Boston Trans/Queer Events this week
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transWednesday, May 10th, 2006
TransCEND is bringing Earline Budd to Boston. If you are not familiar with Ms. Budd, she's an amazing advocate and speaker on transgender issues focusing on HIV, prison issues, and economic empowerment.
Speaking at the Community Church of Boston 7:00pm
565 Boylston Street, Boston (Copley Square)
Earline Budd
Transgender Health Empowerment Inc.
Earline Budd is a 47 year -old transgender woman and one of the founding members and former Executive Director of Transgender Health Empowerment, Inc. (THE) in Washington D.C. Earline is currently the Director for Transgender Support Services with Miracle Hands, Inc. an organization focusing on transgender HIV + and high risk ex-offenders. She is a dedicated advocate around issues faced by her community while remaining open to help all who call.
Sponsored by:TransCEND
For more information about this event or the new TransCEND program: Contact (617) 599-0242 • www.ccaa.org
Thursday May 11th
Gender Crash Open Mic!
This month's feature, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinhais, a U.S. raised, Toronto-based queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and arts educator. Reading from her new book Consensual Genocide.
7:30pm Spontaneous Celebrations 45 Danforth St, Jamaica Plain Orange line stony brook stop all ages $5 - 10 at the door, open to everyone, more info? www.gendercrash.com
Where you can be a Rock Star! for at least 3 minutes!
Boston's longest running open mic for poets/spoken wordsters/literary geeks/journal writers/queers/transgender/gender queers
This month is co-sponsored by SOUTH ASIAN SOLIDARITY NETWORK, MATAHARI: EYE OF THE
DAY, and East West Books.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a U.S. raised, Toronto-based queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and arts educator. Her writing has been published in the anthologies Colonize This!, Dangerous Families, With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn, the Lambda Award-nominated Brazen Femme, Without a Net, Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws and A Girl's Guide To Taking Over the World. More info about Leah can be found at www.brownstargirl.com
Consensual Genocide (April 2006, TSAR Press) is the long-awaited first collection of poetry. Telling the story of a young queer woman of color's coming of age amidst the fractures of her family and culture, decolonizing her spirit, body and heart. In the middle of 90s anarchy
and queer punk and queer girl of color drama and struggle, tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka's civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets to growing up brown in a dying blue collar Central Massachusetts town
in the 80s, she tells a story we have been waiting for. These fierce poems are full of heart and guts, unafraid of telling raw truths about abuse survival, mixed-race identities, femme lives and brown girl border crossings pre and post 9/11.
Gender Crash will take you from politics to erotica in less than 5 minutes. A fun, welcoming, exciting, and often flirtatious crowd where open mic performances range from spoken word, to comedy, to drag, or
acoustic music, all from newbies to veterans.
ALSO Sneak Peek and ticket giveaway to BIG SPENDER. Big Moves celebrates the lush and luxurious with an all-new dance and performance revue, featuring plus-sized performers doing hip hop, musical theater, belly dance, modern, spoken word, and more, all on one stage. Friday and Saturday, May 19-20, at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, 820 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. Advance tickets are available only online at www.bigmoves.org.
Saturday May 13th
4:30-6p
Words of Wisdom OUTLoud
Youth Pride Open Mic
@ the Coffee House at Arlington St Church 351 Boylston St, Boston
A youth only open mic! Bring your poetry, spoken word, acoustic music, singing, or performance talents to the stage. Sign up to perform at the event. This will be an event to see and be heard! Hosted by Gunner Scott of Gender Crash and Artist/Musician Flynn May.
Co-Sponsored by GenderCrash.com/X Gender Productions and The Network/La Red: Ending abuse in lesbian, bisexual women's and transgender communities.email gunner@gendercrash.com for more info
TransCEND is bringing Earline Budd to Boston. If you are not familiar with Ms. Budd, she's an amazing advocate and speaker on transgender issues focusing on HIV, prison issues, and economic empowerment.
Speaking at the Community Church of Boston 7:00pm
565 Boylston Street, Boston (Copley Square)
Earline Budd
Transgender Health Empowerment Inc.
Earline Budd is a 47 year -old transgender woman and one of the founding members and former Executive Director of Transgender Health Empowerment, Inc. (THE) in Washington D.C. Earline is currently the Director for Transgender Support Services with Miracle Hands, Inc. an organization focusing on transgender HIV + and high risk ex-offenders. She is a dedicated advocate around issues faced by her community while remaining open to help all who call.
Sponsored by:TransCEND
For more information about this event or the new TransCEND program: Contact (617) 599-0242 • www.ccaa.org
Thursday May 11th
Gender Crash Open Mic!
This month's feature, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinhais, a U.S. raised, Toronto-based queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and arts educator. Reading from her new book Consensual Genocide.
7:30pm Spontaneous Celebrations 45 Danforth St, Jamaica Plain Orange line stony brook stop all ages $5 - 10 at the door, open to everyone, more info? www.gendercrash.com
Where you can be a Rock Star! for at least 3 minutes!
Boston's longest running open mic for poets/spoken wordsters/literary geeks/journal writers/queers/transgender/gender queers
This month is co-sponsored by SOUTH ASIAN SOLIDARITY NETWORK, MATAHARI: EYE OF THE
DAY, and East West Books.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a U.S. raised, Toronto-based queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and arts educator. Her writing has been published in the anthologies Colonize This!, Dangerous Families, With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn, the Lambda Award-nominated Brazen Femme, Without a Net, Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws and A Girl's Guide To Taking Over the World. More info about Leah can be found at www.brownstargirl.com
Consensual Genocide (April 2006, TSAR Press) is the long-awaited first collection of poetry. Telling the story of a young queer woman of color's coming of age amidst the fractures of her family and culture, decolonizing her spirit, body and heart. In the middle of 90s anarchy
and queer punk and queer girl of color drama and struggle, tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka's civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets to growing up brown in a dying blue collar Central Massachusetts town
in the 80s, she tells a story we have been waiting for. These fierce poems are full of heart and guts, unafraid of telling raw truths about abuse survival, mixed-race identities, femme lives and brown girl border crossings pre and post 9/11.
Gender Crash will take you from politics to erotica in less than 5 minutes. A fun, welcoming, exciting, and often flirtatious crowd where open mic performances range from spoken word, to comedy, to drag, or
acoustic music, all from newbies to veterans.
ALSO Sneak Peek and ticket giveaway to BIG SPENDER. Big Moves celebrates the lush and luxurious with an all-new dance and performance revue, featuring plus-sized performers doing hip hop, musical theater, belly dance, modern, spoken word, and more, all on one stage. Friday and Saturday, May 19-20, at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, 820 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. Advance tickets are available only online at www.bigmoves.org.
Saturday May 13th
4:30-6p
Words of Wisdom OUTLoud
Youth Pride Open Mic
@ the Coffee House at Arlington St Church 351 Boylston St, Boston
A youth only open mic! Bring your poetry, spoken word, acoustic music, singing, or performance talents to the stage. Sign up to perform at the event. This will be an event to see and be heard! Hosted by Gunner Scott of Gender Crash and Artist/Musician Flynn May.
Co-Sponsored by GenderCrash.com/X Gender Productions and The Network/La Red: Ending abuse in lesbian, bisexual women's and transgender communities.email gunner@gendercrash.com for more info