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Boston TDOR Committee Transgender Equal Rights Coalition |
Saturday, Nov 12 - Sunday Nov 20, 2011 Dedicated to educating about transgender community and pressing issues facing trans people in Massachusetts, this week features events and educational opportunities statewide, hosted by MTPC and other org's and community groups. It culminates on November 20 with the Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDOR), a worldwide gathering of trans and allied communities to memorialize victims of anti-trans hatred or prejudice. TDOR honors Rita Hester, whose murder in Boston on Nov. 28, 1998 inspired the "Remembering Our Dead" web project and the first TDOR in San Francisco in 1999. Rita's murder, like most anti-trans murder cases, remains unsolved. Event PlanningMTPC encourages community members to suggest and plan events. To add your event or educational opportunity to the printed calendar, please email info@masstpc.org or call (617) 778-0519 by October 1st, 2011. Examples of events your group or organization could hold:
Online Calendar: Events will be regularly updated on the Transgender Awareness Week website calendar. If you will be hosting a Transgender Day of Remembrance event, please e-mail or call us with location and event information so we can publicize it on our website. Please check www.masstpc.org/dor for date & location of TDOR events. SponsorshipIf you're interested in sponsoring Trans Awareness Week, please contact gscott@massptc.org. |
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Transgender Awareness Week EventsFor more info or to add your event, email info@masstpc.org or call 617-778-0519 Friday Nov 11
Transcending Boundaries Conference: "Beyond the Binary"
Mass Mutual Center, Springfield
Saturday Nov 12Transcending Boundaries Conference (day 2)
Mass Mutual Center, Springfield
Telling Stories: Winning Trans Rights, Community Driven Media and Public Education 11 am - 12 noon, Gunner Scott and Maddie Collins This workshop will educate transgender people and our allies on how to advocate, represent, and speak for themselves in the media and how to create community driven media and public education. We will also update participants on status of the Transgender Equal Rights legislation on State and Federal levels. The goal of community driven media is to broaden the public's perception of the trans community, our families, friends, and allies. The workshop includes tips for talking with media, creating your own media, and a discussion about MTPC's multi-media public education campaign entitled "I AM: Trans People Speak." In the second part of this workshop, you will learn how you can participate, in making your own video, written story or audio piece for the "I AM: Trans People Speak" campaign. This campaign was created to educate the public about the lives of transgender youth, adults, families, and allies in order to reduce the amount of misunderstanding, stigma, discrimination, and violence that transgender people face and to advance equality and access. We will also provide assistance on how to use this project to benefit media makers on their own reporting on transgender issues and individuals.
Sunday, Nov 13Transcending Boundaries Conference (day 3)
Mass Mutual Center, Springfield
Transgiving Dinner
3 p.m., Northampton
Monday, Nov 14Documentary Screening: "Cruel & Unusual" 
Presented by TransCEND & MTPC 6 - 8 pm at AIDS Action Committee, 75 Amory St., Jackson Square in Jamaica Plain - near Jackson Square T stop Imagine being a woman in a men's prison. For many transgender individuals serving prison sentences, their placement is a horrible mistake, because the U.S. prison system decides where to place inmates based on their genitalia, not their gender identity. Ashley, Linda, Anna, Yolanda and Ophelia describe their experiences including rape, violence, solitary confinement and denial of medical care in Cruel and Unusual. Shot over three years, this high-definition documentary film challenges the viewer's basic ideas about gender and justice through braids of poignantly graphic stories, vibrant landscape portraits and stark prison footage from across the United States. Please call TransCEND for more information @ (617)450-1102 or -1103 F to eMbody Performance: Katastrophe and the Athens Boys Choir
8:00 pm, SOCH Cinema, Harvard College
Tuesday, Nov 15Nick Krieger, Reading from His Memoir, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender
7 pm, Food For Thought Books, 106 North Pleasant St., Amherst
