Seminar by UW Moris Women’s Center: Safety Across Genders (2/15/24)
Posted: 2/8/2024 ()
Join the UW Moris Women’s Center for its seminar on Thursday, Feb. 15th from 3:30-5:00 PM in the Allen Library auditorium, co-sponsored by CSDE. Seminar speakers will include nikkita oliver, Ebo Barton, Randy Ford, Akoth Ombaka, whose conversation will establish a shared understanding of the threats to gender diverse and intersex communities, along with ways that campus leaders can support them. Learn more about the event in the full story and on the event page.
Description: The world is not safe for trans and gender diverse community members. We must do everything within our power to build safer, welcoming, protective, inclusive, and gender affirming spaces for all. Trans youth and trans women are disproportionately impacted by mass incarceration. Trans youth are dying at exponential rates from death by suicide. Black trans women are living under threat of violence daily. All trans people are being denied gender affirming care and have their existence and safety legislated away (Herring and Widra, 2022; CDC, 2023; Keller, 2023).
The goal of this workshop is to support campus leaders (faculty, staff, administrators, student leaders, and students) and develop a shared understanding of the safety issues and marginalization suffered daily by gender diverse and intersex communities, especially trans women, and what we can do to support them. Join this workshop and conversation where nikkita oliver, community organizer/attorney/educator, will be in conversation with Randy Ford, Executive Director of Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas, Ebo Barton, poet and Director of Housing Services at the Lavender Rights Project, and Akoth Ombaka, finance and operation professional, to share diverse insights and stories on what it means to be trans in the US.