Events
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Date and Time
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 4:00 PM
Description
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence since Rita Hester's death and began an important tradition that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.
https://www.glaad.org/tdor
2019 Keynote by Jian Chen
The Times of Trans Death and Trans Vibrancy
Chen's talk will speculate on the racial and settler colonial contexts shaping trans of color and trans deaths and survivals in the twenty-first century. They will highlight the embodied strategies for gender transformation and political re-imagining created through trans of color art and activism.
LIB 100/201 approved