Mar

6

Reality TV Star Dani Campbell Heats Up SistersTalk Radio

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Dani Campbell is a reality TV personality, speaker, firefighter and activist who became America’s next lesbian superhero as a contestant, and eventually the final woman standing on MTV’s mega hit reality show ‘A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila.”

Dani has launched a successful new clothing company ‘Futch Apparel,’  a fashion forward line of clothes for women and men who don’t necessarily fit the everyday “mold.”

Hear Dani discuss:

*Her life since ‘A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila’

*Where she wants to see her career go

*Her clothing line ‘Futch Apparel’

*Her move into activist work

Mar

6

Indie Musician Toshi Reagon on SistersTalk Radio

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Indie musician Toshi Reagon joins us on SistersTalk Radio. The New Yorker said ”…her live shows shower retro funk, urban blues, and folk on the audience with evangelical fervor. To hear her is to believe.”

Toshi joined us on SistersTalk Radio to discuss:

*Her musical influences

*Her impressive discography

*The time she spent touring with Lenny Kravitz

*Her legendary mother, Bernice Reagon

*Her feelings about the word “nigger”

*How she feels about President Obama

*Her recent performance at the White House

Feb

5

Interview with Willow from Join the Impact & socialist activist Sherry Wolf – #CC10

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It’s been a particularly moving day for me at Creating Change (#CC10) today. I sat in on two workshops: (1) Telling: Knights Out and (2) Strengthening the Connection: Racial Justice and LGBT Rights (presented by The Applied Research Center). I was mostly pleased with the DADT workshop, until I sat in the Racial Justice workshop that mentioned a key fact about DADT that was ignored (not mentioned? forgotten?) in the DADT workshop.

The President & Executive Director of The Applied Research Center stated that Black female service members are affected by DADT more than any other group of service members. I found it a tad bit annoying that I didn’t hear that statistic in the DADT workshop – especially since 2 of the 3 presenters were women (white women, but women nonetheless).

Anyway . . . after leaving the Racial Justice workshop I felt extremely energized and, quite frankly, extremely sexually turned on. There’s something about passionate people who work diligently to secure equality for all people that’s a major form of pseudo-foreplay.

Enough about that.

I had an opportunity to speak with Willow (from Join the Impact) and socialist LGBTQ activist Sherry Wolf. I planned to remove the background noise but decided against it because I wanted the interviews to maintain their authenticity. Hope you enjoy hearing these two phenomenal activists speak about their passions as much as I did.

Willow’s interview:
http://sisterstalk.net/willow.mp3

Sherry Wolf’s interview:
http://sisterstalk.net/sherrywolf.mp3

More #CC10 commentary coming throughout the weekend. Stay tuned. And, if you’re on Twitter, follow the #CC10 tweeters.

Nov

5

ENDA Supporters Address Religious Exemption in Senate Hearing

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I just finished liveblogging today’s Senate hearing on ENDA. Here’s a brief summary:

The panel included Tom Perez, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC; Helen Norton, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, CO; The Honorable Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, State of Illinois, Chicago, IL; Virginia Nguyen, Diversity & Inclusion Team Member, Nike, Inc., Beaverton, OR; Mike Carney, Police officer, City of Springfield Police Department, Springfield, MA; Craig Parshall, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, National Religious Broadcasters Association, Manassas, VA; Camille Olson, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, Chicago, IL

There was lots of focus on the religious exemption, mostly because Parshall spent most of his time explaining why ENDA would hurt the religious community. The pro-ENDA panel partricipants (especially Norton) did a great job of countering Parshall’s claims.

The one complaint we heard the most from our liveblog participants was there was a lack of trans-identified representation, even though much of the discussion addressed the needs of trans-identified people.

To read the transcript of the liveblog, head on over to iQreport.

Oct

22

Monica Calls Out White Gays Who Criticize Obama

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I.love.TransGriot. I need to make that a bumper sticker.

Monica over at TransGriot is crackin’ the whip with anti-Obama white gays – mostly those who were convinced by the HRC to support Hillary Clinton (even though good ol’ Hillary pretty much wrote the Defense of Marriage Act and had Barr put his name on it). Monica says:

Buy a fracking vowel and get a rainbow clue. Last time I checked, the gay community was not made up exclusively of white gay people. We’re getting tired and fed up with you vanilla flavored privilege wielding GLBT peeps not only attacking our community and conveniently ignoring the fact that Black GLBT people not only exist, but we chocolate flavored GLBT peeps have a diametrically opposed view of how President Obama is doing.

The Black GLBT community is also concerned that your constant attacks are not only pissing our people off and alienating our African American cis and straight allies, you are making our job much tougher in the African American community to make the case why they should support and fight for these issues.

The reality is that Bush left the Obama Administration a toxic mess to clean up and the man has his hands full. If the rest of us and Stevie Wonder can see that, what’s wrong with y’all?

The anti-Obama queers Monica speaks of know full well that Obama has his hands full. Even a deaf and blind man knows the country is in a recession, the healthcare system is in shambles and the country is still fighting a war the Bush administration started. What’s happening here is a very slick anti-Obama/Pro-Hillary 2016 campaign – compliments of the HRC. By 2016, the HRC hopes to have convinced people that the Black man had his chance and he failed so it’s time to have a woman in the White House. I venture to guess the Clintons still have the HRC on their payroll and the HRC has a lot of favors to pay out.

I would add that a lot of us in the Black LGBTQ community are fed up with you Black queers who have become talking pieces for the HRC – a group that could care less about your Black ass. You know who you are. The HRC tossed a few pennies your way in the form of blog advertising and you’ve been kissin’ their lilly white rich asses ever since.

