outstanding Poem of the Year Award, and the 22th Century Prize of Literature. She read at the Stockholm International Poetry Festival in 2014 and Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne 2015. Her radio show, "Poems Selected by Kim Yi-deum," ran for about a year at Jinju KBS. Now she is working as an editorial staff of several organizations such as Society of Korean Poets, the magazine Poetry&Expression and the magazine Poem Poem. Kimberly King Parsons Writing by Kimberly King Parsons has been published or is forthcoming in New South, Black Warrior Review, Time Out New York, Gigantic, Fiction Southeast and elsewhere. She lives in Queens with her partner and two young sons. Kina Viola is the managing editor for chapbooks at Big Lucks Books. She also makes handmade books for Garden Door Press in Ithaca, NY with her partner & fellow poet Marty Cain. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in DREGINALD, Witch Craft Magazine, Jellyfish, and other journals. Find her online @kinamv. Kirkwood Adams has no bio. Kory Calico was born at Grady hospital in Atlanta. He is an avid fan of rap music, poetry and prose. In 2011 he helped organize Poets for Change: Atlanta and is the current co-curator of the ALEF reading and performance art series with Puma Navarro. Kristen Felicetti is the editor of The Bushwick Review. She also wrote and recorded The New York Crimes, a modern radio play. Kristen Gallagher’s books include We Are Here (Truck Books, 2011) and Florida (a ms looking for a home). Online you can find "Dossier on the Site of a Shooting," a multiplatform digital work on Gauss PDF, "Untitled Rosewood Trip," text with screenshots in Printed Web 3, and a chapbook "Florida" from Well Greased Press. Her essays on the work of Tan Lin appear in Criticism: A Journal for Literature and the Arts, Jacket2, and the collection Reading the Difficulties from University of Alabama Press. Her essay “Teaching Freire and CUNY Open Admissions” was recently anthologized in Class and the College Classroom: Essays on Teaching and can be found online thru Radical Teacher. She is a Professor of English at City University of New York–LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York. Kristen Iskandrian has new work forthcoming in Zyzzyva and Ploughshares. Other stories have appeared in Tin House, Crazyhorse, Joyland, Epoch, and many other places. Her first novel MOTHEREST will be published in August 2017 by Twelve/Hachette. Kristen Steenbeeke is a fiction writer and poet. Her poetry has appeared only in publications that begin with a "P": Pacifica Literary Review, Pleiades, and Poetry Northwest. Her fiction appears in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Tin House Flash Fiction Fridays; also, one of her stories was aired on NPR’s Snap Judgment as a radio play. She is the marketing manager at Hugo House, a place for writers in Seattle. Kyle Beachy's first novel was The Slide (The Dial Press) and this excerpt comes from a second, forthcoming. His short stories and essays can be found elsewhere. He is a professor at the MFA program at Roosevelt University, in Chicago. Kyle Minor is the author of Praying Drunk. www.kyleminor.com Ladan Osman earned a BA at Otterbein University and an MFA at the University of Texas at Austin. Her chapbook, Ordinary Heaven, appears in Seven New Generation African Poets (Slapering Hol Press, 2014). The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) is the winner of the 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Apogee, The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, Transition Magazine, and Waxwing. Osman has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, and the Michener Center for Writers. She is a contributing editor at The Offing and lives in Chicago. More info at ladanosman.com Twitter: @OsmanLadan Lana Spendl's chapbook of flash fiction, We Cradled Each Other in the Air, is forthcoming in February 2017 from Blue Lyra Press. Her work has appeared in The Cortland Review, Hobart, The Greensboro Review, Lunch Ticket, Quarter After Eight, Fiction Southeast, storySouth, Monkeybicycle, Prick of the Spindle, Gargoyle, and other magazines. She can be found online at lanaspendl.com. Larissa Szporluk was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan and earned degrees at the University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns fellow. Her books of poetry include Dark Sky Question (1998), which won the Barnard Poetry Prize; Isolato (2000), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; The Wind, Master Cherry, the Wind (2003); Embryos and Idiots (2007); and Traffic with Macbeth (2011). She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently teaches at Bowling Green State University. Larry O’Connor is a journalist and author of Tip of the Iceberg, a memoir that was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in 2003, and the novel, The Penalty Box. His essays have been widely published and his radio commentaries have been broadcast on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Mary Morris, and their daughter, Kate. Laura Eve Engel Laura Eve Engel's work has appeared in The Awl, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Tin House and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, she is the Residential Program Director of the UVa Young Writers Workshop. Laura Jane Faulds Laura Jane Faulds is a Toronto-based writer of French-Moroccan descent. Her work has been featured in Storychord, Shelf Life, Maximumrockandroll, and Chelsea magazines. Her short story "Everyone Loves A Person Who Doesn't Give A Fuck About Anything" was published in Cal Morgan's Forty Stories, and she is a regular contributor to Knox Road. Laura Jane now runs Strawberry Fields Whatever, a thoughtful and rabble-rousing blog about rock and roll music with longtime collaborators Elizabeth Barker and Jen May. Her favorite Beatle is John, and her favorite Rolling Stone is Keith. Laura Page is a graduate of Southern Oregon University, where she studied English and Sociology. Her work has appared in numerous literary publications, most recently in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Dead King Magazine, and Kindred. Her debut chapbook, "Children, Apostates" is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. A second chapbook, "Sylvia Plath in the Major Arcana," is forthcoming from Anchor & Plume Press. Laura Pérez Muñoz Laura Pérez Muñoz is an MFA in Writing candidate at Pratt Institute. Their work currently involves multilingual translations and the language of the untranslatable body. Laura Theobald is a journalist, editor, and creative writer originally from the Florida Keys and currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. She recently graduated cum laude from The University of Tampa. She is the recipient of the 2011 Robertson Poetry Prize from the University of Houston. Coach is an education writer and editor in D.C. She took the GRE at Howard University, and hopes to go back some day, and take it again. When she’s not training for an imaginary sports event, she enjoys making some gay-ass flyers for queer dance parties. Lauren Traetto is a poet and journalist who has done a lot of different kinds of jobs. She lives in Atlanta, but she used to live in Athens, GA, where she studied linguistics and performed with an Afro-Cuban horror punk band called "Los Meesfits." Lee Stegner has published stories in The Madison Review, Cream City Review and ZYZZYVA. She received her MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. Leesa Cross-Smith is a homemaker and writer from Kentucky. She is the author of Every Kiss a War (Mojave River Press, 2014). Her short story collection was a finalist for both the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2012) and the Iowa Short Fiction Award (2012). Her short story "Whiskey & Ribbons" won Editor's Choice in Carve Magazine's Raymond Carver Short Story Contest (2011) and was listed as a notable story for storySouth's Million Writers Award. Her work has appeared in places like SmokeLong Quarterly, The Rumpus, Little Fiction, Longform Fiction, Carve Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Pithead Chapel, Gigantic Sequins, Folio, Midwestern Gothic, Juked, NANO Fiction, Word Riot, Sundog Lit, and many others. She and her husband Loran run a literary magazine called WhiskeyPaper (http://whiskeypaper.com/). Leslie Burnette is a short fiction writer and hair stylist who resides in South Philly by way of Arizona. Recent domain name purchases include leslieburnette.com and myass.biz. One of those should be a website very soon. Linda Franklin (Barkinglips) is a Baltimore artist writer who uses shadows, stains, fossils, bones, reflections, smears and half-sensed remnants to help her prove reality. Otherwise she is too emotional, and too crazy. See one of her blogs, www.gobbledegoogle.blogspot.com that tells how she uses phrase searches for occasional writing. Lindsay Hunter is the author of the story collections Daddy's (featherproof) and DON'T KISS ME (FSG Originals). Her first novel, Ugly Girls (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is out November 4th, 2014. Lindsay MaHarry's work has appeared in The New York Observer, Noisey, Gawker, Spin, New York Magazine's Bedford+Bowery, BULLETT, and budding culture site The Kind, among others. She recently made a twitter @lindsay_maharry Lisa Ciccarello is the author of five chapbooks, including the recent Sometimes there are travails (Hyacinth Girl Press) and the forthcoming (the shore in parts) (Greying Ghost Press). Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Denver Quarterly, Handsome, Leveler, Everyday Genius, Poor Claudia, and Corduroy Mtn., among others. She is also the poetry editor at draft: The Journal of Process. Lizzy Acker’s work has been published in Nano Fiction, Eleven Eleven, Joyland, Hobart and elsewhere and she is a blogger for KQED Arts. She has read with Bang Out, RADAR, Quiet Lightening and others. Her first book,Monster Party, was released in December of 2010 by Small Desk Press. Lonely Christopher is the author of several poetry chapbooks and the volume Into (with Christopher Sweeney and Robert Snyderman). As a librettist and playwright, his dramatic works have been published, staged in New York City and internationally, and released in Mandarin translation. He is a founding member of the small press The Corresponding Society and an editor of its biannual journal Correspondence. He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Lorenzo de Los Angeles Lorenzo De Los Angeles has shown his drawings, sculptures, light shows, and art collaborations throughout the U.S. and abroad. He likes to look and learn about old things, and enjoys drinking at the Lenox Lounge in Harlem, The Sideshow at Coney Island, and the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station. Lorian Long is a 29 year old secretary living in Columbus, Ohio. Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar currently teaching in the English Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. His book The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora was a finalist for the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Lucy Tiven is reluctantly repaying her debt to society. She has been published on Word Riot, UP, NAP 3.5, Plain Wrap's Quarter 01, Cutty Spot, and Metazen. Her chapbook I am not all water is available from NAP. Luis H. Francia Luis H. Francia is the author of several books. His poetry collections include Museum of Absences and The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. A chapbook, The Beauty of Ghosts, is due out this summer, as well as A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos. His Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (2001) won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. He edited Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English, and co-edited Fiippin’: Filipinos on America, and Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999. He has written for The Village Voice, the Nation, and other periodicals. He teaches Philippine-American Literature at Hunter College and Tagalog Language and Culture at New York University. Luke B. Goebel Luke B. Goebel is the author of the debut novel Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours (FC2, September 2014), for which he received the Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction, and the recipient of the Joan Scott Memorial Fiction Award. He earned a BA from the University of San Francisco and an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He worked as an editor with a NYC-based literary journal and independent publishing house. An assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Texas at Tyler, he was born in Ohio and grew up in Portland, Oregon. Luke Kokoszka is a writer and musician living in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. He can be found eating bánh mì and exploring the vast roads of Canada. His fiction has appeared at carte blanche, Cheap Pop, Potluck Magazine, and elsewhere. Lynn Mundell's work has appeared in Portland Review, The Sun, Five Points, Tin House Flash Fidelity, The Airgonaut, Jellyfish Review, and many other swell literary journals. Her story "Again," from Superstition Review, was recently long listed for The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2017. She lives in Northern California, where she co-edits 100 Word Story. M Kitchell is learning how to levitate through staring at the sun. He likes houses painted black and perfect geometry. His room is filled with rocks & succulents. He believes in the following ensemble of apparently sovereign behaviors: ecstasy, intoxication, erotic effusion, laughter, sacrificial effusion & poetic effusion. He lives & works in the Bay Area. Find out more at http://topologyoftheimpossible.com. Megan Milks has published fiction in 30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers; Wreckage of Reason; and Fist of the Spider Woman, as well as many journals. Her second chapbook, Twins, is available through Birds of Lace Press. She lives and teaches in Jacksonville, Illinois. Maggie Millner's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Two Serious Ladies, GlitterMOB, Prelude, and elsewhere. Magus Magnus is the author of The Re-echoes (Furniture Press Books, 2012), Idylls for a Bare Stage (twentythreebooks, 2011), Heraclitean Pride (Furniture Press Books, 2010), and Verb Sap (Narrow House, 2008). Current projects include a book on the ancient Roman emperor Heliogabalus and a conceptual writing/theater piece utilizing various government documents on unmanned combat air vehicles, titled drone: poetic monologue for monotone. Several of Magnus’ poems and an idyll have been anthologized in Pearson Longman’s university-level English textbook, Literature. Mairead Case lives in Colorado. She is an English/Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Denver, coordinator at the Naropa Summer Writing Program, and a teacher at DU, Naropa, and the women’s jail. Mairead wrote the novel See You In the Morning (featherproof) and Tenderness, a poetry chapbook from Meekling Press. Maisie Wilhelm is a Midwestern girl at heart, even though she has been living abroad for 3 of the last 4 years, Italy and France. Just like Madonna, she escaped from a factory town in Michigan. She received a degree in Italian Studies from Brown University, and became a freelance journalist after moving to Paris in pursuit of the clichéd dream of writing a novel in smoky cafes. She has published in the International Herald Tribune, Paris Voice, regularly in Paris Notes, and in various travel publications. She worked as a journalist in Munich during the FIFA World Cup 2006, and is the Fashion assistant at the International Herald Tribune, having traveled on business to Morocco, Italy, and Denmark. She also writes the Paris Events listings. Read about What Maisie Knew (what's shaking in Paris) in the blogosphere at http://maisie.typepad/com/whatmaisieknew Malina Saval is the author of The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens (Basic Books, 2009). She's been a featured guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," Fox News, the Patt Morrison show and the Tavis Smiley show on PBS. As a journalist, her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times,Glamour, LA Weekly, Heeb, Forward, the Jerusalem Post, Flaunt, Premiere and Variety, for whom she pens celebrity profiles and entertainment features. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Palehouse, True Romance, The Truth About the Fact and Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers. She's a graduate of Cornell Universityand USC School of Cinematic Arts and is currently at work adapting Boys as a TV show. Manuel Arturo Abreu manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx. Their work has appeared in MCA Sydney, Tactic Cork, ACLA, The New Inquiry, Gauss PDF, et al. @Deezius. Marcel Inhoff is finishing a doctoral dissertation at Bonn University (Germany). His publications include a volume of poetry (Prosopopeia, Editions Mantel, 2015), as well as individually published poems in both English and German. He has written and published essays on Derek Walcott, Thomas Bernhard, Ingo Schulze, Robert Lowell, Tracy K. Smith, and Elizabeth Bishop, and translated fiction into both English and German. His own blog is at shigekuni.wordpress.com. Margaret Patton Chapman Margaret Patton Chapman received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her novella Bell and Bargain will be published by Rose Metal Press in November, 2014 as part of the collection My Very End of the Universe. Her short fiction has appeared a number of journals including Wigleaf, The Collagist, Elimae, and the anthology The Way We Sleep. She is prose editor for decomP magazine, and lives in Durham, NC. Maria Flaccavento studied at Temple University in Philadelphia and is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of California San Diego. Her work can be found in The Apiary, Bedfellows, and online. Maria Suarez is finishing her MFA at San Francisco State University, where she also teaches. Her fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly. Once, in a forest of trees, her eyes each looked at a different thing. Marie Buck is the author of Life & Style (Patrick Lovelace Editions, 2009) and the chapbooks Amazing Weapons (Scary Topiary, 2012) and Doom Balloon (Abraham Lincoln, forthcoming). Her work has been anthologized in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing and translated into Italian for the magazine Abbiamo le Prove. She lives in Detroit, where she is completing a dissertation about the literature of the Black Power and Women's Liberation movements. Mario Dzurila is the editor of MGZN and the art director of the Prague Literary Review. A prolific media artist, his design work, articles and photographs have appeared in /zionmag.com/ and /dorfdisco.de/, among other places. Born in Slovakia, he currently resides in Prague, where he is a founding member of the multimedia art collective DeaFactory. Marisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collection The Haunted House (Switchback, 2010), and the chapbook 8th Grade Hippie Chic (Immaculate Disciples, 2013). Her writing has recently appeared in Fanzine, The Hairpin, and Bitch, and is forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia, 2016) and The &NOW Awards 3: Best Innovative Writing (&NOW, 2015). Marisa is founding editor of the feminist blog WEIRD SISTER, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Mariusz Zubrowski can be found biking around South Brooklyn. If spotted he'll grant three wishes and a year's supply of lukewarm luck. "Mark Asch was for several years an editor at in Brooklyn, and is now studying at the University of Iceland." Mark Baumer is a human with an internet presence, but his internet presence isn't quite a perfect representation of his earth presence. He started working on a novel three minutes ago called, "the internet presence that wasn't a perfect representation of an earth presence." The main character in this novel is named Mork. He is only four years old, but his web history dates back almost fifteen years to 1996 when he registered his first email address at hotmail.com. Mark Baumer & Lorian Long Mark Budman was born in the former Soviet Union. His writing appeared in Five Points, PEN, American Scholar, Huffington Post, World Literature Today, Daily Science Fiction, Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, The London Magazine (UK), McSweeney's, Sonora Review, Another Chicago, Sou'wester, Southeast Review, Mid-American Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Short Fiction (UK), and elsewhere. He is the publisher of the flash fiction magazine Vestal Review. His novel My Life at First Try was published by Counterpoint Press. He co-edited flash fiction anthologies from Ooligan Press and Persea Books/Norton. Mark Francis Johnson Mark Francis Johnson lives in Philadelphia, where he is the proprietor of Hiding Place, a book / record shop that also hosts a reading series. His most recent publications include YELLOW HIGHLIGHTER (Troll Thread, 2015) and AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE PARK (Make Now, 2015). Several of his mixes can be found on Gauss PDF. Mark Leidner is the author of Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (Factory Hollow Press, 2011) and The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (Sator Press, 2011). MARTIN ROCK is the author of Residuum (2015 CSU First Book Competition, Editor's Choice Award) and the chapbooks Dear Mark (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013) and Fish, You Bird (Pilot, 2010), which he cowrote with Phillip D. Ischy. His poetry and translations from Japanese have appeared in journals such as Asymptote, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Conduit, DIAGRAM, Forklift, Ohio, Hayden's Ferry Review, Third Coast, The Journal, The Tampa Review, The Missouri Review, and Best New Poets 2012. With Kevin Prufer and Martha Collins, Martin co-edited the volume Catherine Breese Davis: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Pleiades Press, 2015). Mary Breaden is an Oregonian native living in Brooklyn. By early morning light, she writes, and during business hours, she works for a social services nonprofit. She and Andrea Janda founded an experimental literary journal (www.visitantlit.com) in 2016. Mary's work has been published in Education Week, Persistent Visions, The Mondegreen, the Portland State Vanguard, Portland Book Review and in Queen Mob's Teahouse. She was selected as an Emerging Writer in the Lamprophonic Reading Series and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of several books like LOVE DOG, LIKE SOONE IN LOVE: AN ADDENDUM TO LOVE DOG, LACONIA: 1,200 TWEETS ON FILM, BEAUTY TALK & MONSTERS, and co-editor of the anthology, LIFE AS WE SHOW IT: WRITING ON FILM. Her fiction and criticism has been published widely in journals and anthologies. In 2015, she completed the film LOVE SOUNDS, a 24-hour audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema. Her new durational film, DECADES, a study of time using film sound, is forthcoming in 2017. She teaches film, literature, and gender studies at The New School and Pratt in New York City. Her Tumblr, is LOVE DOG: mashatupitsyn.tumblr.com. Mathias Svalina is the author of three books, most recently The Explosions from Subito Press. With Alisa Heinzman, Hajara Quinn & Zachary Schomburg he co-edits Octopus Books. Big Lucks will release his book Wastoid in 2014. Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found, a fiction collection forthcoming in Fall 2010 from Keyhole Press, as well as The Collectors, a novella, and How the Broken Lead the Blind, a chapbook of short fiction. "Greyson, Griffin, Guillermo" is from a recently completed novella titled Cataclysm Baby, other excerpts of which are forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Unsaid, Sleepingfish, and Puerto del Sol. He is also the editor of The Collagist and can be found online at www.mdbell.com. Matt Crowley is a writer and comedian living in Los Angeles. A contributing writer at Noisecreep and Trick With a Knife, he’s a freelance writer on occasion. His fiction has been published in many places and his most recent chapbook Congratulations! There's No Last Place if Everyone is Dead made people laugh in its intended way. His internet home is Words for Guns. Matt's been intoxicated on television three times. Matt Lundy is a graduate student of journalism at the University of Western Ontario. His work has appeared in The London Free Press, The Tyee, Monday Magazine, and various other publications. His all-time favourite NBA players are Charles Oakley, Sam Cassell, and Larry Bird when he had a blonde mustache. Matt Roberts received his BA in Continental Philosophy from DePaul University, and he will receive a PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University in May 2013. His research focuses on contemporary European theater and performance, as well as avant-garde aesthetics. Additionally, he has contributed to Write Club Atlanta, Hyde Atlanta, and soon Frontier Psychiatrist. He is a dramaturge, having worked with several Atlanta based theater companies and performance groups. Finally, he is the Subject Librarian for Comparative Literature and French and Italian Studies at Emory University's Woodruff Library. Matt Salyer is an Assistant Professor of English at West Point. His work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Northwest, Narrative, Hunger Mountain, New Orleans Review, The Common, Massachusetts Review, Florida Review, and numerous other journals. He was a 2015 Pushcart nominee, a 2016 finalist for the Iowa Review Prize, and a semifinalist for the Brittingham and Pollack Prizes. His first book, Ravage and Snare, is forthcoming in 2017. Matthew Dexter is an American author living in Cabo San Lucas. His fiction can be found in hundreds of literary journals. He writes abhorrent freelance pieces for exorbitant amounts of pesos to pay the bills while drinking cervezas in paradise with tourists. He is the author of the novel The Ritalin Orgy (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing). His second novel, Hero Custodian, will be published in 2019. Matthew Jent is a writer of fiction, comics and TV. He lives in America. Matthew O’Shannessy is a writer who recently relocated from Melbourne to California. Sculptor Matthew Ronay was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1976. After initially making brightly colored sculptures of combined objects that illuminated social subjects such as: an exit strategy for the Iraq war, the fall of the United States empire as envisioned through Caligula, and a theoretical uprising in the United States lead by the throw-aways of technology and weakened gene pool, he changed. Years of trying to capture an explanation of the human condition through popular culture and material objects has shifted to using environments, performance, costuming, and devotional objects to allude to the immaterial. His website is www.hideamongthetrees.com. Matthew Simmons is the author, most recently, of the novella A Jello Horse (Publishing Genius Press). He maintains a blog called The Man Who Couldn't Blog, edits interviews for the journal Hobart, and is a regular contributor to HTML Giant. He lives in Seattle with his cat Emmett. Matthew Stokoe was born in England and is currently living in the Southern Hemisphere. He is the author of three novels: Cows, High Life, and Empty Mile. His new novel is called Colony of Whores. Matthew Vollmer is the author of Gateway to Paradise, inscriptions for headstones, and Future Missionaries of America. With David Shields, he co-edited Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts. He also edited the anthology A Book of Uncommon Prayer, an anthology of invocations by over 60 writers. He teaches at Virginia Tech. Matty Byloos is the editor of the literary quarterly Smalldoggies, a currently dormant zine made in Los Angeles. A graduate of Art Center's MFA program, Byloos is also a painter whose work has been exhibited at SolwayJones in Los Angeles, among other venues. As a fiction writer, his work has been published in Fishwrap, Schtick, and Undershorts, and in 2004 he was included in the UCLA Hammer Museum's New American Writing series. Maw Shein Win Maw Shein Win is a Burmese-American poet, editor, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals including Cimarron Review, Ping-Pong, Eleven Eleven, and most recently, the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet and was an Artist In Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her collaborative book with paintings by Mark Dutcher,Ruins of a glittering palace, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. Along with composer Amanda Chaudhary, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind which combines poetry with abstract electronic music. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Max Winter's reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, and elsewhere; he is an illustrator for The Rumpus and Cosmonauts Avenue; he is the co-editor of Solid Objects and one of the Poetry Editors of Fence Magazine. He has published two books of poetry: Walking Among Them (Subpress, 2013) and The Pictures (Tarpaulin Sky, 2007). Megan, a filmmaker from California, fled the arid smogbowl of LA for the cool, wet streets of Berlin. When she’s not cooking soup or riding her bike she can be found inventing new recipes, writing short stories and covering events for Fanzine. Megan Martin is the author of Nevers, forthcoming from Caketrain in spring 2014, and Sparrow & Other Eulogies (Gold Wake 2011). She lives in Cincinnati for now, with her boyfriend and a bunch of cats. Megan McShea is the author of A Mountain City of Toad Splendor (Publishing Genius Press). She lives in Baltimore, MD. Megan Nare is a writer and art historian living in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research interests include outsider art, folk art, and southern culture. She also dabbles in vinyl records, tries hard at yoga, and is considered by some to be a consultant on proper etiquette. Megan O'Patry lives in San Francisco. She is an avid consumer Megan Broughton is an artist, arts educator, writer, and cellist. Her writing has been featured in Entropy Magazine, Enclave, and Fanzine. You can view her artwork here: http://cargocollective.com/meganbroughton. Meghan Lamb currently lives with her husband in St. Louis, where she is a fiction MFA candidate with the Washington University Writing Program and a Graduate Assistant with the Modern Literature Collection. She is the author of Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace) and Sacramento (Solar Luxuriance). Meghan Privitello is the author of A New Language for Falling Out of Love (YesYes Books, Fall 2014). Work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Best New Poets 2012 and elsewhere. She currently serves as co-editor of The New Megaphone. You can follow her on twitter @meghanpriv. Mel Bosworth is the author of the novel FREIGHT. His work has appeared in Tin House, New World Writing, and Hobart, among others. Visit him at melbosworth.com. Melissa Broder is the author of three collections of poems, most recently Meat Heart (Publishing Genius, 2012) and the forthcoming <emScarecrone (Publishing Genius, 2014). Poems appear in The Iowa Review, Fence, Guernica, The Missouri Review, et al. She lives in Los Angeles. Melissa is a graphic designer and professional concert attender. Melissa Pritchard has published six books of fiction and a biography. Her awards include the Flannery O'Connor and Carl Sandburg Awards, NEA, Hawthornden and Howard Foundation Fellowships, several Pushcart Prizes, O.Henry Awards and citations in Best American Short Stories. Stories from a newly completed collection, The Odditorium, appear in Agni, Conjunctions, Image, Boulevard, and (forthcoming) in a A Public Space. Melissa teaches at Arizona State University. Mellow Pages Library The Mellow Pages Library is a library in Brooklyn. (http://mellowpageslibrary.tumblr.com/) Meredith Alling is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her website is meredithalling.com and she is on Twitter @meremyth Meredith Maltby is from Chicago, Illinois. She was a featured poet at Design Cloud Chicago’s HERE / NOW event. Meredith has previously published her work in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Chicago Tribune, Vending Machine Press, Gravel Journal, Prairie Margins, among others. Micah Gottlieb is a 23-year old writer and filmmaker living in New York City. His work has appeared in BlackBook and Tiny Mix Tapes Michael Busk is a PhD student in the University of Southern California's Literature and Creative Writing Program. His writing appears in Gettysburg Review, Fiction International, Florida Review, and other journals. He lives in Long Beach, and while he doesn't count himself among Hamid Karzai's inner circle, the two do speak on occasion. Michael du Plessis Michael du Plessis is the author of the chapbook, Songs Dead Soldiers Sing (Transparent Tiger Press, 2007) and the novel, Memoirs of Jonbenet by Kathy Acker (Les Figues 2012). Among other projects, Michael is currently working on a collection of poems about decapitation in film and televison with Janice Lee. Michael Hessel-Mial is a poet and scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is webmaster of Internet Poetry and coeditor (with Penny Goring) of the image macro anthology, MACRO, forthcoming from Boost House at the end of the year. He is the author of several ebooks, including mspaint and heartbreak, VITA NUOVA II and 14 Sonnets for Money. @mikehesselmial Michael J. Seidlinger Michael J Seidlinger is the author of a number of novels including The Fun We’ve Had, The Laughter of Strangers, My Pet Serial Killer, and The Sky Conducting. He serves as the Reviews Editor for Electric Literature as well as Publisher-in-Chief of Civil Coping Mechanisms, an indie press specializing in innovative fiction and poetry. Michael Keenan’s first book of poems, "Translations On Waking In An Italian Cemetery," was released by A-Minor Press in 2014. He currently talks to people at Columbia University and the New School. Michael Kimball is the author of seven books, including Galaga, Big Ray, Dear Everybody, and Us. His work has been translated into a dozen languages, and featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and in Vice, as well as in The Guardian and Bomb. Michael Kai Louie is one part of the founding editors of Fanzine, although he is also a writer, provocateur, letterpress printer, and an admiral of a fictional vessel of poor sea-worthiness. He has written for various publications in the past, including Giant Robot, Maximum Rock 'n' Roll, Punk Planet, the SF Bay Guardian, Clamor, several skateboarding magazines, and some zines. Send emails to firstname.lastname@example.org Michael Miller is an editor and writer at Time Out New York. He lives in Brooklyn. Michael O'Hara studied poetry at the University of Iowa. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Be About It, Keep This Bag Away From Children, and DUM DUM ZINE, and his translations from the Chinese have appeared in Cha. This poem comes from a manuscript entitled Dungeoneering. He likes talking about poetry, cooking, and wizards on his facebook, and encourages you to contact him there (facebook.com/michael.j.ohara). Michael Seymour Blake Michael Seymour Blake is the author/illustrator of 12 Days of Santa Crying. His work has appeared in Entropy, Paper Darts, People Holding, Autre, and Reality Beach. He has painted various murals around NYC, including one that was prominently featured at Silent Barn in Brooklyn, home to the new Mellow Pages Library. He lives in Queens. www.michaelseymourblake.com Michael Thomsen has written for ABC World News, Nerve, n+1, IGN, The Faster Times, Gamasutra, The Escapist, and Edge. He lives in New York City. Michele Hayes lives in Oakland with her fiancee and pet fish Mr. T. She is finishing her MFA at San Francisco State University and spends entirely too much time in front of the television. Michelle Lyn King Michelle Lyn King is a Florida native who now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in Shabby Doll House, Catapult, and The Rumpus. Contact her at email@example.com or on twitter @MichelleLynKing. Mike Corrao is a young writer working out of Minneapolis. He was a 2016 artist-in-residence for Altered Esthetics and his work can be found in publications such as Entropy, decomP, and Cleaver. Mike Ingram is one of the founding editors of Barrelhouse magazine. His work has appeared in a number of journals, including EPOCH, The Southeast Review, and Monkeybicycle. He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches at Temple University and co-hosts the Book Fight podcast. Mike Meginnis is the author of Fat Man and Little Boy (Black Balloon Publishing, 2014). His stories have been published or are forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2012, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hobart, The Collagist, The Lifted Brow, Atlas Review, PANK, and many others. Mike Powell works in Manhattan as a fact-checker, and from a desk in Brooklyn as a freelance writer for Stylus, Pitchfork, the Oxford American, the Village Voice, Wire, and Paper Thin Walls. He also serves on the board of Esopus magazine. Mike Young is the author of three books and a chapbook: Sprezzatura (forthcoming poems), Who Can Make It (chapbook of poems), Look! Look! Feathers (stories), and We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (poems). He edits NOÖ Journal, runs Magic Helicopter Press, and writes for HTMLGIANT. Find him in the snow in Northampton, MA and online at http://mikeayoung.blogspot.com Mira Gonzalez is the author of i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together. Molly Brodak is the author of A Little Middle of the Night (University of Iowa Press, 2010) and three chapbooks of poetry. She lives in Atlanta. Morgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize, and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Coconut Books 2016). A Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor for Coconut Magazine, she also contributes writing to Weird Sister. She lives in Brooklyn and at www.morgan-parker.com. Moss Angel is author & designer of five books, most recently Sea-Witch v. 1: May She Lay Us Waste & Sea-Witch v.2: Girldirt Angelfog, from their ongoing cross-genre fucked-up fantasy series Sea-Witch. Their work has been published in Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol & Denver Quarterly. You can support their work & see their newest writing & art at http://patreon.com/monstr & see & buy books/merch at http://undying.club. They live with their wife Døgtail Nørth in Oregon. Nada Gordon consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs. Since reaching adulthood, her body has consisted of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life. These cells are organised biologically to form her whole body. She is the author of Folly, V. Imp, Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?, foriegnn bodie, Scented Rushes, and Vile Lilt. Her poems have been translated into Japanese, Hebrew, and Burmese. Nalini Edwin's work appears in journals including Gigantic, NOÖ, No, Dear, and extramural; her installations have shown in various cities on the East Coast and in Paris. Her first chapbook is forthcoming this summer from Awst Press. She lives in Brooklyn. Nancy Keefe Rhodes Nancy Keefe Rhodes writes about film, photo and visual arts from Syracuse. A member of the national Women Film Critics Circle, she was on the film staff at Stylusmagazine, was film reviewer & a producer/host for the three-time Clarion Award-winning Women’s Voices Radio at NPR-affiliate WAER Syracuse, and covers arts & culture for the Syracuse City Eagle weekly which carries her regular DVD review column, Make it Snappy. She is an alum of the first class of the Goldring Arts Journalism Masters Program at the Newhouse School, Syracuse University. Her reviews are archived at www.MovieCrossRhodes.blogspot.com. Nat Baldwin is a writer and musician living in Portland, Maine. His fiction has appeared in PANK, Sleepingfish, Alice Blue, Timber, Deluge, and The Spectacle. He has released several solo albums and plays bass in Dirty Projectors. He is currently pursuing a BA in English at the University of Southern Maine. Natalie Eilbert's first book of poems Swan Feast is forthcoming next year from Coconut Books. She is the author of two chapbooks,Conversation with the Stone Wife (Bloof Books 2014) and And I Shall Again Be Virtuous (Big Lucks, forthcoming). Her poems and criticism have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Philadelphia Review of Books, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of The Atlas Review. Natalie Lugo lives in Detroit, where she works in a veterinary clinic. This is her first publication. Natalie Lyalin is the author of Blood Makes Me Faint, but I Go for It (Ugly Duckling Presse 2014), Pink & Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books 2009), and a chapbook, Try A Little Time Travel (Ugly Duckling Presse 2010). She is the cofounder and coeditor of Natural History Press. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Philadelphia University. Natalie Shapero is the Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts and an Editor at Large of the Kenyon Review. Her first collection of poetry is No Object (Saturnalia, 2013), and her second is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. Nate Logan is from Indianapolis, Indiana. Some of his reviews can be found in Luna Luna, Queen Mob's Teahouse, and Weird Sister. He's editor and publisher of Spooky Girlfriend Press. Nate Waggoner’s work has appeared in KQEDPop, SFWeekly, and Sparkle & Blink. He is a co-founder and contributing editor at the-tusk.com. He competes regularly at Write Club SF. He is the author of a comic book called “A Lifetime of Free Haircuts.” He and his ex-girlfriend host a romance advice podcast called Invitation to Love, which is available on iTunes. He will get his MFA in Fiction at San Francisco State University in May. Nathan Knapp's essays and fiction have appeared in Blue Mesa Review, The Millions, Tin House online, Yalobusha Review, and elsewhere. He founded The Collapsar and currently lives in Tulsa. Nathaniel Popkin is a writer who lives in Philadelphia. His latest book is the novel Lion and Leopard (The Head and The Hand Press). He is also the author of Song of the City (Four Walls Eight Windows/Basic Books) and The Possible City (Camino Books). Popkin is co-founder and co-editor of the Hidden City Daily and senior writer and script editor of the Emmy-winning documentary series “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment.” He is also the fiction review editor of Cleaver Magazine. Popkin contributes to the Wall Street Journal Weekend Review, Public Books, The Smart Set, and theDactyl Review. Much of his work is at nathanielpopkin.net. Nic Lawrence teaches poetry at Marshall University in West Virginia. Some of her work can be found in Hobart and the Appalachian Still: The Journal. Nicholas Boggs is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has appeared in the anthology James Baldwin Now, Callaloo, and Mary: A Literary Quarterly. The recipient of fellowships and residencies from Yaddo and MacDowell, he’s currently writing a book about his search for the untold story behind James Baldwin’s collaboration with the French artist Yoran Cazac. He teaches at Columbia University. Nicholas Bredie is the author the novel Not Constantinople, from Dzanc Books, Summer 2017. With Joanna Howard, he is the translator of Frédéric Boyer’s novella Cows, published by Noemi Press. His writing has appeared in The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Fairy Tale Review, LitHub, Puerto del Sol, Electric Literature and elsewhere. After living and working in Istanbul, Turkey, he is now in Los Angeles with his wife, Nora Lange. Nicholas Grider is the author of the story collection Misadventure (A Strange Object), which was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Prize, and the experimental book Thirty Pie Charts (Gauss PDF), and his work has appeared in Caketrain, Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, Guernica and elsewhere. Nicholas Rys writes, teaches and makes music. His writing has appeared in Entropy Mag, Enclave blog and Shotgun Honey. His music can be heard @ www.soundcloud.com/normadesmondmusic and myideaoffun.org/normadesmond. He currently lives in rural Ohio. Nichole L. Reber Nichole L. Reber has won a couple of awards for her nonfiction about art, architecture, travel, and cultural politics. She heads a nonfiction writers group in Columbus and writes a PANK column on international literature. Her work has appeared in World Literature Today, The Atticus Review, and EastLit. Nick Attfield is a Lecturer in Music at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK. He has published journal articles and book chapters on German music and politics over the past hundred years, and on late nineteenth-century French opera; American alternative rock of the eighties and nineties is an equally strong, if perhaps tangential, interest. The author of North of Order and Book of Lake, Nicholas Gulig is a Thai-American poet from Wisconsin. Nick Sturm is the author of the poetry book, How We Light, published by H_NGM_N in 2013. His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Typo, Jubilat, PEN, and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014. Nick Sylvester lives in New York City. Nicole Steinberg is the author of Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013) and three chapbooks, most recently Undressing (dancing girl press, 2014) and Clever Little Gang, winner of the Furniture Press 4X4 Chapbook Award. Her work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, Newsweek, Flavorwire, Bitch, Hyperallergic, and elsewhere. She's the founder of New York's EARSHOT reading series and she lives in Philadelphia. Nicoletta is a native of Queens, NY and will become an Egyptologist. Until then she finds herself lingering in the communities of Urban Word NYC/Studio Museum in Harlem, and exploring her Eastern European gypsy roots. She is also currently assisting at the Fanzine Brooklyn office. Nicolette Polek is from Cleveland, Ohio. She attends Bennington College, where she was recently awarded the 2015 MFA Undergraduate Fellowship in Fiction. Her recent work has been published in The Pacifica Literary Review, and forthcoming in The Chicago Quarterly Review. Niina Pollari is the author of Dead Horse (Birds, LLC 2015) and the translator, from the Finnish, of Tytti Heikkinen's The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal (Action Books 2012). She tweets @heartbarf. Nik De Dominic Nik De Dominic writes poems, teaches, and lives in Los Angeles. Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured in DecomP, Word Riot, Spork, Likewise Folio, Horse Less Review, Storyscape Journal, Coconut ,The Account, & others. She is also the author of the chapbook THE FROGS AT NIGHT (Shirt Pocket Press) and the chapbook, I WOULD BE THE HAPPIEST BIRD (Horseless Press). She’s also an Assistant Poetry Editor at Coconut Poetry. She lives in Milwaukee, WI and you can reach her at nikkiwallschlaeger.com. Extracts from Zao Dha Diet - Nina Cristante’s ongoing work and health consultation system. Nina Oteria is a poet from North Carolina living in Harlem. She is a candidate of the Pratt MFA in Creative Writing and Activism. Nina Puro is a poet, human, & queer weirdo whose writing is in The Atlas Review, Guernica, the PEN Poetry Series, & others. A member of the Belladonna* Collaborative; author of two chapbooks (Argos Books and dancing girl press); recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Barbara Deming Fund, & Syracuse University (MFA 2012), Nina cries and works in Brooklyn. Noelle Kocot is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Soul in Space (Wave Books, 2013). She also translated some of the poems of Corbiere, and they comprise a book called Poet by Default (Wave, 2011), as well as a limited edition discograpy, Damon's Room (Wave 2010). She has received awards from The Academy of American Poets, The American Poetry Review, The Fund for Poetry and The National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellowship. She grew up in Brooklyn, and now lives in New Jersey and teaches writing in New York Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Nora Hickey now lives in Albuquerque, NM. A graduate of Kalamazoo College and University of New Mexico, her poetry has appeared in Court Green, the Massachusetts Review, Mid American Review, DIAGRAM, and other journals. She is member of the Dirt City writers collective. Norman Feliks studied History at York University in Toronto before getting a Fiction MFA from the City College of New York. He makes a living driving film production trailers and does most of his writing during long days on-set in an old diesel. He has been published in Promethean, Keep This Bag Away From Children, and Weijia Quarterly. He lives in Toronto and Brooklyn. O.B. De Alessi O.B. De Alessi is a visual artist, performer and writer from Italy and currently based in Paris. She obtained a MFA from Chelsea College of Art in London and she has exhibited widely in Europe, Russia and South America. She is currently working on a children’s novel. Oki Sogumi was born in Seoul, Korea and currently resides in Philadelphia. She is the author of The Island of Natural History (forthcoming from Publication Studio), and a chapbook, Salt Wedge. Her poetry has been included in HiZero (UK), LIES Journal, 11x11, and appears in little boxes on the internet sometimes. Olena Jennings completed her MFA at Columbia University and her MA at the University of Alberta. Her translations from the Ukrainian have been published in Poetry International, Poetry International Web, and Chelsea. Her feature articles and book reviews can be found on KGB Bar Lit. Oliver Strand lives in Rhode Island, where he works as a woodworker. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Anomalous, Poor Claudia, the Brooklyn Review, Spoon River Poetry Review and Synecdoche. Oliver Zarandi is a writer and editor. He edits Funhouse, a magazine about the body and his latest work appears in Hobart, The Quietus and Vol 1 Brooklyn. Contact him on @funhousemag or @zarandi. Oscar d'Artois is an American poet from Paris, France. He is the author of the poetry book Teen Surf Goth (Metatron, 2015) & the prose chapbook Ramen, a finalist for the 2016 Newfound Prose Prize. Visit oscardartois.wtf for more info. P. I. Navarro P. I. Navarro lives, writes, and plays music in Atlanta, GA. He earned his B. A. in Humanities from New College of Florida, and his M. A. in Literature from Georgia State University. He plays in the bands Lacuna M. and Imagination Head, and sometimes updates his blog strangerthan.org Paddy Johnson is an artist and author of the popular blog Art Fag City. She is currently working on an infomercial which promotes new and exciting innovations such as The Noodler, The Salad Tosser, and most recently Pants. As a clothing item, they really seem to have caught on. She also has, in the past, written NY listings for Fanzine. Pasha Malla is the author of The Withdrawal Method (stories) and All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts (poems, sort of). Patrick Culliton is. Just kidding. Patrick Wensink is the author of three books, most recently the novel Broken Piano for President (Lazy Fascist Press). He is the 103rd most popular humorist in America. Discover all things wentastic: www.patrickwensink.com Paul Asta was born in South Korea. He is bookbinder and writer from the Chicago Suburbs. He currently serves as a Poetry Editor for Hobart. Follow him on twitter @impossipaul Paul Cunningham manages Radioactive Moat Press and edits Deluge. He is the translator of two chapbooks by Sara Tuss Efrik: Automanias: Selected Poems (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2016) and The Night’s Belly (Toad Press, 2016). His own writing has appeared in publications including Spork, Bat City Review, LIT, Smoking Glue Gun, DIAGRAM, Witness, Tarpaulin Sky, and others. He holds a M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame. He co-curates the Yumfactory Reading Series with poet Jake Syersak in Athens, Georgia. Paul Longo lives in Portland, OR. He works as a biomedical engineer at a startup developing treatments for traumatic bleeding. His work has appeared in Best New Poets and is forthcoming in Fence. Paula Bomer's latest book is Inside Madeleine. Penny Goring lives in London. She makes things. Pete Hausler edits nonfiction for Post Road magazine, is a contributing editor to Field: New Sports Journal, and writes book reviews for a large, daily financial newspaper. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Milanville, Pa. with his wife, two daughters, and a dog named Boo. He is (and forever shall be) working on a bar memoir. Pete Hausler and Michael Louie Pete Segall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. His fiction has appeared in Necessary Fiction, decomP, Forge Lit, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago with his wife, the writer Kim Brooks, and their children. Peter Davis' books of poetry are Hitler's Mustache, Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!, and TINA. He live in Muncie, Indiana and teaches at Ball State University. More info at artisnecessary.com Peter Jacoby's writing has appeared in Mother Jones, The New York Press, The Colorado Springs Independent, Raging Face, and Gompers/Night Moves/Big Uns, among other publications. Peter Markus & Robert Lopez Peter Richards is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the John Logan Award. His poems have appeared in Agni, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Yale Review, and other journals. He is the author of OUBLIETTE(Verse Press/Wave Books, 2001), which won the Massachusetts Center for the Book Honors Award; NUDE SIREN (Verse Press/Wave Books, 2003); and HELSINKI (Action Books, 2011). He has was taught poetry at the University of Montana(Richard Hugo Visiting Poet) Harvard University(Briggs-Copeland Lecturer), Tufts University, Museum School of Fine Arts, and Brown University. Peter Thompson has written for HUSTLER, Cheri, Finally Legal, Modern Drunkard, The Weekend Standard, Vegas Seven, LA Weekly, Reno News & Review, Chico News & Review, Sacramento News & Review, Tucson Weekly, Santa Cruz Weekly, Baltimore City Paper, Washington Post, Utne.com, AlterNet, Sacramento Bee, Nevada Appeal, Tahoe Daily Tribune, High Society, others. Eyes: Hazel-green. Biggest turn ons: conversation, hot tubs, money, mountains, sleeping late. Biggest turn offs: silence, cold baths, food stamps, valleys, waking up early. Philip Dinolfo is a California native who recently moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco, where he is working on a collection of science-fiction stories. He tweets @pgdinolfo. Philippa Snow is a London-based writer and editor at Modern Matter and Hexus journal. She has written for i-D, the Guardian, E.R.O.S. journal, and the Quietus, among others. Phoebe Glick left her heart in Massachusetts. She's a candidate in the Pratt MFA in Writing and Activisms and is a co-founder of The Felt, journal of otherworldly poetics. Her chapbook Period Appropriate is forthcoming from dancing girl press in Spring 2016. Precious Okoyomon is a Brooklyn based poet and artist. She is the author of Ajebota (Bottlecap Press, 2016). Her writing has been published in Lit Magazine, Fanzine, New York Tyrant and elsewhere. She loves her sweet toy poodle rainbow and is a Leo that is very low key evil. She’s currently working on a book or two. http://preciousokoyomon.com/ Rachel Allen is the assistant managing editor of Guernica. Her work has appeared in Nerve, Mask, DAME, Highway, and Human Parts. She lives in Brooklyn; she is a Pisces; her website is goddibar.tumblr.com. Rachel Ellison is an artist and writer based in Chicago. Current independent projects include Tru Touch: Spa of guided conversation and hosting the radio program We're All Dying Radio Hour: A Show About Care on Chicago's WHPK 88.5FM (the pride of the South Side). She works independently and also collaborates with Cassandra Troyan and others as JIMMYBROOKS, and they are currently in residency at Flying Object in Hadley, MA. You can find her at @YesJewess. Rachel Lyon's work has appeared most recently or is forthcoming in Joyland, The Toast, McSweeney's, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. A copywriter by day, she teaches fiction for Sackett Street Writers Workshop by night. Her first novel is slowly making its way out of her head and into the world. You can find her at www.rachellyon.work. Rachel McLeod Kaminer Rachel McLeod Kaminer grew up in the Appalachians & lives in Los Angeles. Work appears in OR, The Laurel Review, Open Review Quarterly, and limited-edition letterpress chapbooks from Archteype. She also writes at racheldoinglines.tumblr.com, Wet Crossing, and Partial Tongues. Rachel Pafe is a writer, researcher and freelance editor based in Amsterdam. Rachel Sherman is the author of the The First Hurt (Open City Books, 2006), a book of short stories. The First Hurt was a finalist for The 2006 International Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, short-listed for the 2007 Story Award, and was chosen as one of the 25 Books to Remember from 2006 by the New York Public Library. Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Open City, Post Road, Conjunctions, n+1, and Story Quarterly, and in the book Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve Anthology (Three Rivers Press, 2001), among other publications. She holds an MFA from Columbia University. Rachel Springer is a poet and statistician living in Portland, OR. She is the author of Hive Mind, out with Poor Claudia, and Summer of Tequila, forthcoming from Similar Peaks Press. Radhika Vyas Sharma Radhika Sharma is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiction at the San Francisco State University. Rae Gouirand’s first collection of poetry, Open Winter, was selected by Elaine Equi for the 2011 Bellday Prize, won a 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award and the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award, and was a finalist for the Montaigne Medal, the Audre Lorde Award, and the California Book Award for poetry. Her new work has appeared most recently in American Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA, VOLT, The Brooklyner, The Rumpus, Hobart, The California Journal of Poetics, The Hat, and in a Distinguished Poet feature for The Inflectionist Review. She is currently at work on her third collection of poems and a collection of linked essays. Raul Alvarez is the author of There Was So Much Beautiful Left (Boost House, 2015). He holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and works for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle. Rayvon Pettis is a 23 year old writer from Ft. Payne Alabama currently living and working in Atlanta Georgia. He graduated with a Radio Television and Film degree from Auburn University and has won several awards for short film including 3rd prize at the 2009 Jay Sanders Film Festival. His work has been published in Auburn's The Corner News and The F-Word, a bi-annual feminist zine. He is also a commissioned officer in the Alabama National Guard and writes country music under the pseudo-name Tratt McDunkitt. RC Miller lives in Metuchen, NJ. He is the author of Mask With Sausage (Schism), Surviving Beyond Recognition and the impending Abstract Slavery (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), co-written with Gary J. Shipley. Rebecca Bligh & Caspar Heinemann Rebecca Fishow's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Joyland, Room Magazine, The Believer Logger, Smokelong Quarterly, The Tishman Review, and other publications. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University and lives with her husband in western Maryland. She teaches fiction and playwriting at Barbara Ingram School for the Arts. Rem + Rom The feral twin brothers Rem + Rom come to you born from the headwaters of the Columbia River, fathered by a rogue member of the «Clueless + Lark» expedition and reared by a she-wolf. They currently «ride» A Raft Manifest (Calamari Archive, 2017) + guest-blog about their riding process on 5cense.com. Renato Escudero is in the MFA program in creative writing at San Francisco State University, where he earned his MA degree last year. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Cipactli. He was a fiction finalist in the New Letters Literary Awards 2005. Renic Lee is Fanzine's current News Blogger Anchor. Known in some circles as "The Lassie from Tallahassee" (could add "sassy" to that thread....anyway, actually she's been on a walk-about from Melbourne since she was 18 and has never returned). She'll get the scoop - or by God - rewrite it better! Reynard Seifert is a writer, radio producer, music maker, photographer, filmmaker, painter, teacher, forager, and farmer. He lives in Ashland, Oregon. Rhoads Stevens was born in Baltimore, grew up in Honolulu, and lives in Providence. Richard Chiem is the author of YOU PRIVATE PERSON, a collection of short stories published by Scrambler books. His work has appeared in Thought Catalog, elimae, and Everyday Genius, among other places. He is currently living in Seattle with his girlfriend and their loud cat. Richard Henderson is a writer, music editor and occasional music supervisor for feature films. Born in Detroit, he leads a nomadic existence in California. His film credits include Brüno, Borat, Into The Wild and The Life Aquatic; his writing has appeared in The Wire, Billboard, The Beat and Murder Dog. Richard Parks lives in Oakland. A former community newspaper editor (of the Martinez News-Gazette and the Benicia Herald), Parks writes about books, music, and baseball for various online and print publications. His nonfiction writing has appeared in No Depression (RIP), Oxford American, mcsweeneys.net, Fiddler, Pleiades, Mid-American Review, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Spitball, and elsewhere. He recorded for a while under the moniker Potions Made By Children. His drawings have appeared in The Believer and his short fiction at elimae. Rico Frederick is an award-winning performance poet, and graphic designer. He is the author of the book Broken Calypsonian (Penmanship Books, 2014), 2016 Poets House Emerging Fellow, Cave Canem Fellow, a MFA candidate at the Pratt Institute and the first poet to represent all four New York City poetry venues (Nuyorican, Urbana, LouderArts, and Intangible) at the National Poetry Slam (2010 and 2012 Grand Slam Champion). His poems, artistic work, and films have been featured in the New York Times, Muzzle, No Dear Magazine, The Big Apple Film Festival, and elsewhere. Rico is a Trinidadian transplant, lives in New York, loves gummy bears, and scribbles poems on the back of maps in the hope they will take him someplace new. Rita Bullwinkel's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in NOON, Heavy Feather Review, Paper Darts, The Brooklyn Rail, Two Serious Ladies and the book Gigantic Worlds: An Anthology of Science Flash Fiction. She is currently an MFA candidate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Rob Halpern's most recent book of poems and prose is Music for Porn (Nightboat Books). Common Place is forthcoming early next year from Ugly Duckling Presse. Rob Tennant writes about books, food, theatre, and societal ills from the comfortable distance of Salt Lake City. His recent resurrection of an old hard drive might mean that novel gets done, too. Rob Walsh is the author of Troublers, a collection of stories. His website is rob-walsh.com. Robert Kloss is the author most recently of The Revelator. He lives in Colorado. Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River and a story collection, Asunder. Robin Brasington is a visual artist who has a particular interest in the moving image. In 2006 she earned an MFA degree from SUNY University at Buffalo's Media Study Department. She recently relocated from Brooklyn, NY (with partner Casey McKinney) to Atlanta, Georgia, not far from the country town she grew up in. Here she continues her introspective manipulations of images through video and photography, producing studies which are inevitably internationally conscious in theme, even if her shoes still proudly retain the red stain of her native Georgia clay. Robyn Weisman is a freelance writer who lives in Los Angeles. Rodney Wilhite is a native of rural Northeastern Oklahoma. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, 14 Hills, The Idle Class, Cartographer, The Puritan, and Splash of Red. He teaches at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith and lives in Fayetteville with his wife and infant daughter. Ronaldo V. Wilson Ronaldo V. Wilson, PhD, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Prize, Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry. His latest books are Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other (Counterpath Press, 2015) and Lucy 72 (1913 Press, 2016). CoFounder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is an Associate Professor of Poetry, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department at U. C. Santa Cruz. Ross Robbins is the founder of Bone Tax Press and the Bone Tax Reading Series. His poems have appeared in Hobart, Vinyl Poetry, and Ampersand Review. A chapbook, All in black blood my love went riding, is available from Two Plum Press, and his full-length debut, Mental Hospital: A Memoir, will be released by YesYes Books in 2015. Visit Ross online at rossrobbinspoetry.tumblr.com. Ross Simonini is the interviews editor for The Believer. Right now he's living in Seattle, spending most of his time making music and writing, which is nice, since those are his favorite things to do. He currently plays with Trespassers William, Tunnel-Tunnel, New Villager, and rooos! Ruby Brunton is a New Zealand-raised writer, poet and performer who now lives in Brooklyn. She's had poems in 4 Poets, Hobart, Witchcraft and Metatron where she is the New York coordinator, and essays in Hazlitt, Real Life, The New Inquiry and Mask Magazine where she is a contributing editor. She spends a lot of time thinking about intimacy, resistance, how to create community and education alternatives. Find her on twitter & tumblr @rubybrunton. Ryan Craig Bradford Ryan Craig Bradford edits BLACK CANDIES, a literary horror journal. His writing has appeared in Quarterly West, Paper Darts, Vice, Monkeybicycle and [PANK]. He lives in San Diego. Ryan Ridge writes and teaches in Southern California. He is the author of the story collection Hunters & Gamblers, the poetry collection Ox, and the novella American Homes. Ryan Ridge & Mel Bosworth Mel Bosworth is the author of the novel Freight and the poetry chapbook Every Laundromat in the World. A former series editor for the Wigleaf Top 50, he is the creator & curator of the Small Press Book Review. Mel lives, breathes, writes, and works in Western Massachusetts. Ryan Ridge is the author of the story collection Hunters & Gamblers and the poetry collection Ox, as well as the chapbooks Hey, it’s America and 22nd Century Man. The University of Michigan Press released his latest book, American Homes, in 2015. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where he edits Juked. Sabra Embury is a book critic for The L Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn. Sade Murphy is a poet and artist from Houston, TX. Sade is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, the author of Dream Machine (co-im-press, 2014), and a columnist at Real Pants (Lonely Britches and What's the Tea). They are pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and Activism at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. They are the new chapbooks editor for Horseless Press and a co-curator for a reading series at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg. . Safy-Hallan Farah is a writer from Minneapolis, MN. She has written for Paper Darts, Thought Catalog, This Recording, VICE, Geez Magazine, The Feminist Wire, Gawker and her blog Fatwas and Fanboys, among other places. Sally Rodgers lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with her poorly-trained dog and her well-trained boyfriend. In her spare time she teaches creative writing to fourth graders and plans poetry fashion shows. She also has a moss garden. You can find more of her work at sporkpress.com. Sam DiBella is a freelance editor and designer from Rhode Island. He currently lives in Brooklyn. books out through lazy fascist press. Instagram.com/sam_pink_art & twitter.com/sampinkisalive Sam Riviere is the author of the poetry collections 81 Austerities (2012), Kim Kardashian's Marriage (2015), and most recently True Colours (2016). He lives in Edinburgh and runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press. Safe Mode, an ambient novel, will be published by Test Centre later this year. Sam Sacks' book reviews also appear in the New York Press, Las Vegas Weekly, and the Columbia Journal for American Studies. He lives in New York City, cobbling together tutoring work while he writes. Sam Virzi lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was the first resident at Camp Uranus, at Luke Goebel's ranch in Tyler, Texas. He's published writing in The New York Tyrant, Spork Press, and Hobart. Samantha Culp followed her love of Wong Kar-Wai movies to Hong Kong after college, and currently teaches there at a university near the 10,000 Buddhas Monastery. Apparently there are monkeys living on campus but she has yet to see one. Her Cantonese is still very bad but she recently managed to discourage a cellphone stalker from calling back by telling him: "Gingchaak wuih jouh yeh ge la!" ("The police will do something!") and was pretty psyched about that. When not grading papers or traveling, Samantha writes on art and culture for two Hong Kong newspapers and American magazines (NY Arts, The Blow-Up, The Fader), and is also working on a short film set in the future. Samantha Zighelboim’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Boston Review, Circumference: A Journal of Poetry in Translation, the PEN Poetry Series, and Stonecutter, among others. She lives in New York City and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. Samuel Rafael Barber Samuel Rafael Barber is an M.A. candidate in English at Columbia University. Recent work has appeared in Puerto del Sol and DIAGRAM. According to life expectancy tables, he will live another 52.7 years. Sandra Simonds is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently The Sonnets (Bloof Books) and Steal it Back (forthcoming, Saturnalia Books). Follower her on Twitter: @sandmansimonds Sara Finnerty has essays and stories in Black Warrior Review, Joyland, Brevity, The Weeklings and others. She is from Queens, NY and lives in Los Angeles where she co-curates The Griffith Park Storytelling Series and lives with her husband and daughter. Her website is www.sarafinnerty.com Sara Jaffe is a writer and musician living in Portland, OR. Her novel Dryland was published by Tin House Books in 2015. She's currently working on a collection of short stories. www.sarajaffewriter.com Sara Kachelman is a college student from Alabama. She has fiction forthcoming in DIAGRAM and the Portland Review. A full list of her stories can be found here: https://sarakachelman.wordpress.com. Sarah Bridgins lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Buzzfeed, Tin House, Luna Luna, Sink Review, Big Lucks, Thrush, and Two Serious Ladies among other journals. Sarah Certa was born in Germany in 1987. She is the author of RED PAPER HEART, a limited edition chapbook from Zoo Cake Press (2013). Her poems have been published in Narrative, B O D Y, Connotation Press, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Minnesota. Sarah Gallien raises two small children in the Northwest near a National Park and former Hudson Bay Company outpost. She studies Education. She works for the district. She cofounded and edits alice blue and over the years there's been stuff—work. There's more work—recent, forthcoming—in Shotgun Wedding and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. I don't know. She's writing a novel, I guess. Sarah Jean Alexander Sarah Jean Alexander is the author of Wildlives (Big Lucks Books, 2015) and LOUD IDIOTS (Second Books, 2016) and has been featured in the Quietus, the Fader, Noisey, Dazed Digital, Lenny Letter and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor of Shabby Doll House and tweets @sarahjeanalex. Sarah Maclay is a poet currently living in Venice, California. Her books include Music for the Black Room, The White Bride, and Whore (UT Press), and her poems and criticism have appeared in APR, Ploughshares, FIELD, Poetry Daily, Slope, The Laurel Review, Ninth Letter, The Writer’s Chronicle, The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present, and many other spots, including Poetry International, where she has long served as book review editor. She also served as artistic director of The 3rd Area, a gallery-based reading series in Downtown L.A. and Bergamot Station. She teaches creative writing and literature at LMU and conducts workshops at Beyond Baroque. Sarah Maria Griffin Sarah Maria Griffin is a writer from Dublin, Ireland, based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Irish Times, The Rumpus, and The Stinging Fly, and she has read multiple times on RTE Radio’s arts program, Arena. She is co-editor of Bare Hands International Poetry Journal. Her first collection of poetry, Follies, was published by Lapwing in 2011, and her collection of essays, Not Lost, will be released by New Island in Winter 2013. Sarah Rose Etter Sarah Rose Etter lives in South Philadelphia. She's the author of Tongue Party (Caketrain Press). Her work has appeared in The Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill Journal, Hobart, and more. Sarah V. Schweig Sarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, Tin House, The Volta, and elsewhere. She studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research and lives and works in New York City. Sasha Banks is a poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in RHINO, Kinfolks Quarterly, Alight, Poor Claudia, Austin IPF, B O D Y Literature, The Collagist, and has been performed in Tulane University’s Vagina Monologues. Sasha is the creator of Poets for Ferguson and a MFA candidate at the Pratt Institute. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she is learning to be Black and spectacular at the same damn time. Sasha Fletcher is author of the novella When All Our Days Are Numbered Marching Bands Will Fill the Streets & We Will Not Hear Them Because We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds [mud luscious press, 2010], and several chapbooks of poetry including the forthcoming dear gloria, dear madeline, dear siobhan, dear ethel, dear eloise, dear wendy, dear becky, dear lisa, dear liza, dear michelle, dear tamika, dear tanya, tonight [Big Lucks Books, 2014]. With Leigh Stein, he runs The Book Report Reading series. Sasha Fletcher & Monica McClure Saxon Baird has written for Guernica, Slate, Vice Sports, Gothamist, Blunderbuss, Large Up and other places. He also works as a bartender. Schi (Ski) O'Malley has had a storied "newsman's" career, with fights and firings and a lot of workman's comp dental work. It's rumored he might have broken more bones in that old Irish bag of his than the great stuntman Hooper played by Burt Reynolds, if Hooper actually existed. Schi's injuries have accrued playing rugby, golf, tennis, sailing, hockey, football (both American style and as the rest of the world refuses to call it, soccer). He's even been stabbed with a dart. Schi's currently the Sports Guy on the Blog portion of Fanzine, which he does for free, because, "damn it," he cares... Author of The History of Luminous Motion, Greetings From Earth: New and Collected Stories, and, most recently, Good Girl Wants it Bad and Hot Animal Love: Tales of Modern Romance, both available from Carroll & Graf. A Professor of English at University of Connecticut, his (too) numerous stories, essays and reviews have appeared in TLS, The New York Times Book Review, The London Review of Books,Triquarterly, Fence, and Bookforum. Scott Bradley co-edited The Book of Lists Horror (HarperCollins, 2008). His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Werewolves & Shapeshifters and Help! Wanted, and an essay on the cult classic The Hitcher appeared in the critical collection Butcher Knives and Body Counts. With his writing partner Peter Giglio he has co-written a feature-length screenplay adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale’s classic short story “The Night They Missed the Horror Show.” Scott is at work on several projects, including a novel (with Giglio) called The Dark for the Ravenous Shadows line. He lives in Los Angeles. For more information see: https://www.facebook.com/SBradley1972. Scott Creney graduated from Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Ca. He currently lives in Athens, Ga. Scott Daughtridge was born and raised in Acworth, Georgia, a small town with two lakes and a lot of trailer parks. I Hope Something Good Happens is his first chapbook. Scott Esposito is the coauthor of The End of Oulipo? (with Lauren Elkin). His writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Drunken Boat, Music & Literature, The White Review, The Point, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many others. Scott Fenton is a graduate of the MFA program at Indiana University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Green Mountains Review, Hobart, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Ninth Letter Online. Scott Garson is the author of Is That You, John Wayne? and other stuff. Scott Thomas Outlar Scott Thomas Outlar is a writer, researcher and seeker of truth. His work can be seen at Daily Anarchist, Oracular Tree, Loose Change and Dissident Voice. He can be contacted at 17Numa@gmail.com. Sean Dungan’s first book of stories, Unwelcomeness, was published in late 2007. His work has appeared in Werewolf Express, Asteroid Impaired, Snowflake and The Santa Monica Review, and was included in the Hammer Museum’s New American Writing series. He’s taught at Art Center College of Design and guest lectured at CalArts. He lives in Los Angeles but was born in Sacramento. Sean Kilpatrick is the author of Gil the Nihilist, fuckscapes, and collaboratively with Blake Butler, Anatomy Courses. Sean Lawlor received his MFA in Fiction from Chatham University in 2014. He currently teaches English and Creative Writing in Kansas City, MO. Recently, he began channeling his love of film into reviews, both in written and podcasting form. His podcast, General Snobbery, deconstructs films (typically bad films) and posits their implications on culture and the contemporary human condition. It can be found on iTunes and at generalsnobbery.com. Sean Pears is currently pursuing a PhD in the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo. His recent writing and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Jacket2, The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Colorado Review, and Songs for a Passbook Torch: An Anthology of Writing on Nelson Mandela. He edits the audio journal of contemporary poetry, ythm. Sebastian Castillo was born in Caracas, Venezuela, grew up in New York, and lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches writing. His most recent work has been published in Electric Literature, shabby doll house, and The Conversant. He's currently writing 49 novels. You can also find him on the internet @bartlebytaco. Semyon Khokhlov has a Phd in English from Notre Dame where he wrote a dissertation on Marcel Duchamp and Gertrude Stein. He works as an academic librarian and lives in Philadelphia. Seth Landman lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is a member of the Agnes Fox Press collective. His first book of poems is Sign You Were Mistaken (Factory Hollow Press, 2013). He has work forthcoming in Robot Melon, Noo, Verse, and Columbia Poetry Review. He works as an Academic Advisor at UMass, Amherst, and with Seth Parker, he collaborates on Tyoyeu. He writes about basketball sometimes at The Peach Basket. Shane Allison's poems and stories have graced the online and hard copy pages of Mississippi Review, New Delta Review, Suspect Thoughts, juked.com, shampoo, coconut, Best Black Gay Erotica, Best Gay Erotica and Ultimate Gay Erotica. He is the editor of Hot Cops: Gay Erotic Stories and Back Draft: Fireman Erotica. His collages have been featured in Fanzine's banner art. Shane Anderson is the author of Soft Passer (Mindmade Books) and Études des Gottnarrenmaschinen (Broken Dimanche Press) and his translation of Ulf Stolterfoht's The Amme Talks is forthcoming with Triple Canopy. Amongst other places, his poems can be found in 6x6, Edit, Plinth, Natalie Czech's Il pleut series and Matthew Barney's River of Fundament (Skira Rizzoli). He lives in Berlin where he curates the reading series HERE! HERE! THERE! Shane Jesse Christmass Shane Jesse Christmass is the author of the novels, Police Force As A Corrupt Breeze (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2016) and Acid Shottas (The Ledatape Organisation, 2014). He was a member of the band Mattress Grave, and is currently a member in Snake Milker. An archive of his writing/artwork/music can be found at www.sjx.digital Shane Jones lives in Albany, New York and is the author Light Boxes, The Failure Six, and A Cake Appeared. In August 2012, Penguin will publish a new novel, Daniel Fights A Hurricane. His new novel Crystal Eaters will be published in June of 2014. Sharon Mesmer is an award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist. Her newest poetry collection, Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place, from Bloof Books, was voted “Best of 2015” by Entropy. Previous poetry collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books, 2008), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose Press, 2008), Vertigo Seeks Affinities (chapbook, Belladonna Books, 2007), Half Angel, Half Lunch (Hard Press, 1998) and Crossing Second Avenue (chapbook, ABJ Press, Tokyo, 1997). Four of her poems appear in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition, 2013). Other anthology appearances include Poems for the Nation: Edited by Allen Ginsberg (Seven Stories Press, 2000) and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999). Her fiction collections are Ma Vie à Yonago (Hachette Littératures, Paris, in French translation, 2005), In Ordinary Time (Hanging Loose Press, 2005) and The Empty Quarter (Hanging Loose Press, 2000). An excerpt of her story “Revenge” appears in I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues, 2012). Her awards include a Fulbright Specialist grant (2011), a Jerome Foundation/SASE award (as mentor to poet Elisabeth Workman, 2009) and two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships (2007 and 1999). Her essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and the Brooklyn Rail, among other places. An original member of the flarf collective, her work was featured on National Public Radio’s “Studio 360” program on January 23, 2009. She teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs of New York University and The New School, and lives in Brooklyn. Shelby Shaw is a writer in New York and Managing Editor of the art and literary journal Storyfile. www.shelby-shaw.com Sherri Caudell is an Atlanta poet and freelance writer with a BFA in photography from Georgia State University. Caudell lived in Brooklyn for ten years, where she interned at Harper’s Bazaar and Interview magazines, and served as the Associate Fashion Editor for Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. Caudell has exhibited her artwork at Youngblood Gallery and in various group shows throughout New York City. Caudell’s poetry has been published in The Eyedrum Periodically. She hosts Vida Voce, a monthly reading and performance series featuring women at MINT gallery. She writes art reviews and conducts studio visits with artists regularly for BurnAway.org. She is the Poetry Editor of Loose Change, a literary magazine by WonderRoot. Her favorite author is Borges and she has a cat named Emil Chaplin. Shiv Kotecha is a writer, artist, and scholar living in New York. He is the author of EXTRIGUE (Make Now, 2015) and others. Looking for Richard was his first solo show (Ginerva Gambino, Cologne). the Unlovable, a long poem, will soon be out on TROLL THREAD. He is a PhD candidate in the English Department at NYU. Shoshana Seidman is thankful for magical realism, cookies every day, solace and solitude, the statute of limitations, the Muppets, blistering heat, wounded writings, and regeneration. She has a BA in Literature and Writing from UC San Diego, and is a regular contributor to magazines such as The Culture Trip and Entropy. Simona Blat was born in Riga, Latvia. She hosts a poetry salon at Brazenhead Books and is also the founding editor of Brazenhead Review, a journal of art and literature that publishes anonymously. Her writing has recently appeared in Hello Mr. and The Brooklyn Rail. She lives in Brooklyn. Simona Schneider is a cultural attache and writer. In the past two years she has been on business to Alaska, Colorado, Oklahoma, West Virgina, Washington DC, Latvia, Morocco, Italy, France, Spain, England and Russia. She is looking for a good lawyer. Her writing has appeared in Bidoun, Conde Nast Traveler, The Columbia Review, Tangier Telegram and other notable publications. Sonya Vatomsky is a Russian American non-binary artist with too many feelings on the inside and too much cat hair on the outside. They are the author of Salt Is For Curing (Sator Press, 2015), a debut poetry collection about bones, dill, and survival, as well as the chapbook My Heart In Aspic from Porkbelly Press. Find them by saying their name five times in front of a bathroom mirror or at sonyavatomsky.com and @coolniceghost. Soren Stockman & Danniel Schooennbeek Spencer Madsen is the author of a million bears, published 2011) and You Can Make Anything Sad. He edits Sorry House books. Stacey Levine has written four books of fiction: My Horse and Other Stories (Sun & Moon Press), Frances Johnson (Clear Cut Press), Dra--- (Verse Chorus Press), and The Girl with Brown Fur (Starcherone/Dzanc). A Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of a Stranger Genius Award for Literature, her fiction has appeared in Fence, Tin House, The Fairy Tale Review, The Washington Review, The Santa Monica Review, Yeti and others. Translations of her fiction have appeared in Danish and Japanese publications. Stacey Tran is a writer and artist living in Portland, OR. www.staceytran.com Stacy Elaine Dacheux Stacy Elaine Dacheux is an artist and writer whose work has most recently been shown at studio 1.1 in London and featured in The Los Angeles Times. Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Pasolini Poems, Emptied of All Ships, Hyperglossia, hart island and the forthcoming Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals, which won the Fence Books Ottoline Prize. She has served as a mentor for Queer Arts Mentorship and is the Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. Stephanie Barber is an artist living in Baltimore, MD. Her chapbook poems was published by Bronze Skull Press in 2006 and her book these here separated… was reprinted in 2010 by Publishing Genius Press who have also published her recent book Night Moves. Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and her films are distributed by Canyon Cinema and Fandor.com. More can be learned at her website stephaniebarber.com. Stephanie's work has appeared in The Guardian, Entropy, O! The Oprah Magazine, Ravishly, and more. She is at work on her first novel. Visit her at stephaniejimenezwriter.com or @estefsays. Stephen Danos is author of the chapbooks Missing Slides (Horse Less Press, 2016), DO NOT WANT (alice blue books, 2015) and Playhouse State (H_NGM_N Books, 2012). Some of his work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, City Arts, Pleiades, and other places. He is Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Pinwheel, an online publisher of poetry, artwork and photography. He lives in Seattle. Stephen Thomas lives in Toronto and his website is stephenthomaswriter.com. Stephen Tully Dierks is a writer living in Brooklyn and edits Pop Serial. Stephon Lawrence is a Brooklyn born & based writer, and artist. She is a graduate of the MFA in Writing at Pratt Institute and is an editor of The Felt, a journal of otherworldly poetics. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Gandy Dancer, Cosmonauts Avenue, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Glitter Mob, The Fem, and AADOREE. Her chapbook, NERVS, is available from Horse Less Press. Stephon spends her free time watching anime, yelling about white supremacy, and being real cute for the 'gram. You can find her on twitter @nnohpetss. Steven T. Hanley Steven T. Hanley lives in London. His Writing has appeared in Vice, Little White Lies, The Quietus, Clash Magazine, and Userlands: New Fiction Writers from the Blogging Underground (Akashic Books, 2007) Stuart Ross is a writer living in Chicago. Sueyeun Juliette Lee Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA. A former Pew Fellow in the Arts, her books include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut), Underground National (Factory School), and Solar Maximum (Futurepoem) as well as numerous chapbooks. She founded Corollary Press, a chapbook series dedicated to innovative multi-ethnic writing, and writes reviews for The Constant Critic, a project of Fence Books. Her critical essays explore Asian American contemporary poetics as well as the imaginations of spaces and time. She has held arts residencies in poetry, dance, and video art in Hafnarborg (Iceland), Kunstnarhuset Messen (Norway), and UCross Foundation (Wyoming). You can find her at silentbroadcast.com suiyi lives in the scopophilic corridor. she is a comparative literature and american studies double major at williams college--on hiatus, in favor of an untwisted bildungsroman, an archive of ballpoints, and lingerie. a gallery of her current projects, guarded by the death drive, may be found at legitimizedinprint.com. Sunni is a writer, photographer and musician based out of Atlanta, GA. Friend to feminist themes and zine publishing, Sunni works closely with Murmur Media and Atlanta Zine Fest and is currently staffed as a writer, creative consultant and event planner with Wussy Mag, a Southeastern queer arts and culture publication. http://sunnni.com Susana Bessa likes to think of herself as a writer, but she’s mostly just a 22-year-old who misses everyone. Born in Portugal, she holds a BA in film and is currently an MA Film and Screen Studies candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives obsessed with time, memory and everything that comes in between, and she’s been writing about film since she was fourteen and got herself published in the tiny corner of a magazine. You won’t find her on facebook or twitter, but feel free to stop by http://candlelitrumours.tumblr.com and assess the nerdiness or drop her a line. She lives in London. Sylvia Faichney is a Canadian American who currently lives and writes in Minnesota. She received her MA in Design History from the University of Brighton. She loves to look, be in, write and rave about interiors. T Clutch Fleischmann T Clutch Fleischmann is the author of Syzygy, Beauty and the curator of Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay. Talal Achi salutes you. Originally from Atlanta, USA, Talia Moscovitz’s curatorial and photographic work explores the photographic document in relation to fragmented time, personal intimacy, and construction of identity through lens-based media installations, collaborative exchanges and photographic production. After completing a BA degree at Northeastern University in 2007, she moved to Dublin to work at the Irish Gallery of Photography. The rich photographic community in Ireland helped deepened her work in conceptual scope and, in 2012, she earned a MFA degree in Visual Culture at the Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh. Talia Moscovitz has exhibited as a curator and photographer in Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow and worked professionally for the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival; the Frieze London and New York art fairs, among other prominent galleries and arts organizations. Tanner Tafelski is a graduate student in cinema studies at NYU. His writing appears in Film Comment, MUBI Notebook, Indiewire, Desistfilm, and Art Decades. You can check out more of his work at his personal blog, Mongrelmuse.blogspot.com. You can also give him a holler on Twitter: @TTafelski. Tara Atkinson is a writer and one of the founders of APRIL, a festival of literature from small and independent presses. TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. Gloria Anzaldúa said, Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks. John Cage said, it’s lighter than you think. www.tctolbert.com Ted Dodson is the author of “At the National Monument / Always Today” (Pioneer Works, 2016) and “Pop! in Spring” (Diez, 2013). He works for BOMB, is the books editor for Futurepoem, and is a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter. Terrance Wedin lives in Columbus, Ohio. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Hobart, Smartish Pace, Barrelhouse, Similar:Peaks, and Elimae. Tessa Fontaine spent the 2013 season performing with the last American traveling circus sideshow, the World of Wonders. Essays about this adventure have appeared at The Rumpus. Other work can be found or is forthcoming in Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School Magazine, Seneca Review, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, [PANK], Brevity, and more. Tessa got her MFA from the University of Alabama, where she learned to love good BBQ nachos, and is currently a doctoral student in creative writing at the University of Utah, where she's learning to love snow. Find her at www.TessaFontaine.com. The Fanzine is a collective of writers and artists on a mission to save America (and the rest of the world) from the evil doers. The Institute for Erotic Vertigo The Institute for Erotic Vertigo is a collective formed in secret during 2013, breaking their silence now in 2015. Founding members include Pierre Abidi, M Kitchell & Emmanuelle X, though activity and involvement is not inherently limited to those named. Announcements & missives are occasionally made @eroticvertigo. Navigate their http://labyrinthine.space/ Theis Ørntoft is a Danish poet born in 1984. He graduated from The Royal Danish School of Writings in 2009. Same year, he made his debut with Yeah suiten, for which he received several national literary prizes and nominations. In 2014 he published his second book, Digte 2014 (Poems 2014). This collection - which made headlines in the Danish mass media - is talking about the state of planet Earth anno 2014, where everything, and every time, seems to have melted together. Capitalism and geology, digital networks and planetary eco systems, inner, mental cartographies and outer physical swamplands all seem to have become part of the same, incomprehensible continuum. With Poems 2014 Theis Ørntoft appears for the first time in American translation. Theo Francis drives an 89 Olds 98. He is working on a manuscript of poems about scams. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.org. Theresa Smalec is Substitute Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Bronx Community College/CUNY. Her recent articles appear in TDR, Theatre Journal, and PAJ. She interviewed Spalding Gray on January 9th, 2004, the day before he disappeared. The edited transcript of that interview was published in New England Theatre Journal in 2008. Thom Donovan lives in NYC where he edits Wild Horses Of Fire blog and coedits ON Contemporary Practice. He also curates PEACE events series, co-curates the SEGUE reading series, and is a participant in the Nonsite Collective. For an extensive listing of places where his poetry, essays, and criticism have appeared see whof.blogspot.com. He currently teaches at Bard College, Baruch College, and School of Visual Arts. Thomas Page McBee is the 2009 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award for Nonfiction from The San Francisco Foundation and Intersection for the Arts. His work has been featured most recently in the New York Times, Salon.com, the Boston Phoenix, SF Weekly, Berkeley Monthly, Hot Metal Bridge, Bitch, Original Plumbing, and the Bold Italic. He has a guest series on masculinity forthcoming on The Rumpus, and he co-edits the style/culture blog, Ironing Board Collective. He holds an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and has just finished a memoir, This Fragile Fortress. Learn more at thomaspagemcbee.com. Thomas Moore has written two collections of poetry, Surfaces and Hospital (both via Broken Blood Press), and one novella, GRAVES (published by Kiddiepunk Press ). His work has appeared in various publications in the UK, USA, France and Sweden. His first novel, A Certain Kind of Light, will be released soon by Rebel Satori Press. He lives in the West Midlands, UK. Tim Jones-Yelvington is a Chicago-based writer, multimedia performance artist, and nightlife personality. He is the author of two collections of short fiction—"Evan's House and the Other Boys Who Live There" (in "They Could No Longer Contain Themselves," Rose Metal Press) and "This is a Dance Movie!" (forthcoming, Tiny Hardcore Press). His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Puerto Del Sol, Harpur Palate, and others. From 2010-12, he guest edited [PANK]'s annual queer issue. Tim Kabara lives and works in Baltimore city. When he is not teaching high school, he is making music. When he is not making music, he is listening to music. When he is not listening to music, he is writing. Timothy A. Cushing entered our land in a far off pumpkin patch of North, North America. Paying close attention to his native tongue, he decided that merely speaking English fell far short of its capacity. Thus Timothy chose to further his quest of English by majoring in English, and with that he graduated on the Island of Staten. It has been rumored that he was granted awards in English and continues to speak it til this very day. Sometimes he makes words rhyme in the form of music here Timothy Murray is a writer, dancer, and performance artist. He lives in New York City. Timothy Willis Sanders Timothy Willis Sanders is the author of Orange Juice (Publishing Genius). He lives in Austin. Tina Brown Celona Tina Brown Celona is the author of The Real Moon of Poetry and Other Poems (Fence 2002) and Snip Snip! (Fence 2006). Her poems can be read in interrupture, Map Literary, Catch-Up, and Typo. She lives in Denver, CO. Tobias Carroll grew up in New Jersey and now calls Brooklyn home. His writing has appeared in Yeti, Joyland, Metazen, Capital New York, THE2NDHAND, Word Riot, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He is the Managing Editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn. Todd Colby's latest book of poetry, Splash State, was published by The Song Cave in 2014. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Tom Andes (who sometimes, on sites such as Amazon, writes under the pen name of A.J. Asbury) was born and raised in New Hampshire, received his BA from Loyola University New Orleans, and currently resides in San Francisco, where he is completing his MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. His work has previously appeared in Transfer and in Mirage #4/Period(ical). Tom Flynn is a Maryland-based freelance writer. He is the author of Baseball in Baltimore, has contributed to The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun, and along with Pete Hausler is an editor of the occasional sports journal, Field. Tom Westerholm writes about basketball on the internet, lives in Iowa and walks his dog a lot. You can find his work on ESPN, CelticsHub.com and HowlinTwolf.com. Tommy “Teebs” Pico was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has poems in BOMB, Guernica, and [PANK]. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker. @heyteebs Tracy Dimond co-curates Ink Press Productions. She is the author of Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today (Ink Press 2013) and Grind My Bones Into Glitter, Then Swim Through The Shimmer (NAP 2014). Travis Nichols is the author of two poetry collections, Iowa (Letter Machine Editions) and See Me Improving (Copper Canyon Press), as well as two novels, Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder and The More You Ignore Me (Coffee House Press). He works at Greenpeace USA. Trinie Dalton has an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. Her story collection, Wide Eyed, from Akashic Books, is part of the Little House on the Bowery series edited by Dennis Cooper. A book she co-edited for McSweeney’s, Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is, is available. She’s also a visual artist, and curated an art exhibit last Autumn at The Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco about werewolves, based on her zine, Werewolf Express. Tristan Foster is a writer from Sydney, Australia. He has had writing published in Music & Literature, Gorse, Words Without Borders, SAND, The Black Sun Lit and elsewhere. He is an editor at 3:AM Magazine. Troy James Weaver Troy James Weaver is the author of Marigold, Witchita Stories, and Visions. He lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife and two dogs. Tyler Barton is a cofounder of Fear No Lit, the organization responsible for the 2017 Submerging Writer Fellowship. His work is forthcoming in Gigantic Sequinsand has appeared in Passages North, Waxwing, No Tokens, Little Fiction, Midwestern Gothic, and elswehere. He is the creator and host of the flash fiction podcast, Show Your Work. Find him at tsbarton.com or @goftyler. Vanessa Norton lives in California. Her work appears or is forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, Gigantic, Whiskey Island, Hobart, Spork, Wag's Revue, the anthology Sex for America, edited by Stephen Elliot, and elsewhere. She is writing a short story collection and a novel. Vi Khi Nao Vi Khi Nao will probably be labeled an “experimental writer.” But she’s also a typewriter enthusiast, an artist, and, surprisingly, a lover of sangria that can cut you like a knife. She is the author of Swans in Half-Mourning, Herman and Margaret, SOCK!, and Oh God, Your Babies are So Delicious. Her stories and poetry have also appeared in Noon and elimae. She received her MFA from Brown University. Vikram Johri, based in New Delhi, is an electronics engineer by training, but has now completely switched to writing. His reviews have appeared in Philadelphia Inquirer, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Times, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Chicago Sun Times. He blogs at http://patrakaar2b.blogspot.com. Vincent A. Cellucci Vincent Cellucci wrote An Easy Place / To Die (CityLit Press, 2011) and edited Fuck Poems an exceptional anthology (Lavender Ink, 2012). Come back river, his first chapbook, a bilingual Bengali-English translation collaboration with the poet and artist Debangana Banerjee is available from Finishing Line Press. _A Ship on the Line, a battleship-verse collaboration with poet Christopher Shipman, released by Unlikely Books was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Running a communication studio for the LSU College of Art + Design, Cellucci is currently collaborating with faculty to design interactive poetry web applications, leading to performances for TEDxLSU and the international conference for New Interfaces for Musical Expression hosted in Australia last year. He will be performing Diamonds in Dystopia at SXSW Interactive this year. Virginia Overell is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. www.virginiaoverell.net Vyshali Manivannan received her M.F.A. in Fiction at Columbia University and is a Ph.D. candidate in Media Studies at Rutgers University. She has published and presented scholarship on comics and animation, Internet subcultures, and the value of transgression, with her most recent work appearing in Fibreculture. Her first novel, Invictus, was published in 2004, and she has also been published in Black Clock, theNewerYork, Consequence, r.kv.r.y Quarterly Literary Journal, and DIAGRAM. Wendy C. Ortiz Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, 2014), Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2015) and the forthcoming Bruja (CCM, fall 2016). Her work has been profiled or featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and the National Book Critics Circle Small Press Spotlight blog. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Hazlitt, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Poor Claudia. Wendy lives in Los Angeles. When she's not sitting in the stands, Wendy Marech is a writer in New York. Her next book is theoretically on national demographics, which she swears is more interesting than it sounds. Wendy Xu is the author of You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013), and co-author with Nick Sturm of I Was Not Even Born (Coconut Books). Recent poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at UMass-Amherst, and is the co-editor/publisher of iO: A Journal of New American Poetry / iO books. Wilbur Wilson is a Washington DC insider, aesthete, and poet. A member of the Federalist Society, he is also founder of the non-profit organization "Freedom Isn't Free, Nor Should Speech Be," whose goal is the revival of the Federalists' Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Will Gallien writes as various people including Ofelia Hunt (Today & Tomorrow, Magic Helicopter Press 2011, my eventual bloodless coup, Bear Parade 2007). He is also a co-founder and editor at alice blue. William Lessard has writing that has appeared in McSweeney's, NPR, Prelude, Wired, Hyperallergic, People Holding. His chapbook Rembrandt with Cell Phone has just been published by Reality Beach. He co-hosts the Cool as F*** series in Brooklyn. William VanDenBerg is the author of Lake of Earth (Caketrain Press, 2013). Recent stories have appeared at The Collagist, SAND, and Pear Noir. He lives with his wife in Denver. Willie Fitzgerald is the co-founder of APRIL, a festival of small press and independent literature. Wong May's most recent book is Picasso's Tears (Octopus Books, 2014). Her previous books are A Bad Girl's Book of Animals (1969), Reports (1972), and Superstitions (1978). She lives in Dublin. xTx is a writer living in Southern California. Her work has been published in places like The Collagist, PANK, Hobart, The Rumpus, The Chicago Review, Smokelong Quarterly and Wigleaf. "Normally Special," a collection of stories, is available from Tiny Hardcore Press. Her chapbook, "Billie the Bull" is now available from Dzanc Books. Her story collection, "Today I Am A Book" is now available from Civil Coping Mechanisms. She says nothing at www.notimetosayit.blogspot.com. Yasmine Lucas is a writer and visual artist currently living in her hometown, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in Barnstorm, Metatron, Bard Papers, and The Claremont Review, and received an honorable mention in the 2007 Rrofihe Trophy short story competition. She holds a BA in Written Arts from Bard College. Yvonne Olivas lives in Brooklyn. She has written for Art in America and teaches at the School of Visual Arts Zach Baron lives in New York. Zach Savich's newest book of poetry is Century Swept Brutal (Black Ocean, 2014). He is also the author of the poetry collections Full Catastrophe Living (2009), Annulments (2010), and The Firestorm (2011), as well as a book of prose, Events Film Cannot Withstand (2011). His work has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's Open Award, among other honors. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he teaches at the University of Arts, in Philadelphia, and co-edits Rescue Press's Open Prose Series. Zach Schwartz is from Cleveland, Ohio. He currently contributes to VICE and Thought Catalog. He currently lives in New York City. He Tweets at @zach_two_times. Zack Anderson received an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. His poems and reviews have appeared in American Microreviews and Interviews, Kenyon Review, Deluge, Smoking Glue Gun, Muse/A, and Entropy. He currently resides in the Rocky Mountains. Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle is a writer from New Zealand currently living in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Autobiography of a Marguerite (Hue & Cry Press, 2014). She can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @zarahbm. Zoe Dzunko & Mark Cugini Mark Cugini is the author of I’m Just Happy To Be Here (Ink Press, 2014). He is a founding editor of Big Lucks, a contributor to HTMLGiant, and the curator of the Three Tents reading series in Washington, DC. Zoe Dzunko lives in Melbourne, Australia and is the author of three chapbooks: All of the Men I Have Never Loved (Dancing Girl Press), (NAP) and Wet Areas (Maverick Duck Press, forthcoming 2014). Her most recent poems have appeared in The Age, Going Down Swinging, Banango Street, Guernica, and Two Serious Ladies. Zoe Gold (b. 1992) is a prose writer from San Francisco. She holds degrees from UCLA and NYU. Her can be found online in PANK and Cosmonauts Avenue. Zoe Tuck is author of Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light 2014). She is a poetry reader for HOLD: a journal. Zoey Mondt is an L.A.-based writer whose work, including stories, essays, zines, music videos and short films, has appeared in the Santa Monica Review, ART ISSUES, frieze, Factsheet Five, the anthology A Girl's Guide to Taking over the World, on MTV, and at the Sundance Film Festival. She also writes some of Fanzine's listings of LA events.

