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During the week “students, faculty and staff
can talk about how queer students are a part of
The demonstration will take place as part of their lives,” Charlton adds. “Queer people have
made contributions to the world, and recogniz
Affirmation’s “No More Deaths, No More
ing that helps.”
Silence” campaign and to coincide with
The week also lets allies show support. “It
National Suicide Prevention Week. It will pro
vide a public opportunity to mourn the loss of helps to know that there -are people we can
count on to help us,” Charlton says.
friends and family members and draw attention
Unless otherwise noted, all o f the events
to social problems and religious teachings that
will he held in the M emorial U nion,
contribute to the problem.
2 301 S.W. Jefferson St. Here are some of the
week’s highlights:
For more information visit ivww.affirmation.org or
• Interpersonal Violence in L G B T Q
www.afsc.org.
R elatio n sh ip s: Robin Keillor,
O S U ’s sexual assault services
coordinator, will lead this discus
sion (4 to 5 p.m. May 14,
Women’s Center).
• In the Borderlands: This
discussion will focus on race and
sexual orientation (6:30 to
7:30 p.m. May 14, Black Cultural
Center).
• Breaking Through Stereo
types and Building Bridges:
Guest lecturer Jen Chen of
Hewlett-Packard will lead this
special session (2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
May 16, Room 208).
• Celebration: Past, Present
and Future: This program will
honor past and present < ueer lead
ers (6 to 9 p.m. May 16, Ball
room).
• Magdalen Hsu-Li in Con
cert: This popular performer on
the college and club tour circuits
is one of the first Asian American
singer-songwriters to command
the alternative college p!a,list (8
to 10 p.m. May 16, Ballroom).
• Drag Show and Dance:
Loren Cameron delivers the keynote -speech during
Charlton
predicts this free event
InterSEXtions 2002 on April 27 at University of Oregon
will be the most popular one of
the
week.
“Last
year we had so many people, we
! L oren C am eron
had to turn them away at the door" (8 to 11 p.m.
P r e sen t s P h o to g r a ph s
May 17, Ballroom).
nowledge is the antidote for fear,"
For more information contact the O SU Rainbow
acclaimed trans photographic artist
Continuum at 5 4 1 -737-6360 or
. Loren Cameron said as he began his lecture
April 27 at University of Oregon in Eugene.
lghta@mu. orst. edu
He presented more than 80 slides, comment
ing on each one and telling stories and jokes
, along the way.
E v er g r een E x p l o r e s
Cameron showed images completed in the
past four to six years from his book Body Alche G end er a n d S e x u a l it y
he first-ever Olympia Gender and Sexuali-
my, which contains “graphic images of genital
modification options for transsexual men.” The
J ty Conference will take place May 3 to 5 at
Evergreen State College and other locales
slides included close-up faces, individual before
and after transition photographs and clothed
around the Washington state capital.
The weekend will begin with a series of anti
and unclothed studio work.
The presentation was the closing event of oppression workshops. A concert will be held
the evening of May 3.
the five-day InterSEXtions 2002 symposium,
Several 90-minute workshops on issues
“The Queer Body: An Exploration of Identi- ,
ty, Culture and Politics.” Organizer Chicora
ranging from drag and pornography to global
Martin said Cam eron’s work “puts into pic- | ization and polyamory will take place May 4
tures what sometime we can ’t put into
and 5 on campus. Other topics include sado
words."
masochism, fat sex, anal sex, how to latex your
lover, tops and bottoms, queer youth and
whore revolution.
May 4 also will feature films, a fire dancing
C a m pu s C eleb r a t es
performance and an appearance by New York
Q ueer P ride
I City slam poet Alix Olson. The evening will
regon State University students and staff end with a screening of Third Antenna, an
will celebrate Queer Pride Week with a Olympia-made documentary on radical drag.
series of events called “From Silence to Celebra
The conference will conclude May 5 with
a one-woman show by Carol Queen about her
tion: It’s a Rainbow World After All.”
According to chairwoman Andi C h arl experiences as a sex worker in San Francisco.
ton, the goal is to bring together the C orval An art show will he on display throughout the
lis campus in celebration of diversity. “I weekend, including an installation on gender
would like to see us begin to build bridges of and sexuality by Mary Bryant of Eugene.
acceptance and understanding with people j
who don’t know much about the queer com- j For more information call 360-867-6144 or visit
the Web site olynetwnrk.org/gendersexcon.
munity," she says.
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