August 15, 2019
August 18, 2019
3:00 - 7:00 pm
Oakstop
1721 Broadway #201
Oakland, CA 94612
Event description
Ten Years of BUTCH Voices!
BUTCH Voices held our first national conference in 2009 in Oakland, and here we are returning for our 10 year anniversary!
BUTCH Voices will once again convene in Oakland for our 2019 National Conference, from Thursday, August 15th to Sunday, August 18th.
We are excited to work once again with the amazing folks at Oakstop for our conference home for workshop and keynote spaces. Oakstop is located at 1721 Broadway, in the heart of Oakland, and also near the 19th St. BART station. Accessibility info
Announcing our featured Keynote Speakers will be Kelli Dunham, genderqueer ex-nun storytelling nurse comic, and Nalo Zidan, Queer Black word artist and Founder and Creative Director of BlackGirlMasculine.
At BUTCH Voices 2019, there will be:
- Workshops
- Performances
- Networking
- Community
- Resources
- Keynote Speakers
- And more!
When we bring our collective voices into action and support one another, we are so powerful together. Being in intentional spaces filled with hundreds of like-minded and beautiful MOC community members and allies is something that connecs us to each other, and to something much bigger than ourselves.
Accessibility info
Financial Aid
Official After Party for Butch Nation performance night!
Workshop Schedule
| Friday | Time | Broadway Room | Telegraph Room | MacArthur Room |
| Opening Remarks | 8:30am-8:45am | BUTCH Voices Board | ||
| Session #1 | 9:00a – 10:15a | Boi Meets Wellness: Building a Wellness Ritual Evolve Benton |
Butch Boi Mind & Body Chris Baldwin |
Rattling Gender Constructs Estela Furtado |
| Session #2 | 10:45a – Noon | STRESS: A Silent Killer Darlene A. Hall, Ph.D. |
Unpacking internalized misogyny and accountability Rohan Dave |
Still Butch: Maintaining Community Through Transitions Jackson Reinagel |
| Lunch | Noon – 1:30p | Lunch on your own! | ||
| Session #3 | 1:30p – 2:45p | Two Libras and a Shot of Tequila; Realness In Relationships Jenni Bosco & Michelle Dixon |
The Art of Ownership Sinclair Sexsmith |
Nice Chinese Girls Don’t: Being Kitty Tsui & Butch Kitty Tsui |
| Keynote | 3:15p – 4:45p | Kelli Dunham | ||
| Film Night | 7:00p | Butch Briefs and BUTCH Voices After Dark | ||
| Saturday | Time | Broadway Room | Telegraph Room | MacArthur Room |
| Session #1 | 9:00a – 10:15a | An Exploration Toxic Masculinity from Fitness Lindsey Page |
Inter-generational Panel | |
| Session #2 | 10:45a – 12:00p | You Don’t Have to Love Your Body to Take Care Of It Kelli Dunham |
Intersections through Artistic Expression Jo “Paradigm” Roberts |
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| Lunch | 12:00p – 1:30p | Lunch on your own! | ||
| Session #3 | 1:30p – 2:45p | The M Code Bethany Kelley |
Stone Out Loud Koja Adeyoha |
Writing Our Way Into Butch Rita Losch |
| Keynote | 3:15p – 5:00p | Nalo Zidan | ||
| Butch Nation | 8:00p – 10:00p | Butch Nation Performance Night | ||
| HellaGay! | 9:00p – ?? | Official After Party for Butch Nation Performance Night! | ||
| Sunday | Time | Broadway Room | Telegraph Room | MacArthur Room |
| Session #1 | 10:00a – 11:30a | Intersectionality Of Non-Binary Dana Johnson |
Navigating consent and boundaries like a boss! Andy Duran |
Disability: We’re still here Panel |
| Lunch | 11:30a – 1:00p | Lunch on your own! | ||
| Session #2 | 1:00p – 2:30p | From Pentecostal to Pleasure: Healing Queer Indoctrination through Pleasure Practice Nalo |
Old & Butch: We Paved the Way Panel | California name and gender marker changes Chris Crittenton |
| Spoken Word | 3:00p – 4:30p | Sunday Stories: A BUTCH Sermon | ||
| Drum Circle | 4:30p – 6:00p | BUTCH Voices Drum Circle | ||
| Closing Remarks | 6:00p – 6:30p | BUTCH Voices Board | ||
