S. Bear Bergman, author of Butch Is a Noun, and The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You Returns to Colorado State University!

Join Campus Activities, Campus Progress, the CSU Bookstore, the GLBT Resource Center, Lambda Theta Nu Sorority, Inc., Parents Fund and SOGLBT in welcoming Bear back to campus for two days, and three events!

The LGBT Edge

Wednesday, November 18th, 3:00pm -- 4:30pm

Lory Student Center, Room 228

Ever thought about the ways coming out or transitioning might help you in your career? Or perhaps you have never considered that all those hours researching resources could actually be a transferable business skill?  Join Bear for the LGBT Edge as ze dicusses "how being queer relates to real-life professional skills. The coming out process often involves creating a support network, undertaking a rigorous process of education and training, cross-cultural communication, and renegotiating unwritten contracts. A gender transition involves managing a budget, medical research, and investigation of laws and statutes. These are more than just transferrable skills -- they're a testament to our determination, resilience, and other qualities that make stellar professionals."

The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

Wednesday, November 18th, 6:00 p.m. -- 8:00 p.m.

Lory Student Center, CSU Bookstore

Hear Bear share from hir's nearest work and enjoy some free refreshments! 

Amazon.Com's DescWith humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one. Throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there are things you learn when you're visibly different from those around you—whether it's being transgressively gendered or readably queer. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt in the freakshow tent long after the midway has gone dark, when the good hooch gets passed around and the best stories get told. Ze offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the "official stories" about how gender and sexuality work."


What Others Have Said:

"Bear Bergman is an endearing, gallant, sexy fellow, the queer world's daddy, brother, and son. In Nearest Exit, he's writing it all down for us, today's transgender experience. This is a landmark book for both queer theory and literature, written by an accomplished teller of tales. It's a book that will be cherished by generations of queer youth and adults alike. My heart overflows the brim with love and pride when I read his words."

-Kate Bornstein, author of Hello, Cruel World

"It is rare that I pick up a book and see my life reflected in the words inside it. Bear Bergman has written parts of my life down for me to look at from another direction - a funny, compassionate, nimble-tongued and Jewish direction. I want to give a copy of this book to everyone in my family, with love."-Ivan E. Coyote, author of The Slow Fix

 Sing If You're Glad to be Trans!

Thursday, November 19th, 2009, 12:30pm -- 2:30pm

Lory Student Center, Room 228

While the difficult narratives of trans life are valid and deserve our attention, is it not perhaps enough with the all-misery-all-the-time tranny channel? Being trans is not a reason for pity, scorn, shame, or apology. This lecture celebrates trans bodies, communities, awareness, sex, love, particular talents, successes and self-creation with a faultless logic and good humor that may just make you appreciate transfolks (or being trans) in a whole new way. Celebrate Trans Day of Remembrance! For more information on Transgender Day of Remembrance, please visit, www.gender.org/remember/day/.

Upcoming News/Events

Barriers to Full Citizenship on Colorado Campuses for Transgender & Gender Variant Students, Staff, & Faculty: A qualitative research opportunity.

  We invite you to participate in a qualitative research study exploring the lived experiences of transgender and gender variant students, staff, and faculty members within institutions of higher education in Colorado.

This project has been developed in collaboration with the Colorado Trans on Campus working group of the Colorado Anti-Violence Program. The working group consists of trans-identified and non-transgender allies who are student leaders, activists, staff, and faculty from numerous Colorado colleges and Universities.

The project consists of one-on-one interviews lasting 60 to 90 minutes which explore the barriers and supports that participants have encountered in their experiences on campus. All information collected in the study is confidential and will only be reported in aggregate form to insure that participants' identities are not recognizable. Participants will be receive a $25 gift certificate from a local or online retailer for their participation in the study.

The study is being led by Dr. N. Eugene Walls, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver and has been approved by the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects at the University of Denver. Questions regarding the study can be directed to Dr. Walls at 303-871-4367 or via email to ewalls2@du.edu

To be eligible to participate, you should be:

A.         Current student, staff, or faculty member at a Colorado institution of higher education;

                        OR

Have been a student, staff, or faculty member at a Colorado institution of higher education within the last 12 months;

B.         18 years of age or older

C.         Identify as transgender, identify as gender variant, or be perceived as gender variant by others. (Gender variant may also be known as gender non-conforming, genderqueer, gender fluid, etc.)

To schedule an interview, contact Dr. Walls at 303-871-4367 or by email at ewalls2@du.edu

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