Sippin on Ink and Radio Boiz Radio Appearances
BV will be a guest on the Sippin on Ink radio show , Wednesday July 1st at 8pm EST. Please tune in and join the chat discussions as well as call in to support us on the show!
Can call in to join the conversation by dialing (646) 378-0402.
The show is aired LIVE and you can join the readers in the chat room at: www.blogtalkradio.com/Sippin-on-Ink
After the show is aired it is available for download at www.blogtalkradio.com/Sippin-on-Ink
BV was recently a featured guest on the Radio Boiz blog talk radio show. Check out the archived show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TheRadioBoiz (scroll down to the section “On Demand Episodes”)
Dyke March and Pride in San Francisco
Butch Voices will have a team of volunteers and steering committee members handing out conference flyers over Pride weekend in San Francisco.
If you’d like to join this team, send us an email butchvoices@gmail.com
Take advantage of the discount included on the flyer to use towards registration.
Click here to download flyers: Flyer 1 and Flyer 2
Conference Performances
The Performance Chairs of the 2009 Butch Voices conference – Arnetta Smith (aka King McQueen) and Kelli Dunham – would like to give you a quick glance of amazing performers for the Butch Voices 2009 Performance and Spoken Word. Be aware, however, that the lineup is subject to change as Butch Voices will be finalizing the line-ups until the week of the conference.
Butch Voices Programming
The Butch Voices’ Programming Co-Chairs and committee proudly present to you a working list of workshops and sessions along with their presenters. We are beyond thrilled at the topics being covered over the conference weekend. The list is in alphabetic order and of course subject to change.
Keynote Speakers
Butch Voices is completely ecstatic to announce three amazing voices as our Keynote speakers at the 2009 Butch Voices conference this August 20-23, 2009 in Oakland. We are fortunate to present Jeanne Córdova on Friday, August 21st, S. Bear Bergman on Saturday August 22nd, and Malkia “Mac” Cyril on Sunday August 23rd.
Jeanne Córdova, Feminist Butch – Activist, Publisher & Author – has devoted her life to activism on behalf of the LGBTQ community. She began 39 years ago as L.A. President of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), opening the first lesbian center in L.A. in 1971. She founded The Lesbian Tide – the national newsmagazine recognized as “the paper of record for lesbian feminist decade (1971-1980). Read More
S. Bear Bergman (www.sbearbergman.com) is an author, a theater artist, an instigator, a gender-jammer, and a good example of what happens when you overeducate a contrarian. Ze is also the author of Butch Is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006) and the forthcoming The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You (Arsenal Pulp, October 2009), three award-winning solo performances, and is a frequent contributor to anthologies on all manner of topics from the sacred to the extremely profane. Read More
Malkia “Mac” Amala Cyril is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, CA.- a national media strategy and action center building a powerful grassroots movement for racial and economic justice through media change. Key projects include the Media Justice Movement-Building Initiative, the Justice Communications Initiative, as well as training and tools to help grassroots organizers and leaders become better strategic storytellers and media activists. Read More
Read the Entire Keynote Speaker Page Here
Save on Registration – Butch Voices Pride Flyer
Butch Voices Needs You!
Pride is upon us in many areas across the globe over the next two months. Butch Voices is looking to have street teams for flyering purposes to get the word out about the conference happening this August 20th -23rd in Oakland.
We’re offering $10 off the registration rate for those using the code included on the flyer. So we encourage everyone to hang on to the flyer and take advantage of the discount code when signing up to attend the conference.
We’re including this black and white pdf version that can be downloaded and printed on your end to distribute and let folks know about Butch Voices. We chose black and white as a cost effective version that we could pass on to you on the flip side in printing purposes.
We’re also going to be flyering in the Bay area over Pride weekend at the Dyke March and the Pride Parade with our own mass produced flyers. If you’re interested in being a part of the team who are distributing these, send us an email at butchvoices@gmail.com.
Room and Ride Share
We are looking for help with transportation and weekend housing during the Butch Voices conference in Oakland. In this time of economic difficulty, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Do you have a spare bed or couch for conference participants?
Would you be willing to drive from the host hotel to local activities?
Do you have a room at the host hotel and have space for a roommate to share expenses?
Sponsorship, Advertising and Vendor Opportunities
2009 Butch Voices Conference Sponsorship Packages
The 2009 Butch Voices conference presents an opportunity for your business or organization to reach the LGBTIQQ and same gender loving communities, along with their allies and loved ones. Media everywhere are buzzing with so much attention focused on the various battles for rights and acceptance for many in and around the various communities.
2009 Butch Voices Conference Advertising
The 2009 Butch Voices conference program presents an opportunity for your business or organization to reach the LGBTIQQ and same gender loving communities, along with their allies and loved ones. As a newly formed grassroots organization, Butch Voices is extremely excited about the opportunities with working with organizations who can provide merchandise and services that will benefit our audience.
2009 Butch Voices Conference Vendor Options
As a newly formed grassroots organization, Butch Voices is extremely excited about the opportunities with working with organizations who can provide merchandise and services that will benefit our audience. We hope that you’ll find the issues in focus for this diverse community of Butch Voices to be sufficient incentive to be a part of such a necessary and ground-breaking event.
Butch Voices Fundraising, Financial Aid & Scholarships
Butch Voices would like thank all who participated, attended and donated at the Queers R’ Us performance put on by Arnetta Smith aka King McQueen at Velvet this past weekend. We raised $550 that night.
