**This event is only open to folks who identify as a woman, as female, or along the transfeminine spectrum**
What would a transmisogynist-free lesbian community look like? What about inside of "queer" community?
Join Dee Wollstonecraft Michel for a facilitated workshop on Unpacking Transmisogyny in Queer Women's Spaces. In the workshop, we will discuss:
- The history of transmisogyny in lesbian and queer communities
- How to assess your identity and the ways you may be aversively (or overtly)...
**This event is only open to folks who identify as a woman, as female, or along the transfeminine spectrum**
What would a transmisogynist-free lesbian community look like? What about inside of "queer" community?
Join Dee Wollstonecraft Michel for a facilitated workshop on Unpacking Transmisogyny in Queer Women's Spaces. In the workshop, we will discuss:
- The history of transmisogyny in lesbian and queer communities
- How to assess your identity and the ways you may be aversively (or overtly) propping up transmisogyny
- Assessing your politic of desire: what is fetishization vs. recentering desire?
- Critiquing feminine emotional labor and masculine privilege within queer community
- What tools can we sharpen to make sure that we center trans women and transfeminine folks in our communities?
UPDATE: Agenda
1. Openning: Moment of silence for trans women we have lost.
2. Community agreements
a. Recognize expertise, step back when its not your experience
b. Expect lack of closure, strive for healing
c. WAIT - Why Am I Talking? Cis women and female assigned at birth folks, this is particularly important
d. Create a safe(r) space! Respect and hold what stays in the room.
e. This is facilitated by one, but is everyone's conversation!
*Community will add or subtract to agreements* :)
3. Activity 1: Identifying yourself, identifying transmiogny.
4. Activity 2: How transmisogyny functions in women's spaces, in lesbian spaces, in queer spaces.
5. Activity 3: Exploring women's community. What makes a trans woman-inclusive women's community? How can women support each other as anti-violence. What tools can we use to center trans women and make sure that others in our lives center trans women.
6. Closing and thank you's
Dee Wollstonecraft Michel is a white, anti-Zionist Ashkanazi Jew, a hard femme trans dyke, and acts as the HIV Services Manager and Transgender Services Coordinator at the St. James Infirmary -- a peer-based clinic for sex workers, their partners, and adolescent children. She has done social justice work for over 10 years in student movements, with queer youth, labor unions, anti-racist organizing, sex worker rights, and lesbian and trans women spaces.
Accessbility notes: The API Wellness Center is accessible by an elevator. Please strive to keep this event scent-free.
Capacity: The room capacity is 80 people, so if you plan on coming, please do so on the earlier side. We strive to start on time :)
