*NEW* Living Trans Pride :: Workshop Series starts JAN. 13, 2012!
3 Art Spaces for trans, genderqueer and two-spirit youth up to age 29!
We invite you to participate in three 5-week workshop spaces created especially for you! Express how YOU live with Trans Pride through various art forms like: dancing, painting, writing, performing and set design!
No previous experience is necessary - all are welcome!
Workshop details:
Dance & Movement with ILL NANA
Every Friday from January 13- February 10
5-8pm @ the Sherbourne Health Centre
333 Sherbourne St., 2nd floor
Painting with SYRUS MARCUS WARE
Every Tuesday from February 28- March 27
6-9pm @ the Sherbourne Health Centre
333 Sherbourne Street, 2nd floor
Play: Writing, Performing and/or set design
With the LIVING TRANS PRIDE CREW
Every Friday from February 28- March 27
5-8pm @the Sherbourne Health Centre
333 Sherbourne Street, 2nd floor
All workshops are FREE to attend. Tokens and snacks will be provided.
The spaces and washrooms are wheelchair accessible.
For more info please contact livingtranspride@gmail.com
Or check out our blog! www.livingtranspride.tumblr.com
**** ASL interpretation is available - please register as soon as you know you are planning to attend the workshops!
This is a project of Supporting Our Youth at the Sherbourne Health Centre with much appreciated funding from ArtReach Toronto.
Living_Trans_Pride_workshops_poster.pdf
[RHN] No More Apologies: Queer Trans and Cis Women, Coming/Cumming Together! A FREE conference about social exclusion, sex, and sexual health
The Sex Talk Series presents…
No More Apologies:
Queer Trans and Cis Women, Coming/Cumming Together!
A FREE conference about social exclusion, sex, and sexual health
Saturday, January 21st • 2-7pm •
The TRANZAC
No More Apologies is a day-long sex talk, designed to name and address the exclusion of queer trans women from broader queer women’s sexual communities.
Social exclusion negatively impacts trans queer women’s sexual, emotional, and psychological health; meanwhile, by excluding trans women from our communities, cis queer women are missing out on a multitude of sexy, wonderful women to love, fuck, and connect with.
Join us for this long overdue conversation and call to action about how to transform our talk about trans inclusion into practice.
Because trans inclusion means more than including trans men in our communities.
Because trans inclusion means more than just saying “women and trans people” in our mission statements.
Because welcoming trans women into our spaces is not the same as welcoming them into our beds.
Because our actions are speaking louder than our words.
Workshop schedule:
· 2:00-2:45PM: “What we’re all here for”: Opening plenary by Drew DeVeaux
· 3:00-4:15PM: Brazen: A pleasure-based sexual health workshop for trans women and the folks who are into us, facilitated by Morgan M Page
· 4:30-5:30PM: Concurrent break-out sessions (facilitators TBA)
o Trans women talk: A discussion on experiences of exclusion in the queer women’s community
o Cis women talk: A discussion on trans women’s inclusion in the queer women’s community
· 6-7PM: Coming/cumming together: A dialogue between trans/cis queer women (Facilitators TBA)
· 9pm: Join us for Cum2GetHer, a post-conference dance party and the launch of BRAZEN: The Trans Women’s Safer Sex Guide, a new book from the 519 Church Street Community Centre. Hosted by Drew Deveaux! While the conference is only for queer trans and cis women, all are welcome to the party.
Things you should know:
· This conference welcomes both trans and cis women who have sex with women.
· The conference space is wheelchair accessible, and interpreter/attendant services can be made available upon request. TTC tokens will also be made available for conference attendees. Please let us know if there are any other ways that we can make this conference accessible for you!
· For the well-being of attendees with multiple chemical sensitivities, we ask that you please avoid wearing scented products like perfume, cologne, scented lotions, or any other chemical-based products to the event.
About the No More Apologies working group
The No More Apologies working group (Morgan Page, Mara Pereira, Savannah Garmon, Rebecca Hammond, and Kate Klein) is a group of queer trans and cis women who came together as part of the Sex Talk series to think of ways to fill the gaps in sexual health promotion for trans women who have sex with women. Special thanks also go to Terri Mathews and Sally Lewis for their contributions to the project.