We’d also like to again thank those who were a part of the performance fundraiser at Re/dress in Brooklyn last month headed up by Kelli Dunham, where we raised a little over $400.
We will have two other performance fundraisers coming up. The next one is the Gender Blender Splendor Variety Show in Austin on July 11th at The Rusty Spurs, emceed by Belinda Caroll.
Austin fundraiser link
http://www.butchvoices.com/austin-fundraiser/
Then we will also have Let’s Hear it for the Butch in Portland on July 30th at the Egyptian Club, emceed by Sahara Dunes.
Portland fundraiser link
http://www.butchvoices.com/portland-fundraiser/
Both nights will be filled with an array of fantastic performers and entertainment, and will be two great events and more ways to bring together community for a good cause too.
Monies raised at these events are going towards funding our scholarship and financial aid program.
Butch Voices really wants you to come to the conference-did you know that scholarships and financial aid are available? Check out more info here link
http://www.butchvoices.com/registration/scholarships/
We plan to be very generous, so apply! And do it soon, because the first deadline is July 1! Hurry!
We are also accepting donations online on our website with a Paypal link as well as taking donations via snail mail at our PO Box address. Check out our donate page info here:
http://www.butchvoices.com/participate/donate/
Butch Voices, understand funds are limited for a lot of us at this time, but we hope that as a community we can come together to ensure the success of all of our efforts. Every donation counts, and no contribution is too small.
Queers R’ Us – Oakland Butch Voices Fundraiser
Enjoy a night full of community performance. Queers R’ Us will be featuring queer arts ranging from Poetry, to Live Music to the Ancient Art of Drag. We are also auctioning off some of the finest Queers in the Bay. Both our performers and auctionees have donated their talent and time for a great cause. Please join us and help raise funds for the much needed Butch Voices 2009 Conference.
Queers R’ Us – Butch Voices 2009 Conference Fundraiser
Velvet – Oakland
Friday, June 12, 2009 8pm
3411 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94602
To download a flyer for this event, click here: Oakland Fundraiser Flyer
Performers
Identity Tee Bee Dee is a gender queer writer, performer, professor, humorist, blogger, male tomboy and all-purpose muse. He is at work on a book called “Compulsory Masculinity.”
Outmusic Awardee Irina Rivkin layers poetic lyrics with rich textured harmonies, swirling with vocal percussive beats, all created live on-the-spot using her loop station instrument. Her songs are like sand sculptures – and after each song she erases it all and creates a new one. www.myspace.com/irinarivkin
ButchTap, brought to you by the creative forces behind ButchBallet, is a loose collective of Oakland based queer performance artists who have a passion for tap dancing, fabulous costumes and dance-offs. ButchTap includes current and former members of Queen Bees, Disposable Boy Toys, Titland, Chicago Kings, Cuntry Kings, Citizen Kings, the Saucy Knickers, Trekking with the Stars, Bromantics, Freeplay Dance Crew & Hogwarts Express: The Musical. So, prepare yourself for a treat as these performance veterans explode into your hearts with the footloose and fancy-free percussion sounds so unique to tap dancing! ButchTap Performers: Jake Danger, Billy “The Poof” Elliot, Dirty D, Ricky T. Smiles, & Lance ArmStar
Heaven has been singing her entire life. She is currently working in the studio on an album to be released next year. Her style is a reflection of her influences, which are Pop, Soul and R&B, along with the music of her heritage, traditional Arabic music.
King McQueen started his drag career 2 years ago, although his passion started ten years ago when he entered his first drag bar. Born and raised in St. Louis, Mo, he was memorized by the glitter and lights. Wanting some of that hometown feel, King started the Royal Revue Cabaret in Oakland. His show features some of the most talented drag performers as well as providing a stage for local queer musicians. He lives by the motto: Community not Competition
Jen Cross is a femme dyke and a smut writer. Her work has appeared in a plethora anthologies, including, most recently, Visible: A Femmethology (vol.1), Tasting Her (Oral Sex Erotica), Best Sex Writing 2008, Nobody Passes, and lots more. Jen leads erotic writing workshops and workshops with sexual trauma survivors, and is, as you may have heard, a wholehearted believer in the transformative power of smut to release all our voices, butch and femme and otherwise…
Gwendolyn Bikis is the author of the novel Your Loving Arms, and the novella Cleo’s Gone, excerpts of which have appeared in The Best Lesbian Erotica, The Persistent Desire, and other anthologies. She has read and performed all over the country. She has lived in Oakland for over 20 years.
Rebecca Crump is a solo artist who occasionally collaborates with like-mind artists. She grew up in upstate New York singing with her family. She’s performed at events such as Sistahs Steppin’, East Bay, San Jose and Arcata Pride festivals. Rebecca belts out earthy protests songs. She loves it when the audience participates.
Auctionees
AJ is an 80’s Texas born lesbian. She loves all types of art, music, and food.
She’s really into design, particularly architecture and interior design. She’s open to having new experience and knows how to live life to the fullest.
Quote: “My favorite food right now is Thai food.”
ButchBoy is a chivalrous New Yorker who enjoys wining and dining a femme girl. He is sort of the LA Meets the Bay kind of GQ Guy. He loves to travel, driving manual shift sport cars, a good vodka, his dog and women. His passions are dancing and music.
Quote: “I am an “old school” Butch with a flair. What else would you like to know?”
Alicenne is a classy nature loving femme in stilettos. She’s into yoga, food, and the Saturday market. This vegetarian from New York is politically active and an organizer.
Quote: “I killed a black widow with the back of my cell phone while wearing flip flops.
