STALLED *CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*

Working Title: Stalled
Editors: K. Bridgeman and A. Lee Crayton
Contact: stalled.the.book [at] gmail [dot] com
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2010

The range of gender non-conforming folks is broad. We are men, women, genderqueers, two-spirits, trans women/transwomen, trans men/transmen, intersex, bois, grrrls, butchs, faeries, FtMs, MtFs, tomboys, drag queens, transvestites, transexuals, queers, none or maybe all of the above?* In a society that preaches gender as rigid, fighting for gender self-determination can be challenging. For some the process is finite, traveling from point A to point B, while others wade continuously through the mire or transcend altogether. But despite the trajectory of our own personal journey, we all experience the polarizing demands of the binary.

One way these demands are evident is in sex-segregated spaces: changing stalls, detention centers, restrooms, group homes, homeless shelters, locker rooms, and security checkpoints.* These places can be hard to avoid, and interaction with them demands we make a choice about how we will present ourselves. With this anthology, we want to explore the sometimes difficult, layered, isolating, heart breaking, frightening, awkward, frustrating, challenging, funny, and/or queer experiences people are faced with in these settings. Stalled is a space for us to share our stories...


MORE INFORMATION HERE.

*Call for Submissions* Double Edge: The Intersection of Transgender and BDSM

This call is from Raven Kaldera- contact info below...

Call For Submissions:

Double Edge: The Intersection of Transgender and BDSM

I’m looking to interview transgendered perverts of all sorts for this book, over email if we can’t meet face to face. I’m looking for people who openly identify as transgendered in the BDSM communities they move in, and how that identity affects their partners and their activities. I’m looking for people who shapeshifted their bodies and transitioned their identities, and how that changed their BDSM relationships and fetishes. I’m looking for people who publicly hold third gender space in BDSM contexts, and how they interface with the demographic. I’m looking for transpeople in power exchange relationships who are willing to talk about how their perception of gender affects their perception of dominance and submission. I’m looking for FTMs and MTFs, fat and thin, old and young, all sorts. Those who end up with featured interviews will need to submit a photo of yourself, and yes, your face needs to be in it. Those who don’t submit photos will be quoted throughout the work, but not get featured interviews.

I'm looking for articulate people who are willing to write or speak thoughtfully about things, not just give me one-line answers.

I’m also open to hearing from partners of transfolk who contribute to this book.

I’m also looking for photos of transfolk doing kinky things, faces or no. The photos don’t have to be professional quality, they just have to show us as the sexy and passionate and creative people we are.

If you’re willing to contribute to this book, please email me at cauldronfarm@hotmail.com and put “Double Edge” in the caption and I'll send you the email questionnaire.

Thanks,

-Raven Kaldera

WANTED: Perverted Poetry! Leather Literature! Purple Prose!

Yes, its time for Sydney Leather Pride's annual

Bob Buckley Spoken Word at
Aurora Gallery Level 1/43 Bedford St Newtown
Wednesday May 6 from 7:00 pm

If you would like read, recite or ramble your own (or other's) dirty, smutty, filthy, kinky words on the night please register your interest with Micah at micah.horton.hallett@gmail.com . Or just turn up a tad early and he'll fit you in somewhere, somehow (he has a knack for it, promise).

Of course, it needs an audience too, so come be entertained!

Somatechnics Conference 2009 *CANCELLED*

FYI, from the organisers:

Dear everyone,

It is with great regret that we write to inform you that unforseen circumstances have rendered necessary the cancellation of the proposed 5th Biennial Somatechnics Conference scheduled to take place in Sydney, April 16th-18th 2008. Our institution is currently immersed in the lead-up to a major restructure which commenced officially on January 1st. Unfortunately, the situation is such that there are significant uncertainties about future funding, as well as other structural issues which impact on our ability to proceed with our plans with confidence. We are extremely disappointed by this unforseen turn of events and would like to offer our profound apologies for any inconvenience this decision may cause. We are hoping that the current situation will resolve itself over the course of the coming year and that we may be able to consider rescheduling this event for 2010. We will of course, keep you updated, and thank you in advance for your understanding.