Saving Our Lives: Preventing Suicide in Transgender Communities Video Launch Event At the Samaritans, Inc., 33 West Street. 4th Floor, Boston MA 02111 4-5 pm for Service Providers and 7-8 pm for Community Members The Transgender Suicide Prevention Working Group will launching a video series aimed at assisting community members in recognizing warning signs of suicide. The videos are based on the Transgender suicide prevention brochures and is designed for the transgender community, friends and family. The video can be viewed on line for free on the MTPC website starting November 15th and limited copies of the video will be available for sale $15 for community members and $25 for organizations. To RSVP please email Liana@masstpc.org with your name, time slot you wish to attend. For more information visit masstpc.org/events/taw/ The Transgender Suicide Prevention Working Group is made up of MTPC, Fenway Health, Samaritans, Inc., Mass DPH, and local community members. Phone Banking at MassEquality for Transgender Equal Rights MassEquality will be spending the week working to pass the Transgender Equal Rights Bill -- and you can help! Join us for a phone banking session in support of the bill. We hold them every Tuesday and Thursday night at our office from 6 to 9pm. During phone banks, we talk to constituents and transfer supporters of the bill directly to their lawmakers' voicemail boxes so they can leave messages in support of the bill. Call Justin at 617.878.2344 to sign up or send him an Justinlemley@massequality.org Labor For Transgender Worker Equality A breakfast for labor leaders and worker rights-friendly legislators sponsored by Jeff Crosby, President, North Shore Labor Council; Russ Davis, Executive Director, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice; Sumner Delaney, Treasurer, CWA Local 1400; Tony Fernandez, Regional President, Lavender Caucus/SEIU; Mark Govoni, Vice President, UFCW Local 1445; Cliff Cohn, President, SEIU Massachusetts State Council; Brian Lang, President, UNITE-HERE Local 26; Ron Patenaude, President, UAW Local 2322; Jennifer Springer, AFSCME Local 1526, Executive VP At-Large Massachusetts AFL-CIO. If you are a labor leader and/or a legislator and you would like to attend contact Jennifer Doe at (617) 524-8778 or Jennifer@massjwj.net Wednesday, Nov 16Author, Nick Krieger, reads from "Nina Here Nor There"
5:00-7:00, Askwith Hall, Harvard College
Faces of Gender @ Harvard - Portrait Project & Digital Archive Launch
7:30-9:00, Boylston Hall, Harvard College
Thursday, Nov 17Free Film Screening: Against a Trans Narrative, with filmmaker Jules Rosskam
7 p.m., Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, 220 Main St., Northampton
Documentary Screening: "Two Spirits" 
In support of Transgender Awareness Week the Violence Recovery Program and the Boundless series at Fenway Health present a community screening of this documentary
5:30-8:30pm at Fenway Health 10th Floor Auditorium
TWO SPIRITS interweaves the tragic story of a mother's loss of her son with a revealing look at a time when the world wasn't simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.
BAGLY Homecoming Calling All Homecoming Kings, Queens and In-betweens: Come Home to BAGLY! (or join us for the first time). No fuss, no muss evening. Come as you are and enjoy drinks, food, entertainment and no speechifying. 21+ Only. When and Where: Thursday, November 17th, 6-9pm, Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave., Boston
Tickets: BAGLY Alums 21-25: $15 advance, $20 door, entry and 2 drink tickets
To Purchase Tickets Visit www.bagly.org/homecoming
Phone Banking at MassEquality for Transgender Equal Rights MassEquality will be spending the week working to pass the Transgender Equal Rights Bill -- and you can help! Join us for a phone banking session in support of the bill. We hold them every Tuesday and Thursday night at our office from 6 to 9pm. During phone banks, we talk to constituents and transfer supporters of the bill directly to their lawmakers' voicemail boxes so they can leave messages in support of the bill. Call Justin at 617.878.2344 to sign up or send him an Justinlemley@massequality.org Friday, November 18MTPC Training: Working with Transgender Communities 11 am - 12:30 pm at 14 Beacon St, Boston MA MTPC will be providing a free introductory training, Working with Transgender Communities for organizations and service providers. Transgender people may face obstacles and barriers because of misunderstanding or lack of knowledge when trying to access services and resources. This workshop will provide cultural information about transgender communities. Topics to be covered:
This training is free, but space is limited to the first 25 people, please RSVP to jesseb@masstpc.org by Nov 15th to reserve your seat. For more information visit www.masstpc.org or call 617-778-0519. Transgender Awareness Week and this workshop is co-sponsored by The Network/La Red. Friday, November 18Sunday, November 20Worcester TDOR Interfaith Service Full Transgender Day of Remembrance ListingsPlease see Transgender Day of Remembrance Events. |
