QUE(E)RY: a radical/queer/arts convergence (Chicago)

QUE(E)RY - a radical/queer/arts convergence this Saturday. A FREE one-day convergence of artists, activists, students, kinksters, queers, and awesome kids to discuss, dress up, explore intersectionality, make art, share skills, and dance hard.
It's happening.

QUE(E)RY - a radical/queer/arts convergence
oct. 10th - THIS SATURDAY
10:30 a.m. to midnight
ida noyes hall, 1212 e 59th st.

...is a FREE one-day convergence of artists, activists, students, kinksters, queers, and awesome kids to discuss, dress up, explore intersectionality, make art, share skills, and dance hard.

PERFORMANCES
by CRISTY ROAD
& BAD HEART BULL
followed by an open mic.

There will be FREE vegan-friendly lunch & dinner for participants!

Choose among 20 workshops led by students, faculty, kinksters, artists, and more. Some titles include:

Trans Inclusion within Gay/Lesbian/Feminist communities
Do Cylons Have Rights?
Criminal (In)Justice and the Prison System
Radical Collaboration: Photography, Political Resistance, and Genderplay
BDSM As Bio-Political Resistance
Erotica Writing

+ Zinemaking, an interactive exhibit by the Leather Archives & Museum, free queer-friendly safe sex kits, a film screening, glitter, art by Nessie Ruiz, and much much more.

Find the full schedule at:
http://queery2009.wordpress.com/works...criptions/


AT 7.30pm MUSIC AND OPEN MIC PERFORMANCES BEGIN!
CRISTY ROAD (http://www.croadcore.org/)
and
BAD HEART BULL (http://www.myspace.com/clitorectomyan...mutilators)

...followed by an awesome loud powerful Open Mic for all! We'll keep it going until Ida Noyes kicks us out. BRING YOUR INSTRUMENT, your voice, and/or your excitement!

Come for a minute or a day to check out a workshop, perform a poem, meet a friend, try on a crazy wig, brainstorm out loud, lead a workshop, make a zine, appreciate some art, talk kink, or jam.
WE WELCOME IMPROMPTU WORKSHOPS AND PERFORMANCES.

This conference is a student-conceptualized and organized, never before, never again-type thing. You should come check it out.

THANK YOU to the following collaborating organizations!
Yah's Vegan Cuisine
Backstory Cafe
Lesbian Community Care Project
Transformative Justice Law Project (TJLP)
Lichen Spiritual Archives/Zine Library
UChicago Risk-Aware Consensual Kink (RACK)
UChicago Students for Democratic Society (SDS)
Platypus
Genderqueer Chicago
Chicago Radical Cheerleaders
....& more.

See you there! more info at -- http://queery2009.wordpress.com
or email us at lifeishard@uchicago.edu

(forward widely!)