Colour of Trans 2.0 is an evocative performance by trans activists Living Smile Vidya, Angel Glady and Gee Imaan Semmalar. It traces the experiences of the actors themselves through seven episodes and addresses particularity of trans experiences in India, livelihood, trans health care (or lack of it), acceptance from natal families, love, sexual violence, public violence, caste patriarchy and how it affects our lives and how we resist.
The performances mix the forms of cabar...et, monologues, clown theatre, commedia del arte, pathos, realism , film and theatre of the absurd. Colour of Trans 2.0 is for anyone interested in questions of self representation, trans activism, caste and new interventions in theatre.
Sponsored by
International Student Advisory Board (ISSAB), Global Studies, Gender Studies, and Student Health Services at The New School; South Asia Solidarity Initiative; Caaav: Organizing Asian Communities.
Deliberate Resistance: LGBT Prisoner Rights 20 Years After Farmer v. Brennan
Friday, November 14th
Jerome Greene Hall
Columbia Law School
435 W. 116th St. ...
Free and open to all.
Registration now open at deliberateresistance.eventbrite.com.
In 1994, the US Supreme Court upheld the right of prisoners to hold prison officials accountable for "deliberate indifference" to their safety. The case was brought by Dee Farmer, a transgender prisoner who experienced assault and abuse because of her gender identity. We commemorate Dee Farmer and all incarcerated persons who are resisting abusive and discriminatory practices in detention.
Deliberate Resistance will bring together advocates, grassroots activists, practitioners, criminal justice officials, lawyers, and scholars to discuss the legal legacy of Dee Farmer’s case, the movement to end sexual abuse in detention, housing and segregation, and health care for LGBT incarcerated persons.
Cosponsored by ACLU, Just Detention International, and the National Center for Transgender Equality.
The parliament of Kyrgyzstan is in the process of passing an anti-LGBTQI Law, so Mujhay Tumse Kuch Kehna Tha (a page dedicated to support LGBTQI community worldwide through their solidarity message campaigns https://www.facebook.com/MujhayTumseKuchKehnaTha…) is calling out the International LGBTQI community and allies for their messages to support our Kyrgyz community members. All you have to do is to write a message of support while putting #supportLGBTkg in it and send it to them at <mujhaytumsaykuchkehnahai@gmail.com>
Kindly submit and share in your networks
The USAID Democracy Fellows and Grants Program, managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE) is pleased to announce the following full-time fellowship position.
Democracy Fellow, LGBT Rights
The Institute of International Education (IIE) seeks applications from qualified individuals for a full-time Democracy Fellow to specialize in the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons (LGBT rights) in the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAI...D’s) Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG Center). The Democracy Fellow for LGBT Rights will support the realization of USAID’s LGBT Vision by working with a small Human Rights Sub-Team that is spearheading the mainstreaming of LGBT activities into the work of USAID worldwide. Overall objectives of this work are to support the design and implementation of initiatives to transform USAID’s approach to LGBT rights worldwide; review USAID programming (both DC- and Mission based, both stand-alone and components of larger programs) to ensure that it addresses LGBT issues; and enhance USAID/Washington communication with and outreach to USAID Missions worldwide on the protection and promotion of LGBT rights.
Full position description: http://www.iie.org/…/USAI…/Fellowship/Available-Fellowships…
Application Deadline: June 15, 2014, 11:59pm
Join us for a critical and dynamic conversation and screening on TB / HIV this Saturday, featuring prominent advocates, policy experts, and scholars in the field. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP at tuberculosisglobalhealth.eventbrite.com. See you there!
A must see film!
2014 SGAC Annual Conference
When: Friday, February 14th, 10:30 AM - Sunday, February 16th, 6:00 PM
Where: George Washington University, Washington D.C.
...Register for the conference here: https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/…/p/salsa/event/common/public/…
What: Join us for the 2014 SGAC Annual Conference to learn about current challenges to HIV treatment access, to build advocacy skills, and to bond with fellow student activists from around the country. We will create a strategy for the spring semester to hold leaders accountable in the fight to expand access to treatment and support those living with HIV and to ensure more robust infrastructure and health systems in expanding health equity worldwide. We will have the opportunity to hear from seasoned activists and those intimately involved in the world of global AIDS policy to build our skills as activists and gain knowledge about the systems in which we are working. We will also have the opportunity to strengthen our national network by learning from fellow students and working together to build a joint strategy going forward.
If you need travel assistance, please reach out to mythili@studentglobalaidscampaign.org
Please sign on! Via Tamara Oyola Santiago via Heiner Schulze --
At my university here in Germany (Humboldt University Berlin) queer people also recently started to organize (and are now officially part of the student government as so called "Referat"), but face a lot of resistance by the university leaders, who deny them rooms for events, give them restrictions for what they can do, etc. This applies to organized workshops, but even social mixers face resistance, and is part...ially based in homo- and transphobia.
The queer interest group wrote an open letter (unfortunately only in German) and asks for support.
I translate the appeal for the open letter (the open letter itself is much longer):
"Only since July exists the "Referat" for LGBTI people - the first time ever at Humboldt University. Already, after having had our first events, acts a part of the university government against us. Their argumentation is based from our perspective in a homo- and transphobic attitude. Due to this we ask all supporters to sign our open letter. It has been presented today for the first time in the university senate and will be send sometime next week as letter. Please contact us at lgbti@refrat.hu-berlin.de for your support and forward this open letter to friends, comrades, faculty and sisters.
The most recent version of the open letter can be found here: http://lgbti.blogsport.de/images/OffenerBrief.pdf"
Knowing that the fight for LGBTIQAGNC justice is transnational, I hoped that you'd maybe be willing to sign the open letter/declare solidarity and show some transatlantic solidarity for your queer siblings in Berlin. Of course forwarding it to other queer collectives is encouraged.
As we mark the 25th annual observance of World AIDS Day, we invite you to participate in a discussion on current trends in political, medical, and social action around HIV/AIDS. Panelists working in research, advocacy, policy, and program development will present local and international perspectives on access and barriers to HIV treatment and prevention. This will be followed by an open forum dedicated to the exchange of ideas on expanding and creating forms of access to univ...ersal prevention and treatment.
A panel of the AIDS quilt will be displayed in the lobby of 90 5th Avenue from December 2nd to December 6th.
This event is sponsored by Student Health Services, International Student Services, the Global Gender and Sexuality Project, and the Higher Education Opportunity Program at The New School.
Free and open to the public. Followed by a reception.
