20.8.2010
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Queer Literary Event at Ottawa Pride

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Lambda presents "Queer Generations" - a celebration of local writers at different ages and stages. This one-hour event on Thursday, August 26th at 7:00 pm will be hosted by CBC's In Town and Out host, Michael Bhardwaj and will take place in the foyer of Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West — featuring:

Blaine Marchand, debuting his latest book of poetry, The Craving of Knives

Gabriella Goliger, reading from her soon-to-be-published lesbian novel, Girl Unwrapped

Luna Allison, spoken word artist, storyteller and jazz poet

Sean Zio, zinester and writing teacher, with his guy-loving poems 

Dessert and time to mix and mingle will follow the readings. Come out and celebrate the 25th anniversaries of both Capital Pride and Lambda. Following the event you are all encouraged to join the Capital Pride rally at the Human Rights Monument just around the corner from City Hall.

Admission is Free and donations to Lambda's GLBTQ research scholarships at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa are very welcome!

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Giving Students a Chance to Answer those (Re)Searching Questions

How do lesbians in Palestine view their own “queer” identities in relation to their society’s expectations of them as women? How do White men and Asian men who are in gay relationships with each other view their interracial partnerships and themselves?

There was a time when there was little academic approval or opportunity for Canadian university students to explore such challenging questions. But then, Lambda, a gay professional and business group in Ottawa, decided it was time to give them a chance. It established the non-profit Lambda Foundation, raising over a quarter of a million dollars to set up scholarships at universities across Canada.

One of the Lambda founders, Gary Sealey, recalls: “We did it for fun and as a gift, because it hadn’t been done before, to build a bridge to our own quiet and endangered society—to build a better Canada.”

Lambda scholarships enable students in many different fields of study to explore the lives and concerns of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in their research and writing. There is a Lambda scholarship at Carleton University, and another at the University of Ottawa, as well as several others across the country.

Lambda was founded around a vision created by many individuals. Collectively we are launching a year of celebrating Lambda at 25 and we invite everyone to join with us in honoring Lambda then, now and going forward. We look forward to hearing your suggestions, ideas, inspirations, and stories.

You can contact us at: info@lambdafoundation.com or 613-791-6729

To learn more about Lambda please visit the website
 

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Meet a Carleton U 2010 Scholarship Recipient

Emerich Daroya completed undergraduate studies in Political Science and Sociology at York University and is currently working on an MA in Sociology at Carleton University. Emerich's main areas of interest are on sexuality studies, queer theory, critical race theory, and intersectionality. His research is aimed at addressing the gaps in literature on the sociology of desire, which is largely absent from sexuality studies. He wishes to expand the idea of desire to racialized desire, specifically in the context of the LGBT community. Emerich focuses on gay Asian men as a case-study of the intersections of race, gender-expression, class, and sexuality with desires and desirability.

Emerich wants to problematise the existence of the hegemonic White masculine ideology in the gay community and juxtapose this with desires. Also, he wants to investigate the narratives of desire used by gay White men who are in interracial relationships with gay Asian men and find out how racialized desires are deeply ingrained in these narratives. Through his research, Emerich wishes to overcome the rhetoric and belief that desires and/or racial preferences are largely personal choices. And, in his own words, "I want to debunk these beliefs and make an argument that desires and/or racial preferences are connected with larger political, economic, social, and cultural structures". Originally from the Philippines, Emerich moved to Toronto when he was in high school.

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Rencontrez la boursière 2009-10 de l’Université d’Ottawa

Ghaida Moussa complète actuellement une Maîtrise interdisciplinaire en Mondialisation et développement international et en Études des femmes à l’Université d’Ottawa. Sa thèse, intitulée « Narrative (Sub)Versions: How Queer Palestinian Womyn “Queer” Palestinian Identity », analyse les diverses formes de résistances traditionnelles, journalières et créatives qu’adoptent les femmes palestiniennes queer qui mettent au défi certains narratifs coloniaux, néocoloniaux et nationaux qui sont oppressifs par le fait qu’ils créent des dichotomies fictives, « représentent » faussement les réalités des Palestiniens queer et se fondent sur l’institution d’idéaux inatteignables.

La thèse défie l’idée selon laquelle les luttes nationales occupent une place prioritaire face aux autres luttes, telles celles des mouvements féministes et des mouvements queer. Elle offre aussi une perspective féministe jusqu’à présent noyée par les études androcentriques sur ce sujet. Elle célèbre également la divergence des voix de ces femmes, ne se méfiant pas de leurs natures parfois contradictoires.

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Meet the University of Ottawa Scholarship Recipient for 2009-2010

Ghaida Moussa is an M.A. student at the University of Ottawa, currently completing a collaborative program blending Globalization and International Development with Women’s Studies. Her thesis, titled “Narrative (Sub)Versions: How Queer Palestinian Womyn ‘Queer’ Palestinian Identity”, focuses on the various forms of traditional, daily and creative resistance of Palestinian womyn who challenge colonial, neocolonial and national narratives which are oppressive because of the false dichotomies they create, their inaccuracy in “representing” Palestinian queer realities and the unattainable ideals they set up.

The thesis challenges the notion that national struggles have priority over all other struggles, including feminist and queer ones. It also adds a feminist perspective to a male-dominated literature on the subject, and allows a celebration of the diversity of voices that these womyn express.

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Lambda Awards to Three Students on Salt Spring Island

The Gulf Islands Secondary School (British Columbia) selected three students to receive the Lambda Foundation Jack Hallam Human Rights Awards. Congratulations to Madison Fetherston, Bronwyn Trombley, and Bona Yun!

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