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'''Genderqueer Chicago''' was an in-person community group that hosted discussions and clothing swaps. | '''Genderqueer Chicago''' was 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).<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> | 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> | 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> | ||
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Some attendees chose to keep socializing after the end of most meetings, relocating to a nearby 24-hour diner.<ref name=":1" /> | 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 | 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 welcoming 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> | 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> | ||
== Works Cited == | == Works Cited == | ||