New eBook explores female-to-male surgery

Photographer Loren Cameron, author of the best-selling Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, has now released his second book, which takes advantage of the World Wide Web to deliver a new look at female-to-male surgery.

His new book, "MAN TOOL: The Nuts and Bolts of Female-to-Male Surgery" addresses urgent and intimate questions about plastic surgery options for the female-to-male transsexual. Through anecdotal text and over forty, close-up photographs of body modifications, it explores personal issues about sex and gender relative to transsexual men.

Cameron's new book is only available as a World Wide Web-accessible eBook, which will allow a greater distribution than many transgender-themed books are able to attain. It can be reached by anyone with a modern web browser and computer access at

http://www.lorencameron.com/mantool.

The site for "MAN TOOL" was designed by noted transgendered web developer Gwendolyn Ann Smith.

"Please understand my reasons for not speaking today. I am participating in the Day of Silence, a national youth movement protesting the silence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies. My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination. I believe that ending the silence is the first step toward fighting these injustices. Think about the voices you are not hearing today. What are you going to do to end the silence?" - Quote from "speaking cards" passed out by participants during the Day of Silence.

On April 10, 2002, thousands of high school students, college students, and allies will join a growing non-violent protest to raise awareness of the silence of LGBT’s caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination.

Consider joining this national youth movement by supporting local youth organizations, Gay-Straight Alliances in schools in your area, or by joining the large number of people who will be silent on April 10, 2002.

More information can be found at www.dayofsilence.org.

The First International Conference—June 2-3, 2002 at San Francisco State University

In the last three decades disabled people and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered people have taken to the streets and entered the academy. We've built movements for social change, created culture and community, and shaped our own theory and analysis. But the issues, concerns, and experiences of queer disabled people have rarely been placed front and center. The Queer/Disability Conference aims to bring together artists, activists, and scholars to explore the matrix formed by queerness and disability.

INTERESTED? COME JOIN IN:

--Disability activists engaging in issues concerning queer identities

--Queer activists grappling with disability issues

--Artists pulling together strands of crip and queer cultures

--Scholars making connections between Disability Studies and Queer Studies

--Queers/crips looking for community

--Advocates and allies invested in these intersections

Possible topics include:

--Histories of disability, homosexuality, and transidentities

--HIV/AIDS, cancer, and disability

--Genetic testing, the notion of a cure, the medicalization of our bodies

--Intertwining of race, class, sexuality, gender identity, and disability

--Sex, sexuality, desire, erotica

--Representations of queerness/disability

--Deaf/Queer issues

--Global LGBT disability activism

--Impact of disability on gender identity and of gender on disability

--Passing, Pride, and non-apparent disabilities

--Violence, hate crimes, and abuse

--Compulsory heterosexuality and able-bodiedness

--Q/D marginalizations: bi&trans identities, cognitive&psych disabilities

--Ableism, homophobia, and transphobia

--Queers, disability, and services

--Blind/Queer issues

--Connections between intersexed people and disabled people

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER:

QDprogram@hotmail.com

Alison Kafer, 310 N. Indian Hill, Box 325, Claremont CA 91711. <http://www.disabledwomen.net/queer>

Boyd Kodak and Cat Grant are looking for submissions. Boyd is a transman, and together with his partner Cat, have been involved with curating trans programs for festivals, for a number of years. We are currently curating a TS/TG/IS program for the Toronto Inside Out Film and Video Festival, May 2002, as well as programming for the Toronto Counting Past 2 TS/TG/IS Festival, September 2002. The Counting Past 2 Festival first occurred in September 1997, and then subsequently in 1998 and 1999. After a 2 year hiatus, it will be returning in 2002 for a 3 day run. The festival will include film, video, presentations and performance. We encourage you to showcase our communities asthetic, and not focus on a projects budget or production standards. We would be interested in seeing your work as soon as possible.

Please send a VHS screener to:
Grant/Kodak
1201 Islington Ave.
Toronto, ON, Canada M8Z 4T2
countingpast2@yahoo.com, 
www.countingpast2.com, 
www.insideout.on.ca