Conference Schedule The TIC Committee is working feverishly to get the definitive schedule in place. In an attempt to provide our attendees with up-to-date information, on this page you will find a listing of current scheduled sessions and descriptions for most of them. Of course, everything on this page is subject to change, but we will do our best to post changes as soon as possible on the webpage and let the registered attendees know though email. Tentitive Conference Session Grid Session Details: Name: Re-Evaluating Feminist Space; Debating Trans Inclusion Presenter: Elizabeth R. Green Description: 25 years after the publication of Janice Raymond's highly divisive "Transsexual Empire: The Making of a She-Male," the feminist movement is still heavily divided on the issue of trans-inclusion. This paper/presentation analyzes some of the most prominent arguments used to justify excluding trans and genderqueer identified persons from feminist spaces, and works to deconstruct the context that makes these separatist arguments socially permissible. Name: SOFFA's: Agents of Change or Casual Leisure Furniture? Presenters: Kate Jerman and Lluvia Mulvaney-Stanak Description: This workshop is very interactive and encourages audience participation and input. Participants in this workshop will define what it means to be an ally. They will be able to recognize non-trans privilege and name situations where they use it. Participants will generate a list of actions non-trans people can take as allies and will also have an opportunity to share experiences of strengths and successes as allies. Name: Understanding Gender and Sexuality Across Cultures: Crossing Cultures and Roles Presenter: Sherwood E. Smith Description: Objective is to raise awareness of cultural differences related to gender identity across difference cultures. The presentation uses interactive approach with example and discussion on the theme of cultures influence on perception. Name: "Trans-what?" Transgender 101 for Beginners Presenter: Samuel Lurie Description: What exactly is the "T" in LGBT? How is transphobia different than homophobia and why is it important to work against both? This workshop will present basic information on transgender issues and experiences, helping participants understand the many variations of transgender expression and identify distinctions between gender identity, sexual orientation and biological sex. We will also examine ways in which institutions (such as colleges, health centers and counseling programs) create barriers for trans people's safety and expression and identify strategies for creating changes in those institutions so we are all free to express our gender in non-normative and variant forms! Name: Gender Queer Personal Story: When I say I'm queer what I'm really saying is that I don't like any of the other choices Presenter: Kellie Arbor Description: A rollicking conversation about being queer, the challenges of non definitive identities, and anything else that may come about. Name: MTF Personal Story: I was a very secretive little girl... Presenter: Gail Catherine Piche, RN Description: A tale of life at the outer reaches of the bell curve! Follow Gail's exploration of the limits of human denial ("maybe it will go away") and her successful amateur career as a male impersonator until a Holistic Health course experiment with meditation goes awry and she wakes up one morning to discover. . .well, you get the picture. Bring your questions. Name: Trans Sex Presenter: Kelly Brigham Description: This workshop will discuss how trans people have sex, how this may or may not put them at a higher risk of HIV and other STIs and talk about how to have a healthy sex life if you are trans. This workshop is aimed mostly at transpeople and their sexual partners and will be extremely explicit (dildos, anal sex, penetration discussion). Name: Trans Youth: The Next Genderation Facilitators: Kate Jerman and Lluvia Mulvaney-Stanak Description: Learn about the new frontier of the trans movement from a panel of young people, all out as trans before their 21st birthday. This panel offers a wide range of experiences that differ from many other participants here today. From navigating the shelter system, finding a job, to coming out in the queer youth community, hear directly from youth about what its like to not be able to, or want to, do the usual steps to Transition, like access surgery/hormones, or complete a name change---yet still transition. Blazing a new path, this is the next genderation. Name: FTM Personal Story: From Jennifer to Joseph - Twenty Five years of Transition Presenters: Joey W. and Katherine P. Description: The purpose of my presentation is to educate my fellow GLBT audience about my personal experience as an FTM. I would like to briefly discuss my past and what lead to my decision to transition. I then plan on discussing how I came out to my partner, co-workers at my company, my family, friends and relatives. I would then like my presentation to focus on the surgical journey I took from chest surgery, chest surgery revisions, vaginal hysterectomy, metoidioplasty (Clitoral Release), and then briefly discuss my future genital surgery plans. I plan on my wife, Kip coming into the discussion to talk about her life as a SOFFA, and her reactions to my surgery and decisions. Finally, I will discuss my future plans for my family, my goals for future, and my thoughts on living as a transgendered male in the future. Name: The Art of Bioterrorism Presenter: Tara Mateik Description: Are gender outlaws considered the new biological terrorists seeking weapons of mass bodily destruction? The Art of Bioterrorism is a multimedia presentation of playful projects whose collective mission is to overthrow the governance of compulsory gender expression. With a cast of characters ranging from the crepidula snail to peter pan, artistic investigations project a different, often absurd look at outsider deviance. Name: Sex at Work: Transgenders in the U.S. Workplace Presenter: Jillian Todd Weiss Description: This presentation discusses a research study of U.S. employers that have adopted transgender human resources policies. The study examined the primary structural influences on policy adoption. Name: Finding Common Ground Between Movements for Trans Liberation and Reproductive Freedom Presenter: Sadie R. Crabtree Description: Both the trans liberation and pro-choice movements have often been isolated from other social justice movements. Yet, one of the most fundamental principles to both pro-trans and pro-choice movements is the right to control our own bodies. This presentation will explore political and practical connections between these two movements, and encourage discussion of ways that we as pro-choice and pro-trans activists can help our movements by helping each other. Name: Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Telling Our Scars Presenter: Eli Clare Description: Often oppression--transphobia, homophobia, sexism, racism, ableism, fat phobia, classism--lodges in our bodies, stealing them away from us in a myriad of ways. What do our scars--both literal and metaphoric--tell us about this thievery? Which scars have we chosen, and which have come unbidden? How are they woven with shame or braided with pride? Come explore these questions through visual images and story telling, self reflection and conversation. Name: Hold it. This is the Potty Police Presenters: Tara Mateik and Dean Spade Description: Toilet Training: Law and Order in the Bathroom, 2003, 26 min. Healthy adults use the bathroom 4-8 times during the day and 1-2 times per night. Toilet Training surveys the policing of gender in restrooms - persistent discrimination, harassment, and violence towards people who transgress gender. What happens when laws are broken and order is disrupted in the bathroom? Through anecdotal case studies, Toilet Training focuses on bathroom access in public space, in schools and at work and related problems associated with "holding it." Concluding with examples of policy change, Toilet Training provides a necessary foundation to public education and organizing to address this overlooked issue. With Q & A with the director, Tara Mateik and Dean Spade, The Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Keynote: Failing to Comply: Poverty, Gender Self-Determination, and the Struggle to Survive Presenter: Dean Spade Description: This presentation discusses the disproportionate poverty, homelessness and incarceration of people who transgress gender norms, and examines the ways in which gender regulation and regulation of the poor overlap to create these conditions. The presentation further explores the distribution of resources away from gender transgressive people and people facing racial and economic injustice in the "LGBT" movement, and examines how policy and programming could be improved to prioritize the needs of those most vulnerable to discrimination.