With apologies
Nikki Sullivan, Samantha Murray and Jessica Cadwallader

Don't Look Want YOU! c

This is where I held Curdled. Nice folk, interesting space:

'Over the last few years Don't Look Gallery has presented a diverse array of challenging experimental technology-based art from its shopfront in the outer-inner-west suburb of Dulwich Hill. Sound, video, computer art, vintage technologies, installation and conceptual art describe just some of the forms that have raised eyebrows in this modestly sized art space.

We are currently looking for artists (and potential artists) who may want to show at Don't Look Experimental New Media Gallery in 2009. Exhibitions run for 10 days (or longer by agreement), the rent is cheap and we help with publicity, setup and concept (if you wish). If you are interested in having an exhibition please email a proposal and CV (no more than two pages in all) to dontlookgallery@gmail.com.

In 2009 we will be also be starting a fortnightly experimental sound/new media performance night. If you're a musician and/or artist and want to try out something new, again please email dontlookgallery@gmail.com with a short description of the work and a CV. We look forward to hearing from all artists who are into making work
that doesn't fit neatly into a gilded frame, squarely on a wall!'

Western Theatrical Types-- FUNDING!

For all you divas out there:

The Western Australian Theatre Development Initiative is launched!

Artrage, The Blue Room and PICA are pleased to announce the launch of the Western Australian Theatre Development Initiative (WATDI) - a new funding program that aims to change the face of theatre in WA. Backed by the Australia Council Theatre Board, this program will fund the development of new theatre practice by WA independent artists, companies, collectives and collaborations looking to take creative risks and explore new territory, unencumbered by the pressures of a pre-set production and presentation plan. WATDI is for the entire WA independent theatre sector, across the spectrum of practice, interests and experience. It's an initiative that's all about the creation of sophisticated and ambitious new theatre practice, born through the kind of development support that artists long for, but very rarely have an opportunity to experience. For more information on the Western Australian Theatre Development Initiative, see the WATDI website - watdi.org.au

The Bottom Monologues *PARTICIPATE NOW*

Yes, that's right-- The Bottom Monologues. Sort of in the same, ahem, vein as the Vagina Monologues, but not quite. From their The Bottom Monologues Wordpress page:

'I’ve noticed a few folks wondering what’s up with the title — and noting that vagina does not equal Bottom for gay men. First, this isn’t about recreating The Vagina Monologues, so that’s quite alright that it’s not a direct translation. But one reader notes that the word vagina makes people “feel generally awkward, threatened, scared,” while bottom just “makes people giggle.” Well… I’m not sold, actually. In the queer community, identifying as a bottom comes loaded with a heaping serving of stigma. How many boys do we know who desperately try to convince others that they are, in fact, a “top” — not a bottom. This need to present socially as top is all about that stigma. The Bottom Monologues is about destroying that stigma, about queer men proudly proclaiming their decidedly threatening desires.'

What you need to do is get onto the site and submit stories or fill out a questionnaire, as Trevor (one of the organisers) explains:
'But I’m getting ahead of myself. Before we can get this thing on stage, we need to hear from YOU! Yes, that’s right, I said you. Not a bottom? That’s cool. You probably still have a few ideas that you’d like to share about bottoms or getting fucked. So let me explain this process a bit:

I. First, we’re collecting *your* stories about *your* lives as a bottoms, tops, versatiles, or none-of-the-above. We’ve developed this lovely online questionnaire for your fill out that asks some pretty broad questions about bottoms: what is a bottom, what’s great sex as a bottom, what’s different between tops and bottoms — that sort of thing! I think it’s a pretty fun exercise, since most of us really don’t get to talk about bottomming out in the open. Which is exactly what this project is all about!

II. We’ll collect all those amazing and fabulous stories and look for consistencies across them. What’s similar in the stories we get? Is there a particular narrative that pops up in many of your stories? And of course, we’ll also be looking for stories that stand out from those similarities and challenge the those common themes.

