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Interesting Job Fair to be held in NYC - 10/27/2005 1:19:24 PM

Mercnbeth

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By Ellen Wulfhorst

NEW YORK (Reuters) - What box should you check on a job application -- male or female -- if neither one is quite right?

That's just one of many issues organizers hope to tackle at what they are calling the nation's first "Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Job and Education Fair," slated for early December in New York.

"We're limited to two boxes, male and female," said Domenack, 24, who was born female and calls herself a "transman." "There's just two options, and I can't put my true identity."

Domenack said she would add a third option -- a line to describe gender preference.

About 10 companies, including the city's Con Edison utility company, have signed up for the fair, organizers said. As many as 25 businesses and schools are expected at the December 3 event.

Entire Article: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticnews&storyid=2005-10-26t213223z_01_kra677525_rtrukoc_0_us-life-transgender.xml&archived=false

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RE: Interesting Job Fair to be held in NYC - 10/29/2005 2:19:49 PM

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That is wonderful news! It sounds like it would be a win-win situation: people get good jobs and companies interested in diversity can find plenty of applicants.

Apparently it is being sponsored by the Audre Lorde Project. Here is a press release about the job fair: http://www.iacenter.org/archive2005/trans-120305.htm

And some information from the Audre Lorde Project website: http://www.alp.org/calendar.html

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RE: Interesting Job Fair to be held in NYC - 10/30/2005 10:11:17 PM

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why, does it seem like all the interesting stuff happens on the East Coast :-( I would have loved to see this.

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RE: Interesting Job Fair to be held in NYC - 11/7/2005 7:44:23 AM

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I wonder if I can apply saying I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body?

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RE: Interesting Job Fair to be held in NYC - 11/13/2005 5:43:22 PM

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If only it were that the midwest could catch up!

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RE: Interesting Job Fair to be held in NYC - 12/28/2005 2:58:38 AM

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http://www.alp.org/calendar.html

i wonder how it did. they had an extremely impressive number and group of varied nyc endorsers, including Gifford Miller, Speaker of the NYC City Council, ALLGO, a Queer People of Color Organization, Austin,TX, Babeland (formerly Toys in Babeland), Brainpower Research and Development Services Inc, Bet Power, Director & Curator Sexual Minorities,
Archives, Northampton, MA, Bisexual Resource Center, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), East Coast FTM Group Northampton, MA, Empire State Pride Agenda, FIERCE! Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment, Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (F.I.S.T), Gender Identity Project, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, NYC, Generation Five - San Francisco, CA, GLOBE: A Group that Supports and Empowers The LGBTQ Community in Bushwick, NY, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Gunner Scott of GenderCrash.com, Boston, MA, Hispanic AIDS Forum, NYC,
Housing Works, INC., Identity House, NYC, Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project, Immigration Equality, NYC, Janet Mayes, Ph.D., NYC, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, NYC, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, Melissa Sklarz, Co-chair LGBT Committee, Community Board #2, Manhattan, NY,
Metropolitan Community Church of New York, Michelle Lowinger, Activist, NYC, Michelle O'Brien, MSW, New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), Paisley Currah, Brooklyn, NY, Paper Tiger Television, Queers for Economic Justice, NYC, Queers for Peace and Justice, Samuel Lurie, Transgender Training and Advocacy, www.tgtrain.org
Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center, NYC, Somatic Movement Therapy Center - New York, NY, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), The National Center for Transgender Equality, The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, The Transgender Law and Policy Institute, NYC, The Women's Studies Program at the George Washington University, Washington, DC, Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project, Oakland, CA,
United Students Against Sweatshops, yk hong, Freedomtrainers.org.

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RE: Interesting Job Fair to be held in NYC - 12/29/2005 7:59:07 PM

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i wonder how it did.

I wrote to them and asked. There were over 100 applicants, 21 employers and schools, and a surprising number of volunteers. In other words, it was quite successful.

They are pleased with the results and are willing to lend advice to persons who would like to organize a similar event in their area. If anyone wants the contact information,please send me an email.

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