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We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
Our Vision
A world where Trans+ and all gender-diverse people can thrive free from the limitations of gender and intersecting oppressions.
Our Mission
Provide inspiration and hope to Trans+ people and our allies everywhere. Contribute to the development and dissemination of accurate knowledge about Trans+ people. Help to build strong and resilient Trans+ social and cultural communities
Our Commitment
We are committed to applying an intersectional lens in our work to advance reconciliation, racial justice, equity, and inclusion for all.
Our work is fostering research and scholarship in Transgender Studies
- Encouraging both existing and new scholars to pursue careers in Transgender Studies and building local, national and international linkages with others working in Transgender Studies
- Hosting visiting academic and community scholars
- Proactive community outreach and knowledge mobilization
- Teaching and mentoring related to the area of Transgender Studies
- Assisting faculty to integrate Transgender Studies content into their courses
- Subject matter expert of the Transgender Archives
- Fundraising in support of the Chair in Transgender Studies and the Transgender Archives
Visiting scholars
Academic and community-based scholar visit with us throughout the year. Many of them have come to make use of the Transgender Archives.
Moving Trans History Forward
Community activists, researchers, educators, artists, service providers, and allies come together to create a better future.
Public events
The Chair in Transgender Studies holds a variety of public events, including guest speakers, social and arts events, and honorary degrees!
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Joy Ladin - Guest Speaker
WEBSITES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php https://kolotmayimreformtemple.com/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair https://kolotmayimreformtemple.com/donations/ The Chair in Transgender and Kolot Mayim - Building Bridges: Celebrating Diversity in Jewish Life Presents Joy Ladin "Jonah, God and Other Strangers: Reading the Torah from a Trans perspective" Sunday, February 6th, 2022 11:00 AM Pacific Live on Zoom - Registration Required Joy Ladin is the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution. Joy Ladin holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Princeton University, and long held the Gottesman Chair in English at Yeshiva University. Her most recent book, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, was a Lambda Literary Award and Triangle Award finalist. A new book of poems, Shekhinah Speaks, is in the voice of the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of the Divine, and is forthcoming in early 2022. She serves as an emeritus member of the Board of Keshet, an organization devoted to full inclusion of LGTBQ Jews in the Jewish world. In this talk, Joy will share her personal journey and offer her insights and unique reading of gender identity in the Hebrew Torah. She will analyze and reinterpret key texts from a trans perspective--that is, in light of experiences of not fitting into identity-defining roles and categories, experiences of feeling estranged that are particularly acute for transgender and nonbinary people but common to everyone and, the Torah tells us, to God.
2022 Scholarships & Fellowships
https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/what-we-do/apply/index.php
Sachie Tsuruta - Scholar in Residence
Sachie Tsuruta Creating Transgender Identity Maps in Japan Thursday, January 13th, 2022 12:00-1:00PM Live on Zoom! Due to COVID restrictions, no in-person component will be offered. Sachie Tsuruta is a Sociology and Gender Studies Associate Professor at Chiba University, Greater Tokyo, Japan. She is also a Scholar in Residence with UVic's Chair in Transgender Studies. Sachie has done fieldwork and interview research with Japanese trans communities for two decades. In this lunchtime talk, I draw on the Trans+ Identity Words’ Map (2000s, 2010s, and 2020s) from my interview research of Trans+ people in Japan using their own words from an ethnomethodology and conversation analysis point of view.See more videos from the Master Playlist playlist on YouTube.
