Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

The LGBTQ Studies section of the Ransom Center’s Guide to the Collections has been recently revised and expanded. Please see: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/guide/lgtbq/ Since the terms used to describe queer and sexuality-related materials vary by repository and continue to change, an introductory note about research methods to help researchers search the Center’s collection more effectively has been included. Please feel free to email Gabriela Redwine at with suggestions about how to make this portion of the Guide more useful and accessible.

The Center’s research fellowship program is open to all students, faculty, and independent researchers. Applications for 2011-2012 fellowships must be received by Tuesday, February 1, 2011, in order to be considered for the 2011-2012 academic year.
The Harry Ransom Center, an internationally renowned humanities research
library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, annually awards
over 50 fellowships to support research projects that require substantial
on-site use of its collections. The fellowships support research in all
areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the
performing arts, music, and cultural history.

The fellowships range from one to three months, with stipends of $3,000 per
month. Also available are $1,200 to $1,700 travel stipends and dissertation
fellowships with a $1,500 stipend. Complete applications for the 2011-2012
Research Fellowships in the Humanities must be received by February 1, 2011.

More information about the fellowships and the Ransom Center¹s collections
is available online at http://budurl.com/epyt . Please contact Bridget
Gayle atbrigayle@mail.utexas.edu or 512-232-3214 with any questions or
concerns.

DEADLINE: January 5, 2011

We have received materials announcing the competition for the Dolores Zohrab
Liebmann Fellowships for 2011/2012. I ask that you advertise this
competition to your students, some of whom may wish to apply. The Office of
Graduate Studies can nominate up to three UT graduate students for this
fellowship. We are asking each department to collect and pre-screen the
students  applications and forward no more than 2 nominations to us in the
Graduate School. Last year we received sixteen applications; submitted
three nominations to the Foundation and two were approved. Hopefully, we
will do as well in this new competition.

The terms of the fellowships are very attractive, providing the costs of
study, tuition, room and board and ordinary living expenses, as well as
income taxes on the money received in past this has typically amounted to
$18,000 plus tuition for nine months. Recipients can apply for renewal of
the fellowship for two additional years, and to date all renewal requests
have been approved. Applicants must be citizens of the United States. An
unusual feature of the application is that the applicant must declare that
he or she is not an advocate or supporter of communism. There is no
restriction on field and no longer any age requirement.

A copy of the application form is attached to this letter. Your office
should endorse students who wish to apply, and all required materials must
reach our office by January 5, 2011, so that we can process them and meet
the deadline of January 21 for submission to the awarding Foundation.

For further information please feel free to call my assistant, Mary Alice
Davila at 232-3603.

The LBJ Foundation, Harry Middleton Lectureship is pleased to be joined by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who will speak with Larry Temple, Chairman of The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. The lecture will be held in the LBJ Auditorium on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:00 p.m.

Justice O’Connor was appointed by Ronald Reagan as the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981 and served for 25 years before retiring in 2006. Previously, she served on the Arizona Court of Appeals, as Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, in the Arizona State Senate, and as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona. A product of the southwest, Justice O’Connor was raised in El Paso, Texas, and graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School.

Tickets: Seating is limited, and tickets are required for entry. TICKETS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC. We will form a standby line that evening and will fill in any empty seats from that line about five to ten minutes before the program begins. However, there is no guarantee of entry.

Free tickets are available to students with a U.T. student ID at the Texas Union ticket office (UNB 4.300). Limit one per student I.D.

Location and Parking: Free parking will be available in the LBJ Library visitors’ lot (lot #38) and, after 5:00 p.m., in lots #37 and #39. The LBJ Auditorium is located on the lower level of the LBJ complex at 2313 Red River Street. Access to the Auditorium will be through the lobby of the LBJ School of Public Affairs or through the south Auditorium doors by the LBJ Fountain.

For more information please visit: http://lbjfoundation.org/middleton/

The Women’s Resource Agency (WRA) at the University of Texas at Austin is an agency of Student Government aimed to provide resources and programming for the UT campus and community-at-large regarding women and women’s interest issues. For more information, please contact texaswra@gmail.com .

The Queer Performance Reading Group will meet at 4pm on Monday, November 15, to
discuss David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub’s _Gay Shame_. As always, we will
meet in Sao Paolo on San Jacinto, and you are welcome even if you have not read
every word of the book. As _Gay Shame_ is an anthology with many short
chapters, we will probably focus our conversation on the first two sections,
“Gay Shame” and “Performing Shame.” The essay (and performance on the DVD
included with the book) by UT alumna Terry Galloway is also of particular
interest.

