The University of Iowa Division of Student Life

Are you interested in a free interactive training?

March 7th from 1 pm to 4 pm our community has been invited to participate in an interactive training game about diversity.

ROLL the DICE: Roll of the Dice is an interactive training “game” created in 2011 by the King County Coalition on Racial Disproportionality as a means to educate its members about the causes and effects of racial disproportionality as it is found across major systems like education, health, child welfare and juvenile justice. The experience brings together readily available quantitative research/statistical measurements in a fun, personal and interactive manner that mobilizes participants to better digest, integrate and apply research and evaluation into their efforts. It feels like playing a game with the side benefit that participants learn how statistics and research can help them improve their communities.

Space is limited so please register today!                                                                               Please contact Megan Schwalm (megan-schwalm@uiowa.edu) for a copy of the registration form.

For any questions or comments, please contact LaTasha Massey via email lmassey@co.johnson.ia.us or phone: 319.688.5708

-By stef shuster & Zeke Swim, Co-Organizers for TransCollaborations

TransWeek! is scheduled for Friday November 2^nd through Monday November 5^th and is hosted by TransCollaborations, a UI and Iowa City-based organization. However, we work closely with many community partners to implement this annual week of events centered on (trans)gender activism and advocacy.

We are extremely excited about this year’s TransWeek! Several amazing performers and social justice activists will be coming in from around the country to help lead workshops and participate in the week of events. ellie june navidson, a self described “radical tranny faggot” from Chicago who is gaining recognition for her brilliant blog invisiblyqueer.tumblr.com will present interactive workshops on Saturday November 3^rd at 3pm at the IC Public Library and Sunday November 4^th at the Women’s Resource & Action Center on exploring one’s self-narrative and making zines. Red Durkin is the managing editor of PrettyQueer.com. A writer, comedian, and vlogger, she has toured extensively as part of the Tranny Roadshow. Red will present a workshop on critical media analysis on Sunday November 4^th at the Women’s Resource & Action Center at 1pm. Both of these activists, along with several others, will also perform spoken word and poetry on Saturday November 3^rd at 8pm at Public Space One.

This year, TransWeek! takes aim at transnormativity through many opportunities to engage in dialogue – through workshops, performance art, collaborative art projects, and discussions – around the systemic problems associated with this aspect of transgender communities. Transnormativity is an insidious aspect of transgender communities in that it propels myths about who makes up the trans* population and how we come to understand ourselves. I’m sure you know the common narrative – from an early age we knew we were different, our bodies don’t match our minds, we want to transition to “the other” gender. These are all myths associated with a transnormative narrative, and they simply aren’t true. We are much more complex and nuanced and there are many ways that trans* people narrate our understandings of our identities.

All events are free and open to the public. A full schedule of events may be found on the TransCollaborations website: www.transcollaborations.wordpress.com

Thanks stef and Zeke for the post! Click here for a great list of other multicultural opportunities happening at the University of Iowa in November. Thanks to the Carver College of Medicine for sharing this great list!