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Trans Empowerment Week

Here is the list of all the events happening around Trans Empowerment Week. You will also see instructions on how to rsvp or links to the event invite. If you would like to be updated about any of these events send an email to psutrc@gmail.com and I will send you updates and reminders! Youc an also call the QRC at 503-725-9742

11/15: Trans 101 workshop for students
1-3pm Room 426 (Advising Room)
This workshop is open to all students of any knowledge level around issues affecting transgender communities, any student in any major could benefit from this workshop. This is a safe space to get your questions answered and your thoughts articulated. We will complete a few exercises to expand our vocabularies and understandings of gender, sex and sexual orientation. Then, we will complete case studies to think through how to competently and effectively interact with transgender people and communities.
~. Limited Space Please RSVP by emailing psutrc@gmail.com

11/16: Tours of the new (attempting to be) Trans Friendly Rec Center. 10:30am & 4pm at the Rec Center 1800 SW 6th Avenue
~Learn to use equipment and find the gender neutral showers and changing rooms.

11/17 Trans 101 workshop for faculty
11:30-1pm Room 433 (Dean’s Office)
This workshop is open to any staff or faculty of any knowledge level around issues affecting transgender communities. This is a safe space for staff and faculty to get their questions answered. We will complete a few exercises to expand our vocabularies and understandings of gender, sex and sexual orientation. Then, we will complete case studies with a special focus on gender-related issues as they appear in Portland State classrooms and work-spaces .
~Limited Space Please RSVP by emailing psutrc@gmail.com

11/19 Writing workshop with Smitty.
5-6pm QRC: Room 401 Smith Memorial Student Union
(1825 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon 97201-3256)
~This will be a writing prompt based, positive feedback workshop dealing with issues around gender and sexuality. Limited Space Please RSVP by emailing psutrc@gmail.com

Open Mic Featuring Tash Shatz, Smitty Buckler and More.
6pm PSU Multicultural Center: Room 228 Smith Memorial Student Union (1825 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon 97201-3256)
~ Bring a piece or two to read! Please RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131052703616793

A reading of Six Billion Utopia
8pm PSU Multicultural Center: Room 228 Smith Memorial Student Union (1825 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon 97201-3256)
~A reading of Six Billion Utopias: a collaborative performance about gender and mental health, created by Taiga Christie Please RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131052703616793

11/20 Remembrance Vigil and Event
6pm Hoffman Hall: 1833 SW Eleventh, Portland, Oregon 97201
~Featuring Tobi Hill-Meyer, Gepetta and the CoG Acrobats and ‘Doing It Ourselves’ an adult film. Please RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156375177737959

11/21 Trans Day of Empowerment
10am -5pm QRC:Room 401 Smith Memorial Student Union
(1825 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon 97201-3256)
Workshops on Anti-Oppression, Theatre of the Oppressed,
(addressing a ways to be an ally to transpeople and how to be an ally for yourself.) Limited Space Please RSVP by emailing psutrc@gmail.com

11/21 Tranz Guyz
6-8pm, The Q Center, 4115 N Mississippi Ave.
Tranz Guys is an inclusive trans-masculine & gender queer discussion/social support group for people assigned female gender at birth, but who no longer identify as such.

11/23 7:00pm – 8:30pm The Q Center, 4115 N Mississippi Ave.
Join Basic Rights Oregon and The Q Center for an exciting evening with Mara Keisling, Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, and Lisa Mottet, Transgender Civil Rights Project Director at the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170761892943787&index=1

11/24: A Trans People of Color Panel
TBA

11/29: Linfield College of Nursing is having Trans Health Awareness Day ! Lunch at noon, Speaker Panel at 1 pm includes Zan Gibbs, Jose Miguel, Dr. Suzanne Scopes, and Sol Greenblatt! 2255 NW Northrup.

Additional information can be found at: http://qrc.pdx.edu/
Map of campus: http://www.fap.pdx.edu/floorplans/

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