III. Once we’ve had a chance to pour over the data, we’ll do our best to distill the stories into “composite characters” — our best effort to boil down dozens of stories into one. These will be the products that will be shown on stage in the “Bottom Monologues,” an expression of the diversity and richness of bottoms’ lived experiences. You may not see the word-for-word account of your fabulous experiences in the final product, but you can be assured that it has had an impact on the stories we’ll tell on stage.'

Now, get to it!

Polymorph Gallery

From Grace:

'After a 10 year rest PolyGallery is returning to the Sydney art scene in January 2009, showing the cream of Australian and international contemporary artists.

Polymorph Art Gallery aims to create:
• A professionally selective platform for emerging artists to display their work.
• Exposure of a high quality of contemporary art to the diverse audience that is attracted to Polymorph Body Piercing.
• A safe space for self-expression, all embracing and accessible to minorities and fringe culture.
• Inspiration in those who may not usually visit galleries.
• Space for all mediums in a unique environment.
• Cultural Evolution.

Contact: gracekingston@gmail.com

http://www.poly-morph.com.au/

Polymorph Piercing Studio. 1 7/82 Enmore Rd Newtown, Australia'

Somatechnics Conference 2009 *Call For Papers*

Usually a very interesting conference, for a number of reasons. Me certainly not presenting at this one due to PhD/life commitments, but I'll be attending for sure.

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The Fifth International Somatechnics Conference: The Technologisation of Bodies and Selves

Call for papers: Abstracts are invited for an international conference to be held in Sydney, Australia, on April 16th-18th 2009. Abstracts should be 300-500 words and should be forwarded to A/Prof Nikki Sullivan and Ms Jess Cadwallader at the addresses listed below. Proposals for panels and for performance pieces are welcome.

“Somatechnics” is a recently coined term used to highlight the inextricability of soma and techné, of the body (as a culturally intelligible construct) and the techniques (dispositifs and ‘hard technologies’) in and through which bodies are formed and transformed. This term, then, supplants the logic of the ‘and’, indicating that technés are not something we add to or apply to the body, but rather, are the means in and through which bodies are constituted, positioned, and lived. As such, the term reflects contemporary understandings of the body as the incarnation or materialization of historically and culturally specific discourses and practices.

Possible topics:
• Somatechnologies of the self (‘non-mainstream’ body modification, body sculpting, performance, fashion, drug use, ‘self-mutilation’, religious practice, etc)
• medical somatechnologies (cosmetic, reproductive, imaging, corrective, sex (re)assignment, implantation, enhancement, bio-techs, public health initiatives, etc)
• somatechnics of law
• somatechnologies of gender, sexuality, race, class, etc
• somatechnologies of normalcy and pathology
• somatechnics of war
• somatechnologies of the post-human (cyborgs, nanotechnology, virtuality, etc)
• soma-ethics

Deadline for abstracts: November 30th 2008. Keynote Speakers include:
Claudia Castaneda (Brandeis University). Nichola Rumsey (University of the West of England).Jennifer Terry (University of California, Irvine).

Email: nikki.sullivan@scmp.mq.edu.au or somatechnicsadmin@gmail.com
Phone: 61 (0)2 9850 8760. Or have a looksy at the Somatechnics Research Centre Website: http://www.somatechnics.mq.edu.au.

Morrissey Symposium!

The Department of Sociology and The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick are convening a second one-day symposium on Morrissey.

Title: The Songs That Saved Your Life (Again): A Symposium on Morrissey.

When: May 1st 2009.

Where: University of Limerick, IRELAND.

Theme: This is an open-call for papers. We invite scholars working across a range of disciplines (such as, cultural studies, gender studies, musicology, media studies, popular music studies and sociology) to propose papers concerning Morrissey's work as a solo-artiste. Possible paper themes might include: Morrissey and masculinities; Morrissey's use of sexual and other forms of ambiguity; Fandom and Morrissey - and the phenomenon of Latino fans in particular; Morrissey and (identity) politics; and Morrissey and song-writing.