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Transgender Archives
FTM Newsletter Panel
Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Follow us: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/contact/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php View all issues of FTM Newsletter online: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/d13ed5ae-6ea3-4cb8-b72a-4a5c794982b6 LINKS/INFO MENTIONED DURING PANEL: Issue 58 (Lou Sullivan's Memorial issue) https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/88c4eb45-04d9-4d53-9abb-79c4375d42d9?locale=en Issue 15 (first issue after Lou Sullivan's death): https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/40d49323-dca1-4cad-b0ba-0667700cf7d0?locale=en "From female to male: the life of Jack Bee Garland": https://www.worldcat.org/title/from-female-to-male-the-life-of-jack-bee-garland/oclc/21441714 Metamorphosis Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1982) from Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/c821gj816 Gender Review No. 1 (June 1978) from Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/tb09j5928 San Francisco GLBT Historical Society Museum: https://www.glbthistory.org/museum-about-visitor-info Rupert Raj fonds, The Arquives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives: https://collections.arquives.ca/en/permalink/descriptions16420 Rupert Raj fonds @ Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5Bcreator_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Raj%2C+Rupert&search_field=all_fields Max Wolf Valerio on the cover of FTM Newsletter: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/b6c111d7-0ce5-46c3-bb56-65a930c2f1e8?locale=en "Max" documentary (a part of the documentary "Female Misbehavior"): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104249/ "Genetic males have big feet" (issue #4 June 1988) : https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/80473d10-9ad3-4080-9af5-afb7b9d7bdbd?locale=en Image of Rupert Raj (issue #4 June 1988) : https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/80473d10-9ad3-4080-9af5-afb7b9d7bdbd?locale=en Kevin Horowitz Issue 26 (February 1994): https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/15eddec1-c4fc-4e28-a9d8-6f08f9c1e6b9?locale=en "The Brandon Tenna Story": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144801/ Max's book, "The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces": https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781532359262/the-criminal-the-invisibility-of-parallel-forces.aspx Trans People of Color Coalition: https://www.transpocc.org FTMInternational: https://www.ftmi.org/ END Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Follow us: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/contact/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php View all issues of FTM Newsletter online: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/d13ed5ae-6ea3-4cb8-b72a-4a5c794982b6
Introduction: Transgender Archives
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Syrus Marcus Ware - "touch change"
https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php The Chair in Transgender Studies Presents Syrus Marcus Ware “touch change: what I learned at the trans archives" 12:00 PM Pacific, Thurs., Nov. 25th, 2021 Syrus will be LIVE online, with Aaron Devor hosting in-person from the Trans Archives. JOIN US in-person, UVic, McPherson Library A003, OR on Zoom. In this talk Dr Syrus Marcus Ware will be exploring the role of archives in community building and remembering who we deem as inherently valuable- considering the importance and need for spaces like the trans archives. Syrus will consider his project Touch Change:2068, a speculative fiction drawing and story-based exhibition held at Grunt Gallery in Vancouver based on his research in the archives. Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator. Syrus uses painting, installation and performance to explore social justice frameworks and black activist culture, and his work has been shown widely, including in a solo show at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver in 2018 (2068:Touch Change), for the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art and the Ryerson Image Centre (Antarctica and Ancestors, Do You Read Us? (Dispatches from the Future)), for the Bentway’s Safety in Public Spaces Initiative in 2020 (Radical Love) and at the Never Apart in Montreal. His performance works have been part of festivals across Canada, including at Cripping The Stage (Harbourfront Centre, 2016, 2019), Complex Social Change (University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, 2015) and Decolonizing and Decriminalizing Trans Genres (University of Winnipeg, 2015). He is part of the Performance Disability Art Collective and a core-team member of Black Lives Matter – Toronto. His on-going curatorial work includes That’s So Gay (Gladstone Hotel, 2016-2020) and BlacknessYes!/Blockorama.See more videos from the Transgender Archive Videos playlist on YouTube.
Years in Review
2021 Year in Review
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2020 Year in Review
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2019 Year in Review
CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchairSee more videos from the Years in Review playlist on YouTube.
Moving Trans History Forward 2021
[MTHF21 HIGHLIGHTS] 4 Days in 11 Minutes
Conference Website: https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2021/ Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair The Moving Trans History Forward conferences are not just for scholars, or just for community people. MTHF conferences are a unique blend that create opportunities for cross-fertilization among members of general public; students and faculty; artists; activists; Trans, Nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and other gender-diverse people; family members; allies; and service providers. Conferences consider both our history, and the crucial issues which impact us today, and into the future—locally, nationally, and globally.
[YOUTH PANEL] Moving Trans History Forward conference 2021
Conference Website: https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2021/ Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair THE YOUTH PANEL PRESENTED BY RBC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SKIPPING STONE (CALGARY, ALBERTA) Three youth (ages 11, 14, and 18) show a PechaKucha style art presentation about their experiences of being Trans+ youth. A panel of three additional Trans+ youth (14, 17, 19) provide LIVE responses and discussion.
