Ohio – 2011 Trans* Day of Remembrance Events

The Trans* Day of Remembrance is held in November each year to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. Although not every person represented during the Day of Remembrance self-identified as trans*, each was a victim of violence based on bias or prejudice against transgender people.

Cincinnati – Wednesday, November 16, 2011
7pm
St. John UCC third
520 Fairfield Ave.
Bellevue, KY 4107

Columbus – Thursday, November 17, 2011
7pm
King Avenue United Methodist Church
299 King Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201

Cleveland – Friday, November 18, 2011
5:45pm
Free Stamp – East 9th Street and Lakeside Avenue
Candlelight vigil at 5:45pm at the Free Stamp, then walking over to Cleveland City Hall where the rest of the program will be held.

Dayton – Friday, November 18, 2011
Sinclair Community College, Main Campus, Building 14, Room 130 (The Forum)
444 West Third Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402
5pm-8:30pm

New Trans Therapy Group in Cleveland Forming

Introducing a new Transgender Therapy Group

Saturdays 10am – 11:30am

(Beginning July 16, 2011)

Facilitated by Sue Doerfer, MSW, LISW-S

at Antone Feo, PhD & Associates, Inc.
24500 Center Ridge Road, Suite 100
Westlake, OH  44145

Pre-Registration is Required.  Insurance billing available, $35 per session for self-pay.

For more information and to pre-register call 440-899-1300

Fabulously Fluid! Call for Performers!

Fabulously Fluid! GenderBending Performance Showcase is seeking performer submissions! Fabulously Fluid! is Ohio’s only genderfuck performance showcase and it presents a diverse show of performance art, drag, burlesque, and dance from a wide variety of performers. Fabulously Fluid! is put on to benefit the TransOhio Transgender and Ally Symposium, taking place the weekend of the symposium bringing a diverse community on and off stage! The show is currently seeking performers of all identities and talents. Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, July 13th, 2011, at 11:59pm.

Fabulously Fluid! Call for Performers Submission Form

If you have any questions, please contact the founding show director and producer, JAC Stringer (AKA Midwest GenderQueer) at jac (@) midwestgenderqueer.com.

Show Information
Date: August 6th, 2011
Cover: $5, 18 and up
Doors: 8pm
Show time 9pm-11:15pm
Venue: Wall St Night Club, Columbus, OH http://www.wallstreetnightclub.com/
Payment: Each performer/group will receive a payment of $25 per number as well as keeping all tips.

Fabulously Fluid! Call for Performers Submission Form

Ohio Advocates Youth Leadership Council is recruiting youth/young adults for another incredible year of activism!

Ohio Advocates is a statewide group of diverse youth and young adults (15-24) working to influence policies and programs that support sexual health through community/campus organizing and advocacy efforts. We are looking for a few youth activists ages 15-24 to help us continue the great work Ohio Advocates has been doing for the past three years!

Since 2008, Ohio Advocates Youth Leadership Council has been the leading youth voice in Ohio for policy issues related to sexual health, comprehensive sex education, reproductive justice, HIV/AIDS care, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality. Ohio Advocates Youth Leadership Council Members have led and participated in successful campaigns to eliminate harmful abstinence-only-until-marriage programming is schools, implement enumerated anti-discrimination campus policies, provided testimony before Ohio House Committees, and have earned national media for their incredible work. Through the power of youth activism and mobilization, Ohio Advocates proves that young people can make Ohio a safer, healthier place for all Ohioans!

The application for the academic year 2011-2012 is attached. Deadline is June 15th, 2011.

JOIN THE CAUSE. LEARN MORE. TAKE ACTION.
find out how you can get involved online:
www.amplifyyourvoice.org/ohio

Judith Pindell, MSSA, LSW
Director of Public Policy and Advocacy
Youth Activist Coordinator
AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland
216.621.0766 x231

Trans & Gender Non-Conforming – (Columbus) June Meeting @ PBJ Connections

The Columbus Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Support group that meets the 1st Wednesday of the month will be moved to a new location for its Wednesday, June 1st meeting (only for this particular date!).

The June meeting will be held onsite at PBJ Connections.

PBJ Connections helps youths build emotional awareness and relate how they are feeling to how they are behaving. Their treatment program uses horses to help clients with emotional and behavioral growth and learning.

PBJ Connections guides their clients through connecting how they are relating to their world with how they are relating to the horses. Their focus is simple. PBJ Connections works to provide emotional healing for at-risk youth and families through equine-assisted activities.

PBJ Connections is located in Pataskala at:
9800 Jug Street Road NW
Pataskala, OH 43062

As usual, the group will being at 7pm and run through 9pm.

Please wear appropriate clothing and shoes as we’ll be able to work with the horses. This is group is open to all people wherever they are on the gender spectrum, ages 18+.

The Archetype of Power: Harnessing our Inner Power.
Horses represent the epitome of power. Learn how to create your own sense of empowerment from interacting with the horses. How do we learn to accept ourselves? How do we move through a world that often challenges our self-acceptance? Horses are powerful animals; experience how they stay in the moment to channel their power.