Publication Plans: It is intended to publish an edited and refereed book based on a selection of the symposium's papers.

Deadline: Abstracts of 250 words should be emailed to eoin.devereux@ul.ie
The closing date for abstracts is January 9th 2009.

Ordinary, Zine

people, places, gardens, happenings, stories, lost and found, shops, polaroids, history

a new online zine to be launched 2009 - a directory of the ordinary

looking for people with web or design skills, writers, ideas, secrets, lies, habits, conditions, questions, strange relatives, bizarre stories

or those tired of the celebrity, publicity, worship machine that devours us

and those who want to work on a celebration of triviality, of shared experience, of extraodrinary everyday stories and ideas
we would love to hear from you

drop caddie and nic an email at ordinarymagazine@gmail.com

Food And Travel Writers Needed

CHERRIE magazine is looking for female travel writers and a food writer/s. If interested, please email the editor, Katrina Fox, on editorcherrie@e-p.com.au

Damn Fine PERV- *CALL FOR ENTRIES*

THE INAUGURAL PERV QUEEROTIC FILM FESTIVAL

THE RED RATTLER, 6 FAVERSHAM ST, MARRICKVILLE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
4TH – 7TH DECEMBER 2008

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL-- Perv is a new international film and video festival dedicated to queerotica. This year Perv will showcase some of the latest and greatest audio-visual material representing and catering to queer desires. The festival is committed to the representation of diverse sexual identities and practices. From the sensual to the lewd, the silly to the serious, the subtle to the shamelessly upfront, the Perv program explores the full spectrum of queer erotic imagery.

Encompassing a four-day program of screenings, installations, panels, parties and play that promise to stimulate, titillate and engage, Perv pushes the envelope and all the right buttons.

CALL FOR ENTRIES -- Perv is currently seeking entries for its inaugural festival. As well as actively seeking out brand new film and video work, we are putting a call out for less contemporary queer erotic moving imagery. All genres and categories are welcome: documentary, fiction, experimental, short and feature-length works, we want them all.

SHORT FILM COMPETITION-- As part of the festival, Perv is running an international shorts competition. To be eligible to enter the competition, films must have been produced within the last two years and must not run longer than 15 minutes. Finalists will be in competition for two separate prizes to be award by a judging panel and audience vote respectively.

HOW TO ENTER-- To obtain an entry form or to find out more about the festival and its entry requirements email pervfilmfestival@yahoo.com.au or visit the festival website www.myspace.com/perv_queer_filmfestival.

Deadline for entries is MONDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2008. There is NO ENTRY FEE!

Artsy Lesbian Types Wanted *Call For Submissions*

Don't know about queer and 'same sex' attracted women/females/girls etc but you could ask them I suppose? Still, figured someone here might be interested...

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The Sal-On, a brand new, lesbian owned-and-run art space in Sydney's Inner
West, is putting out a call for submissions. Responses to the painting Gabrielle d'Estrees and one of her sisters in the bath (c. 1595) will form the core of an exhibition to be mounted at "The Sal-On" on 29 November. Open to lesbian artists working in all media, The Sal-On seeks works displaying a particular lesbian perspective on this painting.

Owner operators (and life-partners) Glennda Blyth and Sally Whitwell opened their multi-arts space in early August with an exhibition of works by Sydney photographer Angus Young entitled "Unplugged: what rocks and/or rolls". The performers were, in keeping with the theme of the event, completely 'unplugged'. Soprano Nadia Piave and cellist Rachel Scott with Sally on piano performed new arrangements of popular music as most have never heard it. The evening also included the world premiere of "She Walks in Beauty", a choral setting of the Byron poem that Sally composed as a gift for Glennda's birthday.

