Trans Week of Remembrance

Trans week is over for 2009. If you have any comments to contribute or any advice for next year, contact the Campus Center at uwlgbtcc@gmail.com

All events are open to allies.

Community Building and Campus Climate Talk Circle
Monday Nov 16, 6pm, LGBT Campus Center, Memorial Union
Discuss the current state of the UW-Madison/greater Madison trans community and how to improve visibility and solidarity. Share stories, voice ideas and concerns, and create connections.

Diagnosing Difference Movie
Tuesday, Nov 17, 5pm, On Wisconsin Room, Red Gym
Diagnosing Difference is a full-length length documentary featuring interviews with 13 diverse scholars, activists, and artists who identify on the trans spectrum (transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, and gender variant) about the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) on their lives and communities.

Eli Clare Lecture
Wednesday, Nov 18, 7 pm, Play Circle, Memorial Union
Disabled people, trans people, fat people, and people of color all know what it's like to be stared at. Through words and images, Eli explores the internal experiences of living in marked bodies and the external meanings of oppression and bodily difference.

Trans Monologues and Vigil Co-sponsored by Ten Percent Society
Friday, Nov 20, 6 pm, A Room of One's Own, 307 W Johnson St
The Trans Monologues are a night of theater, poems, songs, monologues, and all other creative expressions of transgender identities. Join the LGBT Campus Center and Ten Percent Society for a powerful evening of performance. Following the Monologues, we will be holding a vigil to remember and honor members of the community who have lost their lives. (Ryka Aoki de la Cruz will be speaking at the monologues and the vigil.)

Trans People of Color Film Festival Co-sponsored by QPOC
Saturday, Nov 21, 4 pm, LGBT Campus Center, Memorial Union
Back-to-back showings of Cruel and Unusual, Still Black, and Paris is Burning.

Cruel and Unusual: Women, transgender women such as Ashley, Linda, Anna, Yolanda and Ophelia, are incarcerated in men's prisons across the U.S. from Wyoming to New Jersey and Florida. Denied medical and psychological treatment, victims of rape and violence, the documentary Cruel and Unusual asks if the punishment for their crime is indeed cruel and unusual?

Still Black: a portrait of black transmen, is an alternative feature-length documentary that explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. Through the intimate stories of their lives as artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers, and teachers, the film offers viewers a complex and multi-faceted image of race, sexuality and trans identity.

Paris is Burning: An unblinking behind the scenes story of Harlem's underground drag-ball circuit. Follow the houses and Queens who created "voguing" and drag balls , and turned these raucous celebrations into a powerful expression pf personal pride.

Trans Resource Display
Throughout the week, 9am-5pm, LGBT Campus Center, Memorial Union
This resource display will have information on trans icons, reading materials, films, statistics, local resources, and information on violence experienced within the trans community.