Saturday, January 23, 2010
Gay penpal seeking same!
Check out the project's website for the tips and guidelines for being a penpal: http://www.prisonercorrespondenceproject.com/
Friday, January 8, 2010
Market this!
Cum to the Qf meeting and screening of MARKET THIS!: Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation on Thursday Jan.14th, 4pm @ UCU205. Part of OPIRG week!
For more info check out:OPIRG Week Jan. 11-15 2010!
Monday, November 16, 2009
TWO SPIRIT AND QUEER LIBERATION MOVEMENTS
The OPIRG Carleton Fall Colloquium presents
TWO SPIRIT AND QUEER LIBERATION MOVEMENTS
From Radical Revolt to Freedom Fighting Justice
With presentations by:
Jessica Yee, Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Gary Kinsman, co-author of "The Canadian War on Queers"
Ashley Fortier, Q-Team
Zaheen, Agitate! Ottawa
Wednesday Nov 25th
7-9 pm
Montgomery Legion Hall, 330 Kent Street near Somerset Ave (wheelchair accessible)
Suggested donation $5-10, no one turned away
Advance tickets available at OPIRG Carleton (326 UniCentre), OPIRG-GRIPO (631 King Edward Ave, 3rd floor) Venus Envy Ottawa (320 Lisgar St), and Octopus Books (116 Third Ave)
Talk descriptions:
>> Two Spirited Indigenous Feminist Freedom Fighting with Jessica Yee <<
Jessica Yee is a self-described Two Spirited Indigenous Feminist Freedom Fighter - and as such will outline how frameworks like reproductive justice and movements like Indigenous feminism come into play with her work with Two-Spirited youth specifically as the founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network - currently the only Aboriginal organization in North America to work within the full spectrum of reproductive and sexual health.
Jessica Yee is a 23 year old Two Spirited young woman from the Mohawk Nation. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, a North America wide organization working on issues of healthy sexuality, reproductive justice, cultural competency, and youth empowerment.
>> Remembering Revolt and Resistance: Queer Struggles Against the Canadian National Security State with Gary Kinsman <<
Queer liberation started as a radical revolt against heterosexual hegemony in alliance with other groups fighting against oppression and for social liberation. This presentation actively remembers queer organizing against the Canadian national security state from the late 1950s to the 1990s. This resistance undermined and dismantled the Canadian War on Queers which had led to the purging, surveillance, and harassment of thousands of queer identified people. This presentation draws from the just-released book "The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation" which will be available for sale at the event.
Gary Kinsman is a longtime queer liberation and anti-capitalist activist. He is the author of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities (1996), co-editor of Whose National Security? (2000), and Sociology for Changing the World (2006). He is a professor of Sociology at Laurentian University in Sudbury.
>> Queer Organizing Against Apartheid with Ashley Fortier <<
Drawing on a long history of queer solidarity organizing against South African apartheid, and in response to Israel’s branding of itself as a safe haven for queers in order to distract from its racist policies towards Palestinians, a growing movement of queer solidarity against Israeli Apartheid has emerged in recent years. This presentation will
highlight some organizing successes and challenges throughout Canada and the U.S. and demonstrate the importance for queers to learn about and join in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel.
Ashley Fortier is based out of Montreal where she organizes around radical queer, prisoner justice, and Palestine solidarity struggles. She's also a part-time activist researcher with the Collectif de recherche sur l'autonomie collective, works as a coordinator at QPIRG Concordia, and hopes one day to complete her graduate certificate in
Editing and Publishing from Ryerson University.
>> Agitating Ottawa: A Local Perspective on Queer Anti-Racist Organizing with Zaheen <<
Think Ottawa’s bureaucratic and stuffy reputation is a drag? Unfortunately, this reputation has permeated many facets of our community, including the activist and queer communities. Anti-racist and queer organizing has never been easy in this city, but we have definitely come a long way. Zaheen from Agitate!, a local collective for queer people of colour, will address some challenges in doing this type of organizing in our city, as well as successes and ways we have overcome and continue to overcome these challenges.
Zaheen is a local community activist and has been a member of Agitate for almost 5 years. She is also involved with other community organizations such as Ladyfest Ottawa, SASC, and has recently joined the staff at OPIRG-GRIPO as one of their Coordinators. In her spare time, she likes to eat ice cream, be a Muslim heathen, and rock out to
Whitney Houston.
