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news & events! 
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here are Julia’s upcoming (and past) events, listed in reverse chronological order. October 17, 2024 -- Julia will be presenting a talk entitled “How We Perceive Sex and Gender” as part of the Mayo Clinic course Principles in the Care of Transgender and Intersex Patients 2024. More details available at the link. October 1, 2024 -- Julia will be giving a keynote entitled “Understanding Trans People and ‘Biological Sex’” as part of Pellissippi State Community College’s Pride events (details forthcoming). September 18, 2024 -- Julia will be participating in panel (along with Ms. Bob Davis of the Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive) for Solano Pride Center’s Queering the Vote Event. At Solano Community College (4000 Suisun Valley Road, Fairfield, CA), Auditorium in Building 1200, 7:00 to 8:30pm. August 17, 2024 -- Julia will be giving a virtual talk for Medium Day 2024 entitled Making Sense of Debates About Gender-Affirming Care and Trans Youth — that link will take you to a resource page that collects all of Julia’s writings on this subject. The talk is at 2pm Eastern time, you can register for free at mediumday.com. THE TALK IS NOW ARCHIVED: you can watch it here. July 27, 2024 -- Julia will be reading at the Beast Crawl Literary Festival. Specifically, at the #we reading hosted by Richard Loranger; the other features are Shilpa Kamat, & Edward Gunawan. We are part of Leg 3, from 7-8pm, at Chapter 510 and the Dept. of Make / Believe (546 9th St @ Clay, Oakland, CA). July 17, 2024 -- Julia will be presenting a talk entitled “The Biology of ‘Biological Sex’,” as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Exploring the Many Dimensions of Sex and Gender in the Genomics Era symposium. THE SYMPOSIUM IS NOW ARCHIVED: videos of all the talks (and information about all the speakers) can be found here. You can watch Julia’s talk directly on YouTube. May 18, 2024 -- Julia will be in Reno, NV giving a presentation entitled “Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive” at Our Center (1745 S Wells Ave) from 3 - 4:30pm, then a book reading (Whipping Girl: Reading and Discussion with Julia Serano) at The Radical Cat (1717 S Wells Ave) starting at 6pm. November 15, 2023 -- Julia will be speaking at Virginia Tech about the bans and policies that limit trans futures and their role in the larger narrative of trans liberation, as part of their Transgender Day of Remembrance event. 6:30pm at Owens Ballroom, 150 Kent St, Blacksburg, VA, more details here. August 17, 2023 -- Julia will be speaking about bisexual stereotypes and where they come from at the Optimist Collective’s Bi The Way series, which takes place at San Francisco's LGBT Center (1800 Market St San Francisco, CA 94102) at 5:30pm. Tickets for the event are free, but you need to RSVP first at Eventbrite. August 12, 2023 -- Julia will be participating in Medium Day (a virtual conference organized by Medium), as part of the How The Media Gets Trans Coverage Wrong panel, moderated by Katherine Cross, and also featuring Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Devon Price. It takes place from 4:00 to 4:50 PM Eastern time; the tickets are free but you have to register in advance at MediumDay.com. THE PANEL IS NOW ARCHIVED: you can watch it here. June 15, 2023 -- Julia will be giving a keynote entitled “‘Biological Sex’ and the Pathologization of Transgender People” at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, as part of their Pride in Science Symposium. The event will take place from 12-5pm in Hess Seminar A, and will be carried virtually via Zoom. April 29, 2023 -- Julia will be giving a keynote based on her Anti-Trans “Grooming” and “Social Contagion” Claims Explained essay, at San Jose’s Trans Day of Visibility. The event takes place starting at 10am, at San Jose City Hall’s Rotunda, 200 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA. April 1, 2023 -- Julia will be giving a keynote entitled “Balancing Acts and Bottom-Up Approaches to Trans Activism” at the Moving Trans History Forward conference. The event takes place at 7pm the Michele Pujol Room, Student Union Building, University of Victoria. Information about conference registration can be found here. THE EVENT IS NOW ARCHIVED: you can watch it here. 
Sexed Up book readings & events:September 22, 2022 -- Julia will be doing a Bisexual Visibility Day-themed Sexed Up book reading at Fabulosa Books (489 Castro St, San Francisco). The event begins at 7pm; while mask wearing is encouraged, the venue does not require them. More details can be found on the Facebook event page. July 28, 2022 -- Julia will have an in person (and simultaneously live online) Conversation with Carol Queen about Julia’s new book Sexed Up. The event is FREE and will take place at the Berkeley Good Vibrations store (2504 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702) from 5:30 - 6:30pm PDT—there is very limited seating, so you must pre-register at Eventbrite if you wish to attend in person. But you can also watch it online (and for FREE) on Good Vibes’ Instagram Live. THE EVENT IS NOW ARCHIVED: you can watch it here. July 21, 2022 -- “On Sexualization and Society” is a live online conversation between Abeni Jones and Julia about her new book Sexed Up, hosted by California Institute of Integral Studies. It will take place at 7pm PDT (10pm EDT), suggested price of $10 but pay what you can. Info about registering for the event and accessibility accommodations can be found on the CIIS event webpage. THE EVENT IS NOW ARCHIVED: you can watch it here. July 14, 2022 -- Julia will be reading from Sexed Up, and engaging in conversation about the book with Jude Doyle, at a virtual event hosted by the NYC bookstore Bluestockings. The event is from 7 - 8:30pm EDT (4 - 5:30pm PDT), tickets are $0 - $15, register for the event here. June 11, 2022 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Sexed Up at Writers With Drinks, along with Kirstin Chen (Counterfeit), Jon Papernick (I Am My Beloveds), Shelly Oria (I Know What's Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom), and more! Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away, all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA. At The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM; masking and proof of vaccination are required. More info at Eventbrite. April 1 & 2, 2022 -- Julia will be giving a keynote entitled “Feminism, Sexualization, and Anti-Trans Activism” at the Feminist Gender Equality Network’s first conference Living Gender in Diverse Times (London, UK) — more details found at that link. September 5, 2021 -- Julia will be (virtually) reading at the Beast Crawl Literary Festival. Specifically, the #we reading, hosted by Richard Loranger; the other features are Shilpa Kamat, Hilary Brown, Jan Steckel, and Juba Kalamka. It is FREE and ONLINE at 2pm Pacific Time — Zoom information can be found here. July 11, 2021 -- Julia will be doing her first IRL book reading since the Before Times! The event is Authors on the Street, a FREE, IN PERSON, OUTDOOR book reading hosted by Charlie Jane Anders, and also featuring Bonnie Tsui, Juli Delgado Lopera, Dr. Jen Gunter, and Andrea Stewart. Julia will be reading from her recently award-winning book 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel. The reading starts at noon, located at the Inner Sunset Flea Market (10th Avenue, San Francisco) — further details at the link. May 10, 2021 -- Julia’s latest book, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel, was recently announced as a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s 2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction! She will be reading from the book at the May 10th Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Reading, details at the link. March 24, 2021 -- Julia will participate in a virtual panel on “TRANSforming Feminism: Building A More Inclusive Movement” at Queens College in the City University of New York/CUNY on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 from 12:15pm to 1:30pm. Details can be found here. January 28, 2021 -- Julia will participate in a virtual conversation with Koa Beck about her new book White Feminism and more generally about inclusion/exclusion within feminist movements. The event is hosted by the Hammer Museum, all details found via that link. THE EVENT IS NOW ARCHIVED: you can watch it here. 
September 22, 2020 -- Julia will be doing a virtual book reading for her debut novel 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel. The theme of this reading will be: On bisexuals, “weirdos,” and book characters who are “Unusually Queer.” THE EVENT IS NOW ARCHIVED: you can watch it on YouTube or Facebook.September 5, 2020 -- Julia will be doing a virtual book reading for her debut novel 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel. The theme of this reading will be: On writing a book about writing a book. THE EVENT IS NOW ARCHIVED: you can watch it on YouTube or Facebook. April 11, 2020 -- CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 April 4, 2020 -- CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 March 26, 2020 -- CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 March 17, 2020 -- CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 February 13, 2020 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing a queer bands show at El Rio (3158 Mission Street, San Francisco). The other bands will be Polythene Pam, Shawna Virago, and Scorpio Moon. It’s a FREE show starting promptly at 8pm (Julia/*svs* is on first!). More details in the Facebook invite for the show. 
February 2, 2020 -- Julia will be at San Francisco-East Bay BiCon, participating in a sexuality-themed panel, and later reading an excerpt from her new novel. Specific details about the schedule can be found here.September 28, 2019 -- Julia will be giving a keynote entitled “A Social Justice Activist’s Perspective on Call-Out Culture, Identity Politics, and Political Correctness” at the Kentucky Gender and Women’s Studies Conference, at University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY). More details can be found here August 22, 2019 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing a queer bands show at El Rio (3158 Mission Street, San Francisco). The other bands will be Polythene Pam and Frootie Flavors. Show at 8:30pm, NO COVER! but must be 21 & up, more details here. June 24, 2019 -- Julia will be participating in Queer Sex: a panel discussion. The other panelists are Alex Locust, Amy Golden, & Jazmine Vieira. The event starts at 6:30 at Manny’s (3092 16th St, San Francisco), and is being co-presented by SF BiCon and Hear+Qwere. More details on the Facebook event page. June 1, 2019 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will perform a short set at the Santa Cruz 26th Annual DYKE TRANS March. The event will be 1 - 5pm at The Clock Tower (Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz); I will be going on right around 3pm, more details via that link. May 18, 2019 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing at White Horse Bar (6551 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA). The other bands will be Polythene Pam and Forgetmenauts. Show at 6pm, more details here. April 6, 2019 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing a queer bands show at El Rio (3158 Mission Street, San Francisco). The other bands will be Polythene Pam and Wayfairy. Doors at 9pm, first band at 10pm, $5 cover, must be 21 & up, more details here. March 23, 2019 -- Julia will be giving a talk entitled “Making Social Justice Activism More Inclusive” at Quest University (Squamish, BC, Canada) as part of their Power, Race, and Privilege Symposium; more details via that link. March 18, 2019 -- Julia will be giving a talk at Ball State University (Muncie, IN) entitled “Making Social Justice Activism More Inclusive.” More details here. March 9, 2019 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing at Laughing Monk Brewing (1439 Egbert Ave, Unit A, San Francisco, CA). The other acts are Polythene Pam and Rusty Sunsets. Show starts at 6pm, *svs* is on second, more details here. March 5, 2019 -- Julia will be at the Global Women’s Rights Forum at University of San Francisco, participating in a panel/conversation on “Trans Women’s Role in Modern-Day Activism.” Other participants include Aria Sa’id. At McLaren Complex, 2:40pm, more details here. February 26, 2019 -- Julia will be giving a talk at Centre College (Daniville, KY), in the evening at Newlin Auditorium in the Norton Center. More details to come . . . December 30, 2018 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing a Queer Matinee show at the Ivy Room (860 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA). The other bands will be Polythene Pam and Scorpio Moon. The show starts at 4pm sharp. $6-$10 NOTAFLOF, must be 21 & up; free queer karaoke will follow the show! More details can be found here and on the Facebook invite. December 14, 2018 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing at The Octopus Literary Salon (2101 Webster St., Oakland). The other bands will be Polythene Pam and Amina Shareef Ali. Show at begins promptly at 9:30, more details here. November 28, 2018 -- Julia will be reading some of her new fiction at #we: a talk & reading series of queer perspectives. The other featured performer will be host Richard Loranger, and a Q&A will follow. The show will be held at The Octopus Literary Salon (2101 Webster St., Oakland), starting at 7pm, it is FREE, more details to come... November 17, 2018 -- CANCELED DUE TO SMOKE FROM NEARBY WILDFIRES October 17, 2018 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be performing at “The Quirky Horror Queer Band Show” at Hotel Utah (500 4th St, San Francisco). The other bands will be Polythene Pam and The Secret Emchy Society. There is no door time, but *svs* (aka, me) opens the show promptly at 8pm, $10 cover, must be 21 & up, more details here. October 3, 2018 -- Julia will be at University of Miami (Miami, FL) giving a talk entitled “Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive.” The talk will be at 4:30pm, location TBA, more details here. October 2, 2018 -- Julia will be participating in a panel for Tey Meadow’s new book Trans Kids at Columbia University (New York, NY). The event will be held at The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, 6:15pm, the event is free and open to the public, more details here. September 20, 2018 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing a Degenderettes music show at El Rio (3158 Mission Street, San Francisco). The other bands will be Shawna Virago and Gender Trash. Show is FREE, begins 9pm, must be 21 & up, more details here. August 29, 2018 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing a “Quirky Queer Bands” show at at Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk Street, San Francisco). The other bands will be Polythene Pam and Scorpio Moon. Doors at 8:30pm, $7 cover, must be 21+, more details here and in the Facebook invite. 
