This session will focus on understanding the experience of transgender people within the broader social landscape we share, and how we can shift the cultures of our institutions and communities in ways that stop the erasure of trans lives.  Theories that narrowly tether notions of gender to body will be challenged, and ways to move communities and structural systems forward will be addressed. The panel will be moderated by Julie Beaulieu (she/they) Lecturer for the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program and 2019 Bellet Award Winner for Teaching Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh.  

Other panelists include:

Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson (she/her), Associate Professor of English and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program

Dr. Darren Whitfield (he/him), Assistant Professor of Social Work and Psychiatry

Miracle Jones (she/her), Director of Policy and Advocacy, 1Hood Media

Ari Rubinson (he/him), Registered nurse and advocate for LGBTQ competent healthcare

Max Reiver (they/he), Recent Pitt alum and former preseident of T is For

Dena Stanley (she, her, hers), CEO and Founder of TransYOUniting
 

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at diversity@pitt.edu by July 21

This session is a part of the 2021 Diversity Forum.

Photo credit Kaycee Orwig of The Pitt News