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Safe Havens For LGBTI Travelers; New Maps and Survey Show Sexual Orientation Laws Around The World

Forbes writes:

For travelers in the LGBTI community, knowing the laws of the land can be critical to safety; a new report aims to help. […]

The survey was released earlier this week by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), a federation of more than 1,200 member organizations from 132 countries committed to equal human rights for the LGBTI community. The Geneva-based group enjoys consultative status at the United Nations.

This incredible 95-year-old transwoman flight instructor found love late in life– only to be denied social security benefits by the government because she’s not cisgender

WHEREAS, trans women are systematically excluded from and marginalized by literary culture,

WHEREAS, even within LGBT literary and creative worlds, trans women are egregiously and flagrantly underrepresented,

WHEREAS, even in venues that welcome, support, and encourage transgender men, full inclusion of transgender women remains an abstracted fantasy, including at the Lambda Literary Writers’ Retreat, where trans men are as numerous as stars in the sky but, every year, for each of the last four years, only a single, solitary, individual trans woman writer has been invited to participate,

WHEREAS, mainstream literary publications such as the Antioch Review routinely deny opportunities to trans women while simultaneously throwing open their doors to those who wish to denigrate, disparage, and dehumanize trans women,

WHEREAS, all writers deserve nurturing, humanizing, and accessible opportunities to develop their craft, engage with their creative peers, and discover professional opportunities,

WHEREAS, literature, art, and creative expression are foundational elements of every vibrant and effective political movement, and trans women artists have, for decades, agitated for for change on the front lines of human conflict and struggle around the world,

WHEREAS, investments made in supporting trans women writers in achieving the full measure of their potential contribute directly to the vision of a more hopeful future for transgender women, cisgender women, and all humankind on planet Earth,

NOW, THEREFORE, WE, editors at Topside Press, do hereby proclaim Summer 2016 as

SUMMER OF TRANS WOMEN WRITERS

and encourage all trans women to apply to participate in our inaugural summer intensive writers’ workshop, to be held in New York City from August 15-19, 2016.

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Topside Press is excited to announce a week-long, intensive writers’ workshop for ten trans women working in fiction and non-fiction from August 15-19, 2016. The workshop will be led by Sarah Schulman, author of nineteen books, most recently the 2016 novel The Cosmopolitans. Ms. Schulman is currently a Full Professor at CUNY-College of Staten Island has been a dedicated teacher of emerging writers for decades. Earlier in the summer she will be teaching workshops at the Lambda Literary Emerging Writers’ Retreat in Los Angeles, CA and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.

2016 Summer Workshop Information

Deadline to Apply: June 8, 2016

Acceptances will be announced by June 15, 2016

Who: All self-identified transgender women are invited to apply to participate. Up to ten writers will be selected for this inaugural workshop. If the interest exists, we hope to greatly expand capacity in years to come.

How to Apply: Submit a writing sample and a short bio here. Your writing sample can be to 10 pages of fiction or non-fiction.

Genres: Prose, fiction and non-fiction.

Fees: $300, pay-what-you-can. Full and partial scholarships available and offered to any student who needs it, no proof of need required. If you’re accepted, you tell us what you can pay. The full tuition covers our major anticipated costs for the workshop, and we a grateful for whatever participants can contribute. During the summer, we will be fundraising to pay for the rest of the costs for the workshop, as well as to provided transportation stipends for students who need them.

If anyone out there knows a Black trans or gender non-conforming college student who is graduating with the class of 2016, please let me know. I’m looking for interview subjects for a video project with Blavity.

For the sake of shooting purposes, the subject would preferably be in New York City. However, because this is such a specific ask, I’m open to interviewing anyone within a reasonable driving distance of New York (say 2-3 hours max).

Even if you don’t know any students, suggestions on activists or groups in the LGBTQ community that you think would be helpful for leads would be greatly appreciated.

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