July 19, 2018 -- Julia will be giving a talk entitled “‘Biological Sex’ and the Pathologization of Transgender People,” at the Mayo Clinic (200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN), 5pm.July 6, 2018 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing a “Quirky Queer Bands” show at El Rio (3158 Mission Street, San Francisco). The other bands will be Polythene Pam and Scorpio Moon. Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm-11pm, $5 cover, must be 21 & up, more details here. June 9, 2018 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing a benefit for LYRIC Center for LGBTQQ Youth. The event will be held at Laughing Monk Brewing (1439 Egbert Ave, Unit A, San Francisco, CA) who will be donating a portion of the evening's sales to the cause. The other acts include Polythene Pam and Mya Byrne. More details here. May 28, 2018 -- Julia will be reading some of her new fiction at Yarn: Comedy Storytelling. Other featured performers include Heather Gold, Gina Gold, and Aundré the Wonderwoman. The show is at Shotgun Players (1901 Ashby Ave, Berkeley, CA), doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm. Ticket info (including reduced-price advanced tickets!) can be found here. May 24, 2018 -- Julia will be interviewed live at the California Institute of Integral Studies event: “A Conversation with Julia Serano and Zara Zimbardo: On Trans Feminism.” The event will be at CIIS, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, at 7pm. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door; more event details can be found here and here. May 16, 2018 -- Julia will be giving a keynote entitled “Queer Communities and Future Possibilities” at University of Washington, Tacoma Pride, at 1pm at William Phillip Hall. More details can be found here April 12, 2018 -- Julia will be speaking at La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA) giving a talk entitled “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Perception and Gender Entitlement.” The event will be at Founders' Hall Business Building 105, 7pm, more details here. April 8, 2018 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing at the Ivy Room (860 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA) with Polythene Pam and TBA. Music starts at 6pm, show ends at 9pm, $6-$10 sliding scale NOTAFLOF, must be 21+, more details here. March 22, 2018 -- Julia will be speaking at University of Maine (Orono, ME) giving a keynote entitled A Social Justice Activist’s Perspective on Call-Out Culture, Identity Politics, and Political Correctness. The event will be at Minsky Recital Hall, 5pm, free, more details here. In addition, earlier that day, she will be giving a workshop on poetry and activism (more details via link). March 21, 2018 -- Julia will be at University of Southern Maine (Portland, ME) giving a talk entitled “Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive.” The event will be at University Events Room, 7th floor Glickman Library, 7pm, free and open to the public, more details here. March 13, 2018 -- Julia’s solo music project *soft vowel sounds* will be playing “Quirky Queer Band Tuesday!” at El Rio (3158 Mission Street, San Francisco). The other bands will be Polythene Pam and Scorpio Moon. Music starts at 8pm, show ends at 11pm, $10 sliding scale, must be 21 & up, more details here. March 7, 2018 -- Julia will be at Denison University (Granville, OH) giving a talk entitled “Sexuality, Sexualization, and Self-Examining Desire.” The event will be at Barney-Davis Hall, Board Room, 8pm, more details here. February 5, 2018 -- Julia will be reading some of her new fiction at Yarn: Comedy Storytelling. Other featured performers include Heather Gold, Bridget Schwartz, and Aundré the Wonderwoman. The show is at Homestead (4029 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA), doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm. Ticket info (including reduced-price advanced tickets) can be found here. November 13, 2017 -- Julia will participate in a panel/reading at Perfectly Queer. The event will be held at Dog Eared Books in the Castro (489 Castro St., San Francisco), 7pm, and will also feature Lucy Jane Bledsoe and Peter Guidicjs. More details here. October 23, 2017 -- Julia will be at SUNY Fredonia giving a talk entitled A Social Justice Activist’s Perspective on Call-Out Culture, Identity Politics, and Political Correctness, at Williams Center S204-ABC, 3pm. October 20, 2017 -- Julia will be at the Transforming Care Conference (Columbus OH) giving a plenary talk entitled “‘Biological Sex’ and the Pathologization of Transgender Identities.” Her talk will be at 1:15pm (entire schedule here); more details about the conference and registration can be found here. October 19, 2017 -- Julia will be at Otterbein University giving a talk & reading entitled “Outspoken: Thoughts from a Decade of Transgender and Trans Feminist Activism.” At the Philomathean Room, 3rd floor, Towers Hall, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH, 4pm, more details here. October 14, 2017 -- Julia will be reading at Lit Crawl San Francisco. The specific event is called “Trans-Cendental”, and the other readers include Natasha Dennerstein, Sam Dylan Finch, and Kay Nilsson. At Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (mezzanine), 2550 Mission Street, San Francisco, 8:00pm - 9:00pm. More details here. August 22, 2017 -- Julia will be participating in in a panel called Fighting Back: Gender Labels -- Then & Now, hosted by the GLBT History Museum (4127 18th St., San Francisco), 7-9pm, Admission is free; $5 donation suggested. Other panelists include Alecs (aka: Sailor), Alexsarah “Golden” Collier, Ola Osaze, and Don Romesburg; moderated by Gina White. More details about the panelists & event can be found via the link above, or the Facebook event page. June 29, 2017 -- Julia will be participating in TransAction, a reading and panel discussion on trans activism & writing. The event is organized by Foglifter Press, RADAR Productions, and Bay Area Writers Resist, and the other readers/panel members include Natasha Dennerstein, Sam Dylan Finch, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, Kay Nilsson, and moderator Shafer Mazow. At Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, 7-9pm. The event is free, with suggested donations to benefit Trans* Activists for Justice & Accountability Coalition. 
June 12, 2017 -- Julia will be attending the 29th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, where her book Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism is a finalist in the Transgender Nonfiction category.June 2, 2017 -- Julia will be giving the keynote talk (entitled “Sexuality, Sexualization, and Self-Examining Desire”) for CREGS 15th Annual Summer Institute on Sexuality. 835 Market Street (5th floor, room 597) in downtown San Francisco, from 7-9pm. Limited Tickets Available - more details here. April 18, 2017 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism at the San Francisco Lammy Finalist Reading. Other performers include Lynn Miller, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Andrew Jolivette, Cam Awkward Rich, Rabih Alameddine, and possibly others. The reading is at the San Francisco Public Library (100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102), Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A and B Ð Lower Level, 5:30 reception, 6 pm reading. I believe it is a FREE event; more details here. April 14, 2017 -- Julia will be giving a presentation at Evergreen State College, Tacoma on the subjects of Femininity, Feminism, and Differences of Opinion in Activism. It will take place at 7pm at 1210 6th Ave, Tacoma, WA. Many more details here. April 4, 2017 -- Julia will be reading some of her new fiction at Yarn: Comedy Storytelling. Other performers include Heather Gold, Alicia Dattner, and Aundré the Wonderwoman. The show is at The Octopus Literary Salon (2101 Webster St @ 22nd, Oakland, CA), doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm. Ticket info (including advanced early tickets) can be found here (just scroll down to “Apr 4/17” and click the “BUY TIX” link). March 31, 2017 -- Julia will be performing spoken word at a Trans Day of Visibility “Alternative After Party” that will benefit Trans Lifeline and Trans Student Educational Resources (both national non-profits) at Balançoire (2565 Mission St, San Francisco). The cabaret part of the show will take place in the 10pm - 11:30pm range, and feature (in addition to Julia) KaiKai Bee Michaels, AB Infiniti, The Polythene Pam Acoustic Duo, Eli Wise, and more. Many more details here. January 21, 2017 -- Julia will be one of the speakers at the San Francisco Women’s March - the rally begins at 3pm at Civic Center, followed by a candlelight march up Market St. to Justin Herman Plaza at 5pm. Other details (including the other speakers & performers) can be found via the link. December 6, 2016 -- Julia will be reading some of her new fiction at Yarn: Comedy Storytelling. Other performers include Heather Gold, Julia Jackson, and Aundré the Wonderwoman. The show is at The Octopus Literary Salon (2101 Webster St @ 22nd, Oakland, CA) from 7 - 9:30pm; tickets are $12 a week before the show, $15 at door (advance purchasing info here). Note: this show often sells out, so advance tix or showing up early is highly encouraged! September 20, 2016 -- Julia will be reading from her book Whipping Girl at the Queer Words event Short Nonfiction: Essays by Julia Serano, Aaron Shurin, and Yuska Lufti Tuanakotta. It will take place from 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books (3957 24th Street in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco). September 17, 2016 -- Julia will be speaking at the 2016 Houston Transgender Unity Banquet. The event begins at 6:30pm at Houston Marriott North, click here for ticket information and further details. June 5, 2016 -- Julia will participate in a “Disruptors: Writing for Social Change” panel discussion along with Aya de Leon, Chinaka Hodge (moderating), and Rebecca Solnit - from 5:00 - 6:15 PM at The Brower Center, Goldman Theater. The event will be part of The Bay Area Book Festival - sessions are free but may fill up, so you may need to register or reserve seats. Check their website (aforementioned link) for info on how to go about doing that. April 7, 2016 -- Julia will be at Franklin & Marshall College giving at talk called “The Intersections of Feminism and Queer and Trans Politics.” It takes place at 7pm, Stager 102 Stahr Auditorium. More details here. March 25 to 31, 2016 -- Julia will be joining the Sister Spit 2016 tour, which will also include Jezebel Delilah, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Julia Serano, Nikki Darling, Cassie J. Sneider, Maisha Z. Johnson, and Virgie Tovar. Julia will only be on the second leg of the tour, which includes these specific events:
March 10, 2016 -- Julia will be talking about the last decade in transgender activism and reading from the second edition of Whipping Girl at the GLBT Museum in San Francisco, 7-9pm, $5 donation suggested; event free for museum members. More details here!March 3, 2016 -- Julia will be at University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point giving at talk called “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Perception and Gender Entitlement.” 5pm at The Theater, Dreyfus University Center (1015 Reserve St., Stevens Point, WI). March 1, 2016 -- Julia will be speaking at the “Embracing Diversity and Inclusion: Critical Conversations” conference at Webster University. The topic of the talk will be “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Perception and Gender Entitlement.” At 12:15pm, 470 East Lockwood, St. Louis, MO. Note: this event is for conference attendees; details about the conference & registration can be found here. February 13, 2016 -- Hey Girl Hey: A Queer Grrl Dance Party Benefiting Sister Spit. While Julia will not be performing at this event, it will benefit Sister Spit 2016, which Julia will be a part of. More details can be found here. January 28, 2016 -- Julia will be at University of British Columbia (Vancouver) giving a keynote entitled “Rethinking Sexualization” as part of their Sexual Assault Awareness Month. From 12:30-1:30pm, at Liu Institute for Global Issues, Multipurpose Room, 6476 NW Marine Drive. More details can be found here. December 2, 2015 -- Julia will be reading from her book Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive plus a Q&A at UC Berkeley. This free event will take place at noon in a room called the “Living Room” at the Goldman School (at Le Roy and Hearst, here is a map; note: there are two buildings, the reading will be in the older of the two). October 26, 2015 -- Julia will be reading at Radar Productions’ Hella Close: Stories of Queer Intimacy Part II. Other features include Juba Kalamka, Carson Beker, and Dawn Robinson, hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera. At Magnet (4122 18th St, San Francisco, CA), 7pm, FREE! More details here. September 9, 2015 -- Julia will giving a keynote talk for PRIDE Vermont on “Making Transgender Activism More Inclusive” at 7 p.m. in Burlington City Hall, Contois Auditorium. Admission is free; $5-10 donation suggested. More details can be found here. June 7, 2015 -- Julia will take part in a “Trans Voices in Literature” panel discussion along with Zander Keig and moderator Willy Wilkinson - from 3:00 PM to 3:50 PM at the East Bay Media Center (1939 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704). The event will be part of The Bay Area Book Festival - sessions are free but may fill up, so consider registering ahead of time for a small fee. More details can be found here. May 1, 2015 -- Julia will be at DePaul University (Chicago, IL) giving a LGBTQA Month Opening Keynote on her book Excluded: Making Feminist & Queer Movements More Inclusive, 9-11am, Lincoln Park Student Center, room 120 (2250 N. Sheffield), more details here. April 30, 2015 -- Julia will be at DePaul University (Chicago, IL) giving at talk called “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Perception and Gender Entitlement.”, 6pm at Cortelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont, more details here. April 29, 2015 -- Julia will be at University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS) giving a talk on “Making Feminist & Queer Movements More Inclusive”, at 7pm Spooner Hall. April 8, 2015 -- Julia will be at Fredonia State University, New York giving a talk on “Making Feminist & Queer Movements More Inclusive”, at McEwen 209, 7:30pm. March 24 through 26, 2015 -- Julia will be Women’s History Month Scholar-in-Residence at Wright State University in Dayton, OH. Events will include a Keynote Address on “Making Feminist & Queer Movements More Inclusive” (on Tuesday 3/24, 12:30-2:00 p.m. at Millett Hall Atrium), and a “Poetry & Activism Workshop” (on Thurs 3/26 at 9:30am at E156 Student Union). March 10, 2015 -- Julia will be at Centre College (Daniville, KY) giving a talk called “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Perception and Gender Entitlement.” 600 W. Walnut St. Danville - Weiseger @ 7:30pm. 
