Gender and sexuality

Radical Teacher, Summer, 2005

Centro Journal has a Call for Papers for a special issue on Queer Puerto Rican Sexualities (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersexual, Other) to be published Fall 2006. The Call welcomes articles, essays, interviews, oral histories, and other written and visual documentation related to Puerto Rican sexualities in both Puerto Rico and the diaspora and is interested in contributions from diverse fields of knowledge, including humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. For submission guidelines, consult www.centropr.org and for information and submissions, write centro-journal@hunter.cuny. edu. Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2005.

April 8-10, 2005, the CUNY Graduate Center offered a Queer Grassroots Organizing Weekend, which taught the tools to solve the problems transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay students face on campus and in the community.

According to Gay.com (April 15, 2005), opponents are organizing counter-protests against The National Day of Silence, a day to acknowledge how GLBT students are silenced in schools on a regular basis. To record the school or campus atmosphere around your Day of Silence, share your experiences with Gay.com or PlanetOut.

Colorado State University blocked transgender lesbian activist Leslie Feinberg as the keynote speaker for the Colorado Feminist Alliance's April 21 Take Back the Night rally. The university required Feinberg to sign a contract with two egregious clauses: one made Feinberg liable for anything that might occur at the event and the other "indemnified" the university from any responsibility. When Feinberg would not sign, the university would not budge. To join Feinberg in the struggle against the campaign to block progressive speech and organizing, contact tgwarrior@earthlink.net.

For information on remarks by Harvard President Lawrence Summers about women and science, see The Boston Globe, January 19, 2005 and February 16, 2005, as well as Katha Pollitt's "Summers of Our Discontent" (The Nation, February 21, 2005).