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WELCOME! We acknowledge with respect the Lkwungenspeaking peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

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CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES The Chair in Transgender Studies is devoted to fostering, supporting, and communicating research into a broad range of topics concerned with improving the lives and circumstances of trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people. We exist because good research is the basis for solid reliable information about the real world. We need research to drive social change. We need research as the basis for good policies and better laws to improve the well-being of trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people. The Chair in Transgender Studies encompasses the Chair holder, visiting academic and community-based scholars, graduate students, and staff. The Transgender Archives was founded by the Chair who now also serves as the Academic Director.

DR. AARON DEVOR Dr. Aaron H Devor, PhD, FSSSS, FSTLHE, has been studying and teaching about transgender topics for more than thirty years. He was one of the authors of versions 6 and 7 of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's (WPATH) Standards of Care, and is now overseeing its translation into world languages. He is the author of numerous well-cited scholarly articles, and the widely-acclaimed books Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality (1989) and FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society (1997, 2016) The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future (2014), a Lambda Literary Awards finalist. He has delivered lectures to audiences around the world, including more than 20 keynote and plenary addresses. He is a national-award-winning teacher, an elected member of the International Academy of Sex Research, and an elected Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Dr. Devor, a trans man, is also the Founder and Academic Director of the world's largest Transgender Archives, a former Dean of Graduate Studies (2002-2012), and a professor of sociology at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

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MICHAEL RADMACHER

Michael Radmacher is a member of the queer community who originates from Treaty 4 territory in Saskatchewan. He relocated to UVic in 2009 to complete his MA in Political Science. In 2010 he completed his award-winning thesis and joined UVic Libraries where he began volunteering for the Transgender Archives. Michael now serves as the Administrative Officer to the Chair in Transgender Studies and has recently completed his Master of Library and Information Science.

THE TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES The Transgender Archives is a part of the University of Victoria Libraries and an integral part of the Chair in Transgender Studies. The history of pioneering trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit activists and the work they have done on behalf of their communities must be preserved. The Transgender Archives safeguards documents, rare publications, and memorabilia of persons and organizations that have worked for the betterment of trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people. The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries is open to the public, faculty, students, and scholars free of charge.

LARA WILSON Lara Wilson is director of special collections and university archivist at the University of Victoria. Lara holds a Master of Arts degree (art history and visual studies) from UVic and a Master of Archival Studies from the University of British Columbia. She is chairperson of the Canadian Council of Archives.

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PHOTO POLICY Please be aware that there is a conference photographer and videographer digitally capturing the Moving Trans History Forward conference. These photos/videos will be posted online after the conference for people to enjoy. If we see this symbol on your name badge, we will do our very best to respect your privacy. If you do not want your photo taken, please position yourself at a distance from the speakers so that you are not inadvertently captured. If you see this symbol on a person’s name badge, please respect their privacy and do not take their photo without explicit consent. Thank you for your understanding.

NAME BADGE POLICY Please wear your badge throughout the conference in order to gain access to all conference events and services. After the conference, we are happy to recycle your name badge and/or holder. Please leave whatever you don’t want at the registration table once the conference has ended. Thank you!

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! Vancity

Winchester Galleries

www.winchestergalleriesltd.com Co-sponsor of Kent Monkman

www.vancity.com Sponsor of the Youth Panel

Printing Sponsor www.monk.ca

Social Sciences Vice President Finance & Operations Vice President Academic & Provost Libraries Education Island Medical Program Continuing Studies Humanities Visual Arts UVic Sociolinguistics Research Lab Nursing Anthropology Psychology Sociology Philosophy Child and Youth Care Graduate Studies Writing Gender Studies Hispanic & Italian Studies English Fine Arts Environment Studies Art History and Visual Studies Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Germanic & Slavic studies Greek & Roman Studies Health & Information Science

COMMUNITY Tawani Foundation Martine Rothblatt Stephen Baker Andrew Beckerman Victoria Pride Society Sophia Neuhaus Esther Sangster-Gormley Glynne Evans Janni Aragon Mariette Pathy Allen Sandy Kathy Artuso Brooks Mackenzie Rachel Hope Cleves Emma Curtis Cierra Dahlquist Sharon Doty Christine Fletcher Dee Gelbart Helen Hvozdanski Eric Willey Christine Kalinski Julian Paquette Katja Thieme Stephen Baker Rosemarie Caulder Lara Wilson Rachel Dengate Moe Wendt Chelsea Wendt

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STEERING COMMITTEE & VOLUNTEERS Thank you to the Chair in Transgender Studies’ dedicated Steering Committee who provide invaluable guidance and feedback. Janni Aragon – Technology Integrated Learning, Director, UVic Mo Bradley – Writing, Associate Professor, UVic Rachel Cleves – History, Professor, UVic Alexandra D'Arcy – Linguistics, Associate Professor, UVic Kimi Dominic – Interdisciplinary PhD Student, UVic Sharon Doty – PFLAG, Victoria Matthew Heinz – Vice-Provost, Research & Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads Lindsay Herriot – Curriculum and Instruction, Adjunct Faculty, UVic Cindy Holmes – Social Work, Assistant Professor, UVic Nathan Lachowsky – Public Health & Social Policy, Assistant Professor, UVic Annalee Lepp – Gender Studies, Associate Professor, UVic Alyx MacAdams – MSW Student, Social Work, UVic Kelsey Rounds – PhD Student, Nursing, UVic ChrYs Tei – Rainbow Health Co-operative Lara Wilson – Director of Special Collections and University Archivist, UVic Margot Wilson – Anthropology, Associate Professor, UVic Audrey Wolfe – MA Student, Child and Youth Care, UVic

A special THANK YOU to Michael Radmacher, Administrative Officer to the Chair, without whose tireless dedication and attention to details the Moving Trans History Forward conference would not have happened. And a big THANK YOU to the Chair’s student assistant Hepzibeth Lee, our photographer Rosalind Roz Humphreys, our videographer Alexander Campbell, and to all our volunteers! The conference could not take place without your dedication, time, and support. 10

ISABEL ROSE Opening Ceremony Speaker WHEN: Thursday, 7:30pm, March 22nd, 2018. WHERE: Continuing Studies Building Atrium - University of Victoria Isabel Rose is a singer, writer, performer, and passionate activist for the rights of transgender children and their families. Her letter in support of her own transgender daughter’s right to use the girl’s bathroom at school, posted openly to Ivanka Trump, sparked conversation around the world. Isabel’s articles and videos can be found on YouTube, CNN, Medium, CafeMom, and on her own website, Isabelrose.com.

Letter to Ivanka Trump Dear Ivanka, My name is Isabel Rose and I bet if we played a quick game of Six Degrees of Separation we would discover many mutual acquaintances… READ MORE http://bit.ly/2GqAPS6

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ANDREA JENKINS THE 'T' IS NOT SILENT WHEN: Friday, March 23rd, 2018. Pre-Talk reception: Meet Andrea at a casual reception before her keynote address 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM Keynote address: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM WHERE: Pre-Talk reception: lobby of the Bob Wright Centre Keynote address: B150 - Bob Wright Centre Andrea Jenkins is the first openly transgender black woman elected to public office in the United States! Andrea is an oral historian and curator of the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota's Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, a Minneapolis City Council Member, a poet and performance artist, Chair of the Board of Intermedia Arts, and a black trans woman active with Black Lives Matter. Jenkins' talk, "The 'T' is Not Silent: Centering Black Trans-Identities in an Historical Context," will explore how blackness has been a source of value for transgender politics and identity, how blackness and transness are performed in culture and society, and how the lived experiences, activism, intellectual work, and expressive knowledge of black transgender and gender nonbinary people put pressure on dominant articulations of trans identity, trans politics, and notions of coalition and solidarity.

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KENT MONKMAN TRANS AS THE NEW FRONTIER A keynote lecture followed by a conversation with Shelagh Rogers Presented in partnership with Winchester Galleries WHEN: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Saturday, March 24th, 2018. WHERE: Farquhar Auditorium - University Centre. Kent Monkman uses brilliant artistic talents and a sharp wit to explore indigenous and anti-colonialist perspectives on Canada's History. Monkman is a Canadian Two-Spirit artist of Cree ancestry who works in painting, film/video, performance, and installation. Monkman has had solo and group exhibitions and performances at numerous prestigious Canadian and international museums, festivals, galleries, and other venues. Monkman's works are exhibited in important collections including, among others, the National Gallery of Canada and the Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian.

Cain and Abel - 2017

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YOUTH PANEL Sponsored by Vancity. Moderated by Aidan Key. WHEN: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Saturday, March 24th, 2018 WHERE: B150 - Bob Wright Centre

JOCELYN BAKER

Jocelyn Baker co-leads the Pride Alliance at St Michaels University School in Victoria (SMUS), a club that advocates for transgender rights and supports LGBTQ individuals in SMUS and in the local community. She has worked to create more inclusive facilities for transgender students at her school such as adopting non-gender-specific uniforms and creating more gender-neutral bathrooms. Jocelyn has educated SMUS on the rights of transgender students and helped faculty understand how to include them. She also founded SMUS' Debate Workshops, which teach students civil discourse skills, fostering open-mindedness and discussion. In her free time, Jocelyn enjoys reading and hiking Mount Douglas.

JAY H.

Jay is a Canadian transgender teenager. He started his transition over 5 years ago and during that time has sat on panels geared towards the LGBTQ+ community, in Canada and the USA.

TRU WILSON Tru Wilson is an articulate and bold fourteenyear-old transgender advocate from Vancouver, BC. Tru first made headlines when she filed a human rights complaint against her local Catholic school board for not supporting her transition, which resulted in the first known policy in any Catholic school in North America supporting a child's transition. Since then, Tru has become a proud and voracious speaker for trans rights, and in 2015 was recognized by Vancouver Magazine as one of the city's 50 most powerful and influential people. In 2016, she was named Options for Sexual Health’s Sexual Health Champion, and in 2017 her entire family was nominated to be grand marshals is the Vancouver Pride Parade. Tru was also chosen to be a speaker at Vancouver’s 2017 TedX East Van event.

STEVIE ZEER Stevie is an 18 year old Indigenous/person of color who lives on Vancouver Island. They’re active in the LGBT+ community there, and their focus for activism is with intersex people, and people of color. They are currently a student who plans on being a councillor and continuing to work with LGBT+ youth within the Vancouver Island community. They believe in change through education, art, and compassion.