December 2, 2014 -- Julia will be performing a couple of *soft vowel sounds* songs for the Bad Dyke Book Release + Bawdy Storytelling, featuring Allison Moon, Dixie De La Tour and other storytellers TBA. At Awaken Cafe (1429 Broadway, Oakland), Doors at 7, Show at 8, Tickets $15 (available for purchase here). More show details can be found here. November 22, 2014 -- Julia will be at California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco) giving a talk entitled “Making Feminist & Queer Movements More Inclusive.” It will be held at 6:30pm, 3rd Floor, Namaste Hall (1453 Mission Street, SF). More details can be found here. November 20, 2014 -- Julia will be at University of Missouri at St. Louis giving a talk entitled “Transgender Activism and Beyond” at 12:30pm, 3rd floor Millennium Student Center. November 12, 2014 -- Julia will be at University of Southern California (Los Angeles) giving a talk entitled “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Perception and Gender Entitlement.” (at 6pm in TCC 450) plus an additional spoken word set (at 8pm at the Ground Zero Performance Cafe). More details can be found here. October 25, 2014 -- Julia will be giving a keynote talk called “Transgender Activism and Beyond” for Fantasia Fair in Provincetown, MA. It will be held at 1:30 pm at the Cabaret Room at the Crown & Anchor. More details about the conference can be found here. October 22, 2014 -- Julia will be at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) giving a talk entitled “Making Feminist & Queer Movements More Inclusive.” It will be held at 7:30pm, at Goldberg Computer Science Building, 6050 University Ave. More details can be found here. October 21, 2014 -- Julia will be at New York University giving a talk entitled “Making Feminist & Queer Movements More Inclusive.” It will be held at 7pm in room 406 of Kimmel Center (note: it is in a building that only NYU students & staff are able to access). More details can be found here. August 26, 2014 -- Julia will be performing a spoken word piece at R/EVOLVE 2014, 3rd ANNUAL OAKLAND PRIDE Creative Arts & Film Fest. This particular event is called REVOLVE 2014 ARTIVISTS and other performers include Lea Arellano, Omar, Dana Morrigan, Laurel Lee, Hazardous Waste - Dazie Rustin Grego, Kayla Dones, Arielle McKee, Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghere, Sonya Renee Taylor, Caleb Zachary Matthews, Liz Demi Green, Lisa Evans, Blythe Baldwin, Carolyn Wysinger, Kayla Moon, & Pr3ss Play Poets. Show takes place at IMAGINE AFFAIRS ART LOUNGE - 408 14th Avenue - Oakland CA. It begins at 6:30pm with an hour long film (called KUMU HINA) followed by performers. Julia is scheduled to go on around 8:30-ish, the show ends around 9:30. Tickets are $10 online or $15 at the door. #REVOLVE2014 May 17, 2014 -- Julia will be performing songs from her new *soft vowel sounds* record, along with several other new songs & Bitesize classics at the OUT/LOUD 2014: Queer & Trans Women's Music Festival at University of Oregon, Eugene (WOW Hall, 291 W 8th Ave, Eugene OR 97401). the show starts at 6pm, julia goes on at 7pm sharp. general admission = $8, less expensive for UO students & under 18 folks, no one turned away; advance tickets can be purchased here. May 3, 2014 -- Julia will be at the Canadian University Queer Services Conference (CUQSC) giving a keynote talk entitled “A Trans Female/Feminine Perspective on Sexism and Exclusion”, and a workshop entitled “Rethinking Sexualization”. The conference will take place at the University of Ottawa (550 Cumberland St. Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5), more details about my talks & the conference can found at the CUQSC website. April 15, 2014 -- Julia will be at Rutgers University (Newark, NY) giving a talk about her book Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive. More details can be found here. 
April 8, 2014 -- Julia will be at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) giving a talk entitled “The Intersections of Feminism and Queer and Trans Politics.” More details can be found here.April 7, 2014 -- Julia will be at Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY) giving a keynote for their Trans* Day Of Liberation. More details can be found here. April 1, 2014 -- Julia will be at Butler University (Indianapolis, IN) giving a talk entitled “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Gender, Perception, and Nature-versus-Nurture.” More details can be found here. March 31, 2014 -- Julia will be at Manchester University (Manchester, IN) giving a talk entitled “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Perception and Gender Entitlement.” More details can be found here. March 30, 2014 -- Julia will be giving a keynote talk about “Breaking Boundaries” for the B’More Proud LGBTQIA Leadership Summit at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD). More details can be found here. March 19, 2014 -- Julia will be at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (Edwardsville, IL) giving a talk entitled “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Perception and Gender Entitlement.” More details can be found here. March 4, 2014 -- Julia will be at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI) giving a talk entitled “Rethinking Sexualization.” More details can be found here. February 23, 2014 -- Julia will be speaking at the Swarthmore College annual Queer and Trans Conference giving a talk entitled “Sexualization and Marginalization.” More details can be found here. December 1, 2004 -- Julia will be reading at World AIDS Day Reading and SAFE SEX BANG: the Buzz Bense Poster Collection Reception, at Center for Sex & Culture, 1349 Mission Street, San Francisco. Suggested donation $5-50; no one will be turned away for lack of funds, reception begins at 1 pm and the reading begins at 2 pm. Wednesday, December 4, 2013 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Excluded at Elliott Bay Book Company, (1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle WA, 98122) at 7pm. Tuesday, December 3, 2013 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Excluded at Powell’s City of Books, (1005 W. Burnside St., Portland, OR) at 7:30pm. Wednesday, November 20, 2013 -- Julia will be at Radford University giving a talk called “Recognizing the B and T in LGBTQ” at Porterfield Hall room 101, 6pm. Tuesday, November 19, 2013 -- Julia will be at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth giving a talk called “The Intersection of Feminism, Queer, and Trans Politics” at Woodland Commons, 5pm. Sunday, November 10th -- Julia will be reading from her new book Excluded at Glad Day Bookshop, (598A Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada) at 7pm. Friday, November 8, 2013 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Excluded at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, (2692 Madison Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45208) at 7pm. Friday, November 8, 2013 -- Julia will be signing (not reading) her new book Excluded at the Seal Press booth at the National Women’s Studies Association conference, (Cincinnati, OH) at 4pm. Thursday, November 7, 2013 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Excluded at Women and Children First Books, (5233 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60640) at 7:30pm. Monday, October 21, 2013 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Excluded at Bluestockings, (172 Allen St., New York City, NY 10002) at 7pm. Friday, October 18, 2013 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Excluded at Giovanni’s Room, (345 South 12th Street (at Pine), Philadelphia, PA 19107) at 5:30pm. Thursday, October 17, 2013 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Excluded at Calamus Bookstore, (92 S St # B, Boston, MA 02111) at 7pm. Thursday, October 10, 2013 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Excluded at Modern Times Bookstore, (2919 24th Street San Francisco, CA) at 7pm. 
Thursday, October 3, 2013 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Excluded at Pegasus Books (2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA), 7:30pm.September 15, 2013 -- Julia will be giving a keynote talk for Bay Area Ladyfest. At Adobe Books, 3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA. Doors at 5:30, talk from 6-7 followed by Q & A, Sliding Scale $0-20. more details here! June 28, 2013 -- Julia will be giving a keynote speech at Seattle Trans* Pride! The festivities begin at 5pm at in Front of Seattle Central Community College at E. Howell & Broadway St. There will be a march, followed by a number of speakers (including Julia) and performers (including Rae Spoon and Ian Harvie). The entire schedule and march route can be found here. June 27, 2013 -- Julia is co-curating, and will be performing in the fifth annual Girl Talk. Other performers include her co-curators Gina de Vries and Elena Rose, as well as Dominika Bednarska, DavEnd, Dr. Carol Queen, Jos Truitt, and Tara Hardy! The show will be at the African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC), 762 Fulton Street @ Webster at 7:30pm, $12 - $20 sliding scale online; $15 - $20 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online here. Girl Talk is sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center, and is a proud grantee of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s 2013 Cultural Equity Grants program. May 14, 2013 -- Julia will be at Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA) giving a presentation called “A Holistic View of Feminism.” It will be from 6-9 PM at Artzen 100, free admission. More info can be found here. May 5, 2013 -- Julia will be reading at LIVE THROUGH THIS- ON CREATIVITY & SELF-DESTRUCTION which is a celebration of the 2cd edition release of the book Live Through This. Other performers include SABRINA CHAP, DAPHNE GOTTLIEB, CAROL QUEEN and MORE! Proceeds of the evening will go to fellow Live Through This contributor, and gender warrior Kate Bornstein. 5-10 suggested donation, show at 7:30pm at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco. More info can be found here. April 26, 2013 -- Julia will be at Stony Brook University giving a talk on “The Intersection of Feminism, Queer, and Trans Politics.” It will be held at the Poetry Center at 7pm. More info can be found here. April 25, 2013 -- Julia will be at Smith College (Northampton, MA) giving a talk called “I'll See It When I Believe It: On Perception and Gender Entitlement.” She was invited by a student group in the wake of the recent events there (and which Julia will address in her talk). The event will take place on April 25th in Weinstein Auditorium in Wright Hall, at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public. More info can be found here. April 4, 2013 -- Julia will be at Clark University (Worcester, MA) giving a talk called “Recognizing All Forms of Sexism.” More details can be found here. March 30, 2013 -- Julia will be giving a keynote talk for “Technologies and Locales of Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Exploring Discourse, Meaning, and Power” at University of Texas, San Antonio. More details can be found here. March 28, 2013 -- Julia will be at Concordia University (Montreal, QC) giving a talk called “Putting the Feminine Back into Feminism.” More details can be found here. March 27, 2013 -- Julia will be at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) giving a talk called “A Holistic View of Feminism.” More details can be found here. March 19, 2013 -- Julia will be at Pacific University (Portland, OR) giving a talk called “Sexualization and Anti-Transgender Discrimination.” More details can be found here. March 13, 2013 -- Julia will be at Furman University (Greenville, SC) giving a talk called “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Perception and Gender Entitlement.” At Burgiss Theatre, 7pm, more details to come... March 12, 2013 -- Julia will be at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) giving a talk called “The Intersection of Feminism, Queer, and Trans Politics.” At Metcalf Auditorium, 7pm, more details to come... January 15, 2013 -- Julia will be at Stanford University giving a talk called “What we think of blue and pink.” At the Black Community Services Center, Family Room, 7:30pm. More details can be found here. November 15, 2012 -- Julia will be taking part in an SF Dyke March forum on AGE DIVERSITY AND GENDER FLUIDITY. Other panelist include Elana Dykewomon, Elena Escalera, and Krys Freeman. At the GLBT History Museum, 4127 18th St. (between Castro & Collingwood Streets), San Francisco, CA, 7-9 p.m. November 13, 2012 -- Julia will be at Boston College giving a presentation for their “Love Your Body Week.” In Gasson 305, more details to come... November 9, 2012 -- Julia will be taking part in “Our Art is Our Advocacy” panel at the Transgender Leadership Summit. Other presenters include Annie Danger, Dana Morrigan, Kai M. Green and Tobi Hill-Meyer. The entire conference schedule can be found here. September 28, 2012 -- Julia will be giving a keynote talk on Trans Feminism: a performance and discussion at TransForming Feminisms: Trans Access (the redux), at Sadleir House, 751 George St., Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. All the details can be found on their Facebook page. June 14, 15 & 16, 2012 -- Julia will be performing in The Biggest Quake: New thinking on the San Francisco AIDS epidemic, a multigenerational perspective on HIV and the AIDS epidemic curated by Kirk Read, and featuring Mark ABRAMSON, Justin CHIN, Brontez PURNELL, Carol QUEEN, Kirk READ, K.M. SOEHNLEIN, Ed WOLF. all shows start at 7pm - new material in every show! Metropolitan Community Church, 150 Eureka near 18th, San Francisco, CA. (post-note: video of this performance can be found by following this link. April 19, 2012 -- Julia will be reading at a benefit for her favorite Bay Area book store, Modern Times Books. The event is called "40 Years of Radical Writing, Rabble Rousing, and Romancing Your Brain," and it will take place at El Rio (3158 Mission Street, SF) at 6-9 PM, $5-15, NOTA. April 5, 2012 -- Julia will be speaking at Southern Oregon University on the topic of the “Intersections of Feminism, Queer and Trans Politics.” A Facebook invite for the event can be found here - for those who eschew Facebook, here is the pertinent info: it will take place at 7:00pm at Meese Auditorium @ SOU. March 29, 2012 -- Julia is co-curating, and will be performing in the fourth annual Girl Talk: A Trans & Cis Woman Dialogue. Co-curated with Gina de Vries and Elena Rose, and featuring Charlie Anders, Dominika Bednarska, Gina de Vries, DavEnd, Thea Hillman, Nomy Lamm, Emily Manuel, Elena Rose (aka Little Light), Julia Serano, and Jos Truitt. From 7:00pm - 10:00pm at San Francisco LGBT Community Center - Rainbow Room. 1800 Market Street between Octavia & Laguna. Tickets: $12-$20 (no one turned away). More info (including link for tickets) can be found here. (post-note: video of this performance can be found here. November 29, 2011 -- Julia will be performing at the Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica book reading. Other readers will include editor Tristan Taormino, plus Gina deVries, Shawna Virago, Michael Hernandez, Dean Scarborough, and Evan Swafford. Location: Books Inc., 2257 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 415-864-6777 (Twitter: @BooksIncEvents), 7:30 pm. Admission: Free and open to all. November 28, 2011 -- Julia will be performing at the Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica book reading. Other readers will include editor Tristan Taormino, plus Dean Scarborough, Evan Swafford, and Shawna Virago. Location: Books Inc. 1344 Park Street, Alameda, CA 510-522-2226 (Twitter: @BooksIncEvents). 7:00 pm. Admission: Free and open to all. November 17, 2011 -- Julia will be performing at the Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary book reading. Location: UC Berkeley campus, Gender Equity Resource Center (202 Chavez), 5:00-7:00. just Morty and me this time, so there will likely be a longer Q&A. November 11, 2011 -- TRANS/GENDERING THE VOICE: JULIA SERANO IN CONVERSATION WITH STEPHAN PENNINGTON. The program will consist of roughly one hour of conversation (about my music, writing and performance) followed by a half hour of questions. sponsored by the AMS-LGBTQ STUDY GROUP MEETING, from 8:00pm - 9:30pm. Ceremonial Room, LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street, San Francisco. more details can be found here. November 10, 2011 -- Julia will be performing at the Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary. Writers who will be reading (besides me) include: Morty Diamond, Shawna Virago, Vera Sepulveda, Taylor Xavier, and perhaps a surprise guest!Location: Books Inc. in the Castro (2275 MARKET ST), 7:30pm - 10:30pm. plus Morty will print some of my HELLA TRANS t shirtS to sell (for just the cost of the shirt: $4.00!!!). 