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Endorsed by the CUSA GLBTQ Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the CUSA Womyn's Centre, the CUSA Aboriginal Service Centre, the Carleton Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education, OPIRG-Ottawa/GRIPO-Ottawa, the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement-Ottawa, Agitate! Ottawa, Queer fAction, Q-Team, the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, PTS LBTTQ Women's Health and Sexuality Program, Students Against Israeli Apartheid-Carleton, After Stonewall, Venus Envy Ottawa, and Octopus Books.
Brought to you by OPIRG Carleton . . . research, education and action
on social and environmental justice issues, since 1980.
For more info, contact opirg@carleton.ca or 613 520 2757.
On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2261598026&ref=ts#/event.php?eid=173367522837&index=1
TWO SPIRIT AND QUEER LIBERATION MOVEMENTS
From Radical Revolt to Freedom Fighting Justice
With presentations by:
Jessica Yee, Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Gary Kinsman, co-author of "The Canadian War on Queers"
Ashley Fortier, Q-Team
Zaheen, Agitate! Ottawa
Wednesday Nov 25th
7-9 pm
Montgomery Legion Hall, 330 Kent Street near Somerset Ave (wheelchair accessible)
Suggested donation $5-10, no one turned away
Advance tickets available at OPIRG Carleton (326 UniCentre), OPIRG-GRIPO (631 King Edward Ave, 3rd floor) Venus Envy Ottawa (320 Lisgar St), and Octopus Books (116 Third Ave)
Talk descriptions:
>> Two Spirited Indigenous Feminist Freedom Fighting with Jessica Yee <<
Jessica Yee is a self-described Two Spirited Indigenous Feminist Freedom Fighter - and as such will outline how frameworks like reproductive justice and movements like Indigenous feminism come into play with her work with Two-Spirited youth specifically as the founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network - currently the only Aboriginal organization in North America to work within the full spectrum of reproductive and sexual health.
Jessica Yee is a 23 year old Two Spirited young woman from the Mohawk Nation. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, a North America wide organization working on issues of healthy sexuality, reproductive justice, cultural competency, and youth empowerment.
>> Remembering Revolt and Resistance: Queer Struggles Against the Canadian National Security State with Gary Kinsman <<
Queer liberation started as a radical revolt against heterosexual hegemony in alliance with other groups fighting against oppression and for social liberation. This presentation actively remembers queer organizing against the Canadian national security state from the late 1950s to the 1990s. This resistance undermined and dismantled the Canadian War on Queers which had led to the purging, surveillance, and harassment of thousands of queer identified people. This presentation draws from the just-released book "The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation" which will be available for sale at the event.
Gary Kinsman is a longtime queer liberation and anti-capitalist activist. He is the author of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities (1996), co-editor of Whose National Security? (2000), and Sociology for Changing the World (2006). He is a professor of Sociology at Laurentian University in Sudbury.
>> Queer Organizing Against Apartheid with Ashley Fortier <<
Drawing on a long history of queer solidarity organizing against South African apartheid, and in response to Israel’s branding of itself as a safe haven for queers in order to distract from its racist policies towards Palestinians, a growing movement of queer solidarity against Israeli Apartheid has emerged in recent years. This presentation will
highlight some organizing successes and challenges throughout Canada and the U.S. and demonstrate the importance for queers to learn about and join in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel.
Ashley Fortier is based out of Montreal where she organizes around radical queer, prisoner justice, and Palestine solidarity struggles. She's also a part-time activist researcher with the Collectif de recherche sur l'autonomie collective, works as a coordinator at QPIRG Concordia, and hopes one day to complete her graduate certificate in
Editing and Publishing from Ryerson University.
>> Agitating Ottawa: A Local Perspective on Queer Anti-Racist Organizing with Zaheen <<
Think Ottawa’s bureaucratic and stuffy reputation is a drag? Unfortunately, this reputation has permeated many facets of our community, including the activist and queer communities. Anti-racist and queer organizing has never been easy in this city, but we have definitely come a long way. Zaheen from Agitate!, a local collective for queer people of colour, will address some challenges in doing this type of organizing in our city, as well as successes and ways we have overcome and continue to overcome these challenges.
Zaheen is a local community activist and has been a member of Agitate for almost 5 years. She is also involved with other community organizations such as Ladyfest Ottawa, SASC, and has recently joined the staff at OPIRG-GRIPO as one of their Coordinators. In her spare time, she likes to eat ice cream, be a Muslim heathen, and rock out to
Whitney Houston.
