From queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz Fri Dec 5 10:58:48 2008 From: queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz (Safety In Schools For Queers) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 23:58:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SS4Q] US "50 Under 30" Youth Hate Crimes Report Re-Issued Message-ID: <529285.99789.qm@web38305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message from USA Gender Public Advocacy Coalition: '50 Under 30' Youth Hate Crimes Report Re-Issued ~ Almost 20 New Victims; Re-Titled "70 Under 30" ~ WASHINGTON (December 4, 2008) -- The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition's 2006 hate crimes report, "50 Under 30: Masculinity & The War Against America's Youth" has been updated and re-issued. Because of the nearly 20 new murders, the new title has been changed to "70 Under 30." The original release documented an under-reported tide of violence that had claimed the lives of more than 50 young people age 30 and under from 1995 to 2006. The new report, "70 Under 30" documents the new assaults in the two years since the original. Said GenderPAC Executive Director Riki Wilchins, "It's sad to see so many new murders so quickly. We had hoped to only need to update this report every few years or so, but the pace of violence has surpassed our expectations." The report highlights the continuing vulnerability to assault that individuals face if they are young, of color and gender non-conforming. It also underscores the limited resources for safety and support many of them have. "While many youth who don't fit gender stereotypes for masculinity or femininity face harassment or bullying, when it comes to gender-based murder the victims are specific and consistent," said Wilchins. "The victims tend to be Black (or Latina), biologically male and presenting femininely or as female. Many were transgender or gay identified. And all were killed by young males in extremely violent attacks," added Wilchins. The original report spurred a coalition of groups including Amnesty International (USA), the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the National Education Association - Health Information Network to join together. The organizations called on policy-makers and law enforcement officials to address the epidemic. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs cooperated on the new report and will be folding it into their annual hate crimes report beginning in 2009. Said Avy Skolnik, Coordinator for Statewide and National Programs at the NCAVP, "the attacks are consistent with young men using lethal means to enforce standards of masculinity. These young people are now dying at the rate of one every 6 weeks." Murders that were classified as hate crimes were solved nearly one-and-a-half times more often than those that were not; yet about three quarters of the cases were not so classified. Over half of the murders remain unsolved, as compared with 31% for all homicides nationally, according to the FBI's Crime in the U.S. report (2004). To view or download the complete report, visit www.70under30.org . The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition works to ensure that classrooms and communities are safe for everyone to learn, grow, and succeed -- whether or not they fit expectations for masculinity or femininity. To learn more, visit www.gpac.org . The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) addresses the pervasive problem of violence committed against and within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and HIV-affected communities. For more information visit www.ncavp.org Start your day with Yahoo!7 and win a Sony Bravia TV. Enter now http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/?p1=other&p2=au&p3=tagline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks Heather -----Original Message----- From: queer-bounces at lists.enzyme.org.nz [mailto:queer-bounces at lists.enzyme.org.nz] On Behalf Of queer-request at lists.enzyme.org.nz Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 8:59 PM To: queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz Subject: Queer Digest, Vol 77, Issue 1 Send Queer mailing list submissions to queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.enzyme.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/queer_lists.enzyme.org.nz or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to queer-request at lists.enzyme.org.nz You can reach the person managing the list at queer-owner at lists.enzyme.org.nz When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Queer digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Moana Parsons is out of the office. (Safety In Schools For Queers) 2. US "50 Under 30" Youth Hate Crimes Report Re-Issued (Safety In Schools For Queers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:03:29 +1300 From: Safety In Schools For Queers Subject: [SS4Q] Moana Parsons is out of the office. To: queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I will be out of the office starting 24/11/2008 and will not return until 08/12/2008. =============================================================== WARNING This message may contain information that is confidential and may be subject to the provisions of section 50 of the Policing Act 2008, which creates an offence to have unlawful possession of Police property. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or have received this message in error, you must not peruse, use, pass or copy this message or any of its contents. Also note, the views expressed in this message may not necessarily reflect those of the New Zealand Police. