Community Pillars: Conversations with Trans Leaders

Join us for conversations with Trans leaders in and out of Seattle to chat about their movement work, what challenges they have faced and how they have worked to overcome them. Do you have questions you’d like to ask Trans leaders?

This event will be largely influenced by audience participation via the Q&A.

Moderator: Louis Mitchell
Panelists:
Ro Yoon
Marsha Botzer
Tali Jones

Link to participate coming soon! Follow for updates.

If you are interested in watching this panel but not interested in asking questions, you can join us Live on Facebook during the duration of this event.

Questions about this event? You can reach out to our Development Manager, Kaya, for any questions you may have at kaya@ingersollgendercenter.org

Community Support: Intro to Ingersoll and 1-1 Support

Are you looking for resources for Trans and Gender Diverse community? Have you heard of us, but want to know more about our work?

Come learn about the history of Ingersoll Gender Center, get an overview of the services and programs we provide, ask questions to program staff, and connect with direct service staff for support. There will be appointment slots for 1:1 direct support that will be held towards the end of the workshop!

1:1 direct support links will be posted closer to the event date. Please follow this event page and/or our social media channels for updates on when the links go live.

Questions about this event? You can reach out to our Community Engagement Manager, Al, for any questions you may have at alphonse@ingersollgendercenter.org

Trans Grief & Death Planning Workshop @ Trans Peer Support Group

Join us Wednesday from 7-9pm PST for our weekly Trans Peer Support Group! In regards to community safety, we have moved our meeting to virtual (accessible via computer or phone) until further notice. This week is Fifth Wednesday Workshop!

To RSVP for Support Group, visit https://ingersoll.typeform.com/to/BTPB6t

Learn more about this week's workshop below:

Trans Grief & Death Planning Workshop: Kalisto Nanen, affectionately known as Listo Nanen by his friends and family is a student funeral director and undertaker, breath worker, death guide, plant worker, and performance artist just to name a few of his multi-talents. He is the owner and founder of Syzygy Passings a Death Guide business that works in advance care directives, grief support, and arts. In the era of a modern pandemic as well as a world under oppression the thought of death is picking at our minds and I am here to guide you through planning death so that we as transgender community and families of transgender individuals can rest assured that our bodies will be remembered the way we want them to be remembered. In the hour break out group we will work over a listening section where we talk about where we are at in our lives and discuss our fears, we will go into a 5-10 minute session where we will work on writing our plans and then share them. We will also work through knowing what the current Washington State Advance Care Directive looks like, and discuss rights at the end of life.

If you are able to donate to our Trans Peer Support Group, please consider making a small donation at https://bit.ly/psgdonate

Free

Queer the Census Storytime

Join us Saturday, August 8th at 12:30pm for Queer the Census Storytime!
Stories about the Census will be read in Spanish and English and information about why the Census 2020 is important for the LGBTQ+ community. This is a children-friendly event! Get to know more about LGBTQ+ community organizations supporting the Census 2020 and how to BE COUNTED!

Register at https://ingersoll.typeform.com/to/U7VMJVQK

Free

Focus on the Out Breath: Corporeal Poetry – Poetry Class for Trans Veterans

Online

In partnership with Path with Art - Focus on the Out Breath: Corporeal Poetry
A poetry workshop series for Trans Veterans

In this two-session workshop, readings and exercises will draw on the poetic potential of the body (its various parts &wholes). Prompts will offer unique entry points into the body as a site of revelation, reclamation, & self discovery. Through exploration and experimentation our writing will flow from an expanded, fully embodied sense of self.

WrylyT.McCutchen is a hybrid writer,interdisciplinary performer, communityeducator, and 2018 LAMBDA Fellow inpoetry. Their debut poetry collection, MyUgly and Other Love Snarls, was publishedin 2017 by University of Hell press.

September 15 & 22
2-4pm
Online via Zoom

To register, contact So'le Celestial - call (206) 849-7859 or email so'le@ingersollgendercenter.org

Free

Trans Week of Awareness Kickoff Brunch and Fundraiser!

Join us for a ticketed gathering with a program of trans and gender diverse leaders, elders, and artists to celebrate the transgender and gender diverse community to kick off Trans Week of Awareness. This event is a fundraiser featuring a catered brunch (provided by Cafe Flora, available and delivered to guests in Seattle), with all…

$25

Trans Movie Night

Join us for a Trans Movie Night for 2020 Trans Awareness Week! This event is free and open to all who are interested in attending ❤

RSVP at http://bit.ly/transmovienight for login information

We'll be watching TRANSFINITE, a sci-fi omnibus feature film composed of seven standalone short stories where supernatural trans and queer people from various cultures use their powers to protect, love, teach, fight and thrive.

Interested in supporting our Trans Week of Awareness programming? Make a personally meaningful donation at https://bit.ly/donate-ingersoll

Free

QLaw Legal Info Session and Knowledge Sharing

Join QLaw Foundation and Ingersoll Gender Center in an info and community knowledge sharing session focused on healthcare and employment discrimination. This event will inform participants of their rights for both healthcare and employment, and more importantly will hold space for community to share their circumstances and get advice from others in the room.

You can RSVP via https://bit.ly/2020lt. If you have specific questions, please add them to your RSVP to help us better plan for answering questions regarding to your situation!

If you have any questions about this event please contact Coco via email at coco@ingersollgendercenter.org

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Thank you to our Trans Awareness Week Sponsors:
- Fred Hutch Rainbow Employees for Equity
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Free