Our schedule for the rest of the semester is:

Monday, November 15, 4pm: David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, eds., Gay
Shame

Wednesday, December 1, 4:30pm: Dana Luciano, Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and
the Body in Nineteenth-Century America

In the spring semester (dates TBA), we plan to read:

Tavia Nyong’o, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of
Memory

Jose Munoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural
Lives

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

Wednesday, November 17 at 5:30 PM at the LBJ School, Building SRH, Room 3.122.

The documentary provides raw insight into what has been called a humanitarian crisis affecting Central American migrants crossing Mexico. It tells the story of women kidnapped by Los Zetas, victims of trafficking, and unexpected moments of hope along the way. PAACC (Public Affairs Alliance for Communities of Color) will be providing drinks and snacks.

The documentary was made by Salvadoran filmmaker Marcela Zamora, a graduate of the Escuela de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio in Cuba. She was part of a team of six journalists, fotographers, and filmmakers who spent a year living with undocumented migrants crossing Mexico to reach the American dream. The project is called En El Camino/On The Road, and was produced and published by ElFaro.net, Latin America’s first completely web-based, digital newspaper. Read more about it here: http://www.elfaro.net/?tpl=707.

View the trailer here: http://vimeo.com/16240592. In Spanish with English subtitles. For more information, contact Allison Ramirez at .

The International Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day set aside to honor those people who were murdered because they are (or are perceived to be) transgender. It is estimated that, in this country, one transgender person is murdered every month and the murders, many times, go unsolved and unprosecuted.

Each year, trans people and their allies, join together to honor these brave people whose only crime was living a truthful life.
What follows are vigils around the State. Please support the Gender Diverse Community and come out and pay your repects.

November 18, 2010
San Antonio 6:30 PM, MCC San Antonio 611 E. Myrtle, San Antonio, Texas, 78259

November 20, 2010
Austin 6:30 pm Austin City Hall Plaza Ceaser Chavez, Between Guadalupe and Lavaca

Houston 7:00 pm A.D. Bruce Religion Center, UH Main Campus 4800 Calhoun Road Houston, TX

November 21, 2010
Dallas/Fort Worth 7:00 pm Interfaith Peace Chapel 5910 Cedar Springs Road Dallas, Texas 75235

The Women’s Programming Alliance present “What Goods Are We Really Being Sold” on Tuesday, November 30, Jester A209A at 6:00 pm. This interactive and fun workshop examines popular advertising images and the underlying messages they convey. It promises to be a thought-provoking and entertaining examination of popular media. Space is limited, so please RSVP to this training by emailing us at gsc@austin.utexas.edu.

The holidays is a time when a lot of people decide to come out to their friends and families back home. This Living with Pride is dedicated to helping you navigate what this might look like. “Coming Out for the Holidays” is on Wednesday, 11/17 at 5:00 pm in the Texas Union Sinclair Suite.

VOLUNTEER ROLES IN THE SAFE SCHOOLS PROGRAM

Volunteers are encouraged to take on multiple roles within the program. Some duties will include:

Curriculum Development. Volunteers will help design and implement new program curriculum and activities.

Community Outreach. Volunteers will research potential contacts within the school system (receptive teachers, counselors, GSA sponsors, etc.). They will obtain phone numbers/emails for our database, and contact those who may be interested in inviting us into the classroom. This role is vital to keeping the Safe Schools Program active.

Op-Ed Writers. We encourage Safe Schools staff to write opinion pieces for submission to local publications. Topics may vary, from LGBTQ teen suicide, to protesting “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” TCRP is happy to assist in article submission.

Classroom Facilitators. This is one of the most important roles within the project. Facilitators will conduct activities in the classroom and promote positive, healthy discussion. Facilitators should have previous classroom experience and be able to demonstrate the ability to handle difficult discussions and student behavior. Facilitators do not need to identify as an LGBTQ individual. They do, however, need to be available at least once a month during school hours.

Guest Speakers. We include 2 guest speakers in every class presentation. Guest speakers should identify themselves as a LGBTQ person and be willing to discuss their personal experiences in a classroom setting. Some topics may include: a coming out story, harassment/bullying they may have experienced (especially in high school), stereotypes, and how they are affected by them, etc. Pictures and stories are encouraged to illustrate points. Guest speakers should be available at least once a month during school hours. We hope to include as many diverse people and stories as possible.