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ELDERS PANEL The Elders Panel features a panel of trans elders providing live first-hand oral testimony about their experiences as elders of trans activism. SPEAKERS: Christine Burns, Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, Aidan Key, Maria Sundin WHEN: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Sunday, March 25th, 2018 WHERE: B150 - Bob Wright Centre

CHRISTINE BURNS Rescuing Trans Histories BIO: Christine was a key part of Britain’s ‘Press for Change’ campaign for transgender rights from 1993 until 2007, becoming one of the vicepresidents in 1996. This means that she was involved throughout the years when the organisation was at its peak and had a key role in many of the groundbreaking successes which occurred, culminating in the passage of the UK's Gender Recognition Act in 2004. She has written several books, including a two-part history of the PFC campaign, Pressing Matters, and the just-released Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows. She also penned the first National Health Service policy guide relating to trans patients and staff. Christine lives in Manchester, England, officially retired in 2013, and concentrates most of her time doting on her grandchildren, researching her family’s ancestry, reading detective fiction, gardening and riding her bike. ABSTRACT: Excavating the social history of any marginalised group is never easy. Academic works are more likely than not to present a problematised and pathologising outsider perspective. Newspaper archives tend to reflect the dominant majority’s discriminatory viewpoint. It’s a universal phenomenon affecting the history of women, Black and Minority Ethnic, and disabled people. For sexual minorities the problem is compounded by the social forces which drove people underground into secret lives, plus the problems of evolving language. Private collections of records are often lost when the owners die — relatives seeing no value in the material they find hidden away in lofts and basements. Telling a coherent story from even just fifty years ago demands access to first person recollection. Christine Burns is a former trans activist who recognised that there is already a young generation of trans people with only a sketchy understanding of their community’s recent history. She describes how, in retirement, she has set out to provide road maps for professional historians to follow whilst also meeting a wider public need to understand where trans people ‘suddenly’ appeared to have come from.

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ELDERS PANEL

MIQQI ALICIA GILBERT One Week a Year: The Pragmatic Reality of Self-Actualization BIO: Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, Ph.D. aka Michael A. Gilbert, is Full Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto, Canada. Miqqi Alicia has published scholarly articles in gender theory including an essay in Hypatia in 2009, “Defeating Bigenderism.” S/he is a life-long cross-dresser and an activist in the transgender community. Miqqi Alicia has made a point of being out and public and has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines in Canada and the US, as well as interviews on radio and television. S/he has been the book review editor and regular columnist for Transgender Tapestry, a recipient in 2007 of an IFGE Trinity Award, and Director of Fantasia Fair for eight years. S/he has presented workshops at numerous trans events including Fantasia Fair, Southern Comfort, Esprit, IFGE and First Event. Hir website is located at: http://gilbert.info.yorku.ca/. Hir newest book, Arguing with People, was published by Broadview Press in the spring of 2014. ABSTRACT: The progression from initial self-awareness as someone who is gender variant or, perhaps, gender curious, to undertaking an exploration of that sometimes strong, sometimes subtle, discomfort is a slow and often arduous one. My journey began before the Internet and many years before the term and concept of “trans” was in general public awareness. I will begin my talk with a brief history of those bygone days when being in the closet was an ordinary, albeit existentially stultifying, phenomenon. My personal revolution began in 1986 with the passing of my second (common-law) wife. Eventually, in 1995 I attended the 1st International Conference and Cross-dressing, Gender and Sexuality (Northridge, CA), and that lead directly to my turning up at Fantasia Fair the following October. For me, as for many transfolk, especially in those days, this was the first time I could walk freely and safely in the sunshine. It was a crucial step in my self-actualization as a trans person and as a cross-dresser (Gilbert, 2011). In the title I refer to the “pragmatic reality,” because the Fair provided me and others with a chance to practice a role that had been denied to us. This enabled growth, both personal and social, and lead me further into an awareness of who, what and why I am (Gilbert Various).

AIDAN KEY

A Gender Odyssey: Aidan Key’s Journey to Leadership, Education & Activism BIO: Aidan Key is the founder of Gender Diversity, an organization dedicated to providing support and educational services with respect to the inclusion of transgender and gender-diverse children. Key has served as a consultant to dozens of school districts across the US regarding transgender K-12 student inclusion. Key is the co-author of Gender Cognition in Transgender Children (2015), the Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (2014) and Transgender Student Advocacy and Support: Evolving Ethics in a Time of Devolving Policy (2017). He facilitates the largest network of parent support groups in the US and offers trainings and policy development for schools, organizations, and other youth-based agencies across the US. ABSTRACT: Aidan Key will share his intentional and unintentional pathway to leadership that spans over two decades and counting. Key’s path, like that of many leaders, has involved slogging, sprinting, leaps of faith, and falling down. He will share parts of his journey, how his work has evolved, and the profound foray into providing support, and simply breaking ground, for parents and their transgender children.

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ELDERS PANEL

MARIA SUNDIN Ending Forced Sterilization in Sweden BIO: Maria Sundin is a senior Swedish trans activist, sexologist and clinical social worker. She has been involved in trans as well as LGBT organizations for the past 25 years. She is a member of the Innovative Response to Global Trans Women and HIV. She also serves on the Steering Committee of The Global Forum on MSM & HIV and is a Board Member of Sweden's LGBTQ Social Democrats. Maria served for a long period as a Board Member of the Swedish Federation for LGBTQ Rights (RFSL) as well as a Co-chair and Executive Board Member of Transgender Europe. She is also extensively involved in trans de-pathologisation, transgender human rights and combatting HIV in our community ABSTRACT: When Sweden was the first nation globally to introduce a law on changing a person's legal gender in 1972, this was seen as a unique breakthrough. It would take several years for other nations to follow this. However the law of 1972 was filled with problematic prerequisites, such as forced divorce, forced sterilization, and the law would only give this right to Swedish citizens. Over the years, opposition to these requirements grew. When, finally the law on same-sex marriages was introduced on May 1st 2009, trans persons were still required to divorce in order to change their gender. In 2011 the administrative court removed this. The Parliament followed this with removing the citizenship requirements on January 1st 2013. Still, trans activists kept on fighting the sterilization requirement for years. In December 2012, the Chamber Court decided that forced sterilization violated the Swedish Constitution and the European Declaration of Human Rights and on July 1st 2013 the sterilization requirement was removed. For a number of years the LGBTQ movement and the trans organizations, with the support of a lawyer who took on our case pro bono, had begun to fight for financial compensation. The then center-right government refused to do so. After a large group of trans persons decided to sue the government for damages, in April 2016 the lawyer, Kerstin Burman, the president of RFSL, Ulrika Westerlund, and myself met with the new left-green government who finally decided to pay each of us 225 000 SEK or $35,000 CND. Compensation will be paid, upon application, to each person who had been granted a legal gender change since 1972.

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Program Thursday, March 22 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Legacy Art Gallery Downtown

Pre-Conference Curator’s Talk. FREE and open to the public. Chris Vargas “Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects: The University of Victoria Transgender Archives meets the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art” 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Opening Ceremony. ISABEL ROSE

Continuing Studies Atrium

FREE for all conference registrants, and by invitation.

Friday, March 23 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Michele Pujol. Student Union Building

WELCOME 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Art Gallery Student Union Building

ART ON DISPLAY Brynn Hawker – “Fake” Cindy Holmes - "A Photovoice Exhibit: The Trans, Two-Spirit & Gender Nonconforming Community Safety & Wellbeing Photovoice Project" Kayden Kolibaba - "The Transexual Subject" Syrus Marcus Ware - "Black Trans Liberation and the Archives...."

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 1.

Michele Pujol 1. Student Union Building

Harlan Pruden - "Two-Spirit Reconciliation: Honouring the Truth; Reconciling for the Future" Kori Doty - "Being Prayed Upon: Responding to and Overcoming Backlash to Social Change" Ryan Segur & Casey Orozco-Poore – “Non-Binary Transitioning and Mental Health" Mattie Walker - "'Sorry, I Don’t Understand the Question': Exploring Youth Language and Terminology in Online Social Worlds and Contexts" Session 2

Michele Pujol 2. Student Union Building

Sandy Kathy Artuso - "Yvonne, Beat, Romy, Nadia, Balian and the others: the 'I's in German autobiographies written by trans people" Joshua Falek - "En/Gendering Materialities: Searching the archives for Jewish Trans Lore" Chanathip Suwannanon - "Re-opening [Re-reading] my elementary school notebooks: The Emergence of a Kathoey identity from childhood school notebooks" Evan Vipond - "Trans Generations: Exploring the Genre of Trans Life Writing"

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Session 3

Upper Lounge. Student Union Building

WORKSHOP: Wallace Wong “Special Concerns and Issues in Working with Chinese Canadian Families with Transgender Children and Youth” Session 4

A003 Classroom. McPherson Library

PANEL: Cassidy Anne Medicine Horse & Sylvie Marie Kay "Locating Transgender Alterity in the 21st Century"

BREAK 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 5

Michele Pujol 1. Student Union Building

Jeffrey McNeil and Kennedy Healey (TteS/TRU) - "Unsettling LGBTQ Complicity in Pride Celebrations: A Performance of Authentic Settler Allyship From the Frontlines of Two-Spirit and Gender Non-Binary Resistance in Secwepemcul’ecw at Kamloops BC’s Inaugural Downtown Pride Parade" Chase Willier - "A Journey Forward to Elderhood" Session 6.

