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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
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5:26 pm - Yellow Armbands Content Deep Sixed From Camp Trans wikipedia
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| Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
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5:47 pm - Administrative Update, Michigan Civil Rights Legislation + Other News
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Hi Folks,
Yes, this community is inactive and I am no longer involved in organizing for inclusion
at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival or Camp Trans. That being said, there are a
few administrative updates from livejournal that you should be aware of, as well as
news and updates that I haven't seen posted elsewhere in the Hart-fest inclusion world.
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| Thursday, June 7th, 2007
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1:10 pm
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| Monday, June 4th, 2007
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9:41 am - NEW BLOG UPDATE: ***Fest For All Womyn***
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pandapajamas
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Hi All,
Organizing to welcome and include Trans Womyn at Fest
will continue with a new name and a new Live Journal.
We proudly introduce *** Fest For All Womyn ***
http://community.livejournal.com/festforallwomyn/profile
and invite all members of YA or other interested
parties to join this new community.
Individuals seeking more information may contact any
of the following individuals:
Lorrraine: lorrraineAD@yahoo.com
Miranda: mirandusaum@gmail.com
Raisa: mirrizimm@alexandria.cc
Ruth: lady_with_an_axe@yahoo.com
Since Dandypants has frozen the Yellow Armbands Live
Journal, no further information will appear here.
Please join the new LJ for further information.
Thanks,
Lorraine, Miranda, Raisa, and Ruth.
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| Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
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6:56 am - The Yellow Armbands - Former Guidelines, Rules & Community Information
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| Monday, May 28th, 2007
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9:13 am - Farewell
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pandapajamas
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Dear Friends and Allies,
In the Fall of 2005 when I began working on trans inclusion with the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and Camp Trans, I created the Yellow Armbands as an alternative educational tool because I felt that there was a potential for more effective outreach than was possible within the polarity that existed at the time. But while I was doing this work, I came to believe that the problem isn't lack of education. Both of these organizations have decision making processes that are not transparent and I believe if that is the case, that an educational and outreach group will not resolve the strife between them or the larger issue of trans-inclusion. Thus, The Yellow Armbands as it was founded cannot address what needs to be addressed.
I am speaking for myself and I want to be clear that my decision to leave is not personal. I recognize that others may have differing opinions regarding my beliefs and my departure. I am grateful to everyone who put their faith and trust in me and others who worked very hard these past two years on an issue that is very important to us as feminists, lesbians, queer wimmin and transgender peoples. I recognize that my departure is unexpected and sudden, but I want to assure you that there are others who are still very active and who would welcome your support. Lorraine, Ruth, Miranda, Raisa and other folks will be creating a new community shortly and as soon as they provide me with this information, I will post a link to their website/blog. For the time being inquiries can be directed to Rain at her email: lorrrainead@aol.com.
Effective on May 28, 2007, I am resigning from organizing for trans-inclusion and this community will be locked. There will be NO future activity at this space, but past entries and dialog are open for public review. If you are interested in perusing information found on this site and desire membership in order to do so, please use the email listed above and we will grant you membership with non-posting access. Please note that former and current organizers will do our best to provide any interested non-member parties with "Friends Only" content contained within this site, as long as the authors of said entries give their consent.
I wish all future organizers and activists the best of luck!
Yours in Solidarity,
dandypants
yellowarmbands@gmail.com
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| Thursday, May 24th, 2007
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10:26 am - Article: [Gendercator cont'd] Frameline yanks film
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Two notes:
a.) Crouch admits her transphobia (i.e.-FEAR of transsexuals and transitioning pesons).
b.) Frameline currenly has ZERO trans folks on their board of directors and only TWO trans folks on their programming committee. This is what probably led to the film being programmed in the first place and I would guess that now that these facts have come to light, that Frameline will be scrambling to appoint trans folks from the SF community to their board and to the programming committee.
-d
Frameline yanks film
Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco, California.
Published 05/24/2007
by Matthew S. Bajko
m.bajko@ebar.com
Francisco's LGBT film festival, made the unprecedented decision this week to yank a film from this year's schedule due to community outrage after the movie had already been accepted into the lineup.