November 8, 2011 -- Julia will be at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA giving a presentation called "I'll See It When I Believe It: On Experience, Perception and Gender Entitlement". It will be at Miller Learning Center & Adinkra Hall (Memorial Hall) at 6:30pm.November 7, 2011 -- Julia will be at Amherst College, MA giving a presentation called "Putting the Feminine Back into Feminism". It will take place on campus at the Paino Lecture Hall, Beneski Earth Sciences Building from 8:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. More info can be found here. October 24, 2011 -- Julia will be at Stetson University in Florida giving a presentation entitled "Trans Feminism: A Performance and Discussion." More details can be found here. October 22, 2011 -- Julia will be giving a keynote talk at the Translating Identity Conference at University of Vermont (Burlington, VT). For more details, check out their website. April 1, 2011 -- Julia will be giving a keynote talk for At the Border: Transformation and Transition in Contemporary Feminism at Oakton Community College (Chicago, IL). For more details, check out their website. March 24, 2011 -- Julia will be hosting the third annual Girl Talk: A Trans & Cis Woman Dialogue show! Girl Talk is a spoken word show curated by myself, Gina de Vries and Elena Rose, and intended to foster dialogue about the myriad relationships and overlapping issues that exist between queer cisgender (i.e., nontransgender) and transgender women. In past years, the show has taken place in June as part of the National Queer Arts Festival, but this year the Queer Cultural Center (who organizes the festival) suggested that we have the show in March as part of Women’s History Month! This year’s performers are TBA, but the cast will include Gina de Vries, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Marlene Hoeber, Sadie Lune, Elena Rose, and Rachel Rubin. The show will be held at the S.F. LGBT Community Center - Ceremonial Room, 1800 Market Street. Tickets: $12-$20 (sliding scale! nobody turned away!) (post-note: video of this performance can be found here. March 10, 2011 -- Julia will be a featured speaker at the Lewis and Clark Gender Studies Symposium in Portland, OR. In addition, the following day at the symposium I will be part of a roundtable (along with Diana Courvant Graham and Elena Rose) entitled “Speaking of Privilege: Trans Women’s Experience of Feminism from the Inside.” More info about the conference (including its schedule) can be found here. February 26, 2011 -- Julia will be giving the Saturday evening keynote at this year’s Colorado Gold Rush conference in Denver, CO. More info about the conference can be found here. February 14, 2011 -- Julia will be reading at the annual and awesome spoken word event My Sucky Valentine! Other performers include Carol Queen, Kirk Read, Sherilyn Connelly, Charles Gatewood, Simon Sheppard, horehound stillpoint, and show host Thomas S. Roche. Doors 7pm, show 8pm. Donation: $10-$20; A Benefit for The Center for Sex and Culture (1519 Mission Street, San Francisco). December 2, 2010 -- Julia will be giving a presentation at Reed College (Portland, OR) at 8pm in Eliot Chapel. November 13, 2010 -- Julia will be giving a keynote presentation at this year’s Radical Queer Convergence, organized by Queer In Flux. It will take place at The Union at Ohio State University (1739 N. High St), Columbus, OH. More details about the convergence can be found here. November 8, 2010 -- Julia will be giving a presentation entitled “Putting the Feminine Back Into Feminism” as part of Yale University’s Trans/gender Awareness Week. It will take place at 5pm at William Harkness Hall (known as WLH) 309, 100 Wall St., New Haven, CT. More details can be found here. September 1, 2010 -- Julia will be reading at the Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation book reading! at Modern Times Bookstore (888 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA) at 7pm. Other readers will include S. Bear Bergman, Sherilyn Connelly, Sarah Dopp, Luis Gutierrez-Mock, Amir Rabiyah, Christine Smith, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, Fran Varian, Shawna Virago, and Sean Saifa Wall. June 23, 2010 -- Julia and Gina de Vries are co-curating a second installment of “Girl Talk: A Cis and Trans Woman Dialogue” for the 2010 National Queer Arts Festival show. The show will feature Julia, Gina, D. Rita Alfonso, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Danielle Askini, Meliza Ba–ales, Annie Danger, E. Rose Sims, and Zarah Ersoff. All the show details can be found here. April 14, 2010 -- Julia will be giving a presentation entitled “Transsexual & Transfeminine Perspectives on Sexism” at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. It will take place at 4:15pm in Forum South Lounge. Julia will also be performing a spoken word set at Bob’s Coffee Shop later that evening. April 13, 2010 -- Julia will be giving a presentation (part talk, part spoken word performance) entitled “Trans Feminism: A Performance and Discussion” at Carleton College, in Northfield, MN. The event will take place at 5pm in Leighton 304. April 12, 2010 -- Julia will be giving a presentation (part talk, part spoken word performance) entitled “Trans Feminism: A Performance and Discussion” at St. Cloud State University, in St. Cloud, MN. The event will take place at 6pm, Glacier Room in Atwood Memorial Center. March 23, 2010 -- Julia will be giving a presentation entitled “Transsexual and Trans Feminine Perspectives on Sexism and Feminism” at American University (Washington, DC). The event will take place at 7pm in Ward 1, Ward Circle Building, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW. March 22, 2010 -- Julia will be giving a presentation entitled “Rethinking Sexualization” at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL). The event will take place at 7pm in the Capitol Room of the Holmes Student Center. December 3, 2009 -- Julia will be giving a presentation (part talk, part spoken word performance) entitled “Trans Feminism: A Performance and Discussion” at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. The event will take place at 7:00pm at Dunning 14. 
July 24, 2009 -- Julia will be performing at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center (621 E. 4th) in Tulsa, OK. The event will begin at 7pm.July 12, 2009 -- Julia’s band Bitesize will be playing at The Festival of Drums on Sunday, July 12th @ the Stork Club (2330 Telegraph Ave, Oakland). Other bands include Static Mind-Fi, The New Dysfunctions, Siddhartha, The Happy Clams, Bunny Numpkins and the Kill Blow-Up Reaction, Harlan Hollander, and David & Joanna, DJ Mole, DJ Tidbit, and Kelsey on Accordion. Every band will be adding extra percussion to their sets, plus there is a BBQ, and Bunny Numpkins & the Kill Blow-Up Reaction's are having their CD release. All for a mere 7 bucks! The show starts at 5pm, Bitesize goes on at 7pm. June 17, 2009 -- Julia is a co-curator of, and one of the performers in, the 2009 National Queer Arts Festival show Girl Talk: A Cis and Trans Woman Dialogue. Other performers include Gina de Vries (who co-curated the show with Julia), Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Tina D’Elia, Dorian Katz, Nomy Lamm, Rose Sims (aka Little Light), and Lauren Steely. The show will take place in the Ceremonial Room at the LGBT Center (1800 Market Street, San Francisco) at 7:30pm. Tickets are $12-$20 and can be purchased online at Brown Paper Tickets. (note: purchasing advanced tickets is highly encouraged, as the show may sell out.) June 12, 2009 -- Julia will be giving a keynote talk at the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference. the talk will be at 5:15pm - check out their website for more details. May 18, 2009 -- Julia will be speaking at a protest of the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. This event is focused on reforming and/or removing language in the forthcoming DSM that stigmatizes and delegitimizes trans people. It will take place from 6:00 pm to 7:30 in front of the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. 
