LGBTQ Resource Center

321 Faunce House

Mailing Address:
Box 1915
Providence, RI 02912
401-863-3062
lgbtq@brown.edu

The official date for the International Transgender Day of Remembrance is November 20th, 2009. We are having our events on the 17th and 18th to accomodate performer and student schedules. Please contact us if you have any questions at lgbtq@brown.edu.

November 17th

Transgender 101
12:00 noon
LGBTQ Resource Center
(3rd floor Hillel - 80 Waterman St.)

For: Community groups & classes. Duration: 1hr.
Participants are introduced to definitions of gender, and the sticky parts of our labels, through interactive lecture and personal Q&A. Heritage, class, physical ability, sexuality and more are discussed as complimentary and complicating factors to aid participants in deciding how to be good allies, and build community.

Strange Bedfellows: Greeks and Queers on Campus
4:00 pm in MoChamp Lounge
For: LGBTQ student groups and students pledged in the Greek system. Duration: 2hrs

Participants detail their own collective self image, then discuss campus perceptions of their group. Groups engage in honest dialog about campus climate, but also listen to their shared heartfelt intentions and self-conscious desires to be liked. Having found levels of commonality, the groups brainstorm activities for greater inclusion and allyship. Participants leave with an action plan and a mailing list to continue the conversation.

November 18th

FREE and open to the public

Candlelight Vigil
6:00 pm on the main green at the flag pole.

Scott Turner-Schofield Performance:
"Debutante Balls"

7:00 p.m. in Rites and Reasons Theatre (155 Angell Street)

Scott Turner Schofield is an award-winning writer, performer, and educator creating theater about gender and sexuality in the Deep South. He is also a man who was a woman, a lesbian turned straight guy who is often called a fag. Not surprisingly, his work centers on contradictions and comedy.

These autobiographical monologues challenge fundamental gender assumptions with stories of searching, embarrassment, pride, and the joy of finding yourself on your own terms. His work has been lauded by press, academics, and artists alike for meeting queer and mainstream audiences with humor and compassion.

"Debutante Balls" (2004) is a theatrical stand-up comedy dance through the fascinating culture of the Southern Debutante Ball. Schofield's wicked sense of self-aware humor and poetic sensibility guide audiences gently (or is that genteel-ly?) through the many ways he "came out" like his Debutante friends into Southern Society (as a lesbian, radical feminist, and finally, as a transgender man).

Check it out on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctlDsUKbYhQ

Co-Sponsors: LGBTQ Resource Center, GenderAction (a sub-group of the Queer Alliance), Office of Institutional Diversity, Brown University, Office of the President, Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services, The Undergraduate Finance Board, Rites and Reason Theatre, RISD Queer Student Alliance, Greek Council, Department of American Civilization