Michele Pujol 2. Student Union Building

Lauren Bennet - "Gender, Subversion and the Body: The material culture of drag king performance in London" Alexie Glover - "'I am trying to practice preventative medicine': Virginia Prince and Heterosexual CrossDressing, 1960-1990" Richard Lucas - "TRANSformative Performance" Paul Vasey - " Ritual cross-dressing of boys during a Japanese festival" Session 7

Upper Lounge. Student Union Building

Paris Honoria - "Changing the Cis-stem in an LGB(T) organization" Anita Prest & Catherine McGregor - "Gender Inclusion: Moving Forward in the Faculty of Education" Katja Thieme & Mary Ann S. Saunders - "Trans Studies Research in First-Year University Instruction" Jordan Watters - "Trans Inclusive Schools: Moving Beyond Bathrooms" Session 8

A003 Classroom. McPherson Library

Robyn Hlatky - "Challenging Transphobia in the Feminist and Anarchist Movements" Elizabeth McNeilly - "Transfamily Theory" Sinith Sittirak - "(Re-reading) The Politics of the Changing of (Trans and Non-Trans) Birth Certificates: The Future Challenge of the Trans Archive" 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Vertigo. Student Union Building

LUNCH BUFFET

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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 9

Michele Pujol 1. Student Union Building

PANEL: Liza Hughes, Felix Gilliland & Kori Doty (Gender-Free I. D. Coalition) "Whose Business is Your Gender?" Session 10

Michele Pujol 2. Student Union Building

Kai McKenzie - "Ruby and Star and the Rainbow Scouts: A Novel Series for Transgender, Non-Binary, and Two Spirit Children." Lindsay Russell - "Representation is Key: Examining Children's and Young Adult Trans Literature and the Role of Libraries" Mary Ann S. Saunders - "Normalizing Trans Girlhood: Alex Gino’s George" Session 11

Upper Lounge. Student Union Building

PANEL: Ben Barry, Biko Beauttah, Art Blake, Mic. Carter, Jack Jackson & Sajdeep Soomal "Our Bodies, Our Clothes: Transdressing as Strategy and Style" Session 12

A003 Classroom. McPherson Library

PANEL: Chris Straayer, SJ Langer & André Wilson “Caring for the Phantom Penis”

BREAK 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 13

Michele Pujol 1. Student Union Building

Jay Bossé - "Misgendering Artists in the Archives: A Trans Reading of Claud Cahun’s Self-Portrait (1928)" Ms. Bob Davis - "In Their Own Words: Transgender Voices from Casa Susanna" Dorian Jesse Fraser - "What’s Between Self-Portraits and the Selfie? Self-Representation from Lesbian Feminism to Trans Self-Affirmation" Mariette Pathy Allen - "TransOceanic: A photographic vision of transgender people in Cuba, Burma and Thailand" Session 14

Michele Pujol 2. Student Union Building

Alex Bakker - "Transgender in Holland - an extraordinary history" Dallas Denny - "When We Became Nonbinary" Surat-Shaan Knan - "Twilight People: Stories of Faith & Gender Beyond the Binary" Session 15

Upper Lounge. Student Union Building

Leo Rutherford - "Transgender men’s sexual well-being: what we know and don’t know" Nate Hartley - "Tattooing: reclaiming the Trans* body" Vee Gordon – “The Caitlyn-Boylan Gambit: Perils of mid-life MtF transition” Nat Jones - "Deconstructing Binaries in Transgender Health"

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Session 16.

A003 Classroom. McPherson Library

WORKSHOP: Erin Legault, Zoë Armstrong & Chase Blodgett "Transitioning Into Visibility: How Arts Supports Being Seen" 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Transgender Archives. McPherson Library

THE TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: HIGHLIGHTS & OPEN HOUSE 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Vertigo. Student Union Building

DINNER BUFFET 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

B150. Bob Wright Centre

KEYNOTE FREE for conference registrants. Open to the public by donation. Andrea Jenkins. "The 'T' is Not Silent"

Saturday, March 24 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

B150. Bob Wright Centre

YOUTH PANEL FREE for conference registrants. Open to the public by donation 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Art Gallery. Student Union Building

ART ON DISPLAY Brynn Hawker - “Fake” Cindy Holmes - "A Photovoice Exhibit: The Trans, Two-Spirit & Gender Nonconforming Community Safety & Wellbeing Photovoice Project" Kayden Kolibaba - "The Transexual Subject" Syrus Marcus Ware - "Black Trans Liberation and the Archives...."

BREAK 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 17

Michele Pujol 1. Student Union Building

PANEL: Margot Wilson, Gayle Roberts, Jude Patton & Ariadne Kane "Telling (And Writing) Transgender Life Stories" Session 18

Michele Pujol 2. Student Union Building

Olivia Fischer - "Trans Parenting: A Critique of the Current Literature" Kirk Furlotte - "Later Life Issues and End-of-Life Planning Among Canadian Trans Elders: Findings from a national study" Charles Ledbetter - "Immanion Press: A Case Study of Trans* Community Publication" D.M. Maynard - "Trans Partners’ Journeys: Healing History and Moving Forward"

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Session 19

Upper Lounge. Student Union Building

Alex Gruenewald - "Re-assessing the Triadic Model of Care for Trans Patients Using a Harm Reduction Approach" Liam Lair - "Dissenting to Diagnoses" Tobias Wiggins & Isaiah Bartlett - "Healing Psychoanalysis: A Perspective on Intergenerational Trans Mental Health" Session 20

A003 Classroom. McPherson Library

T.L. Cowan & Jasmine Rault - "Moving Trans- History Online: Digital Research Methods for Building Ethical Archives" Larissa Glasser - "Reclaim the Historical Narrative - The Responsibilities and Challenges for Trans Archives Moving Forward" Syrus Marcus Ware - "Black Trans Archives: On the corner, when we gather" K.J. Rawson - "Digital Approaches to Analog Pasts: Trans Generations in the Digital Transgender Archive" 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Vertigo. Student Union Building

LUNCH BUFFET 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 21

Michele Pujol 1. Student Union Building

PANEL: Alyx MacAdams, Astri Jack, Joanna Morrison, Liv Macintosh & Mattie Walker “Translation to Generation: Reimagining Knowledge in Practice with Young Trans and Non-Binary People" Session 22

Michele Pujol 2.Student Union Building

PANEL: Jean Baptiste, Quinn Bennett, Fin Gareau & Kyle Shaughnessy (Trans Care BC Indigenous Engagement Team) "Welcoming Our Two-Spirit Stories" Session 23

Upper Lounge.Student Union Building

Tami Meredith - "Cataloging activism to construct a unifying definition" Rupert Raj - "Vulnerability & Resilience Across the Lifespan: A Trans Elder's 'Dialectical Dance' From Trans Youth To Trans Activist, Therapist, Trainer & Writer" Audrey Wolfe - "Challenging Radical Feminist Discourses around Gender Identity" Session 24

A003 Classroom. McPherson Library

PANEL: Jade Pichette, Sid Cunningham, Sajdeep Soomal & Tobaron Waxman "Trans Affect & Inheritance"

BREAK 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 25

Michele Pujol 1. Student Union Building

WORKSHOP: Ardel Haefele-Thomas, Breana Hansen, TJ Gundling & Jesse Kolber "Teaching Trans: Interdisciplinary and Holistic Approaches to Teaching Trans Within Diverse Academic Settings"

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Session 26

Michele Pujol 2. Student Union Building

Kath Khangpiboon - "The challenge for Thai society to see past personal gender identity rights" Daniel Ng - "The official (mis)recognition of hijras: Authenticating third gender persons through forensic medicine in Bangladesh" Amelia Thorpe - "The Ever-Evolving Language of Gender Identity" Caroline Trottier-Gascon - "Montreal Trans History Tour: History as Education" Session 27

Upper Lounge. Student Union Building

Julian Gill-Peterson - "Transgender Boyhood in the 1970s: Masculinity, Blackness, and the Generational Border Wars" Astri Jack - "Authoring Bold Futures with Trans Youth: The Art of Asking Questions" Alyx MacAdams - "Caring for Trans Citizens ‘To-Be’: Contradictions and Transformative Possibilities" Sam Stiegler - "'I try my best not to have a bad day': Trans homeless youths’ experiences of passing time and taking up space in the city" Session 28 WORKSHOP. Kirsten Mueller - "Caring for Families Too" 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

A003 Classroom. McPherson Library

Transgender Archives. McPherson Library

THE TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: HIGHLIGHTS & OPEN HOUSE 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Vertigo. Student Union Building

DINNER BUFFET 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Farquhar Auditorium. University Centre

KEYNOTE FREE for conference registrants. Open to the public by donation. Kent Monkman. "Trans as the New Frontier"

Sunday, March 25 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

B150. Bob Wright Centre

ELDERS PANEL FREE for conference registrants. Open to the public by donation. 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

B150. Bob Wright Centre

CLOSING REMARKS

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PRESENTER BIOS & ABSTRACTS Armstrong, Zoë “Transitioning Into Visibility: How Art Supports Being Seen” Therapy. Advocacy. Art. - Evocative and powerful art, created through therapeutic programming, is used to give voice to the untold stories of allgenders’ experiences. Viewers are then provided an opportunity to respond with their own art, which is then brought back to the artists. This process creates safety for allgenders’, educates the public and fosters a dialogue without words. As society currently operates from a predominantly cisgendered perspective, we aim to challenge misconceptions and stereotypes and to provide a voice to help the transition into visibility. Zoë Armstrong, DKATI, BCATR, RCAT, Doctoral Candidate - WPATH certified and Counsellor/Partner of Ignite Counselling (Whitehorse, Yukon)

Artuso, Sandy Kathy “Yvonne, Beat, Romy, Nadia, Balian and the others: the ‘I’s in German autobiographies written by trans people” This presentation will give an overview of German autobiographies written by trans people between 1980 and 2016, describing the similarities and differences and discussing their narrative structures. These autobiographies represent voices usually unheard, especially in academic research. They relate first-hand experiences and thus first person narratives of the history of the Germanspeaking trans communities. Sandy Kathy Artuso, M.A., is an FNR-funded PhD candidate in the Department of German Studies at the University of Luxembourg.

Bakker, Alex “Transgender in Holland - an extraordinary history” The Netherlands have a long history in transgender issues, from the first SRS in the 1950-ies. Right now, acceptance and visibility of transgender adults and children has reached a new level with lots of media coverage. The Netherlands has a reputation of a guiding nation in terms of organized transgender care and societal acceptance of trans people. Is this an image or historical reality? Alex Bakker (*1968), freelance historian and trans man, specialist in Dutch transgender history. Lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Berlin, Germany.

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Baptiste, Jean “Welcoming Our Two-Spirit Stories” Join us for a storytelling session, facilitated by members of Trans Care BC’s Indigenous Engagement Team, as we discuss experiences of connecting and reconnecting with Two-Spirit history and ways of being. Jean Baptiste (Kihew Mahihkan Atayohkan Iskwew) belongs to the Wet’suwet’en nation in the Luksilyu clan. Through studying Indigenous reincarnation he was able to explore his identity as a Two-Spirit and trans person. In his work life, he is the Regional Community Network Coordinator, Northern region with Trans Care BC.

Barry, Ben “Our Bodies, Our Clothes: Transdressing as Strategy and Style” This workshop explores the relationship between trans embodiment, identity and clothing. It specifically aims to create dialogue about the diversity of gender expressions and intersectional identities among trans people and the role played by clothing. Ben Barry: Associate Professor of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and Director of the Centre for Fashion Diversity & Social Change in the School of Fashion at Ryerson University. His research explores gender, the body and clothing through artsbased approaches.

