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Wednesday
01.10.07
FTM Support Group 7:30-9:30pm, Diversity
Center, 1117 Soquel Ave, SC. A compassionate, safe
space for individuals on the FTM spectrum to receive
support, network, and socialize with peers in an
environment that is unique for female-to-male trans
persons on all points of gender identity and
emergence. Info: Antonia, 831.425.4409 or Lulu,
831.425.5422.
QLN meets today! 7:30-9pm, Cantú Queer Center.
The Network meets today! 9-10:30pm, Cantú
Queer Center.
HIV Peer Testing at the Cantú Queer Center is
currently on hiatus.
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QStudents!
Be active.
Queer Coffee House Every Tues, 6-9pm.
Relax with friends over coffee and dessert. You can
study, check email, play board games or just hang
out. Bring a friend or meet a new one. Info:
thenetwork.ucsc@gmail.com.
Queer Latina Network (QLN) Every Wed, 7:30-9pm.
Join a network of queer mujeres at UCSC, bringing
together undergraduate, graduate and staff activism,
creative energy and scholarly interest! Info: Tere,
qln@ucsc.edu.
The (GLBTI) Network Every Wed, 9-10:30pm.
The Network is The Voice of UCSC's queer student
populace. Join us in organizing events; help us in
our continual effort to restructure queer groups on
campus. Get involved. Be a part of change. Info:
thenetwork.ucsc@gmail.com.
The Closet 1st & 3rd Thurs, 8-9:30pm.
A safe space for men, who like men, who talk. Info:
Matthew P. Williams, mpwillia@ucsc.edu
or Tim
Fessenden, timbim@ucsc.edu.
Queer Geeks 2nd & 4th Thurs, 8-9:30pm.
Interested in things considered "geeky"? Queer Geeks
is a welcoming place for those who feel that their
interests vary from "popular" culture. Info: Ron
Reyes, ronmreyes@gmail.com.
Project 831 activity is currently on
hiatus
until further notice. Project 831 is a space
for anyone and everyone. Come discuss community
service
activities you'd like to be a part of or just hang
out with us at
the Cantú Queer Center. We love seeing new faces at
our
events. Project 831 welcomes everyone! Info: Meg,
project831@gmail.com.
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Upcoming...
Sun, 01.21.07 ~ Triangle Speaker Training--Help
Put an End to Homophobia and Transphobia
11:30am-4pm, YWCA of Watsonville, 350 E. Beach St,
Watsonville. If you're LGBTQ, a family member or
Ally come
check us out! Info: 831.457.2934, triangle@trianglespeakers.org
or www.trianglespeak0ers.org.
Wed, 01.24.07 ~ Nobody Passes: Rejecting the
Rules of Gender and Conformity Book Reading
7:30pm, Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia St, SF.
A collection of first-person narratives, critical
essays, conversations, and polemics that confronts
and challenges the very notion of belonging--from
activism to academia, immigration to appropriation
to cruising for sex, hip-hop to disability culture
to trans communities. Info: www.mtbs.com
or 415.282.9246.
Tues, 01.30.07 ~ Winter '07 Queer Student
Mixer 7-10pm. Come hang out, have fun and
network with other queer students! Allies welcomed!
Info: thenetwork.ucsc@gmail.com.
02.16.07 - 02.18.07 ~ Western Regional GLBTQIA
College Conference See QFlash* (above) for more
info.
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QReview!
Waiting for Gertrude: A Graveyard Gothic
Author: Bill Richardson
Section: Fiction
Genre: Realistic (?) Fiction, Gay, Lesbian
Rating: 10
Plot Rundown: What happens when the great
minds and talents buried in the Pere Lachaise
cemetery in France are reincarnated as cats? A
nearly improbable amount of humorous and highly
eloquent chaos. The composer Chopin becomes head of
the mailing service. La Fontaine is a tour guide who
speaks only in poetry. Oscar Wilde pines eternally
for the handsome but brutal Jim Morrison. Maria
Callas hounds old, senile Rossini for his composing
abilities, while Rossini loses his glass eye and
forgets who she is. And there is Alice B. Toklas,
who is waiting for the reincarnation of Gertrude
Stein. Waiting for her Gertrude.
Review: Richardson takes an utterly brilliant
premise and runs with it flawlessly, delivering a
spectacular confection of wit, humor, wisdom, and
wackiness written entirely through a series of
letters delivered between the various reincarnated
celebrities. Yet his finest achievement is not the
magnificence of his premise, but the scintillation
of his writing—in every letter, Richardson exactly
captures the essence of the famed, first speaking in
the voice of Alice B. Toklas, then precisely
imitating the writing style of Oscar Wilde. If you
are at all familiar with any of the people used as
characters in this book, then it is a must-read—if
you are not, it is a must-read anyways.
~Ian Sentelik
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