[Tsa] Trans Awareness Week at Yale

[Julian Padilla]

*The 5th Annual Transgender Awareness Week at Yale!*


The LGBT Student Cooperative at Yale presents...

The 5th Annual Transgender Awareness Week @ Yale

December 1st - 6th, 2007

Sat, Dec 1st
10pm-1am
Drag Ball
Ezra Stiles Dining Hall
(Located behind the Yale Bookstore at 19 Tower Parkway, New Haven)

10pm: Student and Professional Drag Performances featuring All The  
Kings Men
11pm-1am: Drag Dance!

Kick off the week with an evening of performance and dancing...all in  
drag!

Open to all!
*Free with a Yale ID / $3 Regular Admission

Co-sponsored by The Joint Events Funding Committee, The Women's  
Center, Ya!Lesbians, and The LGBT Co-op

Any amateurs/students interested in performing during the Drag Ball,  
please email anna.wipfler at yale.edu <mailto:anna.wipfler at yale.edu>

Sun, Dec 2nd
4pm
Trans on Trans: A Panel Discussion
Yale Women's Center
(Located next to Durfee's at 198 Elm St)

In this panel discussion of "trans-on-trans" sex and sexuality, trans- 
identified panelists will share their thoughts and experiences with  
trans-trans relationships, sex, sexual identity, etc.

Panel moderated by Loren Krywanczyk ('06)

Co-sponsored by The Women's Center, Women's Gender & Sexuality  
Studies, Ya!Lesbians, and The LGBT Co-op

Mon, Dec 3rd
7pm
Screening of Call Me Malcolm
Neibuhr Hall, Yale Divinity School (409 Prospect St)
*Screening will be followed by a group discussion

Call Me Malcolm (90 min) is a documentary feature about a transgender  
seminary student and his struggle with faith, love, and gender  
identity. He travels across the country visiting with many people  
along the way, each of whom have a different perspective on the  
issues of identity, faith, and love.

Sponsored by The LGBTQA Coalition


Tues, Dec 4th
4:30pm
Pauline Park, Transgender Health: Reconceptualizing Pathology as  
Wellness
WLH 309
(3rd Floor of William L. Harkness Hall, on corner of Wall & College  
at 100 Wall St.)

Pauline Park (www.paulinepark.com <http://www.paulinepark.com>) is  
chair of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy  
(NYAGRA), the first statewide transgender advocacy organization in  
New York (www.nyagra.com <http://www.nyagra.com>), which she co- 
founded in June 1998. She has written widely on LGBT issues and has  
conducted transgender sensitivity training sessions for a wide range  
of social service providers and community-based organizations. She  
was the first openly transgendered person to serve as grand marshal  
of the New York City Pride March, in June 2005.

Co-sponsored by Phagocytes and The LGBT Co-op


Tues, Dec 4th
Trans Film Festival
8pm
Screening of "Lipstick" by Michael Nedelman ('08)
8:15pm
Screening of Toilet Training
8:30pm
Screening of Transparent
WLH 309
*Snacks and soft drinks will be provided!


"Lipstick" is a short experimental film by Yale senior, Michael  
Nedelman, which he created for his final project in Postwar Queer  
Avant-Garde Film, about his research on transgender sex workers in  
Argentina.

Toilet Training (30 min), a documentary video and collaboration  
between transgender videomaker Tara Mateik and the Sylvia Rivera Law  
Project, addresses the persistent discrimination, harassment, and  
violence that people who transgress gender norms face in gender  
segregated bathrooms. Using the stories of people who have been  
harassed, arrested or beaten for trying to use bathrooms, Toilet  
Training focuses on bathroom access in public space, in schools, and  
at work.

Transparent (61 min) is a new documentary film about 19 female-to- 
male transsexuals living in the U.S. who have given birth and, in all  
but a few stories, gone on to raise their biological children.  
Through these extraordinary men, the film challenges the ways that we  
relate to one another, particularly within our immediate families,  
based on gender.

Co-sponsored by LGBT Studies and The LGBT Co-op


Wed, Dec 5th
6pm
Experiences in CT Transgender Advocacy: A Panel Discussion
Yale Law School, Room 122
(127 Wall St.)
*Pizza dinner will be provided at the start

Moderated by Jerimarie Liesegang, of the CT TransAdvocacy Coalition,  
this panel will reflect on past, present, and future work on (trans) 
gender rights going on in Connecticut.

Panelists include:
Sally Tamarkin, Member of the Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition
Rep Mike Lawlor, CT State Rep in 99th Assembly District
Atty Dru Levasseur, MA Lawyer and Trans-Advocate
Atty Rachel Goldberg, Stamford Lawyer and Gender Rights Activist

Co-sponsored by OutLaws, CT TransAdvocacy Coalition, and The LGBT Co-op


Wed, Dec 5th
9pm
Trans Film Festival
Screening of TransGeneration - Episodes I-II
Branford College Common Room
(Enter Branford College through the York St. gate across from the  
Yale University Theater)
*Snacks and soft drinks will be provided!

TransGeneration is an eight episode documentary series depicting the  
lives of four transgender college students during the 2004-2005  
school year as they attempt to balance college, their social lives,  
and their families while transitioning.

Co-sponsored by LGBT Studies and The LGBT Co-op


Thurs, Dec 6th
4pm
Joanne Meyerowitz, A Different History of Gender
Office of International Student Services (OISS, 421 Temple St.)
*Talk will be followed by a reception

In this informal lecture presentation, Yale Professor Joanne  
Meyerowitz will give an overview of her work on the history of  
transsexuality and gender identity in the U.S.

Joanne Meyerowitz is a Professor of History and American Studies at  
Yale University. She is the author of How Sex Changed: A History of  
Transsexuality in the United States (2002). Her areas of teaching are  
twentieth-century US history, women, gender, and sexuality.

Co-sponsored by LGBT Studies and The LGBT Co-op


Thurs, Dec 6th
Trans Film Festival
8pm
Screening of Red Without Blue
WLH 309
*Snacks and soft drinks will be provided!

A heartbreaking, but ultimately optimistic, look at the tribulations  
of growing up gay and transgender in rural Montana, Red Without Blue  
(77 min) chronicles the relationship between identical twins Mark and  
Alex as Alex undergoes a transformation into a woman named Clair and  
the two are separated by family turmoil.

Co-sponsored by LGBT Studies and The LGBT Co-op