Bartlett, Isaiah “Healing Psychoanalysis: A Perspective on Intergenerational Trans Mental Health” This presentation explores notions of the political unconscious, how psychoanalysis can provide a unique type of psychological healing, and how our past experience of “laying on the couch” informs our community-based mental health work today. Isaiah Bartlett is in private practice as a psychotherapist, working with queer and trans people in Portland, Oregon. You can find him at http://www.isaiahbartlett.com.

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Beauttah, Biko “Our Bodies, Our Clothes: Transdressing as Strategy and Style” This workshop explores the relationship between trans embodiment, identity and clothing. It specifically aims to create dialogue about the diversity of gender expressions and intersectional identities among trans people and the role played by clothing. Biko Beauttah: Founder and Chair, Trans Workforce.

Bennet, Lauren “Gender, Subversion and the Body: The material culture of drag king performance in London” This paper looks at contemporary drag king performers in London through a design historical lens. It explores their presentation of alternate masculinities, and how they use the performance method of drag as a tool to subvert and toy with notions of gender binary. Lauren Bennet is an artist, performer and researcher currently undergoing an MA in History of Design at the Victoria& Albert Museum / Royal College of Art, in London.

Bennett, Quinn “Welcoming Our Two-Spirit Stories” Join us for a storytelling session, facilitated by members of Trans Care BC’s Indigenous Engagement Team, as we discuss experiences of connecting and reconnecting with Two-Spirit history and ways of being. Quinn Bennett is a Two-Spirit, trans person of mixed Indigenous (Métis and Mi’kmaq) and European ancestry. He is the Provincial Lead for Peer and Community Support Networks with Trans Care BC. Quinn’s background includes over 10 years of experience supporting peer and community programs, namely in the areas of sexual health, mental health, and harm reduction. Quinn is passionate about supporting communities through connection, engagement, and collaboration.

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Blake, Art “Our Bodies, Our Clothes: Transdressing as Strategy and Style” This workshop explores the relationship between trans embodiment, identity and clothing. It specifically aims to create dialogue about the diversity of gender expressions and intersectional identities among trans people and the role played by clothing. Associate Professor, Department of History, and Equity and Community Inclusion Chair, Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University. Art’s current research is on “transdressing,” bodies and clothing, with previous work in urban studies, communications, and US history.

Blodgett, Chase “Transitioning Into Visibility: How Art Supports Being Seen” Therapy. Advocacy. Art. - Evocative and powerful art, created through therapeutic programming, is used to give voice to the untold stories of allgenders’ experiences. Viewers are then provided an opportunity to respond with their own art, which is then brought back to the artists. This process creates safety for allgenders’, educates the public and fosters a dialogue without words. As society currently operates from a predominantly cisgendered perspective, we aim to challenge misconceptions and stereotypes and to provide a voice to help the transition into visibility. Chase Blodgett, B.PhEd/B.Ed (Whitehorse, Yukon)

Bossé, Jay “Misgendering Artists in the Archives: A Trans Reading of Claude Cahun’s SelfPortrait (1928)” This presentation will argue that the misgendering of the French artist Claud Cahun (1894 – 1954) has affected the understanding of their work. Using the photograph Self-Portrait (1928) as a case study in this presentation, I will explore how the misgendering of an artist can lead to the cissexist imposition of theories, concepts and the misreading of the intent of the artwork. In addition, I offer a counter reading that centralizes their neuter identity. Jay Bossé is a first-year graduate student in Art History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

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Carter, Mic. “Our Bodies, Our Clothes: Transdressing as Strategy and Style” This workshop explores the relationship between trans embodiment, identity and clothing. It specifically aims to create dialogue about the diversity of gender expressions and intersectional identities among trans people and the role played by clothing. Mic. Carter: Creative Director, L’Uomo Strano.

Cowan, T. L. “Moving Trans-History Online: Digital Research Methods for Building Ethical Archives”

Cunningham, Sid “Trans Affect & Inheritance” Trans people have complicated relationships with ancestry and inheritance. It is a terrain that is marked by intergenerational disconnect, economic precarity and archival neglect. Our panel reflects on the politics of ancestry and inheritance within trans communities by exploring how we - as trans people working at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) – have encountered the material, records, and ephemera of trans and gender-variant people in the archives. Sid Cunningham is a PhD candidate at York University’s Department of English. His work explores connections between trans cultural production and literary theory, with a focus on phenomenology, object relations, and models of contamination or transmission.

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Denny, Dallas “When We Became Nonbinary” Early understandings of gender-variant people did not actively question the existing gender binary. As a nascent movement we lacked the knowledge and language to do so in any organized fashion. This presentation traces emerging awareness of and interest in nonbinary identity and presentation. Dallas Denny is a writer and editor and transgender activist who prefers female pronouns. Since 2000 her extensive collection of trans materials has resided in the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan Library System in Ann Arbor, where it is available to the public.

Doty, Kori “Being Prayed Upon: Responding to and Overcoming Backlash to Social Change” In response to activism undertaken through bureaucratic and legal system challenges, as well as the resistance work of living publicly out, I became a target of public attack from the far right including figures like Mike Huckabee and Tucker Carlson on FoxNews and the Family Research Council. I stood up to ignorance including through television appearances including a viral interaction with Piers Morgan. This presentation will explore the ways that we can build resilience in facing and confronting and dismantling ignorance, hatred and prejudice.

“Whose Business is Your Gender?” The Gender-Free I.D. Coalition was formed around human rights complaints to remove gender markers from birth certificates, passports, and federal government documentation. This panel will illuminate the day to day experience of trans people and will include a legal analysis of the arguments in favour of dismantling gendered systems.

Kori is a community educator and organizer based in the Slocan Valley, Sinixt Territory in the BC Interior. Falek, Joshua “En/Gendering Materialities: Searching for Jewish Trans Lore” The Jewish holiday of Purim is well known amongst Jews for its carnivalesque nature, often revolving around intoxication, storytelling, and in some communities, drag. However, these cultural practices appear haunted by Queen Vashti, a minor character in the story, but one who Rabbis have previously depicted as having leprosy, inappropriate lust, a tail, and potentially, a penis. For further excavation, this presentation uses queer/trans theory to mine archival images and family history for the similarities between the fluctuating reiterations of materiality in Talmudic thought and contemporary customs. Joshua Falek, York University

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Fischer, Olivia “Trans Families’ Making the Transition to Parenthood: A Critique of the Current Literature” Becoming a parent for the first time is a major life event that incurs immense change and stress, particularly in terms of negotiating parental roles. While challenging for most couples, this process can be significantly more complex for trans families’ due to ambiguous gender roles and the difficulties of parenting within a transphobic culture. In this presentation, I will critically examine the available research and identify potential pathways forward. Olivia Fischer is currently an MA Student in the Counselling Psychology Program at the University of British Columbia (Faculty of Education).

Fraser, Dorian J. “What’s Between Self-Portraits and the Selfie? Self-Representation from Lesbian Feminism to Trans Self-Affirmation” This paper investigates the relationship of self-portraiture in lesbian feminist art to self-portraiture work of trans artists located at the nexus of identity, becoming and embodiment. The author examines practices of self-representation that create dissonance and overlap between divergent or even conflicting understandings of gender through visual representations of marginalized queer communities. Dorian J. Fraser is a critical and creative writer, instructor, curator and doctoral student at Concordia University in the Art History Department. They work in between Montréal and New York.

Furlotte, Kirk “Later Life Issues and End-of- Life Planning Among Canadian Trans Elders: Findings from a National Study” This presentation looks at findings from a Canadian study on end-of- life needs of older LGBTQI2S adults, painting a portrait of the lives of 24 trans elders. Kirk Furlotte, MA(c), Dalhousie University - Kirk is a health promotion student and researcher focused on LGBTQI2S health, wellness, and health equity. He authored prideHealth’s Trans* Health Guide – a resource on transitioning services in Nova Scotia. He is currently researching end-of- life issues for gay and bisexual men, advanced care planning for frail LGBTQI2S elderly, and experiences in transitioning services.

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Gareau, Fin “Welcoming Our Two-Spirit Stories” Join us for a storytelling session, facilitated by members of Trans Care BC’s Indigenous Engagement Team, as we discuss experiences of connecting and reconnecting with Two-Spirit history and ways of being.

Gill-Peterson, Julian “Transgender Boyhood in the 1970s: Masculinity, Blackness, and the Generational Border Wars” This paper reads the lives of trans boys and their interactions with doctors in the 1970s alongside black trans girls who were rejected by the medical model in the same decade, arguing for an intersectional approach to trans children’s history. Julian Gill-Peterson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Their book, Histories of the Transgender Child, will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in Fall 2018. Julian is at work on a new book project entitled Gender Underground: A History of Trans DIY.

Gilliland, Felix “Whose Business is Your Gender?” The Gender-Free I.D. Coalition was formed around human rights complaints to remove gender markers from birth certificates, passports, and federal government documentation. This panel will illuminate the day to day experience of trans people and will include a legal analysis of the arguments in favour of dismantling gendered systems. Felix is an activist and community organizer in Vancouver, BC. They are working to improve access for trans people to traditionally women-only sexual assault centers. Felix is also involved in legal challenges to state-certified gender. They are passionate about healthy queer communities that are political, consensual, and loud.

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Glasser, Larissa “Reclaim the Historical Narrative—The Responsibilities and Challenges for Trans Archives Moving Forward” Archivists of trans history face challenges including documentation, retention, curation, and preservation. What additional challenges do repositories of trans history face? What can the archivist do to also document and preserve diverse trans voices and oral histories, especially from minority voices under-represented in media? What challenges face the archivist of born-digital material? The Digital Transgender Archive (Mount Holyoke College) is my case study. Larissa Glasser is a librarian at Harvard University and has worked for Transgender Tapestry magazine. Twitter: @larissaeglasser

Glover, Alexie “’I am trying to practice preventative medicine’: Virginia Prince and Heterosexual Cross-Dressing” In 1977, transgender educator and activist Virginia Prince wrote “I am trying to practice preventative medicine, as I have found that once the virus of surgery has taken hold there is small chance of turning anyone back.” Using Transvestia, and Prince’s regular column, “Virgin Views by Virginia,” this presentation highlights the intricacies of cross-dressing and gender diversity in an era of American conservativism, with particular focus on the deployment of narratives of exclusivity and respectability. Alexie Glover (she/her) is a History MA candidate at the University of Victoria.

