Debauchery: Oakland Fundraiser for BUTCH Voices
Sunday, November 21 · 7:00pm – 11:30pm
White Horse Inn
6551 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA
$5 – $15 Cover Read more
BUTCH Voices NYC – Workshops & Schedule
BUTCH Voices NYC is right around the corner on September 25th!
The day-long conference will include workshops, panels, a butch hospitality lounge as well as a very special keynote celebration of our history and community of butches. Evening events will also include: BUTCH Voices NYC 2010 Queer Memoir/Sideshow Mash-Up at Bluestockings Bookstore and Cafe as well as a later BUTCH Voices Cabaret at a Brooklyn club.
Check out the fantastic workshops and panels we have lined up for you. Plan out your day of workshops by viewing the schedule.
BUTCH Voices PDX: Keynote Speaker – Kathleen Saadat
BUTCH Voices is honored to announce Kathleen Saadat as our Keynote Speaker for the upcoming BUTCH Voices Portland Regional Conference on Saturday, October 2, 2010. Ms. Saadat is currently the Diversity Director at Cascade AIDS Project, and a long time trainer, public speaker and activist who has achieved numerous awards and been a part of so many amazing organizations.
BUTCH Voices LA: Workshops and Presenters
BUTCH Voices LA - October 8-10 – an amazing weekend of connecting, learning & fabulous events!
JUST RELEASED! Workshops and Presenters have just been posted! Check out the links below !
BV Regional Conferences are coming up!!
Click here for more info on BUTCH Voices NYC
Photo credit: Moya Bailey
Click here for more information on BUTCH Voices Portland
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.
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
Modern Times Books, located at 888 Valencia Street in San Francisco, is a progressive resource for the Bay Area and a neighborhood bookstore for the Mission. Collectively operated since 1971, we are a vibrant progressive and literary bookstore offering wide-ranging literature on globalization, politics and media, as well as an array of graphic novels, fiction, and criticism. We are proud to offer some of the best queer/trans and feminist sections of any bookstore in the Bay Area, and feature one of the Bay Area’s most extensive collections of writings on Latina/o history and culture, including a full selection of Spanish language books. And did we mention our children’s books? Modern Times also fosters a vital literary community with an exciting calendar of events, a blog, and community resources. We are a surviving, thriving indie bookstore in the face of chain stores and Amazon, a fiercely queer and radical community hotspot, and a place where independent literature is in bloom. We’re proud to be Butch Voices official bookseller. We look forward to attendees checking out conference presenters’ books and browsing a fine selection of books andmagazines by and about butch lives, butch/femme cultures, identities and sexualities, queer and trans liberation, erotica and more!
BUTCH Voices Video Contest Results
We are grateful to all of our participants in the first BUTCH Voices Video Contest. For a look at all of the submitted videos please visit our YouTube Group.
1st Place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec371YVeh5Y
Our 1st place contestant in the BUTCH Voices Video Contest is Linda Miller for her video, “I Know, I Know, I Know.” We felt this piece was an awesome example of the complexity that is Butch identity. In this piece Miller offers a song she’s written about a lover whom “she knows” she’s not right for, as she croons, “I’m not the one you need.”
I am a soon to be 50 year old. I am a medical professional, surgical technician to be exact. I have been a surgical tech for 28 years. I dabble at the singer songwriter thing here in Nashville, TN.
