[PNWHEALTH] [PHNURSES] Free glbtq Health Conference 6/4/04

[Sharon K. Hennessy]

CONTACT PERSON: There will be no cost for the Saying It Out Loud Conference.  If you have any questions please contact Ira Stallsworth at 206-272-2190 or
stallsi at dshs.wa.gov

Saying It Out Loud Conference

Addressing Alcohol, Tobacco, Other Drugs, Mental Health and other Health
Issues Facing the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning
Communities

June 4, 2004

Shoreline Conference Center

18560 First Avenue Northeast, Shoreline, WA 98155-2148

Sponsored by:

DSHS-Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse

DSHS-Mental Health Division- Sexual Minority Subcommittee

King County Mental Health, Chemical Abuse and Dependency Services
Division

Public Health- Seattle & King County, Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
Program

Keynote Speaker - Kate Bornstein
                  
                 Workshops

7         Reclaiming Our Traditions, Fighting for our lives: Two-Spirit
Women

7         The Gratitude Paradigm Secondary Trauma

7         Considering the Intersection of Ableism and Homophobia

7         Intersex

7         Project Neon- A beacon of light for Crystal meth users

*         Inside Out - From the inside out


dKate Bornstein

 KATE BORNSTEIN is an author and performance artist whose published works
include the books Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us; My
Gender Workbook; and the cyber-romance-action novel, Nearly Roadkill with
co-author Caitlin Sullivan. Hir plays and performance pieces include
Hidden: A Gender, The Opposite Sex Is Neither, Virtually Yours,
Cut'n'Paste, and y2kate: gender virus 2000. Kate's books are taught in
over 120 colleges and universities around the world; and ze has performed
hir work live on college campuses, and in theaters and performance spaces
across the USA, as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and
Austria.

Kate identifies hirself as neither a man nor a woman. Kate is what's
called a transsexual person, meaning she was assigned one gender at
birth, and she now lives her life as something else entirely. She was
born male and raised as a boy. She went through both boyhood and adult
manhood, underwent a gender change and "became a woman." A few years
later, she discovered that being a woman didn't work for her any better
than being a man had worked. So, she stopped being a woman and settled
into being neither.

Kate's newest play, Strangers in Paradox, opens in San Francisco at
Theatre Rhinoceros in March of 2003. Too Tall Blondes in: LOVE, written
and performed with Barbara Carrellas, premiered inBoston in 2001. Kate is
hard at work on a fictionalized autobiography: Hard Candy: The Tragic
Lives and Comical Deaths of Candy Bromowitz. Additionally, Kate is
gathering material for a new children's book, Hello Cruel World,
providing viable alternatives to teen suicide.

Kate was born outside of Fargo, North Dakota in a log cabin ze helped hir
parents build. Hir father was a Lutheran minister, and hir mother was
Miss Betty Crocker, 1939. Kate has lived in queer communities in
Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle; ze currently lives with hir
partner--sex pioneer, writer and performance artist Barbara Carrellas--in
Spanish Harlem, New York City, along with their two pugs, two turtles and
one very large kitten named Gizmo.
















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