Members of the Department joined the Pink Parade and the Annual Pride Parade.
The first production of Kingston's queer theatre company, Chipped Off Theatre Collective, "How to Bake a Pie in 10 Steps: A Transgender Fairytale" is running June 12-14th at 7:30pm in the Gordon Vogt Studio Theatre, Carruthers Hall, Queen's University. Here is their Facebook page for more information and sponsorship ideas: https://www.facebook.com/ChippedOffTheatreCollective
Please contact Melody (613)-449-0570 if you are interesting in hosting a fundraiser Pie Party for your friends.
The Department of Gender Studies is now co-sponsoring this project with Four Directions Aboriginal Student Center (http://www.queensu.ca/fdasc/index.html).This research project will consider Kingston in the context of its many diverse communities, particularly those commonly ignored in the tourist brochures. The research agenda is framed in terms of intersection of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, time and place.
"Men who Like Feminism"
This new campus group is affiliated with the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre (http://levanacentre.wordpress.com/) and welcomes all who want to start thinking critically about masculinity, identify as masculine, because of or regardless of gender, and want to learn more about feminism and healthy masculinity. For more info email: menwholikefeminism@gmail.com
TransFamily Kingston:
TransFamily Kingston is a group of transgender individuals and their family members and supporters in Kingston, Ontario. We have found that it can be very helpful to connect with other people who are on the same journey, either as a transgender person, or as a parent, sibling, spouse, child or friend of a trans person. This is not a professionally-run support group. It is a grassroots social network that seeks primarily to combat the loneliness and isolation often felt by trans people and those journeying with them.
http://www.transfamilykingston.com/
transfamilykingston@gmail.com
Queen's new policy on gender-neutral washrooms - click here