Schedule of Events
Agenda as of May 8, 2007
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Thursday, May 17 |
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11am |
Registration Begins
(NEA Auditorium)
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12:00 – 2:30pm |
Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop
Generation
Natalie Hopkinson
(Conference Room G)
Natalie Hopkinson, co-author of Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at
Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation, examines the multifaceted
of black masculinity in America. Hopkinson gives an in-depth analysis of
complicated relationship between women and hip-hop; babydaddies; gay
black men on the so-called “down low;” strippers and their fathers; and
black men in the office, at school, and in jail.
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We Are All Transgender
Carmen Vasquez
(Conference Room C)
A presentation and dialogue on gender identity and expression and how
race and class define the contours of how we experience and express our
gender. The session will also explore the ways our erotic lives and
sexuality are colored and textured by gender identity and expression.
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Masculinity and School Violence
Michael Kimmel
(News Conference Room)
Have you noticed that pretty much every time there is an incident of
bullying, homophobic violence, gay bashing, sexual assault, it's young
males who are accused? What is it about that combination of age and
gender (youth and masculinity) that is so volatile? In this workshop,
we're going to get inside the heads of adolescent guys, and try to sort
out both what they're thinking and how we can effectively enter their
world and engage with them.
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2:30 – 3:30pm |
Gender Theory Institute Reception
Lunch provided
(Auditorium)
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3:30 – 6:00pm |
Drag, Discourse, Deconstruction, & Desire
Riki Wilchins
(State Dining Room)
What is Queer Theory, and what have theorists like Judith Butler and
Michele Foucault been saying, in plain English? How can we apply their
insights to everyday life and activism? What is gender, anyway, and how
has the understanding of difference and gendered bodies become central
to women's, gay, and then transgender rights? Why is queerness so
important, anyway? Join a funny, lively and engaging march through Queer
Theory and Postmodernism and what it means today as we look forward to
the future of gender rights.
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Gender Talk and Activism
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
(News Conference Room)
This interactive workshop addresses the connections between race,
gender, and sexuality in light of the Don Imus controversy. We will
explore how womanhood and manhood are defined in the contemporary U.S.
context, especially within youth culture, and the impact of mass media.
We will examine images of women and men in print media, hip hop, film
and television in order to stimulate dialogue about gender constructs
and their influence on how young people navigate their day to day lives.
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6:00 – 7:00pm |
Dinner
(Auditorium Side B)
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6:30 – 8:30pm
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Lobby Day Training
Melody Drnach
(Auditorium Side A)
Since 1995, GenderPAC has brought hundreds of parents, youth, and
activists to Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to commit to fair hiring
practices in their own offices and educate them on issues like hate
crimes, workplace fairness and safe schools. Join us on May 18 2007 for
the 12th National Gender Lobby Day and tell your Congressional
Representatives about issues that matter to you!
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Friday, May 18 |
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9am – 4pm |
National Gender Lobby Day
(Capitol Hill - Rayburn Building)
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6:00 – 9:30pm |
Gender Mini Film Festival
(News Conference Room)
The following films will be screened consecutively:
Beyond Beats and Rhymes (1 hour)
Directed by Byron Hurt
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/
…but does it have to be? A self-described “hip-hop
head” takes an in-depth look at masculinity and manhood in rap and
hip-hop, where creative genius collides with misogyny, violence,
homophobia, exposing the complex intersections of culture and commerce.
The Sakia Gunn Film Project trailer (5 mins)
Directed by Chas. B. Brack
Sakia Gunn Film Project
www.sakiagunnfilmproject.com
Sakia Gunn was a 15 year old black lesbian who was
killed at the hands of gay bashers after she and her friends rejected
the attackers’ sexual advances. This film will celebrate Sakia’s life
and illuminate the lives of all Black Lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgendered youth of color. This film primary takes place at the
sentencing hearing of Sakia’s convicted murder. The piece poses the
question: What happens to a dream deferred?
Embodied Revolution: A National Look at Gender
Based and Body Conscious Activism (1 and ½ hours)
Directed by Erin Remick, GenderYOUTH Chapter Leader at Warren Wilson
College
http://genderforwardfilm.blogspot.com/.
Embodied Revolution highlights twenty
different activists across the United States engaged in direct action,
community organizing, performance art, and everyday revolution. Each
tackle a variety of issues from gender stereotyping and discrimination
to body image, fat identity, queer femme visibility, transgender rights,
intersections of race and gender, representations and objectifications
of women in the media, safer communities, and more. |
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Saturday, May 19 |
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9am - 12pm |
Registration
(NEA Auditorium)
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9:00 – 10am |
GenderYOUTH Training Part I
Tyrone Hanley and Brittney Hoffman
(News Conference Room)
This interactive workshop focuses on how to translate theory into
activism and seeks to empower students to educate their campuses and
communities about the harms of gender stereotyping and to improve their
mobilizing techniques. The workshop concludes by outlining practical and
concrete activist skills and coalition building strategies that students
can use to create diverse and inclusive issue-based movements in their
own communities.
