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How do we include identities of sex and gender in a community usually defined by sexuality alone? This question is one which has often been difficult to answer for the queer community. The closing plenary will feature activists from the trans and intersex communities engaging in honest dialogue about how trans and intersex have and have not been incorporated into the queer community, what the repercussions of this are, whether trans or intersex services are really being offered, and what issues are unique to the trans and intersex communities, and often overlooked by the mainstream Queer community. Panelists include: * Jamison Green, chair of Gender Education & Advocacy and founder of FTM International * Sherri Groveman, founder of the U.S. branch of the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (AISSG) and director of AISSG and the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) * Emilia Lombardi, Ph.D., intersex activist and lawyer currently working at Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services * Hida Viloria, intersex activist and writer * Del LaGrace Volcano, gender variant photographer, filmmaker, and
activist Closing Plenary: Expanding Borders—The Place of Trans and Intersex in the Queer Continuum • Jamison Green, MFA, is a Director of Gender Education & Advocacy, a national nonprofit educational organization focuses on the issues and concerns of all gender variant people. He is an internationally-known writer and public speaker who has been instrumental in defining the contemporary transgender movement and raising the visibility of FTM-identified people. He served as the leader of FTM International, Inc. from March 1991 to August 1999. Mr. Green is a transsexual man who began his transition in 1988, at the age of 39. His work is still based in Oakland, CA, where he was born and raised. (http://www.jamisongreen.com/) • Sherri Groveman is an attorney and intersex activist. In 1995, she founded the U.S. branch of the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (AISSG) and presently serves as a director of both AISSG as well as the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA). Ms. Groveman has been a frequent lecturer on the topic of intersex at medical conferences throughout the world. Her letters addressing intersex issues have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, American Family Physician Journal, the Canadian Medical Association Journal and Discover. In addition, her article "The Hanukkah Bush; Ethical Implications in the Clinical Management of Intersex" was published in the Journal of Clinical Ethics and republished in the book Intersex in the Age of Ethics, which has become the leading text on the topic of intersex. • Emilia Lombardi, Ph.D. received her Degree in Sociology from the University of Akron. She has spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at UCLA's Drug Abuse Research Center from 1997-2000. She has served as the Co-Chair for the Los Angeles County Transgender Task Force. She currently serves on the LGBT Constituent Committee of California Dept. of Alcohol and Drugs and Center for Substance Abuse Treatment LGBT Work Group. She also serves as the 2001 Program-Chair for the LGBT Health Worker Caucus of the American Public Health Association, Co-Chair for Trans-Unity 2001, and is working with Los Angeles 2006, a community group bidding to have the 2006 Gay Games held in Los Angeles. She currently works at Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services and is the Principal Investigator on a project examining the substance use treatment experiences of transgendered men and women funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. • Hida Viloria was born in New York City in 1968, to recently immigrated Venezuelan and Columbian parents. For various reasons, she was never subjected to surgical or hormonal treatment. After relocating to San Francisco, she discovered ISNA (the Interex Society of North America) in 1996 and began speaking publicly on intersex issues. To date she has presented numerous workshops in the Bay Area, been a guest speaker on several national television and radio shows, and was featured in the 1999 documentary film Gendernauts. She received an undergraduate degree in interdisciplinary studies with honors from U.C. Berkeley, interviewing intersexed persons who had not undergone medical intervention for her thesis, Experience Versus Theory: The Testimonials of Adult Intersexuals on the Medical Management of Intersexulaity. Currently, she is working on her first novel, and lives and works as an academic tutor and massage therapist in San Francisco. • Del LaGrace Volcano is a gender variant visual artist (formerly known as lesbian photographer Della Grace) living in London since 1982. s/He studied filmmaking in 1977-79 at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California before moving to San Francisco and majoring in photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979. s/He received his Masters in Photographic Studies in 1992 from the University of Derby and has exhibited his photographs and screened videos throughout Europe, the States, Canada and most recently Brazil. s/He has produced three photographic monographs, LoveBites (Gay Men's Press 1991), The Drag King Book (Serpent's Tail 1999), and Sublime Mutations (Konkursbuchverlag 2000), and has contributed to countless others. His filmmaking credits include, Pansexual Public Porn (1997), A Prodigal Son? (1998), and Journey Intersex (1999). He is currently fundraising for a feature length documentary, THE INTERSEX FILES. |
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