* * *
Endorsed by the CUSA GLBTQ Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the CUSA Womyn's Centre, the CUSA Aboriginal Service Centre, the Carleton Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education, OPIRG-Ottawa/GRIPO-Ottawa, the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement-Ottawa, Agitate! Ottawa, Queer fAction, Q-Team, the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, PTS LBTTQ Women's Health and Sexuality Program, Students Against Israeli Apartheid-Carleton, After Stonewall, Venus Envy Ottawa, and Octopus Books.
Brought to you by OPIRG Carleton . . . research, education and action
on social and environmental justice issues, since 1980.
For more info, contact opirg@carleton.ca or 613 520 2757.
On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
"CRIMINAL QUEERS" screening in Ottawa!
Saturday, November 14th at 6PM “Agora” of the University of Ottawa's University Centre (UCU, map)
85 University, (bottom floor)
Chris Vargas and Eric Stanley will be in Ottawa presenting their latest film Criminal Queers! Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation. Follow Yoshi, Joy, Susan and Lucy as they fiercely read everything from the Human Rights Campaign and hate crimes legislation to the non-profitization of social movements. Criminal Queers grows our collective liberation by working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
85 University, (bottom floor)
Criminal Queers brings together powerful abolitionist voices like Angela Y. Davis (who plays herself in the film), with a fictional, campy world of queer insurrection. Reworking what a queer history might mean for the possibility of surviving the present, the program centers the devastating effects the prison industrial complex (PIC) has had on transgender/ gender non-conforming and queer communities.
The Agora/University Centre is wheelchair-accessible >> Accessible entrances to the UCU can be found here (http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/)
(Désolé, le film est seulement disponible en anglais.)
Presented by: QUEER fACTION, OPIRG-GRIPO Ottawa, SFUO Women's Resource Centre, and the University of Ottawa Women's Collective
www.criminalqueersfilm.net
www.queerfaction.blogspot.com
The Agora/University Centre is wheelchair-accessible >> Accessible entrances to the UCU can be found here (http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/)
(Désolé, le film est seulement disponible en anglais.)
Presented by: QUEER fACTION, OPIRG-GRIPO Ottawa, SFUO Women's Resource Centre, and the University of Ottawa Women's Collective
www.criminalqueersfilm.net
www.queerfaction.blogspot.com
Nov. 21st Consulta: mobilizing against the G8/G20 summit
**ENGLISH FOLLOWS
****Appel à tous pour le 21 Novembre pour une Consultation****
Appel à tous les groupes, organisations et individus de la Région de l'Outaouais et Ottawa qui sont interressés à se mobiliser contre le Sommet du G8-G20 en Juin 2010.
Le Collectif du Chat Noir vous invites à participer à une consultation Samedi, le 21 Novembre. afin de collaborer à une stratégie de résistance et organiser des évènements locaux et dans d'autres Villes, et ainsi de se mobiliser en préparation pour le Sommet.
Nous sommes un petit collectif d'individus interresé à voir une mobilisation d'envergure et une coalition en opposition contre le sommet du G8-G20. Le Collectif de Chat Noir est un groupe anti capitaliste. Nous nous aderrons aux principes de l'AMP, Cependant, nous sommes prêts à travailler avec des groupes adhérent à d'autres principe organisationnelle.
De cette Consultation, Nous espèrons développer:
1) Un appel commun en opposition au G8 (Un avant-projet sera distribué à l'avance et un temps sera aloué durant la Consultation pour en discuter et le modifier)
2) Un plan concret pour les évènements locaux à venir.
3)Un plan pour une tournée d'information sur la mobilisation contre le G8
La structure décisionelle de la Consultation est une version quelque peut modifié de la règle de Robert (Une proposition à besion d'un vote de 80% pour être approuvée)
Le 21 Novembre
a midi (précis)
Au Centre Communautaire Jack Purcell - situé au 320 Jack Purcell (derrière le Starbuck sur Elgin)
Salle 203
Si vous avez des questions concernant la Consultation (incluant des demandes sur le contenue de l'agenda)
veuiller vous adressez à: pierrejbb@gmail.com
Principes de l'Action mondiale des peuples (AMP)
1. Un rejet très clair du féodalisme, du capitalisme, et de l'impérialisme, ainsi que de tous les accords commerciaux, institutions et gouvernements promoteurs d'une mondialisation destructrice
2. Un rejet très clair de toutes formes et systèmes de domination et de discrimination dont (et de manière non exhaustive) le patriarcat, le racisme et le fondamentalisme religieux de toutes croyances. Nous reconnaissons la dignité entière de tous les êtres humains ;
3. Une attitude de confrontation, puisque nous ne pensons pas que le " lobbying " puisse avoir un impact majeur sur des organisations à tel point partiales et antidémocratiques, pour lesquelles le capital transnational est le seul facteur réel déterminant leur politique.