"The Sal-on", says Glennda, "is an art space specifically opened up with the intention of giving new artists the opportunity to show their work. As a lesbian artist myself, I am interested to see other lesbian perspectives. The repertoire of individual responses by different lesbians to the same stimuli is what we are keen to see and show. Why this painting, you ask? Simply because some years ago as a young twenty-something leafing through an art book in my lesbian London share house, this one caught my eye. I mean, what is that nipple tweak about?"

"But the Sal-On is much more than an art gallery," adds Sally. "Already we've had several musical ensembles use the space as a rehearsal venue, from highly trained professionals such as The Song Company and cellist Sally Maer (aka Cello Diva), to local queer chamber choir Door in the Wall and The Sydney Pop Choir, both of whom I direct. The music here is acoustic in the real sense, there's not a microphone or an amplifier in sight. In fact, I'd be quite happy with just candlelight!"

For information on how to submit work for consideration for this exhibition,
please email thesalon238@gmail.com or phone 0411 873 436.

Looking For Spunks *Call For Submissions etc*

SPUNK still needs folk to submit to the first issue of the mag (deadline 31st Aug). And they are also looking for:
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Performers, DJs, VJs and artists for their benefit night, PRECUM
Punters to attend PRECUM- Saturday, September 6, 2008,6:00pm - 11:30pm. Red Rattler Theatre, 6 Faversham Street Marrickville

More details at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=26581491815

When I Grow Up/ '2008 Synapse Art and Science Residencies' *Call For Submissions*

I will be participating in things like this:

2008 Synapse Art and Science Residencies
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is calling for proposals from media artists and science organisations to take part in the 2008 Synapse Residency program, supporting intensive partnerships between Australian media artists and science and research organisations in Australia and beyond. The residencies are available to Australian artists with experience in media arts practice and an interest in science. Artists from all technologically mediated disciplines are welcome to apply. In order to encourage early relationship-building and to ensure the best fit between artist and host organisation, a joint application must be submitted. It is the responsibility of either partner to establish contact with the other and to determine the best possible collaboration prior to application. Those with existing relationships are strongly encouraged to apply. Residencies of 12 or 16 weeks' duration (depending on whether the host organisation is based in Australia or elsewhere) will be supported. Participating artists will be paid a weekly fee, as well as accommodation and living away allowances and travel to the destination of the residency if required.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 5PM, FRIDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER 2008
Guidelines for applicants can be downloaded from www.anat.org.au .For further information please contact:Vicki Sowry Program Manager, art research science Tel +61 8 8231 9037 Email ars@anat.org.au

Fetish Photo Comp

For all you happy snappers...

I Do Like A Good Artist Statement *CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*

Ambiguousity: Am-big-u-ous-ity [am-big-yoo-o-si-tee], -noun

1.The act of an Artist whereby one’s artist’s statement about one’s artwork justifies one’s existence and vice versa

Ambiguousity is a group show where artists are asked to enter an artist statement with a humble artwork in response to the exhibition theme.

All entries from the sublime to the ridiculous will be accommodated. We accept such methodologies as humour, dry seriousness, philosophic gibberish, nonsensical or sensible ranting, appropriation in any form, manipulated language, or, anything poetic, profound, prophetic or indeed, pathetic. Ambiguousity promises to be the largest survey of artist’s statement ever to be held in Newtown!

Please see www.atthevanishingpoint.com.au/index.php?p=1_15_SOS for further details.
Entries close Monday 16^th June

For further details and to receive a proposal form email atthevanishingpoint@hotmail.com

Trans Urban Spaces *Call For Submissions*

XYZ TRANS-FORMATIONS OF URBAN SPACE: TRANSGENDERED AND TRANSSEXUAL EXPERIENCES OF THE CITY

Women and Environments International Magazine is seeking submissions for its upcoming issue on trans urban space. The objective of the issue is to critically examine the production of trans urban space in cities of the global north and south through a consideration of the lived embodied experiences of transgendered and transsexual people. International contributions and transnational perspectives are welcome from people who are genderqueer, gender variant, transgender, MTF, FTM, intersexual, and/or omnigender, in addition to those who identify as transvestites, cross-dressers, trans youth, queer activists, and trans allies. Submissions can be in the form of essays, book or film reviews, poetry, photography, and/or visual art.

