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9:00am - 9:45am
PLENARY: TIC Past and Present: Two Founders Share How TIC Changed UVM and Their Lives!
Owen Daniel-McCarter ('04) and Jakob VanLammeren ('05) are proud to say that the University of Vermont
was where the world of queer and trans activism, anti-oppression, fighting to win, resilience,
and resistance began to inform their lives. They will talk about the personal and political passions
that incited the first Translating Identities Conference in 2003, and how seven years later their personal
and political revolutions continue to grow and transform.
Bio:
Jakob VanLammeren '05 facilitates a creative writing group at the Broadway Youth Center, a center for LGBTQA youth and allies
ages 14-24 who are experiencing homelessness and/or are street-based, and is an English tutor at Richard J. Daley College.
He is a co-founder and collective member of the Write to Win Collective, a penpal correspondence project for transgender,
transsexual, gender-variant, and gender non-conforming people surviving inside prisons in Illinois,
and is a volunteer for the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois. He was a co-founder of the Translating Identity Conference,
and served as a committee member from 2003-2006. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from the University of Vermont
in 2005, and received his Master of Poetry degree from Bennington College in 2008. He currently lives, works, and dreams in Chicago,
Illinois.
Owen Daniel-McCarter, Esq. '04 is one of the founding collective members of the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois
which provides free, zealous, life-affirming, and gender-affirming holistic criminal legal services to low-income and street-based
transgender and gender non-conforming people targeted by the criminal legal system in Chicago. There, he is also a volunteer attorney
for Cabrini Green Legal Aid, First Defense Legal Aid, and the Young Women's Empowerment Project, as well as an adjunct instructor at
DePaul University. Back in the day, he was a co-founder of the Translating Identity Conference, a DJ at WRUV, and stayed up all night
making art in Williams Hall... not so secretly, he still misses it.
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12:15pm - 1:45pm LUNCH
[There will be a closed lunch available for queer people of color to come together. More information coming soon.]
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KEYNOTE: Description TBA: Miss Major
Evening Entertainment:
Tranny Dance Moves! - A dance party hosted by TIC on the top floor
of the Davis Center, 10:00 pm - 1:00 am!
Mr. Douglass is an amazing singer/song-writer and has been an awesome TIC ally.
If you don't know his music... I'm sorry.
You've been missing out. Check out his website www.gregorydouglass.com.
Here is a clip of his magic in action:
Sessions that are not listed on the Website
Do It Yourself (DIY) Sessions - we have reserved extra rooms all day for attendees to have impromtu sessions & discussions!
NOTE: There will be a No Scent Policy
in effect at the conference.
Please think carefully about all the products you use and avoid using scented products before and during the conference.
Scented products can include shampoo, soap, hair gel, hair spray, perfume/scented oils, skin lotion, shaving cream, makeup etc.
No Pets are permitted at this conference with the exception of licensed service animals. Thank you.
For information on accessibility, click here.
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