A busy, busy week for transgender, genderqueer and
allied communities in Minneapolis this week starting
with a community meeting Thurs. night, the Susan
Stryker lecture on transgender studies and film
premiere "Screaming Queens, The Riots at Compton's
Cafeteria" on Fri., followed by genderBLUR cabaret on
Sat. Night.
The film "Screaming Queens" about the San Francisco
riot at Compton's Cafeteria that preceeded the famous
New York Stonewall riots by several years comes highly
reccomended and the transgender, genderqueer and
allied communities town hall meeting this Thursday
evening should be a great event too! And Rob Yaeger
is curating this weekends genderBLUR!
David Strand
Loring Park
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Event announcement: please forward, and we hope to see
you there!
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genderBLUR Cabaret & Fall Festival After Party
for the Trans, Genderqueer & Allied Communities
Saturday, October 22, 2005
7:30 pm - Doors open
8:00 pm - Cabaret
Post-show Fall Festival After Party: pumpkin
carving, apple bobbing, dance party and more!
Everyone Welcome
Held at Patrick's Cabaret, 3010 Minnehaha Ave S (at E
Lake St), Minneapolis
$0-10 suggested donation, no one turned away due to
lack of funds
Curated and Hosted by Rob Yaeger
Featuring Comedy, Music, Youth Performers, Drag Kings,
and more!
with
Hakeem
Joy MacArthur
Miss Harmony Vuitton
River Gordon
and more!
Concession sales (including hot cider and pumpkin
goodies) to benefit the Minnesota Transgender Health
Coalition.
* All-ages, alcohol-free, smoke-free
* Wheelchair accessible
* On bus routes 21 and 7
* ASL interpreted
* Dressing rooms available on site
* No-Scent Policy: so that everyone can be
comfortable, please don't wear perfume or other
scented products
Winner of the 2003 Twin Cities Community Pride
Award, this regularly-held cabaret and party
invites trans, genderqueer and allied people to
get together and celebrate our
communities. genderBLUR works to create a place
for people of all different backgrounds, races,
ethnicities, genders, sexualities and abilities.
* Volunteers and new members for the genderBLUR
Collective are always welcome!
612-823-1152 or www.genderBLUR.org
--- This event is made possible in part by a
grant from the Philanthrofund Foundation. ---
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PLUS:
The genderBLUR Collective Presents
A Town Hall Forum: "Transgender History, Activism, and
Today"
With guest Susan Stryker
Thursday, October 20, 7-9 pm
At Patrick's Cabaret, 3010 Minnehaha Ave S (at E Lake
St), Minneapolis
Admission is free
For more information:
612-823-1152 or www.genderBLUR.org
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Susan Stryker featured guest in several additional U
of MN events:
(De)Subjugated Knowledges: The Recent Emergence of
Transgender Studies
Friday, October 21, 3:30-5PM Presidents Room,
Coffman Memorial Union, 3rd floor
Susan Styker, internationally recognized
transgender studies scholar and co-editor of the
forthcoming Transgender Studies Reader,
(Routledge 2006), discusses the intellectual
history and political epistemology of her fields
emergence in the 1990s. Part of the Feminist
Studies Colloquium Series 2005-2006. Admission is
free. Directions:
http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/CMU/index.html FFI:
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Screaming Queens: The Riot at Comptons Cafeteria
Friday, October 21, 7:30PM Hubert H. Humphrey
Auditorium
We will be screening a film by Victor Silverman
and Susan Stryker which tells the little known
story of the 1966 riot in San Franciscos
impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, when
transgender prostitutes and gay hustlers banded
together for the first time in U.S. History to
fight back against police harassment. Followed
by a q&a with filmmaker Susan Stryker. Admission
is free. Directions:
http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/HHHCtr/
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