g_b Yaariyan Karaoke Evening on Sunday 31 August from 3 to 7pm, Andheri (W) [2 Attachments]

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*LA PATIO presents Yaariyan Karaoke Evening*


la la la la la..hit those notes or not..grab that mike and sing your
favourite song..


LA PATIO presents Yaariyan Karaoke Evening..an evening full of food,drinks
and singing. Situated on the 8th floor near infinity Mall Andheri West, La
patio has two spaces an indoor karaoke and an outdoor terrace where one can
chill and hangout with friends enjoying the scenic view. And did we mention
some very sweet deals with food and drinks?


*When*: Sunday, 31st August,2014


*Time* : 3pm to 7pm


*Where:* La Patio,802,Morya Landmark II,Off new link road,Near Infiniti
Mall,Andheri West. (take the right from the Inifiniti mall junction if you
come from Bandra/Juhu side and this in the building between Mainland China
and Pop Tates)


Nearby Metro station: D.N.Nagar


*How much*: Rs.250 (includes food and drink coupons worth 250 bucks) and
not to mention happy hour rates and special menu for food and drinks!


Dos
1) Come early to ensure you get a chance to sing the karoake.
2) You need to be over 18 years to attend the event
3) Alcoholic drinks will be served to only those over 21years of age.
(carry an ID)
4) Do listen to the instructions of the organisers/Venue if they give any.
5) And don't forget to have an awesome time! ;)

g_b Tae charge of your life

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g_b Recommended Reading list on Gender, Sex, Sexuality, Feminism, Masculinity, and Queer issues!

[Aditya Bondyopadhyay adit.b...@gmail.com [gay_bombay]]

Recommended Reading list


This is a list that is taken from a Facebook Page on Gender Issues! It is a 
recommended reading list for scholars, students, or general people who want to 
explore the subjects of Gender, Sex, Sexuality, Feminism, Masculinity, and 
Queer issues! I wanted to share it here, because a lot of the interests of 
people on this group coincides with the books covered in the reading list!! - 
Regards, Aditya B


Recommended Reading list
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedman
The Female Eunch by Germaine Greer
The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Half the Sky by Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Why Loiter by Shilpa Phadke
Unbound: Indian Women at Work by Gita Aravamudan
Seeing Like a Feminist by Nivedita Menon
Are Women Human? by Dorothy L Sayers
Women in Black, White and Technicolour by Shoma A. Chatterji
Women of the Mahabharta: The Question of Truth by Chaturvedi Badrinath
The Fabulous Feminist by Suniti Namjoshi
The History of Doing by Radha Kumar
Patriarchy by V. Geeta
Women's Studies in India: A Reader by Mary E. John
Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonies by Sharmila 
Rege
May You Be The Mother of a Hundred Sons by Elisabeth Bumiller
In Search of Sita: Revisiting Mythology by Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal
Gender and Politics in India by Nivedita Menon
Sexualities by Nivedita Menon
Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law by Nivedita Menon
Power and Contestation: India since 1989 by Nivedita Menon
Volatile Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz
Feminism without borders by Chandra Mohanty
Class, Self, Culture by Beverley Skeggs
In other worlds by Gayatri Spivak
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir Puar
Sexual politics of meat by Carol Adams
Marriage will never set us free, by Dean Spade and Craig Wilse
Dalit Vision by Gail Omvedt
Sexuality Studies by Oxford Press
Introducing Feminism (A Graphic Guide)
Body Talk by Anjali Wason
 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Color Purple by Alice walker
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 GENDER EMPOWERMENT: Choices and Changes (2013).Eds. V.l.chouhan and Jayshree 
Singh
Shikhandi: And Other Tales They don’t Tell You - By Devdutt Pattnayak
The Truth About Me - By A Revathi - Published by Penguin Global 2011
Prostitution And Beyond : An Analysis Of Sex Work In India - Published by Sage 
2008
Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure: Sex, Gender and 
Empowerment - Published by ZED Books 2013
The Wisdom Of Whores : Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS - by 
Elisabeth Pisani - Published by WW Norton & Co. 2010
SIGNPOSTS : GENDER ISSUES IN POST INDEPENDENCE INDIA - Published by State Univ 
of New York Press
 Shulamith Firestone. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. 
New York: William Morrow, 1970 (Rev. ed.: New York: Bantam, 1971)
Andrea Dworkin. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. New York: Perigee, 1981
Kate Millet. Sexual Politics. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1970.
Law and Gender Inequality: The Politics of Women's Rights in India - by Flavia 
Agnes - Published by OUP
The Phobic and the Erotic : The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India - 
By Brinda Bose - Published by Seagull 2007
Sexed Sentiments: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Emotion - 
Published by Rodolpi 2010
Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India (Jordan 
Lectures in Comparative Religion, 1996-1997 : School of Oriental and African 
Studies University of London) - By Wendy Doniger
Siva And Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, And Class In Rural South India (Studies In 
The Ethnographic Imagination) - by Karin Kapadia - Published by Westview Press
Married to the Empire: Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883 1947 - 
by Mary A. Procida - Published by Manchester University Press
Daughters of Independence: Gender, Caste, and Class in India - by Joanna Liddle 
& Rama Joshi - Rutgers University Press
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (Worlds of 
Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) - by Gayatri 
Reddy - Published by University Of Chicago Press 2005
Women and Development in Urban India: A Study in Gender Geography - by Bano 
Sabina
Sexuality, Obscenity, And Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in 
Colonial India - by Charu Gupta - Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan 2002
Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India - by Serena Nanda - Publisher: 
Wadsworth 1999
 Women of India: Their Status Since the Vedic Times - by Arun R. Kumbhare
Moral Materialism (SEX AND MASCULINITY IN MODERN INDIA) - by Joseph S Alter - 
Publisher: Penguin
Degrees without Freedom?: Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North 
India - by Patr