Gordon, Vee “The Caitlyn-Boylan Gambit: Perils of mid-life MtF transition” Recent books document the mid-life MtF transitions undertaken by Caitlyn Jenner and Jennifer Boylan. A proposed “Caitlyn-Boylan Gambit” describes life patterns whereby suppression of affirmed gender behavior is abandoned in mid-life in favor of transition. Such change requires significant resources and is perhaps not beneficial for all individuals. Now retired after brief careers in academia and corporate research as a neuropsychophysiologist, I don’t participate much in society anymore. Instead, I’m intrigued by my home experiments that examine generational knowledge transfer and limited sexual dimorphism among urban crows.

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Gundling, T. J. “Teaching Trans: Interdisciplinary and Holistic Approaches to Teaching Trans within Diverse Academic Settings” As trans scholars who work in Anthropology, Humanities, Education, and Sociology, we will bring an interdisciplinary focus and workshop activities to the ways that we all approach 'teaching trans' through exploring intersecting identities and a full holistic educational approach. Ph.D. in Anthropology at Yale University. T.J. is a tenured professor at a public university in New Jersey and has just finished a semester teaching the institution's first trans focused class. T.J.'s interests include the history of human origins and trans studies. T.J. has an essay entitled "The Trans Experience: A Biocultural Dialectic" which will be included in the forthcoming Introduction to Transgender Studies.

Gruenewald, Alex “Re-assessing the Triadic Model of Care for Trans Patients Using a Harm Reduction Framework” Current medical literature on the comprehensive care of trans patients shows that not only do medical professionals often rely on an underdetermined framework to carry out life-altering medical interventions for trans people, but also that they possess a somewhat narrow understanding of what constitutes harm for trans people according to trans people themselves. I propose a harmreduction framework in the medical care of trans patients that addresses our concerns. Alex is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Waterloo who specializes in trans masculinities and metaphysics. Haefele-Thomas, Ardel “Teaching Trans: Interdisciplinary and Holistic Approaches to Teaching Trans within Diverse Academic Settings” As trans scholars who work in Anthropology, Humanities, Education, and Sociology, we will bring an interdisciplinary focus and workshop activities to the ways that we all approach 'teaching trans' through exploring intersecting identities and a full holistic educational approach. Ardel Haefele-Thomas is the Chair of LGBT Studies at City College of San Francisco. They are the author of Introduction to Transgender Studies forthcoming from Harrington Park Press (Columbia University Press) in 2018 and the co-author along with Aaron H. Devor of Transgender: A Reference Guide forthcoming from ABC-CLIO Press in 2019 and the guest editor for Victorian Review's special edition: Trans Victorians.

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Hansen, Breana “Teaching Trans: Interdisciplinary and Holistic Approaches to Teaching Trans within Diverse Academic Settings” As trans scholars who work in Anthropology, Humanities, Education, and Sociology, we will bring an interdisciplinary focus and workshop activities to the ways that we all approach 'teaching trans' through exploring intersecting identities and a full holistic educational approach. Breana is a queer, nonbinary, white anti-racist, trans-inclusive feminist, activist and educator. They are completing their doctorate degree in Education with a focus on intersectionality within LGBTQ Studies at a California Community College. Breana teaches preschool in Northern California as well as courses in Interdisciplinary Studies and LGBT Studies at City College of San Francisco. They are one of the cofounders of the non-profit Equality Works, which supports educators diversifying their pedagogical praxis to be more culturally competent. Hartley, Nate “Tattooing: reclaiming the Trans* body” How has the art of tattooing aligned with reclaiming the trans* body? How can the tattooing industry change to better accommodate trans* clients? This presentation will begin with a brief overview of the history of tattooing followed by a selection of personal accounts from trans* individuals on the significance and meaning of their tattoos. Nate is a tattoo artist and transgender activist currently practicing in New Brunswick (Nathaniel A. Hartley: Art & Ink).

Healey, Kennedy “Unsettling LGBTQ Complicity in Pride Celebrations: A Performance of Authentic Settler Allyship from the Frontlines of Two-Spirit and Gender Non-Binary Resistance in Secwepemcul’ecw at Kamloops BC’s Inaugural Downtown Pride Parade” This panel presentation is a storytelling of consensual allyship providing an exemplar of authentic LGBTQ reconciliation WITH Indigenous peoples – and the efforts for last summer’s inaugural Kamloops Pride Parade. Kennedy is a non-binary settler born in the outskirts of Secwepemc territory and currently residing in central Secwepemcul’ecw. They are a student at Thompson Rivers University and a board member with Kamloops Pride.

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Hlatkey, Robyn Challenging Transphobia in the Feminist and Anarchist Movements The inclusivity of transgender folks in social movements have varied. This presentation will specifically discuss the problem of transphobia, both historically and contemporarily, within sections of the feminist and anarchist movements and how these movements have confronted trans exclusionary values and practices, drawing from local and regional examples. The aim of the presentation is to expand the inclusivity of gender variant folks in movement theory and practice. Robyn is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Victoria and has been a participant in various movements over the years.

Honoria, Paris “Changing the Cis-stem in a LGB(T) organization” This presentation examines the complexities of transphobia and transantagonism in the workplace and the strategic necessities that employees engage in and/or use to navigate employment, specifically within a LGBTQI2S organization that trains Canadian workplaces and schools to do better on LGBTQI2S inclusion. Through semi-structured conversations with trans employees, this paper functions as an “autoethnography” examining the challenges, pitfalls, and points of pain that emerge out of crystalized social practices derived from queer activism and its application to a LGB (T) workplace. Paris Honoria, Egale Canada Human Rights Trust, Community Engagement and Policy Advisor. Hughes, Liza “Whose Business is Your Gender?” The Gender-Free I.D. Coalition was formed around human rights complaints to remove gender markers from birth certificates, passports, and federal government documentation. This panel will illuminate the day to day experience of trans people and will include a legal analysis of the arguments in favour of dismantling gendered systems. Liza Hughes is an activist, human rights lawyer, and member of the queer community. She works passionately towards the advancement of queer and trans rights, prisoner’s human rights, and the pursuit of reconciliation and social justice in the Canadian context.

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Jack, Astri “Authoring Bold Futures with Trans Youth: The Art of Asking Questions” Rather than offering trans youth the space to tell their own stories, supportive adults often make assumptions about trans youths’ desires and experiences. By adopting a narrative standpoint, care providers, families, and community members can better support trans youth at home, in schools, and in healthcare settings. This presentation will focus on the art of asking questions in ways that foster trans youths’ bodily autonomy, appreciation of their inherent worth, and the validity of their identities.

“Translation to Generation: Reimagining Knowledge in Practice with Young Trans and Non-Binary People” Young trans and non-binary people and their families routinely resist injustice while accessing care. However, we find the need to translate between the systems we work within and the young people with whom we work distracts from our capacity to build relationships focused on resistance and systemic change. In this presentation, we discuss how community services, members, and educators can shift from translation between systems and youth needs, to generation of services that centre youth voices.

Astri Jack, MA student in Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria Jackson, Jack “Our Bodies, Our Clothes: Transdressing as Strategy and Style” This workshop explores the relationship between trans embodiment, identity and clothing. It specifically aims to create dialogue about the diversity of gender expressions and intersectional identities among trans people and the role played by clothing. Jack Jackson: Owner and Founder at alljackedup.ca

Jones, Nat “Deconstructing Binaries in Transgender Health” In their research, Nat analyzes personal diaries of early modern transgender patients in conjunction with medical records to examine how early medical practices aligned with the true desires of patients. These early treatments created the foundations of modern transgender health—with many of their original problems persisting today. Nat Jones studies biology, art history, and Japanese at Florida State University. They will graduate in May 2018 with degrees in each subject, and in Fall 2018 they will enroll at the University of Oxford to earn a Master’s in History of Medicine before attending medical school.

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Kane, Ariadne “Telling (and Writing) Transgender Life Stories” Ari Kane is a gerontology specialist with Theseus Consulting & Coaching Service (TCCS). (S)he has developed several workshops focusing on issues of gender, sexuality and health in the latter decades of the lifespan. Many are designed for the GLBT Community. (S)he has been a leading authority on gender diversity in Post Modern America and has given presentations at many universities and institutes in the United States and Canada. (S)he is one of the creators of Gender Attitude Reassessment Program (GARP), a Workshop on Gender for sexologists and healthcare professionals. (S)he co-authored Crossing Sexual Boundaries with Professor Vern Bullough.

Kay, Sylvie “Locating Transgender Alterity in the 21st-Century” The stigmatizations associated with 20th-century interpretations of the ‘transother’ are undergoing dramatic revision. Transgender scholarship needs to reflect the reality of contemporary instabilities and engage new areas of discourse. In the 21st century the dialogue surrounding self-determined gender identity must begin with recognition that conceptions of the gendered ‘other’ are not bound to historic understandings. Professor Sylvie Marie Kay, Tohoku Gakuin University – Sendai, Japan

Kath Khangpiboon “The challenge for Thai society to see past gender identity rights” Focus on the making of the new comprehensive gender recognition law. That is because, although improvement is still needed to be made, a least have seen the somewhat positive trend regarding public awareness towards diverse gender identities in recent years. The absence of a comprehensive gender recognition law is an issue of urgency which needs an immediate action. Kath Khangpiboon, Co-founders of the ThaiTGA a national network of transgender activists working to address unmet needs of members of the transgender community and Broad member of Asia Pacific Transgender Network.

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Knan, Surat-Shaan “Twilight People: Stories of Faith & Gender Beyond the Binary” A landmark oral history and archive project challenging the notion that trans identities are inherently at odds with faith. Explore personal journeys - Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Pagan, Sufi and more - by means of audio and video footage, portrait photography and an innovative smartphone app. www.twilightpeople.com Surat-Shaan Knan, LGBTQI+ heritage manager, campaigner and diversity consultant. The founder of Rainbow Jews, Twilight People and most recently Rainbow Pilgrims. The projects are proudly hosted by the UK-based charity Liberal Judaism, and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Email me: [email protected]

Kolber, Jesse “Teaching Trans: Interdisciplinary and Holistic Approaches to Teaching Trans within Diverse Academic Settings” As trans scholars who work in Anthropology, Humanities, Education, and Sociology, we will bring an interdisciplinary focus and workshop activities to the ways that we all approach 'teaching trans' through exploring intersecting identities and a full holistic educational approach. Is a graduate student in the Dept. of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Their research focuses broadly on racial, gender, and sexual orientation identity and perceptions. Currently, Jesse is working on a project that looks at gender perceptions and impression management. They teach in the LGBT Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Behavioral Sciences Departments at City College of San Francisco.

