Trans Bodies, Trans Selves Forum Nov. 21
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If there is one thing transgender people agree on it’s that the medical establishment and general society are unfamiliar with trans issues, and that service providers tend to have trouble knowing how to help them. Soon there will be a new resource for trans people across North America, and Montréalers are being invited to contribute.
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Enter, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, a US-based project whose goal is to publish a resource guide on all things trans, from health and well-being, to legal, cultural, family, and social issues. The forum will involve opening presentations from out trans blogger and Montréal educator Jacky Vallée, Gabrielle Bouchard from Concordia’s 2110 Centre, and a member from ASTT(e)Q.
“I looked at the diversity of the people involved and brought it up to people in Montréal because of the people behind the project,” says co-organizer Jacky Vallée. The collective of writers behind the Trans Bodies, Trans Selves resource project is headed by American researcher Laura Erickson-Smith and includes San Francisco author and kinkster Patrick Califia and a host of other activist luminaries. The opinions and narratives gathered at the forum will be sent to the editors via the project’s Canadian liaison, FTM writer Jamison Green.
All trans-identified people, as well as their close friends, family members and allies, are invited to attend the forum, whose organizers specify is “inclusive of all trans identities and ways of being.”
Montréal’s Trans Bodies, Trans Selves Forum takes place Monday, November 21 from 7PM to 10PM at Centre St-Pierre, 1212 Panet Street.
FREE, with snacks, childcare and sign language (with 48 hour notice), as well as whisper translation.
RSVP to tbtsmontreal@gmail.com
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