[KEYNOTE] Miss Major w/ Kelendria Nation & Syrus Marcus Ware - Moving Trans History Forward 2021
Conference Website: https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2021/ Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair THE MOVING TRANS HISTORY FORWARD CONFERENCE PRESENTS MISS MAJOR SATURDAY KEYNOTE MARCH 13 2021 11:15 AM PST Miss Major is a Black, transgender activist who has fought for over fifty years to create a better world. ABOUT MISS MAJOR Major is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a survivor of Dannemora Prison and Bellevue Hospital’s “queen tank.” Her global legacy of activism is rooted in her own experiences, and she continues her work to uplift transgender women of color, particularly those who have survived incarceration and police brutality. Miss Major is featured in the 2015 documentary film, MAJOR!, which explores the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. IN CONVERSATION WITH KELENDRIA NATION & SYRUS MARCUS WARE Kelendria Nation is a Black woman of Trans experience of Caribbean descent who uses her perspective and unique experience to bring awareness to the various issues surrounding trans people; especially trans women of colour. She has dedicated herself to using her voice to impact change and bridge understanding across all communities. She provides advocacy, resolutions and transitions for Trans identified peoples. Through her work in community space through advocacy, she strives to allow folks to see that Trans, Non binary, and 2spirit identified folks because of their multiple intersections are often times left out in conversations. With collaboration and standing in solidarity with other community members she has been given the tools of being able to communicate her experience which has allowed her to tell her own story in her own voice. It is her hope that in time there will be more opportunities to empower other BIMPOC identified folks in the same which she has been. Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator. Syrus uses drawing, installation and performance to explore social justice frameworks and black activist culture, and he’s shown widely in galleries and festivals across Canada. He is part of the Performance Disability Art Collective and a core-team member of Black Lives Matter – Toronto. He has won several recognitions including the TD Diversity Award 2017, “Best Queer Activist” NOW Magazine 2005, and the Steinert and Ferreiro Award 2012. He is the co-editor or the best-selling Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (URP, 2020). Photo Credit: Jalani MorganSee more videos from the Moving Trans History Forward 2021 playlist on YouTube.
Martine Rothblatt - Hon. Degree Recipient
Dr. Martine Rothblatt - UVic Honorary Degree Recipient
EVENT WEBSITE: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/what-we-do/events/other/index.php UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA: https://www.uvic.ca/ceremonies/convocation/traditions/honoraries/index.php CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair
Dr. Martine Rothblatt - Convocation Ceremony
CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Martine Rothblatt, Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) November 13, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. Martine Rothblatt, PhD, MBA, JD, is a technologist, entrepreneur, lawyer and author, and a leader in communications, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and bioethics. As an entrepreneur, Rothblatt launched the navigation system GeoStar and the broadcasting company that became SiriusXM. After coming out as transgender she founded the biotech company United Therapeutics (UTHR), to develop a drug for lung disease that ended up saving her own daughter’s life—and those of thousands of others. Projects in development include creating transplantable organs using a 3D-printer and a person’s own cells. She was included in Forbes Magazine’s “100 Greatest Business Minds.” Rothblatt also supports transhumanism and experiments with robotic and artificial intelligence. Her Terasem Movement Foundation helps people upload records of their lives to computers to prepare for “mind clones” in the future. As part of this exciting work, her team created an intelligent, lifelike robot called Bina48.
Dr. Martine Rothblatt - Fireside Chat
CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair DR. MARTINE ROTHBLATT UVic Honorary Degree Recipient Nominated by the Chair in Transgender Studies In 2017, Forbes Magazine named Dr. Martine Rothblatt as one of the “100 Greatest Living Business Minds of the past 100 years.” On Wed., Nov. 13th, 2019, Martine Rothblatt will be receiving an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree from the University of Victoria (watch the live webcast). On the following evening, Thurs., Nov. 14th, 7:30 PM, Martine Rothblatt will join Aaron Devor, Chair in Transgender Studies, for a "Fireside Chat" about her remarkable life and accomplishments. Martine Rothblatt, PhD, MBA, JD, is a technologist, entrepreneur, lawyer and author, and a leader in communications, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and bioethics. As an entrepreneur, Rothblatt launched the navigation system GeoStar and the broadcasting company that became SiriusXM. After coming out as transgender she founded the biotech company United Therapeutics (UTHR), to develop a drug for lung disease that ended up saving her own daughter’s life—and those of thousands of others. Projects in development include creating transplantable organs using a 3D-printer and a person’s own cells. She was included in Forbes Magazine’s “100 Greatest Business Minds.” Rothblatt also supports transhumanism and experiments with robotic and artificial intelligence. Her Terasem Movement Foundation helps people upload records of their lives to computers to prepare for “mind clones” in the future. As part of this exciting work, her team created an intelligent, lifelike robot called Bina48.See more videos from the Martine Rothblatt - Honorary Degree Recipient playlist on YouTube.