Lair, Liam “Dissenting to Diagnoses” The sexologists who created trans diagnoses were influenced by scientific racism and helped establish whiteness, non-disability, and gender conformity as ideal ways of existing. Transpeople, people of color, and people with disabilities share this common history of being pathologized. In this paper I discuss strategies to bring our communities together to undermine histories of medical pathologization, how to continue the work of developing anti-transphobic, antiracist, and anti-ableist coalitions to undermine institutions that pathologize us – and teach each other how to survive in a world that sees us as disposable. Liam Lair, West Chester University, WGS Assistant Professor

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Langer, SJ “Caring for the Phantom Penis” Distinguishing the Phantom – Phantom sensation is the neurological phenomenon involving the body matrix that causes a person to feel a body part that is not materially of their body. SJ Langer is a psychotherapist practicing in New York City. He is on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts. His recent academic article, “Trans Bodies and the Failure of Mirrors,” was the co-winner of the Symonds Prize from Studies in Gender and Sexuality. His first book, Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender, will be released in this summer by Jessica Kingsley Publishing.

Ledbetter, Charles “Immanion Press: Trans* Community Publishing” Immanion Press, an independent press dedicated to LGBT+-themed speculative fiction, has used publishing to support trans* representation, authorship and material culture. The press was founded in 2003 by Storm Constantine to keep her gender-expansive Wraeththu Mythos in print. Wraeththu is a postapocalyptic series focused on hara—intersex evolved humans—and their efforts to develop an equal, ecological society. This paper examines trans* themes in the Wraeththu series, as well as IP’s experiments with fanfiction anthologies and trans* esoteric spirituality. Charles is a non-binary academic and writer. He is a Doctoral Student at the Universität Tübingen.

Legault, Erin “Transitioning Into Visibility: How Art Supports Being Seen” Therapy. Advocacy. Art. - Evocative and powerful art, created through therapeutic programming, is used to give voice to the untold stories of allgenders’ experiences. Viewers are then provided an opportunity to respond with their own art, which is then brought back to the artists. This process creates safety for allgenders’, educates the public and fosters a dialogue without words. As society currently operates from a predominantly cisgendered perspective, we aim to challenge misconceptions and stereotypes and to provide a voice to help the transition into visibility.

Erin Legault, M.Ed., C.C.C. - WPATH certified and Counsellor/Partner of Ignite Counselling (Whitehorse, Yukon)

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Lucas, Richard “TRANSformative Performance” TRANSformative Performance is an examination of how drag performance is used as a vehicle by some transgender and non-binary persons to explore and/or practice a different gender than that which they were assigned at birth. Subjects included a transgender woman who is a “drag artist”, a trans masculine “drag king” and a non-binary self-identified “drag thing”. The performers were engaged and observed by the author in interview and performances. Richard Lucas (MA, MFA, BFA) and his team at Lucas Talent Inc. proudly represent many of Canada’s top actors, directors and writers. His UVic studies have centred on Queer Canadian Theatre History. MacAdams, Alyx “Caring for Trans Citizens ‘To-Be’: Contradictions and Transformative Possibilities” This presentation uses social citizenship theory about the child citizen and trans citizenship to consider the ways that young trans people’s experiences of care are shaped by ideals of the ‘normative’ citizen and protectionist discourses that undermine children’s autonomy and participation. I will discuss how this creates juxtapositions in how ‘care’ is imagined and implemented, and propose alternative possibilities for care in relation to young trans people.

“Translation to Generation: Reimagining Knowledge in Practice with Young Trans and Non-Binary People” Young trans and non-binary people and their families routinely resist injustice while accessing care. However, we find the need to translate between the systems we work within and the young people with whom we work distracts from our capacity to build relationships focused on resistance and systemic change. In this presentation, we discuss how community services, members, and educators can shift from translation between systems and youth needs, to generation of services that centre youth voices.

Alyx MacAdams is an MSW candidate at the UVic. Their work focuses on elevating the voices of young trans people and supporting their caregivers. Macintosh, Liv “Translation to Generation: Reimagining Knowledge in Practice with Young Trans and Non-Binary People” Young trans and non-binary people and their families routinely resist injustice while accessing care. However, we find the need to translate between the systems we work within and the young people with whom we work distracts from our capacity to build relationships focused on resistance and systemic change. In this presentation, we discuss how community services, members, and educators can shift from translation between systems and youth needs, to generation of services that centre youth voices. Liv Macintosh: digital advocate

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Maynard, D.M. “Trans Partners’ Journeys: Healing History and Moving Forward” How do partners of those transitioning cope with the possibility that their relationship history may become erased, while racing to embrace their future as an intact couple? This interactive workshop will focus on navigating the possible grief connected to the transition, while partners learn how to mend the loss of the past and the acceptance of the unknown of being in a relationship with a person who now identifies as transgender. D.M. Maynard is an author, educator, entrepreneur, and presenter who has spoken worldwide about the issues that affect the partners of transgender people.

McGregor, Catherine “Gender Inclusion: Moving Forward in the Faculty of Education” In this presentation we map our journey towards creating a more gender inclusive culture within the faculty of education. We begin by identifying some of the challenges and then describe efforts to engage faculty, students and staff in conversation and action to support the rights of gender diverse individuals. Goals for future work will also be discussed. Dr. Catherine McGregor is a leadership scholar with interests in social justice leadership, gender and allyship.

McKenzie, Kai “Ruby and Star and the Rainbow Scouts: A Novel Series for Transgender, NonBinary, and Two Spirit Children” In my novel series a group of children, The Rainbow Scouts, travel magically to many different times and places to experience and confront the challenges that trans people have faced and continue to face, to build vibrant communities, express their power and passions, and confront bigotry with love. Come share the journey with them, to undersea mermaids, to the outer planets, into the North American past, and into the heart of the self. Kai McKenzie is a folklorist, writer, and parent from Boulder, Colorado, member of Phoenix, Colorado’s Trans Community Choir and TYES, Trans Youth Education and Support.

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McNeil-Seymour, Jeffrey “Unsettling LGBTQ Complicity in Pride Celebrations: A Performance of Authentic Settler Allyship from the Frontlines of Two-Spirit and Gender Non-Binary Resistance in Secwepemcul’ecw at Kamloops BC’s Inaugural Downtown Pride Parade” This panel presentation is a storytelling of consensual allyship providing an exemplar of authentic LGBTQ reconciliation WITH Indigenous peoples – and the efforts for last summer’s inaugural Kamloops Pride Parade. Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour is a two-spirit Tk’emlúpsemc and fourth generation English Settler and sits on the Traditional Family Governance Council for the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation. Jeffrey lectures at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in the school of Social Work - specializing in Aboriginal Decolonizing Social Work Practice. McNeilly, Elizabeth “Transfamily Theory” Transfamily Theory (McGuire, Kuvalanka, Catalpa, & Toomey, 2016) is an interdisciplinary approach to interrogate gender and gender theories alike. McGuire et al.’s work crosses discipline borders to explore gender construction and family relationships. They challenge essentialist notions of binaries, social construction of gender, and developmental theories. Each challenge frequently reveals itself as tensions within the family as family members transition along with their transgender and gender-expansive loved ones. McNeilly is a doctoral student in Adult Learning at University of Calgary. Her dissertation research explores the transformative (Mezirow, 1991) experiences parents of transgender and gender-expansive children undergo during transition. Elizabeth McNeilly, University of Calgary, [email protected]

Medicine Horse, Cassidy Anne “Locating Transgender Alterity in the 21st-Century” The stigmatizations associated with 20th-century interpretations of the ‘transother’ are undergoing dramatic revision. Transgender scholarship needs to reflect the reality of contemporary instabilities and engage new areas of discourse. In the 21st century the dialogue surrounding self-determined gender identity must begin with recognition that conceptions of the gendered ‘other’ are not bound to historic understandings. Cassidy Anne Medicine Horse, PhD Candidate, American Studies/Transgender Studies, Montana State University-Bozeman, Montana.

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Meredith, Tami “Cataloging activism to construct a unifying definition” It has been observed that employing multiple forms of activism can help to unify a community by facilitating and recognising variation in individuals’ contributions. In this presentation various styles of activism (e.g., quiet activism) will be examined and discussed. Audience participation will be used to identify and catalogue the deeds of trans* activists in order to develop a more inclusive definition that acknowledges often overlooked activities. Dr. Tami Meredith is a transsexual academic and adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. She is currently residing in B.C. while seeking new opportunities and challenges.

Morrison, Joanna “Translation to Generation: Reimagining Knowledge in Practice with Young Trans and Non-Binary People” Young trans and non-binary people and their families routinely resist injustice while accessing care. However, we find the need to translate between the systems we work within and the young people with whom we work distracts from our capacity to build relationships focused on resistance and systemic change. In this presentation, we discuss how community services, members, and educators can shift from translation between systems and youth needs, to generation of services that centre youth voices. Joanna Morrison: clinical practitioner

Davis, Ms. Bob “In Their Own Words: Transgender Voices from Casa Susanna” Autobiographies of the women of Casas Susanna, the 1960s and 1970s crossdressing resort, drawn from each woman’s writing, mostly in Virginia Prince’s Transvestia - early examples of transgender people examining their lives with candor only possible when writing for a transgender audience. Ms. Bob wrote about transgender history in Lady Like, Transgender Community News and Transgender Tapestry. Her essay, “Using Archives to Identity the Trans* Women of Casa Susanna,” appeared in Transgender Studies Quarterly. She is founder/director of Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive, lltransarchive.org.

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Mueller, Kirsten “Caring for Families Too” Most of us tend to spend a lot of time in our heads, and ignore our hearts (except when we get overwhelmed)! But when families care for their own needs, better outcomes for young people are the result. Kirsten Mueller (MSW RSW) of Rainstorm Counselling & Consulting is also the proud parent of a non-binary transfeminine young person. Who? Parents & professionals, as well as trans folks looking to gain insight into their families’ lived experiences. Goal: A very personal workshop meant to give space for BOTH the head & the heart in meeting the needs of parents of trans children & youth in a transphobic world.