May 9, 2009 -- Julia will be reading from her essay “Why Nice Guys Finish Last.” as part of a book reading for the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti. The reading will be held at 7:30PM at Pegasus Books in Downtown Berkeley.May 7, 2009 -- Julia will be reading from her essay “Why Nice Guys Finish Last.” as part of a book reading for the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti. The reading will be held at 7:30PM at Modern Times Books in San Francisco, CA. April 24, 2009 -- Julia will be giving a presentation (part talk, part spoken word performance) entitled “Trans Feminism: A Performance and Discussion” at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. It will take place at 7:00pm at Youngchild Hall 121 Lecture Hall. April 23, 2009 -- Julia will be giving a presentation entitled “Trans Perspectives on Gender and Feminism” at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. It will take place at 7PM at Johnston Hall #103, 1131 W. Wisconsin Avenue. April 22, 2009 -- Julia will be giving a presentation entitled “Transsexual & Transfeminine Perspectives on Sexism” at University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH. It will take place at in Swift Hall, Room 500 at 7pm. March 30, 2009 -- Julia will be giving a presentation on the intersection of feminism, queer, and trans politics at Bryn Mawr College as part of their Trans-Awareness Week. more details to come... March 28, 2009 -- Julia will take part in a panel called “In/Out of Focus, Broadening a Feminist Lens: Gender, Non-Conformity and the Media”. The panel is a part of the Women, Action and the Media! (WAM!) Conference at MIT’s Stata Center, Cambridge, MA. The panel will take place from 11-12:30 pm and the other panelists include Kate Bovitch, Miriam Zoila Perez and Jack Aponte. More info about the conference can be found at the WAM! website. March 26, 2009 -- Julia will be giving a presentation (part talk, part spoken word performance) entitled “Trans Feminism: A Performance and Discussion” at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for their annual Women’s Week. It will take place from 5:30 to 7pm at Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room. March 25, 2009 -- Julia will be giving a presentation on the scapegoating of femininity for the 2nd Annual Bodies of Knowledge Symposium. It takes place on the campus of USC Upstate (in Spartanburg, South Carolina) from 4-8:30pm in the Rampey Building. Other presenters include Kirk Read and Jennifer Baumgardner. Seating for the event is limited, so register online now at the Bodies of Knowledge Symposium website. March 12, 2009 -- Julia’s band Bitesize reuinites yet again for an excellent show at the Eagle Tavern (398 12th St. San Francisco, CA). We will be playing with one of our very favorite local bands, Ex-Boyfriends, as well as the excellent Control-R. at 9pm, 21+. March 7, 2009 -- Julia will be performing spoken word at Cupcake Cabaret, a performance celebrating the strength we get from what marks us as different in this world. The show features an All-Femme Cast, including Bevin Branlandingham, Gina de Vries, Zuleikha Mahmood and Mollena Williams. The show will take place at the Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission St. (between 11th Street & South Van Ness) in San Francisco, Doors at 7:00, Show at 7:30, $10-$20 sliding scale. February 6, 2009 -- Julia will present a paper entitled “Autogynephilia and the Psychological Sexualization of MTF Transgenderism” at the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE). The paper will be part of a panel called “Disordered” No More: Challenging Transphobia in Psychology, Academia and Society that also features Joelle Ruby Ryan and Kelley Winters. The conference will be in Alexandria, Virginia from February 4-8; more info about the conference can be found at the IFGE website. January 26, 2009 -- Julia will be giving a workshop entitled “Sexism and Sexualization of MTF Transgenderism” at the Equality and Parity II Conference in Los Angeles at the Renaissance Montura Hotel (by LAX). Check out the conference website for more details. December 9, 2008 -- Julia will be reading at Passing on the Pen: Intergenerational Queer Storytellers along with Jamison Green and Tristan Crane. at The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender Historical Society (657 Mission Street #30, San Francisco, CA 94105) at 6:30pm, free. November 22, 2008 -- Julia will be performing in LA at Trans/giving’s 5th year Tranniversary! other artists include the amazing Ryka Aoki De La Cruz and Scott Turner Schofield. It will take place at Plummer Park, 7377 Santa Monica Blvd, Rooms 5 & 6, West Hollywood, Ca 90046. at 6 pm, $5-$10 Donation Requested (NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS!). November 18, 2008 -- Julia will be performing spoken word at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR. The show will be a part of their Trans Awareness Week and will take place at 7pm in Memorial Union room 109. October 7, 2008 -- Julia will be giving a talk called “Transsexual & Transfeminine Perspectives on Sexism” at Nazareth College in Rochester NY. It will be at 7pm in the Forum. October 3, 2008 -- Julia will be reading at a benefit for Bitch Magazine. It will take place at El Rio (3158 Mission at Precita) in San Francisco. Other performers include Lauren Wheeler, Adhamh Roland, Alex Safron, and Angela Chase. It starts at nine, the cover is a donation of five dollars or more (nobody turned away for lack of funds). 
August 17, 2008 -- Julia will be giving a keynote talk at Femme2008: The Architecture of Femme in Chicago. More info about the conference can be found on their websiteJune 28, 2008 -- Julia will be performing at the Pride Toronto Trans Stage between 5:30pm to 6:15pm. More details can be found at the Pride Toronto website. June 25, 2008 -- Julia will be performing in the National Queer Arts Festival 2008 show COMING OUT...AGAIN, curated by Meliza Banales and also featuring Sherilyn Connelly, Jeanette Aguilar, Ami Mattison, and Prado Gomez. At the LGBT Community Center -2nd Floor, 7:30pm. Tickets: $8 - $15 sliding scale. June 18, 2008 -- Julia will be performing in the National Queer Arts Festival 2008 show THE DEEP LEZ POTLUCK AND PERFORMANCE NIGHT, curated by joey stevenson and Caitlin Sweet and also featuring Gretchen Phillips, Lesbians, Nomy Lamm, Jenna Riot, Pickup Pattern, Julia Serano, Ophelia Stringer, Meliza Banales, Celeste Chan, Rhiannon Argo, Elan Gerie, Machine, Trinity of Poon Joey Cupcake, Saturn Ray Turn and many more! At El Rio (21+), 7:00pm films; 8:30 performance. Tickets: $10-$15 sliding scale. June 7, 2008 - Exhibition and Art Reception Untold Stories; Visual and Performative Expressions of Transwomen featuring art works by Charlie Anders, Julia Serano, Marilynn Mitchell, Sheila Malone, Kiddy Drown, Anne Drew Potter, Annie Danger. 5 - 9pm (free) at Femina Potens, 2199 Market St., San Francisco, CA. The installation will remain on display from June 7 thru 29th. June 4 and 5, 2008 -- Julia will be performing in the National Queer Arts Festival 2008 show FRINGES, MARGINS & BORDERS, curated by Leo Garcia (Highways) & Michelle Tea (Radar) and also featuring (from LA) DeadLee, Saleem, Alison de la Cruz, Ian MacKinnon and (from SF) Zuleikha Mahmood, Lorlei Lee, and Len Plass. At the LGBT Community Center - 2nd Floor, 7:30pm. Tickets: $8 - $15 sliding scale. May 15, 2008 -- Julia will be giving a talk entitled “Transsexual and Trans Feminine Perspectives on Sexism” at Northwestern University. More details to come... May 9, 2008 -- Julia will be performing spoken word at University of California @ San Diego as part of their Out and Proud Week. Eucalyptus Point, 4:00pm, with reception immediately following. May 3, 2008 -- Julia will be presenting a paper entitled A Bio-Experiential Model of Transsexuality at the Transsomatechnics: Theories and Practices of Transgender Embodiment conference, Vancouver Canada, SFU Harbour Centre, May 1-3. April 22, 2008 -- Julia will be giving a talk entitled “Transsexual and Trans Feminine Perspectives on Sexism” at California State University @ Sacramento. At University Union Ballroom III, 7 to 9 p.m. April 15, 2008 -- Julia will be performing spoken word at at University of California @ Berkeley. The event is called Acting the Part: Exploring Gender Identity in Performance and will also feature performances by local drag kings and queens followed by a Q&A panel. 6-8 p.m. at the Student Union, Naia Lounge. Sponsor: Gender Equity Resource Center April 4, 2008 -- Julia will be giving a talk entitled “Transsexual and Trans Feminine Perspectives on Sexism,” at University of Michigan. 3pm in 2239 Lane Hall, 204 S. State St. Light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by Women’s Studies, American Culture, The Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Lesbian-Gay Queer Research Initiative. April 3, 2008 -- Julia will be performing spoken word at the ShAut Cabaret. Also reading is UM Creative Writing M.F.A. candidate Randa Jarrar, author of the forthcoming novel A Map of Home. The event is at 8pm, 325 Braun Court across from the Aut Bar. $5 admission. A portion of the proceeds will to go Camp Trans. February 14, 2008 -- Julia will be reading at My Sucky Valentine 2008, a benefit for the Women’s Community Clinic and the St. James Infirmary. Featuring readings by mi blue, Sherilyn Connelly, Thea Hillman, Carol Queen, Lori Selke, and Simon Sheppard. Hosted by Thomas S. Roche. Doors 7, Show 8. Artwork SF, 49 Geary, San Francisco (www.artworksf.com) December 8, 2008 -- Julia will be performing at Trans/Giving Express. Other Performers include Ryka Aoki De La Cruz, Thea Hillman, Jacob Perez, and D’Lo. The show will be at UCLA in the Northwest Campus Auditorium from 6-8pm. November 12, 2007 -- Julia will be giving a workshop called “I’ll See It When I Believe It: On Experience, Perception and Gender Entitlement” at University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. At the UWM Union Wisconsin Room Lounge, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. from 7pm-9pm, FREE. November 10, 2007 -- Julia will be speaking at the Women’s Leadership Conference 2007 at University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. November 9, 2007 -- August 27, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl at A Room of One’s Own Feminist Bookstore, 307 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI at 6pm. October 19, 2007 -- Julia will be reading at make/shift magazine’s issue 2 Release Reading/Celebration! Hosted by the editorial and publishing collective, with additional readings by Irina Contreras, Myriam Gurba, Nomy Lamm, Kaya Oakes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. At Mama Buzz Cafe and Gallery (2318 Telegraph, Oakland, CA), 7:00 p.m. October 13, 2007 -- Julia will be reading at Seal Press’s annual LitQuake event. Other readers will include Rachel Kramer Bussel, Jenesha “Jinky” De Rivera, Daphne Gottlieb, Samara Halperin, Victoria Zackheim. Modern Times Bookstore (888 Valencia Street), 7pm. October 10, 2007 -- Julia will be appearing at TRANSforming Gender 2007: Conference on Transgender Activism at University of Colorado Boulder. At 11:30am she will present a workshop called Transsexual and Trans Feminine Perspectives on Sexism and at 5:15pm she will participate in a panel discussion; other presenters include Helen Boyd, Matt Kailey, Dylan Scholinski and a showing of the film "Call Me Malcolm". The 10am - 5pm presentations will be at Dennis Small Cultural Center, University Memorial Center Rm 457, and the 5:15 - 9 p.m presentations will be at UMC Second Floor Senior Dedication Lounge. August 27, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl at The Toronto Women's Bookstore, 73 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON, also featuring Megan Butcher and Ryli Skelton, more details TBA... August 26, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl at Venus Envy, 320 Lisgar Street, Ottawa, also featuring Megan Butcher, 7pm. August 20, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl at Busboys and Poets bookstore, 2021 14th St. NW, Washington DC, sometime between 6pm to 8pm, check back for more details... August 17, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl at Wooden Shoe Books, 508 S 5th St., Philadelphia, PA, 7pm. August 16, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl in an event sponsored by the Center for New Words and co-sponsored by the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change. It will take place at 7pm at Simmons College, Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, 300 The Fenway, Boston. for more details click here. August 15, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl at Bluestockings bookstore in NYC, located in Lower East Side of Manhattan at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington (1 block south of Houston and 1st Avenue), 7pm 
August 12, 2007 -- Julia will be reading at a Suspect Thoughts Press benefit salon along with David Christensen, Gina de Vries, Nadyalec Hijazi, Simon Sheppard, Karl Soehnlein and horehound stillpoint. July 27, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl at “NOT QUEER ENOUGH”, an evening of readings and screenings looking at interaction between the GL and the B and the T. Fine Arts 101, The Coppola Theatre, Main Campus, San Francisco State University, 19th and Holloway Ave. Reception: 6:00pm, Reading/ Screening: 7:00pm, FREE! Other participants include Amy Larson (Founder: Chasing Amy Social Club), Gina de Vries (Bisexual and Youth Activist), Clare Marie Myers (Masters Candidate in Creative Writing on her experience as a Bisexual Scooterist in a pack of Dykes on Bikes), Max Wolf Valerio (Author: The Testosterone Files), Peggy Munson (Author: Origami Striptease; Peggy’s DVD, censored at the San Francisco Public Library as “too straight”, will be screened), Marsha Lanier (Adventures of A Former Fundamentalist: What happens when a Republican soccer mom discovers she's bi?), Plus a clip from Ray Rea's film, The Sweet New, deemed “not queer” by the recent Frameline panel June 19, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl at Modern Times bookstore, 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, 7:30pm. June 18, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl at Cody’s bookstore, 1730 Fourth Street Berkeley, CA, 7pm. June 14-16, 2007 -- Julia will be performing at Fresh Meat, a joyful, soulful, extraordinary Festival of transgender and queer performance. other Fresh Meat 2007 artists include: Artistic Director Sean Dorsey, Columbian Soul, Miguel Chernus-Goldstein, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Freeplay Dance Crew, Imani Henry, Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, Shawna Virago and Taiko Ren with Rachel Ebora; check website for nightly lineup. Four shows: Thursday June 14 (8pm), Friday June 15 (8pm), Saturday June 16 (7pm AND 10pm), at the ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell), SF. Tickets are $15 (advance tickets strongly recommended), ODC box office: 415-863-9834 or www.odctheater.org. 