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.enzyme.org.nz/pipermail/queer_lists.enzyme.org.nz/attachmen ts/20081126/641cf38d/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 23:58:48 -0800 (PST) From: Safety In Schools For Queers Subject: [SS4Q] US "50 Under 30" Youth Hate Crimes Report Re-Issued To: queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz Message-ID: <529285.99789.qm at web38305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message from USA Gender Public Advocacy Coalition: '50 Under 30' Youth Hate Crimes Report Re-Issued ~ Almost 20 New Victims; Re-Titled "70 Under 30" ~ WASHINGTON (December 4, 2008) -- The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition's 2006 hate crimes report, "50 Under 30: Masculinity & The War Against America's Youth" has been updated and re-issued. Because of the nearly 20 new murders, the new title has been changed to "70 Under 30." The original release documented an under-reported tide of violence that had claimed the lives of more than 50 young people age 30 and under from 1995 to 2006. The new report, "70 Under 30" documents the new assaults in the two years since the original. Said GenderPAC Executive Director Riki Wilchins, "It's sad to see so many new murders so quickly. We had hoped to only need to update this report every few years or so, but the pace of violence has surpassed our expectations." The report highlights the continuing vulnerability to assault that individuals face if they are young, of color and gender non-conforming. It also underscores the limited resources for safety and support many of them have. "While many youth who don't fit gender stereotypes for masculinity or femininity face harassment or bullying, when it comes to gender-based murder the victims are specific and consistent," said Wilchins. "The victims tend to be Black (or Latina), biologically male and presenting femininely or as female. Many were transgender or gay identified. And all were killed by young males in extremely violent attacks," added Wilchins. The original report spurred a coalition of groups including Amnesty International (USA), the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the National Education Association - Health Information Network to join together. The organizations called on policy-makers and law enforcement officials to address the epidemic. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs cooperated on the new report and will be folding it into their annual hate crimes report beginning in 2009. Said Avy Skolnik, Coordinator for Statewide and National Programs at the NCAVP, "the attacks are consistent with young men using lethal means to enforce standards of masculinity. These young people are now dying at the rate of one every 6 weeks." Murders that were classified as hate crimes were solved nearly one-and-a-half times more often than those that were not; yet about three quarters of the cases were not so classified. Over half of the murders remain unsolved, as compared with 31% for all homicides nationally, according to the FBI's Crime in the U.S. report (2004). To view or download the complete report, visit www.70under30.org . The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition works to ensure that classrooms and communities are safe for everyone to learn, grow, and succeed -- whether or not they fit expectations for masculinity or femininity. To learn more, visit www.gpac.org . The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) addresses the pervasive problem of violence committed against and within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and HIV-affected communities. For more information visit www.ncavp.org Start your day with Yahoo!7 and win a Sony Bravia TV. Enter now http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/?p1=other&p2=au&p3=tagline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.enzyme.org.nz/pipermail/queer_lists.enzyme.org.nz/attachmen ts/20081204/0016e7a9/attachment.html ------------------------------ http://www.outthere.org.nz/home End of Queer Digest, Vol 77, Issue 1 ************************************ From queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz Tue Dec 16 05:42:39 2008 From: queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz (Safety In Schools For Queers) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:42:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: [SS4Q] British PFLAG launches Safe Schools Training In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <496555.93773.qm@web38308.mail.mud.yahoo.com> PFLAG launches safe schools training for parents and LGBT allies A British?advocacy and support group for the families and friends of lesbian and gay people has launched a new community-based safe schools programme. 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URL: http://lists.enzyme.org.nz/pipermail/queer_lists.enzyme.org.nz/attachments/20081215/2a61c0cf/attachment-0001.html From queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz Thu Dec 18 03:38:08 2008 From: queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz (Safety In Schools For Queers) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:38:08 +1300 Subject: [SS4Q] FW: LGBT Visiting Scholars program at NYPL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Link below: http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=193 text follows: The New York Public Library New LGBT Visiting Scholars Program Stipends Available for Research with Library's LGBT collections The New York Public Library continues to expand, build, and make accessible it's extensive Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) collections