Ng, Daniel “The official (mis)recognition of hijras: Authenticating third gender persons through forensic medicine in Bangladesh” Drawing empirically on three months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Dhaka during the summer of 2017, I explore what official recognition means for members of the hijra, or “third gender,” community in Bangladesh through a close examination of a medical case conducted in 2015 during which the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) attempted to verify the authenticity of a group of hijra applicants seeking government employment. Daniel Ng is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Orozco-Poore, Casey “Non-binary Transitioning and Mental Health” A needs assessment survey was administered to a non-probability sample of nonbinary trans people. Information on identity, mental health and community support was gathered. A higher rate of suicidal ideation was found in this sample than in previously studied binary trans populations. This workshop will present a nuanced view of the unique mental health and social circumstances of non-binary trans persons. Casey Orozco-Poore is a Latinx nonbinary aspiring physician who majored in neurobiology at Brown University.

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Pathy Allen, Mariette “TransOceanic: A photographic vision of transgender people in Cuba, and Burma and Thailand” This presentation contrasts two cultures with diametrically opposite attitudes towards gender variant people. It is based on my two recently published books, TransCuba (2014) and TransCendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand (2017). Mariette Pathy Allen, MFA, is a NYC based photographer, with four published books about gender variance in the United States, Cuba, and Burma and Thailand. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and she has made slide presentations worldwide.

Patton, Jude “Telling (and Writing) Transgender Life Stories” Jude Patton is an elder transman and LGBTQ activist, advocate and educator since before his own transition in 1970. He founded Renaissance Gender Identity Services in the early 1970s and began publishing Renaissance Newsletter in the mid- 1970s. Jude started one of the first informal support groups for FTM men and incorporated these into The John Augustus Foundation. Joined by Joanna Clark, these became known as J2CP Information Services, taking over Paul Walker’s work with Erickson Educational Services. In his biography, Young Kid, Old Goat (in progress), Jude’s personal life story and ongoing work is highlighted.

Pichette, Jade “Trans Affect & Inheritance” Trans people have complicated relationships with ancestry and inheritance. It is a terrain that is marked by intergenerational disconnect, economic precarity and archival neglect. Our panel reflects on the politics of ancestry and inheritance within trans communities by exploring how we - as trans people working at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) – have encountered the material, records, and ephemera of trans and gender-variant people in the archives. Jade Pichette is an anti-oppression educator currently working as the Volunteer + Community Outreach Coordinator at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. Their interests include addressing transmisogyny in social work, LGBTQ2+ interfaith work, and anti-racism solidarity work.

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Prest, Anita “Gender Inclusion: Moving Forward in the Faculty of Education” In this presentation we map our journey towards creating a more gender inclusive culture within the faculty of education. We begin by identifying some of the challenges and then describe efforts to engage faculty, students and staff in conversation and action to support the rights of gender diverse individuals. Goals for future work will also be discussed. Dr. Anita Prest is a teacher educator investigating how to incorporate culturally inclusive approaches to music education.

Pruden, Harlan “Two-Spirit Reconciliation: Honouring the Truth; Reconciling for the Future” Many cultural traditions and practices of the peoples of Turtle Island have often been misrepresented or suppressed. The misrepresentation mainly occurred because the colonizers did not have a context to frame, understand and value these ways and the suppression, primarily, occurred because these ways went against the colonizer’s Christian doctrine, a doctrine that righteously justified the subjugation of indigenous bodies and lands and was one of the underlying tenets of the residential/boarding schools and such policies. This especially holds true for indigenous notions and practices of gender, gender-roles and sexuality. Harlan Pruden, First Nations Cree, Educator, Chee Mamuk, BCCDC

Raj, Rupert “Vulnerability & Resilience Across the Lifespan: A Trans Elder’s ‘Dialectical Dance’ from Trans Youth to Trans Activist, Therapist, Trainer & Writer” Former gender specialist Rupert Raj will trace his dialectical dynamic of vulnerability & resilience from age three to sixty-six, referencing his memoir (Dancing The Dialectic: True Tales of A Transgender Trailblazer, 2017) and selected trans-focussed publications, highlighted by various existential life strategies, psychotherapeutic modalities and Indigenous mystical pathways. Rupert Raj is a trailblazing, Eurasian-Canadian, trans activist (1971-2018), and former psychotherapist/consultant/researcher/trainer (2000-2015). He cofounded several trans organizations and has published many trans-focussed works (housed in the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives).

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Rault, Jasmine “Moving Trans-History Online: Digital Research Methods for Building Ethical Archives”

Rawson, K. J. “Digital Approaches to Analog Pasts: Trans Generations in the Digital Transgender Archive” How can online tools be used to better understand trans community formation and bring generations together? What are the risks and implications of digital approaches to analog pasts? In this talk, I will focus on the project that I founded and continue to direct, the Digital Transgender Archive, to discuss how and why we make analog historical materials accessible online. K. J. Rawson is the Director of the Digital Transgender Archive and an Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.

Roberts, Gayle “Telling (and Writing) Transgender Life Stories” So You’re Thinking of Writing a Book Born in England during WW II, Gayle Roberts immigrated to Canada in 1951 and is an UVic alumnus with an MSc in Physics. She transitioned in 1996 as her high school’s Science Department Head and science teacher. Gayle coauthored the guidebook Supporting Transgender and Transsexual Students in K-12 Schools and is author of From Shame to Freedom: A Gender-Variant Woman’s Journey of Discovery (to be released shortly). Gayle’s presentation focuses on why trans* individuals should document their life experiences and how literary writing techniques (creative nonfiction) are used to create factually accurate narratives.

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Russell, Lindsay “Representation is Key: Examining Children’s and Young Adult Trans Literature and the Role of Libraries” It is only quite recently that trans characters and issues have started to appear in children’s and young adult literature. This presentation will explore some of these titles and the role libraries play in collecting and promoting trans materials and resources. Lindsay Russell - Library Technician and co-chair of the BC Library Association LGBTQ+ interest group.

Rutherford, Leo “Transgender men’s sexual well-being: what we know and don’t know” There is a lack of research on the sexual health of those in the transgender community. This presentation will cover what we currently know about trans men’s experiences related to their sexuality, partners, supports, sexual challenges, surgical options and ways in which trans men queer common ideas about sexuality. Sex is an important aspect of individuals’ lives; conversations around transgender health should consider the impact of sexuality. Leo Rutherford is a PhD student in the Social dimensions of Health program and is passionate about trans health, sexual health and rights.

Saunders, Mary Ann S. “Normalizing Trans Girlhood: Alex Gino’s George” Trans-authored fiction for middle school trans/non-binary readers is virtually non-existent, with Alex Gino’s George (2015) being a notable exception. I analyze techniques through which George normalizes and centres pre-adolescent trans girlhood and, in so doing, creates a powerful reversal of cisnormative patterns of representation, thereby rendering cisgender experience as unfamiliar, a disruption to normative trans childhoods. “Trans Studies Research in First-Year University Instruction” Mary Ann S. Saunders teaches courses in research writing, literature, and transgender studies at the University of British Columbia. Her interests include marginalized children in children’s and YA fiction, trans representation in literature, and trans-informed pedagogies.

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Segur, Ryan “Non-binary Transitioning and Mental Health” A needs assessment survey was administered to a non-probability sample of nonbinary trans people. Information on identity, mental health and community support was gathered. A higher rate of suicidal ideation was found in this sample than in previously studied binary trans populations. This workshop will present a nuanced view of the unique mental health and social circumstances of non-binary trans persons. Ryan Segur is a graduate student at Brown University and a Youth Coordinator at RI for Community and Justice.

Shaughnessy, Kyle “Welcoming Our Two-Spirit Stories” Join us for a storytelling session, facilitated by members of Trans Care BC’s Indigenous Engagement Team, as we discuss experiences of connecting and reconnecting with Two-Spirit history and ways of being. Kyle Shaughnessy is a Two-Spirit, trans person of mixed Indigenous (Dene) and European ancestry. He is a social worker and writer originally from the Northwest Territories and rural BC with a strong background in public speaking, education, community building, and youth advocacy. He is the Education Lead for Indigenous Communities and Children, Youth & Families at Trans Care BC, and is currently completing his MSW at Dalhousie University, focusing his thesis work on Two-Spirit pedagogy.

Sittirak, Sinith “(Re-reading) The Politics of the Changing of (Trans and Non- Trans) Birth Certificates: The Future Challenge of the Trans Archive” This paper aims to re-read birth certificates in the Thai context which reflects the complex relationship between citizen and state. Three birth certificates (male, female and trans) is explored through the feminist approach of ‘ reading from below’ and reading along (and against) the grain or tracing back the process of vertical writing in which state power is manifested and shapes ordinary people’s lives in the modern era. Sinith Sittirak - MA Program in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.

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Soomal, Sajdeep “Our Bodies, Our Clothes: Transdressing as Strategy and Style” This workshop explores the relationship between trans embodiment, identity and clothing. It specifically aims to create dialogue about the diversity of gender expressions and intersectional identities among trans people and the role played by clothing.

“Trans Affect & Inheritance” Trans people have complicated relationships with ancestry and inheritance. It is a terrain that is marked by intergenerational disconnect, economic precarity and archival neglect. Our panel reflects on the politics of ancestry and inheritance within trans communities by exploring how we - as trans people working at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) – have encountered the material, records, and ephemera of trans and gender-variant people in the archives.

Sajdeep Soomal is a writer, researcher and emerging curator based in Toronto, ON. Working out of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Saj is currently writing about imperial atmospherics, architectures of suicide and Punjabi intellectual traditions. Stiegler, Sam “’I try my best not to have a bad day’: Trans homeless youths’ experiences passing time and taking up space in the city” This paper examines the everyday experiences of trans homeless youth in New York City to explore how youth are making sense out of the social worlds through which they move. Sam is a doctoral candidate in Education at UBC whose research focuses on the everyday experiences of trans and queer youth. (he/him pronouns)

Straayer, Chris “Caring for the Phantom Penis” Deploying the Phantom – The phantom penis holds possibilities not only for embracing trans masculinities today but also for incorporating bionic prostheses, penis transplants, and tissue-engineered penises in the future. Chris Straayer is an associate professor at New York University and the author of Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies. He serves on the Editorial Board of Transgender Studies Quarterly. His current research project, Trans-Physicalities, addresses transgender desires for a biological basis, neurological renditions of sexual corporeality, and trans-future medicine.

