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Contemporary Poetics of Trans Women of Colour Artists feat. a.a., Arielle Twist, Gwen Benaway, Kai Cheng Thom, Kim Ninkuru & curated by Kama La Mackerel Doors: 6pm Performance: 6:30pm SHARP (doors will close at 6:30pm and no one will be allowed in after) Performance duration: 50-60 mins

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2184014578481260/ Studio 303 372 Ste-Catherine W (3rd floor) Montreal, H3B1A2 As vocal & public trans women of colour, we have a lot to say, IRL and URL. We make our presence and points of view heard through incendiary essays, truth-telling interviews, poignant tweets, tender poetry collections, ferocious performances & sassy Instagram stories. We push through every single barrier that seeks to silence us & render our lives invisible: we rise, we spit, we spit back, and claw our truths out of our throats so we be heard. Contemporary Poetics of Trans Women of Colour Artists is a collective poetic performance featuring a.a., Arielle Twist, Gwen Benaway, Kai Cheng Thom, Kim Ninkuru & curated by Kama La Mackerel. In this piece these contemporary yet intergenerational poets, artists, performers & media-makers interweave personal narratives, political rants, poetic renditions & didactic lectures to create intellectual, aesthetic, and embodied spaces of expression where trans women of colour voices are centred. Through poetry, performance, storytelling and spoken word, the artists create a live immersive environment within which they foreground their distinct subjectivities as well as their collective voices. This piece comes out of a collective multimedia storytelling workshop facilitated by Kama La Mackerel. This piece also comes out of years of friendship, mentorship, peer support, deep love and shade throwing. About the artists: a.a. a.a. is a brown femme who writes and performs about disclosure and duality. She is a producer and performer of stage and screen. a.a. co-wrote and performed in a multi-media theatre piece with the AMY Project, and wrote, performed in, and co-directed a short musical film that has toured in several festivals. Arielle Twist Arielle Twist is a writer and sex educator from George Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan, based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a Nehiyaw, Two-Spirit, trans femme supernova writing to reclaim and harness ancestral magic and memories. Within her short career pursuing writing she has attended a residency at Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and has work published with Them, Canadian Art, The Fiddlehead and PRISM International. She also works as a freelance editor with GUTS Magazine and Her debut collection of poetry ‘Disintegrate/Dissociate’ is forthcoming Spring 2019 with Arsenal Pulp Press. Gwen Benaway Gwen Benaway is a trans girl of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published three collections of poetry, Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage, and Holy Wild. Her fourth collection of poetry, Aperture, is forthcoming from book*hug in Spring 2020. Her writing has been published in many national publications, including CBC Arts, Maclean's Magazine, and the Globe and Mail. She is currently editing an anthology of Fantasy short stories by trans feminine writers and working on a feminist Queer poly-amorous memoir, titled trans girl in love. She lives in Toronto, Ontario and is a Ph.D student at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Kai Cheng Thom Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performer, wicked witch and lasagna lover based in Montreal and Toronto, unceded Indigenous territories. Her poems, essays, and fiction have been published widely online and in print. A two-time Lambda Literary Finalist, she is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, the poetry collection a place called No Homeland, and the children's book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea. She is currently working on a collection of essays titled I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World. Kim Ninkuru Kim Ninkuru is a multimedia artist from Bujumbura, in Burundi, currently residing in Toronto. She uses performance art, digital art, spoken word and movement to create pieces that give her the chance to explore and express rage, love, desire, beauty, or pain in relation to her own body and mind. Her work heavily questions our preconceived notions of gender and sexuality and is grounded in the firm belief that blackness is past, present and future at any given moment. She started creating performance pieces in 2014 and in late 2015, began to experiment with digital art. Since then, her work has been exhibited in art galleries around Toronto and she has performed on many stages in both Montreal and Toronto. She is dedicated to creating spaces where trans and gender non conforming people of color can thrive, and to the liberation of black women, especially black trans women, around the world. Kama La Mackerel Kama La Mackerel is a performance poet, storyteller and multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores performative and poetic practices as resilience, resistance and healing for marginalized communities. Her projects are community-informed and community-driven. She is an artist mentor with the Artists Mentoring Youth (AMY) Project, as well as the Artistic Director of AMY’s Performance Poetry Program for Trans Women and Femmes. She is the creator and Artistic Director of GENDER B(L)ENDER, The Self-Love Cabaret: l’amour se conjugue à la première personne and Our Bodies, Our Stories: a creation & performance mentorship program for QTBIPOC youth. Kama has performed locally and internationally at venues in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, Burlington, New York City, London, Amsterdam, Paris and beyond. Kama was born and raised in Mauritius, immigrated to India as a young adult, and then immigrated to Canada in 2008. She she has been living in tio’tia:ke (Montreal) since 2011. This event is presented by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, in collaboration with QPIRG-McGill, LGBTQ2I+ History Month @ McGill, The Arts of Trans, Gender Diverse and Two-Spirit Lives and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Presented by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, in collaboration with Poetry Matters, Indigenous Awareness Week, LGBTQ2I+ History Month @ McGill, The Arts of Trans, Gender Diverse and Two-Spirit Lives and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Come kick off McGill's Inaugural LGBTQ+ month by writing love poems with Two-Spirit and Transmasculine +++ poet, Smokii Sumac! To register, please contact [email protected].