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN - Apply now to be a Trustee at LGBT Foundation Are you ready for a new challenge, where you can make a real difference by helping one of the most exciting charities in the country to continue our life-affirming, life-transforming, life-saving work? We’re recruiting new board members. At LGBT Foundation we believe in a fair and equal society where all lesbian, gay, bi and trans people can achieve their full potential. We campaign for equality and deliver a huge range of vital services to LGBTQ+ people. We are seeking people who can help us drive forward the vision of LGBT Foundation over the coming years. We’re looking for people who are passionate about LGBTQ+ rights and want to join us on our journey of achieving equality, promoting safety and encouraging wellbeing. We are looking to have the right skills on the board, so if you have experience in accountancy, sales or income generation, housing or political understanding, then please consider applying. However, if you don’t have these specific skills please don’t rule yourself out. Our charity has expanded its geography in recent years and we’re keen to hear from people based in Liverpool or London. Our board is gender balanced and 50% of trustees are people of colour. We’ve worked hard to achieve this balance and are keen to maintain it, but we’d also like to increase bi, trans and non-binary representation. Trustees are responsible for the governance and strategic direction of the charity, and there are certain roles and responsibilities that all trustees will be required to undertake. Being a trustee is a voluntary role, but we do pay reasonable travel and subsistence expenses. If you think you could join us and help make a real difference to the lives of LGBTQ+ people, please read the Trustee Recruitment Pack for more information and find out how to apply. To apply, please email a cover letter of no more than 1,000 words outlining why you think you’re right for the board, along with an up-to-date CV and the monitoring form. Send your application to email@example.com using the email header “Trustee Recruitment”. The closing date for applications is 9am on the 26th September 2022. Interviews will take place week commencing 10th October 2022, with offers made the following week with a view to new trustees being confirmed at our AGM on Saturday 22nd October 2022. You can also contact Smyth Harper, LGBT Foundation Chair, on firstname.lastname@example.org for more information.