Contributors are invited to explore:
- Locations that enable, constrain, and commodify trans sexuality and desire (e.g., suburbs, public spaces, cruising areas, bathhouses, play parties, pride festivals, drag shows, bars, bookstores, community centres, homeless shelters, and the Internet);
- Everyday negotiations of sex/gender relations and norms in home, school, work, recreation, and commercial environments;
- Anti-oppression advocacy work by individuals, community-based organizations, and institutions addressing experiences of violence, harassment, discrimination and multiple oppressions in cities;
- Urban policy frameworks that create, maintain or challenge transphobia;
- The inclusiveness/exclusivenes
s of queer space to gender variant people;
- Trans-formative challenges to heteronormativity and homonormativity in urban space;
- Tensions between cultures of respectability and flamboyance; and
- The fluidity, performativity, and ambiguity of the gender continuum and its materializations in the spaces of the body and the city.

Deadlines: Abstracts or indications of interest are due by July 1, 2008 and final manuscripts by Sept 1, 2008.

Writer's Guidelines: Features should not exceed 2500 words. If you would like to submit an article written in a language other than English, please let us know and WEI will do its best to facilitate translation. All written work must be original and not previously published. Detailed editorial guidelines and information can be found on our website http://www.weimag.com.

Spilling Over *Call For Submissions*

Working Title: /Spilling Over:/ /A Fat, Queer Anthology/
Editor: Jessica Giusti, Feminist Studies Ph.D. Student, University of
Minnesota
Contact: spillingover@gmail.com spillingover@gmail.com>
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2008

Despite the attention given by queer studies to the materiality of bodies and the cultural and social inscriptions that designate them, still a dearth of both scholarship and literature exists around intersections of gender, sexuality, and fatness. As fat studies begins to emerge as a viable academic location of inquiry, questions surface as to how fat bodies, deemed "excessive" in their trespasses of size and space, create even more complex subject positions when compounded by
queer desires. This proposed anthology seeks contributions addressing junctions of "fat" /and/ "queer" in pieces that consider the representations and resistances of non-normative corporeality and also writings considering the theoretical conceptions of these intricate
subjectivities. /Spilling Over /will reflect the notions of excess, boundaries, and containment implied by the labels "fat" and "queer" both singularly and collectively. In the form of scholarly writing and creative non-fiction pieces, essay submissions might consider (but are not limited to):

* theorizing the concept of "excess" as it pertains to fatness and queerness
* fat and queer identities; personal narratives; reclaiming "fat" and "queer"
* notions of (in)visibility, hypervisibility, and passing and/or privilege
* intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, (dis)ability, age, and religion
* the economics of the obesity "epidemic" and the diet industry
* fat, queer art and performance; performativity
* pleasure, sex-positivity, eroticizing non-normative bodies
* acceptance movements, political activism, resistance
* the engagement of feminism with fatness
* global, transnational, transcultural constructions of fat, queer bodies and lives
* critical reflections of fatness and queerness in media, literature, film, music, and visual arts
* the rhetoric of fat oppression, fatphobia, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, responding to and/or addressing hate speech

By December 1, 2008, please send your 2,000 – 6,000 word submission, along with your complete contact information and a 50-100 word biography, to spillingover@gmail.com giust002@umn.edu> with the subject line of "Spilling Over – Submission." Submissions must be received in 12 point Times New Roman font and sent in via Word documents
(PDFs will not be accepted). Pieces will be reviewed and decisions made by April 2009. Please note that accepted submissions will be approved on a tentative basis, pending editorial board approval once the anthology has secured a publisher.

Questions can be directed to me at spillingover@gmail.com spillingover@gmail.com> or visit the MySpace page at www.myspace.com/spillingoveranthology

<http://www.myspace.com/spillingoveranthology>.

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