The Radicalguy

Guest: Penny Larson

Ethan St.Pierre — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:59:40 GMT

Penny Larson a versatile drummer and percussionist who has combined a keen musical awareness with robust technical facility to become a highly desired musician in the northeastern US. Her past experience includes performances with classical, jazz, fusion, rock, heavy metal, pop, Christian, and folk groups on a multitude of instruments including drum set, djembe, marimba, frame drum, and udu. Penny is an alumna of Berklee College of Music where she earned a Youth Concerts at Symphony Hall Award while majoring in Traditional Composition. She has been teaching private drum set lessons for over twenty years and is currently a staff instructor at South Shore Music & DiCenso's Drum Shop in Weymouth, MA. Penny is currently performing with Hypaspace, a progressive instrumental trio. She is a member of the Music Team and Leadership Team (Outreach) at The Crossing, an Emergent Worship Community. She is also in the formative stages of Henny Penny, a funky dance band; as well as Sisters of Symmetry, a drum/bass duo which will be a creative outlet as well as an educational tool. Penny also performs with talented rock singer/songwriter Leslie-Ann Rios. Penny is a sponsored educator with Vater Percussion.

Guest: Gwen Smith

Ethan St.Pierre — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:20:15 GMT

Check out her website: http://www.gwensmith.com

Guest: Kate Lynn Blatt

Ethan St.Pierre — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:09:18 GMT

Kate Lynn Blatt says her former employer requested a photograph of her genitalia as a condition of continued employment, after questions arose about her use of a worksite female locker room.
Read the rest of the story here:

http://www.epgn.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Trans+woman-+Employer+asked+for+photos%20&id=3178538

Guest: Jesse B.

Ethan St.Pierre — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:47:03 GMT

Jesse B. is currently a student at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts and is studying documentary film production and photography. On campus, they recently co-chaired Take Back The Night to educate and raise awareness of domestic violence. Included in the week of events was an LGBT workshop, and in the production of the Vagina Monologues, the inclusion of the transgender monologue "They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy… Or So They Tried". Jesse has organized and taught photography classes at the Boston Living Center and a class at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay. Jesse is working as an intern with Planted Seeds Productions on their first feature-length documentary “Play in the Gray”, which shakes the foundation of gender stereotypes by exploring the work and personal lives of Boston drag-based theatre troupe, ALL THE KINGS MEN. As a transgender activist, Jesse is interning with the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition. They photographed the hearing for H.1728, “An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes” and the photographs can be found on the MTPC website. Jesse will continue to work with MTPC as the Transgender Youth Summit Coordinator and Liaison to MTPC Boston general meetings.

Guest: Susan Stryker

Ethan St.Pierre — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:59:47 GMT

Susan Stryker is an internationally recognized independent scholar of sexuality and gender. She currently holds the Martin Duberman Research Fellowship at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in New York, the Mayer Fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and is a research associate at the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Between 1999 and 2004, Stryker served as executive director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. She earned a Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of California at Berkeley, and later held a postdoctoral fellowship in sexuality studies at Stanford University. She is author of The Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge, 2006); Queer Pulp (Chronicle, 2001); the transgender studies special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke, 1998); Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle, 1996); and numerous articles. She was featured in Monika Treut's film Gendernauts (1999) and was scenarist and scriptwriter for Brandon, Shu Lea Cheang's online multimedia installation examining gender, embodiment, violence, and media at the SoHo Guggenheim (1998-1999). Her current long-term works-in- progress are Christine in the Cutting Room (a documentary film about transsexual pioneer Christine Jorgensen), and Transsexual City (a book-length work on critical theory of embodiment, space, and history). screamingqueensmovie.com A list of Susan's works: http://tinyurl.com/mfqo6k

Guest: Julia Serano

Ethan St.Pierre — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:10:35 GMT

Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, spoken word performer, trans activist, and biologist. Julia is the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Seal Press, 2007), a collection of personal essays that reveal how misogyny frames popular assumptions about femininity and shapes many of the myths and misconceptions people have about transsexual women. Her other writings have appeared in anthologies (including BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine and Word Warriors: 30 Leaders in the Womenâs Spoken Word Movement) and in feminist, queer, pop culture and literary magazines and websites such as Bitch, AlterNet.org, Out, Feministing.com, Clamor, Kitchen Sink, make/shift, other, LiP and Transgender Tapestry. In recent years, Julia has gained notoriety in transgender, queer, and feminist circles for her unique insights into gender. She has been invited to speak about transgender and trans women's issues at numerous universities, at queer, women's studies, psychology and philosophy-themed conferences, and her writings have been used as teaching materials in college-level gender studies courses across the United States. Check out her website at: http://www.juliaserano.com