Transgender Awareness Week - Tuesday

This week is Trans Awareness Week at YPI and we have some activities planned that were meant to share awareness of the issues which trans folk often face that the queer population as well as the heteronormative community are not often aware of. Today, we did a viewing of Laverne Cox's new documentary, "The T Word".

The documentary had a few youths who watched - many did not. Mostly, the youths would watch a few minutes and then go join their friends in another part of the space. We had anticipated this, seeing as events in the space have similar attendance. As we were watching, however, there was definitely some problematic language being used by some of the youths who did not understand transgender terms. I decided to allow this because of the introductory level of the documentaryand the presentation of information regarding the subject. While we were hoping to guide a discussion about trans issues and some of the things that Cox has brought up in the documentary, the lack of attendance prevented this from happening to the best of our ability. Seeing as we cant force anyone to watch and participate in the space, we left our posters of questions hanging in the space for others to volunteer information. Pictures of this will come at the end of the week.