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Mark your calendars for Oct. 30th for Vivek Shraya @ McGill, in conversation with D.j. Fraser, in collaboration with McGill’s first LGBTQ+ Awareness month, Mediaqueer, Igsf McGill and The Arts of Trans, Gender Diverse and Two-Spirit Lives!

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Thursday April 5, 8pm Room C201, Strathcona Music Building, McGill University Film Screening: “Contralto” Followed by a Q&A with composer Sarah Hennies Free and open to the public "Contralto" is a one-hour work for video, strings, and percussion that exists in between the spaces of experimental music and documentary. The piece features a cast of transgender women speaking, singing, and performing vocal exercises accompanied by a dense and varied musical score that includes a variety of conventional and "non-musical" approaches to sound-making. When a transgender man begins taking testosterone it causes his vocal cords to thicken and his voice deepens and drops into the so-called "masculine range." It is not widely known, however, that trans women's voices are unaffected by higher levels of estrogen in the body. Being a woman with a "male voice" creates a variety of difficult situations for trans women including prolonged and intensified dysphoria and higher risk of harassment and violence due to possibly exposing someone as trans unintentionally. This creates a situation where trans women's identities are betrayed by their bodies. "Contralto" - defined in musical terms as "the lowest female singing voice" - uses the sound of trans women's voices to explore transfeminine identity from the inside and explores the intimate, peculiar, and powerful relationship between gender and sound. Part of the INSTITUTE FOR GENDER, SEXUALITY AND FEMINIST STUDIES conference: “THE ARTS OF TRANS, GENDER DIVERSE AND TWO-SPIRIT LIVES” APRIL 5-7, 2018. For more information: www.https://www.mcgill.ca/igsf/events/igsfconference2018 Thanks to our sponsors including the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Media@McGill, the Institute for Health and Social Policy, Art/iculation magazine, SEDE McGill, the Dean of Arts Development Fund, the The Mary Eleanor Shewan Research Internships, the McLennan Library, the Moving Image Research Laboratory and Mediaqueer.

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This conference is part of a series of events organized by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University, Montreal, dedicated to exploring tactics of survival, resistance and resilience in the lives of trans, gender diverse and Two-Spirit people. This three-day conference will examine creative living through engagement with art, media and culture, as well as the creativity of survival tactics that make life more liveable for trans people. Art isn’t just objects or content, but a way to think about how to reanimate and open material, sensory and perceptual conditions of existence to more sustaining ends. It names the creative ways that trans, gender diverse and Two-Spirit people navigate the art of living. Rooted in the local, this event also aims to share international (and intergenerational) perspectives. For more information, please visit: http://mcgill.ca/igsf/events/igsfconference2018 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Cette conférence fait partie d’une série d’évènements organisés par l’Institut Genre, sexualité et féminisme de l’Université McGill à Montréal. Cette série est dédiée à l’exploration de tactiques de survie, de résistance et de résilience dans la vie des personnes trans, de genres diversifiés et bispirituelles. La conférence de trois jours examinera le vivre créatif via l’engagement avec l’art, les médias et la culture, ainsi que la créativité des tactiques de survie améliorant la vie des personnes trans. L’art n’est pas seulement objets ou contenu, mais un moyen de penser à la manière de réanimer et d’ouvrir les conditions matérielles, sensorielles et perceptuelles vers des fins plus durables. Il nomme les manières créatives avec lesquelles les personnes trans, de genres diversifiés et bispirituelles naviguent les arts de vivre. Enraciné localement, cet évènement vise aussi à mobiliser des perspectives internationales (et intergénérationnelles). Pour plus d'informations, visitez: http://mcgill.ca/igsf/events/igsfconference2018

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Growth on the Horizon is a student-initiated, arts-based project aimed at understanding, addressing, and healing from rape culture and gendered violence on campus. Co-created and coordinated by Sofia Misenheimer (MA Communication Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies) and Cassie Jones (Anthropology), the goal of the project is to bring together survivors, students, artists, allies, community organizers, faculty staff, and administration to develop solutions that respond to the need for individual, collective, and institutional forms of healing and care.

