Trans Awareness Week: Space for Everyone!
Alexandra Burt
Issue date: 11/3/05 Section: Opinion
Smith College will be seeing stars from November 6 through 13, part of Tangent's Trans Awareness Week campaign to raise community understanding of trans issues and experiences. The stars will represent the week's theme, "In the Gender Universe, There's Space for Everyone!" Tangent, Smith's trans advocacy and education org, encourages people to think about gender not as an oppositional binary, or even a spectrum, but as a universe. This understanding of gender is much more inclusive; there are as many ways to express and experience gender as there are people. The universe is three dimensional, limitless, and expanding, as our conception of gender should be.
For all of Trans Awareness Week, Tangent will be tabling in the Campus Center. Starry ribbons will be available for members of the community to show their support for Trans Awareness Week. Paper stars with an explanation of the week's theme will be given out. Be sure to display yours in a prominent location! Everyone is welcome to join Tangent on Monday for a facilitated community dialogue about gender and beyond in the Campus Center at 4 p.m. Check out the annual Bathroom Gallery in the first floor Seelye restroom! Tuesday night, beginning at 7 p.m. in Seelye 106, there will be a film screening with snacks and prizes. Meet on the Campus Center steps at 4 p.m. on Wednesday for a Speak Out, and stick around for a new and improved Gender and Trans 101 Workshop in Davis Ballroom at 4:30 p.m.
students in engineering.
Next, the Howard University Choir performed at Helen Hills Hills Chapel, in memoriam of Otelia Cromwell, who had transferred to Smith from the traditionally black university.
On Wednesday, Claire Smith '06 led a discussion on race, class and social justice, which was followed by a presentation of artwork at the Smith College Museum of Art. Also, Katie Cannon, professor of ethics at Union Seminary, spoke on the topic of "Theorizing the Personal: Zora Neale Hurston and the Ruby McCollum Trial."
For all of Trans Awareness Week, Tangent will be tabling in the Campus Center. Starry ribbons will be available for members of the community to show their support for Trans Awareness Week. Paper stars with an explanation of the week's theme will be given out. Be sure to display yours in a prominent location! Everyone is welcome to join Tangent on Monday for a facilitated community dialogue about gender and beyond in the Campus Center at 4 p.m. Check out the annual Bathroom Gallery in the first floor Seelye restroom! Tuesday night, beginning at 7 p.m. in Seelye 106, there will be a film screening with snacks and prizes. Meet on the Campus Center steps at 4 p.m. on Wednesday for a Speak Out, and stick around for a new and improved Gender and Trans 101 Workshop in Davis Ballroom at 4:30 p.m.
students in engineering.
Next, the Howard University Choir performed at Helen Hills Hills Chapel, in memoriam of Otelia Cromwell, who had transferred to Smith from the traditionally black university.
On Wednesday, Claire Smith '06 led a discussion on race, class and social justice, which was followed by a presentation of artwork at the Smith College Museum of Art. Also, Katie Cannon, professor of ethics at Union Seminary, spoke on the topic of "Theorizing the Personal: Zora Neale Hurston and the Ruby McCollum Trial."