Weekly Announcements
September 11th - September 17th
- First Fall 2006 Outrage meeting, 9/11 @ 7:30pm
- LGBTQ Law Association of CNY is hosting a lunchtime forum, 9/20
- ImageOut Film Festival, Rochester, NY
- Intersex Researcher Dr. Alice Domurat Dreger speaking at Hamilton College, 9/11
- Senior Research Position open at GLSEN
- Ph.D. Student from UCLA seeks participants for his researc
- Submissions for queer undergraduate journal
LGBT Resource Center News
1. FIRST FALL 2006 OUTRAGE MEETING:
Monday, September 11th, 7:30pm at the LGBT Resource Center:
Outrage, a fun project-based LGBT activism group, would like to invite you and your friends/colleagues to join us at our first brainstorming/organizing meeting of the fall 2006 semester
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY NEWS
2. The LGBTQ Law Association of Central New York
The LGBTQ Law Association of Central New York and other allies are sponsoring a lunchtime forum at SU Law School on Weds., 9/20 at noon (room TBA) to talk about next steps in the struggle for same sex marriage rights in New York State. SO, SAVE THE DATE! Guest speaker will be Ross Levi, Policy & Government Affairs Director of the Empire State Pride Agenda.
3. ImageOut Film Festival: the largest GLBTQ film festival in NY outside of NYC
ImageOut Film Festival: the largest GLBTQ film festival in NY outside of NYC and, because of the consistent quality of the programming, brings incredible guests and films to the region every year. Films begin on 10/6 and continue through 10/15. If you have never been, you might want to check it out. As of last year, you can finally buy tickets online which is helpful for out-of-towners. Check us out at http://www.imageout.org/
4. Intersex Researcher Dr. Alice Domurat Dreger speaking at Hamilton College, 9/11
On Monday, September 11, in the Hamilton College Science Center Auditorium, Dr. Alice Domurat Dreger will be giving a talk entitled "The Role of Doctors in the Future of Normal" at 4:00pm.
Alice works with people with different bodies, notably conjoined twins and intersex individuals. She questions the tendency of medical professionals to rush to a surgical 'fix' of people to our concept of normal. She argues that there is not sufficient attention paid to the effect of surgery done on infants and children on their later physiology as adults. She will also be talking on Tuesday night at Hamilton (at 7:30) titled "Something is actually happening: should academics do something about.
http://www.alicedreger.com
5. Open Position: Senior Research Associate at GLSEN www.glsen.org
Objective: Work collaboratively with members of GLSEN's Research
Department in all areas of GLSEN's research program. The department conducts original research that demonstrates the educational impact of anti-LGBT bias and harassment and that evaluates the efficacy of GLSEN's recommended interventions, conducts evaluation research regarding GLSEN's programs and educational resources and produces up-to-date, research-based publications that support the organization's policy and
programmatic work.
Responsibilities:
A. Managing research projects.
B. Develop and design of new research.
C. Assist with preparation and presentation of GLSEN's research findings and summaries of other relevant research for internal and external audiences.
D. Provide technical assistance to GLSEN staff and key organizational
allies to promote GLSEN's efforts to achieve policy and programmatic improvements on LGBT issues in K-12 schools.
Required skills: Master's degree in Psychology, Social Sciences, Social Work, Education or related field or BA in related field plus 5 years experience, PhD preferred.
This position is located in GLSEN's New York City headquarters.
Resumes and letter of interest should be submitted to:
jkosciw@glsen.org, faxed to 212-727-0254, or mailed to Dr. Joseph
Kosciw, Research Director, GLSEN, 90 Broad Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10004. *For more details on this job description please visit www.glsen.org
NATIONAL NEWS
6. Ph.D. Student from UCLA seeks participants for his research
Adam Fingerhut, PhD candidate from the UCLA Psychology Department is currently working on a study about gay identity, stress and health, and he is writing to you to ask for help with his study.
A message from Adam: As a follow-up to a study conducted a year ago, I am now conducting a short-term longitudinal study to examine the life experiences of gay men. More specifically, I am asking Caucasian gay men to report on their daily experiences with a variety of stressors and to report on their mood and sense of well being each day for 14 consecutive days. Individuals will be paid $25 for participating.
Should you have any questions, or if you want to learn more about the research and what your participation would involve you can either contact me at awf@ucla.edu or at 310-267-5572. Additionally, to learn more about the researchers, click here
<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=436292157013> .
*Please note that if you are interested in participating in this study you must review the attached approval notice from the UCLA Institutional Review Board!
7. Submissions for queer undergraduate journal!
Submissions: (re)actions - poetry - fiction - visual arts
queer., the only intercollegiate undergraduate journal for critical discussion around what it means to be queer., is accepting submissions for a fall 2006 release.
queer. is published by Campus Pride (www.campuspride.net),
the only national non-profit serving LGBT and ally student leaders at colleges and universities across the country.
queer. is an international publication with editors at nearly 20 undergraduate institutions across the US and Canada. It is distributed to over 100 schools and its entire content is posted online at www.queer-journal.com.
The theme for our fall 2006 issue is the INTERNET.
We are particularly looking for pieces that reflect on the intersection between our sexualities and the internet. For example, how do we express our sexuality online, what do online relationships mean for our sexual identities, how has an online cruising culture shaped our sexual behavior, etc.? Anything related to sexuality and the internet is fair game.
We primarily accept pieces in the following formats, but others are welcomed as well:
- (re)actions - concise and powerful statements of about 800 words reacting to the current issue's theme by, for example, complicating related questions, deconstructing them, or clarifying them
- reflections - expressions in the form of poetry, fiction, and visual arts and resonating with the current issue's theme
- essays - academic pieces previously submitted for course credit reflecting the issue's theme
queer. is also continually accepting submissions, in the formats above, for a spring 2007 issue with HEALTH as its theme.
Submit your work for the INTERNET issue by October 15, 2006, by e-mailing it to mail@queer-journal.com. Only submissions from undergraduates will be accepted. All submissions must be in English or accompanied by an English translation.
If you are interested in being involved with queer. in an editorial capacity, please e-mail Michael Amico, editor-in- chief, at michael.amico@dartmouth.edu.
For more information and the content of past issues, please visit our website at www.queer-journal.com.
* * * * *
To Submit A News Item
Send articles, messages, or links to the Weekly Announcements editor at jamiciel@syr.edu. Please include in the subject line "Weekly Announcement." All submissions must be received by Friday at 11 am to be included in the following week's edition and are subject to review by our editor.
Corrections, Clarifications
The LGBT Resource Center strives to report all news items fairly and accurately. If you find an error, please write to the Weekly Announcements editor at jamiciel@syr.edu and we'll correct any inaccuracies.
Disclaimer
The views expressed in Weekly Announcements are those of the submitters and do not reflect the opinion, views, or policies of Syracuse University, the LGBT Resource Center, or the editor of Weekly Announcements, unless otherwise noted. All readers are permitted to freely distribute the information contained herein.