Members of the Department joined the Pink Parade and the Annual Pride Parade.
Able Launch Party April 6th 6pm
Able Volume 3 has finished the final edits and is headed to print! Come celebrate the completion of the publication with us at the Able Vol. 3 Launch Party, in the Performance Lounge, located within the JDUC next to the Tim Horton's, on Saturday April 6th from 6:00-9:00 pm. Come and enjoy yourself as our lovely contributors share their work! There will be food and refreshments provided. Invite your friends!
P.S. Here's a link to the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/549105001788363/
Able's Mission:
Able will share the views and creative works of people with disabilities, invisible impairments, and chronic illness and pain at Queen's, along with some works from their allies. We will aim to explore the intersection of ability with other issues such as race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality as we examine how our varied bodies and abilities fit into our communities. By bringing together diverse voices of disability at Queen's, we hope to educate and to show solidarity.
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
Local Trans Social Network:
This network is a group of transgender individuals and their family members/supporters in the Kingston area who 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.
The group meets on alternate months. If you would like to be notified of future events, please contact: annew@cogeco.ca
Queen's new policy on gender-neutral washrooms - click here