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Exploring Gender Identity: How Sex & Sensuality Affirms and Expands Gender Identity
Saturday, April 4th — 3:30 p.m. PST — $15-25 This class will be held online viaΒ ZoomΒ β you will receive an email prior to class with a link. How does gender identity inform our sex lives? And how can we bring more pleasure into gender transitions? In this class, queer, non-binary sex educator Tuck…
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Exploring Gender Identity: How Sex & Sensuality Affirms and Expands Gender Identity
Wednesday, February 5th — 7:30 p.m. — $25 How does gender identity inform our sex lives? And how can we bring more pleasure into gender transitions? In this class, queer, non-binary sex educator Tuck Malloy invites you to ask some big questions and offers some potential pathways for how to explore gender as…
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Your Gender is Awesome: A Class for Trans Youth
Sunday, July 2nd — 7:30 p.m. — $10 Please note: This class is for people UNDER 18 years old. You must have a parent or guardian accompany you to this class to sign a consent form. They do not have to stay throughout the entire class, but may do so. Please leave a note…
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Guide to STP (stand-to-pee) devices
Summer is here and during such an outdoorsy season, stand-to-pee devices (STPs) are more sought after than ever! STPs make it possible for any person with a vulva to pee standing up — no more hovering awkwardly over porta potties at concerts or leaving your butt bug-vulnerable when camping. STPs can also be essential to a trans…
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Re-learning orgasm
Headlines are funny sometimes. “A Trans Woman Learns To Masturbate” is the title the piece was given on Eros Media, yet such a statement ignores the unique, languid writing style of author Jetta Rae. It also simplifies the myriad issues Rae explores — beyond just masturbation, beyond just being trans. Rae begins by addressing the societal…
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Renaming Desire: Trans/Non-Trans Sex Revisited
Thursday, April 23rd — 7:30 pm — $20 Even in 2015 the notion of sex between trans and non-trans people strikes fear and curiosity in many queer people. For trans people, how to come out and express oneβs desire and physical/mental make up to a non-trans person remains a monumental hurdle. For non-trans…
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Watching Trans Grrrls, her armor melts away
Amy Dentata is a writer, game designer, and performer who touches on topics including trauma recovery, mental illness, sexuality, and transgender issues on her website and elsewhere. Recently she wrote something amazing on PinkLabel.tv: “Fumbling Towards Humanity: How Trans Grrrls Helped Me Open Up to My Partner.” We knew Courtney Trouble’s Trans Grrrls was a very…
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Local victories: gender-neutral bathrooms, more accessible birth certificates
The biggest news of the month, that the Supreme Court has overturned DOMA and dismissed Prop 8, has certainly been reason to celebrate. And hopefully it will pave the way for marriage equality in Oregon come 2014 (fingers seriously crossed!). But there have been a couple smaller, more local victories recently that we appreciated.…
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Kickstart Tobi Hill-Meyer’s next project
Tobi Hill-Meyer, winner of the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2010 Feminist Porn Awards and director of Doing It Ourselves: The Trans Women Porn Project, now has an even bigger project in her sights: an epic two-volume follow-up movie called Doing it Again: In Depth. Doing it Again: In Depth will be partially funded by a…
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Trans rights victories in Ontario and Argentina
Rest of the world, take note. Both Ontario and Argentina have recently taken some big leaps forward for trans rights, allowing for gender self-determination on birth certificates without proof of medical, judicial, or psychiatric procedures first. Ontario’s change came in the form of an April decision that struck down a previous rule in the Vital…