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What’s $ Got to Do With It?: Sex Work, Economics, Class, and Human
Rights
Jeff Chubb, Rachelle Dixon, Judy Guerin
(Conference Room G)
This workshop will explore the diversity and contradictions of the sex
industry involving issues of sexuality, gender, race, class and more,
with an emphasis on encouraging participants to support sexual freedom
as a fundamental human right and sex workers' fight for their rights.
Panelists will discuss alternatives to criminalization, the maximization
of health and safety for sex workers, and how human rights, feminist,
queer theory, and sexual freedom discussions engage the issue of sex
work.
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Media Boot Camp
Dana Goldstein
(Conference Room C)
Enlist in Campus Progress’s Media Boot Camp, and make sure that you have
the grit, guts, and tactics to get noticed and covered. These workshops
cover the basics, such as writing press releases, timing, building a
media list, and contacting "new media" like blogs. |
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10:10 – 11:10am |
GenderYOUTH Training Part II
Tyrone Hanley and Brittney Hoffman
(News Conference Room)
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Media Boot Camp
Dana Goldstein
(Conference Room C)
Enlist in Campus Progress’s Media Boot Camp, and make sure that you have
the grit, guts, and tactics to get noticed and covered. These workshops
cover the basics, such as writing press releases, timing, building a
media list, and contacting "new media" like blogs.
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Beyond Identity: Human Rights and the Politics of Gender
Lindsay Bond
(Conference Room B)
Are you constantly searching for ways to make your own group inclusive
and welcoming of all identities? Come learn about the Human Rights
model, the new edge in organizing beyond identities and what it can mean
for you and the politics of gender.
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11:20 – 12:00pm |
KEYNOTE: Loretta Ross
(Auditorium Side A)
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12:00 – 1:00pm |
Lunch
(Auditorium Side B)
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1:00 – 2:00pm |
GenderYOUTH Training Part I
Lindsay Bond and Brittney Hoffman
(News Conference Room)
This interactive workshop focuses on how to translate theory into
activism and seeks to empower students to educate their campuses and
communities about the harms of gender stereotyping and to improve their
mobilizing techniques. The workshop concludes by outlining practical and
concrete activist skills and coalition building strategies that students
can use to create diverse and inclusive issue-based movements in their
own communities.
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Make-Your-Own Gender-Defying Coloring Book: Exploring Gender
Jacinta Bunnell
(Conference Room B)
These engaging, hands-on workshops are akin to spending an hour and a
half in the arts and crafts cabin at your favorite summer camp. Using
found images from popular and unpopular children’s media, you will
transform these ordinary images into a subversive coloring book, writing
new scripts for characters you always wanted to rebel against. Now you
can set them free! The pages you create will be combined with the other
participants’ pages, forming a collectively-made coloring book. Each
participant will later receive a copy of the book!
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Moving the People: Community Organizing 101
Khaleaph Luis
(Conference Room C)
Addresses three questions: why people organize, how organizing works,
and what it takes to be a good organizer. Participants learn to "map"
the power and interests at work in their community, develop leadership,
motivate participation, and devise strategies to build relationships,
share understanding, and construct programs through which organizing
campaigns are conducted.
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2:10 – 3:10pm |
GenderYOUTH Training Part II
Lindsay Bond and Tyrone Hanley
(News Conference Room)
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Reconstructing a Gender Campus
David Norton and Adrian Shanker
(Conference Room B)
Learn the process of gender policy change at the college level. The
presentation will include an explanation of the research from the 2006
GENIUS Index and will cover changes in non discrimination policies as
well as a brainstorm of implantation after the change and where to go
from there, including but not limited to gender-neutral housing and
restroom availability.
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Gender, Music Videos, and Violence against Women
Rose Afriyie
(Conference Room C)
Using the film Dreamworlds 3 explore the links between the portrayal of
women in the media with violence against women.
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3:20 – 4:20pm |
GenderYOUTH Network Roundtable
Brittney Hoffman
(State Dining Room)
Come share ideas, organizing tools, effective coalition building
strategies, and brainstorm new ideas for coordinated campaigns with
future GenderYOUTH chapters and affiliates. Let GenderYOUTH know what
resources would be helpful to you in achieving your goals.
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Beyond Beats and Rhymes: Gender, Race, and Hip-Hop Khaleaph Luis
(News Conference Room)
Utilizing Byron Hurt’s documentary film Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and
Rhymes, explore the director’s love of hip-hop culture and his
simultaneous conflict with its marketing of hyper-masculine images of
men of color, violence, materialism, homophobia, and misogyny.
Interactive role playing and skits challenge workshop participants to
explore their own racialized and gendered stereotypes, followed by an
open dialogue about ways to challenge these structures through
petitions, targeted letter writing campaigns, and public education.
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Blogging for Gender Justice
Ann Friedman
(Conference Room B)
Learn not only the technical skills to set up a blog, but get a crash
course in finding your voice as a blogger and becoming part of the
blogging world. Learn how you can become a part of the online (and real
life) movement for gender justice.
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4:30 – 5:00pm
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Talk Back
(Auditorium Side A)
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8:00pm - |
The Great Big International Drag King Show 007
9:30 Club
815 V Street NW
Ticket Price: $25
Doors open at 8pm |
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