Be the Queer Intern!

Here's the job description:
The QRC Intern will be responsible for being a resource for and
maintaining communication with the various LGBTQQ organizations and groups
on campus, as well as with LGBTQQ allies among alumni, faculty, and
administration. The intern will also maintain the Queer Resource Center
and organize monthly Queer Community Meetings and other campus-wide
programs. The intern should have an interest in multi-political
organizing--recognizing the complex interconnections among issues of
sexual orientation, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, ableism,
etc., aiming to build bridges between the various multicultural
communities on campus. The QRC Intern is a member of the Dean of the
College Diversity Organizing Interns.

People who are interested should fill out the online application here:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/stuact/studentstaff/applications/qrcinternapp.html

6th Annual Trans Awareness Week

The 6th Annual Trans Awareness Week @ Yale


Race, Gender Performance and the Making of White Masculinity
Matt Richardson
November 12th - 19th, 2008
Wed, Nov 12 4pm
Silliman College Master's House


Opening Night Reception
Thurs, Nov 13
8pm
Trans/Genderqueer Art and Photography Exhibit
Gallery, Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St.


Fri, Nov 14
6:45pm Shabbat Dinner
8pm Lecture
Sing If You're Glad to be Trans
A dramatic lecture by S. Bear Bergman
Sylvia Slifka Chapel, Slifka Center, 80 Wall St.
*Dessert reception to precede the talk


Drag Ball
Sat, Nov 15
9:30-10:30 Performance by All The Kings Men
10:30-midnight Dancing
Morse College Dining Hall
*Free admission

Drag attire encouraged.


Panel Discussion: Genderqueer and Trans Identities
Sun, Nov 16
4pm
The Yale Women's Center, 198 Elm St. (next to Durfee's)


"Before Transgender: Gender and Gay Identity in New York's Gay Liberation Movement, 1969-1974"
Aaron Potenza
Mon, Nov 17
5pm
WLH 309, 100 Wall St.


Film Screening: No Dumb Questions and No Dumb Questions: 5 Years Later
Mon, Nov 17
7pm
followed by a Talkback with Filmmaker Melissa Regan
Office of International Students & Scholars (OISS), 421 Temple St.


Trans 101 for Religious Professionals
Scott Larson
Tues, Nov 18
12:30-1:30pm
Yale Divinity School, RSV Room

On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Kate Bornstein
Tues, Nov 18
5pm
Followed by a DRAMATalkback
Branford College Common Room


A new film from Argentina, Short Listed for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards
Film Screening: XXY
Tues, Nov 18
9pm
Branford College Common Room


Trans-Inclusive Health Care Workshop
Jane Ellen Hope Amphitheater (corner of Cedar and Congress St.)
Wed, Nov 19
5-7pm

Sooo many queer film festivals!

There are two coming up near-by: one at Trinity and one at Yale. Let me know if anyone wants to go--I'll see if I can organize some carpools. eevnen@wes

Trinity:
http://www.ctglff.org/ff/2008/EROS/Site/10th_Eros_Film_Festival.html

Wednesday, November 5 - 7:30 p.m.

THE ART OF BEING STRAIGHT
(Dir. Jesse Rosen, 2008, USA, 77 min)
Thursday, November 6 - 7:30 p.m.

VIVERE
(Dir. Angelina Maccarone, 2007, Germany
Friday, November 7 - 7:30 p.m.

BREAKFAST WITH SCOT
(Dir. Laurie Lynd, 2008, Canada, 109 min)
Friday, November 7 - 9:30 p.m.

PAGEANT
( Dir. Ron Davis & Stewart Halpern, 2008, USA, 95 min, www.pageantmovie.com)
Saturday, November 8 - 2:30 p.m.

RED WITHOUT BLUE

( Dir. Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills & Todd Sills, 2007, USA, 74 min,
http://redwithoutblue.com)
Filmmaker Brooke Sebold will be in attendance

Saturday, November 8 - 6:30 p.m.

CLOSING NIGHT RECEPTION

Free. All are welcome to attend.




Saturday, November 8 - 7:30 p.m.

SEARCHING 4 SANDEEP

( Dir. Poppy Stockell, 2007, Australia, 55 min,
www.myspace.com/searching4sandeep)
presented with
NO SECRET ANYMORE: THE TIMES OF DEL MARTIN AND PHYLLIS LYON
( Dir. Joan Birren, 2003, USA, 55 min,
www.woman-vision.org/nosecret)
Saturday, November 8 - 9:30 p.m.

ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE
( Dir. Jamie Babbit, 2007, USA, 85 min,
www.power-up.net/ibtc.htm)
FREE ADMISSION TO THIS SCREENING
Sunday, November 9 - 2:30 p.m.


THE LARAMIE PROJECT
(Dir. Moises Kaufman, 2002, USA, 97 min,
www.hbo.com/films/laramie)



Yale:
Monday, November 10
Movie Screening: For the Bible Tells Me So
7:00 pm
Linsly-Chittenden Hall 317, 63 High Street

Tuesday, November 11
Movie Screening: Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School
7:00 pm
Linsly-Chittenden Hall 211, 63 High Street

Wednesday, November 12:
Master's Tea with Director of "Jihad for Love" Parvez Sharma
4:00 pm
Pierson College Master's House, 261 Park Stret

***Connecticut Premiere***
Movie Screening Jihad for Love
Q&A to Follow with the Director
7:00 pm,
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street

Thursday, November 13:
Panel Discussion, followed by a Celebratory Reception
Linsly-Chittenden Hall 102, 63 High Street
Panelists:
Mina Trudeau, President of Al-Fatiha
Rabbi Lina, Associate Rabbi of Slifka Center
John Gage, United Church on the Green, New Haven
Emilie Townes, Academic Dean of Divinity School and President of the
American Academy of Religion

7:00 pm, LC 102