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An evening with
Kay Ulanday Barrett
Friday, 11/19 6:00 - 7:00 pm
NYU Welcome Center
50 West 4th St.
Kay Ulanday Barrettis a poet, performer, educator, and martial artist navigating life as a pin_y-amerikan trans/queer in the U.S. with struggle, resistance, and laughter. Ks work is the perfect mix of gritty city flex and Midwest open sky grounded in homeland soil. Join Kay for a night of poetry & performance for the closing of Trans Awareness Week 2010.
Radical and Responsible Gender
Thursday, 11/18 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Kimmel Center - Room 905/907
60 Washington Sq South
A workshop about reconstructing masculine and feminine identities by Sinclair Sexsmith, sex blogger and kinky queer butch top who writes the blog The Sugarbutch Chronicles.
Gender-Free Yoga
Monday, 11/15 11:30 - 1:00 pm
Kimmel Center - Room 606
Gender-Free Yoga is focused on finding calmness within us as we embrace and acknowledge the bodys strengths and beauty, regardless of gender identity or gender expression. Instructor Awilda RodrÃguez Lora will guide a dynamic and fluid yoga class where you will feed your being with energy, love and joy.
Please wear socks (no shoes or bare feet are allowed in the dance studio) and remember to bring your own yoga mat!
Documentary: Translatina
Wednesday, 11/17 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Kimmel Center - Room 602
An unflinching exploration into the harsh realities faced by transgender women in Latin America.
QUENCH:
Queer Geographies & Transtopic Performances
Wednesday, 11/17 12:30 - 1:45 pm
Queer + Free Lunch = QUENCH
Where do we locate radical gender? What literal and conceptual landscapes cultivate gender liberation? This talk asks how community manages, sustains and rejects inhabitants, and offers some examples of transgender-feminist performances, built environments and happenings that expand community formation. There will be a screening and discussion of the film Maggots and Men. We will explore the body politic of trans-feminist thought by thinking through restrictions placed on community and limitations placed on the body. We will work to identify moments of intellectual and political collaboration for lesbian, feminist, queer and transgender activism.
Queer Rican Performance:
An Evening with
Ignacio Rivera &
Awilda Rodriguez Lora
Monday, 11/15 6:00 - 10:00 pm
Kimmel Center - Room 802
Join Puerto Rican performers Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez Lora as they celebrate Trans Awareness Week and La Herencia Latina!
Dancer
by Ignacio Rivera
Solo performace about sex work, colonialism and gender identity. A dyke travels to Hawaii for the summer and finds herself stranded. With no place to stay, no money to eat, no one she knows and no jobs to be had, she must be a Dancer. Tattooed, masculine presenting, and dancing for interesting tourists, the dyke continues to question her gender identity. He transitions in the middle of it all and issues of internalized oppression, sexuality and body image emerge.
I Wanted to be a Cheerleader But My Cuntry Didnt Have It
by Awilda Rodriguez Lora
Multimedia performance about identity, family and intimacy. A multimedia solo performance that tells the story of a queer Puerto Rican woman struggling to understand herself in relationship to her parents and body. The performance combines postmodern dance with experimental media to explore life-changing, humorous and intimate moments.
Documentary: Southern Comfort
Tuesday, 11/16 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Southern Comfort is a heartbreaking documentary following the last year of the life of Robert Eads, a trans man with ovarian cancer living in the South. Having been refused treatment by multiple doctors who feared that treating a transgender patient would harm their reputations, Roberts health begins to fail just as he finds himself falling in love with a transgender woman named Lola.
Trans Health and Resources in NYC
Thursday, 11/18 12:30 - 1:45 pm
Join us for lunch and a discussion about health, wellness, and the difficulties that transgender and gender non-conforming people face in the health care system. Representatives from the Gender Identity Project and the Callen-Lorde Community Health Centerwill be present to discuss health and wellness resources available to trans people living in New York City.
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Friday, 11/19 7:00 - 9:30 pm
NYC LGBT Center
208 W 13th Street
Join the Gender Identity Projectin reflecting on the lives of community members weve lost to oppression, stigma, and violence. The event will include a candlelight vigil through the neighborhood, a moment of silence, and a chance for leaders, activists, and other members of the community to speak.
Safe Schools and Gender Identity with Pauline Park
Tuesday, 11/16 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Kimmel Center - Room 803
Join Pauline Park, chair of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), for a workshop on how we can make schools as well as colleges and universities safe spaces for everyone, regardless of gender identity or expression.
11/15
11:30 am - 1:00 pm Kimmel 606
Queer Rican Performance
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Kimmel 802
11/16
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Kimmel 602
Safe Schools and Gender Identity
with Pauline Park
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Kimmel 803
11/17
QUENCH: Queer Geographies
& Transtopic Performances
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm Kimmel 602
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Kimmel 602
11/18
Trans Health & Resources in NYC
Radical & Responsible Gender
with Sinclair Sexsmith
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Kimmel 905/907
11/19
Closing Performance:
An evening with Kay Ulanday Barrett
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm NYU Welcome Center
Vigil: Transgender Day of Rememberance
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm NYC LGBT Center
SOUTHERN COMFORT
Highlighting a variety of trans voices and experiences, Trans Awareness Week is a series of programs and events aimed at raising public awareness and understanding of transgender and gender non-conforming identities and issues.
All events are free and open to the public with valid photo ID
Please contact
Ellis Locke:
eml345_nyu.edu
NYU Kimmel Center
Office of LGBT Student Services
60 Washington Square South 602
New York, NY 10012