4. Un appel à l'action directe et à la désobéissance civile, au soutien aux luttes des mouvements sociaux, mettant en avant des formes de résistance qui maximisent le respect pour la vie et pour les droits des peuples opprimés, ainsi qu'à la construction d'alternatives locales au capitalisme mondial.
5. Une philosophie organisationnelle fondée sur la décentralisation et l'autonomie.
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Calling all Ottawa-Outaouais groups, organizations and individuals who are interested in mobilizing against the G8/G20 summit in june 2010
Le Collectif du Chat Noir invites you to participate in a consulta on Saturday November 21st. We are proposing to organize support for actions and events in other cities, as well as mobilizing locally in the lead up to the summit.
We are a loose knit collective of individuals interested in seeing a large scale mobilization and coalition emerge in opposition to the G8/G20 meetings. The Collectif du Chat Noir is an anti-capitalist group. We adhere to the PGA hallmarks, though we are very much open to working with groups who have different organizational principals.
From this consulta we hope to see emerge:
1) A common callout in opposition to the G8 (a draft will be distributed ahead of the meeting and time will be set aside at the consulta to discuss and amend it)
2)Concrete plans for lead up events, based locally
3)Plans for an info-tour about the G8 mobilizations
the decision making structure of the consulta will be a slightly modified version of Robert's Rules (where decisions will need an 80% approval to be considered a majority vote)
November 21st
Noon (sharp)
Jack Purcell Community Center-320 Jack Purcell Lane (right off Elgin, behind the Starbucks)
room 203
any questions regarding the consulta (including requests for agenda items) can be sent to: pierrejbb@gmail.com
The PGA hallmarks:
1) A very clear rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism; all trade agreements, institutions and governments that promote destructive globalisation.
2) We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination including, but not limited to, patriarchy, racism and religious fundamentalism of all creeds.
3) We embrace the full dignity of all human beings.
4) A confrontational attitude, since we do not think that lobbying can have a major impact in such biased and undemocratic organisations, in which transnational capital is the only real policy-maker;
5) A call to direct action and civil disobedience, support for social movements' struggles, advocating forms of resistance which maximize respect for life and oppressed peoples' rights, as well as the construction of local alternatives to global capitalism.
6)An organisational philosophy based on decentralisation and autonomy.
Callout for the Nov. 21st Consulta
Calling all Ottawa-Outaouais groups, organizations and individuals who are interested in mobilizing against the G8/G20 summit in june 2010
Le Collectif du Chat Noir invites you to participate in a consulta on Saturday November 21st. We are proposing to organize support for actions and events in other cities, as well as mobilizing locally in the lead up to the summit.
We are a loose knit collective of individuals interested in seeing a large scale mobilization and coalition emerge in opposition to the G8/G20 meetings. The Collectif du Chat Noir is an anti-capitalist group. We adhere to the PGA hallmarks, though we are very much open to working with groups who have different organizational principals.
From this consulta we hope to see emerge:
1) A common callout in opposition to the G8 (a draft will be distributed ahead of the meeting and time will be set aside at the consulta to discuss and amend it)
2)Concrete plans for lead up events, based locally
3)Plans for an info-tour about the G8 mobilizations
the decision making structure of the consulta will be a slightly modified version of Robert's Rules (where decisions will need an 80% approval to be considered a majority vote)
November 21st
Noon (sharp)
Jack Purcell Community Center-320 Jack Purcell Lane (right off Elgin, behind the Starbucks)
room 203
any questions regarding the consulta (including requests for agenda items) can be sent to: pierrejbb@gmail.com
The PGA hallmarks:
1) A very clear rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism; all trade agreements, institutions and governments that promote destructive globalisation.
2) We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination including, but not limited to, patriarchy, racism and religious fundamentalism of all creeds.
3) We embrace the full dignity of all human beings.
4) A confrontational attitude, since we do not think that lobbying can have a major impact in such biased and undemocratic organisations, in which transnational capital is the only real policy-maker;
5) A call to direct action and civil disobedience, support for social movements' struggles, advocating forms of resistance which maximize respect for life and oppressed peoples' rights, as well as the construction of local alternatives to global capitalism.
