Instructor’s Anti-Gay Material
In Piggee v. Carl Sandburg College, 2006 WL 2771669 (Sept. 19, 2006), the plaintiff brought suit against her former employer. Plaintiff, a former instructor for Carl Sandburg College, was terminated after distributing anti-gay materials to students in her class, reported…
I’m not just talking about it anymore
I've been talking about putting a call for essays on femme identity out for quite some time now. Here it is! VISIBLE: A FEMMETHOLOGY an anthology of writing on queer femme identity Editor: Maria Angeline Publisher: Merge Press Submissions Deadline:…
Ethereal’s Interview in _AboveGroundTesting Magazine_
Queer Shorts contributor Ethereal is featured in this month's edition of AboveGroundTesting Magazine. Click here to read about her poetry, her songwriting, her first album, and her upcoming music. Ethereal on her piece in Queer Shorts, "Room for Rent": Now…
Reading from _Bitch_ Magazine
The GLBT Historical Society will host a reading of the forthcoming anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism From the Pages of Bitch Magazine. According to , Local contributors, including historical society board member Don Romesburg, will read selections from…
Lesbian Mother Wins Custody Case
Victoria Moses and Kelvin King, the biological parents of a twelve-year-old girl, fell into conflict when King failed to pay monthly child support. When Moses filed an action for contempt, the court found King “to be $16,500 in arrears and…
National Coming Out Day
Coming out, I once read, refers not only to the process of disclosing your identity to other folks, but also to yourself. At , I wrote about coming out. I discussed my early crushes, innocent things from when I was…
For Queer Women/Trans Artists/Performers in NYC
I recently posted that I am looking for queer reading series. I just learned of another series in New York City: GirlSalon Janine Avril is the founder of GirlSalon, "a forum for queer women/trans artists/performers," and is looking for queer…
_Trans/forming Feminisms_
In February I posted that “Queer Femmes Loving FTMs,†a piece by Dr. Susan Driver, would appear in the anthology Trans/forming Feminisms, edited by Krista Scott. Sumach Press released Trans/forming Feminisms last month. Read more about Trans/forming Feminisms here.
The Fenceberry’s
"Fenceberry" is the result of combining two surnames: Fenceroy and Mayberry. I n high spirits because the February day was warm, Jean Mayberry honked and waved at a neighbor, a woman she knew only as "Aleta, the lesbian down the…
The REAL letters to (and from) my ex
There they are, right over there. No worries: as usual, there are no addresses, names, locations, time frames, and the like. I wrote about them and some past writing stuff in a recent post for The Nervous Breakdown. I even…