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Homofactus Press recently published Kicked Out, edited by Sassafras Lowrey. This anthology includes a powerful introduction by Judy Shepard. See the photography from the book here.

Kicked Out explores and redefines the what the expressions “kicked out” and “homeless” actually mean for LGBTQ people. Sennett, the creator of Self-Organizing Men, elaborated this theme in his speech:

If your parents don’t want you to bring your partner home, that’s a form of being kicked out.

If you have friends and family who still can’t get your pronouns right, that’s a form of being kicked out.

If you’re not comfortable being out on the job, that’s a form of being kicked out.

Please offer your insights and reviews of Kicked Out here and here.

You can help to educate your local community through donating a copy of Kicked Out to your local or school library, or making a request to the library system to purchase this book.

Beginning in 2006 TLL began to award The TLL Lesbian Blog of the Year Award. This award was created to showcase the best of the best in lesbian blogging. In 2009 TLL added more categories and a new and improved nomination and voting system. The awards were also renamed The Lezzys. The awards have been a great way to spotlight the best of the best in lesbian blogs and to introduce new blogs written by lesbian authors.

In March, TLL will announce the 2010 winners. In the meantime, you can see the winners of 2009.

Among the 2009 winners was a Femmethology contributor, Sinclair Sexsmith:

This is Sugarbutch’s 3rd Lezzy Award! Sinclair has a way with the ladies and the devout following to prove it. She is a chivalrous kinky queer butch top, feminist, gender theorist, sex educator, activist, and writer in New York City. Sugarbutch Chronicles is a personal writing exploration of sex, gender, and relationships, and attempts to celebrate queer theory, sexuality, gender, culture, and identity in ways that are expansive rather than restrictive, liberating rather than limiting.

Sugarbutch Chronicles was also the runner-up for the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Is your blog on the largest lesbian blogroll? Follow the link to submit your blog.

From the Kicked Out website of editor Sassafras Lowrey:

The site Band of Thebes has with the help of 80 LGBT authors named their top queer books for the year 2010.

I’m thrilled to announce that Kicked Out made that list, and that it was selected by Kate Bornstein as her favorite queer book of the year!

Kicked Out was collected and edited by Sassafras Lowrey with an amazing forward by Judy Shepard. I provided final edits and production. You can purchase it here.

From The Lusty Lady:

I’m working on events and other promotions for Gotta Have It, and yes, there will be postcards for the cat lovers! This is my biggest book yet, with 69 stories, and I’m so excited to work with so many new and talented authors from around the world (Scotland, UK, Australia, Canada).

Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex is edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, and will be published by Cleis Press in February 2011. It is available for pre-order on Amazon.com (other ordering links TK).

Katrina emphasizes that she is always on the lookout for contributors. *hint, hint* She can be reach at info@katrinafox.com.

Katrina published “Once a Femme, Always a Femme,” in Volume 1 of Femmethology.

From Katrina’s bio at The Scavenger:

Her work has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC’s The Drum Unleashed, Yen, Cleo, Natural Health & Vegetarian Life, Mindfood, Slimming & Health and Time Out London, among many others.

She has also written extensively for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, sex/gender diverse, queer press internationally, including Diva, Curve, SX and was the launch editor of Cherrie magazine.

Katrina is the editor of several books on topics as diverse as sex and gender identity, hypnosis and self-help, and is a human and animal rights advocate.

Katrina’s books are available at Amazon: Trans People in Love and
Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference.

Sequoia (of sequoiaredd.com) and I are working on a zine about dirt, earth, dirty girls, slut stigma and exploring the context of what it means to be seen as a dirty girl in a culture obsessed with cleanliness and scrubbing away the dirt. There are definite parallels between how our society regards dirt and the stigma of sex. Just as nutrient rich dirt is the basis of life on our planet, so is sex the basis of our humanity.

We want to hear what you think about that too.

Why a zine? With the recent closing of $pread magazine, which was one of our favorite sex industry publications, it’s more important than ever to keep creating our own media and getting our message out there. Zines are a fun and creative form of expression, they’re handmade and sometimes its nice to hold something physical in your hands rather than just read about it online, yanno?
We are accepting art, writing and photography submissions from former and current sex workers of all genders at dirtygirlzine [at] gmail dot com

We settled on the name Dirty Girl because at a time when our topsoil is being depleted and you can go to jail for carrying condoms, we want to explore and celebrate the dirt and sex that stains us.

The submission deadline is November 30 and we’re hoping to have the zine done by the Winter Solstice (December 21, 2010). Please include your name (can be stage name or pseudonym or whatever you feel comfortable with), website or some place on the web where we can find more of you (if you want us to), what kind of sex worker you were/are (if you feel comfortable sharing of course) and tell us a little about yourself! This info will accompany your piece.