Let me preface this by saying, because it needs to be said, that I don’t agree with Tracy Morgan’s homophobic ‘jokes’ in the slightest, even if he has apologised for them. I think his remarks were deeply heterosexist, violent, degrading, disgusting, and horrific. I would say that I seriously hope for safety’s sake that his son isn’t gay, but that would assume that his comments could only hurt if his son was. The fact is, Morgan’s comments were unacceptable and incredibly ignorant. It doesn’t matter what is in Morgan’s “heart”. It matters what he said. Words matter. When I was confronted with the word “faggot” constantly in high school and bullied, I could care less if those people were truly homophobic or not. On that same token, the words we used to insult Morgan when he does something angers us – as righteous as our anger may be – they also matter. I don’t know why I continue to be surprised how easily people resort to bigotries to address bigotries. I knew I would see it in the case of the UCLA student who posted a racist rant about Asians in her library on YouTube. And I wasn’t disappointed. The internet graced me with loads of comments suggesting she deserved to be raped, suggesting her clothes had something to do with her racism, and all-round misogynistic garbage. I knew better than to click and read the comments on PinkNews.co.uk’s Facebook page regarding the original story. Something in my mind said someone would be ignorant enough to make a racist comment. But I guess something in my heart had a little faith. This is the queer community. Surely, for as much vitriol and hate we’ve taken, we’d know better than to spew that same venom out into the world, into another community. Surely we know that Tracy Morgan represents the African American community just about as much as Perez Hilton represents us. But no. Sadly, I can’t expect that from my fellow queers. I don’t know why I’m surprised. I know for a fact that my own experiences with homophobia made it sometimes impossible for me to accept that I am privileged because I am white. If I got up on stage and let out the same homophobic tirade, no mentions of nooses and slavery would come at me. No one would say anything about my skin. They might threaten to rape me, they might suggest there is something about my intelligence that can be gleaned by the size of my breasts, they might make all manner of comments regarding what they assume I am – but my skin colour will go unnoticed. I’m unsurprised that I’ve often heard that queer people of colour don’t fit in with mainstream gay culture and don’t feel a part of the community. I should be shocked by the virulent and despicable racism I witnessed. I should be surprised that people tried to justify it by saying homophobia is particularly a problem in some racial cultures – as if the white men who make up the vast majority of our legislative bodies are wonderfully accepting and have taken our pleas for equal rights seriously in ways other races have not. I wish I could say I’m shocked by this behaviour and that I’m sad that that there are such ignorant people in the queer community – people who see bigotry as a useful tool to attack bigotry. But I’m not. I do however, expect better. I expect better from the white members of the queer community. And I do seriously hope that the next time there’s any attack on our community, no one stoops to the level of our attackers, whether it’s based on race, sex, disability, etc. Believe me, I understand anger. I support anger. Be angry. Get mad. Stonewall didn’t happen because we turned the other cheek to be struck too. But Stonewall happened with the help of other communities. The Black Panthers were there with us. Allies were there with us. The LGBTQ community is not only white and you are not supporting us by racist thoughts and action. You can get angry without resorting to bigotry. I do not expect everyone to be the smiling tour guide through the museum of bigotry every time we see another hurtful comment from someone. But I do expect us to not resort to racism or to think racism is okay due to homophobia, or to so blatantly ignore the queer people of colour that share our community. Homophobia is never okay. Racism is never okay. Misogyny is never okay. Addressing one bigotry by using another is never okay. The queer community is not one colour, one gender, one sex, one anything. Fighting bigotry with bigotry is illogical and proves nothing. Lola Olson is a non-binary graduate student of International Studies at Goldsmiths. Their personal website is lolaolson.co.uk.

