==>Trans Film Night: "Paper Dolls"
==>Free Film! Free Snacks! Free Talk!

The Trans Film Screening Series hosts a FREE screening of:
"PAPER DOLLS"

Everyone welcome. Allies welcome.

Gender is a fundamental concept for radical communities yet it is often overlooked. Folks working on campaigns that aren't focused on gender can assume that their particular understanding is shared in a group and the notion of gender goes unexplored. There's also not one real primer to get a radical understanding of gender. Books accepted as par de course in academia (Judith Butler) are far from accessible to folks unfamiliar with complex jargon.

This two hour long workshop outline uses group activities to illustrate gendered intersections in the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). A lot of the activities are about deconstructing images around gender and the PIC, which can either be the ones suggested in the outline or entirely different images that activists have created or seen before. This workshop includes:

Icebreakers

Definitions

Picture activities

Facts behind the image

Conclusion

This facilitator's guide contains several workshops to empower girls coming of age by validating and sharing their experiences with menstruation and its commercialization, commodification and stigmatization. The introduction gives tips on how to be a better facilitator as well as how to create a safe space. The guide includes workshops that:

Compare the history of menstruation to modern understandings

Explore puberty rites from around the world

Challenge the corporatization of periods

As Occupy protests have erupted across the world to decry the injustice of our current economic system, the question arises: What are we fighting against? At present, Vancouver lacks any adequate forum for broad-based deliberation about what capitalism is and how it functions. It is for this reason that we are hosting a series of teach-ins to explore how capitalism operates, its inherent violence, and how it intersects with other forms of oppression.

The event is part of Campus Pride Week and the Mental Health Campaign.

You are invited to join us for a discussion with Sid Jordan and Selma Al-Aswad from Reteaching Gender and Sexuality and local youth from Project Acorn and a screening of the documentary Put this on the Map. The event will also involve a question and answer period, with an opportunity to explore applied strategies for professionals working to broaden conversations about gender and sexuality. Finally, the event will be used to launch the Pride Centre's most recent programming initiative: Buddy Up with Pride.