Day Long Institutes • Thursday, January 19 Please check the grid schedule for room locations.
Thriving: The Eric Rofes Legacy: Envisioning a Transformative Queer Movement Focused on Sex, Health, Politics, and Liberation Eric E. Rofes (1954-2006) was a key thinker and organizer of LGBT liberation movements in the United States and internationally. His life and activism were organized in what would be considered an intersectional frame: he believed that queer activism and lives had much to learn from the other worlds in which he lived, and his broad writing and thinking reflected a curiosity that sought to explore the similarities and differences between different movements. In this Day Long Institute, participants will hear short TED-talk-like presentations on the key issues that informed Rofes’ thinking, including youth suicide, education and charter schools, the sex lives of community organizers, queer feminism, trans liberation; LGBT health, and the power of community organizing. After the short presentations, we will consider the future-oriented legacy of Rofes’ work and how it might inform current thinking and organizing of queer liberation. Presenters: Trevor Hoppe, Ben Shepard, Charles Stephens, Chris Bartlett, Patrick Egan, Amber Hollibaugh, Jaime Grant, Mandy Carter, Beth Zemsky, Tony Valenzuela, Jim Pickett, Lex Rofes, Kevin Trimell Jones, Jewelle Gomez, Diane Sabin
YouthLink Institute: Youth Programming at Centers and in Communities This Day Long Institute, presented by CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers, is designed as a resource for staff working with LGBTQ youth programs. This session will provide professional development, skills building and networking for LGBTQ Community Centers’ and community organizations’ staff leading programming for LGBTQ youth. The Institute will be comprised of both presentations and interactive small and large group sessions. Be prepared to share your program highlights and best practices. Focus will be placed on (but not limited to) program development and evaluation, engaging and retaining youth participants, adult/parent participation, working with schools, program models, and involving youth in developing and implementing programs. Presenter: Denise Spivak, Senior Director of Programs and Outreach, CenterLink
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Intersectionality Beyond Binaries This Day Long Institute is a closed session for people with non-monosexual/non-monoromantic identities, which includes bi, pan, fluid, queer, omni, other identity labels, and people with no labels at all. We will bring to light the diversity within bi+ communities and the stories of those who struggle with invisibility within the movement. Our voices as activists reflect the intersections of racism, sexism, classism, trans antagonism, bi+ antagonism, ableism, immigrant antagonism, asexual and aromantic antagonism, and more. We will learn of our histories and frame our circumstances in a way that we build a map of our fight for visibility and inclusion. All non-monosexual/ non-monoromantic identities welcome! Come to our Day Long Institute! Be seen. Be heard. Be empowered and be beautiful! Facilitators: Apphia Kumar, co-founder of Birds of a Feather and Board Chair for SALGA-NYC, New York’s largest South Asian LGBTQ organization; Bri Carter, founder of (Bi)ased, a Georgia group for bisexual people of color
Campus Pride College Student Leader Institute There is a long history of LGBTQ organizing by college leaders. From the chapters of the Gay Liberation Front in the early 1970s to Gay-StraightAlliances in the 1980s, Safe Zone programs in the 1990s, and queer/trans coalitions today, LGBTQ college students have a primary role in this movement. Campus Pride, the nation’s leading LGBTQ college organization, provides tools, resources, and back-up to college students on the grassroots level making positive change on college campuses throughout the country. Join us for the Campus Pride College Leader Institute focusing on enhancing leadership and organizing skills of college leaders. Participants will learn organizing strategies, gain access to resources specific to higher education, and develop action plans for making change all within a framework of intersectional justice. Come for a day of leadership development, skill building, and strategic dialogue and a unique opportunity to build solidarity with other college organizers across the US. Presenters: Campus Pride Leaders