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Equality
Arizona Radio seeks to change hearts and open minds through education
and personal stories. Every week Emmy Award winning host Donna Rossi
sits down with local and national guests to enlighten the community
(LGBT and allies) about important issues. Past topics have
included: LGBT in the Mormon Community, ENDA updates, LGBT
Parenting and Adoption, discussions with Emmy Award Winning director
Cynthia Wade (Freeheld) and national LGBT blogger Bil Browning of the
Bilerico project. Equality Arizona Radio is exclusively funded through
the generous donations of private donors and sponsorships provided by
equality minded businesses.
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Arizona needs your help to keep Equality Arizona Radio on the air!!
In her
extraordinary book, based on 150 in-depth interviews, Lori B. Girshick,
a
sociologist and social justice activist, brings together the voices of
sex- and
gender-diverse people who speak with absolute candor about their lives.
Girshick offers readers transpeople speaking in their own voices about
identity, coming out, passing, sexual orientation, relationship negotiations
and the dynamics of attraction, homophobia, and bullying. She exposes
how the
gender binary (man OR woman) as an organizing framework does not work
for
people, how “gender police” attempt to exert control, and how an
individual’s
sense of their own gender should be their own to decide. Lori B. Girshick is a
sociologist and community activist. Her work focuses on
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues, specifically
gender
identity, domestic violence, and sexual assault. She is the author of
four
books, including Woman-to-Woman
Sexual Violence: Does She Call it Rape?, the
first book to focus on this topic. She has published numerous articles
on LGBT
domestic and sexual violence. She is the former coordinator of the
Wingspan
Anti-Violence Project in Tucson, AZ. She wrote the books No Safe
Haven: Stories of Women in Prison and Soledad Women: Wives of Prisoners
Speak
Out. Her most recent book is Transgender Voices: Beyond Women
and Men, a work
based on interviews with 150 transgender people. Currently, she teaches
sociology at Chandler-GilbertCommunity College in Chandler,
Arizona.
Right now, there is a syphilis epideic in Maricopa County,
and many other counties across the nation. Getting tested for syphilis
is easy. Contact your local health organization or county health
department for locations. Visit the LINKS
page for organizations in
Arizona, and if you are outside the Grand Canyon State, simply do an
internet search for 'syphilis testing in <your city>' to get your
local information.
If you know
of a member of the LGBTQI community who has been attacked because of
gender or sexual orientation, or a Community Organization who works to
stop Hate Crime in Arizona or a Community Organization which stands
against Hate Crime, please email our Mistress
of Glitter at webmistress@azsistersorg
gender-diverse people who speak with absolute candor about