6)An organisational philosophy based on decentralisation and autonomy.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Orientation Sexuelle- Sexual Orientation
Orientation Sexuelle
Réunion pour les nouveaux membres
Lundi le 5 Octobre
@ 19h00
Dans UCU 301 à l’u d’o
Sexual Orientation
New members meeting
Monday, October 5th
@7PM
Room 301 of the University Centre at OttawaU
Cum plot the revolution!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Cumming Out Party: Oct. 2!!
Who: YOU, your friends, lovers, aunts, cousins, grandfathers...
What: Hanky Code party. Dancing. DJ. Queer History. Collective Art.
Where: SAW Gallery (67 Nicholas St.)
When:Friday, Oct 2nd. 9pm-1am
Why: because we're awesome like that
How: by donation, $5-$10 sliding scale
A night of queer history, collective art, great music, dancing, drinking (cheap beer), gender bendin’, and much more will ensue. But more importantly, cum out to get familiar with Queer fAction, our basis of unity, and fellow queers!
Queer fAction is a radical queer group, based in Ottawa, challenging gender oppression, patriarchy, heterosexism and all other oppression within the queer community and society at large. We believe in the complete freedom of sexual and gender expressions, harnessing the power of grassroots to express solidarity and confront oppression.
Wear a hanky! The Hanky Code was used by men who have sex with men in the 70's to flag what they were looking for. We're reviving and expanding this sexy tradition to all queers! Wear a certain coloured hanky in a certain pocket so people know what you're looking for! For more info on the hanky code, go to: http://alt.xmission.com/~trevin/hanky.html We'll have a few hankys on sale ($3) in case you forget yours.
For folks who want to get involved, we will be having a new members meeting on October 5th at 7pm in UCU301 (at Ottawa U). Check us out at: www.queerfaction.blogspot.com
**Note to folks who don't identify as queer: Come to the party! But please be prepared to be perceived as queer. Please respect the queer space and don't be rude or dismissive if someone queer hits on you. You might consider wearing an orange hanky in your right pocket (“nothing now”) as a queer-positive solution.
**This is a discrimination-free party. Stigma based on HIV status, gender identity or expression, sexuality, race, class or ability is bullshit.
**Club Saw is wheelchair-accessible.
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fAction Queer va avoir un party!
Qui: TOI et tous tes amiEs, tes amantEs, tes tantes, tes cousinEs et ton grand-père...
Quoi: Party de Code Bandanas. Danse. DJ. L'histoire queer. L'art collective.
Où: Galerie SAW (67, rue Nicholas, à Ottawa)
Quand: vendredi 2 octobre. 21h00-1h00
Pourquoi: c'est le fun
Comment: don de 5$ à 10$, échelle flexible
Une soirée d''histoire queer, arts collectives, de la musique, la danse, bière moins chère, gender bendin', et encore plus! Mais plus important, viens connaître fAction Queer, nos points d'unité et d'autres queers!
fAction Queer est un groupe queer basé à Ottawa. Nous nous opposons à l'oppression de tous genres, incluant, mais non limité à, l'hétérosexisme, le patriarcat, le classisme et le sexisme. Nous croyons en la liberté totale de libre
expression de nos désirs et expressions sexuelles. La solidarité et l'action directe sont nos armes.
Porte ton bandana! Le code bandanas était employé par les hommes queer au années 70 pour annoncer leurs préférences spécifiques. Nous rétablissons et élaborons cette tradition sexy pour tous les queers! Porte un hanky de certain couleur dans un certain poche pour que les gens savent ce que tu cherches! Pour plus de renseignements sue le code bandanas clique ici: http://www.skinhy.com/zg-skincuirff.htm Il y aura quelques bandanas en vente (3$) si tu oublies le tien.
Pour les gens qui veulent s'impliquer, une réunion pour les nouveaux membres aura lieu le lundi 5 octobre à 19h00 dans la salle UCU301 (à l'U d'O). Pour plus d'infos: www.queerfaction.blogspot.com
**Aux les gens qui ne s'identifient pas comme queer: Venez au party! Mais SVP soyez prêt d'être perçu comme queer. SVP respectez l'espace queer et ne soyez pas rude ou méprisant si une personne queer vous cruise ou vous fait des avances. Vous pourriez considérer porter un bandana orange dans la poche droit (« rien maintenant ») pour une solution queer-positive.
**C'est un party sans discrimination. La sérophobie et tout stigmate basé sur l'identité ou expression de genre, la sexualité, la race, la classe, ou un handicap sont de la marde.
**Club SAW est accessible aux fauteuils-roulantes.
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