Call For Submissions: November 2022

The Gender Exploration Carnival is one of several blogging carnivals – an event where a host blog puts out a theme for the month, participants create content and share the links with the host, and the host posts a round-up at the end of the month. For more information, you can check out the FAQ page.

For November 2022, the theme I have chosen to self-host is “TDOR.” Later this month, the Trans Day of Remembrance – or for people who do not want to focus on their community members’ deaths, the Trans Day of Resilience – will be observed on the 20th. Originally started as the Transgender Day of Remembrance in 1999, TDOR is a day for ‘honoring the memory of trans or gender-diverse people who were lost to transphobic violence.’ Before Covid-19, an in-person candlelight vigil would usually be involved, and a local group might add to the official list. (Additions could include: Recent deaths in their area after the official list was put out, any deaths that slipped through official monitoring, and some groups would add other names in the past year that were not included in the official statistics like those lost to suicide.)

The following prompts are suggestions, and you are not required to answer one question (or all of them) in order to participate as long as your submission is connected to the theme.

Suggested questions:

• Have you taken part in a Trans Day of Remembrance vigil? Have you done an offline or online event for the day?
• If you’re comfortable sharing, does taking part in a communal activity help with processing and handling the grief of this time? Do you feel differently about this depending on if others around you know about this day?
• Have you taken part in any sort of event for Trans Day of Resilience?

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The deadline for submissions is 2 am EST [UTC-5] on 1 December 2022. I will post the round-up around 3 pm on 1 November and will accept late submissions until then. You can submit an anonymous entry for this month by emailing genderexplorationcarnival@pm.me (the post will be self-hosted here on WordPress), or you can leave a link to your submission in a comment on this post. There is a corresponding Call for Submissions on Tumblr [here], and on Pillowfort [here]. If you have an idea for a theme and would like to host, please leave a comment on Volunteer As Host.

Round Up: October 2022

I accepted submissions based on prior themes for October 2022. I received one submission from an anonymous participant:

Anon – “Vivat Academia, Pereant Osores”

The academic anthem Gaudeamus Igitur sings in different verses “vivat academia” [may academia live] and “pereant osores” [may haters die] and the prevalence of the second statement over the first will be the subject of this post.

Additional tidbits:

~ For those who are in a U.S. state that observes Daylight Savings Time: Clocks fall back one hour this Sunday, on the 6th of November.

~ For those who are living in the United States, in a U.S. territory, or on a U.S. military base and are at least 16 years old: The U.S. Trans Survey for 2022 will be open until the 21st of November. It is available in English and Spanish. For more info: ustranssurvey.org.

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If you tried to submit something but don’t see your submission here, please let me know, and I’ll update the post. You can email genderexplorationcarnival@pm.me, comment on this post, or reach out via the Contact page. The theme for November 2022 has not been announced yet, and if you’d like to host, you can leave a comment on the Volunteer As Host post. If no one comments by 11 pm EDT on the 5th of November, I’ll put out a self-hosted theme.