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Suwannanon, Chanathip “Re-opening [Re-reading] my elementary school notebooks: The Emergence of a Kathoey identity from childhood school notebooks” This study aims to analyze the formation of my Kathoey identity by re-examining my elementary school notebooks through the lens of ‘self’ and gender theory. In doing so I will address how my gender identity at a young age was shaped by the Thai state through the education system and various social discourses. Chanathip Suwannanon, having graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in French from Burapha University, is presently a 2nd year M.A. student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Thammasat University.

Thieme, Katja “Trans Studies Research in First-Year University Instruction”

Thorpe, Amelia “The Ever-Evolving Language of Gender Identity” This presentation will explore how the language of gender identity has evolved over time while highlighting the importance of respecting terminology related to identity. Drawing on poststructural and feminist scholarship, I claim that language plays a central role in both the creation and affirmation of identity. Amelia Thorpe is a PhD Candidate at the University of New Brunswick. Amelia has extensive experience working with queer, trans, and non-binary youth and currently sits on the CPATH Board of Directors. Her research interests include trans health; community advocacy and education; queer linguistics; and intergenerational connectivity within minoritized communities.

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Trottier-Gascon, Caroline “Montreal Trans History Tour: History as Education” I will assess the effectiveness of trans history tours as an educational tool that helps make sense of trans lives. By grounding conversations on trans issues to the city, the tour created associations between locations in Montreal and what they learned. For instance, the Directeur de l’état civil provided an opportunity to discuss activism for legal recognition, while Café Cléopâtra allowed discussions on gentrification and on sex workers’ rights. Caroline is a PhD student in history at Concordia University currently working on an oral history project with Montreal’s trans communities.

Vasey, Paul “Ritual cross-dressing of boys during a Japanese festival” We describe a little-known festival which occurs each autumn in a small mountain village in the Kansai region of Japan. During this festival boys are ritual cross-dressed in kimonos and makeup. Paul L. Vasey is a Professor and a Research Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge. He conducts cross-species and cross-cultural research in Japan, Samoa, Mexico and Canada.

Vipond, Evan “Trans Generations: Exploring the Terrain of Trans Life Writing” Drawing from feminist theory and transgender theory, this paper explores the use of the ‘waves’ metaphor that categorizes trans life writers into generational cohorts. This paper seeks to recognize the plurality of trans narratives through a cross-generational discussion. Doing so allows us to understand trans narratives more complexly, and to account for variances in personal and cultural conceptions of trans identities over time. Evan Vipond is a PhD Candidate in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies at York University. Their doctoral work focuses on trans rights and politics in the neoliberal context.

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Walker, Mattie a Clinical practitioner, Child and Youth Care Instructor “’Sorry, I Don’t Understand the Question’: Exploring Youth Language and Terminology in Online Social Worlds and Contexts” This presentation focuses on the unique ways young people utilize and create terminology to discuss, define and share their engagement with gender categories and identities in order to provide insight for adults supporting gender diverse youth. By exploring how gender is talked about online, I examine the influence of social worlds and contexts of conversations young people engage in, emphasizing how language and terminology can be understood in relation to contextual elements.

“Translation to Generation: Reimagining Knowledge in Practice with Young Trans and Non-Binary People” Young trans and non-binary people and their families routinely resist injustice while accessing care. However, we find the need to translate between the systems we work within and the young people with whom we work distracts from our capacity to build relationships focused on resistance and systemic change. In this presentation, we discuss how community services, members, and educators can shift from translation between systems and youth needs, to generation of services that centre youth voices.

Ware, Syrus Marcus “Black Trans Archives: On the corner, when we gather” Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier Scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator. Syrus uses painting, installation and performance to explore social justice frameworks and black activist culture. He is a facilitator/designer at The Banff Centre, and for 12 years was the Coordinator of the Art Gallery of Ontario Youth Program. Syrus is the inaugural Daniel’s Spectrum Artist-in-Residence (2016/17) and is also a core-team member of Black Lives Matter- Toronto.

Watters, Jordan “Trans Inclusive Schools: Moving Beyond Bathrooms” This presentation examines the current state of gender identity and expression initiatives and supports in BC public schools; identifies opportunities for creating authentic inclusion of trans, non-binary, and two-spirited children and youth within their school communities; and explores the role public schools can play in dismantling the gender binary. Jordan Watters is a School Trustee in the Greater Victoria School District where she has shepherded progressive policy initiatives to foster inclusive communities. Jordan holds an MA in Sociology from Queen’s University, and she has researched, lectured, and published in the fields of Education, Disability Studies, and Law.

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Wiggins, Tobias “Healing Psychoanalysis: A Perspective on Intergenerational Trans Mental Health” This presentation explores notions of the political unconscious, how psychoanalysis can provide a unique type of psychological healing, and how our past experience of “laying on the couch” informs our community-based mental health work today. Tobias B. D. Wiggins is a Ph.D. candidate at York University, where he researches issues pertaining to transgender mental health. You can find him at tobywiggins.com.

Willier, Chase “A Journey Towards Elderhood” The effects of colonization has made indigenous peoples journey towards a healthy elderhood a challenge. This storyteller will explore identities, transitions (including Two-spirit, lesbian, trans) and lived experiences of racism, sexism, trans/homophobia, parenting and aging. Culture can heal and this is one story of resilience and resistance. Chase Willier is nehiyaw transman from Sucker Creek-Saddle Lake Cree Nation. He is retired from the RCMP and spends his time writing, volunteering in the LGBTQ2+ community of Vancouver and is a stay at home dad to his 2 year old daughter, Nika.

Wilson, André “Caring for the Phantom Penis” Caring for the Phantom – Many trans*, non-binary and cisgender people experience phantoms as an elated access to a real self, while others encounter dysphoria, despair, and pain. How might we negotiate the gap between phantom and physicality, whether before, after, or without lower surgery? Is our goal to eliminate or to assimilate the phantom? Or might we consider enhancing or embracing this experience? André Wilson, MS, is Senior Associate at Jamison Green & Associates and a leading expert in transgender health policy and transgender inclusive health coverage.

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Wilson, Margot “Telling (and Writing) Transgender Life Stories” Since MTHF14, Margot Wilson has been conducting life history research in collaboration with trans elders: Stephanie Castle, Joanna Clark, Ariadne Kane and Jude Patton. She recently opened TransGender Publishing (an imprint of Castle Carrington Publishing), the first publishing company in Canada to focus specifically on transgender issues. It is difficult to overstate the importance of recording and preserving transgender elders’ life stories. Through these stories, we orient our understanding of the varied paths along which the transgender community, its history and experience have journeyed. Margot Wilson is an about-to- be-retired Anthropologist from the University of Victoria.

Wolfe, Audrey “Challenging Radical Feminist Discourses around Gender Identity” This paper will explore radical feminist discourses around gender identity, comparing and contrasting these discourses with liberal feminist discourses. As well, the paper will unpack the impact of these discourses on emerging systems that are inclusive and celebrate trans and non-binary children and youth. Audrey Wolfe is a MA in Child and Youth Care student at the University of Victoria. Her research focus is on the ways that LGTBQ and non-binary people make sense of their experiences with sexualized and intimate partner violence. She currently coordinates a complex trauma program for youth.

Wong, Wallace “Special Concerns and Issues in Working with Chinese Canadian Families with Transgender Children and Youth” Transgender clients from other non-Western backgrounds are rarely seen in clinical practice. This workshop will discuss different reasons why transgender youth from non-Western backgrounds do not typically present themselves to mental health or medical professionals, and different issues/clinical skills that professionals should know when working with ethnic minorities families with transgender children and youth. Wallace Wong is a registered psychologist. He has been working with transgender clients since 1996. He is the author of When Kathy is Keith, and It’s so Gay and It’s Okay.

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Waxman, Tobaron “Trans Affect & Inheritance” Trans people have complicated relationships with ancestry and inheritance. It is a terrain that is marked by intergenerational disconnect, economic precarity and archival neglect. Our panel reflects on the politics of ancestry and inheritance within trans communities by exploring how we - as trans people working at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) – have encountered the material, records, and ephemera of trans and gender-variant people in the archives.

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ART ON DISPLAY Hawker, Brynn “Fake” (Art on Display) This work examines the femininity, vulnerability and body image for young transwomen. It features myself and my friend Isobel Glover. I made this piece to help confront the issues that I, and many trans-girls, have with body image and what is considered a ‘female’ body. The second portrait shows the value of the support of our friends and family for young trans-people. The piece attempts to create a contrast between the images we consume in media and how those images can affect our self image.

Holmes, Cindy (Project Coordinator) ARTISTS: Stefan de Villiers, Bon Fabian, Abby Hipolito, Velvet Steele, Chase Willier, Cherese Reemaul, Daniel, Wade Janzen, Elizabeth "Raven" James, Sandy Lambert, Ann Travers “A Photovoice Exhibit: The Trans, Two-Spirit & Gender Nonconforming Community Safety & Wellbeing Photovoice Project” (Art on Display) Using cameras and storytelling, eleven trans, Two-Spirit and gender nonconforming community members explored the questions: What makes a place feel safe and that I belong? What does wellbeing look like to me? What needs to change to create more safety, belonging and wellbeing for trans, Two-Spirit and gender nonconforming people in our community. This exhibit features a small selection of photos and narratives from a Photovoice research project about safety, wellbeing, belonging and place in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations in Vancouver BC. Some co-researchers from this group presented at MTHF 2016 and the 11 photos shared this year are from a larger collection of over 100 photos from the research project.

Kolibaba, Kayden “The Transexual Subject” (Art on Display) This is a look into my journey towards ‘home’. An attempt to sift through dips and curves of my non-linear voyage, and my own realization that ‘home’ is not a destination, but more likely a state of being within ourselves, unstable and ever changing. My body as my home is a forced and artificial marriage of cell and soul, and this project is nostalgia and trauma mixed into an introspective look at my own journey through this diaspora.

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Ware, Syrus Marcus “Black Trans Liberation and the Archives… “ (Art on Display) Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier Scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator. Syrus uses painting, installation and performance to explore social justice frameworks and black activist culture. He is a facilitator/designer at The Banff Centre, and for 12 years was the Coordinator of the Art Gallery of Ontario Youth Program. Syrus is the inaugural Daniel’s Spectrum Artist-in-Residence (2016/17) and is also a core-team member of Black Lives Matter- Toronto.

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