June 13, 2007 -- Julia is the curator and one of the performers in The “Penis” Issue: Trans and Intersex Women Speak Their Minds, a ground-breaking spoken word event
to be performed at the National Queer Arts Festival 2007. Other performers include Charlie Anders, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Sherilyn Connelly, solidad decosta, and Shawna Virago. at the LGBT Center, Rainbow room, 1800 Market St , San Francisco, 7:30 pm. There is a cover charge, Sliding
scale $7-15, no one turned away for lack of funds.June 7, 2007 -- Julia will be reading from her new book Whipping Girl at A Different Light bookstore, 489 Castro St., San Francisco, CA, 7pm. June 5, 2007 -- Julia will be a featured author at Radar Salon: Literary Conversation, Revelations and Gossip, hosted by Michelle Tea. San Francisco Public Library / Harvey Milk - Eureka Valley Branch, 1 Jose Sarria Court (16th Street near Market), 7pm. May 18, 2007 -- Julia will be performing at Sizzle along with Ivan Coyote, Athens Boys Choir, Nabil, Ted Pro, Madison Young, plus an open mic! at Femina Potens (465 S. Vnn Ness at 16th St.)in SF, 8pm (open mic signup at 7:30), $5. May 10, 2007 -- Julia will be performing at A BENEFIT FOR THE THE TRANS MARCH & THE FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL. other artists include KALI B, MIGHTY SLIM PICKINS, AFRODISIAC, SHAWNA VIRAGO, BLUE BUDDHA, COLOMBIAN SOUL, KIRK READ, THEA HILLMAN, EMCEE FAE, and DJ SAM DAVIS. At El Rio (3158 Mission @ Precita), doors @ 7:30pm, Show @ 8:00pm SHARP! TICKETS: $7-12 sliding scale at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds. 
April 5, 2007 -- Julia will be presenting a paper titled “Feminine Wiles: Re-thinking Sexism and Anti-Trans Woman Sentiment” as part of a panel on the intersection between Transgender and Feminist that will take place during the The American Philosophical Association Conference (Pacific Division),
from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the Westin St. Francis, Union Square, in San Francisco. Other panelists include Susan Stryker, Dylan Vade, Sondra Solovay, Shawna Virago and moderator D. Rita Alfonso. check the APA Conference website for more details about the conference.March 10, 2007 -- Julia will be presenting a paper on “The Psychiatric Sexualization of Male-to-Female Transgenderism” at the Transgender Issues session of the The Association For Women in Psychology Conference, from 1:45 - 3:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway, 1500 Van Ness Avenue, near California Street in San Francisco. check the AWP Conference website for more details about the conference. February 28, 2007 -- Julia will be performing at the Gender Pirates Trans March 2007 Benefit Show! other performers include: TRANNYSAURUS SEX, SHAWNA VIRAGO, STORM FLOREZ, BUTCH, ELI WISE, THEA HILLMAN, mc fAe and dj DURT! At El Rio (3158 Mission @ Precita), Doors at 7:00 pm, Show 8:00-11:00, $5-15 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. February 18, 2007 -- After an almost two year hiatus, Julia's band Bitesize will be playing live once again at the Stork Club (2330 Telegraph Ave, Oakland). It will be a very special night, as two other great, quirky East Bay bands of yesteryear will be coming together for this reunionfest: the Gazillions and Zebu! Other bands include Uncus, The Mothballs, The Trenchermen, The Bleu Canadians, and Bunny Numpkins & The Kill Blow Up Reaction. It is a BBQ show that starts at 3pm. Gazillions headline at 10pm. Bitesize goes on somewhere before then (in the 8-10 pm range). $7. September 15, 2006 -- Julia will be hosting the final GenderEnders show, a trans/intersex/genderqueer-focused performance series that she has been curating since 2003. This month our features will be the hilarious Ham-Bone Johnson, host of the several of the Three Dollar Bill Cafe’s Queer Open Mic Cindy Emch, and author of the upcoming book For Lack of a Better Word Thea Hillman. Plus an open mic, open to folks of all genders, sexualities & identities! at Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness at 16th St, SF), 8pm, All Ages! cover $5 (sliding scale), only $3 for open mic performers. 
September 13, 2006 -- Julia will read at the Bitchfest Book Tour, featuring Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler, at Cody’s Books, 1730 4th St. in Berkeley, CA, 7 pm.September 8, 2006 -- Julia will be reading at the Bitch Magazine 10th Anniversary Gala & Auction. Hosted by Kirk Read, also featuring Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Michelle Tea. And of course, bid on fantastic items! at The Women's Building, 3543 18th St (between Guerrero and Valencia) in San Francisco, 6pm-8pm, $15 advance tickets, $25 at the door. It's an all-ages event! August 30, 2006 -- Julia will be performing at Gender Pirates along with MC Lynnee Breedlove, Shawna Virago, Butch and Joelle, Jo boyer, Siouxsie, and Lucian, Meliza Banales, Charlie Anders, Thea Hillman, Nabil and Ted, Martin Inane, Shekinah Love, Hambone Johnson and DJ Shanestar! at El Rio, 3158 Mission St. at Precita in San Francisco, $5-$15 sliding scale - no one turned away for lack of funds. August 11, 2006 -- Julia will be performing at the Femme 2006 Friday night performance, also featuring Simone de la Getto, Veronica C. Combs, Shawna Virago, Dossie Easton, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha & María Cristina Rangel aka Cherry Galette, Gigi Gamble & Odile Lavault, Lisabeth Castro-Smyth & Melissa Rivera, Spring Opara, Donna Sabbatani, Meliza Bañales, Jukie Sunshine, Alena Cawthorne, Jennifer Lin , Raks Africa - Tammy Johnson & Etang Inyang, Amy Little & Mila Salazar, Anissa Primus Alston, Celestina Pearl, Carolyn King, Allegra Bandy and Eartha Klittt. at 12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission Street @ 22nd San Francisco, 8pm doors. July 5, 2006 -- Julia will be hosting and featuring in Writing the Wrongs of Michigan: The 4th Annual GenderEnders Camp Trans Benefit! Other features include Lisa Jervis, Thea Hillman, Charle Anders, Tara Jepsen & Tina Butcher, plus a raffle with prizes. All Ages! at Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness at 16th St, SF), 8pm, $5-15 (sliding scale), all proceeds to benefit Camp Trans. June 23, 2006 -- Julia will be performing (around 4pm) at the 3rd Annual Trans March Stage in San Francisco, from 3 pm - 7 pm in Dolores Park (Dolores and 19th St), march to Civic Center to follow. Other performers & speakers will include: Leslie Feinberg, Shawna Virago, Katastrophe, Lipstick Conspiracy, The Momma's Boyz, The Suga-Glida, Dyspecific, The Cockivores, Storm Florez, Trannysaurus Rex, Damegoodz, David Cameron, Kaia Wilson, Thea Hillman, Sini Anderson and many others! June 16, 2006 -- Julia will be participating in a panel called Transfeminisms: Transgender, Genderqueer, and Gender-Defiant Approaches to Feminism that will take place during the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., at the Oakland Marriott City Center, in Oakland, CA. check the NWSA conference websitefor more details about the conference. June 10, 2006 -- Julia will be performing at a benefit for the SF Dyke March! it will be an afternoon show on the back patio of El Rio, more details to come... May 25, 2006 -- Julia will be performing at the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club Dinner at the Grand Ballroom, Ramada Plaza Downtown 1231 Market Street (at 8th St.), 5:30 to 7 p.m. Cocktails, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Dinner, check their website for more details... May 21, 2006 -- Julia will be helping out at the 4th Annual Trans/Intersex/Genderqueer & Buddies Community Picnic! This event is meant to bring together the entire trans, genderqueer & intersex communities, plus friends, family and allies. All genders, ages, hormone levels and anatomies enthusiastically invited! This jamboree is a democratic shindig, you are encouraged to take ownership by adding yourself, your creativity and effort to the ruckus. The Picnic takes place at Dolores Park at 19th Street in San Francisco during picnic time (around 12-5pm). May 19, 2006 -- Julia will be hosting and featuring at GenderEnders, a trans- and gender-focused open mic and performance series that has now joined forces with the monthly Femina Potens spoken word event Sizzle. Other features will include author of Say it with Your Whole Mouth and former Oakland grand-slam champion Meliza Bañales, spoken word artist/performer/MC/author solidad decosta, and poet/songwriter Eli Wise. Plus, Julia will be reading excerpts from her upcoming book Feminine Wiles. And of course there is an open mic! Open to folks of all genders, sexualities and identities! at Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness at 16th St, SF), 8pm, All Ages! cover $5 sliding scale, only $3 for open mic performers. March 1, 2006 -- Julia will be reading at the Albany Library, 1247 Marin Ave Albany, CA at 7pm. It is a free event and there is also an open mic! February 22, 2006 -- Julia will be performing at Gender Pirates, a benefit for United Genders of the Universe, genderqueer/transgender support groups, Gender Education Speaker's Bureau, and the Third Annual Trans March! also featuring DYSPECIFIC, SHAWNA VIRAGO, STORM FLOREZ, ANNIE DANGER, LUCIAN, SKY, BUTCH, MONIQUE the CLOWN, NABIL, and ANNABELLE APOCALYPSE. At El Rio (3158 Mission @ Precita) Doors at 7:30 pm, Show 8:00-midnight, $5-15 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. January 20, 2006 -- Julia will be hosting GenderEnders, a trans- and gender-focused open mic and performance series that has now joined forces with the monthly Femina Potens spoken word event Sizzle. Our features will include Lisa Jervis, co-founder and publisher of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture and editor at large of LiP: Informed Revolt; Max Wolf Valerio, trans man and author of the forthcoming Seal Press release The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male; Shawna Virago, trans-fox rock star, activist, filmmaker, co-founder of TrannyFest, and writer whose work will appear in the upcoming TransForming Community anthology; and Nadyalec Hijazi is an omnisexual hellraising genderqueer gayrab whose work has appeared in Best Gay Erotica 2006, Desire in Transition, Lodestar Quarterly, Generation Q, Hot Off the Net, and Trikone.Plus an open mic! Open to folks of all genders, sexualities and identities! at Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness at 16th St, SF), 8pm, All Ages! cover $5 sliding scale, only $3 for open mic performers. December 16, 2005 -- Julia will perform at EMERGING WOMAN (No Whining Allowed), a spoken word benefit for the the Women on the Way Festival. Also featuring Angie Krass, Jeri Cain Rossi, Lori Selke, Sherilyn Connelly, Katrina James, Charlie Anders, Shauna Rogan, Gina de Vries, Stefani Pisarczyk. at the Make Out Room (3225 22nd Street, San Francisco), Doors - 7PM, $5- $15. October 29, 2005 -- Julia will perform at TransForming Community, a performance event exploring merging trans and queer communities, Curated and hosted by Michelle Tea, with performances by: Lynn Breedlove, Thea Hillman, Jordy Jones, Reginald Lamar, Michelle Tea, Max Wolf Valerio, and Shawna Virago, at the San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch (100 Larkin Street) in the Koret Auditorium, 1:00pm sharp, Free! Audience discussion to follow. September 28, 2005 -- Julia will perform at Gender Pirates! also featuring: Lynnee Breedlove, Oakland FJacks Radical Cheerleaders, Transition, Eli Wise, Lucifers Out of Work Strip Club Band, Sini Anderson, Hambone Johnson, Leanne Borghesi, Contajus, Thea Hillman, and Wendy-O-Matik, with DJ SAM DAVIS spinning hip hop, queer 80s, and punk. At EL RIO (3158 Mission @ Precita) Doors at 7:00 pm, Show 8:00-midnight. 
July 29, 2005 -- Julia will be performing a music set at the Camp Trans “Rock Out w/o Yr Cock Out” Music Benefit!, presented by
GenderEnders and Femina Potens.
Other acts include
Lipstick Conspiracy,
Storm Florez,
Shawna Virago,
Jacob Perez (aka Scarletto), and Transition. Co-hosted by Charlie Anders and Meliza Banales, plus a plethora of wonderful prizes will
be a raffled away! All proceeds will go directly to Camp Trans, the annual protest against the the exclusion of trans women from women-only spaces, most notably the Michigan Womyns Music Festival. at Edinburgh Castle (950 Geary, SF), 9pm, $5-15 (sliding scale).
