autismserenity:drag-tween:angrypedestrian:elierlick:FTM Trans Pride 1994From Stephen Ira on twitter,
autismserenity:drag-tween:angrypedestrian:elierlick:FTM Trans Pride 1994From Stephen Ira on twitter, info on the first FTM contingent at San Francisco Pride from 1994. From left to right: Max Wolf Valerio, Matt Rice, David Harrison, Loren Cameron and the last person is unknown at the moment.And the woman in the back with the baby is Susan Stryker!And an update on Stryker: She was hired by Mills College, an Oakland, Calif.-based school that is the largest all-women’s college in the West, as the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership, leading the Trans Studies Speaker Series. Unfortunately, the school announced in March that it will “detransition” into a research institute after the 2022-23 academic year. In 2014 Mills was the first single-sex college to admit trans students; recent alumni include activist Mia “Tu Mutch” Satya and pioneering YouTuber Erin “Grishno” Armstrong.#TransHistoryTuesdayYo, Mills alum here to add some stuff!First: it hasn’t even gone as far as to state that it will become a RESEARCH institute. The administration has been extremely vague about what a “Mills Institute” would do, and fairly openly doesn’t have a plan.Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman did indeed announce in March that the college was CLOSING, and its last class would graduate in 2023.She’s been hard-core backpedaling lately in the face of alums and faculty organizing against her. Alums are openly fundraising to take legal action; faculty overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence against her and the Board. So she’s now claiming that they haven’t made any final decisions, haven’t made any agreements with UC Berkeley, and would love to go another direction. (For their part, the UC Berkeley administration apparently been talking pretty openly about how they’re going to “absorb” Mills.)There are two Facebook groups organizing around it (one run by the alum organization, one separate). The alum response can best be summed up by an early post that said: “They must have forgotten who they educated.”Some folks (faculty? alums? both?) have been keeping a very detailed blog going about exactly how fishy the whole thing is. It’s interesting reading.It’s important because Mills is: * 8% trans women* Ludicrously non-binary (listen I don’t have stats, but I was there in 1996-2000, and there were already enough genderqueers for me to start a student club) * 17% undergraduate resumer students (23 years of age or older)* 44% first-generation undergraduate students* 65% undergraduate students of color* 58% graduate students of color* and the shady stat: “58% LGBTQ undergraduate students (data [for this one] was provided by 76% of the 2020 incoming class)” That sounds EXTREMELY low. I think the 24% who didn’t respond must all have been queer too. Oh yeah: Stryker wasn’t their first trans professor. Susan Bassein, who went on to run the (excellent) computer science program, transitioned WHILE she was up for tenure in the early 90s. And got it. (Also, she’s apparently non-binary, which I did not know!)She’s a queer and trans activist of some note. I have a copy of the program for the 1990 National Bisexual Conference, in which she presented some great stuff. (The Bay Area Reporter called it “The Bisexuals’ Stonewall,” which is great til you remember that there were bisexuals at the first one too goddamnit.) She co-founded East Bay Bi-Friendly. And she has a short piece in Bi Any Other Name about everyday life as a nonbinary bisexual.Anyway, if you wanna go to a super-queer college that offers a lot of financial aid and miiiiight shut down in two years, I highly recommend Mills! -- source link
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