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Fighting for Equal Healthcare: Dr. Russ Toomey files class-action lawsuit, preliminary hearings commence
Last Wednesday, Dr. Russell Toomey (Associate Professor of Family Studies & Human Development, Trans* Studies Research Cluster Faculty) appeared at the first hearing regarding the class-action law suit he filed against the State of Arizona and the Arizona Board of Regents in late January. Dr. Toomey's candid sharing of his experiences and legal action bring much-needed attention to the inadequate and exclusionary state of healthcare for Arizona's trans* employees and their dependents, who are denied insurance coverage for transition-related surgery.
We at the Institute for LGBT Studies thank Dr. Toomey for his bravery and are honored to support and stand by him as he engages this crucial battle.
We will continue to share information about upcoming court proceedings and case-related matters on our social media.
Read Dr. Toomey's statement published on the ACLU website here.
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UA Prose Series: T Clutch Fleischmann & Andrea Lawlor
Thursday, Oct. 10th
7:00 PM
UA Poetry Center | 1508 E Helen St
Free
The UA Prose Series, curated by the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the UA, presents prose writers of distinction.
T Clutch Fleischmann
is the author of
Syzygy, Beauty,
and the book-length essay
Time Is the Thing.
.., published by Coffee House Press in spring 2019. They are the Nonfiction Editor at
DIAGRAM
and Contributing Editor to
Essay Daily.
Andrea Lawlor
edits fiction for
Fence
magazine, and has been awarded fellowships by Lambda Literary and Radar Labs. The book,
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
, was a 2018 finalist for the Lambda Literary and CLMP Firecracker Awards.
Learn more about this event here.
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Queer Conexiones: This Week!
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Check out Pride Alliance's upcoming events for Coming Out Week 2019!
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Check out Sapphocracy's new single on Spotify & iTunes, available Oct. 11th!
Visit their Facebook page
here.
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Join SAAF for AIDSWALK Tucson 2019!
Sunday, Oct. 13th, 2019
Registration Opens: 7:00 AM
Joel D. Valdez Main Library, Jacome Plaza (Downtown)
The Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation invites you to participate in the 31st year of AIDSWALK Tucson, a fundraiser for t
he care services, prevention programs, and LGBTQ initiatives of SAAF. All of these would not be possible without the generous support of walkers, their furry friends, our sponsors, and donors. Read more details and register for this event here.
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CONFERENCES, CALLS, CLASSES and FUNDING
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CFS: Queering in Plain Sight: A Folio on Queer Fashion
Deadline: Oct. 31st, 2019
Anomaly invites people of all genders who identify as queer to contribute to their upcoming folio on queer fashion and its intersections. Please send your previously unpublished fiction, creative nonfiction, poems, hybrid words, collages, illustrations, comics, videos, and anything else you can possibly think of - in conversation with any aspect of queering fashion to
queerfashionfolio@gmail.com.
Anomaly
especially welcomes submissions by people of color (especially Black and indigenous people), disabled and neurodivergent people, migrants and the children of migrants, and everyone under the LGBTAI+ umbrella who considers themselves queer.
Read the full details of this call here.
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Submit your bicycle-themed artwork for BICAS 24th annual art auction!
Deadline: Dec. 1st, 2019
Preview Party: Dec. 6th
Silent Auction: Dec. 7th
Steinfeld Warehouse | 101 W 6th St
Bicycle Inter-Community Art & Salvage (BICAS) is seeking donations of bicycle-themed art. Please bring ready to display art to BICAS during open shop hours (Tuesday-Sunday; 11AM-6PM). BICAS is located at 2001 N 7th Ave.
Visit the BICAS Facebook page here.
Read more about the art auction here.
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