Transgender Awareness Week: November 14-18, 2011

 

 

For this year's Transgender Awareness Week we have an AMAZING line-up of artists, academics, interactive workshops and multimedia.  

Mark your calendars and bring your friends to help raise awareness about transgender identities, and issues affecting transgender communities!

If you identify as transgender, gender non-conforming or are questioning your gender identity, check out T-Cal: http://geneq.berkeley.edu/geneq_student_groups#tcal.  

Questions?  Contact Marisa at mboyc@berkeley.edu. 

 

 

 

 

Transgender Day of Remembrance and Celebration 2011

Monday, November 14, 2011
Time: 12-1:30pm
Location: Memorial Glade, in front of Doe Library

To commemorate a week of events to increase awareness of transphobia, and violence against members of transgender and gender-nonconforming communities, we will begin Transgender Awareness Week with Transgender Day of Remembrance. First started in 1998, Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) raises awareness and gives visibility to the violence that transgender and gender-nonconforming communities endure and those who lost their lives as a result of such discrimination. Join us out on Memorial Glade to remember those who have lost their lives due to anti-transgender violence and to recognize those who continue to shape the work that the transgender community does to raise awareness and increase equality.

 Questions? Contact Sanjana at sbijlani@berkeley.edu.

“Beautiful Daughters” Film Screening and Q&A

Monday, November 14, 2011
Time: 5:00-7:00
Location: 203 Wheeler

“Beautiful Daughters” is about the creation of an all-transgender production of “The Vagina Monologues” as well as the creation of the monologue  about transgender women. In the documentary, members of the cast share their experiences with the production and in navigating their personal experiences with transitioning. Following the film, join us for a discussion about transgender communities and “The Vagina Monologues” with the Production Team of this year’s UC Berkeley show. 

Join us to watch the film and then have a discussion about transgender communities and the Vagina Monologues with Production Team of this year’s UC Berkeley show!

Questions? Contact Sanjana at sbijlani@berkeley.edu.

 

Transgender 101 Workshop

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Time: 7:30 – 9:00
Location: 101 Wheeler

Interested in learning more about transgender identities and related issues? Come check out this workshop facilitated by GenEq Peer Educators and hosted by the Queer Straight Alliance!

The workshop offers a great opportunity to begin a conversation about what it means to identify as transgender, and how the nuances shape the way we perceive gender and sex. Finding the words to describe what is innate and true to the way in which a part of our community lives and identifies, is the first part of engaging in an important dialogue. GenEq Peer Educators have worked to create a workshop that gives everyone the opportunity to be in a safe space, to ask questions, and learn more about what it means to identify as transgender.

Sponsored by the Gender Equity Resource Center and the Queer Straight Alliance.

Questions?  Contact Marisa at mboyce@berkeley.edu.

Day in the Life of  Queer Person of Color (QPOC) - WorldPremiere!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Time: 6:00 – 8:00
Location: 200 Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multicultural Community Center

As a collaboration between the Multicultural Community Center and the Gender Equity Resource Center, this video project aims to make visible the stories, struggles, and victories of queer people of color (QPOC) on the UC Berkeley campus. The participants of this project were able to develop all of the necessary skills to write, shoot, and edit an original short film.

The Screening will be followed by a series of discussions regarding the filmmaking process and next steps. Funded in part by Innovation Grants, which "are meant to encourage new and sustainable projects to promote equity, inclusion, and diversity at UC Berkeley campus*," this project also looks to not only create community among QPOC and space for the stories of QPOC to be told, but we must also find ways to keep all of our communities and the University accountable to those folks who's stories are so often marginalized, exploited, or made invisible under a definition of diversity that holds no real substance. As a community building activity we hope to encourage attendees to think critically about the intersections of their identities, both privileged and oppressed, in order to commit to standing in solidarity with one another in the struggle for liberation.

We hope you can join us in celebrating this year long process and take the opportunity to engage with us so that we can continue to build and maintain a positive learning space. Dessert and refreshments will be provided! Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=229124887149463 Questions contact: mayra gonzalez at m.a.gonzalez323@gmail.com

GenEq discussion groups QPOC Together and ENVISION (which overlap with the screening) will meet in GenEq from 5:30-6pm and then go together to the screening.

*http://diversity.berkeley.edu/innovationgrants  

Questions? Contact Antmen at antmen.mendoza@gmail.com

“Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary” – Book Reading and Q&A

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Time: 5:00-7:00
Location: Gender Equity Resource Center (202 Chavez)

Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary is a collection of short stories that offers a variety of perspectives about what it means to navigate transgender identity as it shapes and informs sexual relationships. The book and its contributors provide visibility to a particular aspect of transgender identity that is often unexplored in literature. Refreshing, honest and sincere, the stories convey the complexity and difficulty of finding a way to live in the intersection of their identities. 

Join us for readings from the book’s editor, Morty Diamond, and a contributor, poet activist Julia Serrano. Both will join us for readings and a Q&A session about their experiences as writers and activists within the transgender community!

Questions? Contact Katherine at katherinemullin@berkeley.edu.

 

 

Rethinking Transphobia and Power - Beyond a Rights
Framework:  A Conversation with Dean Spade

Friday, November 18, 2011
Time: 3:00-5:00
Location: 554 Barrows

Participants will discuss excerpts from Dean's new book, A Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law.  Participants can download an excerpt from the CRG website: http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/normal-life

Currently on the faculty of Seattle University, Dean has taught classes related to sexual orientation and gender identity law and law and social movements at Williams Institute at UCLA Law School, Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School. Dean was recently awarded a Dukeminier Award for his 2008 article "Documenting Gender" and the 2009-2010 Haywood Burns Chair at CUNY Law School, and was selected to give the 2009-2010 James A. Thomas Lecture at Yale.  Widely considered the leading legal scholar on transgender issues, he will be discussing excerpts from his new book A Normal Life, available from South End Press.  http://www.southendpress.org/2010/items/87965

In addition to his path-breaking work in legal studies, Dean Spade is the founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (www.srlp.org), a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. SRLP also engages in litigation, policy reform and public education on issues affecting these communities and operates on a collective governance model, prioritizing the governance and leadership of trans, intersex, and gender variant people of color. 

This event is sponsored by the Gender and Women's Studies Department, the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program, the Center for Race and Gender, and the Gender Equity Resource Center.