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[[File:Genderqueerchicago.jpg|alt=A group portrait of 16 people in 3 rows. Many are smiling or making silly poses for the camera. |thumb|Genderqueer Chicago members circa 2018.]] | [[File:Genderqueerchicago.jpg|alt=A group portrait of 16 people in 3 rows. Many are smiling or making silly poses for the camera. |thumb|Genderqueer Chicago members circa 2018.]] | ||
Genderqueer Chicago is an | Genderqueer Chicago is an in-person community group that hosted discussions and clothing swaps. | ||
The group's website | Meetings were "open to anyone... wanting to talk and think about gender" (except reporters and researchers).<ref name=":0">"Blog". Genderqueer Chicago. Captured by Wayback Machine January 8, https://web.archive.org/web/20180108203705/http://www.genderqueerchicago.org/blog/</ref> A former member described the group's attendees circa 2009 as "pink-haired, pierced and denim-clad mischief-makers" who were often loud by the standards of the library where they convened.<ref name=":1">White, Ro. "Take Me Back to Standees". ''Autostraddle''. August 9, 2022. https://www.autostraddle.com/take-me-back-to-standees/ </ref> Another member described GQC members as "mostly queer, genderqueer, and/or trans-identified".<ref name=":2">Ryan. "Thank You, Genderqueer Chicago." Beyond Bryn Mawr. April 13, 2011. <nowiki>https://beyondbrynmawr.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/thank-you-genderqueer-chicago/</nowiki></ref> | ||
The group's website said they sought to give people a place to discuss new perspectives on gender, to create visibility for gender variant people, and to make Chicagoans in general aware of the concerns of gender variant people.<ref>"About". Genderqueer https://web.archive.org/web/20180313111222/http://www.genderqueerchicago.org/</ref> | |||
Every other month, the group had special meetings where they assembled blanket forts in the meeting room and discussed topics chosen by members that day (rather than a single topic chosen ahead of time).<ref name=":0" /> | |||
Some attendees chose to keep socializing after the end of most meetings, relocating to a nearby 24-hour diner.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
Ryan of the Beyond Bryn Mawr blog called the group "one of the reasons [he] moved to Chicago". He praised the group for helping him make friends in a new city and for wecolming people like him whose genders fell outside a binary of "trans woman" or "trans man".<ref name=":2" /><ref>Ryan. "The Amazingness That is Genderqueer Chicago." Beyond Bryn Mawr. September 11, 2011. https://beyondbrynmawr.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/the-amazingness-that-is-genderqueer-chicago/</ref> | |||
Lee Andel Dewey, a GQC member, adopted the group's working agreements and discussion-centered format for a group they facilitated called CommunityCave. Dewey said that taking these elements from GQC made CommunityCave more successful.<ref>Dewey, Lee Andel (interviewee). ''Interview with Lee Andel Dewey''. 2020-12-18. University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies., umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll97:229 Accessed 11 Mar 2025.</ref> | |||
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Latest revision as of 00:28, 13 March 2025
Genderqueer Chicago is an in-person community group that hosted discussions and clothing swaps.
Meetings were "open to anyone... wanting to talk and think about gender" (except reporters and researchers).[1] A former member described the group's attendees circa 2009 as "pink-haired, pierced and denim-clad mischief-makers" who were often loud by the standards of the library where they convened.[2] Another member described GQC members as "mostly queer, genderqueer, and/or trans-identified".[3]
The group's website said they sought to give people a place to discuss new perspectives on gender, to create visibility for gender variant people, and to make Chicagoans in general aware of the concerns of gender variant people.[4]
Every other month, the group had special meetings where they assembled blanket forts in the meeting room and discussed topics chosen by members that day (rather than a single topic chosen ahead of time).[1]
Some attendees chose to keep socializing after the end of most meetings, relocating to a nearby 24-hour diner.[2]
Ryan of the Beyond Bryn Mawr blog called the group "one of the reasons [he] moved to Chicago". He praised the group for helping him make friends in a new city and for wecolming people like him whose genders fell outside a binary of "trans woman" or "trans man".[3][5]
Lee Andel Dewey, a GQC member, adopted the group's working agreements and discussion-centered format for a group they facilitated called CommunityCave. Dewey said that taking these elements from GQC made CommunityCave more successful.[6]
Works Cited[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 "Blog". Genderqueer Chicago. Captured by Wayback Machine January 8, https://web.archive.org/web/20180108203705/http://www.genderqueerchicago.org/blog/
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 White, Ro. "Take Me Back to Standees". Autostraddle. August 9, 2022. https://www.autostraddle.com/take-me-back-to-standees/
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Ryan. "Thank You, Genderqueer Chicago." Beyond Bryn Mawr. April 13, 2011. https://beyondbrynmawr.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/thank-you-genderqueer-chicago/
- ↑ "About". Genderqueer https://web.archive.org/web/20180313111222/http://www.genderqueerchicago.org/
- ↑ Ryan. "The Amazingness That is Genderqueer Chicago." Beyond Bryn Mawr. September 11, 2011. https://beyondbrynmawr.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/the-amazingness-that-is-genderqueer-chicago/
- ↑ Dewey, Lee Andel (interviewee). Interview with Lee Andel Dewey. 2020-12-18. University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies., umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll97:229 Accessed 11 Mar 2025.