Resources for writers who want to include characters who are a different gender than they are in their fiction. The links below list common stereotypes and tropes, information about language, and research sources on cisgender, transgender, and non-binary genders. These links represent a portion of the resources available to students who attend a Writing the Other class or Master Class. Tropes & Stereotypes to Avoid - Tropes of Women of Color in Sci-Fi - Why We Need More Than “Strong Female Characters” - Discussions of Rape in Fiction and Media - “Far too many writers don’t look at gendering as a part of their entering into story space“ - 4 Pitfalls To Avoid When Crafting Trans Characters - Gender in Genre - List of languages by how they handle gender - Infographic: Gender pronouns - Post-Binary Gender in SF Roundtable: Languages of Gender | Tor.com Resources and Research - Chart: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Throughout History (By Country/Culture) - Third, Fourth, and Fifth Genders In Cultures Around The World - Post-Binary Gender in SF Series on Tor.com - small collection of trans education resources for cis allies How To Do It Well In this seminar, trans playwright Ashley Lauren Rogers provides writers with an understanding of the issues around creating trans and non-binary characters and narratives that can help you avoid common pitfalls.

November 3–26, 2017 POSTCARD + POSTER PARTY Sunday, November 19th Our archive, a Site of Making for 20 Artists, Past & Present Tosha Stimage, Megan Reed, Sofie Ramos, Maria Guzman Capron, Sara Kerr, CA Greenlee, Danielle Genzel, Ricki Dwyer, Beryl Bevilacque, Maryam Yousif, Addy Rabinovitch, Erica Molesworth, Em Meine, Jay Katelansky, Jessica Hubbard, Caroline Charuk Hayes, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Indira Allegra, Yerin Kim, Bruna Massadas CTRL+SHFT Collective was started by twelve artists in June of 2015, drawn together by a frustration with the lack of affordable space in the Bay Area and opportunities for female identifying and gender non-binary artists, working in less commercial art forms and in the expanded field of visual arts. In these past two years the collective has transformed, grown and become a site for a variety of visual artists, curators, filmmakers, performers and community based artists. In Our Archive, a Site of Making for 20 Artists, Past & Present, the collective invites the public to step into our history, our archive and walk away with a slice of who we are. AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE: A set of 20 postcards: $18 1 postcard: $1 Posters: $18 each* *The posters are made to order, please place your order at the desk. If you want it mailed to you, leave $5 for shipping and handling, and your address. If you’d like to pick up in-store, your poster will be ready within 1 week. CTRL+SHFT Collective is a studio collective and exhibition space run out of a warehouse in Oakland, CA. CTRL+SHFT operates with the goals inclusivity, experimentation, and leadership and with an emphasis on collaborating with underrepresented arts communities; including women artists, artists of color, queer, trans and non-binary artists. 1430 34th Street, Oakland, CA, 94608

Lara from Germany I grew up in a rural area in the deep south of Germany. And with rural, I mean *really* rural. There are twice more cows than people in my village rural. My parents get free days from work because we sometimes can’t leave this place due to snow rural. My parents were okay, I think. My mother was a goodie two shoes stay-at-home mom until my sister and I attended high school. My father worked an office job in the next bigger town, and my grandparents and uncle ran a farm just across the street. There were no other children in the village. Everyone around me was deeply Catholic. They were so Catholic it took me until second grade to get that you could be something *other* than Catholic. It never crossed my mind I could end up anything else than a good, Christian stay-at-home mom. I didn’t spend much time thinking about it until I went to high school. I always figured I would get married one day and have children, like my mom, my grandma, my aunts, like every woman I knew. But I always felt a little… *odd*. I was always the strange kid, I had no friends and always sat alone and I didn’t know why. I didn’t like girly stuff, I hated pink, didn’t play with dolls, didn’t like dresses. I was always a little tomboyish, but my mother did her best to not let it show. She dressed me like a perfectly normal girl, bought me pink stuff, dolls, dresses… Being odd was not tolerated here. I had only one friend – Vi, who lived in the next village. Her parents had moved there from a city and were regarded by everyone with suspicion, because they were neither traditional nor Catholic. Vi was a real tomboy, always running around in shorts and bare foot and she had short hair. I admired her. (Retrospectively, I had a huge fucking crush on her, but closeted little me didn’t even know that it was possible to crush on girls) When I went to high school, I was still the odd kid. The girls in my class all started to wear makeup, to care about how they looked and dressed, to have celebrity crushes, to care about if the boys liked them. In the beginning, I tried to fit in. I made up a crush on a boy who was… well, he existed and he was pleasant to work with because he was polite. I didn’t feel anything particular towards him, but hey, that’s how a crush works, no? You pick a random guy and say he’s your crush. Of course the other girls still noticed my oddity. I wore baggy and out-of-style clothes, I didn’t listen to popular music, I didn’t watch popular shows, I didn’t swoon over boybands and I had weird hobbies like reading, writing and art. I never truly made friends with the other girls, they all seemed stupid to me. I hated makeup, the TV shows, the love stories, popular music, how they dressed and how they were all boy-crazy. They disgusted me. I started to voice this. I became a real teenage edgelord who looked down on all the shallow idiots and let them know how I despised what they stood for. I was always odd and to cope with that, I told myself I didn’t even want to be like them. That romance was stupid, that trying to appeal to boys was disgusting and stupid. I slut shamed girls that dressed sexy. (I’m not proud of how I tore other girls down then. I’m ashamed, but I’m also glad I learned better) Secretly, I started to feel broken. Why was I so odd? Why did no one have a crush on me? Why did I not have a boyfriend? What if I never found someone who liked me? What if I never found anyone who would marry me? I would end up a sad, single woman with eleven cats that everyone laughed at. I worried a lot, but I never told anyone. Maybe I didn’t try hard enough. Maybe one day I would meet a boy I would fall in love with. But the idea always felt odd to me. Boys were stupid and childish; the thought of kissing one disgusted me. I didn’t really want to be with a boy, but I had to be, right? When I was fifteen, I joined a drama club and for the first time, I had real friends other than Vi, who had moved back to the city with her parents. The drama people were all were a little odd and we got along really well. There was a boy in my drama class who I got along with especially well. We read the same books, laughed about the same stuff, and I really wanted to be his friend. “This must be a crush,” I thought. “I want to spend time with him so badly, and I like him, this must be a crush.” (He was just a decent person, that’s all.) I told a girl from the drama club and she was like “Uhh, tell me, what do you want to do with him?” and grinned smugly, clearly expecting something dirty. It flew right over my head. “I don’t know,” I went, “maybe watch a cool show on Netflix and order pizza?” She looked at me like I was an idiot. “Don’t you want to kiss him or something?” I didn’t. He was nice and all, but kissing him. Yuck. That thought still didn’t feel right. Kissing was icky. “Then it’s not a crush,” the girl decided. I was left feeling broken again, but then I stumbled onto the word asexuality in a fan fiction forum and it felt like everything felt into place. I did have a crush on my friend, I was just asexual! (someone who experiences low or no sexual attraction to others) (I didn’t have a crush on him but heterosexuality was so deeply entrenched in me, it was easier to think I had no sexual attraction at all rather than maybe towards girls) I identified as a hetero-romantic (someone who wants to be romantic with the opposite gender) asexual from then on. My friendship with the drama dude ended pretty quickly after that because he turned out to actually be really shitty, but I found a circle of friends I was happy with and for the first time in my life, I felt whole and happy. I started thinking about different ways to lead my life and swore off marriage, because hey, the only marriage I would accept was a strictly platonic one and if I didn’t find another asexual guy, this was not going to happen. I swore off kids, because in order to have a kid, one must have sex, so definitely not happening. My parents were not exactly thrilled. I never came out as asexual to them, I just told them I would never get married or have kids. My mother wasted a good amount of time trying to convince me otherwise. We argued a lot and I started to feel broken again. But the asexual community online gave me comfort. I learned about other people and their identities and other ways to lead a life. I spent a lot of time reflecting and came to the conclusion that I wouldn’t mind a platonic relationship with a woman or non-binary individual either. So I started identifying with first bi- and then panromantic (someone who is romantically attracted to others but is not limited by the others sex or gender) asexual. It felt right to me and I finally took the step and told my friends. They were all very supportive and nice about it, they went out of their way to learn about asexuality and gave me so much love and support I actually cried. Soon after, my best friend came out as bisexual. I had the best friends in the world. But I still didn’t tell my parents. They still thought I was going through a rebellious phase and would get married and have kids one day. I didn’t dare to talk anything queer with them because whenever something about gay people was on the news, my father would make ugly remarks. I started to feel sad and angry because they made me feel ashamed and guilty for who I was, and deep, deep down, I feared that maybe I was still broken after all. The year before graduation, I had a major depressive episode. I felt lonely despite my friends, I felt like the situation at home and the stress in school would crushed me. Luckily, our school had a psychologist who offered free sessions and after my friends gently nudged me in the right direction, I made an appointment with him. It helped so much to talk about it. I had weekly appointments for almost a year and I kid you not, he saved my mental health and my grades. I’m still incredibly thankful. He talked me through my anxiety and self-doubts, told me to get away from home as soon as I could after I finished school, to live my life and not the one my parents wanted and to stop feeling guilty for who I am. I started feeling so much better about myself, even though my parents were still dismissive and condescending. At the same time, I started to have feelings for my best friend. I spent almost a year in denial and kept telling myself everyone loved sleeping in their friend’s arms, everyone would share a bed on a school trip with their best friend, everyone felt all warm and soft and giddy about their best friend. But I noticed I didn’t feel like that about all my other wonderful friends, and most importantly, I have never felt this about a boy. I was convinced I could never feel this for a boy. All girls looked so beautiful and sweet and soft and lovely and I never thought any boy was more than mediocre-looking. Actually, I was even a bit afraid of boys, the thought of one actually liking me filled me with disgust and fear. I thought, maybe I was an asexual lesbian after all. That felt right. After I spent so many years fighting my internalized homophobia and compulsive heterosexuality, I allowed myself the thought that I loved my best friend, this wonderful, smart, funny girl with a beautiful smile. I even dared to tell her and she told me she was in love with me, too. We entered a relationship and I felt so incredibly happy and relieved. I was not unlovable or broken after all. When she hugged me, I felt safe and warm. We kissed, and it didn’t feel icky at all, it felt good and beautiful and right. But we both kept our relationship secret. Both our families were traditional and religious and we both knew they wouldn’t take it well. It hurt having to keep all that happiness and love to ourselves but we had to. Some time into the relationship, we had a sleepover at my place. We waited until my parents had both gone to bed and then dared to kiss. We kissed, and kissed, and the kisses became more than chaste. Hesitantly, we explored each others’ bodies, hands slipping underneath shirts, and I started to feel something new, a confusing feeling low in my belly, something weird, but not bad. It was an exciting feeling. I wanted her to touch me in a non-platonic, very sexual way. This confused me so much I pushed her away, but she wasn’t mad. She gently coaxed me to tell her about it and I explained to her that I had always thought I was asexual and now maybe I was not and I was so confused and maybe I had just been lying to myself all along. She was gentle and patient with me and promised to never go further than I absolutely wanted. We did sleep with each other, clumsily and without much knowledge about lesbian sex because where would we have gotten it from? But it felt good and we both enjoyed it. So I definitely couldn’t be asexual, could I? I was tired of having to change labels. I had always felt like a liar, like an idiot craving attention, like I couldn’t change labels without betraying my community, like I had to settle on one label and be that for the rest of my life. It was so tiring to always tell people “Oh, hey, yeah, remember what I told you? That was untrue, here’s the new version.” I felt broken yet again. But everything gets better. We’ve been together for almost a year now, we graduated, enrolled in university and I move out from home in a few weeks. We both mustered up the courage to tell our families and while they are not exactly happy, they at least accepted the fact. I identify as a lesbian at the moment, but who knows if that might change again. I learned it’s not shameful to change labels as you grow and learn more about yourself. You are always changing, so why shouldn’t your labels change accordingly? Sexuality is too fluid to be neatly put into categories and if you find out something new about yourself, why not accept it and be thankful you made one more step in your journey towards being your truest self? And even though I can’t shake the feeling of being broken completely, I work hard to forgive myself, to surround myself with positive people, to cut toxic shit from my life and just be who I am. It feels right.

Beginning at 2 a.m. this past Saturday morning and lasting beyond sunrise, in the still-industrial area west of Bushwick, loud bass thumped through empty streets. Inside a small warehouse, a dense crowd danced under strobe lights and lasers. We were there to celebrate the first birthday of Unter, an after-party known for hosting techno fans who love dancing and are uninterested in the other trappings that usually go along with nightclubs. Courtesy of the booking collective Discwoman, all the DJs were women. As usually happens with Discwoman parties, there was no simple way to describe who was there, no age or gender or color or orientation to point to as predominant. Everyone just wanted to dance until their feet gave out. When the horrible news out of Orlando hit on Sunday, less than twenty-four hours after the last of us had stumbled out onto Ten Eyck Street, blinking in the daylight, I thought immediately of that Bushwick dancefloor. So did Frankie Hutchinson, a co-founder of Discwoman, for whom the attack hit far too close to home. “It really fucking scared me,” she says, “to know that you’re powerless to really create safety, even though creating spaces that are safe is what we’re about. I went out again on Sunday night, and the feeling in the room was unsettling because we were all thinking, It could have been this space, it could have been any one of us.” Discwoman’s parties, unlike the ones at Pulse, are not advertised as specifically queer, although the queer community is always heavily represented. They feel more like the place we should hope we’re all headed, creating, for a few hours at a time, a future where we no longer fixate on gender and sexuality. Which isn’t to say a future where people’s identities are erased — Discwoman parties are a hard-earned and fiercely guarded haven presided over by those who have been marginalized for years. “It’s so important and necessary to have these spaces to celebrate and explore our [queer] identities,” says Christine Tran, another co-founder of Discwoman. Hutchinson and Tran are both transplants to New York — Hutchinson is from London, Tran from Virginia. They started Discwoman (along with Emma Burgess-Olson, who DJs as Umfang) because none of the venues they encountered as house and techno fans were ones in which they felt safe just dancing. “It wasn’t until I started going out to DIY parties in Bushwick that I was able to enjoy myself,” explains Hutchinson. There, she found “people who understand that women’s bodies, and queer bodies, are vulnerable in a lot of situations, and we had each other’s backs and could support each other.” The lack of safety isn’t incidental: The exclusion of women DJs from dance music is well-documented, reinforcing the club as yet another place that’s unsafe for women and queer people. So Discwoman promotes only women (both cis and trans) and non-binary DJs. By eschewing men from their lineups, they sent a clear message to fans about what to expect at their parties, and the fans responded. “Women and queer people gravitate[d] toward what we were doing,” says Hutchinson. From a single party in 2014 at Bushwick’s Bossa Nova Civic Club, Discwoman has grown into a brand whose showcases at techno festivals draw hundreds and whose DJs get booked at world-famous venues like Berghain in Berlin. Outsiders sometimes treat what Discwoman does — support young DJs and fans, often of color — as something new. But their philosophy is just a more explicit expression of dance music’s history; although techno and house music are now associated mostly with the white male DJs and audiences who have popularized highly accessible (some might say bastardized) versions of the genres, it was queer people of color who created dance music, and congregating on the dancefloor has been an essential part of queer life ever since. And that’s a tradition Tran is proud to uphold. “Being a visible and accessible queer person of color is important to me,” she says of her decision to start parties instead of just attending them. “We are all here to support each other.” In light of Sunday’s horror, support now means doubling down on throwing the kinds of parties they already do. “There’s no better time than now to resist more, to create more space, to be visible,” says Hutchinson. To her, hosting events that center marginalized voices is an act of resistance, a direct action against bigotry. “People are talking a lot about gun control, which is something I definitely support, but we should be focusing on what’s breeding homophobia, transphobia, and Islamophobia and undoing those messages.” Hours after the news broke, when I read that the killer at Pulse began to hate queer people after seeing two men kissing on the street months ago, I thought again of that Discwoman dancefloor. Less than an hour into the first set, there were men kissing each other, women kissing each other, ambiguously gendered people kissing each other. And the mere existence of spaces like these, which normalize queerness, scared one man so much that he decided he had to destroy them. But as horrific as Omar Mateen’s massacre was, it was also pathetic, because places like Pulse exist in too many ways to count. In New York they exist at underground parties like Discwoman, at mainstream gay clubs like Slake, at drag shows across the city. They exist every night in Brooklyn, in Manhattan, in Los Angeles and Berlin and São Paulo. And they will exist again, eventually, in Orlando. Queer DJs turned the music on decades ago. It is far too late for anyone to turn it off.

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Digital advancements and the COVID-19 pandemic greatly transformed the world. For everyone to cope with the rapid changes, especially women in leadership, proper communication is needed. Exploring this topic even deeper with Elizabeth Bachman is Jennifer McClure, CEO and Chair of JEM. Jennifer talks about the need for in-depth internal and external communication today when intranet platforms are rampant. She explains how to build a board composed of diversified expertise and the right way to approach tone-deaf executives. Jennifer also shares tips on how women should express themselves clearly and encourage men to be their trusted allies. Watch the episode here Listen to the podcast here Communication As The Linchpin Of Change With Jennifer McClure Before I get into this episode’s interview, I would like to invite you to see how your presentation skills are doing by taking our free four-minute quiz. If you go to SpeakForResultsQuiz.com, you can take our free four-minute assessment. That is where you can see where you are strong with your presentation skills and where perhaps a little bit of support could get you the results you need and the recognition that you deserve. If you score high enough, you will rate a free conversation with me to talk about how to apply those results. Meanwhile, I have the great honor of having Jen McClure as my guest. Jen is someone I have known for some time and I follow her religiously on her various posts and the wisdom that she shares with the community. She is an executive and a board leader with decades of experience in media, technology, and information services. She is the Founder and CEO of JEM, serves on the advisory team of BoardWise, and is a Program Director and Distinguished Principal Fellow Emeritus of The Conference Board’s Marketing & Communications Center. Jen has been named a “Power Player” and top disrupter in management consulting by Business Insider. She is considered to be one of the original authorities on digital and social media and is a respected leader with a track record of identifying important business, technological and societal trends. We had an interesting conversation, mostly focusing on communications, stakeholder capitalism, the need for transparency, and how to get more diversity on the boards. We talked about all sorts of things. You will enjoy this conversation. Onto the interview with Jen McClure. Jen McClure, welcome to the show. I have known you for some time, but we did not have a conversation for a while. Although, I have been following you and I love the various things you have to say. I have been saving you as someone I could bring on to dispense some wisdom to us all. Thank you so much. I am excited to chat with you. Before I ask the many questions I have for you, who would be your dream interview? If you could interview anybody, who would it be? What would you ask them? Who should be listening? I will get personal really fast. My dream interview would be with my birth mother. I am adopted and grew up with a wonderful set of parents. My mother always said, “You can do whatever you want to do,” when I was born in 1964. That was not true when I was born. She made it clear that those were not among her choices necessarily.You are not the mouthpiece of your leaders. You are the eyes, ears, and enablers of the organization. Click To Tweet I was raised with the idea that there would be no glass ceiling by the time I was an adult. I totally believed that. It was very aspirational on her part. She also did what a lot of moms did and still do, which is to live vicariously through me and try to push me to be everything I could be which I very much appreciate. My parents gave me the opportunities through education, support, lots of travel, reading, love of all things, and learning. This is your adoptive mother that you are talking about? Yes. Much later in life, I have discovered quite a bit about my birth mother. I know who she is, what she has done with her life, and what she looks like, which is exactly like me when she was younger. It has given me a real sense of myself. I have now a better perception of nature versus nurture. she was a professional woman in the 1960s. She was a single woman. She made a difficult choice. You talk about speaking, she was one of the first women to make a very large presentation in an industry setting. That was rare then. I would like to speak with her to understand more about her and myself, what translates even when you do not know someone, and what gets passed on. Also, I do think she had to make a very difficult choice at a time when women were asked to make even more difficult choices than they are necessary now, what was acceptable in society, what their role was in society, who they had to please, and what does she now think about that in her late 80s. That would be my dream interview. Would you have anybody listen? This is a question I ask all my guests. I have a whole category called Ancestors. These are people who would like to interview their ancestors. I was 24 when my grandmother died. I was living on the other side of the country and I was so involved in my new life in New York City. I wish I had known her better as an adult. I would not want to have anyone listen to that conversation. Now, being an adult and having friends that have adopted kids, a lot of adopted kids are of a different race or ethnicity than the parents are. There are kinds of questions that come up from the kids and the people they know. There is something that adopted kids share and questioning about identity like, “Where did I come from? Who am I? Why am I like the way I am? Why do I feel like I do not belong in the family that I am living in?” That is not always acknowledged, addressed, or appreciated. It is nice to be able to share that with people who have that same feeling. I have asked you to share some of your insights. We were talking earlier about leadership in a changing world. With all your board experience and management consulting, that is easy to say, but what is it? How can we boil it down in the time that we have? In every conversation we have about business and leadership, we have to talk about COVID. We will couch this in COVID but I do think there are other factors that are leading to a change in the world of work. Unfortunately, women, as we know, have been more impacted by those changes than men. That has become apparent again with the Deloitte Survey. It is the women at work survey that came out. Women are struggling at work, but I also want to talk about the opportunities that we have, particularly for women communications professionals and women that are good communicators. I do not like lumping into stereotypes around gender too much, but there is a general perception that women tend to be better communicators than men. What we have seen in our management consulting practice is that with all of the changes to people being sent home, to work during the worst of the pandemic often uncertainties about when people will be coming back to the office for multiple reasons. Sometimes because there are new variants, there have been employee surveys that indicate people want to continue to work from home, or they want a different working relationship with their employers. The role of communications and the role of professionalized corporate communications has become more important than ever. It is starting to be more valued. The rise of the chief communications officer and organizations is increasing. The increase in boards’ understanding of the role and effectiveness of communications, measuring the effectiveness of communications, enabling leaders to be better communicators, and managers to be better communicators presents an opportunity for women. More than 60% of corporate communications professionals are women, but by the time you get to the chief communications officer in many professions, it is 40%. That is frustrating to me.There are reasons to talk, and there are reasons not to talk, write, or have an opinion. Click To Tweet You keep talking about communications but a whole lot of my work is about helping g men and women communicate with each other and understand the differences. It is not just masculine and feminine. I think of it as single-focused versus multi-focused. Can you break that down and define it? When you are talking about communication, internal and external, what do you mean? In the digital world, there is no such thing as only internal. If you are in communications, the things that are internal will go external. There is a real push to have employers be more transparent for leaders in business to take stands on issues that traditionally companies would not have taken stands on. Social issues, environmental issues, equity issues, and political issues. There is a need for clearer communications internally with the understanding that those communications internally will go external, whether you intend them to or not. There is a competency that everyone needs to have that we need to understand to your point that different people, genders, and cultures communicate differently. Sometimes, particularly in digital communications and written communications, things do not necessarily land the way you intended them to. Being able to have the skillset to be clear, concise, transparent, and straightforward, but then also to make sure that what you think you said is understood in the way that you intended it. Those are all communication skills that are important, whether you are talking about internally, externally, or one-on-one communications. Communications in the boardroom are verbal communication skills as well. You can say something in a meeting setting that you want to ensure is being perceived the way that you wanted it to be perceived. We all understand that the need to be more communicative, more transparent, and be sensitive to how we are communicating with each other is more important than ever. The demand from the new generation of workers coming in is that there will be more transparency and communication, not only more communication to them but interactive conversational communication. Where does listening fit into this? It is the most important aspect of communication. When I was leading digital communications at Thomson Reuters, internal and external, we were moving to an intranet platform, which was our new way or a very collaborative way of working together. I remember training our internal communicators to say, “You are no longer the mouthpiece of the organization or your leaders writing their statements and pushing them out to our employees. You are the eyes, the ears, and the enablers of conversations.” Listen in to what conversations are happening. Being able to see that on an open platform like an intranet or social media and understanding what conversations are happening matters. There is a reason why you should insert yourself, what questions are being asked and how can you add value to that conversation. That is a good set of questions for anyone to ask in the course of their lives. Leaders are being asked to weigh in on more social, political, and environmental in this hot topics. What is our role as an organization? What is my particular role as this leader setting at this time? Is it relevant? Can I add value by participating in this conversation? For some organizations that may be getting pushed to have an opinion or make a statement on a certain topic, it is a good way to say, “We do not play in this area as an organization. Therefore, we are not going to make a public statement.” There are reasons to talk and not to talk, write, or have an opinion. We have to understand that in many cases, saying nothing is also a decision and an action that sometimes needs to be defended. The nuance around communications that are perceived to be the opinion of an organization, company, nonprofit organization, or political party needs to be defended, whether you are saying something, not saying something, and what you are saying. The communications professionals and communication skills that everyone needs to have are more important than ever. What can you do, as a communications professional, if the head of the company is tone-deaf, not listening, not responding, and saying things? I have been dealing with this. One of my clients has a senior executive who is trying and does not get it. It is, unfortunately, a somewhat common problem. There are some things you can try to do. One is to measure and show the impact of what they are saying on different audiences. The power of social media, if this is an external communication, is to be able to bring that data back in, “Here is the feedback that we are seeing from people because of what you said.” You can do that internally too, depending on what platforms you are using and channels for communication. You can use surveys. Our employees understand these messages. If you have a social intranet, you can start to look at comments. You can also do real speaker training that will better enable them to continue to improve, and there are some leaders who do not care.Corporations are the next best hope for real action. Therefore, they have to become trusted organizations where leadership is able to communicate and listen well. Click To Tweet I would not call them leaders at that point, but there are some senior executives or people in places that are of influence that do not care about what they say and how it is going to land. You can do the best you can. We like to say with one of our clients, “Equip, enable, and empower them to do a better job.” Talk to them about how important it is that leaders are good communicators and the importance of their influence over all the different stakeholders that they serve. This came out in the Edelman Trust Barometer. Employers are the most trusted institutions in the country. The leaders of those organizations and employees are the most trusted people. The least trusted are journalists, scientists, government officials, and government, in general. The government has been perceived to have failed, corporations stepping in for putting together PPE and getting it out into the world, and being so quick to develop vaccines that are highly effective. The perception is that corporations are our next best hope for real action. They, therefore, have become very trusted organizations. To be a trusted organization, you need to have responsible leadership that is able to listen, communicate, and continue to earn the trust over time of all the stakeholders, their employees, customers, investors, and the general public they serve. Hopefully, if you put that into the context for that particular leader, they will understand the weight of their words. You do a lot of board and advisory work. Can you talk to us about what a good board should do and how important it is? There is such a range of requirements so I am going to aim for it and why there should be more diverse voices on boards. Traditionally, on corporate boards and public boards, there were a couple of things that people thought they needed to be responsible for. Hiring and firing the CEO and returning shareholder value, bottom-line shareholder value. In this world of stakeholder capitalism, which we can agree with or not agree with whether that should be the case, it exists. I would speak directly to traditionally bottom-line results. If we know that consumers are increasingly making their decisions based on the values of a company and they want to support and align as investors and consumers with companies whose values they share or employees want to work for companies that have values that they can stand by, then that is going to impact the bottom line. Stakeholder capitalism is real. Therefore, boards and governance expand because we need to think about things like employee engagement and retention. It is the companies or any organization’s commitment to DEI and the additional B, Belonging. That is Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. That would previously not have been seen as a board’s purview. It is not about the atrium because it is about the culture of the company and any organization’s ability to fulfill its mission and goals. We need to think about digital risk. This is something that I teach a lot in the board certification program. We need to think about reputational risk, ESG, Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, and not just for public companies. Increasingly, institutional investors are asking that public companies report uncertain ESG metrics. They are pulling institutional, which is the largest component of investment, from companies that do not meet certain standards. The Securities Exchange Commission is pushing to have private companies be more transparent. Whether or not this will happen, there is a push on behalf of the SEC that private companies should be more transparent about their financials and ESG positions. There is a wide range of things that boards need to consider like the traditional board members and the ways that traditionally boards have been brought together, which is a friend of the CEO and the existing board members will result in a fairly homogenous board. With what I experienced in my world of focusing on digital, things being said is not our role. All we need to ask is if there is a CIO, Chief Information Officer or a CISO, Chief Information Security Officer. It is the CEO’s job to make sure they are doing their jobs. That does not portray a realistic understanding of the way that organizations work and the way that technology is brought into or managed within a large company. What it is saying is, “I do not know the right questions to ask.” I am going to use the noses-in, fingers-out mode of board governance, which is good. That is important to know what is operational versus oversight. However, you do not use it because you do not know the right questions to ask. That is what too often is happening on boards. It is not about having a board that looks different. It is very important to have diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging on the board, but it is not just racial, ethnic, gender diversity, and cultural diversity. It is also a diversity of expertise and new kinds of expertise like communications, human capital expertise, or someone from the specific world of DEI, which is a subset of HR, with digital or cyber expertise.In a more virtual world of work, people have to speak up for themselves a little bit more than they already have. Click To Tweet All of those things are core to the success of a company. Those are new areas of skills that offer an opportunity for women, if you have that skillset that is different than the traditional job role that you would see for a board recruitment role, which would be CEO, CFO, public company board experience, and prior company board experience, which is often that barrier. There have been some shifts. There is also room for more consideration about people who can bring the right perspectives and expertise to diversify the board to round out the lack of experience and perspectives that sit on that board. That may not be people that have had a lot of prior board experience or CEO role, which is going to uniformly eliminate a lot of women, because a lot of women have been public company CEOs. That automatically takes them out of the running if that is the criteria that we are using. Is there anything that you particularly want to say or a question I should ask you that would be useful to this conversation? I am trying to tie it all together. We talked a lot about communications, work, and identity. You talk about speakers who get results. I will bring it back to the focus of your show and how this all fits. The focus of my show is helping women get past that glass ceiling. I do that through the lens of presentation skills and how important public speaking is. A whole lot of my work is how do you speak internally and be heard? Jen, you were saying earlier that even with communications officers, it tends to be mostly women until you get to the top 10% of something. For years in my opera career, companies are run by a lot of people who are passionate about it and do not get paid very well. You have to have lots of women until you get to the top and then there is a man. I have seen the same thing in business up until the last number of years. As professional smart women, how can we think about the glass ceiling? It is certainly still there, what can we do to break through it and thin it out? It should disappear. I wish it would. Unfortunately, based on this survey that I mentioned earlier by Deloitte, the glass ceiling is even more challenging because of more women working remotely and being perceived that they are getting left out of the loop and they may be passed over for promotion. That is a feeling that is quite real. What we can do is continue to advocate for one another as women and hopefully, our allies as men too. If someone is not in the room that should be or they are the person on the Zoom screen, but they are in a hybrid meeting, let’s not go back to the old adage that we have all experienced. If I said something but then when the guy said it, everyone said, “That is a great idea.” Let’s do that with our Zoom colleagues too. I would say women and men, but you are less likely to be heard and acknowledged for those good comments or even less likely to speak up if you are in those hybrid meeting settings. This new world of work is not going away. We have to all figure out how to be more sensitive to our colleagues, women, men, and non-binary people, and make sure that we get heard because we are confident enough to speak up regardless of where we are. We are supporting our colleagues to be heard when they should be heard and acknowledged when they should be acknowledged. It is going to take some more confidence on behalf of women. Many of your other guests have talked about being comfortable with yourself, putting your hand up, asking for what you want, and applying for jobs and roles that you know you can do. Going back to the original example of corporate communications, you reach a certain amount and then all of a sudden, the majority of those top roles are men. That applies to many professions. It is asking, “Why?”“ I was more qualified. I have been here longer and doing this role. Why was I not chosen?” Make sure that you have made it known that you want that top role. There are assumptions being made about women having too much on their plate with COVID. They are taking care of their kids. They are doing this and do not want to come into the office. Dispelling the myths that we cannot make our own decisions about where we are going to spend our time and how much we can accomplish as opposed to having assumptions drive those decisions about how far we are able to get. One of the assumptions that I learned was when I was studying with Kim Avery. She has taught me the most about the two different styles of communication. It is how often women will drop hints without asking for what they want. The single-focus person does not understand that that was a hint and it does not respond. The woman says, “My manager hates me and has never given me that promotion that I wanted,” when she hasn’t asked in a way that the manager can hear it, which is a mistake that I made over and over again. As women, we do not want to be perceived as pushy because we have been told that is not attractive. We are being clear, concise, and transparent. Also, we have to watch that, “He does not like me. She does not like me.” Assuming positive intent so that we do not get defensive and checking ourselves in saying, “Was I clear about what I wanted or what I was trying to say?” Asking for what you want and also not letting people assumptions about how much we can do. I was talking with another board member. It was a presentation that you were participating in and you heard her say this too. She was talking about wanting to join a board and a man said to her, “Boards are a lot of work.” Would you say to that a man? Probably not. She said, “Riley, do not tell me how much work I can take on. I know exactly what my capacity is.” That is something we need to be comfortable saying to someone when they are making some assumptions about who we are and what we can do. “Please let me decide. I have already proved to you what I can do,” and having that confidence to be able to do that. Unfortunately, in a more virtual world of work, we are going to have to speak up for ourselves more than we already have. Jen McClure, it has been such a delight to have you as a guest here on the show. I do believe it is going to be several years before we settle into a new norm. We are still in the middle of massive change. I am going to have to circle around in six months or a year from 2022 and get you to come back and talk about this again. What else is happening? We might be doing this in the metaverse the next time. Thank you so much for joining us. It has been a delight to have you here. Thank you so much for having me. I am honored. I hope this was helpful. I enjoyed our conversation. - Edelman Trust Barometer - Kim Avery - @JenMcClure_JEM – Twitter About Jennifer McClure Jen McClure is an executive and board leader with more than three decades of experience in media, technology and information services. She is founder and CEO of JEM, serves on the advisory team of BoardWise and is a Program Director and Distinguished Principal Fellow Emeritus of The Conference Board’s Marketing & Communications Center. Jen has been named a “Power Player” and top disrupter in management consulting by Business Insider. She is considered to be one of the original authorities on digital and social media and is a respected leader with a track record of identifying important business, technological and societal trends. Dream Interview – her birth mother