Scholars & Fellows
2022 Scholarships & Fellowships
https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/what-we-do/apply/index.phpSachie Tsuruta - Scholar in Residence
Sachie Tsuruta Creating Transgender Identity Maps in Japan Thursday, January 13th, 2022 12:00-1:00PM Live on Zoom! Due to COVID restrictions, no in-person component will be offered. Sachie Tsuruta is a Sociology and Gender Studies Associate Professor at Chiba University, Greater Tokyo, Japan. She is also a Scholar in Residence with UVic's Chair in Transgender Studies. Sachie has done fieldwork and interview research with Japanese trans communities for two decades. In this lunchtime talk, I draw on the Trans+ Identity Words’ Map (2000s, 2010s, and 2020s) from my interview research of Trans+ people in Japan using their own words from an ethnomethodology and conversation analysis point of view.
2021 Scholars & Fellows
CONGRATULATIONS We are proud to announce the 2021 Chair in Transgender Studies Scholarship & Fellowship recipients. Read more about the recipients and their exciting research.https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/research/scholarship/index.php Thank you to our community supporters, like Andrew Beckerman, who helped make these awards possible. Become a supporter today! https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Over the coming year, you will hear more from each of our recipients. https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/contact/index.phpSee more videos from the Scholars & Fellows playlist on YouTube.
Speakers
FTM Newsletter Panel
Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Follow us: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/contact/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php View all issues of FTM Newsletter online: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/d13ed5ae-6ea3-4cb8-b72a-4a5c794982b6 LINKS/INFO MENTIONED DURING PANEL: Issue 58 (Lou Sullivan's Memorial issue) https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/88c4eb45-04d9-4d53-9abb-79c4375d42d9?locale=en Issue 15 (first issue after Lou Sullivan's death): https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/40d49323-dca1-4cad-b0ba-0667700cf7d0?locale=en "From female to male: the life of Jack Bee Garland": https://www.worldcat.org/title/from-female-to-male-the-life-of-jack-bee-garland/oclc/21441714 Metamorphosis Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1982) from Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/c821gj816 Gender Review No. 1 (June 1978) from Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/tb09j5928 San Francisco GLBT Historical Society Museum: https://www.glbthistory.org/museum-about-visitor-info Rupert Raj fonds, The Arquives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives: https://collections.arquives.ca/en/permalink/descriptions16420 Rupert Raj fonds @ Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5Bcreator_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Raj%2C+Rupert&search_field=all_fields Max Wolf Valerio on the cover of FTM Newsletter: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/b6c111d7-0ce5-46c3-bb56-65a930c2f1e8?locale=en "Max" documentary (a part of the documentary "Female Misbehavior"): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104249/ "Genetic males have big feet" (issue #4 June 1988) : https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/80473d10-9ad3-4080-9af5-afb7b9d7bdbd?locale=en Image of Rupert Raj (issue #4 June 1988) : https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/80473d10-9ad3-4080-9af5-afb7b9d7bdbd?locale=en Kevin Horowitz Issue 26 (February 1994): https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/15eddec1-c4fc-4e28-a9d8-6f08f9c1e6b9?locale=en "The Brandon Tenna Story": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144801/ Max's book, "The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces": https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781532359262/the-criminal-the-invisibility-of-parallel-forces.aspx Trans People of Color Coalition: https://www.transpocc.org FTMInternational: https://www.ftmi.org/ END Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Follow us: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/contact/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php View all issues of FTM Newsletter online: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/d13ed5ae-6ea3-4cb8-b72a-4a5c794982b6Joy Ladin - Guest Speaker
WEBSITES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php https://kolotmayimreformtemple.com/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair https://kolotmayimreformtemple.com/donations/ The Chair in Transgender and Kolot Mayim - Building Bridges: Celebrating Diversity in Jewish Life Presents Joy Ladin "Jonah, God and Other Strangers: Reading the Torah from a Trans perspective" Sunday, February 6th, 2022 11:00 AM Pacific Live on Zoom - Registration Required Joy Ladin is the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution. Joy Ladin holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Princeton University, and long held the Gottesman Chair in English at Yeshiva University. Her most recent book, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, was a Lambda Literary Award and Triangle Award finalist. A new book of poems, Shekhinah Speaks, is in the voice of the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of the Divine, and is forthcoming in early 2022. She serves as an emeritus member of the Board of Keshet, an organization devoted to full inclusion of LGTBQ Jews in the Jewish world. In this talk, Joy will share her personal journey and offer her insights and unique reading of gender identity in the Hebrew Torah. She will analyze and reinterpret key texts from a trans perspective--that is, in light of experiences of not fitting into identity-defining roles and categories, experiences of feeling estranged that are particularly acute for transgender and nonbinary people but common to everyone and, the Torah tells us, to God.
