Polare 81

Issued October 2009

(The Gender Centre advise that this edition of Polare is not current and as such certain content, including but not limited to persons, contact details and dates may not apply. Where legal authority or medical related matters are cited, responsibility lies with the reader to obtain the most current relevant legal authority and/or medical publication.)

Phinn's Report

The Gender Centre Manager's report that includes service statistics from the 2008-2009 Annual Report, by Phinn Borg

Editorial

Includes a look at what we mean by the term "women" and also Katherine's appearance on Channel Seven's Sunrise program recently, by Katherine Cummings

Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009

An invitation to attend the 2009 Transgender Day of Remembrance at the Metropolitan Community Church in Petersham on Friday November 20th, by Katherine Cummings

Adventures of a Watjarri Nyungar Traveller

Rusty grew up in a big family in Western Australia and traveled to NSW where she fell in love with the nightlife, by Rusty Nannup

Book Review

The Real Possibility of Joy by Josephine Emery, reviewed by Katherine Cummings

Counsellor's Column

An A to Z list of common topics arising from concerns and experience that people have brought to counselling sessions, by Gaye Stubbs

Cis Feminism in London '09

The Feminism in London event promoted for women and pro-feminist men by the rabidly transphobic London Feminist Network, by Helen G.

Book Review

Look Who's Morphing by Tom Cho Cho's, a short and punchy collection of writings with a biographical element interwoven into what is obviously fiction, by Tom Cho

Would You Like a Job? Or a Better Job?

The University of New South Wales is prepared to co-operate with the Gender Centre in setting up a system designed to help transgenders into employment, by Katherine Cummings

Bad Language

The term transgender, it's opposite cisgender, their usage and the meaning of using such terms in the community today, by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

The Story of "R"

He was in his early twenties. Melbourne-born. A tiny baby with a micro-penis. An officially undersized willie that, unlike a fish, could not be thrown back, Joanne Procter

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