g_b 1st RITUPARNO GHOSH MEMORIAL LECTURE - If in Calcutta, pls attend [1 Attachment]

[Aditya Bondyopadhyay adit.b...@gmail.com [gay_bombay]]

*THE PRATYAY GENDER TRUST PRESENTS*




First Annual


*RITUPARNO GHOSH MEMORIAL LECTURE*


*by*


*FLAVIA  AGNES, an eminent human rights lawyer, activist, and author!*




*Sunday, August 31, 2014, from 5PM*


at:


Academy of Fine Arts Conference Hall


2, Cathedral Road


Calcutta/Kolkata: 700071

g_b Enjoy more fully the sunlight

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Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. - Gordon B. 
Hinckley (Positive thinking http://om.symphonyoflove.net/#positive-thinking @ 
OM)

There is always storms in life and yet the sun has always been there; it's not 
about ignoring the storms but choosing to bask in the sunlight.

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"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may 
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g_b Listen to judges tearing apart homophobic arguments

[Vikram D vg...@yahoo.co.uk [gay_bombay]]

For all of us who were in court during the Supreme Court hearings on the Naz 
case and remember the awfulness of hearing Justice Mukhopadhaya responding to 
our lawyers arguments with total ignorance and prejudice, the audio in this 
link affords a certain irrational satisfaction.




Because it shows the opposite - judges tearing into homophobic arguments with 
incisive questions, humour and even contempt for what they are hearing. If the 
states lawyers weren't defending such rubbish it would almost be possible to be 
sorry for them!




http://www.towleroad.com/2014/08/7th-circuit-hears-challenges-to-same-sex-marriage-bans-in-indiana-and-wisconsin-listen.html




The audio is of the arguments against gay marriage heard in the 7th circuit of 
the US judiciary, which concerned Indiana and Wisconsin. The legislatures in 
these states had passed bans on gay marriage which courts in these states had 
struck down. The governments in these states appealed the courts decisions to 
the higher federal level, the 7th circuit, which can be seen like a level of 
judiciary between the state courts and the Supreme Court. Each circuit covers 
certain US states.




Gay marriage has been having a great run in the US courts and has got a lot of 
great decisions. This isn't a decision, and we don't know how the three judges 
hearing these cases will decide. But its still worth listening to even if you 
have no great interest in gay marriage in the US - and lets face it, when we 
are fighting for basic rights, these US battles can seem like an almost 
enviable luxury.




These recordings are still worth listening to because they give amazing 
examples of judges - judges! - totally demolishing, even ridiculing a lot of 
standard homophobic arguments. And what's amazing is the most incisive, 
dismissive, devastating judge is Richard Posner, who has a reputation as a 
conservative, but a thoughtful, intellectual one, and one who was appointed by 
Ronald Reagan. Posner is generally social liberal, but has not always been 
automatically supportive of all gay rights positions.




But here he is totally onboard. He is appalled at the way the states disregard 
the rights of kids of same sex partners and the effect that lack of marriage 
has on same sex couples. He is almost sneering at the argument from the states 
that they are not homophobic, but just "thinking about the kids". And his 
attack on 'tradition' as a basis for laws, which is at the start of the 
Wisconsin arguments (the second segment) should be printed out and pasted up in 
every legislature. 


And its not just Posner. The other two judges talk less, but they also have 
their moments. Listen to Justice David Hamilton incredulous "What?!" when the 
Wisconsin lawyer says that Loving vs.Virginia, which decriminalised interracial 
marriage in the USA was a deviation from common lawyer. Or when the same lawyer 
really desperately suggests his time is up - imagine a lawyer actually trying 
to stop arguing - Justice Anne Clair Williams jokes that that tactic isn't 
going to win.




Its amazing. Listen and weep for what judges unlike Mukhopadhaya and Singhvi 
can be like.




Vikram

g_b The battle for LGBT rights in the workplace advances in the face of an uneasy corporate world

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