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
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.
Call for Art
Butch Voices is interested in showcasing art created by Butches, Studs, Aggressives, and various transmasculine identified people attending the 2009 Butch Voices conference. Attendees are encouraged to bring art they have created for display to the 2009 Butch Voices conference in Oakland, this August 20th thru 23rd.
All forms of art are welcome, including: paintings, drawings, photography, multi-media works, sculpture, etc. Artists are responsible for their own shipping, installation and storage. Art will be on display throughout the conference meeting rooms and hallways for the duration of the conference.
We anticipate being able to accept up to 3 submissions per artist, space permitting. We may choose to decline pieces based on their size and/or space available. An artist’s reception will be scheduled during the conference, during which time artists will be able to discuss and explain their work with conference participants. Please also feel free to bring additional information such as an artist’s statements and any promotional materials.
If you are interested in having your art shown, please contact Jay Walls at jswalls@hotmail.com to secure your place in this Butch Voices art exhibition. Please include in your subject line “Butch Voices call for art”.
Please note that Butch Voices accepts no liability for any damage that be be sustained while art pieces are on display. Artists are advised to take reasonable precautions when displaying their work.
Programming Teaser
Here is a list of some of the amazing workshops that we’re hosting at the 2009 Butch Voices Conference:
Constructing Black Fe/Male Masculinity
Butch Images in Film
Class and Classism in Butch Communities
Bulldagger: A Discussion for Woman-Identified, Female Pronoun Using Butches
That’s Your Mom? That’s a Boy!
Writing Our Desire
The Possibilities and Pleasures of Faggot Play
Taking it On: Dealing with Our Internalized Misogyny
Body Modification and Identity
Light-Not-White
Reclaiming Butch/Femme: Who’s Heteronormative?
Intersections of Butch With Cultures of Masculinity
Butch Survival: Mentoring Gender Nonconforming Youth
Kinky, Butch, and Feminist?: Reconciling Our Desires with Our Politics
Butch in the Workplace
Creating Social Spaces for “Lone Wolves”
Improv Meets Activism: The Nuts and Bolts of Healthcare Advocacy
Getting What You Want: Sexual Boundaries for Tops, Bottoms, and Everything in Between
Anti-Butch, Anti-Femme: Responding to Stigma in Our Communities
and lots more to come…
Today, June 1st, is the last day to take advantage of the early registration discount. Register today to be a part of this fantastic event.
Register here. http://www.butchvoices.com/registration/registration-details
Reduced Conference Hotel Guestroom Rate
It’s not a secret that hotels are suffering a bit in our current economic times. Even the Oakland Marriott City Center has had to look at rate structures and lower its weekend rates in order to remain competitive. Thus we are now able to offer our attendees a reduced guestroom rate at the host hotel of $119 for the conference over the dates of 8/20 – 8/23 2009!
The changes will be made by end of day Friday 5/15/09 in their reservation system to reflect this change and all existing room reservations will be modified to reflect the new rate. If an attendee has already reserved a room and has provided an email address they will receive confirmation of this change.
So take advantage and book your room at the host hotel where most of the conference events and workshops will be taking place. The cut-off date for the conference guestroom rate is July 31st, so register today!
Online registration is available with the Marriott City Center’s website here or by calling them directly 510.451.4000.
Hotel Code: bvcbvca.
Deadline Extended
Announcing Butch Voices 2009
A conference for ALL self identified Butches, Studs, Aggressives and their Allies
We will be holding our first conference in 2009. In working towards meeting our mission, this conference seeks to bring together various identities who are often divided, by gender, sexuality, language, biology, race, age, size, ability, religion, geography, and class. We want to come together to honor and explore our diversity by creating a safe space to discuss, examine, and deconstruct our commonalities, our differences, and the places they intersect.
Check back — details are coming soon! Be sure to sign up for our email list for updates.
