Call for binding resources!
This is a call for binding resources, especially any resources that are specifically useful for
- fat and large-chested folks who bind
- people with back problems who bind
- people who may be binding long-term
This was prompted by a message I got, but I would also just love to have these resources compiled (for myself and others).
Reblog and add your resources!
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Introducing We’re Queer Out Here: Stories from small town and rural LGBT
Far too often, the narratives of small town and rural LGBT life have taken a back seat to the vision of urban queerness, in cities where spaces of acceptance, community, and organization are much more accessible. Those of us who grew up or currently live in small towns frequently do not have access to the same level of resources, organization, and community. Our stories, our difficulties, are often met with dismissive attitudes by our urban counterparts, who assure us that once we leave and make it to the city life will be different. What about those of us for whom such an exodus isn’t financially, socially, or otherwise materially accessible? What do we do? How do we organize? How do we ensure that we not only create a space and change for ourselves but for the next generation?
Let’s talk about it. Let’s share our stories, our strategies, our histories, our hopes for the future. Let’s talk about the ways that the urban vision of queer life doesn’t fit us, and about the ways that maybe we don’t want it to fit.
We’re Queer Out Here is a submission based Tumblr created specifically to highlight the stories and experiences of rural and small town lesbian, gay, bisexual/pansexual, transgender, and genderqueer people. No matter where your small town or rural community is in the world, your story, your voice, and your experience matters and we want to hear from you.
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The Innocence Project
Non-profit organization that exculpates wrongfully convicted persons and advocates for legislation reform to prevent further wrongful convictions.
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Hurricane safety for trans* people
Hurricane Irene Is Coming: Guide to Making Shelters Safe for Transgender Evacuees
From North Carolina to New York City,thousands of people have already evacuated their homes to escape Hurricane Irene’s path. Among them are transgender people who, like others, don’t have anywhere else to turn to except for evacuation shelters.
Considering the unique difficulties transgender evacuees encounter, NCTE, Lambda Legal, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force have issued these simple guidelines to assist shelters in making their spaces safe for transgender people.
Download the resource and share it with evacuation shelters in your area.
NCTE has also created a Hurricane Preparedness Kit for transgender individuals who are displaced by storms. This resource includes information about what to do when preparing for a storm, and what to bring if you are evacuated.
If you are facing harassment or discrimination in emergency shelters and other evacuation programs because of your transgender status, please call the Lambda Legal Toll-Free National Help Desk at 866-542-8336. To file a discrimination complaint with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of Equal Rights, call 202-646-3535.
MoonShot Digital Comics: Female Comic Book Creators, Where Are You?
There have been a lot of stories recently regarding female creators, or the lack thereof, at the bigger established comic book companies…
[H]ere at MoonShot Digital Comics…we are not only open and available to creators of varied diversity, but that we in fact want to build our business around that concept.
It’s really very simple. Diversity of creators means diversity in storytelling, which drives diversity in the audience.
So spread the word! MoonShot Digital Comics wants submissions from every creator out there with a story to tell, regardless of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background or favorite football team. Our job will be to develop social media marketing, and digitally distribute your creator-owned work.
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[TRAUMA WARNING: Rape] Walmart, Target, Hanes, Macy's Linked To Rape Factory In Jordan
Some of the biggest names in American retail have been linked to a Jordanian garment factory that allegedly rapes, tortures, and abuses its female workers, according to a report by the Institute of Global Labour and Human Rights, formerly known as the National Labor Committee. In a petition on Change.org, the human-rights organization accuses supervisors at Classic Factory, which supplies clothing to Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Hanes, and Land’s End, of sexually assaulting dozens of migrant workers from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, most of whom are virtually imprisoned in dilapidated surroundings. “We only went to Jordan to earn money to help our families,” says a young woman who goes by the name “Nazma” to protect her identity. “We had no idea that factory managers would rape so many of us young girls.”
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Care to help out a transwoman?
I copied this post off of susan’s
“My local radio station is having this contest, “The Breast Summer Ever” in which the company will fully fund the breast augmentation of the winning woman, on a voting system. I just wanted to bring to your attention that anyone can vote, and one of our own, a transwoman named Avery (#4) has made the top ten, causing a but of controversy in our very conservative city. I think that it would send a very strong message, not to mention make her dream come true if she was to win. But there is no way that she can do it without the help of the community. All you have to do is press a button and your vote is cast. As I’m sure you are all aware, transphobia rates decrease with the ability to pass, and just imagine what this would do to her self esteem. you can vote here”
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Signal boost
this is a tumblr founded on the idea that people should have access to images, videos, porn, and other media that features people who look like them and who identify in the same ways that they do. it will hopefully feature people (sometimes engaged in sex acts, but not always) who are people of colour, disabled, fat, queer, trans*, who engage in bdsm and more.
each entry on this blog will be tagged with the category it belongs to (i.e. queer, fat, bdsm, trans*, etc.) everything will be tagged appropriately with trigger warnings and image descriptions. we will also signal boost tumblrs who feature similar material to ours.
i will hopefully have a manifesto and submission guidelines for this blog by the end of the week. also a name change, and members, which will be talked about in more detail in the following post.
signal boost please.
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Call for submissions: Anthology Of South Asian Queer Erotica [title forthcoming]
The spaces for expressing queer concerns have increased across South Asia in the last decade. Much is being written about sexuality, rights and queer lives. Yet, in all of this, sex itself doesn’t get written about very much and there is a dearth of queer erotica from South Asia. Contemporary queer erotica with a South Asian focus would make these queer lives apparent in newer and compelling ways. This anthology is an attempt to present queer, sexual, regional literature that pleasures and satisfies. It is about queer sex lives, erotic experiences and passions. Queer in this anthology represents non-normative genders, sexualities, lives and perspectives. It aims to bring out voices that have been limited to smaller groups or never heard before.