July 15, 2005 -- Julia will be performing at Sizzle, the Erotic Open mic and Spoken word series. Other features include Katastrophe, Judith Halberstam, The Urban Hermit, and a screening of Full Load. $5 (or $3 if you sign up for the open mic, no one turned away for lack of funds) Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness at 16th St, SF), 8pm. June 26, 2005 -- Julia will be performing at two San Francisco Pride-related events: the Transgender Stage (located at Larkin Street between McAllister and Golden Gate, my set time will be 1:35-1:45pm), and the LGBTQ Writers and Readers Stage and Village (where I will be reading from 3:15-3:30pm). June 24, 2005 -- Julia will be performing at the 2nd Annual San Francisco Trans March. her performance will be at around 6pm at the pre-march event in Dolores Park (Dolores and 19th Street, 3-7pm), other performers & speakers include Tribe 8, Katastrophe, Lipstick Conspiracy, The Viragos, Sini Anderson, Patrick Califia, Fairy Butch, Jen RO, Thea Hillman, The Dangers, The Transformers, The Momma's Boyz, and many more - with MC's Lynnee Breedlove, Annie Danger, and Michelle Garcia, and DJ Molly Straylight. the march to Civic Center follows at 7pm... June 9, 10, 11 and 23, 2005 -- Julia will be performing at a TransForming Community, a National Queer Arts Festival show that explores the friction at the intersection of contemporary trans and queer communities. curated by Michelle Tea, and also featuring Lynn Breedlove, Thea Hillman, Katastrophe, Max Wolf Valerio, Marcus Rene Van, and Shawna Virago. shows start at 7:30pm at the SF LGBT Center, Rainbow Room it¹s a FREE show, for reservations & Info: (415) 864-4124 or [email protected] June 1, 2005 -- Julia will be hosting GenderEnders, a trans/intersex/genderqueer-focused open mic and performance series. This month our features will be Charlie Anders and Storm Florez. As always, we will have an open mic, so bring your music, writing, stand-up comedy, performance art, etc. Open to folks of all genders, sexualities & identities! at Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness at 16th St, SF), 8pm, All Ages! cover $5-7 (sliding scale), only $3 for open mic performers. 
May 22, 2005 -- Julia is helping to organize the 3rd Annual Trans/Intersex/Genderqueer & Buddies Community Picnic! This event is meant to bring together the entire trans, genderqueer & intersex communities, plus friends, family and allies. All genders, ages, hormone levels and anatomies enthusiastically invited! This jamboree is a democratic shindig, you are encouraged to take ownership by adding yourself, your creativity and effort to the ruckus. The Picnic takes place at Dolores Park at 19th Street in San Francisco during picnic time (around 12-5pm).
May 21, 2005 -- Julia will be performing at a San Francisco Dyke March benefit. other acts include DJ Garcia, Emcees: Nafis and Micia, Franke, Happy Hyder, Nappy Grooves, Shawna Virago, Meliza Banales, Mamas Boyz, and Sistas in the Pit, plus raffle prizes, free BBQ and much much more! at El Rio Bar (3158 Mission St) in San Francisco from 4pm-8pm. May 19, 2005 -- Julia will be featuring at TRANSLATE: a space for trans/qenderqueer youth (25 and under) to express themselves through poetry, spoken word, music or other similar performances. All allies are welcome to attend. Sign up starts at 6:45pm/show is 7-9pm, Threedollarbill Café @ the San Francisco LGBT Center (1800 Market St.). May 15, 2005 -- Julia will be performing at the UCLA event: outCRY! 2005, queerxgirl's music + art festival. other acts include: sarah dougher, alison de la cruz, alice hom, ethel and the pantiraids, the miracle whips, wanda alarcon, lynne breedlove, medusa, and tracy + the plastics! The event will take place at the Charles E. Young Grand Salon at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. May 5, 2005 -- Julia will be performing at Trans/Form, an evening of performance art about transgender lives and experiences as part of San Jose State University¹s Transgender Awareness Week. other performers include Storm Florez , the rock band Frootie Flavors and MC Miriam Sachs Martín. 6:00 PM, in the Umuhum Room, Student Union, SJSU. Free of charge and light refreshments will be provided, even! April 7, 2005 -- Julia will perform at the Tranny Road Show! at The Long Haul Infoshop (3124 Shattuck Ave.) more details to come... April 6, 2005 -- Julia will be hosting GenderEnders, a trans/intersex/genderqueer-focused open mic and performance series. This month we will feature two hosts of local queer/trans open mics: Larry-bob Roberts and Brooklynne Thomas. As always, we will have an open mic, so bring your music, writing, stand-up comedy, performance art, etc. Open to folks of all genders, sexualities & identities! at Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness at 16th St, SF), 8pm, All Ages! cover $5-7 (sliding scale), only $3 for open mic performers. March 30, 2005 -- Julia will be featuring at the Berkeley Poetry Slam at the Starry Plough (3101 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA), hosted by Charles Ellik and dani eurynome, show at 8:30 PM, $7 cover ($5 with student ID). March 4, 2005 -- Julia presents Unravelling Gender, a workshop and performance poetry presentation on gender. at California College of the Arts, 5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA, Nahl Hall, 6:30 pm, FREE. February 19, 2005 -- Julia's debut DVD Six Small Words will be showing at Sampler, a monthly film and video series featuring women and transgendered video artists and film makers. This month's Sampler, entitled LadyFingers, will feature works from the 2004 LadyFest Bay Area. at Femina Potens, $3-5 cover. 
February 17, 2005 -- Bitesize
will be performing at the Stork Club (2330 Telegraph Ave, Oakland) along with Space Vacuum from Outer Space and the Militant Children's Hour.February 2, 2005 -- Julia will be hosting GenderEnders, a trans/intersex/genderqueer-focused open mic and performance series. We will feature an acoustic set by Lipstick Conspiracy and spoken word by MK. Open to folks of all genders, sexualities & identities! at Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness at 16th St, SF), 8pm, All Ages! cover $5-7 (sliding scale), only $3 for open mic performers. January 29, 2005 -- Bitesize will be performing at Karma, The Best Queer & Trans Escape from the Drama of Everyday Life in the Bay Area!". other performers include DeepDiCkollective, JadeBlueEclipse, Simone de la Getto, Alotta Boutté, LeMay, Malkia, Will Dewar, DJ GARCIA and many more!!! at El Rio Bar (3158 Mission St), Doors: 9pm, Show: 10pm - SHARP! Cover is FREE before 9pm, $8 after. January 26, 2005 -- Julia will be performing a solo music set at Gender Pirates, a benefit for United Genders of the Universe. other performers include emcee Lynnee Breedlove, Homo-Hop: Katastrophe, Drag: The Transformers, Burlesque: Burlesque-esque, Rock 'n' Roll: Dyspecific, Eli Wise, Spoken Word: Thea Hillman, Sherillyn Connelly, Meliza Banales, MK. Superstar-DJs: Sam Davis & Hegenony spinning hip hop, queer 80s, punk rock, retro-electro & garbage. Doors at 8:00 pm, Show 9-12, DJ till... $5-15 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. at El Rio (3158 Mission St @ Cesar Chavez in SF). December 14, 2004 -- Julia will perform spoken word at the RADAR reading series. Other writers include Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Ricky Lee, Trebor Healey, hosted by Michelle Tea. located at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch (Civic Center) in the Latino Reading Room (Downstairs) 6:00Pm (sharp), FREE! December 3, 2004 -- Bitesize will be performing at the Stork Club (2330 Telegraph Ave, Oakland) along with the Mothballs (ex-Knulla Roofs), the Boweltones, and Zero Mass. 9pm, $5! December 1, 2004 -- Julia will be hosting GenderEnders, a trans/intersex/genderqueer-focused open mic and performance series. Our features will be solidad decosta and Johnny Pratt. Open to folks of all genders, sexualities & identities! at Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness at 16th St, SF), 8pm, All Ages! cover $5-7 (sliding scale), only $3 for open mic performers. November 26, 2004 -- Bitesize will be performing at the Femina Potens sponsored event Rock Out w/out yr Cock Out. Other artists include Fern Capella, Katastrophe, and Shawna Virago and the Deadly Nightshades. at the Edinburgh Castle (950 Geary, in SF), 9pm, $5. November 20, 2004 -- Julia will be a part of a panel on MTF Transitioning at the Fifth Annual Genderblast Conference, at Everett Middle School, located on Church and 16th St, SF, from 3:00-4:15pm. November 18, 2004 -- Julia will be performing both a spoken word & solo music set at Trans Stock, a show presented by the Queer Alliance at San Francisco State University. other acts include Lipstick Conspiracy and Shawna Virago and the Deadly Nightshade Family. Cesar Chavez Student Center, 4pm, all ages, free! November 17, 2004 -- Julia will perform spoken word at a Gender Pirates acoustic show. Other acts include Lynnee Breedlove, Charlie Anders, Jo Boyer, Transition, MK, and Eli Wise. the show will be at Femina Potens (465 south van ness at 16th), doors 7pm, show 8:30, all ages, $5-10 sliding scale, no one turned away... 
October 10, 2004 -- Julia will perform spoken word at Out In Oakland! a
free LGBT community celebration in Oakland's Lake Merritt/Parkway District
(specifically East 18th Street and Lakeshore, across from Merritt Bakery
Restaurant - right on Lake Merritt). other features will include BETTY,
Linda Tillery, Momma's Boyz, and Deep Dickollective. Wednesday, October 6, 2004 Julia will be hosting GenderEnders, a trans-focused open mic and performance series. Our features will be Sherilyn Connelly and Seeley Quest. Open to folks of all genders, sexualities & identities! at Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness at 16th St, SF), sign-up 8pm, show 8:30pm, All Ages! cover $5-7 (sliding scale), only $3 for open mic performers. Saturday, October 2, 2004 -- Julia will be performing spoken word at KARMA, a Fantastic Queer and Trans Cabaret. at El Rio (3158 Mission St @ Cesar Chavez in SF), 3PM-8PM, on the patio, $5 before 5pm, $10 after. Wednesday, September 29, 2004 -- Julia will be performing a solo music set at Gender Pirates, a benefit for United Genders of the Universe at El Rio (3158 Mission St @ Cesar Chavez in SF). Sunday, September 26, 2004 -- Bitesize will be performing at the legendary Folsom Street Fair! Sunday, September 19, 2004 -- Julia will be performing spoken word at Butta, a poetry hour at The Oasis (in Oakland on 12th between Oak and Madison), 3pm-4pm, $5 before 3. Wednesday, September 15, 2004 -- Julia will be performing spoken word at SMACK DAB : an open mic hosted by Kirk Read and Larry-bob Roberts. At Magnet, 4122 18th Street between Castro and Collingwood. Free, All ages, 7:30 pm signup, 8 pm show) Sunday, September 5, 2004 -- Bitesize will be playing along with Storm (ex-Flower SF vocalist) at Bottom of the Hill, 17th and Texas, San Francisco, 9pm, 18 and over!, $8 cover. Saturday, August 7, 2004 -- Julia will perform spoken word at "CHERRY: Queering Virginity, First Encounters of the Queer Kind". Presented by SFinX, other features include: Carol Queen, Yosenio Lewis, Gina de Vries, and Melissa Gira. $12 - $20 s.s. no one turned away. At Jon Sims Center for the Arts, 1519 Mission Street. Thursday Aug 5, 2004 -- Julia will perform spoken word at The 2nd Annual Cafe Show**a multimedia exhibit and performance event to benefit SomArts Cultural Center. at SomArts (934 Brannan Street (@9th), San Francisco, 4pm. Sunday, August 1, 2004 -- Bitesize will be playing the LadyFest Bay Area Closing Night Show! other artists include: Boyskout, addicted2fiction, Secret Synthi, One Trick Pony, Clever Girl. at 12 Galaxies (http://www.12galaxies.com) on Mission St between 21st & 22nd in SF, taking place from 8pm-12am, doors at 7:30, $9-12 sliding scale. Saturday July 31, 2004 -- i will perform spoken word at LadyFest LitFest on Saturday July 31st, my set begins at 3:20pm. this is an all day event at Femina Potens (465 South Van Ness, SF) that also includes Michelle Tea, Julia Serano, Sherilyn Connelly, Charlie Anders, WENDY-O MATIK, Thea Hillman, Daphne Gottlieb, Mary