For more information on how to get involved, contact Amanda Hill, Amanda@texascivilrightsproject.org. 1405 MONTOPOLIS DRIVE AUSTIN, TX 78741 PHONE: 512.474.5073 ext. 102 FAX: 512.474.0726

Are you a gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered individual in a committed relationship? Are you interested in sharing your experiences as a same-sex couple? We are seeking same-sex couples to participate in a research study examining the current state of the marriage equality debate and its impact on same-sex couples. If interested, please contact principal investigator: Abel Nevarez (abeln29@gmail.com)

Please join GAFDI in an open dialogue on disabilities led by Panelists:

Dolores Gonzalez, City-wide A.D.A. Coordinator.
Laura Griebel, Goodwill Industries of Central Texas.
Ron Lucey, Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services
Gene Rodgers, The Gene and Dave Show.

Lunch is not provided, please bring your own; drinks and dessert will be provided.

Park in the parking lot and go to 2nd floor conference room.

What: GAFDI November Monthly Meeting – Update – Where: One Texas Center
505 Barton Springs Road, #240
Austin, TX 78704 When: November 16th, 2010, 11:30am – 1pm

Panelists:
Dolores Gonzalez, City-wide A.D.A. Coordinator.
Laura Griebel, Goodwill Industries of Central Texas.
Ron Lucey, Texas Department of Assist…
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What: GAFDI November Monthly Meeting – Update – Where: One Texas Center
505 Barton Springs Road, #240
Austin, TX 78704 When: November 16th, 2010, 11:30am – 1pm

What: Women and Fair Festival (part of East Austin Studio Tour)

Where: 1604 East 11th St (The Old School)

When: Saturday and Sunday, November 20 & 21, 10am-6pm – Festival

Saturday, November 20, 2pm – Film and discussion, The Way North, Maghrebi Women in Marseilles
Sunday, November 21, 2pm – Translingual poetry concert featuring award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Liliana Valenzuela

Who: Sponsored by Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (Austin So Close to the Border) www.atcf.org

Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (Austin So Close to the Border) is presenting the 7th annual Women and Fair Trade Festival as part of E.A.S.T. (the East Austin Studio Tour). Eight cooperatives, formed by women adversely affected by globalization, will come from all over the world to tell their stories and sell beautiful textiles, toys, pottery, jewelry, clothing, and other handmade crafts. Art lovers, activists, university students, avid shoppers, and the broader Austin community will learn about fair trade and shop at the same time. The market festival will also feature international music both days, a documentary film followed by a discussion on Saturday at 2pm, and a translingual poetry concert featuring award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Liliana Valenzuela on Sunday at 2pm.

For over ten years, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (Austin So Close to the Border) has educated Austinites about labor and human rights, fair trade, and the hidden costs of U.S. trade policy.

After 50 years of serving regional, low-income communities, the Austin American Friends Service Committee office closed September 30, 2010. A former program of AFSC, Austin Tan Cerca has been reborn as a full non-profit organization that will continue to serve the Austin community and border region. Its principles and educational mission remain the same.

So come and support indigenous communities while enjoying their culture through music, shopping and artistic expressions.

Josefina Castillo, Program Director
Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera
(512) 474-2399
jcastillo@atcf.org

The Lilith Fund, a 501(c)(3c) organization, is now seeking interns for the Spring semester and beyond.

Internship opportunity to develop leadership skills in the reproductive justice movement. The Lilith Fund, a volunteer-run nonprofit that helps low-income women access abortion services, is seeking interns for the Spring semester 2010 (and beyond). Applicants should have a proven commitment to reproductive justice and women’s health and be responsible self-starters. This is wonderful opportunity to play a critical role in the functioning of a non-profit organization and see how a Board of Directors works while making a direct difference in the lives of women. Internships can be in the areas of event coordination/fundraising, outreach/public relations, research, client engagement & hotline, or a specially-designed project. All interns are required to undergo a hotline training and take at least two hotline shifts per semester as appropriate, attend once-monthly board meetings, meet regularly with assigned Board members and assist with minimal administrative tasks as needed. Internships are unpaid, but school credit possible. The Lilith Fund is based in Austin, but interns can be located in other Texas cities.

To apply email a letter of interest, resume and completed application to info@lilithfund.org. Applications can be downloaded at http://www.lilithfund.org/Lilith%20Fund%20Intern%20Application.pdf

Interns are admitted on a rolling basis.

Jasbir Puar will give a public lecture – ‘Lifelogging: Digital Archives of Affect, Memory, and Intimacy’ – on November 17th at 3:30 pm at the ISES Gallery (JES A230) – Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

Professor Puar is a faculty member in the department of Women’s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Professor Puar is also a contributor to The Guardian, Art India as well as Bully Bloggers and Oh! Industry.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Department of English, The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, the Department of American Studies and The South Asia Institute.