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IRN Africa Newsletter Out!

You can download the PDF file here.

And the Winners Are…

Congratulations to the winners of the essay competition on Latin American and Caribbean Sexualities:

• Juan Cornejo: Permanencia del paradigma medicalizador en la producción intelectual chilena en torno a la homosexualidad
• Kelley Ready: The Uneasy “Informal Consensual Union” of Lesbianism in el Salvador and its Firtation with the international gay rights movement
• Pablo Andres Castro: Obsoletas Interpelaciones. El redouble que no ha sido.
• Cecilia M Hopp and Tomás F Pomar: Lo erotico es publico. Penetrando la igualdad
• Henrique Codato: A dificuldade de ser homosexual

We thank everyone for participating. The essays will be uploaded to the website shortly.

A very special thanks to our panel of judges of the IRN Latin American board for their invaluable input and work:

Eliane Borges Berutti, Departamento de Letras Anglo-Germânicas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, BRASIL

Eben Diaz- Sexual Diversity Red GLBTTTI, Nicaragua

Andrés Ignacio Rivera Duarte -University of Communication (UNIAC), Chile 

María Mercedes Gómez, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Saint Mary's University, CANADA

Rita María Pereira Ramírez - Lawyer, expert in gender and sexuality,  Cuba.

 


Instructor, Researcher and activist,

UNIAC- University of Communication, Santiago Chile  

We thank everyone for participating. The essays will be uploaded to the website shortly.

Johnson's seminar video now available

Cary Johnson's seminar on Gender, Sexuality, & Human Rights in Africa is now available on YouTube.

Johnson shares IGLHRC's work in Africa and discusses cases of human rights violations with the audience.

Other resources used in the seminar include 20 years of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

More pictures on our Facebook album.

IRN-Middle East supports the 5th Annual Anti-homophobia conf. in Turkey

IRN-Middle East supports the 5th Annual Anti-homophobia conference in Turkey by co-sponsoring Judith Butler's talk on May 15th at Boğaziçi University in Ankara. IRN Middle East coordinator will be in attendance and talk about IRN before the Butler talk.

Photos of the April 30 symposium

Photos of the symposium on "Transnational LGBTQ Organizing in the World and on the Web" are posted on IRN's Facebook Page. 

IRN's One-day Symposium, April 30

Check our updated schedule for IRN's one-day symposium on "Transnational LGBTQ Organizing in the World and on the Web."

The symposium highlights researchers, activists, and performers whose work focuses on the areas of gender and sexuality in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America. We will also be speaking with funders who support international sexual minority work and large-scale internet projects. All events will be broadcast live on the internet; video will also be archived online later. Following the symposium, written information from the event will also be available on the IRN website for those with less bandwidth. We look forward to seeing you at the symposium!

New IRN Website Now Online

The new IRN website is up now. We’re more than 90 percent finished. While we’re applying the finishing touches to our new website, we invited our internal community in to take a look around and try out the new site.

If you have an account of the old IRN site, you can use your old screen names and passwords to log in the new site. You can now create your own blogs, groups, and e-journals as well as share events, videos and other information with the global LGBTQ community. The interaction among users is now more efficient with the newly installed RSS feeds and tag clouds. We hope you find the new IRN website enjoyable and tell your friends about it. We’d love to hear what you think about the site. Comments and questions can be sent via Contact Us page. The official launch will be announced on April 30 during IRN’s one-day symposium on “Transnational LGBT Organizing in the World and on the Web.”

A Reading from Our Caribbean

On Thursday 15 April 2010, Thomas Glave will be launching Our Caribbean in collaboration with the Institute of Gender and Development Studies at UWI. Please see the poster for the details of the programme which will include readings from Colin Robinson and Lawrence Scott.

In addition, CAISO will be hosting some events with Thomas - check gspottt for details.

Updates on Caribbean Studies Association Conference Workshop - May 2010

Our workshop "Victims to Citizens: Strategies to Confront Homophobia in the Caribbean” has been approved for CSA in Barbados. We will send details later as the logistics are being worked out.