As a community, trans and non-binary people have faced and overcome barriers to accessible health care services due to discrimination from insurers, providers, staff, and healthcare services. Here are a few examples from the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey. One in four trans and non-binary people experienced a problem with their insurance, such as being denied coverage for care related to gender transition or being denied coverage for routine care because of their gender identity. More than half of trans people who sought coverage for transition-related surgery were denied, and while a quarter were denied coverage for hormone affirming care. One-third of those who saw a healthcare provider reported having at least one negative experience related to being transgender, with higher rates for people of color and people with disabilities. This included being refused treatment, verbally harassed, or physically or sexually assaulted, or having to teach the provider about transgender people to get appropriate care. While there are protections on the federal level to prevent discrimination, more change is needed and we need your help. The Biden-Harris Administration has opened an opportunity for the public to comment on a proposed regulation for the Affordable Care Act’s Health Care Rights Law. This will enable much needed changes to the interpretation of the rule so that the Administration can enforce trans people’s right to be protected from discrimination and harm while seeking health care services. Proposed regulations like this one don’t create new protections that weren’t already there or change the law, but they help educate people about their rights, and help insurance companies, health care providers, and government agencies understand how to follow the law. What is the Health Care Rights Law? The Health Care Rights Law, also known as Section 1557, is the part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that prohibits discrimination in the basis of sex, including anti-transgender discrimination, by most health providers and insurance companies. It also prohibits discrimination based on race, national origin, age, and disability. Under the ACA, it is illegal for most insurance companies to have exclusions for transition-related care, and it is illegal for most health providers to discriminate against transgender people, for example, by turning someone away or refusing to treat them according to their gender identity. Our rights to nondiscrimination protections were threatened and almost removed. On June 12, 2020, the Trump administration released a final rule reinterpreting the Affordable Care Act’s non-discrimination provisions. Trump’s rule sets the view that the law does not protect patients from discrimination because they are transgender, pregnant, or have a same-sex partner or family member. It also instructs hospitals and insurance companies that they are no longer required to provide patients with notices of their rights or how to get information in different languages. We fought back with over 130,000 public comments NCTE along with partner organizations initiated a campaign that led to over 130,000 comments to be submitted to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) condemning the proposal. This slowed down the rulemaking process and, on August 17th, 2020, one day before this rule change was going into effect, a Federal Judge blocked the rule based on the Bostock v. Clayton County Supreme Court decision. ...And then we elected pro-trans leaders On May 5th, 2021, the Biden Administration and HHS announced that the Office for Civil Rights will interpret and enforce Section 1557 and Title IX’s nondiscrimination provisions to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The update was made in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County and subsequent court decisions. And on January 4th, 2022, HHS announced they want to restore Obama-era protections and take a step further by recognizing gender-affirming care. Make your voice heard In just a few weeks, a new public comment period will be open, and you can make your voice heard by submitting a public comment about why it is important for transgender people to access health care without discrimination. Your comment can help ensure that trans people are represented in the rulemaking process. We know that our opposition does not want trans people to be protected, so we must all do our part to make sure our voices are louder.

- Oops!Something went wrong.Please try again later. Elliot Page shared that he is trans yesterday in a letter posted on Twitter and Instagram. His wife, Emma Portner, shared her joy at Elliot’s coming out and called him a gift. Yesterday was a major day for Juno and Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page—in a moving letter posted to his Twitter and Instagram accounts, he shared that he is trans, his name is Elliot, and he goes by “he” and “they” pronouns. “Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot. I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life. I feel overwhelming gratitude for the incredible people who have supported me along this journey. I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. I’ve been endlessly inspired by so many in the trans community. Thank you for your courage, your generosity and ceaselessly working to make this world a more inclusive and compassionate place. I will offer whatever support I can and continue to strive for a more loving and equal society.” After Elliot received an outpouring of support from celebrity friends and fans alike, his wife—New York City–based dance teacher Emma Portner—took to Instagram to share how proud she is of her man for being his most authentic self. “I am so proud of @ElliotPage. Trans, queer, and non-binary people are a gift to this world. I also ask for patience & privacy but that you join me in the fervent support of trans life every single day. Elliot’s existence is a gift in and of itself. Shine on sweet E. Love you so much,” she wrote along with a screenshot of his letter. Much love to Elliot and Emma in this incredibly special time in their relationship! You Might Also Like

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It’s hard to upstage Zendaya, the Disney Channel star who soared through “The Greatest Showman” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming” into the Hollywood stratosphere. But in HBO’s “Euphoria,” Hunter Schafer has done just that, in what is remarkably her debut acting role. Schafer plays Jules, the new kid in town — a trans girl with a dreamy Sailor Moon vibe and a self-destructive yearning for affection — who becomes best friends with Zendaya’s addiction-tormented Rue at their sex-and-drugs-deluged high school. Her performance as a sensitive, stabilizing force amid the insanity has captivated viewers and critics alike, who’ve anointed her the series’s breakout star. And its fourth episode, on July 7, explored Jules’s story, following her harrowing journey from a depression-filled childhood into a psychiatric hospital — and, eventually, a happier transition. Shafer was modeling in New York, with plans to study fashion design at Central Saint Martins in London, when her agency informed her that she’d been asked to audition for “Euphoria.” “I gave it a shot just because I had been mildly interested in acting, but it wasn’t something that I thought I would be pursuing seriously in any way, shape or form,” she said. “Then I just kept going back in and getting more of the scripts and eventually started to fall in love with my character.” After landing the role, she spent hours with Sam Levinson, the show’s creator, helping to fill out Jules’s experiences transitioning. “We were just telling each other stories and bringing forward timelines that we thought could make sense for Jules and then conceptualizing and sharing ideas, and that was the beginning,” she said. “I feel like Jules was being built until the last day we wrapped.” “Euphoria” may be her first on-screen gig, but Schafer is no stranger to attention. Raised in Raleigh, N.C., she was a plaintiff in the American Civil Liberties Union’s 2016 lawsuit against North Carolina House Bill 2 that required people to use the restroom for the gender they were assigned at birth. She wrote about the experience of navigating bathrooms in her public high school for i-D, and for her convictions made Teen Vogue’s 2017 list of “21 Under 21.” In a phone interview as she shuttled between a photo shoot and her New York hotel room, the sunny Schafer, 20, talked about her newfound fame, representation in entertainment and why she doesn’t want to be called an activist. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. How does it feel to be having this moment as a breakout star? It’s pretty surreal. I feel so lucky to have “Euphoria” as a first experience with taking on a character and exploring acting, and in having this group of people as well. I couldn’t be happier about the situation, and so whatever people are calling me is just the cherry on top. You’ve said that your life was similar in certain ways to Jules’s. How? I transitioned in early high school, and her transition might have been a little bit earlier than mine. But transitioning while you’re in public school is a pretty intense experience, so I knew I could bring that to her. And then Jules’s drive and motivation for the way she acts from the start, as far as a desire to be treated “like a woman.” And I’m saying that with quote fingers because that’s a loaded term. But I think one of Jules’s main battles is her desire for romance and normalcy and love, which I think she’s kind of locked down a routine as far as getting some form of that. But of course it’s not healthy, and I can relate to that point in my life. I didn’t act out on it, but I certainly desired to be treated a certain way in order to affirm my femininity. What’s it like working with Zendaya? She’s amazing. Z was my main scene partner for most of this season and I just feel so lucky to come out of this experience with a new best friend. As an aspiring fashion designer, did you have any input into Jules’s distinctive style? Some of Jules’s looks were already written into the script, and it was clear that she was expressive and stood out at her school. But as far as narrowing down what that aesthetic was, that was something that was really fun to work on with Heidi Bivens, our costume designer. I remember she let me make mood boards coming into filming. Then throughout Jules’s arc I think we start to witness a little bit of a change in style, which was fun to navigate as well. Heidi and I were just constantly sending each other references and photos and general guides that we think Jules could inhabit so it was really collaborative. The Parents Television Council issued a warning about “Euphoria” before its premiere, calling it a “grossly irresponsible programming decision” for its graphic content. Does the show ring true to your memory of your own high school experience? I can’t say I lived the way these characters do, just because my default is to be internal and stay home. Making artwork was my saving grace in high school. I didn’t really go out to parties very often the way these characters do. Oftentimes their actions make their experiences kind of messy where there’s no parents involved. But it’s interesting because my siblings have recently seen it, and I think they have a different experience of high school than I did. And they found it extremely true or relatable. It just sort of clocked high school in a way that they hadn’t seen before, which I was really excited to hear. You’ve been what most people would consider activist, and yet you say you don’t like that word. Why? When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members, and making it a job to take care of and speak up for a community in some way. So as an actor and an artist whose primary focus is making artwork or world-building, I don’t think I fall into that category. There might have been a point in my career where, because people have been telling me I’m an activist, I took on that label. But in retrospect, I don’t think that’s what I am — or what I’ve been — just because I’m vocal about my identity sometimes. You’ve listed “Pose” as one of your favorite shows. How do you feel about trans representation and opportunities in Hollywood? I think it’s always preferable that a trans person plays a trans person — one, because there’s enough cisgender actors in Hollywood, and two, because trans people can bring levels of experience to the trans experience that they might be portraying. A cisgender actor might be able to conceptualize and get it down to a T but won’t have the experiences in their back pocket that they can bring forward to use for that character. Trans people deserve to see themselves represented on their own TV screens, not being inhabited by people who might not completely understand them. You’ve walked the runway for Helmut Lang, Miu Miu and Marc Jacobs, to name a few. Any plans to return to modeling? I think I’ve taken a step back for now just because I really liked the way I felt in front of the camera acting and I want to keep exploring. Are you auditioning for other parts, and do you have a dream role in mind? I’m still kind of winding down from “Euphoria.” It’s taking a bit of time, just because we were doing this for eight months and I’m very immersed in that world, and I’m still in the process of letting it go. But I think I will start auditioning soon, and I’m really interested to explore what other characters I could inhabit. Jules was so parallel to me in a lot of ways. I would love to branch off to someone who is cisgender or a fantasy role. There are many different ways to go and I feel so new to acting and really excited about the art form. I’d love to just keep exploring. In a 2016 interview, you said you came out first as gay, and then trans. Then you began exploring non-binary identity. Could you explain what you mean? Earlier in my transition, I think I relied on a vantage point of the world that was very close to the gender binary and was only able to be myself in the gender-binary viewpoint. And as I’ve learned more about my community and come to understand gender as a spectrum, and the gender binary as something that’s nonexistent and a construct and a product of colonialism, I have sort of let go of the idea that I need to do the one or the other — and just let myself be. In Episode 4, we see Jules admitted to a psych ward as she struggles with body dysmorphia and self-harm, and her desire to transition initially treated as a mental illness. Was that something you could relate to? That experience is something from Sam’s life actually, something that really happened to him, not necessarily because he was trans but because he was dealing with similar symptoms of anxiety and depression that I think Jules was dealing with at that time as well. He was talking about being on the set and how it looked exactly the same and how intense that was. I remember when I was early in my transition and had just come out and was starting to get help, I had to meet with a therapist for a year and have that therapist confirm to doctors before I could have access to hormones — have that therapist confirm to them that I was, in fact, female in my head, which is nuts just to have to have some doctor making decisions about your identity when you know the whole time. 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Unless you're totally living under a rock, you are probably well aware by now that gender, and all of its sociopolitical (and let's be real: socioeconomic, too) confines, is little more than a social construct. That's a simple enough idea to grasp, we hope. Now, take that a step further and consider how the construct of gender infiltrates every part of our existence, especially as it concerns our bodies. If you're outside the male-female gender binary, and perform and express something true to you, of course, this is all too real. Awareness around this is shifting, but widespread considerations for non-binary people moving through society are slow to catch up. Gender-neutral bathrooms are one big step, as is the increase in accessibly priced unisex and andro fashion, but what if you just want to work on your tan at the beach? Western culture has long been the standard-bearer for promoting the "ideal" "beach body," with TV shows like Baywatch and even sects of gay culture promoting a limiting image of six-packs, bulging bikinis, and the tan-lines as something we should all apparently be striving for. Non-binary designer MI Leggett, the brains behind queer label Official Rebrand, is here to help those who identify outside of those lines, with a new swimwear collection that will be sexy, chic, graceful, and suitable for anyone looking for a way to work on their tan without feeling oppressed. (So, honestly, that should be all of us). Leggett launches their new collection, entitled "Queer the Beach" at The Phluid Project, a space that is advertised as the world's first gender-free shopping experience, and it's true. A recent visit to the space in downtown New York, which is spacious, airy, colorful, and beautifully curated confirms that Official Rebrand's latest collection — which is versatile and stylish enough to accommodate all body types for beach looks and beyond — will fit right into the store's inclusive environment. The models in the Queer the Beach campaign, shot by Jasper Soloff, include rising singer Merlot, Leggett, and several other gender-fluid artists. Read on as Leggett talks with PAPER about the new collection, redefining notions of queer beauty, and what the swimwear and fashion industries at large can do to liberate the people wearing its clothes. How did the collaboration with Phluid come about? It's quite seamless, it would appear. Yes, it was quite serendipitous actually. Before they officially launched, my mom showed me an article about them in New York Magazine. I looked them up and realized they already followed me on Instagram. Once they opened last spring I'd come in regularly for their amazing programming and thought to myself it would be really cool to collaborate in the future. Their buyer, Preston Souza, had discovered OR a while ago when he was responsible for the emerging/forward thinking designer category for Liberty Fairs, which is why Phluid followed me before the store opened. Turns out they had been hoping to collaborate with me as well and reached out when the time was right. What's going to be happening at the launch event? The opening celebration is Friday 6-8 pm; Saturday and Sunday, I'll do custom rebranding from 2-6 pm. This means customers can bring in something from home and I'll paint or draw on it with an image of their choosing from the collection. Phluid and I will also provide supplies and support to help visitors make their own pieces. I can't envision everyone's perfect garment for them and I love helping people create in a way that expresses their unique selves. Tell me about the role sustainability plays into your work as a queer designer. Is there a link for you between sustainability and the queer experience? For four formative years in high school I worked at The Food Project, a sustainable agriculture non-profit. This instilled in me a passion for utilizing vital resources that are so often discarded. I actually enjoyed flipping steaming compost piles in 90 degree weather because I was so excited to help keep "waste" within the nutrient cycle. I also met many lifelong friends and mentors there, most of whom eventually came out as queer/trans. Thus, I definitely correlate environmental consciousness with queer safe spaces where people take care of one another and challenge norms. In America, the expectation for feeding yourself is to go to the grocery store or a restaurant, get whatever you want regardless of whether or not it's in season, and not give a second thought to where your food might have come from. At The Food Project, we followed what we ate from seed to fork. In addition to this, tasks on the farm were never divided based on gender, and had lots of workshops and discussion in which we were asked to define our identities. These workshops were the first places I saw people proudly identifying as queer and the seeds were sown for me to eventually realized you didn't have to be a boy or a girl. The Food Project showed me how these systems that are so ingrained in our society are constructed mainly for the sake of simplicity and convenience, and that how things work outside of these socially constructed systems, while complex, are infinitely more fulfilling. Furthermore, as a gender-fluid visual artist the elemental correlation of water to my identity feels inherently queer and natural. I can freeze, melt, simmer, or splash. I can be a twink, a dyke, or a flapper. What about in terms of basic needs? We can't be any of those things if we've killed the environment. Let's face it, we can't celebrate queerness without water. And the amount of water the fashion industry consumes is staggering. It takes 700 gallons to make a single T-shirt. I explore this specific environmental concern with my Water T's project, a selection of the first 50 editions will be available this weekend at Phluid. To bring this statistic to life, I am reclaiming 700 T-shirts, each with a drawing representing one gallon of water screen printed on it and the corresponding gallon number hand painted below. Through this rebranding I remove the shirts' gender and generate awareness. It'll also conserve 490,000 gallons of water by the time the project is over. I'm also doing the same with jeans, each new pair of which takes about 1,800 gallons of water to make -- which is about the equivalent of a 12-hour shower or 600 toilet flushes. The concept of gender-free clothing is quite liberating, especially in the swimwear category, which can lend itself to an over-reliance on body self-image and confidence. What do you think the swimwear industry can learn from intentionally creating collections that feel less restrictive? To liberate clothing from gendered confines, we need to completely reimagine the possibilities of clothing. People need to have agency and not have their options dictated by unfair expectations on the basis of their assigned gender, something they did not choose. Thus, I designed these swim tops to be adjustable, wearable in multiple ways to suit many different types of bodies and preferences. I want to empower people to embrace their creativity define their style on their own. This new concept collection is a departure from what one expects to see at the beach or pool, but functional nonetheless. By making designs that look totally different from the norm, the pieces carve out a new space for non-binary style that do away with the typical swimwear shapes and their gendered connotations beachgoers are used to. How did you go about making the collection? Most of the materials are synthetics, designed to dry fast, but not necessarily cling tightly to the body like typical swimwear. They are intended to be worn for leisurely swimming, but are versatile enough to also be worn on the street or to a party. The overall aesthetic blurs lines between beachwear and regular clothing with the goal of questioning boundaries and definitions just like OR challenges the boundaries between menswear and womenswear. Similarly, I also appropriate and isolate parts that swimwear and underwear have in common, such as hooks, pads, and lace) drawing attention to the arbitrary lines dividing these two classes of clothing. Underwear and swimwear are remarkably similar but separated by social definitions, connotations and expectations--which OR intends to break apart. There are murmurings online about how queer bodies are seen as beautiful/attractive, and how that's measured and who is measuring attractiveness. That said, in creating this new line, do notions of attractiveness come up for you? What's your ultimate goal for people who will wear this collection to the beach and beyond? Although I believe there is nothing gendered about genitals nor nipples, I didn't make pieces that cling tightly to these parts, because that kind of beachwear already exists. I wanted to make garments that are freeing both physically and mentally. One way I went about this was by making pieces that are adjustable and can be worn in many different ways to fit many different kinds of bodies. For example, a folded bandana with an adjustable strap, can be a beach top for all different kinds of chests, or even be styled as a loincloth! I like to give my customers agency to figure out how to wear something in their own way. To decide for themselves what is attractive. We all deserve the right to define our own realness and not fall prey anyone else's expectations. How do you think the individual ability to define what's real plays out in social or online media spheres? Although heteronormativity undoubtedly shapes queer beauty standards, social media is creating a more public space for alternative presentations all along the gender expression spectrum to be shared and affirmed. Of course, in such expression, whether online or off, there is inherent risk. Huge corporations may paint themselves rainbow for a few days a year, but that doesn't mean queers aren't still getting harassed, attacked and killed every day. Visibility won't eradicate hate, but there is no doubt it will help move us in the right direction, teaching younger generations from earlier ages that it's ok to define yourself and not let others do it for you. I feel tremendously blessed to live in a time where media is not just created by heteronormative moguls but also by people who reject the standards that are continually shoved down our throats through advertisements and so many other forms of media. I want this collection, and Official Rebrand in general, to help bolster alternative forms of expression and reject mainstream ones. As long as there have been humans, there have been queers, but the internet is providing an amazing way for these identities that have been historically marginalized to become visible and powerful. Follow Official Rebrand @official_rebrand on Instagram. Photography: Jasper Soloff