Adrienne Smith - Invited Speaker
WEBSITE: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair ADRIENNE SMITH - "RECENT ADVANCES IN TRANSGENDER LAW" Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PST BIO: Adrienne Smith is a transgender human rights activist and social justice lawyer. They hold a double honours BA in English Literature and Geography (2000), a Masters in Human Geography (2005), and a JD (2013), all from the University of British Columbia. Adrienne is the recipient of the Canadian Bar Association BC Diversity Award, the Canadian Mental Health Association BC Branch Nancy Hall Public Policy Leadership Award, the Allard Law Alumni Achievement Award, and the Vancouver and District Labour Council Syd Thompson award for Award for Community Service. ABSTRACT: The struggle for transgender recognition and rights in Canada is an evolving area of law. In this short zoom presentation, Adrienne Smith, a Vancouver Social Justice Lawyer, will discuss recent legal victories for trans people, and the issues that may be next for transgender litigants. Adrienne will begin with foundational cases about the right to access bathrooms and other gendered facilities, the right to change sex designations on government-issued ID without surgery, and the explicit recognition of gender identity and expression in provincial and federal human rights legislation. They will then give participants an update on the types of cases that have been argued since explicit recognition, and what types of cases we can expect in the future.See more videos from the Speakers playlist on YouTube.
Chair in Transgender Studies
TransChair @ Microsoft Vancouver
Thursday, July 16, 2020 from 11:00 am to 12:20 pm "The more we talk, the more we understand" EVENT WEBSITE: https://events.time.ly/3muvaie?event=39358402 TRANSCHAIR WEBSITE: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair
Fantasia Fair - 2018 Transgender Pioneer Award Banquet
Virginia Prince photos credit: Mariette Pathy Allen FANTASIA FAIR: http://fanfair.info CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair 2018 Transgender Pioneer Award Banquet Awarded to Dr. Aaron Devor Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 Provincetown, MA Video provided by Fantasia Fair
Safety in Numbers: A Trans History
What was it like to be transgender before there was such a thing as a trans community? Pioneers who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s reflect on their personal experience, while young people in the community today offer their own stories. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TELUS STORYHIVE supports compelling, original stories told by filmmakers from BC and Alberta by providing production funding, training and exposure to new audiences. Find out more - http://www.storyhive.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with us: STORYHIVE Twitter - https://twitter.com/storyhive STORYHIVE Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/storyhive STORYHIVE Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/storyhive/See more videos from the Chair in Transgender Studies playlist on YouTube.
Scholars in Residence
Esther Suwannanon - Scholar in Residence
CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Esther C. Suwannanon, is presently an M.A. student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. She is currently researching Kathoey history through the analysis of her personal formal/informal archives and living in Canada as a graduate visiting research student at University of Victoria where she is a Canada-Asian Scholarship and Education Exchanges for Development Scholar.
Dan Wei - Scholar in Residence
CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Dan Wei Scholar in Residence from Nanchang University, China Dan Wei, PhD, lecturer at Nanchang University in China, is a visiting scholar funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council. She is interested in gender inequality and transgender issues in China. She is doing research on cross-gender performance in Chinese theater and transgender history, politics, and activism in China.
Sandy Artuso - Scholar in Residence
The Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/See more videos from the Scholars in Residence playlist on YouTube.