Butch Voices On NPR
Tune in to Butch Voices on NPR’s Tell Me More, broadcasting tomorrow, Wednesday, August 27th. Joe LeBlanc and Krys Freeman will be featured on tomorrow’s episode.
From the opinions of global newsmakers to listeners’ personal experiences of life-changing travel…the wisdom of renowned thinkers, activists and spiritual leaders…and intimate dispatches of daily life around the world from NPR News correspondents on the ground…the NPR talk show Tell Me More brings fresh voices and perspectives to public radio.
Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin’s first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.
Tell Me More’s broadcast schedule near you:
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More on Tell Me More
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For an NPR Carriage List for Tell Me More Click Here
Vendors at Butch Voices
We want to give a shout out and thanks to the groups who will be vending and tabling with us at the first Butch Voices Conference in Oakland.
Butch Voices Performances
Join us for two events jam packed with thought provoking and provocative performances. Our featured event on Saturday night August 22nd is Butch Nation – hosted by Fairy Butch. A night of theater, dance, live music, drag and comedy starts at 6PM at the Humanist Hall in Oakland.
Your host for Butch Nation – Fairy Butch. Photo Credit by Ohalysia.
Sunday August 23rd we have our Spoken Word Performance featuring selected readings, comedy, storytelling, and poetry. This event begins at 9:30AM in the Calvin Simmons Ballroom at the Oakland Marriott City Center.
Visually Speaking – An Artists’ Showcase
Come join us for a showcase of drawings, paintings, photography and multi-media art works by Butches, for Butches, and about Butches. We are pleased to be showing work by both established and emerging artists. Visually Speaking will also feature Jeanne Cόrdova’s recent massively popular exhibit Genderplay in Lesbian Culture out of L.A. Genderplay is a collection of photos and text described as “an exhibition and a journey, a collection of snapshots in time and stories of ancestors.” Conference attendees will have a unique opportunity to hear the eleven artists discuss their work at the Artists’ Reception, to be held on Thursday night, August 20th, at the Meet & Greet starting at 6pm. During the rest of the Butch Voices Conference, the exhibit will be displayed throughout the workshop meeting areas. These works will not be shown as a collection again, so don’t miss this one-of-a-kind opportunity to explore gender and sexuality, Visually Speaking.
Art Credit: Push Pull by Takeya Trayer
Networking Dinners
BUTCH Cake Opening Night After Party
BUTCH Voices in conjunction with Movement Productions presents
To download flyer click here
Come get your mingle on with Butch Voices after the Meet and Greet at AJ Toppers.
After party at The Den on Thursday August 20th, with DJ Olga T spinning the wheels of steel for us.
Doors at The Den open at 8PM.
Q Interviewed on Out Loud
Out Loud is KBOO’s queer news and public affairs show. We celebrated our 6 year birthday in April 08! Out Loud features local musical talent, interview local and national community groups, authors, and really anyone from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning community. We strive to give voice to those not heard in the main stream media. Carla and Q discuss the Butch Voices conference, happening in Oakland, CA Aug 20-23. Q offers some perspective on butch women, an often misunderstood segment of the LGBTQ community.
Click here to download the interview between Q and Carla on Outloud
Kimberly Peirce and Jack Halberstam – Added to the Butch Voices Presenters Line-Up
We’re adding two more amazing presenters to this already phenomenal line-up at the upcoming Butch Voices Conference.
Joining Cheryl Dunye, Campbell, and Kortney Ryan Ziegler for the Is That Me on TV? session are: Kimberly Peirce and Jack Halberstam.
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Kimberly Peirce and Jack Halberstam – Added to the Butch Voices Presenters Line-Up
We’re adding two more amazing presenters to this already phenomenal line-up at the upcoming Butch Voices Conference.
Joining Cheryl Dunye, Campbell, and Kortney Ryan Ziegler for the Is That Me on TV? session are: Kimberly Peirce and Jack Halberstam.
Kimberly is best known as the award-winning writer/director of the films, Boys Don’t Cry and Stop-Loss. She’s also familiar navigating the business and media world as a self-identified butch.
Jack is a professor of English and Gender Studies at USC, and also known for the book Female Masculinity, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, as well as co-authoring with Del LaGrace Volcano for The Drag King Book.
We are incredibly excited about the potential for this panel session on the images of Studs and Butches in the media, as well as the newly added session: Boys Don’t Cry and Beyond: A Conversation Between Jack Halberstam and Kim Pierce. Details on this session and the revised conference schedule will be available on the website very soon.
Is That Me on TV? is scheduled for Friday August 21st, and Boys Don’t Cry and Beyond is scheduled for Saturday August 22nd.
If you haven’t registered yet, what are you waiting for?
Don’t miss out on this fantastic event!
Modern Times Books At Butch Voices