Supported by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF, McGill), in collaboration with the Atwater Library and Computer Centre’s project “Addressing Gender-based Sexual Violence on Campuses in Montreal,” and many student organizations across the city, Growth on the Horizon stems from a three-year Status of Women Canada initiative to develop viable policy solutions, pedagogical strategies, and knowledge mobilization approaches to educational safety and wellness. The project will launch at McGill on March 22, 2018. 

For more information about Growth on the Horizon, please view the press release and visit growthonthehorizon.tumblr.com.

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April 7, 2018 7:30 - 9 pm M Montreal (1245 St-Andre) Join us for a drink, pick up a free copy of the "Alive & Well" issue of Art/iculation, and meet some of the magazine contributors! This issue features artwork, essays, interviews, and poetry by Faraz Abdullah Florence Ashley Billy-Ray Belcourt D. Mathieu Cassendo :: BD Valérie Gingras Laurence Guysinger Isabella Greenwood Shanmukha Inkas (Inkas Art Project) nic lachance Antoine Masson-Courchesne Robyn Maynard farha najah Daniela Picchiai Lucas Charlie Rose Starchild Stela Rae Marie Taylor SIKA valmé edited by Sofia Misenheimer and Vincent Mousseau DJ set by Wally Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/1001880739959451 For updates, please follow: www.facebook.com/articulationmagazine

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Making Scenes: Woubi Cheri (1998) with Ellise Barbara

WHEN: Tuesday, March 13 @ 7:30 pm WHERE: Arts W 215, McGill University (accessible)

The first film in the "Making Scenes" screening series, part of The Arts of Trans, Gender Diverse and Two-Spirit Lives series at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, McGill is “Woubi Cheri,” hosted and with a post-film discussion by Ellise Barbara. This 1998 documentary explores perspectives on gender variance and diversity outside of the westernized radical norm. As California Newsreel describes this: "Woubi Chéri is the first film to give African homosexuals a chance to describe their world in their own words. Often funny, sometimes ribald, but always real, this documentary introduces us to gender pioneers demanding their right to construct a distinct African homosexuality."

Ellise Barbara is a Montreal-based artist and singer. Rising from artist-run spaces at the turn of the current decade, their recent efforts have been centered around transgender community organizing. With a group called the Black Space and a lineup made of musicians of Sub-Saharan descent, Ellise Barbara aims to recenter contemporary blackness via the rejection of racialized tropes. The Black Space is working on a sci-fi multumedia concert to be shown at the MAI in April this year. This event is open to the public and is a PWYC fundraiser for Taking What We Need. Presented by IGSF, the Moving Image Research Lab, Mediaqueer and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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We hope you're as excited as we are for the April launch of Art/iculation magazine! 

To give you an idea of what to expect, we wanted to highlight the work of one of our contributors, Lucas Charlie Rose (https://www.lucascharlierose.com). A Black, trans masculine migrant, Lucas is a multidisciplinary hip-hop artist, activist, and community organizer based here in Tio'tià:ke (Montréal). You can check out his work in the next edition of Art/iculation, coming out April 7th!

www.articulationmagazine.com

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Seminar with Dr. Julian Gill-Peterson (University of Pittsburgh Tuesday, February 27, 2018 11 am - 1 pm IGSF (3487 Peel St., 2nd floor)

Professor Peterson will lead a class on his paper “Against a Secular Transgender: The Enchanted Science of 1950s Trans Feminine DIY”. To register and receive the reading, please email [email protected].

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Lecture: Trans Boyhood in the 1970s: Medicine, Race, and the Generational Border Wars Friday, February  27 4 pm TNC, Morrice Hall McGill University

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1985226851735289/

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Bio: Julian Gill-Peterson researches and teaches in transgender studies, queer studies, critical race theory, childhood studies, and the medical humanities in the Dept. of English at the University of Pittsburgh. His book, Genealogies of the Transgender Child: Sex, Race, and Plasticity, examines the previously unknown history of transgender children through the medicalization of their racial plasticity. His next book project, Gender Underground: A History of Trans DIY, further rewrites the trans twentieth century by framing it not through institutional medicine, but the myriad do-it-yourself practices and knowledge of trans people during the same era when transgender medicine was only emerging, the 1940s-1970s. 

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Seminar with Dr. Moya Bailey (Northeastern University) February 9, 2018 11 am - 1 pm ROOM CHANGE: Wilson Hall, Room 118 (Wendy Patrick Room), 3506 University Street << ACCESSIBLE SPACE

Dr. Bailey will give a class on her paper “Transform(ing) DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics”. To register and get a copy of the reading, please email [email protected]. 