The Castro LGBTQ Cultural District will be managed by an Advisory Board of 15-19 people. This board is being chosen through three rounds of elections. The first two rounds of elections took place on December 14th, 2019, and February 22, 2020. Click here for a complete description of voting procedures. Five seats will be open in the third election, to be held September 19, 2020. Candidate statements for this election are below. These statements are presented as submitted by the candidates, and no attempt has been made to verify their content. In addition, women have been seriously underrepresented among the candidates in all three rounds; after Round 3, up to four appointed seats will still be available to balance the board’s diversity and skill set, and will be filled by the board on an individual basis. I was born and raised in Hawaii. As a young gay man, I moved to San Francisco away from home to find a home. I came to San Francisco in 1982 during the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic. Those first years taught me a lot about our community, our struggles, our power and our resilience. I have worked in HIV/AIDS for the past 20+ years and that continues today. I have worked non-profits, clinical settings, public health departments and am currently at the UCSF-Gladstone Center for AIDS Research. As a public speaker with the Wedge program, I shared my experiences as a person living with HIV to build bridges with our allied communities. As a member of the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA), we worked to combat stigma and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities through GAPA Theatre, an intergenerational collective of writers, performers, and storytellers. Currently, as the Artistic Director of GAPA Theatre, our current mission is to mentor and support emerging QTAPI artists to amplify our voices through performance; spoken word, short plays and personal narratives, to contribute to the shifting cultural, social and political discourse. I am also a member of the San Francisco HIV Community Planning Council, a collaborative regional community planning body, that works to develop innovative, effective, and integrated responses to meet the shifting needs of the HIV epidemic. Given the experience in both my professional and personal endeavors, the skills I can contribute involve community organizing, organizational strategic planning, working closely with community stakeholders, event planning and coordination, fundraising and grant writing. The constituencies I am a part of and can bring the voices of to the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District as a board member are; nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, POC and LGBTQ theatre/performing artists, LGBT POC folks with a focus on QTAPI communities, elder LGBTQ folks, people living with HIV and renter/tenants. As a community organizer, I have conducted voter registration and fundraising on the streets. As an artist I have raised funds during performances, as well as, written and been awarded grants both as a solo performer and for GAPA Theatre. As an executive director of a nonprofit HIV organization I have coordinated several fundraising campaigns and events and have written grants to state, federal and private entities that have been funded. San Francisco has always been my home. I have lived in many different neighborhoods in San Francisco throughout the years; Noe Valley, the Mission, Duboce Triangle, the Outer Richmond, the Tenderloin, as well as a short stint in Alameda. The Castro has always been the center of my heart. I have lived here in the Castro for over 10 years. I play here, I patronize businesses, bars and restaurants here in the Castro. My intention for joining the board is to help ensure that this community, this cultural district, never loses its identity, its cultural significance or its role as a beacon to the global LGBTQ community. I am deeply committed to the Castro District and to the legacy of the trailblazers who made the neighborhood what it is today: a bastion of hope for millions of Queer and Trans people around the globe. I myself was drawn to San Francisco in an effort to find community and feel the sense of belonging I’ve only ever experienced in the Castro. I came to this city as a politically inexperienced, deeply unsure young person but I had plenty of passion and the Castro gave me every opportunity to grow and learn and participate. I have spent the last several years working as an organizer for political movements across San Francisco. I have strategized field programs, coordinated communications, and developed comprehensive fundraising operations. I want to bring the experience I have as a politcal organizer to the Cultural District to help faciliate more outreach to the community at large. I have been fortunate enough to be able foster relationships with many Castro Merchants during my time working for neighborhood businesses —where I got my first job in San Francisco— and through this I contunied to be confronted by one of the most pressing issues I believe the Castro faces: the loss of historic spaces and businesses that serve primarily LGBTQ+ people. I hope to be able to leverage the connections I have made in this community to help create stable institutions and and renewed sense of unity in the Castro. I love this neighborhood with all my heart. The Castro District gave me every opportunity I have had in San Francisco and at times of uncertainty offered me that relentless —even if sometimes faint— ringing of hope that Harvey promised would never be silent. I hope to be given the opportunity to join the board and to help propel the mission of the Cultural District. Should I be elected, I will serve this community with the dedication and compassion that it deserves. ” For more than 20 years I have been involved in the creation, management and planning of multiple LGBTQ groups with a specific focus on bridging queer communities of color. As a native of Boston Massachusetts, I formed a men’s social group called Men of Color Creative Change (MOCCC) (https://www.facebook.com/MOCCC-271373777094) which focused on bringing together Black men in social setting to help foster deeper connections in a city that is not known for it’s inclusiveness of Black gay men. MOCCC hosted multiple events throughout the city as well as collaborated with other queer groups like QWOC Boston (https://www.facebook.com/groups/21040870276) and played a major role in helping to bring together members of Hispanic Black Gay Coalition (https://www.tsne.org/hispanic-black-gay-coalition).. After moving to San Francisco, I started another group called Gay Bowling SF (https://www.facebook.com/GayBowlingSanFrancisco), a LGBTQ bowling group which grew to over 200 members with regular gatherings at Mission Bowling Club. Recently, I started Mocaa SF (https://www.facebook.com/mocaasf/?ref=page_internal). Mocaa SF is monthly Black Queer party hosted the first Thursday of every at Lookout SF, along with Bay Area QTPOC Nightlife group which now has over 600 members. The goal of these two social groups is to increase the visibility and community networking for queer BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). I am also a small business owner. I have owned and operated Cee’s Fried Chicken (https://www.facebook.com/ceesfriedchicken), a local pop up for approximately 3 years. Cee’s Fried Chicken has participated in events such as, San Francisco Pride, Oakland Pride, Folsom Street Fair, First Friday Oakland and many others. I take great pride in furthering the efforts of creating a more inclusive community for queer BIPOC and humbly accept the opportunity to help assist the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District become a more inclusive and diverse organization using my long standing experience in this area. As a young Trans Queer man, moving to San Francisco almost a decade ago felt like I finally made it to my home. I started my life here not knowing a single soul and over this time I have gained a beautiful community and chosen family. The Castro is where I first started performing Drag. It led me to feel freer about my identity as a Trans man. Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of volunteering at the LGBT Center, being involved as a performer for Trans March, and now working at the bar that gave me my Drag debut. As a Nightlife personality I hope to bring my experiences as being a visitor, worker, and performer of The Castro to the board. My past managerial and current service industry experience will give the board a set of eyes from a person who has worked on the forefront with our neighbors and friends. I hope to bring my skills in mediation, multi-tasking, organizing and strong work ethic to not only help the board, but our community achieve its goals and desires. I also hope to help in the current progress of making the Castro more inclusive to our Queer, Trans, and BIPOC community members as well as aiding them to become business owners and creators of our community. Through Drag and producing events, I feel confident in helping the board raise funds needed to obtain goals that require financial assistance as I have previous experience in doing such. My wish for becoming a board member for The Castro Cultural District is to help create that magic I felt, the community, the sense of belonging- to our future friends who come to San Francisco and finally feel that they too have found their home. Daniel H. Galindo I have come to know intimately some of the greatest issues facing the LGBTQI+ community after living in San Francisco for 11 years. The Castro is where I evolved from a scared and reserved Latino boy from West Texas to the openly out and proud gay man that I am today. Since arriving in San Francisco in 2009, I have made it my mission to further issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in my work, as well as through my volunteerism on the boards of the ACLU of Northern CA and the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF), the oldest LGBT bar association. This commitment and experience is what I pledge to bring to the Cultural District. I will ensure that the District represents the underrepresented and preserves the contributions of people of color and trans community members in the culture of the Castro and the social and economic opportunities the Cultural District creates. It will be my specific goal to ensure that the Castro is a thriving, fun, safe, accessible, and inclusive space for everyone. My experience as an attorney and member of the BALIF’s Governance Committee also means that I will be able to help the District organize and develop an internal governance structure and bylaws. In a past life I was also a community organizer, which means I am well prepared to empower community members and sensitively and effectively solicit and implement feedback. Constituencies represented: Non-profit, Queer, Women, Leather/Kink I believe the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District has a great opportunity to work with all that currently exists, as well as grow and change to be even better for all those that live there, as well as those that come to experience the history of the area. I’d love to see and be a part of that. Additionally, I’d like to explore creating a community space for the LGBTQ folks at large in the area. I’ve worked with a number of boards in various roles over the years. I think my experience in those positions, as well as the different demographics, have helped me get an understanding of a wider scope of needs and communication styles. I am not shy about sharing my personal experiences, my knowledge, or my opinions. I ask a lot of questions to understand the bigger picture as well as to learn about individual people. As a queer white cis woman who identifies as a leathergirl, I know I bring to the table a certain point of view. I see it as a mutually beneficial opportunity to add to the other demographics of the board and the overall community. I look forward to the opportunity to bring my voice, thoughts, and energy to what the cultural district can create. I enjoy working with others towards larger, collaborative goals. Some of the resume details: I’m currently on the Steering Committee for the Queer Nightlife Fund, President of SF Bay Area Leather Alliance as well as the SF girls of Leather, and I assist in the running of the SF Catalyst play/community space. I am an accountant by profession. Hello and greetings to my LGBTQ Brothers, Sisters, Kin and Allies! My name is John Goldsmith and my nickname is Junglesmith, or just, Jungle. I’m deeply grateful to be standing here today with you all, showing up for cultural change and advocating for the preservation of our community shared spaces. We are collectively working towards an improved LGBTQ reality, which also includes JOY! I am a California native and the majority of my life has been spent in this very City and County. As a 29 year SF resident, I currently live right off Castro Street, 11 doors down from Harvey Milk’s last apartment. I am a renter, transit advocate, green solutions orienter, environmental artist, degreed photographer and art historian and a gay, queer cis man. I have participated in the formation of the Castro Queer Cultural District since the initial community meeting and the development of the Working Group. At the time, I was representing a local non-profit along with the secretary. Since then, I continued to participate in the Governance and Bylaw meetings, Mapping and Land Use, and its cultural evolution of the baby group with big ideas! Now in a Covid World, outdoor events and activities will be more prominent in the newly opened environmental spaces. I am excited to see the addition of more street parks, and preserving the few that exist. I will bring to the Advisory Board a strong, clear voice and vision for a clean, green and vibrant Castro. I will welcome visitors from everywhere to the Castro. We have so many cultural interests to offer, all in walking distance and via numerous transit options. I envision full services for the unhoused and the addicted. I expect compassionate care and consideration from our elected leaders, Public Works and the SFPD. I am sorely disappointed in the Castro/Upper Market corridors in the last 5 years. The increased empty storefronts, filthy sidewalks, poor souls laying there or screaming in the streets, tents, fire hazards and general de-gentrification. Apparently, the “Burn It All Down” approach by City Leadership has changed and it will take good queer folx, like YOU and ME to keep OUR CITY – OURS! I will advocate for maximum affordable housing construction in-fill areas and more land trusts for open space. In the last few years, I developed 2 MoveOn online petitions, both related to the Castro. I am an advocate for the preservation as well as the needed ADA improvements at the Castro Station, not its demolition and replacement. The other petition refers to a local tax affecting Castro/Upper Market residents and clean streets. I also collaborated, with local petitioners, to have dangerous sidewalks removed near Pink Triangle Park on Market Street. Another achievement was to remove a bus shelter by Pink Triangle Park and have it permanently moved in front of the Old Pottery Barn building for better access. I will do more with your vote of support. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Junglesmith The Castro has played a pivotal role in my entire adult life. It’s the first place I felt truly comfortable holding my boyfriend’s hand as a college intern. It was my home during much of my 20s and early 30s. It’s where my 4-year-old son now walks with my husband and me, asking about the street placards of Keith Haring or Sylvester on our way to the Eureka Valley park. The Castro has shaped me and so many other LGBTQ+ youth and adults, and it’s a treasure we must preserve and help evolve. It’s also a place that, like our lives, keeps changing over time. I’ve seen a lot of changes during my 21 years in San Francisco, but I have never seen the neighborhood at such an important crossroads as it is today. Before COVID-19, it faced the challenges of economic disparity, retail closures, and a housing and homelessness crisis. Today, all of those threats are intensifying as the neighborhood’s businesses, institutions and residents struggle to simply stay afloat long enough to get through the pandemic. I want to join the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District Advisory Board because I believe it has a central role to play in the neighborhood’s recovery. By drawing on the past, the district can help bring neighborhood interests together to chart its future–from our cherished nonprofits and local businesses to government leaders and people of all backgrounds who love the Castro. The Castro is home to immense creativity, compassion and hard-fought struggles that can be channeled to bring it back even better post pandemic. We can preserve a culture and an ethos that embraces community and togetherness, celebrates diversity and human rights, and overcomes challenges with swagger. I believe I am well suited to help build the awareness, forge the alliances and grow the financial resources that the district needs to take on today’s challenges. I have 25 years of communications and marketing experience as a former journalist, a former Congressional staffer, and more recently as a business communications leader. Currently, I am vice president of executive communications at Zendesk, a customer service software company based in the Tenderloin that grew from 300 to 4,000 employees during my 7 years there. I know how to build a new organization, grow it and be scrappy along the way. I represent multiple constituencies: long-time residents, both renters and homeowners; LGBTQ+ parents raising families here; and various local nonprofits and political campaigns. I have served on the planning committees for the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ annual Crescendo gala fundraiser and the annual Hospitality House art auction fundraiser. I was part of the Finance Committee for Gavin Newsom’s successful 2018 gubernatorial campaign. In the early 2000s, I was an active member of Marriage Equality California. I care deeply about the Castro. I want to ensure it continues to inspire people and uplifts their lives like it has mine. I would be honored and humbled for your vote. I Levi Maxwell am committed in continuing the work for a greater and ever more open Castro. My work began some 10 years ago as a homeless queer youth providing resources and support to fellow homeless and low income youths who congregated and or made homes on the streets and SROs in and around the neighborhood. As I came of age I gained skills around harm reduction, youth advocacy, racial equity and organizing. All in attempt to insure that Castro was a place where my community could count on me as an ally and asset in their desire to enjoy this neighborhood; our haunt and home. As a black, queer, non-binary, trans, jew who not only was formerly homeless but in time made a career insuring greater stability for those still struggling, I believe that I have the capabilities to insure this neighborhood; our neighborhood is a space and place that can and will provide opportunities in uplifting us all. By joining the board I will insure that the most marginalized in our community are provided a conduit to express their concerns and goals in making the Castro ever greater in reach, draw and connection. I continue to challenge what is necessary and speak truth to power. Castro has within my own mind many fond memories and moments. But also troubling experiences of violence, disrespect and undeniable racism and prejudices. I cannot continue to merely speak on it. I know that to right the wrongs of the past and present I must work to create a better future. My co-conspirators are people I trust and know will back me and will spread what needs to be seen to get the funds the Castro Cultural district needs. Funds are critical, but do not be fooled: I ain’t here to just fill up another coffer by being a “diverse face”, I’m here to bring the intrinsic wealth of the people, my many peoples to the spotlight. I’m originally from a conservative small town in the central valley of California. I moved to San Francisco in 2002 for school—or so I told everyone. I really moved here because I wanted to be in the “Mecca” of LGBT life in the U.S. I was in search of acceptance and love. I had read about the Castro in LGBT publications and I knew I had to go there. There are so many like me, for whom the Castro symbolized the freedom to be who we were. While I could never afford to live in the Castro, I visited often. Sometimes daily. The Castro is so much more than a neighborhood. That is precisely why we should preserve and promote its LGBT cultural heritage. That will be harder than we can imagine, with online shopping gobbling up brick-and-mortar retail, restaurants and bars facing evictions, and the soaring cost of housing in an already economically privileged area. I am up for the challenge. I’ve spent most of my career—and personal life—advocating for vulnerable people. While an intern for now congresswoman Jackie Speier (then a state senator), I organized her Pride contingents. I also joined one of the youth groups of the STOP AIDS Project and went on to be a youth group facilitator in the Castro. I was named Quintessential Volunteer of the Year in 2005. When I began my career leveraging health care data to breakdown disparities among minorities, sexual, gender, and otherwise, I helped organize CPMC’s contribution to the LGBT Center’s first LGBT health fair. I have peer-reviewed and invited publications in medical journals as well as a book chapter on the social determinants of health. I’m a member of the Alice B. Toklas Democrats and the former chair of the LGBT forum at the Commonwealth Club of California. A first-generation college graduate, I have a BA in political science from San Francisco State University, a MBA from progressive Mills College, and also a Master of Public Policy from Mills College. I worked all throughout college and graduate school, where I was Point Foundation Scholarship finalist. The accomplishment I am most proud of, however, is being Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (my saint’s name is St. Wes Craven-Cox). Most recently, I’ve joined the junior board of the Treasure Island Museum. Through my work there, I will ensure that the gay history of the island—which contributed immensely to the growth of LGBT San Francisco and the Castro—will be conserved and remembered in the museum. ” My name is Miky Montano. I was born in Xalapa Veracruz, Mexico and I live in San Jose, California. I’m a Computer Systems Engineer as well as a Dancer focussing on Mexican Folklorico. My areas of interests, as they relate to the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District, are Cultural Heritage, Cultural Competency, and Racial Equity. Due to Covid restrictions, my dancing at the Mexican Heritage Plaza – School of Arts and Culture with the ballet folklorico Los Lupeños de San Jose has temporarily stopped. I continue my communication with the dance school and I attend online classes with the Institute in Mexico. I recently completed an acting class on “Storytelling” and an “Ethnics in Dance” class. I enjoy sharing culture through folklorica dance, cuisine and the customs of Mexico. I think that importing aspects of Mexico’s treasure trove to the Castro is important! Latin influence in the SF Bay Area is key. The Castro can be a better district by providing a voice to Mexican influence and culture. Folklorico is more than preserving the music and dances of a country. It is a framework of action that includes musical instruments, crafts, clothing, rites, beliefs, legends and foods. Mexico has generated many living traditions continuing to this day, throughout the large country. These traditions, such as Day of the Dead, have become increasing cultural happenings in the SF Bay Area. Events like Carnivale and Christmas celebrations are rich customs that require introspection, inspire joy and provide meaningful purpose. Today, our complex region seeks diversity, while honoring our multicultural past, and Society looks to the LGBTQ community as Agents of cultural beacons. Now, our cultural identities are conforming with a Global Community. We appreciate, with more clarity, that we are Mexicans: a people rooted in customs with millennia-old traditions. Our cultural identity is comforting and reassuring us, as individuals. The collective cultural community is re-charged by the synergy created by these actions and movements.When we perceive our present culture and participate in its evolution, we create more room for positive outcomes. This is portrayed in the dances, such as a huapango or zapateado, an offering on the Day of the Dead, or the presentation of the Christmas branch and aguinaldos (the act of gift giving). Dances often represent a struggle between good and evil, often based on a spiritualistic ritual. I will advocate for more poetry and art songs from my native Veracruz, including topics of the Virgin and the many Holy Patrons. By being on this Advisory Cultural Board, I will bring reasons to celebrate and enrich our diverse cultures and develop a sense of LGBTQ belonging with our Sisters, Brothers and Kin. As a representative, I can share a year of traditions which can be exhibited, and taught, in different events, I am currently finishing my Art Instruction Teaching credentials at the Instituto Regional De Danza Azueta. I entertain the idea of creating a Folklorico LGBTQ Ballet here, promoting culture for and with Latin people and their allies. Michael Trung Nguyen My name is Michael Trung Nguyen, and I am excited to run for the board of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District (CQCD) because, after living in the Bay Area for over 14 years, I’ve finally found my people in the Castro. Yet, I have also witnessed the magic that generates our Queer culture—the artists, small business owners, and LGBTQIA+ residents—disappear from the Castro over the years. My vision is to build a strong, community-led district, rich in racial, gender, and socioeconomic diversity, with open streets and bustling sidewalks that celebrates the whole LGBTQIA+ community. Growing up as an only child to Vietnamese refugees in the suburbs, I often felt alone. The idea of community was foreign to me. I first learned about LGBTQ culture when, 20 years ago, I snuck out to Oaklawn, the gayborhood in Dallas. Dazzled by drag queens and nightlife, I felt the freedom of living my most authentic self, dancing to Britney under a shiny disco ball. Now, serving as Chair of the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA), I lead our social, political, and cultural programs to bring more awareness and visibility to the Queer Trans Asian & Pacific Islander (QTAPI) community in the Bay Area and beyond. I serve on two other boards: Livable City, an organization working to create a safer, greener and more equitable San Francisco, home to Sunday Streets, and Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF), the nation’s first LGBTQI bar association. As a software patent lawyer, I also bring my network of techies and legal eagles, always willing to contribute to the success of the LGBTQ movement. Through my drag persona, Juicy Liu, I have raised over $50K for many nonprofits, including the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation through AIDS/Lifecycle. As an advisor, I would strive to make the Castro more equitable and safer for all. We can achieve that when the District becomes more inclusive, more effective in advocating at City Hall, and more loving of our whole community. The Castro has been dominated by cis gay white men since the ‘60s. They continue to dominate Queer spaces, as small business owners, staff, nightlife personas and producers. Two years ago, I saw a need for more diverse drag in the Castro, so I started a new showcase of Queer and Trans Performers of Color. However, without my cis gay white male friends and allies, the show would not have survived. Through coalition building and allyship, we all have the power to create space for a more diverse, intergenerational and energetic Castro. Please join me in bringing my vision of the Castro to reality. Preserving our Queer culture takes a village of dedicated volunteers, curators, small business owners, and the full spectrum of the LGBTQIA+ community to keep it loud and proud. I hope to grow the vibrant culture of the Castro to attract more LGBTQIA+ people to live, work and play here for many more decades. Thank you for your vote. My name is Xander Parker. My Goal is to help represent marginalized queer folks who do not have a voice in our community. I am a 22 year old, non-binary and Indigenous Bay Area native and I would be honored to serve on the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District Board. Prior to the shelter in place order and the closure of my work spaces, I was working at the San Francisco Playhouse, a non-profit theater founded in 2003, as a House Manager. Once shelter in place happened and theaters closed, I was looking for new work that felt meaningful to me. I accepted a position at Inclusive Community Resources in Berkeley, working as a home caretaker supporting people who experience different forms of disability. Outside of that, I am an artist working in performance, with a particular focus on ways to bring my activism into my work as an entertainer. I am also the Co-Event Coordinator for Oaklash, a Bay Area non-profit Organization that produces the first and only annual Bay Area drag festival. As an organizer and activist with a theater background, I utilize my skill sets of bringing people together through collaboration and creative imagery. This, along with my lived experience and understanding of multiple intersecting identities is what I am bringing to the table of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District Board. It’s time we start listening to the voices of young, brown, and black queers who are underrepresented in places like the Castro. By bringing the challenging conversations to the floor, making a plan, and taking action with the Castro District Board is how we help uplift and protect these lives. Recently, on July 30th, 2020; the BAQNC recorded almost 400 surveys on the level of safety/inclusion with some of the queer bars in San Francisco and then spoke with Toadhall, The Stud, The Edge, The Eagle and Badlands in an online “Town Hall ” meeting. After the meeting we are left with questions on what exactly these spaces plan on doing to ensure the safety of marginalized queer people. We are being subjected to harmful behavior in places that claim to be inclusive but do not hold guidelines that invite or protect the voices and lives of BIPOC. I am the candidate that is going to put in the work for our safety by holding these spaces accountable and push forward for better guidelines in these spaces. I wish to see the Castro Cultural District Board center Racial Equity, Youth, and the Arts within the Castro and I hope to bring the focus around these subjects by working with groups such as the Bay Area Queer Night Life Coalition, the TGI Justice Project, and your everyday members of our community. The future is in the hands of our youth and we rely on them to uphold & protect the legacy of our community. Creating outreach and getting queer youth involved, like myself, will help bring a more diverse and new perspective that our community needs. My name is Sacred Mitchell, and I am formally tossing my hat in the ring for an opportunity to be considered as a potential candidate for one of the 15 seats on the first iteration of the San Francisco Castro LGBTQ Cultural District Advisory Committee. I am a current resident of San Francisco proper, and have lived here in the city for close to 15 years now. I moved here to California, from Arkansas, at a very young age without really any knowledge of the new home that I moving to. Upon moving here, I was even ignorant to the fact that San Francisco was considered a “Gay Mecca” and why. But I’ve definitely spent the last decade or so learning all about what that meant and why. I have a strong commitment to this community, especially in terms of all the letters in the acronym LGBTQ that often get overlooked and dismissed and left out in the rain under the rainbow umbrella…which is basically every subcommunity outside of the “G”. And I know that I have a reputation for it, specifically in terms of how active I can be in “Call Out” culture. But what people tend to not realize, is that I am much more than just a voice. And I do have a plethora of skills that are quite often put to good use once given the opportunity. I am very skilled at organizing and coordinating events, great at listening and anticipating needs and getting them met, and great at curating and offering experiences. But I am also a very deep, critical thinker and able to put myself in other’s shoes quite often, in result of various traumas I myself has suffered and overcome…and probably will continue to. The life of an activist is no walk in the park. Constituencies that I often represent are definitely ones that look most like myself, queer black men, since we do tend to suffer in silence and alone quite often. But I also stake an interest in representing the trans community, the Lesbian community, the Bisexual community, and all queer, same-sex loving individuals of color within Castro and San Francisco…that’s regardless of age, HIV-status, body type, etc. And that’s where my intentions for joining this board lies, in having a say, having a seat at the table to speak, boldly, on behalf of any underdogs that I rarely see representation of or appreciation for within the Castro district. And I am able to raise funds, as I have done for the SF LGBT Center before, even as I was homeless, and as I have done for myself when I needed to crowdfund, and as I’ve done in the past in high school. And as I even did yesterday, at a bartending event I helped organize and make cocktails at to raise money for Breonna Taylor and those protesting, and being locked up for doing so, on her behalf.

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Authors who have not been born in Germany, or whose parents were not born in Germany, reveal their lives pendulating between different worlds. The keyword "post-migrant literature" is actually used for novels about very normal lives in Germany, where around 25% of the population has a migrant background. In "Dschinns," Hüseyin, who has worked in Germany for 30 years, finally fulfills his dream of owning a house in Istanbul. However, on the day he has to move into the new place, he dies of a heart attack. His funeral brings the family together. Fatma Aydemir narrates the story of human longings, unachieved dreams, big and small secrets and German post-war history. 2. Kristine Bilkau: 'Nebenan' ('Next Door') Known for her withdrawn prose, Kristine Bilkau talks about themes that have occupied all her other novels: the lives, the problems and the neuroses of the upper middle class. In an unnamed town at the Northern Baltic Sea channel, a 30-year-old, shy woman, who has moved in from the big city, meets an established, 60-year-old general practitioner, who has been running a practice in this place for several decades. A neighboring family disappears without a trace, the doctor receives threatening letters, and the small town changes insidiously. With subtle tension, Bilkau narrates the diffuse fears of the well-off middle class in Germany. 3. Daniela Dröscher: 'Lügen über meine Mutter' ('Lies about my mother') Daniela Dröscher narrates a story of growing up in a family, where one theme dominates everything: her mother's obesity. Is this beautiful, impulsive and unreliable woman too fat? Does she need to lose weight urgently? Yes, she must, her husband decides. And the mother faces this, day after day. On the one hand, the book is a story about a childhood in the Hunsrück uplands; on the other, it looks at misogyny of the past and how it continues to this day. A daughter narrates the story of her mother, who migrated to Germany from Poland and perceives her as a complex personality as well as an ideal. "Lies About My Mother" is also a class novel. Daniela Dröscher has tackled the subject in the past: Her memoir about growing up as a working-class child in Germany was published in 2018 under the title "Show Your Class. The story of my social origins". 4. Jan Faktor: 'Trottel' ('Idiot') "What is the reason for my good mood? Simply, everything." These are the opening lines of Jan Faktor's novel and amid the slowing COVID pandemic, rising energy costs and the Russian invasion, a good mood can make a huge difference. This anecdotal novel offers exactly that: readers follow the story of a man, who calls himself an 'idiot,' living and re-living his stupidity to the unending enjoyment of the readers. As is characteristic of the anecdotal novel, the "Idiot" is naturally there to reveal his surroundings: the red wine-sipping intellectuals, the mother-in-law or the even more idiotic son. Anyone who doesn't see himself or herself in one of the stories is above all, a little bit idiotic. 5. Eckhart Nickel: 'Spitzweg' Nickel's novel takes its name from the 19th-century German painter, Carl Spitzweg. In the story, three students, including two boys and a girl, discover the attraction of the arts. The narrator admires Carl, a boy who joins the school shortly before his school-leaving exams. In order to impress Carl, the narrator does not defend his classmate Kirsten when the art teacher calls her self-portrait a "courage to be ugly." This is a book about art, a love triangle, a highly talented girl and cunning plans for revenge. Nickel appeared in the 2019 Longlist for the German book prize for his novel, "Hysteria." 6. Kim de l'Horizon: 'Blutbuch' ('Blood Book') The non-binary narrator of "Blutbuch" lives in Zurich, after they flee from the small, conservative village in Switzerland, where they were born. Their grandmother's illness however, puts the narrator into a thoughtful mood: they talk to the older woman and list all themes about which both have never spoken, including the protagonist's fluid gender identity or the grandmother's racism. Secrets and silences in families are popular and timeless themes in literary history. De l'Horizon, through their non-binary protagonist, approaches the subject from a new perspective, adding to the many accusations made about families.Coming on the heels of the German government's proposed law in June 2022 to simply change gender entries, "Blood Book" comes at the right time politically — and rounds up a shortlist that depicts the modern society that the Federal Republic has become in the 21st century. 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By now, you may be familiar with the origin story of Pride: how it started as a riot in response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City with Black queer and trans women at the forefront. That uprising kickstarted the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement, but over the decades, Pride itself has evolved. More party than protest, annual Pride marches in the U.S. are now a family-friendly and even mainstream event. Instead of activists and agitators, they’re filled with corporate brands and police officers. That is, until 2020. Covid-19 has taken Pride parades away from the LGBTQ+ community this year, with about 500 parades around the world canceled or postponed. Without these marches, Pride 2020 has come with a major sense of loss for many people — loss of community, of revenue, of visibility. Recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations have further knocked Pride’s sense of business-as-usual off-kilter. But this unusual historical moment has also provided the perfect opportunity to return to the radical, community-oriented roots of Pride. All over the country, community-organized marches and motorcades have served to unite and uplift local LGBTQ+ communities without the distraction of so-called “rainbow capitalism.” Because as we all contemplate how to go back to “normal” after these Covid-19 times, we’re also forced to reckon with the fact that normal wasn’t working. In the same vein, Pride in a “normal” year was never truly welcoming for marginalized queer and trans folks, nor did it stay true to the original purpose of the Stonewall Uprising: queer and trans liberation. View this post on Instagram Pride is such a crucial time for LGBTQ+ communities — it’s a time and space in which queer and trans people can be themselves and be celebrated for it. In its early days, this annual gathering also served to remember and honor what happened at Stonewall. But as the original message of Pride has gotten watered down over the years, these unabashed celebrations of progress have managed to leave entire groups of people behind. Frequently, Pride events are dominated by white people and cis gay men. Other communities often create their own Pride events, such as Chicago’s Party Noire, which centers women and non-binary people of color. These are more welcoming alternatives to sponsor-backed Pride celebrations, where Black and brown people run the risk of being othered, tokenized, or excluded. Jor-El Caraballo, a New York City therapist who specializes in seeing LGBTQ+ clients, says the commercialization and racial exclusion of Pride have gone hand-in-hand. “As Pride has become more commercialized, it’s become more sanitized,” Caraballo tells GO. “Pride highlights white gay representation while largely ignoring Black and brown people and trans women of color, who we have to thank for the movement. This is largely influenced by the boards and views of corporations which tend to be led by white cisgender gay men and similarly identified allies.” In addition to racial homogeneity, Pride marches are unwelcoming in other, sometimes invisible ways. For example, parades typically involve a major presence of police — the very people who frequently enact violence against Black and brown queer and trans people. Moreover, some corporate sponsors at Pride often do very little for LGBTQ+ communities during the other eleven months of the year. There’s always been criticism and debate over the commercialized party vibe of Pride. But until this year, the idea of overhauling Pride seemed overwhelming, if not downright impossible. Rarely has there been an opportunity to pause en masse and consider new ways of doing things. Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter have presented that opportunity. Pride events in 2020 are taking place against a backdrop of nationwide protests against police brutality and white supremacy. Many organizers have taken this moment to intentionally intertwine both LGBTQ+ and Black liberation and to center those who never get to be centered at “regular” Pride. As a result, Pride is closer to being a riot again than it’s been in years. View this post on Instagram In New Orleans, a grassroots Take Back Pride motorcade was followed by a protest in which participants took down a statue of slave owner John McDonogh and threw it into the Mississippi River. In New York City, an estimated 15,000 people wore white and marched silently to protest violence against Black trans lives. In Los Angeles, All Black Lives Matter protesters chanted while marching the streets: “Racists, sashay away!” Also in New York, an LGBTQ+ March for Black Lives descended upon Stonewall. On Pride Sunday, an annual Queer Liberation march will likely attract many more people now that there’s no official Pride march to distract. Even virtual events have moved into a more inclusive direction, with Global Pride vowing to center Black Lives Matter. Organizers at the New Orleans Workers Group, who organized the Pride motorcade, pointed out that “Pride events began as a commemoration of the rebellion at the Stonewall Inn… where working class queer and trans people — mostly Black, many of them sex workers, many of them homeless — fought back against police brutality.” “For decades, the New Orleans Pride organization has turned this instead into a celebration of the police, military, and corporations who are our oppressors,” they wrote. “We want a different Pride.” View this post on Instagram Whether you’ve been able to attend any actual Pride events or not, you can incorporate the radical roots of Pride in your own celebrations. Caraballo says that this time “can be more about supporting organizations that serve the local communities, investing in mutual aid funds and being transparent and showing up for queer lives no matter the environment that you’re in.” He added that “queer folks have a lot of power, especially buying power” — to the tune of $3.7 trillion worldwide, according to a 2015 report by LGBT Capital. “The money that might typically be used for travel and extensive social events can now be diverted to those organizations, direct-care services and the continual lobbying we need to ensure that all LGBTQ+ folks are protected and valued in all areas of life.” Not sure where to focus your spending? Consider donating to Black trans-focused organizations such as the Black Trans Travel Fund, the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, For The Gworls, and the Okra Project. Or, donate to a mutual aid fund for LGBTQ+ folks, like the Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund or the Homeless Black Trans Women Fund. It’s also a great idea to focus your efforts on local organizations. In NYC, there’s the Audre Lorde Project, the Ali Forney Center, and the Trevor Project, along with many others. If you don’t know where to find local LGBTQ+ community organizations and mutual aid funds, ask your local queer Facebook group for specific ideas. Also, don’t forget the importance of making donations on an individual level. Contribute to CashApps and GoFundMe pages whenever you can, especially for Black LGBTQ+ people. There are constantly threads of this sort being boosted on Instagram and Twitter; one example is below. If you’re a Black woman, a Black trans person, a queer person, or an organization that helps any of the aforementioned communities, please drop your donation link or pay info, such as cashapp, paypal or venmo, under this tweet. — simi (@simimoonlight) June 21, 2020 Lastly, set up auto payments for recurring donations, if you can afford to — people and organizations need your help year-round, not just when they’re trending. The old version of Pride served its purpose, for a time. Sponsors took Pride to a whole new level of visibility, helping to normalize queer and trans identities for people who might not otherwise be exposed to any. But it’s time to step back and remember: Nobody is free until all of us are free.

The party’s equalities spokeswoman, Angela Crawley MP, has called for transgender people to be fully protected under UK law. The Lanark and Hamilton East MP will jointly lead a debate on transgender equality in the House of Commons later on Thursday. The Scottish Government has pledged to reform its gender recognition law to meet “international best practice” and ensure all those who have or are transitioning from one gender to another, or who identify as neither male nor female, can secure official recognition of this without the need for medical evaluation. It would also allow young people to make the amendments, with permission from parents needed for under-16s. However, the measures will only apply to those born within Scotland. Speaking ahead of the debate Crawley said: “While Scotland has made huge progress towards achieving LGBTI equality in recent years, and is now rated the best country in Europe for LGBTI rights, we still have further to go – particularly when it comes to tackling the prejudice and discrimination that trans and non-binary people continue to face. “I hope that 2017 can be a year of progress for transgender equality in Scotland and across the UK. “The Scottish Government is already committed to reforming gender recognition law in Scotland to meet international best practice and the UK government should match this commitment so all trans and non-binary people in the UK are fully able to access their human right to legal gender recognition. “I also urge the UK government to listen to LGBTI equality organisations and reform the Equality Act 2010 so that all trans, non-binary and intersex people are fully protected by anti-discrimination provisions.”

INVESTING IN OUR COMMONWEALTH In the current 192nd Legislative Session, the Senate has worked diligently to provide for COVID-19 recovery and to support all residents of our Commonwealth. In addition to passing a $48.07 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2022 and a $52.7 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2023, the Legislature passed a $4 billion omnibus spending package utilizing federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act and surplus funds from Fiscal Year 2021. This spending package delivered targeted support to workers and businesses, as well as housing, health care, mental and behavioral health, climate preparedness, education, and workforce development, with a focus on making equitable investments and prioritizing communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. In addition, the Legislature passed several supplemental budgets to provide for the continued operation of the Commonwealth and focused support for programs in need of additional funding. - Fiscal Year 2022 Budget - Investing in communities hit hard by COVID-19 and supporting the ongoing economic recovery through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and Fiscal Year 2021 surplus spending - Fiscal Year 2023 Budget When the legislative session began in January of 2021, we were still in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since that time, the Senate has passed several measures to help support our communities, small businesses, workers, and healthcare system. - Guaranteeing COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave to workers and avoiding drastic unemployment insurance (UI) rate increases for employers - Extending critical protections instituted during the COVID-19 State of Emergency - Extending COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave for workers ACTIVE MILITARY & VETERANS In the wake of the tragic deaths of 77 veterans at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home during the COVID-19 pandemic, the legislature passed a $600 million bond bill to support the construction of a new Soldiers’ Home and to increase geographic equity and accessibility related to the continuum of long-term care services in small home concept housing for veterans across the state. Additionally, the Legislature enacted changes to the oversight of both Soldiers’ Homes to ensure better outcomes for our veterans going forward. Finally, for our active duty military, the SPEED Act will help to facilitate a smooth transition for military members and their families who move to Massachusetts. - An Act financing the reconstruction of the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke - Restructuring the chain of command at Holyoke and Chelsea and improving oversight to prevent future tragedy - Supporting veterans and military families EQUITY, ACCESS & INCLUSION Throughout the 192nd Session, the Senate has advanced several pieces of legislation to increase equity, access and inclusion in the Commonwealth. I am very proud that the Legislature enacted my bills to create a Women’s Rights History Trail in Massachusetts, and to establish the third Saturday in July as Negro Election Day. The Legislature also passed bills to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles by incorporating hair texture, hair type and protective hairstyle into the definition of race in the Massachusetts General Laws - Honoring Black History by establishing Negro Election Day - Creating a Women’s Rights History Trail in Massachusetts - Preventing discrimination against natural and protective hairstyles through the CROWN Act - Creating a non-binary option on driver’s licenses and birth certificates - Removing anti-LGBTQIA+ laws and establishing a permanent commission to recommend outdated legislation for repeal The Legislature has continued to fully fund the Student Opportunity Act, which passed in 2019, to ensure public schools have adequate resources for high-quality education to students across the state, regardless of zip code or income level. This session, the Senate advanced legislation to expand access to affordable early education and care, ensure today’s students are educated on the history of genocide and human rights, and to provide greater access to free breakfast and lunch for students. - Senate passes transformational bill to expand access to high-quality, affordable early education and child care - Promoting student nutrition through increased access to school meals - Educating students on genocide and human rights HEALTH CARE & PUBLIC HEALTH Increasing access to health care has long been a priority of the Senate. This session, we reaffirmed that commitment by passing comprehensive legislation addressing barriers to mental and behavioral health care, lowering the cost of prescription medications, and increasing access to postpartum care for new parents. In addition, the Legislature enacted a bill to better support our local and regional public health system, upon which we greatly depended during the COVID-19 pandemic. - Addressing barriers to care through the Mental Health ABC Act 2.0 - Ensuring that life-saving medications are affordable, fairly priced and accessible for all consumers through the PACT Act 2022 - Providing free menstrual products in public places - Addressing the crisis in maternal health outcomes - Strengthening our local public health services ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, JOB CREATION & WORKERS’ RIGHTS As the Commonwealth’s economy continues to rebound from pandemic closures, the Legislature’s commitment to supporting businesses, workers, and the overall health of our economy endures. In July of 2022, the Legislature enacted sports betting legislation to allow Massachusetts residents to place wagers on professional and most college sports, which the Governor signed on August 11, 2022. In addition, the Legislature included many key spending provisions to support small businesses and invest in our workforce. - Legalizing sports betting - Supporting economic recovery and workforce development in the ARPA spending package CHILDREN, FAMILIES & PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Throughout this legislative session, the Senate has taken steps to assist children and families, particularly with relation to adoptees and those in the care and protection of the Department of Children and Families. I am proud to have filed legislation that was enacted increase access to kinship adoption, and I was honored to advance legislation to give adoptees access to their original birth certificates. Finally, the Senate passed legislation I filed to update the reporting requirements for the Department of Children and Families to ensure accountability and transparency. - Increasing access to kinship adoptions - Giving adoptees access to their original birth certificates - Ensuring stability and oversight of care for children involved with the Department of Children and Families Lack of affordable housing continues to be one of the most pressing issues in our Commonwealth. Throughout the pandemic, the Legislature has provided increased funding for rental assistance and other programs to support tenants and landlords. In addition, the Senate passed a bill to allow those experiencing homelessness to get a State ID without providing a permanent access. Without an ID, individuals cannot apply for jobs, enroll in school, access government buildings, open financial accounts, and more. With worsening storms and climbing temperatures, it is clear the climate crisis is more pressing than ever. The Legislature acted this session to pass two substantial climate packages to set key emissions and clean energy goals, expand offshore wind, and address emissions in the transportation and building sectors. - Nation-leading Next Generation Climate Roadmap - Bolstering green transportation, green buildings, and clean power production To support the Commonwealth’s transportation infrastructure, the Legislature passed two bond bills to provide funding for improvements to roads and bridges, and our public transportation system. The Legislature’s annual Chapter 90 funding bill, which provides funding for municipalities to address their local transportation needs, authorized $350 million in funding, including $200 million for municipalities. At the end of July of 2022, the Legislature passed a bond bill authorizing $11.3 billion in spending for transportation and infrastructure projects, including $400 million for the MBTA to address ongoing safety concerns. - Investing in our local transportation systems - Supporting transportation and infrastructure in our Commonwealth ELECTION SAFETY, INTEGRITY & ACCESS In June of 2022, the Legislature enacted the VOTES Act, which permanently codifies the popular mail-in and early voting options used in Massachusetts in 2020, increases ballot access for voters with disabilities and service members overseas, and takes steps to modernize the Commonwealth’s election administration process. At a time when democracy is under attack across the United States and across the globe, the VOTES Act implements vital measures to protect and expand voting rights here in Massachusetts. As an animal lover, I am proud the Senate took steps this session to further protect our furry friends by passing several pieces of key legislation. This includes legislation that encourages research facilities that use dogs and cats to offer these animals up for adoption after finishing research, rather than automatically euthanizing them. This bill, which I was proud to co-sponsor and help advance, was signed by the Governor on August 8, 2022. In addition, the Senate passed legislation to ensure the safety of puppies and kittens during breeding, sale and boarding, and to discourage the illegal hunting and sale of game animals, including endangered species.