Art: submit in .jpeg format in the highest quality possible, include a title too if you can.

Writing: submit in word documents or just copy and paste the text inside an email. Writing can be poetry, prose, essays, haiku, etc…you get the idea! We won’t edit your pieces without your permission.

Photography: .jpeg as well and if you photographed someone else, please provide a model release and I.D. of the subject, title would be great as well.

Contributors will get a copy when its done so if you could please provide a mailing address that would be great!

Sex workers are like dirt, we nourish life. We want to explore and celebrate our dirty sexy goodness, together.

UPDATE/A Note About Gender:

As you might already know, Sequoia and I have been reconsidering the title of our Dirty Girl zine after getting an email from someone who felt excluded. We asked for feedback from the sex worker community and while it was somewhat varied we really resonated with what Davka (of www.davkadeergirl.com) said: “The more I think of it, the more I want the title to be Dirty Girl. I mean- how many times have we all had to live with that title? Work through it? reclaim it and reinvent it? Some of us lived feeling like it or SLUT was branded on our foreheads. I just feel it wasn’t some faux paus to name it that! We have had to identify with the generic male pronoun for ages, so all potential contributors are invited to now find themselves in the Girl, irregardless of gender.”

Both of us grew up with that loaded phrase, Dirty Girl, being slung at us and bouncing around our heads. As adults what we were stigmatized for has become something valuable. That is what we want to explore in this zine – the ways we have internalized, reclaimed, rejected, and worked through the stigma and hate that’s embodied in “Dirty Girl.” Or, to quote Davka again, “I do not feel these words “Dirty Girl,” and other such COMMON gender specific phrases that we have had to deal with our entire lives have yet to be deconstructed enough for us to find healing and liberation within that process and until that happens I don’t at all feel comfortable just discarding them for more gender neutral/inclusive terms.”

Neither of us have experienced being a male sex worker, and we haven’t had the benefit of hearing other gendered people’s experiences of slut stigma. It’s been suggested that perhaps male sex workers experience homophobia more than slut stigma? We don’t know, but whatever your gender we are eager to receive your submission and hear your experiences.

Along with an MBA, focusing on nonprofit management, from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a master’s degree in sexuality studies, focusing on LGBT community issues, from San Francisco State University, Amy Andre has over a decade of experience working in various capacities with local and national LGBT nonprofit organizations.

As a Point Foundation Scholar, Amy earned her MBA this past Spring. Prior to that, she worked at Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, criss-crossing the nation to educate thousands of employees and executives at Fortune500 companies such as Wal-mart, Hyatt, and Motorola about LGBT rights. Before coming to Out & Equal, she served as Vice President of the Board at Open Enterprises, a cooperative where she worked for almost seven years.

The co-author of Bisexual Health: An Introduction and Model Practices for HIV/STI Prevention, a book published by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Amy has articles in Curve Magazine, Alternet.org, and The Bilerico Project, among dozens of other publications.

Amy is the director of a documentary titled On My Skin/ En Mi Piel, about a mixed-race transgender man and his family. If you want to bring this documentary to your event, you can reach Amy here.

You can learn more about her by visiting her site.

All mothers have the potential to be revolutionary. Some mothers stand on the shoreline, are born and reborn here, inside the flux of time and space, overcoming the traumatic repetition of oppression. Our very existence is disobedience to the powers that be.

At times, in moments, we as mothers choose to stand in a zone of claimed risk and fierce transformation, the frontline. In infinite ways, both practiced and yet to be imagined, we put our bodies between the violent repetition of the norm and the future we already deserve, exactly because our children deserve it too. We make this choice for many reasons and in different contexts, but at the core we have this in common: we refuse to obey. We refuse to give into fear. We insist on joy no matter what and by every means necessary and possible.

In this anthology we are exploring how we are informed by and participating with those mothers, especially radical women of color, who have sought for decades, if not centuries, to create relationships to each other, transformative relationships to feminism and a transnational anti-imperialist literary, cultural and everyday practice.

Ann’s newest poetry chapbook, Beleaguered Oases, was just published. Please contact the publisher, Theresa Antonia of tcCreativePress, at tc_art@hotmail.com about buying your copy.

In addition, Ann wrote a legal article on whether polyamory should be thought of as a sexual orientation. She is moving to Michigan to teach for a year and looking for a permanent academic job.

Ann’s work appears in both Volume 1 and Volume 2. Please ask your local libraries and independent bookstores to place an order with Homofactus Press.

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