Moving

I have now moved all my new blog entries back to the main site. Please visit http://www.aboutcecilia.com to catch all the latest updates and photo gallery. Thanks again for visiting :-)

Website Submission

Just helped a client to submit his website to the search engines. The site? Monkeys For Sale

Hello From Santa Barbara

Still on vacation in Santa Barbara, a beautiful place but the pace here is way slower than I would like to be. The great part - Santa Barbara is under two hours from Los Angeles and we were able to drive down to L.A. and visited the spectacular Getty Museum and to Malibu to visit the Getty Villa. The rest of he pictures belong to our trip to the Court House and Old Mission.

When Kids Don't Listen to Their Parents

"To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."

George Bush Sr, in A World Transformed, 1998

Transgender Law Center Fundraiser - September 5, 2006

Transgender Law Center Presents: “A Movement in Motion”
California transgender civil rights organization celebrates 4 years of solid results

San Francisco, CA - August 15, 2006 – Forty years after the transgender community stood up to police harassment at Compton’s Cafeteria in the heart of San Francisco, the Transgender Law Center (TLC) brings community members, allies, clients, and policy makers to the Tenderloin on September 5th to celebrate our own four years of creating social change for transgender civil rights.

Hosted by Crash Nightclub, San Francisco’s newest hipster ultralounge, A Movement in Motion is TLC’s annual fundraising event. Recognizing that the seeds of TLC were planted at the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot and nurtured since then by thousands of transgender people throughout California, the event celebrates that past and energizes attendees for the work yet to be done.

A Movement in Motion comes at an important time for the transgender civil rights movement in California. From the dedication of a permanent plaque commemorating the Compton’s Riot on the street corner where it happened, to the adoption by the City and County of San Francisco of the Comprehensive Transgender Employment Initiative, to a nationally recognized conference on violence against transgender women and gay men, to the most transgender inclusive Pride parade in the country, the Summer of 2006 marks a turning point in the momentum of the movement.

As always, TLC will take time at the event to recognize individuals and organizations for the work they’ve done in getting the movement to this critical juncture. TLC is thrilled to feature Sister Mary Elizabeth as our Vanguard Awardee. Sister Mary Elizabeth was a driving force in establishing California as one of the most progressive states in the country in recognizing transgender people’s ability to get birth certificates and driver’s licenses that reflect their true identity. TLC will also be honoring Judy Van Maasdam, the Horizons Foundation, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, the Ark of Refuge, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Equality California.

Event Details:

A Movement in Motion, September 5th, 2006
6:30 – 8pm at Crash Nightclub, 34 Mason (at Market)

Tickets: $50, $100, $150 (available online at www.transgenderlawcenter.org/event2006  or by calling 415-865-0184). Lists of Sponsors, Event Captains, and Host Committee members are available at the above link.