This is part of “The Arts of Trans, Gender Diverse and Two-Spirit Lives” IGSF event series exploring tactics of survival, resistance and resilience.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/177912322824266/

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Bio: Dr. Moya Bailey focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion. She is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She currently curates the #transformDH Tumblr initiative. She is also the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Special issue of Art/iculation magazine (launching at the conference) Spring 2018 issue: “Alive & Well”

The next issue of Art/iculation magazine aims to celebrate the resilience of gender diverse communities in Montreal – whether transgender, non-binary, Two-Spirit, intersex, across, off, or beyond the gender spectrum – and we want to hear from you!

For submission guidelines, visit http://tiny.cc/articulation2018

DEADLINE: 30 January 2018

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APPEL À SOUMISSIONS Numéro spécial du magazine Art/iculation (lancement lors de la conférence) Printemps 2018: « Alive & Well »

La prochaine édition du magazine Art/iculation vise à célébrer la résilience des communautés de genres diversifiés à Montréal – transgenres, non-binaires, bispirituelles, intersexuées, interdépendantes ou hors du spectre du genre – et nous voulons vous entendre!

Pour les procédures de soumission, visitez http://tiny.cc/articulation2018

DATE LIMITE: 30 janvier 2018

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"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Trans Rights in Québec" by IGSF Visiting Scholar, Jennifer Drouin Followed by: "When Laws Meet Lives: Trans Activists Talk Back” with William Hebert, D.T. and Florence Paré Thursday, November 16, 2017 5:00 pm IGSF Seminar Room (3487 Peel, 2nd floor)

On 10 June 2016, “gender identity or expression” was added to the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms as a prohibited ground of discrimination, just like race, religion, or political convictions. A year later, on 19 June 2017, “gender identity or expression” was added to the Canadian Human Rights Act, thereby protecting trans persons from discrimination in federal matters. With these two important legislative changes, the state of trans rights has changed radically, although more work remains to be done, and the law on the books does not always translate into concrete changes in everyday life. This talk will address how the introduction of “gender identity or expression” as a prohibited ground of discrimination has an impact on discrimination in provincial matters, such as employment, housing, access to transportation, and public spaces, as well as in federal matters, such as hate crimes, banking, customs, prisons, and the military. In addition, this talk will answer practical questions, such as how one can change one’s first names and designation of sex on official documents, what health care costs related to gender transitioning are covered by Québec health insurance, going through airport security and customs at the border, and what to do when one has suffered discrimination. Finally, this talk will look at issues specific to trans parents, trans migrants, trans persons in prison, and trans sex workers. Jen Drouin is a Visiting Scholar at the IGSF for the 2017-2018 academic year. Previously, she was a tenured Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama where she was also an adjunct faculty member of Women’s Studies in the Department of Gender and Race Studies. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor at Allegheny College with a joint appointment in English and in Women’s Studies. Drouin is the author of Shakespeare in Québec: Nation, Gender, and Adaptation, published by University of Toronto Press in 2014. This book analyzes the intersection of feminist, queer, and nationalist discourses in Québécois adaptations of Shakespeare since the Quiet Revolution. Drouin has also published several essays on gender, sexuality, and queerness in early modern drama and contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare. See, for instance, “Cross-Dressing, Drag, and Passing: Slippages in Shakespearean Comedy” in Shakespeare Re-Dressed: Cross-Gender Casting in Contemporary Performance(2008); “Diana’s Band: Safe Spaces, Publics, and Early Modern Lesbianism” in Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze (2009); and “‘Get a Look at Your Wife’s Beautiful Cones’: Lady Macbeth’s Stone Butch Blues and Rural Second-Wave Feminism in Scotland, PA” in Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth (2013). D.T. is a researcher, writer, and advocate for trans migrants' rights. She co-organized the Montreal Trans March of 2016 and 2017 and worked to intensify advocacy and organizing around the cause and the rights of trans migrants. She is currently coordinating a research project at the Social Work department of the University of Montreal on oppressions and resistance as experienced by trans youth aged between 15 and 25 years old. She is also developing a training for healthcare professionals and social workers about working with racialized and/or immigrant queer and trans people.

Florence Ashley is a transfeminist activist and LL.M. candidate at McGill University, specialising in trans issues. They are a member of the Conseil québécois LGBT and part of the advisory board of the Trans Legal Clinic in Montreal, and have contributed to public and academic debates on trans issues, with publications in The Advocate, the Globe and Mail, and the University of Toronto Law Journal. William Hébert is a PhD Candidate in Social-Cultural Anthropology and a Junior Fellow of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. His dissertation addresses the over-representation and vulnerability of trans prisoners in Canadian correctional facilities. It investigates the emergence of trans-affirming policies and projects for justice-involved trans people, asking what they reveal about the conditions of, and limits to, inclusion. William has collaborated on numerous community-based projects, including research on trans youth’s wellbeing, trans aging, and trans legal needs.

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