Update: Great comments on the HRC:

“The HRC is not a democratic or inclusive institution, especially for the people who they claim to represent. Just like society today, the HRC is run by a few wealthy elites who are in bed with corporate sponsors who proliferate militarism, heteronormativity, and capitalist exploitation. The sweatshops (Nike), war crimes (Lockheed Martin), assaults on working class people (Bank of America, Deloitte, Chase Bank, Citi Group, Wachovia Bank) and patriarchy (American Apparel) caused by their sponsors is a hypocrisy for an organization with “human rights” in their name.

Uh huh. I couldn’t agree more.

Oct

20

Senator Gillibrand Tweets Meeting with DoD to Discuss DADT

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed by New York Governor David Paterson on January 23, 2009 to replace Hillary Clinton after she became Secretary of State.

Today Gillibrand launched a new Twitter page. Her second tweet was: “I look forward to meeting with Dept of Defense officials today to discuss the latest with DADT policy.”

See the Tweet

Let’s see what becomes of that.

Sep

18

Juba Kalamka Discusses Music, Race, Gender, Class, Sex on SistersTalk Radio

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Juba Kalamka is an African American bisexual artist and activist recognized for his work and founding member of homohop group Deep Dickollective (D/DC) and his development of the micro-label Sugartruck Recordings.

Kalamka has coordinated the release and promotion of five critically successful D/DC albums, the Outmusic Award winning solo debut of former Sister Spit member Rocco “Katastrophe” Kayiatos, and the distribution of the work of numerous other artists in the homohop community.

Kalamka’s personal work centers on dialogues on the convergences and conflicts of race, identity, gender, sexuality and class in pop culture. He has written and illustrated several articles for pop culture magazines and journals, Kitchen Sink, ColorLines, and the now-defunct bisexual issues magazine Anything That Moves.

Hear Juba discuss:

*What is homohop?
*Pick up the Mic documentary
*The politics in his music
*Discrimination in the gay community
*Being at UW-Madison in Madison, WI to discuss Hip Hop as a Movement
*His work doing edu-porn
*His experience with the Sex Workers Art Show

Download the podcast now.

Sep

17

Lesbian Affair with Student Wrecked Teacher’s Career; Telling Your Co-Workers You’re Gay

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Gay News Digest: September 17, 2009

  • Lesbian Affair with Student Wrecked Teacher’s Career
  • Newlywed Game’s first gay couple
  • Talks by ‘ex-gay’ Anchorage man spark debate at UAF
  • Amy Poehler A Gay Rights Activist, On TV Anyway
  • Gay rights bill building momentum in Ohio
  • Primary Results Show Progress for Gay Candidates
  • TV dance show makes peace with U.S. gay community
  • Telling your co-workers you’re gay
  • Gay, Bisexual Teens at Risk for Eating Disorders

    • Sep

    8

    Kate Clinton, Prominent LGBTQ Activists to Discuss DC Gay Rights March on SistersTalk Radio

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    Press release:

    Madison, WI (9/8/2009) – On September 9, 2009 at 7pm central time, Kate Clinton, Jeremy Hooper, Kate Bornstein, Jason Morris and Derek Washington will participate in a live panel discussion to discuss the gay rights march taking place in Washington, DC on October 11, 2009. Genia Stevens, 8-year blogging veteran turned radio show host, will facilitate the discussion. The panel includes lesbians, gay men, a prominent transgender icon and a straight ally who have all expressed different opinions about the march. Gay rights activists who are interested in listening to the discussion can visit http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Sisters_Talk/2009/09/10/Can-Gay-Community-Come-to-Consensus-on-Gay-Rights-March

    Kate Clinton has entertained Americans for over 25 years as a comedian. Clinton specializes in political commentary from a gay/lesbian point of view. Jeremy Hooper is a prominent gay blogger who publishes the blog GoodAsYou.org. Hooper is a gay activist who uses humor to present news pertinent to the LGBTQ community. Kate Bornstein is a transgender icon who does extensive work to help prevent suicide in queer youth. Jason Morris is editor and publisher of JaySays.com, a blog highlighting the “Stupid Things People Say About Gays” series. Derek Washington is the Director of Diversity Outreach for the National Equality March. Washington is also a longtime gay rights activist who has worked with Democratic political candidates for years. Genia Stevens is the publisher of the 8 year-old blog SistersTalk. Stevens is also the founder of GayWallet.com and the host of the online lesbian and gay radio show SistersTalk Radio.

    The panel will address the pros and cons of October’s gay rights march in DC, in addition to providing listeners with the reasons each participant supports – or does not support – the march. Listeners will be able to hear the panel’s participants address the following: concerns related to the march, suggestions for future marches and what the LGBTQ community should do after the march to help secure full equality for the LGBTQ community. The panel will air live at 7pm central time on Wednesday, September 9, 2009; however, listeners who miss the live show can download the podcast at any time. The show will also be available on iTunes an hour after the live broadcast ends.

    Aug

    30

    McElhinney Documents LGBT Rights Movement Pre-Stonewall

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    Tonight on SistersTalk Radio, we interviewed Glenne McElhinney – Project Director of Impact Stories.

    Impact Stories uses oral histories, video vignettes, and multimedia presentations to tell the story of how LGBT activists made California history from 1966 to 1981.

    Hear Glenne discuss:

    *Her professional background and why she was inspired to start an LGBT oral history project
    *The most exciting part of her project
    *The film “On These Shoulders We Stand”
    *Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church
    *Her opinion of the October gay rights march in DC
    *Her own coming out story

    Download the podcast now.

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