Our Projects

Trans/Gender Group Activities Spring 2007:

Brought Matt Kailey, author of Just Add Hormones, who talked about the imporantance of gender/trans activism and held an informal book signing.
Brought David Jay, wesgrad and founder of asexuality.org (the biggest asexuality site in the world) who gave us an asexuality 101, talked to us about chalking, and was generally awesome.
Hosted a Politics of Hair Discussion, round 2
Several people went to the Interecting Identities conference at UVM.
Brought Erin Remick and her amazing documentary “Embodied Revolution” on all different kinds of body activism.
Hosted a talk on Intersecting Identities
Hosted a talk on “Where Did All the Trannies Go”?

Several people went to the Transcending Boundaries conference in Worcester
We celebrated Intersex Awareness Day with human billboards, an awesome pamphlet on intersex facts, realities, and needs
Made a great installation in the Campus Center bathrooms for Trans Remembrance Day
Showed the Movie “The Aggressives”

Hosted a discussion on the politics of hair!
Brought Judith/Jack Halberstam, the author of Female Masculinity, The Drag King Book, etc. Ze talked about “Trans-Hegemony: Transgender Politics in aGlobal Frame.”
Showed the movie “Beautiful Boxer”
Had tons of meetings about gender neutral housing
SWAB (Survey of Wesleyan Accessibility to Bathrooms) happened! A full day event with free awesome shirts that we ran out of within a couple of hours, tons of students running around measuring/checking out bathrooms, and compiling info on every bathroom at Wes!
Got gender neutral housing approved for the upcoming year!!!!

Hosted Trans Tea with Tea and Cookies and the cleverest name EVER
Made a great installation in the Campus Center bathrooms for Trans Remembrance Day
Showed the movie “Southern Comfort”
Had tons of meetings about gender neutral housing
Planned for SWAB (Survey of Wesleyan Accessibility to Bathrooms

wrote a letter to all faculty members about gender-neutral pronouns and respecting trans and gender-variant students.
Organized a slam poetry reading for April, at which Jaclyn Friedman and Letta Neely performed.
Co-sponsored two body image discussions in April.
Brought Scott Turner Schoefield “Underground TRANSit” to campus. Turner also did a workshop on “Performing the Personal as Political,” co-sponsored with the Environmental Organizer's Network.
Screened the film "Toilet Training" and held a well-attended discussion about gender-neutral bathrooms on campus
finally got a gender-neutral bathroom in the Athletic Center!
continued work towards a gender-neutral bathroom in the Campus Center.

Organized students and alumns to protest the cancellation of gender-neutal housing.
Successfully passed a gender-neutal housing WSA Resolution.
Trans Day of Remembrance bathroom art installation.
movies, discussions, and more.

continued work with Davison Health Center to make good, gender-sensitive health care easier to access. Some members worked with the Trans Health Committee; they and others had dinner with trainer Samuel Laurie before he trained the Health Center staff.
wrote and produced much of the queer 'zine passed out at Wesfest. Copies are available in the QRC.
sponsored a Drag Workshop in April.
worked with the April Planning Committee to coordinate activities for April
worked with URLC, WSA, and Queer Task Force to set up a new gender-neutral housing system, in which all gender-neutral housing can happen anywhere on campus, not just on the gender-blind floor.
brought in Bear of http://www.expostpapa.com to present his show during April.

tabled at the activities fair at the beginning of the year
four students attended the Transcending Boundaries conference at UMass Amherst, a bi/trans/intersex conference.
some students had the chance to have dinner with Jennifer Finney Boylan, a Wesleyan graduate and the author of “She’s Not There: a Life in Two Genders.” Ms. Boylan spoke at Russell House for an overflowing crowd; the Office of Behavorial Health and the Writer’s Workshop co-sponsored her lecture.
Trans Remembrance Day art installation, Vespers memorial service and art project, two discussions, and a night of trans short films.
three well-attended gender workshops in mainly first-year dorms.

Led gender workshops as a part of the First Year Matters series as well as a gender workshop at the Queer Retreat
Worked with the Queer Task Force to add gender identity/expression to Wesleyan’s non-discrimination policy
Organized an art installation in the campus center bathrooms for National Trans Remembrance Day
Wrote a trans monologue for the Vagina Monologues
Helped bring trans-identified speakers to campus, like Dean Spade and Pauline Parks
Helped in the creation of the gender-blind hall in Nic 6.
Served as a source of support for trans and gender-variant students on campus,as well as a site of visibility