The brouhaha over the 15-minute short, The Gendercator by acclaimed lesbian filmmaker Catherine Crouch, erupted last Thursday, May 17 after members of the city's transgender community accused the film and Crouch of being transphobic and asked the film festival to pull the movie.
Crouch refutes such claims against her and her film, which she describes as "a short satirical take on female body modification and gender." But within four days more than 130 people had signed on to a petition denouncing the film and Frameline's decision to screen it.
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| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
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12:15 pm - Film: The Gendercator & MWMF
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*Please note and read CAREFULLY about a film that *might* play at this year's festival.
Frameline, the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival, has decided to PULL this film from their 31st annual
film festival. Please encourage the MichFest office to do THE SAME and NOT program it in 2007.
FRAMELINE REACHES DECISION REGARDING
THE FILM THE GENDERCATOR
May 22, 2007
After considerable dialogue with members of the transgender community and after careful consideration of the issues raised by Catherine Crouch’s film The Gendercator, Frameline has decided not to screen The Gendercator in Frameline31. Given the nature of the film, the director’s comments, and the strong community reaction to both, it is clear that this film cannot be used to create a positive and meaningful dialogue within our festival. We are grateful to the many Frameline members, filmmakers and Transgender community leaders who brought this issue to our attention and assisted Frameline’s senior staff in making this important decision.
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| Sunday, May 20th, 2007
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12:22 pm - Curve Magazine Article + Org Update
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pandapajamas
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Hey Peeps,
We hope the Spring is treating all of you fabulously thus far. We're doing well over here at YA. Lots of news!
- Curve Magazine will be featuring an article about MichFest, The Yellow Armbands and Camp Trans in their June issue!
Last week the MichFest office staff phoned me in San Francisco to let me know that a journalist was writing an article about inclusion. They suggested that I speak with the author about my knowledge and understanding of recent events from the perspective of a person who is in favour of inclusion. I susbsequently passed this information onto Lorrraine, the YA's Transwomon's Liaison for the 2007 festival. I felt it was best for a transwomon to engage with the press, because after all, the issue at hand is about MTF persons and inclusion. Rain spoke with the journalist and their dialog was apparently very fruitful.
I also passed the information on to the current organizers for Camp Trans and they also chose to have a transwomon speak with the reporter, which we were happy to learn.
I think this news is important for two reasons:
First, Lisa Vogel and the festival office chose to contact inclusion activists on the inside to inform us that an article was to be written. They expressed a sincere desire for all voices to be heard. The office worker and myself had an amicable conversation and it ended with a relatively mutual sense of support and acknowledgement.
Second, although LV and Camp Trans are still not technically on speaking terms, we were able to facilitate communication between both parties, which I personally feel is a step in the right direction.
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| Saturday, May 12th, 2007
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8:45 pm - Article: Sexual harassers target women who violate gender norms
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pandapajamas
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The May issue of the APA *Monitor* (vol. 38, #5) includes an article:
"Sexual harassers target women who violate gender norms" by L. Meyers.
Desire or dominance? Which is really on the mind of men who sexually
harass women? Traditional theories say desire, but it's more about
establishing dominance over women who breach feminine ideals, says
psychologist Jennifer L. Berdahl, PhD, in a recent article published in
the Journal of Applied Psychology (Vol. 93, No. 2).
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| Friday, May 11th, 2007
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6:01 pm - Happy Mother's Day!
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| Monday, April 16th, 2007
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8:10 pm - Public Post: Camp Trans 2007 Organizational Update
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lorrraine
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Hi all,
The following is reposted verbatim from the Camp Trans Live Journal. Camp Trans and Yellow Armbands are seperate organizations with seperate organizing committees.
Thanks,
Lorrraine
The year 2006 was momentous for the struggle to have transwomen welcomed on the Land at Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Papers were burned, old policies were finally interred, and one courageous transwoman openly took steps onto the land with her head held high. She was supported on one side by a representative of Camp Trans, the organization that's spent over a decade working to get transwomen included in this feminist haven, and on the other side by a representative of Yellow Armbands, the grassroots organization that focuses on working for change from the inside out. A proud woman, a tireless advocate, and a person willing to sacrifice her vacation to make a difference; together they have turned over a new leaf in the histories of MichFest and Camp Trans alike, and this coming year will stand as testament to this new direction.
