Oregon Hillel:
The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
SHALOM! Free Shabbat services and dinner Fridays at 6:00 p.m
Stop by anytime.
1059 Hilyard, 343-8920
Check our website for a full listing of events: www.oregonhillel.org
Campus Ministry
Grace Lutheran Church
18th & Hilyard (just west of campus)
Sundays at Grace
Worship services: 8:30 am & 11:00 am
Thursdays:
Student Dinners: 6 pm
Bible Study: 7 pm
Grief support group: 7 pm
Contact Dave at 342-4844 or david@glchurch.org
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Orthodox Christianity
DiSCOVCr the historic church of the New Testament.
The faith of 2000 years, unaltered and
unchanged by innovations or reform.
For more information contact St. George Church 683-3519
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Sunday Devotionals, 10 am
Also childrens classes and adult sessions at
Baha’i Faith Center • 1458 Alder Street
To learn about the Baha’i Faith and our activities in the
o Eugene/Springfield area call 344-3173 or 1-800-22-CJN1TE
or visit our website at www.bahai.org.
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June 3rd, 7 pm
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Make History
in Summer Session 2005...
Group Satisfying
• Western Civilization
• United States History
• Intro to American
Environmental History
• And more
Electives
• American West in Film
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Immigration
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6pm - 12am
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A Formal Masquerade Bali
Friday, May 27 th
Lesson at 7:30, Dancing 8:30-11:30
EMU Ballroom
$8 students, SlO community
Price includes foxtrot/waltz lessons by Tim Bennet from Portland
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Summer 2005
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African Music
Mus 407 (42340) 3pm
Mus 507 (42340) 3pm
Instructor:
Dr. Don Addison
Home: 344-4758
daddison@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Native American Music
Mus 407 (42341) 1pm
Mus 507 (42349) 1 pm
Mon-Thu rs
June 20-July 15
Hill-Meyer:
She sees more
than 2 genders
Continued from page 1A
book “Getting Bi.” The rapt audi
ence, which included many bisexu
als, gathered in a stuffy EMU Suite
34, home of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisex
ual, TVansgender, Queer Alliance.
The pieces explored the lack of suit
able language in English to address the
complex issues surrounding gender
identity, especially for bisexuals.
Hill-Meyer said the problem is “this
sense of not having the language to
communicate what’s going on for me,
having an idea in my head but no way
to communicate that to other people.”
Hill-Meyer said that sex is often
equated with gender but that sexual
orientation is not all about sex. In
stead, she and other bisexuals find
many different factors influencing sex
ual attraction.
For example, Hill-Meyer said she
was pretty sure she was a straight male
in high school, but in college she be
came less sure of herself.
“More realistically, I was 95 per
cent attracted to feminists, and there
weren’t any feminist men at my high
school,” she said. “That’s what I’m
really attracted to.”
Instead of being attracted to men
and women, as people assume when
Hill-Meyer tells them she is bisexual,
she said the more gender-deviant a
person is and the more in between
the two sexes, the more she will be
attracted to them, which is why “bi
sexual” is an often confounding term
for Hill-Meyer. It suggests only two
genders, when really she sees many
more, she said.
A language has sprung up within
the LGBTQA community to describe
these different genders. While re
searching her thesis and trying to
find one word that perfectly de
scribed herself, Hill-Meyer said she
discovered a Web site with more
than 150 words for various gender
identities. Still, she said she was not
satisfied because none of these
words was a perfect fit.
bne said it is aitticuit to accept a
unique term because most support
comes from like-minded people
with a similar gender identity. To
choose a unique and specific desig
nation could mean expulsion or
even condemnation from a once
supportive group, she said.
“It’s about having a community, a
culture, an outlook to share with oth
ers,” she said.
Having never found that perfect
word, Hill-Meyer said she realized
the best recourse was to have none
at all. By not pigeonholing herself,
her gender could fluidly adjust over
time, as it already had, she said.
This fluidity extends beyond lan
guage into the culture and commu
nity that are often the true determi
nant of a person’s gender identity.
Graduate student Alelhia Hostetter
said many audience members felt reti
cent when trying to address the issues
Hill-Meyer raised.
“It’s hard to describe, the fact that
it’s hard to address the issues that
come up around language and identi
ty,” Hostetter said.
Though Hill-Meyer emphasized
throughout the reading that no one
word can sum up the many gender
issues, an audience member’s
shirt seemed emblematic of the na
ture of the issues. A woman with
close-cropped gray hair and glasses
wore a royal blue long-sleeved
T-shirt. In a cursive black script it
read: “Complicated.”
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