by announcing the creation of the LGBT Visiting Scholars Program. Created with the generous support of LGBT Committee Ambassador Martin Duberman and his partner Eli Zal, the program enables the Library to provide travel stipends to New York City for up to three visiting scholars to do LGBT research in the Library's collections. The awards will be limited to emerging scholars or those who are unaffiliated with an academic institution. The selected Martin Duberman Scholars will receive travel grants that range from $1,000 to $8,500 and will as be provided with workspace at the Library to pursue their research. Interested applicants should send a three to five page research proposal specifying the collections at the Library relevant to their project, a draft budget, and itinerary for their trip, a cover letter, and an appropriate letter of recommendation. Applications should be sent to Jason Baumann, The New York Public Library, 11 West 40th Street, South Court 3, New York, NY 10018. Applications must be received by January 31, 2009. Notification of awards will be sent beginning March 1, 2009. Recipients must make their trip within the year of 2009. The LGBT collection at The New York Public Library continues to be one of the largest and most thorough in the country. The collections include the archives of pioneering LGBT activists, such as Morty Manford, and Barbara Gitting and Kay Tobin Lahusen; the papers of scholars, such as Martin Duberman, Jonathan Ned Katz, and Karla Jay; organizational archives of pivotal civil rights groups, such as the Mattachine Society of New York and Gay Activist Alliance; and the papers of LGBT writers, such as W.H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, and Joseph Beam. The Library's collections also include major archives in the history of the AIDS crisis, extensive holdings in the history of LGBT theatre, and the Black Gay and Lesbian archive. ------ End of Forwarded Message ------ End of Forwarded Message From queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz Thu Dec 18 04:06:26 2008 From: queer at lists.enzyme.org.nz (Safety In Schools For Queers) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:06:26 +1300 Subject: [SS4Q] FW: BA/MA Gender, Sexuality and Society / Amsterdam In-Reply-To: <5500FA9283D6714F88943B19B158D3FBE72916@ASSLEMAIL.adf.bham.ac.uk> Message-ID: Interested in the study of gender and sexuality? The University of Amsterdam offers a mainly English-language Bachelor and Masters programme on Gender, Sexuality and Society (GSS). The uniqueness of the programme is that it is positioned in the social sciences, whereas the majority of gender and/or sexuality studies are located within the humanities. The combination of empirical studies with theoretical reflection provides the intellectual tools and abilities that students need to better understand, analyse and cope with the world's contemporary problems and complexities related to gender and/or sexuality. Gender and sexuality studies are devoted to enhancing our understanding of the differences among groups of women and groups of men - as well as between women and men - in an era of globalization and transnational migration. A range of social distinctions among and between women and men, and the particular forms of agency available to them, are grounded in their ethnic and religious identities, age categories, class location, sexual orientation, or access to political power. These distinctions produce different experiences and entitlements in civil society, hence of citizenship. These distinctions place individuals differently in society, shaping their experiences and entitlements as well as informing their perspectives on the possibilities for the forging of lives, careers, social and sexual bonds. This scholarly endeavor represents a systematic attempt to address structurally embedded prescriptions concerning gender relations and sexual behavior on a par with other analytical variables such as class, ethnicity, religion, age, or political ideology. The programme on Gender, Sexuality and Society aims to integrate the social and cultural imperatives that shape gendered identities and sexual relationships into the normal research repertoire of social scientists. Accordingly, in the programme students will learn how to incorporate a multi-disciplinary and transnational approach. The historical and comparative dimensions emphasized in the majority of the courses train the student to analyse issues in society and culture from various perspectives and to put them in their wide-ranging sociological, political and cultural contexts. The programme on Gender, Sexuality and Society provides the student with a solid theoretical, conceptual, and methodological foundation in the social sciences. The Universiteit van Amsterdam has a sophisticated, experienced and international oriented teaching staff, a well built network of experts outside the university, specialized libraries and archives, and a student network. Expertise in gender and sexuality studies has been developed since their incipience in the late 1970s. The staff employs an interdisciplinary perspective, having specializations in women's, gender and queer studies, in sociology, anthropology, history, political science, and philosophy. This lively and colourful academic community is, above all, based in a city that is famous for its liberal sexual attitudes and knows many interesting spots for people who are interested in the field of gender and sexuality. See http://www.ishss.uva.nl/ For questions and more information, please contact the programme manager Margriet de Rooij: M.W.deRooij at uva.nl ------ End of Forwarded Message