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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 in Get Involved!.

Celebrate Trans* Pride Week at Vanderbilt January 28th – February 1st with the following events:

Making Our Own Trans* Umbrella
Monday, January 28th,10am-5pm
K.C. Potter Center
Come to the KCPC to help us create our very own version of the Trans* Umbrella. We’ll be decorating a large rainbow umbrella with positive affirmations about trans* and gender non-conforming identities.  Open to all members of the Vanderbilt community.

Trans* Clothes Swap
Collecting until Monday, January 28
In honor of Trans* Pride Week and Lambda’s Winter Clothes Drive, we will be having a Trans* Clothes Swap for the youth of the Just Us program at the Oasis Center as well as Vanderbilt students. Everyone’s invited to donate gently used clothes and accessories (jewelry, makeup, binders, etc.) that are no longer needed.  Donations can be dropped off at the K.C. Potter Center (312 West Side Row). For directions, contact Petey Peterson at (615) 322-3330.

Lambda General Body Meeting: LGB But Not Quite the T
Tuesday, January 29th, 8-9pm
K.C. Potter Center
“LGBT” is the current mainstream acronym representing the queer community.  All too often the T is mentioned without a space being created for the gender non-conforming.  We see legislation, change, and widespread conversations for the LGB, but what’s really going on with the T?  Open to all undergraduate students.

Film Screening: transparent
Thursday, January 31st, 6-7:30pm
Sarratt 216/220
Pink or blue. Male or female. Mommy or daddy. Categories that we all take for granted are broken apart in transparent, a documentary about 19 female-to-male transpeople living in the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few cases, have gone on to raise their biological children. transparent focuses on its subjects’ lives as parents, revealing the diverse ways in which each person reconciles giving birth and being a biological mother with his masculine identity. Free and open to the public.

Thank Goodness It’s Trans* Friday (TGI-Trans*-F)
Friday, February 1st, 12-2pm
K.C. Potter Center
Bring your lunch to the K.C. Potter Center for good company and conversation. Then stay for dessert and make your own Gender-bread person cookie in honor of Trans* Pride Week!  Open to all members of the Vanderbilt community.

* The word “transgender,” or “trans,” is an umbrella term which is often used to describe
a wide range of identities and experiences, including: transsexuals, FTMs, MTFs,
cross-dressers, drag queens, drag kings, two-spirits, gender queers, and many more.