To pre-register, or for more information, please contact Kate at kklein@ppt.on.ca
Please see the poster attached and share widely amongst your networks.
This event is part of “Sex Talk 2: A Sexual Health Workshop Series for LGBTQ Women”. Sex Talk is a project of Planned Parenthood Toronto, in partnership with the 519 Church Street Community Centre and Sherbourne Health Centre. Sex Talk 2 is generously funded by the Community One Foundation.
The Invisible Rainbow: A FREE workshop about sexual and reproductive health, by and for queer women of colour and gender nonconforming people of colour
The Sex Talk Series presents…
The Invisible Rainbow
A FREE workshop about sexual and reproductive health, by and for Queer Women of Colour and Gender Nonconforming People of Colour
Tuesday, January 24th• 6-9pm •
Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre (2 Carlton Street, Suite 500)
The Invisible Rainbow is an evening of creative dialogue on the subject of sexual and reproductive health in the lives of queer women of colourand gender nonconforming people of colour. The term ‘people of colour’ is used here to describe non-white people, other than Aboriginal peoples, who share a common experience of racism.Through facilitated discussion and digital storytelling, we will explore questions like: How do racism, xenophobia, homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia impact our health, our sex lives, and our relationship to our sexuality? How can the healthcare system be better meeting our needs? What’s missing from the dialogue on sexual and reproductive health, particularly when it comes to racialized newcomers, sex workers, HIV+ people, and gender nonconforming people?
Anybody who comes will be given the opportunity to tell their own stories of navigating their health and the healthcare system on film, and/or support others in telling their stories. Short films will be made as a group and based on our discussionsaround the following themes:
- “Let’s talk about sex”: Sexual health, consent, and communication
- Safe kink and sexual exploration
- Advocating for ourselves within the healthcare system
- Getting laid and “the ‘isms”
Things you should know:
- For the purposes of safety and anonymity, faces/names will not be shown in the films.
- Workshops are open to all queer women of colour, and gender nonconforming people of colour.
- Refreshments, as well as TTC tokens, will be provided.
- The workshop space is wheelchair accessible, and interpreter/attendant services can be made available upon request. Please let us know if there are any other ways that we can make this workshop more accessible for you!
- For the well-being of attendees with multiple chemical sensitivities, we ask that you please avoid wearing scented products like perfume, cologne, scented lotions, or any other chemical-based products to the workshop.
About the Invisible Rainbow working group:
The Invisible Rainbow working group is a group of queer women and trans Black people and People of Colour who came together as part of the Planned Parenthood Toronto Sex Talk series to think of ways to fill the gaps in sexual health promotion for queer, racialized women.
To register, or for more information, please contact Kate at kklein@ppt.on.ca!
Please see the poster attached and share widely amongst your networks.
The Invisible Rainbow is part of “Sex Talk 2: A Sexual Health Workshop Series for LGBTQ Women”. Sex Talk 2 is a project of Planned Parenthood Toronto, in partnership with the 519 Church Street Community Centre and Sherbourne Health Centre. Sex Talk 2 is generously funded by the Community One Foundation. The Invisible Rainbow is also supported by Women’s Health in Women’s Hands, Women’s College Hospital, and METRAC.
Roundtable on Supporting LGBTQ Young Muslims in the GTA Feb 7th
Do you work within LGBTQ organizations, grassroots movements or communities with Muslim populations?
Come be a part of the conversation, your voice is important
Join us to share your experiences, reflections and ideas for making our communities, schools and systems safer for LGBTQ young Muslims. The roundtable will be an opportunity for us to share informal and formal practices, polices, programming as well as the challenges and barriers we may face as frontline workers.
February 7 th 2011
1:00 – 3:00
Sherbourne Health Centre , 333 Sherbourne Street
2 nd Floor, Classroom
The Roundtable is co-presented by: The Young Muslim Women Accessing Safety Project, a project of the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic in collaboration with Supporting Our Youth and Pomegranate Tree Group.
For more information or to RSVP contact Farrah Khan f.khan@schliferclinic.com