Art School is a unisex, London based label which focuses on redefining the limitations of ready-to-wear gendered fashion and aims to celebrate idiosyncratic individuality of queer style. The label is founded by fashion and art criticism graduates, Eden Loweth and Tom Barratt. The design duo has worked with prominent emerging designers including LVMH prize winner, Grace Wales Bonner. Art School is a platform for Loweth and Barratt to express their ideas in art and design using luxury fashion as their communicative tool to explore contemporary queerness. The label is informed by the founders themselves and their friends’ non-binary gender identities. The brand first debuted at London Fashion Week Men’s A/W 17 with the support of Fashion East. They showcased a performative presentation in collaboration with the Theo Adams Company. The presentation featured a cast of their own friends and loved ones. Art School elevated onto the catwalk for S/S 18 with the support of Fashion East and Topman’s MAN initiative.

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glo merriweather is a Black non-binary community organizer living in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2016, glo became a felony defendant after the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department murdered an unarmed Black father named Keith Lamont Scott. glo and hundreds of community members demanded answers and protested this father’s slaying. On the second night of the demonstrations, glo witnessed the police murder of Justin Carr and, within days, found out there were $20,000 in warrants out for their arrest. After having to turn themself into the jail, their community needing to bail them out, two years on trial, and a trustworthy team of attorneys, glo’s cases were finally dismissed in August of 2018. Since that time, glo has been a fierce grassroots advocate in Charlotte. Fighting for prison abolition, collaboratively creating practices and ideologies to address generational healing and trauma, as well as providing direct housing and fundraising support for youth and families in Charlotte. They plan to continue grassroots organizing until we are all liberated from oppressive systems and generational trauma.

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[Our text is not intended to create in your mind a spell of fun-making at those who “struggle over identity” or live outside the “gender binary” that is a corrupting influence from the physical world and its division into sexes, male and female. The linguistic fight to queer the tongue is just beginning: Language must be purified of a false paradigm. Mankind must show courage to defy the tyranny of creation and remake itself one soul at a time. The effort has to start with academia, and after several generations of labor wiggle its way down to farm family dinner tables, life in the home, factory district Waffle Houses and the obituary desk at the daily newspaper. For the gender confused, the war within language and its conversion into neutrality — he becomes ze — is exhilarating, defiant, self-affirming and tricky — for old habits of “she” or “her“ die hard. I would like to do my part to further this effort by turning over this website to UT’s office for diversity and inclusion for training purposes. — DJT] By Donna Braquet With the new semester beginning and an influx of new students on campus, it is important to participate in making our campus welcoming and inclusive for all. One way to do that is to use a student’s chosen name and their correct pronouns. We should not assume someone’s gender by their appearance, nor by what is listed on a roster or in student information systems. Transgender people and people who do not identity within the gender binary may use a different name than their legal name and pronouns of their gender identity, rather than the pronouns of the sex they were assigned at birth. In the first weeks of classes, instead of calling roll, ask everyone to provide their name and pronouns. This ensures you are not singling out transgender or non-binary students. The name a student uses may not be the one on the official roster, and the roster name may not be the same gender as the one the student now uses. This practice works outside of the classroom as well. You can start meetings with requesting introductions that include names and pronouns, introduce yourself with your name and chosen pronouns, or when providing nametags, ask attendees to write in their name and pronouns. We are familiar with the singular pronouns she, her, hers and he, him, his, but those are not the only singular pronouns. In fact, there are dozens of gender-neutral pronouns. A few of the most common singular gender-neutral pronouns are they, them, their (used as singular), ze, hir, hirs, and xe, xem, xyr. These may sound a little funny at first, but only because they are new. The she and he pronouns would sound strange too if we had been taught ze when growing up. How do you know? How do you know what pronoun someone uses? If you cannot use the methods mentioned above, you can always politely ask. “Oh, nice to meet you, [insert name]. What pronouns should I use?” is a perfectly fine question to ask. The more we make sharing of pronouns a universal practice, the more inclusive we will be as a campus. When our organizational culture shifts to where asking for chosen names and pronouns is the standard practice, it alleviates a heavy burden for persons already marginalized by their gender expression or identity. — Donna Braquet is director of the Pride Center at UT in Knoxville.

I Love You Just the Way You Are is the first novel in the Rock Canyon series by Riley Rian. Finished on: 18.8.2022 [I won this book in a LibraryThing Early Reviewer give-away.] Content Note: (critical treatment of) transmisia Maddie wants to spend her summer working at the café in peace before school starts again, where she will return after a home-schooling break during her transition. But her peace is short-lived when star-quaterback Kellan starts coming to the café – and tries to hit on Maddie. It’s not that Maddie hasn’t been dreaming about Kellan forever, but she is worried: does he even know that she is trans? And if not, what will he think when he finds out? And anyway, he has a reputation of having a new girl every week. So she rather blows him off than flirt. But Kellan doesn’t give up so easily. Or at all. I Love You Just the Way You Are is wonderful when it comes to trans representation, but I struggled a little with Kellan as the romantic lead. Still, despite being a bit of a bumpy read, it is almost compulsively readable and has its heart in its right place. From what I gather, I Love You Just the Way You Are is not only the first novel Rian has written, but she didn’t have much writing experience beforhand in general. And I will say that it is a little notable – at first I thought they must be very young themself, but it appears that she is just young at writing. The writing here is not particularly polished, with some odd phrasing here and there. But it doesn’t need to be. It can compensate a lot with how it just wears its heart on its sleeve. Rian, who is also trans (and judging from the afterword, she is as of yet undecided whether she is a woman or non-binary or both, maybe they won’t decide), obviously set out to write the kind of story that she could have used herself when they were younger, and it shows in every word. That is absolutely lovely and gives the book a really sweet glow. [The wording may not always be up to current community standards, as far as I can tell as a cis person. There is a lot of talk of male and female bodies, for example, but that’s not that important either, I think.] Maddie has a supportive family, but the rest of her environment is (unfortunately realistically) unsupportive, meaning there are some rather harsh scenes, so you need to be prepared for that. Other than that, though, the book is extremely fluffy, with only a moderate amount of anxiety. I couldn’t really throw myself into the fluff, though, because I did struggle with Kellan a little. He is extremely determined and doesn’t take no for an answer. And while I understand why his unrelenting pursuit of Maddie is attractive for somebody who is so unsure of whether they will actually be loved as they are as Maddie is, I also found it deeply problematic how Kellan keeps waltzing over Maddie’s boundaries (starting with how he keeps hounding her in her place of work, something they both literally call harassment but seem to think nothing more of it in the long run), and with the support of Maddie’s family to boot which just made it extra-creepy for me. They can be all convinced that Maddie’s protective walls are too high and too uncrackable and she needs to let people in, but it is not their place to tear them down. It would be one thing if Maddie’s family had a heart-to-heart with her and convinced her that she should give Kellan a chance, it is quite another to invite Kellan to family dinner and force Maddie to attend, too. And that is just one of many examples of this kind of boundary crossing that keeps happening over and over again. But despite my misgivings about the romance and how it evolves, there is no denying that the trans representation here is really great. Maddie is a fully-rounded character, whose entire character is informed by, but not limited to being trans. There is a very lovely sex scene that I think would be very affirming for me if I was trans, in the frank and loving way that it addresses body parts. I also loved that Maddie wasn’t the only queer girl in the novel – we queer people do have a tendency to flock together, knowingly or not, and it was nice to see that Maddie’s best friend Destiny (who sounds a little stereotypically Black, I’m afraid) is pan, and we get another coming out in the course of the novel. [Since this is announced as the first novel in a series, maybe Destiny and the freshly out of the closet character will be the focus of the next novel. I’d like that, as they do get the short end of the stick here.] I Love You Just the Way You Are may not be a great book, but with its heartfelt earnesty, and the wonderful trans representation, it is still worth a read. Summarizing: very sweet.