Wings, Diane diPrima,Trina Robbins, Fern Capella, Billie Mandel, Sabrina Chapadjiev, Eli Wise, Jessica Melusine, Suzy La Follette, Lauren Wheeler, Charlotte Green Honigman-Smith and Elizabeth Bernstein Sunday, August 1, 2004 - Julia will be part of a Trans Activism Panel as part of LadyFest Bay Area. at Everett Middle School, 450 Church Street, SF, on Sunday, August 1st between 1:45-3:15pm along with Bryan Burgess, Lauren Steely and Kight. July 15, 2004 -- Julia will be MC-ing GenderEnders featuring readings by Max Valerio and music by Butch Greenblatt, plus a performance open mic - so bring your music, spoken word, stand-up comedy, performance art, etc., to the event! we are at a new location: Femina Potens (465 s. van ness @ 16th st, SF), open mic sign-up 8:30, show at 9pm, All Ages!, $5-7 cover. July 6, 2004 -- Bitesize will be performing at a benefit show for Camp Trans 2004. Other performers will include Katastrophe and Shawna Virago and the Deadly Nightshade Family. The show will be at Bottom of the Hill (17th and Texas, SF) 9 pm sharp, cover $7 - All proceeds go to Camp Trans. June 17, 18, and 19, 2004 -- Julia will be performing in Fresh Meat 2004, The Transgender and Queer Cabaret Extravaganza! This show is part of the National Queer Arts Festival and other artists include Tina DíElia and Prado Gomez, Sean Dorsey, Harlem Shake, Katastrophe, Navarrete x Kajiyama, Johnnie Pratt, Julia Serano, Shawna Virago & the Deadly Nightshades, Sisterz of the Underground, Transcendence Gospel Choir, Diamond Daggers, JenRO, Maiana Minahal & Nedjula Baguio, and Christopher Love & Sonya Smith, plus emcees: Marcus Rene Van & Nafis, at the ODC Theater (3153 17th Street @ Shotwell, San Francisco), Tickets: $15 (reservations strongly recommended), show at 8pm. June 4, 2004 -- Bitesize will be performing with The Ex-Boyfriends and RoboSapien at the Starry Plough (3101 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA), show at 9PM. May 27, 2004 -- Julia will be MC-ing GenderEnders "Tranny Lovers Show!" featuring Michelle Tea, Meliza Bañales, Annalee Newitz, plus an open mic. at a new location: Femina Potens (465 s. van ness @ 16th st, SF), open mic sign-up 8:30, show at 9pm, All Ages!, $5-7 cover. May 12, 2004 -- Julia will be performing at "Save a Tranny for Your Tomorrow", a Benefit for Youth Gender Project. with Carol Queen, Michelle Tea , Storm Florez, Tina Butcher, Thea Hillman , Burlesque-esque , Charlie Anders, Debaucherous Dolls, MK, Pandora Paradox, Seeley Quest, Harvey, plus a raffle including stuff from Good Vibrations and PlanetOut. El Rio Bar (3158 Mission St), doors at 7pm, show at 8pm, $5 and up (sliding scale). May 5, 2004 ‚- Julia will be performing at GenderF**K, a fundraiser for Femina Potens. with Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Lipstick Conspiracy, Katastrophe, and Thea Hillman. at El Rio (3158 Mission St), San Francisco, show at 7:30 pm, sliding scale $7 ‚ 20, no one turned away. April 16, 2004 ‚- Julia will be performing at Oral Fixation, hosted by Erin OíBriant. Also featuring will be Andrea Lawlor, plus an open mic. Dolores Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA, 7:30pm. April 21, 2004 ‚- Julia will be competing in the Berkeley Poetry Slam Semi-Finals. hosted by Charles Ellik and dani eurynome. if i place in the top 4, i will move onto the Berkeley Slam Finals (on Wednesday, April 28). both shows at the Starry Plough (3101 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA), show at 8:30 PM. March 20, 2004 -- Julia will be co-hosting "Happy Campers" - a benefit show for Camp Trans 2004. Performers will include Dave Eggers, Carol Queen, Erika Lopez, Timím West, Ultragypsey, Tara Jepsen & Beth Lisick, Harlem Shake, Red Jordan Arobateau, Kari Edwards, Lipstick Conspiracy, Tennessee Jones, and Carolyn Connelly. The show will be hosted by Michelle Tea and Julia Serano. The show will be at El Rio (3158 Mission St, SF) 3-8 pm, cover $7-12 (sliding scale).  February
11-13, 2004 -- Julia will be performing in the UC Berkeley production of
the Vagina Monologues. located at 155 Dwinelle Hall on UC Berkeley Campus,
Berkeley, CA, show at 6pm. February 7, 2004 -- Julia will be performing at a Ladyfest Bay Area 2004 Benefit that takes place at 7pm at femina potens (465 s. van ness @ 16th st, SF). other performers include sini anderson, diana cage (editor of On Our Backs), Katastrophe, plus jello wrestling and art. February 4, 2004 -- Julia will be MC-ing GenderEnders at the Cherry Bar (917 Folsom Street @ 5th, San Francisco). we will be featuring two of the Bay Area’s finest tranny hip-hop artists, The Urban Hermitt and Jaycub Perez, plus a reading from writer and poet Matthue Roth. open mic sign-up 8:30, show at 9pm, $4-7 cover January 23, 2004 -- Bitesize will be performing at the Oakland Metro (Broadway @ 2nd in Oakland) with The Quails, King Cobra, and Wikkid. show at 9pm, 18 and over, $7. January 14, 2004 ‚- Julia will be performing at the United Genders of the Universe Benefit along with katastrophe, urban hermitt, jacob "scarletto" and dj trinity, lynnee breedlove, daphne gottlieb, MK, plus a bunch of drag acts and michelle tea as the MC. at El Rio (3158 Mission St., SF) January 10, 2004 ‚- Julia will be performing at Writers With Drinks, a spoken word variety show, along with Paul Reidinger, Prof. Tricia Rose, Ronn Vigh, Nadyalec, Keckler and host Charlie Anders. at The Make Out Room (3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, SF), 7:30 to 9:30 PM, Admission: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit other magazine January 6, 2004 -- Julia will be MC-ing GenderEnders, the first Tuesday of every month at the Cherry Bar (917 Folsom Street @ 5th, San Francisco). our features for tonight will be writer and publisher of other magazine Charlie Anders and musician and co-director of Tranny Fest Shawna Virago. open mic sign-up 8:30, show at 9pm, $5-7 cover  December
12, 2003 -- Bitesize
will be performing at the Stork Club along with Show
Me State and NedDecember 10, 2003 -- Bitesize will be playing LIVE on KZSU - the Standord University Radio Station between noon and 1pm - listen at 90.1 FM in the South Bay area or listen over the internet at http://kzsulive.stanford.edu December 9, 2003 -- Bitesize will be performing at a Ladyfest Bay Area 2004 Benefit at El Rio (3158 Mission St., SF) along with Clevergirl, butcheR & smeaR, Thick as Thieves. 21+, 9pm, doors at 8 $8-$15 sliding scale December 5, 2003 -- Julia will be performing at Vaginas In Transition: Transgender Perspectives on Vaginas, Violence, and Gender. also Max Voltage SFDK8 and more featured in conversation, spoken word, panel, and drag show. UC Berkeley Campus 155 Dwinelle, 6:30 pm. $2-5 sliding scale. For more info: (510) 407-0974. [email protected] December 2, 2003 -- Julia will be MC-ing GenderEnders, the first Tuesday of every month at the Cherry Bar (917 Folsom Street @ 5th, San Francisco). our features for tonight will be spoken word artist and intersex activist Thea Hillman and the gendermessin' FTM hip-hop MC Katastrophe. open mic sign-up 8:30, show at 9pm, $5-7 cover November 24, 2003 -- Julia will be reading at the Canvas Gallery (9th Ave and Lincoln, San Francisco) at 7PM along with Attaboy and Tina Butcher. November 23, 2003 -- Julia will be performing at the Harvey Milk Memorial in the Castro, SF. i'm not quite sure of the time and exact location yet, stay tuned... November 20, 2003 -- the 5th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance in San Francisco. there will be a march starting at 6:30 p.m. at Harvey Milk Plaza, located at the corner of Market and Castro Street. Julia will be reading at the Memorial, which will be held at 7:30pm at the LGBT Community Center (1800 Market St.)  November
14, 2003 --
Bitesize
will be performing at the Starry Plough in Berkeley (3101 Shattuck
Ave). other acts include 20 Minute Loop and the ex-Boyfriends.November 4, 2003 -- Julia will be MC-ing GenderEnders, the first Tuesday of every month at the Cherry Bar (917 Folsom Street @ 5th, San Francisco). our features for tonight will be Lynnee Breedlove (author of Godspeed and lead yeller for Tribe 8) and Storm Florez (who blends various folk rock styles with dreamy tales of love, death, romance, and basic scorpionic woes.). open mic sign-up 8:30, show at 9pm, $5-7 cover October 28, 2003 -- Julia will be performing at the United Genders of the Universe benefit, 8pm-12 at El Rio (3158 Mission St., SF), also featuring Fairy Butch, spoken word (Lynnee Breedlove, Celestina Pearl, mk), hip hop (Juba Kalamka of Deep Dick Collective, Jaycub Perez & DJ Trinity, Urban Hermit), drag kings (Transformers, Big Apples, The Dangers, ub Mackin, Tightee Whiteez, One Hit Blunders), and Burlesque (Burlesque-esque, Coco Kane). October 26, 2003 -- Julia will be performing at the TRANNIES, TUTUS & TANGOS FOR TOM (Ammiano) FUNDRAISER, 6pm - 10pm at CLUB GALIA (2565 Mission St., SF), also featuring MC Katastrophe, Sherilyn Connelly, Red Jordan Arobateau, Frankie Tenderloin & The Rent Boys, Shawna Virago, angel on the nod and the phantasy defylment (with members of Floating Corpses), Jose Navarrette & Debby Kajiyama, Jesselito Bie, Arnel Alcordo, Dance Brigade, Sini Anderson, Gisselle, Garza, Fifi Rodriguez, La Jaiba, the Madame of the romantic music with William Morin, and drag king troupe The Dangers. October 23, 2003 -- Julia will be performing at the daniland talent showcase at the Oakland Metro (Broadway @ 2nd in Oakland), other artist include katastrophe, meliza bañales, mack dennis, charles ellik, jason bayani, sonia whittle, nazelah jamison, karen ladson, daled and rosin coven. October 22, 2003 -- Bitesize will be performing at the Oakland Metro (Broadway @ 2nd in Oakland) with Gravy Train!!! and the Vanishing October 16, 2003 -- Bitesize will be performing at the daniland talent showcase on Thursday, October 16th at the Oakland Metro (Broadway @ 2nd in Oakland), other artist include: sini anderson's opening band, michelle tea, the suicide kings, jamie kennedy, rupert estanislao, geoff trenchard, carlos mena, aya de leon, matthue roth October 12, 2003 -- Bitesize will be performing at the Stork Club in Oakland (2330 Telegraph Ave). show begins at 2pm and includes Jewdriver, Ill-Gotten Gains, Bitchcraft and more... September 22, 2003 -- Bitesize will be performing at Girlstock 2003 at the Cherry Bar (Folsom at 5th St., SF) August 22, 2003 -- Julia will be performing at Viva Variety in San Francisco - to be videotaped in front of a live audience August 15, 2003 -- Julia will be performing at Camp Trans in Michigan August 2, 2003 -- Julia will be hosting a Benefit for Camp Trans 2003 (co-presented by GenderEnders and daniland productions) at the Voodoo Lounge at 2937 Mission Street, San Francisco. It will be a night of music, spoken word, drag, cabaret, burlesque, and performance art – performers include Michelle Tea, Shawna Virago, Katastrophe, Charlie Anders, Big Burlesque, Meliza Bañales, Sherilyn Connelly, Seeley Quest, U.B. Mackin, among many others! i will be MC-ing and there will also be prizes, an erotic kissing booth, and lots of other fun stuff! July 30, 2003 -- Julia will be featuring at the Berkeley Poetry Slam, Starry Plough in Berkeley (3101 Shattuck Ave) July 25, 2003 -- Bitesize will be playing a show at Kimo's (Polk and Pine, SF) along with the Skyflakes and other acts June 29, 2003 -- Bitesize will be performing at the San Francisco Pride Main Stage (at Civic Center, 6:15pm) June 28, 2003 -- Julia will be performing at the San Francisco Dyke March Stage at Dolores Park June 8, 2003 -- Julia will be competing in the San Francisco Slam Finals at Storyville, SF June 4, 2003 -- Julia will be competing in the Berkeley Poetry Slam Semi-finals May 24, 2003 -- Bitesize will be playing at the Mission Creek Music Festival at the Voodoo Lounge along with Static Faction, Eric Gaffney, Kung Fu USA and Lil' Pocketknife May 18, 2003 -- Julia will be performing an MC-ing the First Annual Trand/Intersex/Genderqueer and Buddies Community Picnic at Dolores Park in San Francisco May 13, 2003 -- Julia will be competing in the San Jose Poetry Slam Semi-finals April 20, 2003 -- Julia will be featuring at Hubbub (an SF queer open mic) |
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