Camp Trans 2007 will be important for us as an organization, although perhaps not in the way one would originally think. The best way we can support our allies in the Yellow Armbands at this time is to do away with our "On Land Organizer" position, if only for a year, so that the Yellow Armband organization has an opportunity to prove itself a separate entity from the events and the workshops that Camp Trans will be focusing on in this transitional year. We'll still be walking the line, and we'll offer our support to the Yellow Armbands in whatever way is mutually beneficial, but we shall leave the Yellow Armbands to be the sole promoters of trans inclusion within the festival. This is in part due to a desire to see the Yellow Armbands continue to blossom into a proud and independent organization internal to MichFest, and in part because Camp Trans has some house cleaning to do, particularly concerning the way we've structured our organization in the past.
To put it bluntly, CT has not elected its organizational body for the past two years, and perhaps not legitimately for longer than that. It's easy to throw together an online poll or a list-serve email and then mark the trickled responses that make their way back through the wilds of the internet as a form of legitimacy, but this fails to account for the diversity of experiences which make Camp Trans the amazing space that it is. Not everyone has access to the internet, not everyone has the social capital to know how to find these online elections, and as a result our elections must happen on the ground in the future. Camp Trans 2007 will include a series of workshops in which we will account for the major organizer positions within the Camp and then hold elections for those positions before camp ends. This will allow all attendees of CT to know who is in charge in the upcoming year, and should prevent recurrences of situations like two years ago, where our organization was thrown into turmoil when key organizers dropped out without warning.
We know we've faced allegations of a lack of transparency as of late, and we want you all to know this is not because we've forgotten about you, nor is it because we're trying to keep secrets from any of you. We've been planning on how to make a Camp Trans that will be a self-perpetuating, open entity, and in that hunt for future transparency we've been hushed by our fears that speaking of it too soon would jinx our plans. There have been, and will always be, people who profit from the slightest miss-statement from the mouths of CT organizers. In trying to minimize those missteps we've appeared to make no steps at all… which is a shame, really, since we're happy to inform you that we've been working, dialoguing and planning to make camp a new and better place for us all.
Jack Radish & Lina Corvus
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7:56 pm - Public Post:CFP: Camp Trans 2007 Workshops
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lorrraine
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Hi all,
The following is reposted verbatim from http://www.Trans-Academics.org/node/107/print . Camp Trans and Yellow Armbands are seperate organizations with seperate organizing committees.
Thanks,
Lorrraine
CFP: Camp Trans 2007 Workshops
By Genderwarrior
Created 04/04/2007 - 10:24am
Last year was a landmark year at Camp Trans! This was the first time a openly transgendered woman was sold a ticket to attend the festival, the first time an openly transgendered woman was allowed to give a workshop on the land, and both actions were thanks to the organizers of Camp Trans! We may have taken steps forward, but the competing press releases last summer only prove that our work isn't over. There are still people who cloak their transphobia behind feminist politics and economic strength, and there is still a need to educate people concerning the fallacies in those arguments.
Camp Trans ‘07 will be held near Hart, Michigan on August 4-12, 2007. Join our annual gathering of transgender people and their allies as we educate festival-goers and support the building of a trans-inclusive community that is welcoming and safe for all, both on "the land" and off. We'll also work to empower the next generation of activists to fight for trans issues in their own communities, advocate for the inclusion of trans issues in progressive, queer, and feminist movements by building coalitions with supportive organizations and of course continue to protest the exclusion of trans women from other women-only spaces.
Each year Camp Trans holds workshops, trainings and caucuses around a variety of trans issues. These sessions allow campers to share their knowledge, benefit from that of others and also have fun! You can shape the experience of the many people who will pass thorough camp this year, and in doing so join a variety of others who have chosen to use their expertise to give something back.
We're looking for proposals from folks of every identity which address diverse topics such as tactics for local organizing and activism, how to be a good ally, hormones and surgery, relationships, employment, identity, and even flirting! Hour and a half sessions can come in the form of a formal workshop, casual caucus or group activity.