US 7113152 B2 A device, system and a method for displaying image data of a plurality of colors, the device comprising a light source (50) for producing light having at least four primary colors, a controller (56, 58) for determining a combination of at least four primary colors according to the image data (72) for production by the light source and a viewing screen (60) for displaying the image data the combination from the controller. The present invention is not limited to combinations of colors which are produced from only three primary colors, such as red, green and blue. 1. A method of producing a color image comprising: projecting polychromatic light from a light source onto a first side of a color wheel having at least four non-white and non-black color filters; rotating said color wheel such that the polychromatic light from said light source is sequentially filtered by transmission through said at least four color filters to sequentially produce at a second side of said color wheel, opposite said first side, light of at least four colors, each of said at least four colors having a different chromaticity from the others of the at least four colors in accordance with a data signal; and spatially modulating said light of at least in accordance with a data signal four colors in accordance with a data signal to produce said color image. 2. The method of 3. The method of 4. The method of 5. The method of 6. The method of 7. The method of 8. The method of 9. The method of receiving image data representing said color image in terms of said at least four colors; and generating a formatted data signal including a sequence of color data arrays, each array including data representing at least part of said image data corresponding to one of said at least four colors. 10. The method of This application is a National Phase Application of PCT International Application No. PCT/IL01/00527, International Filing Date Jun. 7, 2001, claiming priority of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/710,895, filed Nov. 14, 2000 and U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/209,771, filed Jun. 7, 2000. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a device, system and a method for electronic true color display, and in particular, to such a device, system and method in which an expanded color space is available for display through an electronic display device such as a monitor of a computational device, for example. The perception of color by human vision involves the impact of light of different wavelengths in the visible spectrum (400 nm–780 nm) on the human eye, and the processing of the resultant signals by the human brain. For example, in order for an individual to perceive an object as “red”, light in the range of wavelengths of about 580–780 nm must be reflected from the object onto the retina of the eye of the individual. Depending upon the spectral distribution of the light and assuming normal color vision, the individual perceives different colors from a wide range of such colors. In addition, the individual perceives various characteristics of the color. The color itself is also termed the “hue.” In addition, saturation determines the intensity of the color, such that a color shade which is saturated is perceived as highly vivid, while a pastel version of the same color is less saturated. The combination of hue and saturation forms the chrominance of the color. As perceived by the individual, color also has brightness, which is the apparent or perceived energy of the color, such that the color “black” is actually the absence of brightness for any color. Although color is a complex combination of physical and physiological phenomena, as previously described, color matches to some viewable colors can be obtained with combinations of only three colors. Typically certain spectra of red, green and blue are used. These three colors may be termed additive primaries. By combining different amounts of each color, a wide gamut of colors can be produced. Unfortunately, this spectra still falls short of the complete gamut of colors which are visible to the human eye (see for example www.barco.com as of Sep. 28, 2000). Not every color can be expressed as a mixture of three primary colors in combination. Instead, certain colors can only be adequately represented mathematically if the value for one or more primary colors is negative. While such negative values are theoretically possible, physical devices cannot produce them. An international standards body, CIE (Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage), has defined a special set of imaginary primaries, for which all colors can be represented by positive values. The primaries are imaginary in the sense that they are a mathematical creation, which cannot be produced by a physical device. Nevertheless, the system is very useful for the presentation of color, as is described below. The system is defined by the color matching functions, X(λ),Y(λ) and Z(λ), which define the response of the primaries to a monochromatic excitation of wavelength, λ. Furthermore, Y(λ) is chosen to be identical to the brightness sensitivity of the color sensors in the human eye. Using these primaries, each color can be represented by three positive values XYZ, where Y is proportional to the brightness of the excitation. From the XYZ values a normalized set xyz is created, by dividing each of the values by X+Y+Z. In the new set x+y+z=1. If two of the three values are provided, the third value may be derived from these values. Thus, a color may be represented by a set of two values (for example, x and y) on a chromaticity diagram as shown in Background Art The chromaticity diagram in The electronic reproduction of color, for example by an electronic display device such as a computer monitor, is currently performed by using three primaries: typically spectra of red, green and blue. These systems cannot display the fall range of colors which are available to the human eye. The reason for the inability of such devices to display the full range of colors perceived by the human eye is that some colors are presented by negative values of one or more of the primaries, which cannot be realized by a physical light source. Certain background art devices and systems use a fourth “color”, which is actually light passed through a neutral filter, or “white light”, and which is used for controlling brightness of the displayed color, as described for example with regard to U.S. Pat. No. 5,233,385. However, the use of the neutral filter does not affect the ultimate gamut of colors which can be displayed. Electronic display devices which operate according to the three-primary red, green, blue system include such devices as computer monitors, televisions, computational presentation devices, electronic outdoor color displays and other such devices. The mechanism for color display may use various devices, such as Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT), Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD), plasma display devices, Light Emitting Diodes (LED) and three-color projection devices for presentations and display of video data on a large screen, for example. As an example of the operation of such a device, CRT displays contain pixels with three different phosphors, emitting red, green and blue light upon excitation. In currently available displays, the video signal sent to the display specifies the three RGB color coordinates (or some functions of these coordinates) for each of the pixels. Each coordinate represents the strength of excitation of the relevant phosphor. An individual viewing the display integrates the light coming from neighboring colored pixels to get a sensation of the required color. The process of integration is automatically performed, without individual awareness of the process, and occurs through a combination of the physiological activity of the eye itself and of processing of signals from the eye by the brain. The red, green and blue emissions of the phosphors define three points in the xy plane. The points marked 14, 16 and 18 in Part of this problem could be alleviated by using lasers or other spectrally narrow light, since the emission of the phosphors is spectrally wide, thereby causing the triangle of values lying within the gamut of produced colors to be even smaller. A similar problem is found with LCD display devices which operate with “white” light passed through color filters, and which must also have a wide spectrum for the filters in order for enough light to pass through the filter. However, the problem of the restricted gamut for display of colors cannot be solved by using monochromatic light sources, such as lasers; although the triangle created is much larger, large parts of the gamut of the human eye still cannot be displayed with only three primary colors, regardless of the type of light source. A more useful solution would enable a wider range of colors to be displayed by the electronic display device, for example by a television or a computer monitor. Such a solution would be efficient and would be suitable for both large electronic display devices and more small, portable devices. Attempts to define such a solution can be found, for example, in PCT Application Nos. WO 97/42770 and WO 95/10160, which both describe methods for processing image data for display with four or more primary colors. However, neither of the Applications teaches or suggests a device which is capable of such a display of four or more primary colors. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,800,375 and 6,097,367 both describe attempts to provide such devices. However, neither disclosed device is a suitable solution to this problem, as both devices have significant disadvantages. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,800,375 describes a flat, backlighted screen, in which the light source and controller form a single unit. However, since each pixel has a different color, increasing the number of primary colors both increases the cost of production, since additional light source/controller units must be added for each color, and also decreases the resolution of the screen. Similar problems are also found with the disclosed device of U.S. Pat. No. 6,097,367, which is based on LED (light emitting diodes). Thus, these disclosed background art devices suffer from significant drawbacks, particularly with regard to the decreased resolution of the displayed image as the number of primary colors which form the image is increased. Therefore, there is an unmet need for, and it would be highly useful to have, a device, system and a method for providing an expanded color spectrum for the electronic display and reproduction of color, which would operate efficiently and which would be suitable for display devices of different sizes, and which would not result in decreased resolution of the displayed image as the number of primary colors is increased. An embodiment of the present invention provides a device, system and a method for displaying an expanded gamut of colors. The present invention is suitable for various types of electronic display devices, such as televisions and monitor devices (“monitors”) for computational devices, for example. An embodiment of the present invention operates by using more than three primary colors. As previously described, the term “primary color” specifically does not include light from a white or polychromatic light source after only being passed through a neutral filter. Thus, unlike background art systems and devices, the present invention is not limited to combinations of colors which are produced from only three primary colors, such as red, green and blue for example. According one embodiment of to the present invention, there is provided a device for displaying image data of a plurality of colors, the device comprising: (a) a light source for producing light having at least four primary colors; (b) a controller for determining a combination of at least one of the at least four primary colors according to the image data for production by the light source, such that the controller is separate from the light source; and (c) a viewing screen for displaying the image data according to the combination from the controller. According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a system for displaying image data of a plurality of colors, the system comprising: (a) a light source for producing light having at least four primary colors; (b) a converter for converting the image data to a combination of at least one of the at least four primary colors to form a map; (c) a controller for controlling a production of the combination from the light source, wherein the controller is separate from the light source; and (d) a viewing screen for displaying the image data from the combination from the light source as controlled by the controller. According to yet another embodiment of the present invention, in a device for displaying image data of a plurality of colors, the device comprising a light source for producing light having at least four primary colors and a viewing screen for displaying the image, the light being projected onto the viewing screen, there is provided a method for creating the image for displaying, the method comprising the steps of: (a) producing light by the light source of at least four primary colors; (b) determining a path for light of each primary color according to the image data; and (c) projecting the light of each primary color according to the path onto the viewing screen to form the image. In another embodiment of the present invention, a set of primaries or filters is chosen so that a spectral reconstruction of certain set of colors is obtained. In order to increase the accuracy of colors represented by a set of primaries, and to increase the likelihood that different human observers will perceive certain colors accurately, a set of primaries may be created based on a spectral match rather than a calorimetric match, and such a set of primaries may be used in a display system according to an embodiment of the present invention. A target set of spectra to be reproduced are chosen, and a set of 1 primaries are chosen which optimally reproduce the set of target spectra. Various embodiments of the present invention provide for the conversion of source data (e.g., RGB or YCC-type data) to data suitable for a display using at least four primaries. A graph or plot is created which includes the n-primaries used in the display and in addition includes one or more middle points. The middle point or points define triangles with adjacent pairs of primaries. The source data is mapped to one of the triangles, and a solution is found for the constant levels for the relevant pair of primaries and the relevant middle point. The constant levels for the primaries not participating in the triangle may be found. These constant levels may be used to control the levels of the primaries in the display. In one embodiment of the present invention, a set of filters is chosen to gain the widest spectral coverage possible while maintaining white balance, efficiency and brightness. A set of filters is chosen so that at least three of the filters include certain frequencies located near the corners of the chromaticity horseshoe. In one embodiment, a set of at least three primaries is chosen, such that at the filters for at least three primaries in the set have the following characteristics: one filter does not pass wavelengths substantially below 600 nm, another does not pass wavelengths substantially above 450 nm, and the third is a narrow band-pass filter with a central frequency in the range of approximately 500–550 nm, whose total width does not substantially exceed 100 nm. Additional primaries may be chosen. Hereinafter, the term “neutral” refers to light having a spectral distribution, which does not differ substantially from that of a white light source, as obtained for example by passing light from such a white source through a neutral density filter. The invention is herein described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein: In the following description, various aspects of the present invention will be described. For purposes of explanation, specific configurations and details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. However, it will also be apparent to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without the specific details presented herein. Furthermore, well known features may be omitted or simplified in order not to obscure the present invention. An embodiment of the present invention provides a device, system and a method for displaying an expanded gamut of colors. The present invention is suitable for various types of electronic display devices, for example televisions and monitor devices (“monitors”) for computational devices. An embodiment of the present invention operates by using more than three primary colors. As previously described, the term “primary color” specifically does not include light from a white or polychromatic light source after only being passed through a neutral filter. Thus, unlike background art systems and devices, the present invention is not limited to combinations of colors which are produced from only three primary colors, such as red, green and blue for example. According to preferred embodiments of the present invention, light from six primary colors is used, although of course any number of primary colors is operative with the present invention, as long as at least four such primary colors are included. The use of six primary colors is preferred since the gamut which is covered by the resulting hexagon is much larger than the triangle 20 which is produced by RGB phosphors, for example, yet can still be efficiently produced as part of an electronic color display, as explained in greater detail with regard to the preferred embodiment below. As shown as a hexagon 22 with regard to With regard to the type of light source, or device for producing light for each primary color, different types of sources and/or mechanisms could optionally be used with the present invention. Optionally and preferably, in order to obtain the best coverage of the gamut, the light for each primary color should preferably be monochromatic. Of course, lasers could optionally be used as the source of light for the primary colors for the present invention. Monochromatic excitation can also optionally be produced by passing white light through a narrow spectral filter. However, as the spectral bandwidth of the excitation is limited, the brightness of the resultant light becomes lower (assuming that the brightness of the source stays the same). On the other hand, as the spectrum of the primary excitation becomes wider, the resultant color gamut for the electronic color display becomes more restricted. Therefore, the interplay between the purity and the brightness of the primaries should be considered, assuming that lasers are not used as the source of monochromatic light. In addition, various display mechanisms are optionally used with the present invention, which also affect the choice of light source and/or device for production of the primary colors. The preferred display mechanism is projection of light onto the viewing screen, for an optical projection system. Projection displays can work simultaneously, in which light of all colors illuminates the viewing screen at the same time; or sequentially, in which light of the different colors illuminates the screen one after another. For the latter type of display, the vision system of the human eye perceives combined colors through temporal integration, as the sequential display of colors is performed sufficiently rapidly. Display systems of the second type are based on spatially modulating colored light and projecting it on a display screen. The spatial modulation can optionally be performed by using a liquid crystal spatial modulator, in which case a source of polarized light should be used, or alternatively, for example, by a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) such as that produced by Texas Instruments (USA), which allows the use of non-polarized light. Of course other types of devices for performing spatial modulation are optionally used, and are encompassed by the scope of the present invention. The spatial modulation can optionally be performed with analog or binary levels or gradations, according to the type of modulator device which is used. Nematic liquid crystal modulators, for example by CRL Opto (United Kingdom), or Kopin Inc. (USA), allow for analog “gray levels”, while Ferroelectric liquid crystal modulators, such as from Micropix Technologies (United Kingdom) or LightCaster™ from Displaytech (USA), and DMD are binary devices. If a binary modulator device is used for spatial modulation, “gray levels” are achieved by controlling the duration of the illumination, and/or the intensity of the light, incident on the spatial modulator. Light production mechanisms based on optical projection are preferred over those mechanisms which are based on light emission at the screen or other portion of the display device. Examples of light emission mechanisms include CRT, field emission and plasma displays, in which the phosphors at the screen or other device actually emit the light; LED screens in which small electro-luminescent diodes emit the light; and flat LCD screens in which each of the pixels has an individual color filter. In these systems, physically small emitters of different primary colors, which therefore produce a small, focused point of colored light, are placed in close vicinity. The eye then automatically integrates the emitted light from neighboring pixels to obtain the color sensation. However, these light emission systems suffer from a number of disadvantages. First, the addition of primary colors decreases the resolution of the display, unlike for optical projection mechanisms, in which the addition of primary colors does not affect the resolution of the display. Second, adaptation of the pixel matrix is required in order for the display screen to be able to display more than three colors. For CRT and LED mechanisms, special phosphors and diodes, respectively, must be developed. For LCD displays, the set of color filters must be adapted, in order to provide four or more primary colors through these filters. All of these adaptations require the addition of extra units, such as extra phosphors or extra diodes, which therefore increases the cost of the system in order to be able to display more colors. By contrast, as described in greater detail below, the adaptations which are required for optical projection systems are relatively minor, and do not result in increased cost for the system. Thus, optical projection systems are preferred over light emission systems. The principles and operation of a device, system and method according to the present invention may be better understood wit reference to the drawings and the accompanying description. Referring now to the drawings, As shown in Optionally and more preferably, for the preferred projection embodiment of system 36, light source 38 projects light of at least four colors, without being able to control the location of the projected light onto viewing screen 40. Controller 42 then determines the relative location of light of each color as projected onto viewing screen 40, for example with a spatial light modulator and/or another system of mirrors and/or lenses, as described in greater detail below with regard to In order for controller 42 to be able to determine the correct light for being displayed at each portion of viewing screen 40, controller 42 optionally and more preferably receives data from a data input 44, which may optionally be digital or analog. Most preferably, controller 42 also receives instructions and/or commands from a converter 46, which lies between data input 44 and controller 42. Converter 46 converts the data from data input 44 into a format which is suitable for controller 42, and also includes any necessary instructions and/or commands for enabling controller 42 to be able to understand the data. Optionally, converter 46 may also convert the data from an analog signal to digital data, such that controller 42 is only required to receive digital data. A system 48 is based on passing white light from a source 50 through appropriate color filters 52 to form colored light of a defined spectral range. As previously described, preferably system 48 features six such colored filters 52, which as shown may optionally be configured in a color filter wheel 54. In this example, the combination of light source 50 and color filters 52 can be considered to form at least part of the light source of This colored light then illuminates a spatially modulated mask 56, also known as an SLM (spatial light modulator) which determines the particular color for being displayed at each portion of the image (typically according to each pixel), by determining whether light of that color is permitted to pass for illuminating that pixel. The colored light for this image is then projected by a projection lens 58 onto a viewing screen 60. Viewing screen 60 displays the resultant colored image to the user (not shown). Spatially modulated mask 56, and more preferably the combination of spatially modulated mask 56 and projection lens 58, can be considered to be an example of the controller from Spatially modulated mask 56 is optionally either a binary modulation type or a continuous modulation type. Examples of the continuous modulation type include, but are not limited to, polarization rotation devices such as LCD (liquid crystal device), electro-optical modulator and magneto-optical modulator. In these devices, the polarization of the impinging light is rotated. In this context, LCD features an organized structure of anisotropic molecules, for which the axis of anisotropy is rotated by the application of voltage, thereby rotating the polarization. For the electro-optical modulator, anisotropic crystals are featured, which change the rotation of the polarization of the light radiation, due to a change of the refractive index along the different axes, as a result of the applied voltage. The electro-optical modulator can be applied for a continuous, non-binary implementation or for a binary implementation. Magneto-optical modulators are devices in which a magnetic field is used to rotate the polarization, by changing the electro-optical properties of the crystal. Examples of the binary modulation type include, but are not limited to, DMD, FLC, quantum well modulator and electro-optical modulator. DMD (digital micro-mirror device) is an array of mirrors, each of which has two positions, either reflecting light toward a viewing screen 60, or reflecting light away from viewing screen 60. FLC (ferroelectric liquid crystal) features liquid crystals, which have only two bi-stable orientation states, thereby changing the polarization of the light radiation to one of two states (effectively “on” and “off”). A quantum well modulator is a device in which voltage is applied in a quantum well, which then changes transmission and reflection properties for light by changing the states of the electrons in the well, to one of two levels according to the applied voltage. The electrons are changed from being absorptive to being transmissive. In order for the light to be directed through the appropriate filter 52, preferably the light is focused by a condenser lens 62, optionally implemented as two such lenses 62 for the purposes of illustration only and without any intention of being limiting. The focused light is then directed through one of the filters on filter wheel 54. Filter wheel 54 holds at least four color filters 52, the transmission spectra of which is designed to give a coverage of a major portion of the gamut of the eye. A motor 64 optionally and preferably rotates filter wheel 54 in front of light source 50, so in each turn spatially modulated mask 56 is illuminated by all colors in filter wheel 54 sequentially. Preferably, the rate of rotation is at the frame frequency, which is the frequency at which the full-color image on viewing screen 60 is refreshed. Typical frame frequencies (rotation frequencies) are in the range of 30–85 Hz. More preferably, the loading of the data into spatially modulated mask 56 is synchronized by a timing system 66, according to the rotation of filter wheel 54. The light beam is spatially modulated by spatially modulated mask 56, so that the apparent brightness of each primary color varies at different portions of viewing screen 60, typically according to each pixel of the image. Each position 68 on viewing screen 60 is preferably associated with a certain pixel 70 in spatially modulated mask 56. The brightness of that position is determined by the relevant data pixel in the image. The values for the pixels of the image are optionally and preferably retrieved from an image data file 72. The human viewer integrates the sequential stream of the primary images to obtain a full color image with a wide gamut of colors when viewing the image as projected onto viewing screen 60. An implementation using liquid crystal modulators requires the use of polarized light. For reflecting devices, such as Liquid Crystal Over Silicon (LCOS) devices, the same polarizer, usually a polarizing cube beam splitter, can be used for polarizing the incident light and for analyzing the reflected light. For transmission devices, such as active matrix LCD based on thin-film-transistor technology (TFT) as provided by Epson, Kopin (USA) and other vendors, for which light passes through the pixilated matrix, linear polarizers are placed before and after spatially modulated mask 56. The exemplary but preferred implementation shown in An exemplary description of the flow of data and data handling is also shown with regard to The analog image data is optionally and more preferably transformed into digital data for the purpose of the present invention, for example in order to correct for various effects caused by the video/graphics card interface to obtain digital RGB (three-color) image data 72. Examples of effects for which such correction may optionally and preferably be desired include but are not limited to, effects of analog to digital (A/D) conversion and video decoding, the effect of de-gamma conversion, and the effect of converting from interlace to non-interlace signals. According to preferred embodiments of the present invention, the data is only presented in one field, and not in two or more fields as for the interlaced video of the background art. Therefore, the data is preferably subjected to a transformation such that the data is not interlaced before being sent to the frame buffer, as described in greater detail below. Digital RGB data can also optionally and more preferably be obtained directly from digital graphic cards, available from ATI, Number Nine Revolution and other vendors. In any case, the digital RGB image data or YCC type-data is then manipulated in a multi-color transformation module 74, as described in greater detail below, into a color format which includes data for each color of color filters 52, with N-bits of data per color (for example, 7 colors, of which one is white, and 8 bits per color). The resulting 7 color channels are more preferably subjected to a gamma correction process for the response of spatially modulated mask 56 by a gamma correction module 76. Gamma-correction module 76 performs a non-linear transformation, known as a “de-gamma” process, for each of the data channels. The transformation is preferably non-linear since the incoming data is typically non-linear in order to correct for such effects of components within the system on the signal as the cable to viewing screen 60 (not shown), such that the output of the transformation is preferably linear. Preferably, this transformation is performed by applying several look-up tables (one or more for each channel), which contain the output values corresponding to all possible input values. The use of such look-up tables provides for a standardized, corrected, linear output which can be more precisely displayed with the system of the present invention. The corrected data is then loaded into a frame buffer and format module 78 which arranges the stream of data in a format consistent with the electronic requirements of spatially modulated mask 56. Frame buffer and format module 78 is a memory device for holding the data of the image. Typically, the data is held in the same geometrical arrangement as the pixels of the image, and of spatially modulated mask 56. For the system described above, the frame buffer itself, of frame buffer and format module 78, is preferably divided into bit planes. Each bit plane is a planar array of bits, in which each bit corresponds to one pixel on spatially modulated mask 56. Each bit plane actually represents at least a part of the data for each color, such that if a pixel is to have a component which includes a particular primary color, that pixel is represented by a particular bit on the appropriate bit plane which features that primary color. The bit planes are arranged one below the other to form a three-dimensional arrangement of the data, from the most significant to the least significant bit. There are m×N bit planes (m is the number of bits/color channel, N is the number of color channels). Timing system 66 can be considered to be an example of at least a portion of the converter of The data is usually presented as 8 bits (256 levels) per each of the seven primary colors. The various “gray levels” of the illumination can be achieved in different ways depending on the type of spatially modulated mask 56 which is used. For “analog” modulators, such as nematic LC modulators for example, the gray level is determined by the amount of the optical axis rotation, controlled by the voltage applied to the device. Each frame requires seven “updates”, or changes to the configuration, of spatially modulated mask 56, with one update for each of the primary colors of color filters 52. For a frame refresh rate of 50 Hz for viewing screen 60, this corresponds to an update rate of 350 Hz. The eight bit planes corresponding to the relevant color are retrieved from the frame buffer itself, of frame buffer and format module 78, and are optionally and preferably transformed into analog signals. These analog signals are then amplified and applied to spatially modulated mask 56. For the “binary” type of spatially modulated mask 56, such as digital micro-mirror devices (DMD) by Texas Instruments or Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal (FLC) SLM by MicroPix, Displaytech and other vendors, gray levels are achieved by pulse width modulation (PWM) of the light, a technique which is well known in the art. In order to perform pulse width modulation of the light, m bit planes, shown here for m=8 planes, for each primary color are loaded into spatially modulated mask 56 during the period for displaying the relevant color. For a frame rate of 50 Hz and a 7 color display, the time for each color to be displayed is 20 ms/7=2.85 ms (20 ms= 1/50 Hz). During this time, 8 bit planes should be loaded into spatially modulated mask 56, resulting in an update rate of 2.8 kHz. However, if PWM is applied to the light, the least significant bit plane should be presented on spatially modulated mask 56 for only 11.2 microseconds. To extend the display period and therefore to avoid such a rapid refresh or change rate for spatially modulated mask 56, optionally and preferably PWM is not applied to the light. Instead, the illumination time is preferably divided uniformly between the bit planes. The different bit values are then optionally and more preferably created by changing the brightness of light incident on spatially modulated mask 56. The brightness of the incident light is optionally and most preferably altered by using a continuously varying neutral density (ND) filter, as described in greater detail below. The timing sequence for operation of color filter wheel 82 is depicted in The light intensity which passes through the ND filter, during the period of the ith bit (msb=0 bit, lsb=m−1 bit) is given by: Other optional implementations for varying the brightness of the light are also possible and are encompassed within the scope of the present invention. For example, a varying wheel of neutral density filters could optionally be placed after the color filter wheel. This ND filter wheel would rotate synchronously with the color filter wheel, so that the ND filter wheel completes seven turns during one turn of the color wheel. Another optional implementation would use an electronically controlled LC or Electro-optic light intensity modulator after the color filter wheel. Such a device controls the brightness of the filtered light through an electronic (digital) control. One example of such a device is the LC modulator from CRL Opto (United Kingdom). As another option, an electronic shutter system could be placed as an aperture controlling the amount of light arriving to the SLM, or passing from the SLM to the screen. The intensity of the light source could also optionally be altered, by modulating it in time. For example, the light source could optionally be implemented as a flash lamp, which emits light in bursts or “fashes.” The light then decays with time, such that the brightness of the light decreases over time. This decrease enables the intensity or brightness of the light to be altered without a neutral density filter. Alternatively, in a similar system with a flash lamp, the lamp could optionally also emit flashes of light with a high repetition rate, such that the number of pulses per unit of time would determine the brightness of the emitted light. The spectra of However, most electronic image data is typically given in an RGB or RGB related format, according to some function of the RGB format, or in another format such as YCC-type data. In an exemplary embodiment, the use of such data requires the data to be transformed into a format which is suitable for a display including at least four primaries. Optional methods for such data transformation is described with respect to As explained with regard to the exemplary method in the flowchart of The XYZ matrix can be inverted if the three primary vectors do not lie on the same plane. If one of the parameters (aw, a1, a2) is negative, the input point lies outside the gamut, in step 5. In this case the negative value can be set to zero. These steps produce the resultant seven color (six color plus white light for brightness) data. The parameters a1 and a2 represent constants for the two non-white primaries defining the outside leg of the relevant triangle. The constants a1 and a2 represent the levels at which the primaries corresponding to these constants should be displayed to reproduce the color represented by the input point (x0, y0). Each of the six primaries p1–p6 contribute to the white source defined by (xw, yw) according to certain pre-defined levels, as the white source is formed from certain proportions of each of these primaries. To determine the constants a3, a4, a5, and a6, which determine the levels of the four primaries not part of the relevant triangle, the contribution level of the primaries corresponding to these constants to the white source (xw, yw) are multiplied by the constant aw. For example, if the primary corresponding to constant a3 contributes 0.25 (on a 0–1 scale) to the white source, 0.25 is multiplied by aw, to determine a3. Since, in one embodiment, the two non-white primaries forming the relevant triangle also contribute to the white source, an additional two levels are determined for these primaries based on their contribution to the white source and on the level aw, and these two levels are added to a1 and a2 to calculate the contribution of these two constants towards producing the input point color corresponding to the input point (x0, y0). In another embodiment, one white source (xw, yw) may be chosen for the purpose of forming triangular spectral regions with the six non-white primaries placed along the periphery of the horseshoe, and another set of sources w1–w6 (one for each pair of adjacent non-white primaries) may be used to calculate the contribution of the non-white primaries towards reproducing the color represented by the input point. The sources w1–w6 need not be substantially white. In alternate embodiments the color or colors used as central points need not be white or substantially white. First, the input point (x0, y0) representing the target color is mapped on the space 600, and the relevant triangle, defined by the white source (xw, yw) and two non-white primaries is found, as described above. Next, a second source wβ from w1–w6 is referred to, the relevant source being that formed from the six non-white primaries, with the exclusion of the two non-white primaries firming the outside leg of the relevant triangle. Preferably, the second source wβ and the two non-white primaries forming the outside leg of the relevant triangle form a second triangle which substantially overlaps the relevant triangle. This relevant source wβ is used along with the two relevant non-white primaries in an additive linear combination similar to that described above: The parameters (awβ, a1, a2) of the combination are given by: The additive linear combination is solved for the constants awβ, a1, and a2. The parameters a1 and a2 represent constants for the two non-white primaries defining the outside leg of the relevant triangle. The constants a1 and a2 are the levels at which these constants may be displayed (e.g., projected onto a screen or displayed via an LCD) to reproduce the color represented by the input point (x0, y0). Each of the remaining four non-white primaries (the six non-white primaries not including the two relevant non-white primaries) contribute to the relevant source wβ from w1–w6 according to certain pre-defined levels, as the relevant source is formed from certain proportions of each of these remaining primaries. Thus, to determine the constants a3, a4, a5, and a6, the contribution levels of the primaries corresponding to these constants to the relevant source wβ are multiplied by the constant awβ. Since, in such an embodiment, the two non-white primaries forming the relevant triangle do not contribute to the relevant source, no additional calculation needs to be performed to calculate the contribution of these two constants. While, in the above description, the methods are described with respect to six primaries, the above described methods may be used to transform a color point to a color system including any number of primary colors. Furthermore, in alternate embodiments, other sets of steps may be used to calculate the levels for a set of primaries using a set of triangular regions formed by pairs of the primaries and central points. The set of steps above is preferably carried out by a processor or data converter which is part of a display system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Such a processor or data converter may be any conventional data processing device, such as a microprocessor, “computer on a chip,” or graphics processor. The method described above is only one possible way to transform the RGB data to a format suitable for a display with at least four colors. In particular, regarding the detailed procedure, it is not essential to include white light points among the color points. The procedure only requires the definition of a set of triangles, which are based on the existing primaries and any set of additional colors, which preferably can be composed from the other primaries. For example, the source or white color point could be replaced with a definition of the source or white point as being composed of equal amounts of each of the six primaries. As shown with regard to Next, a plurality of SLM (spatial light modulators) 110 is used. Each SLM 110 is then used to modulate each of the beams according to the data of the image which is to be produced. The beams may optionally be combined before projection, but preferably are projected on a display screen 112, as shown. For the latter implementation, the beams are combined at display screen 112. The integration of beams is performed on display screen 112 simultaneously. Optionally and more preferably, each SLM 110 has an associated imaging lens 114 for focussing the beam on display screen 112 as the beam passes through SLM 110. Each imaging lens 114 is preferably positioned away from the axis of the beam of light after passing through SLM 110, such that that combined beams of light appear to be in registration on display screen 112. Alternatively, mirrors could optionally be used for placing the beams of light in registration, and/or the angle of each SLM 110 could optionally be adjusted in order to adjust the angle of the beam of light as it exits each SLM 110. According to another embodiment, the light from the white light source is split into a plurality of beams. The beam splitting can optionally be performed by dispersing the light through a prism/grid and collecting the relevant parts of the spectrum. Alternatively, the white light can be split without dispersion into a plurality of beams, after which each beam is filtered to create each of the relevant colors. Also alternatively, a suitable arrangement of dichroic mirrors/filters may optionally be used. A similar implementation is optionally and preferably based on seven CRT (cathode ray-tubes) with suitable phosphors or black-and-white CRT with suitable filters that are projected onto a screen and combined there in registration as in three-primary CRT (cathode-ray tube) projectors (for example, Reality 800 series of products from Barco Inc.). In one embodiment of the present invention, a set of filters is chosen to gain the widest chromatic coverage possible while maintaining white balance, efficiency and brightness. In one embodiment of the present invention, a set of filters is chosen based on the principle that, to obtain a wide coverage of the chromatic gamut, for each of the corners 604, 605 and 606 of the horseshoe 600, at least one primary should be chosen to fall near a corner 604, 605 or 606. In one embodiment of the present invention, a set of at least three primaries is chosen, such that at the filters for at least three primaries in the set have the following characteristics: one filter does not pass wavelengths substantially below 600 nm, another does not pass wavelengths substantially above 450 nm, and the third is a narrow band-pass filter with a central wavelength in the range of approximately 500–550 nm, whose total width does not substantially exceed 100 nm. Additional primaries may be chosen to increase the number of colors which can be represented, beyond the triangle created by the three filters, to increase the brightness and efficiency, and to allow for white balance. In alternate embodiments, other combinations of primaries and filters may be used which include the three primaries from the ranges discussed above. For example, the three primary colors from the ranges discussed above may be used in combination with only one addition primary color from outside these ranges. In one embodiment of the present invention, a set of primaries and filters is chosen so that a spectral reconstruction of certain set of colors is obtained. When reproducing “real” or “natural” colors for human viewing using a finite set of primaries, a certain target color to be reproduced may be reproduced by different sets of levels or combinations of the set of primaries. Many different spectra may be represented by the same target color coordinates, a phenomenon named metamerism. Representing a target color using a set of primaries based on an “average” human observer's reaction to a set of primary colors is inaccurate, as an actual human observer is unlikely to perceive the representation of the target color as matching the actual target color. In the prior art, the spectra of primary colors for display and other systems (such as printing systems) has been chosen based on a calorimetric match. In a calorimetric match, a series of human subjects are shown a color patch created using a combination of three of primaries. Each subject is shown two patches; a target color patch and a patch created from a mix of three primaries. The level of each primary is adjusted until the subject reports that the target patch and primary patch are identical. The primary levels are recorded, and the process is repeated for a series of other target colors. For each target color, the levels across the set of human subjects are averaged. The resulting set of averaged levels is used as a model for reproducing the target colors. Forming color via calorimetric analysis results in inaccuracies in people's perceptions of colors produced by the resulting displays, as each person perceives color differently. A person viewing a display using primaries produced through colorimetric matching is unlikely to perceive colors as do the “average” humans used to create the primary spectra, and thus is likely to perceive different colors than intended. In order to increase the accuracy of colors represented by a set of primaries, and to increase the likelihood that different human observers will perceive certain colors accurately, one embodiment of the system and method of the present invention is used to choose and define a set of primaries based on a spectral match rather than a colorimetric match, such a set of primaries may be used in a display system according to an embodiment of the present invention. A set of primary colors are chosen so that they most accurately reproduce a set of actual spectrum samples. In one embodiment, to choose a set of 1 primaries for use, for example, in a display system, a target set of spectra to be reproduced are chosen, and a set of 1 primaries are chosen which optimally reproduce the set of target spectra. While the set of 1 primaries are used to reproduce a broad set of visible spectra, it is desired that the target set of spectra in particular be reproduced as accurately as possible. The set of target spectra may be chosen for use with a certain application; for example, color film reproduction. For example, in order choose a set of 1 primaries (where, for example, 1=6) for use with a color display optimized to reproduce the color spectra of a certain type of color film, a set of m sample spectra produced by the color film itself are selected, and 1 primaries are created which optimally produce the desired color spectra. In color film, light is passed through layers of cyan, magenta and yellow dyes. The concentrations of the dyes determine the transmission spectrum of the film. The concentrations are measured as red, green and blue densities for the cyan, magenta and yellow dyes, respectively. The concentrations are varied according to the exposure of the film; i.e., according to the color spectra failing on the film during exposure. In one embodiment, a set of sample transmission spectra which are typical for films are chosen, and a set of 1 filters or primaries are selected such that for each of the given sample transmission spectra, a color can be produced which substantially simulates the sample spectrum. Preferably, each sample spectra is associated with the dye densities producing the spectrum, allowing for source data corresponding to the dye densities to be easily converted to primary levels in a display system. The m sample spectra may be chosen based on certain constraints, or with certain goals in mind. For example, the sample spectra may include colors such as “memory colors,” colors which may be easily perceived by human observers as incorrectly reproduced. Memory colors may include, for example, skin tones or the color of grass. If a display inaccurately reproduces skin tones, a human observer is more likely to notice the inaccuracy than if a display inaccurately reproduces, for example, the colors of a set of balloons. The sample spectra may include samples from photographs or films of actual objects. The sample spectra may include a broad range of hues with different saturation and brightness levels for each hue. To determine the spectra of the primaries and the number of the primaries, the m target spectra chosen are sampled at a certain number n of sample wavelengths. The measured spectra are sampled at certain wavelengths at the desired resolution. For example, the spectra may be sampled across the range 400–700 nm with a 10 nm resolution, giving 31 sample points for each spectrum. Each continuous sample spectrum is thus converted to a vector in an n—dimensional space; in the example given n=31. Each of the m vectors S i(λ), i=1. . . m and λ=1. . . n (n=31 in the example) is an ordered set of n numbers each preferably between 0 and 1. Each number represents the sampled spectral value at the corresponding wavelength λ across the range of 400–700 nm. The spectra of all patches are arranged in an m×n matrix Siλ???? preferably m>>n where m is the number of spectra sampled and n is the number of sample points for each spectrum. To find a set of 1 primaries which can reproduce the sample spectra with some accuracy, the set of n basis vectors Ψ l(λ) l<<n, preferably l<<n, is found which span the same sub-space which is spanned by the m sample vectors, such that ∥S i(λ)−Σlαil Ψ l(λ)∥ is near zero for all m vectors. Here ∥x∥ is the norm of the vector x. Each basis vector is a spectrum having n sample points which may be used to create, for example, a primary color or a filter for a primary color. A primary or filter may correspond to a basis vector, in that a basis vector may provide a spectral model for forming a primary or filter. The basis vector may be modified in any number of ways to create a spectrum for a filter; for example, the basis vector may be rotated, or its constants may be transformed according to various methods. The m sample vectors may be converted to the n basis vectors using various methods. In an exemplary embodiment, a subset of 1 basis vectors from the n basis vectors is chosen, such that the subset includes those basis vectors most contributing to reproducing the m sample spectra. Preferably, a process similar to factor analysis is used to eliminate any negative values, and the resulting 1 basis vectors are rotated. Also preferably, further requirements are that the coefficients 0≦αil≦1, and that 0≦Ψ l(λ)≦1 for all i, 1 and λ. In one embodiment, the known singular value decomposition (SVD) method is used. Preferably, the m×n matrix S=Siλ matrix, preferably m>>n, is decomposed into three matrixes, such as S=VWU, where V is an m×n matrix W is an m×n diagonal matrix, and U is an m×n orthogonal matrix. The decomposition may be written as: which can be written in vector representation as: Thus the sample vectors S i(λ) are linear combinations of n basis vectors U k(λ), k=1 . . . n. The rows of U include the n basis vectors. W includes the weights of the basis vectors, the contribution each of the n basis vectors makes to the solution. The diagonal of W includes n constants, preferably between 0 and 1, representing the relative amount each of the n basis vectors makes to the solution. V contains the weighted decomposition coefficients. Preferably, less than n primaries are to be determined. If there is dependence (or near dependence) between the m original sample vectors in such a way that the sub-space spanned by the m original sample vectors has lower dimensionality, some of the weights on the diagonal of W are zero or near zero. By eliminating certain rows of U including basis vectors corresponding to these low weights, a basis of lower dimensionality is obtained. The decision as to which weights are small enough is based on the required accuracy of the eventual reconstruction. Therefore, a reduced set of 1 basis vectors, 1<n, which contribute most to the solution or which are most relevant to the reconstruction of the sample colors are identified, preferably based on the set of constants in the matrix W. The 1 highest constants are identified, and the 1 basis vectors corresponding to these constants are used. Alternately, the number of basis vectors used may be determined by determining which basis vectors contribute a certain percentage to the solution. For example the 1 basis vectors which contribute to 90% of the solution may be identified. In alternate embodiments the number of basis vectors need not be reduced. The basis vectors Ψ l(λ) are orthogonal, and therefore they may include negative numbers. Since the filters producing the primaries transmit light in proportions between 0 (no light transmitted) and 1 (complete transmission), the basis vectors preferably include only positive numbers, preferably between 0 and 1. In one embodiment, a process similar to factor analysis is used to convert the set or the reduced set of basis vectors Ψ l(λ) to a set of basis vectors which are not-orthogonal and include positive numbers, preferably between 0 and 1. Preferably, the basis vectors are rotated, using known vector transformations, to determine a set of basis vectors such that 0≦Ψ l(λ)≦1 and that for any S i(λ)≈Σlαil Ψ l(λ) the coefficients 0≦αil≦1. A set of primary color spectra, and filters for those spectra, may be created from the resulting basis vectors. Preferably, for each basis vector, a curve is created from the n levels in the vector. Various methods may be used to create such a curve, such as interpolation. Such a curve is used to produce a filter passing a range of wavelengths corresponding to or substantially corresponding to the curve. This filter may be used in a display system according to an embodiment of the present invention to produce a primary color corresponding to the basis vector. In alternate embodiments, other methods of determining basis vectors, such as component analysis (PCA), may be used. In one embodiment using PCA, m vectors S i are gathered in the n-dimensional space, and the covariance matrix C is calculated, such as: The covariance matrix is an n×n symmetric matrix. The eigenvalues and the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix are then found. The eigenvalues are the weights of each eigenvector in the basis. The basis vectors are orthogonal, and can be rotated so that a new basis is constructed which fulfils the requirements. In alternate embodiments other series of steps may be used to convert a set of sample spectra to a set of primaries which may be used to produce those sample spectra. A display according to an embodiment of the present invention accepts source data, such as RGB, CYM or YCC-type values, and converts the source data into primary levels for display. If a set of primaries has been created by referring to a set of sample spectra, as described above, and each spectrum of the set of sample spectra corresponds to certain source data values, such as dye concentrations or other values (RGB, YCC, etc.), the conversion of the source data into primary levels may involve reference to the set of data created during the selection of the primaries. When converting a set of m sample spectra to a set of 1 primaries, each sample spectrum may have been associated with a set of color values such as dye concentrations or primary values (e.g., a set of RGB or YCC-type levels). If the source data corresponds directly or easily to the set of color values, the color values used in the original conversion may be used to convert the source data to estimated primary levels which, in turn, may be used via interpolation to calculate the actual primary levels for the source data. For example, source data may be RGB values from a source film or YCC values transformed to RGB values, and the primaries used in the display may have been created based on a set of samples defined by the RGB or YCC values. The RGB values represent the densities of the cyan magenta and yellow dyes, respectively, used to create the source film. To convert source data to a set of constants used to display primaries in an imaging system or monitor according to one embodiment of the present invention, first the transmission spectrum of the film is evaluated from the RGB values in the source data. A spectrum is constructed from the filter transmission spectra, and possibly in addition taking account of the required illumination. A set of constants is generated which allow the set of primaries to approximate the constructed spectrum. Preferably, a colorimetric difference between the spectra estimated from the source data and the spectra reconstructed using the primaries is calculated, and, if necessary, a correction is performed. Various methods may be used to recreate the source spectrum from the source data A physical model for the transmission of the source film may be calculated, if the absorptions of the dyes are known along with the relationship between the density and the concentration of the dyes. For example, a model for recreating source spectrum from source data may be: In an alternate embodiment, the transmission spectra may be evaluated by interpolation in a look-up-table. When determining the primaries, a set of spectra is measured to determine the filters, and RGB (or other source data) values have been associated with each spectrum, a spectrum may be found for each value of RGB by interpolating between spectra in the known set of sample spectra. In further embodiments, other methods may be used to produce transmission spectra. After the transmission spectrum resulting from the source data is evaluated, the projected spectrum may be calculated from the light projected through the “virtual” film S(λ)T(λ), where S(λ) is a light source spectrum, possibly corrected by the optics of the projector. This projected spectrum may be calculated based on the reconstructed transmission data. The projected spectrum may be expressed as a function of the l-filters used with the by the l-primary monitor, allowing for the constants for the filters to be solved. Thus: Alternately, to transform source data into a set of primary constants αi, the sets of primary constants created during the primary creation calculations may be used, and the resulting values interpolated. In one embodiment, when defining a set of primaries for use with a display system, a set of sample spectra associated with source data such as RGB values are created. While calculating the spectra for the primaries, each of the sample spectra are associated with a set of constants which may be used in conjunction with the resulting primaries to approximate the sample spectra. These constants may be placed in a look-up-table and indexed by the source data (e.g., RGB data) used to create the spectra. During the operation of a display system using the primaries, to convert source data to a set of primary constants, the look-up-table is referenced to find sets of constants close to the solution. Interpolation is performed on these sets of constants to produce a set of constants allowing the primaries to approximate the target spectrum. Color correction on the resulting set of constants may be performed to obtain a better color match. The color correction involves a comparison between color coordinates of the projected spectrum based on the input data to that of the spectrum to be produced from the l-filter monitor. For given source values the color coordinates of light projected through the film can be evaluated, as shown above. In a similar manner, the color coordinates of the l-filter monitor can be evaluated. To correct any discrepancies between the source produced spectra and the primary produced spectra, and various methods may be used. For example, a colorimetric difference between the source and primary spectra may be calculated and the appropriate correction performed. Conversion of source data to constants for use with primaries is preferably carried out by a processor or data converter which is part of a display system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Such a processor or data converter may be any conventional data processing device, such as a microprocessor, “computer on a chip,” or graphics processor. While the invention has been described with respect to a limited number of embodiments, it will be appreciated that many variations, modifications and other applications of the invention may be made.

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It also explicitly criticised the ban on building minarets (typically part of a mosque) in the federal constitution and strongly recommended the ban be lifted (para. 42-43). The Human Rights Committee reacted quickly to one aspect of the report and drafted a law on a Swiss human rights institution, which it published on 28 June 2017 (German article on humanrights.ch). The Human Rights Committee also expressed its concerns about the relatively low budget for the human rights institution and the plan to anchor it in an academic environment. It emphasised the necessity to provide the human rights institution with a broad mandate to protect human rights and sufficient staffing and funding (para. 14-15). One of the most striking new criticisms addressed the treatment of mentally ill prisoners and the practice of the “small indefinite detention” according to Art. 59 of the Swiss Criminal Code (para. 38-39). Increased protection against discrimination a must Like other UN bodies had done before, the Human Rights Committee for the first time criticised the lack of comprehensive legislation against discrimination that would allow all victims to defend themselves effectively before both civil and public courts, irrespective of the motive of discrimination (article on humanrights.ch). The Committee recommended extending the criminal ban on discrimination according to Art. 262bis of the Criminal Code (ban on racial discrimination) to include more motives for discrimination (such as gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, etc.) in order to be able to take legal action against more than racist, ethnic and religious discrimination. The UN team of experts also called for a guarantee that people with disabilities be informed of their rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (para. 16-17). Other points of criticism included bans on discrimination, the wage inequality between men and women and the under-representation of women in politics and science (para. 18-19). There was also a call for stronger measures against hate speech (para. 20-21) and effective measures against racial profiling by police forces (para. 22-23). Finally, the Human Rights Committee recommended authorities ensure that medically unnecessary operations no longer be performed on people with gender variations without their explicit consent and that victims of such operations be financially compensated and receive psychological support upon request (para. 24-25). Subjects under renewed investigation Various additional topics that were already part of the Committee’s 2009 recommendations for Switzerland are still relevant in 2017, such as violence against immigrant women (para. 26-27), independent complaint and investigation mechanisms in cases of unlawful police violence and statistics about such cases (para. 28-29), an explicit ban on torture in criminal law (para. 30-31), improved supervision of compulsory measures during the repatriation of rejected asylum seekers (para. 32-33), strict separation of grown-up and unaccompanied underage asylum seekers (para. 34-35), prison overcrowding (para. 36-37), and the fight against human trafficking (para. 40-41). The Committee was alarmed by the clothing rules and other measures that mainly affect Muslims and Muslimas (para. 44-45), as well as threats to privacy under the new Intelligence Service Act (para. 46-47), and the restrictions on the freedom to protest under the 2016 law in the canton of Geneva. The Human Rights Committee called for an inter-cantonal action plan to ensure sufficient land for Yeniche, Sinti, and Roma people in Switzerland (para. 50-51). A compilation of the questions and answers provided by the Swiss delegation can be found in a press release from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The concluding remarks and recommendations made by the Human Rights Committee are expected in late July 2017. - Human Rights Committee considers the report of Switzerland Press release by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 4 July 2017 - List of the members of the Swiss delegation - Bericht zur Umsetzung des Menschenrechtspaktes II der UNO Media release by the FDJP, 3 July 2017 (in German) The most important documents of the whole reporting process can be found here: - ICCPR: Fourth periodic reporting process 2014 - 2017 Documentation on the humanrights.ch website - Information on the 120th session of the Human Rights Committee Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights website Information from civil society as a basis for the Committee members Shadow report by the NGO Platform Human Rights Before the Human Rights Committee revised Switzerland’s report, the NGO Platform Human Rights produced a report which was then revised by humanrights.ch, amnesty international Switzerland, Inclusion Handicap, the Swiss Refugee Council, the Child Rights Network Switzerland, and Terre des femmes Switzerland. This report mainly elaborates on questions raised in the list of issues and focuses on the principle of non-discrimination and the lack of factual access to justice. Although Swiss legislation provides legal means to fight violations of civil and political rights as guaranteed in Pact II, the barriers to jurisdiction remain too high for a lot of people, as exemplified by the small number of cases that made it to court. This is particularly evident in the discrimination of private individuals at work, at home, and in the services available to them. Furthermore, there is no effective protection against hate speech. In particular, there is not protection against sexist, homophobic, and transphobic hate speech on social media. The NGO report also addresses a great number of other current human rights problems in Switzerland. - Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee 120th Session (2 –28 July 2017) Report by the NGO Platform Human Rights, 5 June 2017 Further shadow reports Five more reports were made accessible to the Human Rights Committee that discussed the inhuman or degrading treatment of various groups of people in Switzerland including non-binary individuals, the human rights situation of the non-Swiss population including migrants and asylum seekers, and the situation in prisons. - Alternative Report on Racial Profiling Practices of the Swiss Police and Border Guard Authorities Published by the OHCHR, May 2017 - Joint report by FIACAT and ACA (in French only) Published July 2017 - Intersex Genital Mutilations – Human rights violations of persons with variations of sex anatomy Compiled and published by zwischengeschlecht.org, June 2017 - Report by the Commission des droits de l’Homme de l’Ordre des Avocats de Genève (in French only) Published 5 June 2017 - List of NGO contributions to the fourth reporting cycle Compiled on the website of the Centre for Civil and Political Rights (CCPR)

Star Trek: Discovery stars Sonequa Martin-Green in teaser The long-running Star Trek franchise has broken boundaries since it began in 1966 and its current iteration, Star Trek Discovery, is no different. The third season of the CBS sci-fi finally introduced transgender and non-binary characters to the universe, and showrunner Michelle Paradise has confirmed diversity and representation will play a major part in the upcoming fourth season. Star Trek’s first transgender star Ian Alexander will play a pivotal role in Discovery’s fourth season as his Trill character Gray Tal, showrunner Michelle Paradise confirms. Season three introduced the ground-breaking member of the cast alongside his partner and host, Adira Tal, portrayed by the series’ first non-binary actor Blu del Barrio. The two new additions received significant fanfare from devoted Trekkies, and took the franchise’s themes of inclusivity and acceptance further than it had ever gone before. Discovery’s latest instalment was also noted for its bombshell ending, which finally placed series lead Michael Burnham (played by Sonequa Martin-Green) in the captain’s chair. Star Trek Discovery: Gray set for dramatic return as showrunner drops huge spoiler The stage has now been set for an explosive fourth season, which Paradise confirms will pay off several pivotal character moments from season three. She recently told Inverse: “We've watched her over the course of three seasons, and this felt like the right time to do it. And we're excited to see what she does next." Though Michael Burnham is not the first Black woman to captain her own starship, as confirmed by extended Star Trek media and comic books, she is the first of the same to lead her own television series. Ending on such a monumental moment for the franchise will be hard to top, but Paradise assured fans that season four will take a similarly progressive approach to TV representation. She explained: "Representation matters. It matters to see a version of yourself on screen. “It matters there are non-binary and transgender characters. “It matters that there is a Black woman in the captain's chair. It matters that there is a gay couple on our show.” Paradise, along with series creator and producer Alex Kurtzman, stunned fans with the inclusion of Gray and Adina’s human-Trill relationship in the last season. Yellowstone theories: Season 4 to bring back scrapped storylines [THEORY] Lucifer season 6: Dan star details ‘issues’ with new role [INTERVIEW] Virgin River season 3: Jack Sheridan star teases shooter’s identity [INSIGHT] As is always the case with Star Trek, their romance was exceptionally unconventional compared to 21st century standards, thanks to Gray’s unique Trill conventions. Until the end of season three, Gray was only visible to Adira as their symbiont, making them the first human to permanently bond with a Trill. However, in ‘That Hope Is You, Part 2’, a revolutionary piece of holo-technology has finally made Gray visible to the rest of the crew. Though their relationship may appear to have reached its pinnacle, Paradise promised the pair would continue to play a major role in season four. She revealed: “We will continue to do that for the show, and the world we live in, but also, to honor the Star Trek legacy. “And to be super clear, we will pay that moment off in Season 4. Gray will be seen. That promise will be paid off.” Little is known about Discovery’s fourth season, though the starship’s newest captain is set to face even greater challenges than ever before. Filming is currently taking place in Toronto with strict health and safety measures due to the continuing pandemic, and is expected to conclude in June in time for a late 2021 premiere. Star Trek Discovery season 3 is available to stream on Netflix.

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