What we want:
We want stories of queer love, lust and craving. Sex, however you may define it, should be a big part of the story. We want gender play, auto-eroticism, dark fantasies, monogamous and non-monogamous sex, stories of bondage, domination, sadism and masochism. We are looking for stories of deep passions, stories that complicate sex. We want stories of desire, fulfilled and unfulfilled. Stories that defy the gender binary. Stories of how you sexed up your aids and appliances. Stories on masturbation or the pleasures of paid sex. Stories of how you steamed up a bus ride, ended a clandestine affair or fucked with sex toys. Share with us stories that confront, redefine, dispute and reclaim what sex is. Let your stories queer erotica itself.
We invite you to write short stories with South Asian themes, characters and places reflected in them. We are looking for a wide expression of experiences across age, region, class, ability, gender and sexual identities. Stories can be fictional, semi-fictional and non-fiction, but we are not looking for academic or solely autobiographical writing on sexuality. Your stories will shatter the silences around queer erotic lives and encompass their diversities, so let us have them.Who can write:
We want to foreground the queer voices of people living in or originally from South Asia. Queer includes but is not restricted to identities like lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, intersex, hijra, kothi, questioning, genderqueer, genderfluid and pansexual. Authors do not necessarily have to identify with one or more of these identities but the stories they submit should reflect non-normative genders, sexualities, lives and perspectives.How to submit:
We are looking for short stories with a word limit of no less than 3000 words. We regret that we are unable to include poetry.
All submissions should be in English. Translations from other languages are allowed as long as the author owns the rights to the translation as well.
Please submit the story as an email attachment on a word document. Please include a title and word count.
Do not include your name or any other identifiers in the word document. As we are using a blind submissions process, we will have to reject submissions that indicate the author’s identity in the body of the story.
Authors will be informed whether their work is selected by mid-October. At that time, we will request you to provide a name under which you wish to be published and a short bio.
All selected authors will receive a one-time payment. The copyright of the story will remain with the author.The deadline for submission is 15th September 2011.
Send your stories to queerotic.stories@gmail.com
Now get writing about the kind of sex you have wanted to read about. And get us swooning!About the editors:
Meenu is a queer feminist activist. She has been involved with issues of gender and sexuality through women’s rights organisations and autonomous collectives for the last six years. She lives in Delhi and is an avid reader of erotica.Shruti is currently based in Bombay. In the last eight years, she has actively engaged with the women’s and queer movements in the country. Over the years, she has worked as a researcher, social worker and counsellor.
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The Pride: queer superheroes
Comic writer Joe Glass is working on an Avengers or JLA style superhero team book starring visible, active queer superheroes. He is also looking for more funding to help get this book published.
Have you ever felt misrepresented? Or not represented at all? Have you ever thought the media makes you out to be something you’re not? A joke, a monster, a danger, or worse? Well, FabMan has. So he’s forming his own brand of superhero team…one with an LGBT twist. THE PRIDE are coming to show you what they got; they’re here to savethe world; they’re here for everyone!
Born from my own teenage feelings that there weren’t enough visible, active queer superheroes, THE PRIDE is a six issue comics mini-series that will be published through Deadstar Publishing.
Presented in the same format and look as a big name superhero team book like ‘The Avengers’ or ‘Justice League’, THE PRIDE will be open to anyone and everyone, showing that the LGBT community can be amazing and just like everyone else.
The aim of the series is to present to non-LGBT readers a view of the community that is accessible to them, and might change their current opinions. For LGBT readers, it presents a group of heroes that are open about their sexuality and lives and live a good life because of it.
THE PRIDE however needs help. I wish to raise funds to aid in the production of the book. Whilst Deadstar Publishing will cover most of the printing and distribtution costs when the comic is ready to hit the comic stands, the cost of paying artists on the book falls to me. As such, I would be raising money to pay Gavin Mitchell, the artist and letterer, and Kris Carter, the series regular colourist. Remaining funds would also be used to pay other more well known artists to be involved in the project; will be used for printing the reward copies for anyone who funds it; to create a proper web presence for the project; and generally used to make the comic as big and brilliant as I know it can be.
THE PRIDE already has a good fan base building, from its visibility on the Facebook page to a preview of the project released as part of the Stiffs/The Pride Preview Comic. Already, the project is getting positive attention, and that can only grow with the help of Crowdfunder.
You can see more about THE PRIDE on the Facebookpage: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=hp#!/ThePrideComicTHE PRIDE is aiming for a release in the Autum/Fall of 2011
Glass has some good words about LGBTQ representation in comics:
I recently wrote an article on this, and although I discovered there is certainly no (at least anymore) inherent homophobia within mainstream comics companies, the treatment and representation of LGBTQ characters is still pretty poor. To be fair, that goes with most minorities too.
It’s not out of hatred, possibly it is out of fear (the fear of mishandling it and getting into trouble for that), but whatever the reason, it’s not good enough. In the majority of cases, gay characters wind up relegated to the background (just check out Northstar in Uncanny X-Men these days) or as supporting characters. Rarely is a gay character in a lead role position, and I’m kinda tired of that.
Yes, I love reading about the adventures of heterosexual heroes as much as anyone, but y’know what, I’d really like to see a gay lead too. It’s been attempted once or twice, but the big leaguers often seem to get cold feet, so it never lasts long.
There are a few great examples, but generally representation is low, and treatment and handling is sometimes a little lacking.
Two pages are under the cut. For a six page preview, check out this link.
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