Please include in your proposal your name and pronoun preference (and that of any co-presenters), contact info (email and phone), the name of your session, a brief (under 200 words) description of your session including its goal and how it will be structured, a brief bio for each presenter (under 100 words) and if it is open to all attendees or closed to a specific population.
Email your proposal to abminer@yahoo.com [1] as an attachment and put "CT workshop proposal" in the subject line. The deadline for submissions is June 10th, 2007 (submissions received early may be given priority). We look forward to hearing from you!
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Source URL:
http://www.trans-academics.org/cfp_camp_trans_2007_works
Links:
[1] mailto:abminer@yahoo.com
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| Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
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1:03 pm - Transforming Feminism Conference RESCHEDULED + Hudson Valley Conf. Call for Proposals
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| Monday, April 2nd, 2007
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12:53 am - Introduction
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12:06 pm - Actor Slash Model Album Release + Tour Dates!
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pandapajamas
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Former Camp Trans organizer (1999-2005), Simon Strikeback of Chicago
is a member of the trans/genderqueer indiegrass band, Actor Slash Model.
From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) simonstrikeback:
Hey friends, Actor Slash Model's first full-length album, Cheap Date,
is now available! The simplest way to get this debut is to go to the
website: www.actorslashmodel.com, click on "merch" and click on the
album cover. CDs will be mailed to you in a timely manner, even while we're
on the road!
Actor Slash Model is made up of madsen minax and simon strikeback, two
transgender musicians playing queer-lovin' kink-centric country indiegrass
music. The band is embarking on a 25-day west coast tour starting May
18th not only playing shows, but also creating a documentary featuring
interviews with other trans musicians (with videographer malic acid).
Find more information and view the project trailer on our website.
Note our tour dates on the site, and please come to our shows! Also,
if you (or someone you know) is a trans musician and would like to be part
of our documentary, please contact us ASAP!
Thank you for your continued support of Actor Slash Model, trans
musicians and queer art everywhere!
Actor Slash Model
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| Sunday, April 1st, 2007
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11:44 am - DJNO: Point-n-Shoot in San Francisco
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| Monday, March 26th, 2007
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12:36 pm - t.o. camp trans benefit
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fyi, there's a ct benefit concert in toronto tomorrow. rae spoon's headlining and dj_cpi will be on the decks afterwards.
not that i really need help but, considering i haven't even been to ct, i thought i'd throw this out there:
"if you had two minutes to relay a story or talk about the significance of camp trans, what would YOU say?"
are there any pieces of writing you think would be really poignant to be read at such a benefit? any images of ct or michfest that would be okay to be projected on the screen?
keep in mind that the vast majority of attendees will be queer cisgendered folks who hadn't heard of ct until the concert.
also just putting this out there as ideas for other ct benefit organizers. :)
~becca
( for those curious, here's the flyer )
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| Friday, March 23rd, 2007
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9:59 am - Toronto, ON, CANADA: Camp Trans Benefit with RAE SPOON and more.
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pandapajamas
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Public Post!
FYI: The YA are independent of CT and we don't always agree with everything they do or have done
in the past, but folks have got to eat their vegan food over there, so support them and PEACE ACTIVISM!
Yes, peace. As in, lower your weapons and spread the love. You get the idea.
Camp Trans Benefit with RAE SPOON and more. This Tuesday
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| Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
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11:18 am - ATTENTION PERFORMERS!
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pandapajamas
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*Public post!
Dear Performers for the 2007 MWMF,
Please be advised that the Camp Trans boycott of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival ended in 2005.
If you receive intimidating and/or harrassatory emails from individuals claiming to represent inclusion organizations and/or efforts, who simultaneously claim that you should boycott the festival, please forward these emails to us so we can maintain a record of who is sending this misinformation.
If you are performing at MWMF 2007 and support inclusion, please contact us so we can provide you with resources to help facilitate your participation in our visibility efforts and supportive campsite/meeting space for transwimmin who will be attending MichFest in 2007. We appreciate your assistance and look forward to partnering with you in a mutually supportive environment!
Sincerely,
The Yellow Armbands
Contact Miranda, YA Communications & Media Liaison at:
so.she.was.all.like@gmail.com
Contact Lorrraine Donaldson, YA Transwimmin's Liaison at:
forallwomyn@aol.com
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