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March 16, 2012 -- On Monday, March 19, 11:30 AM, the Program for LGBT Health will present a free lunch-time screening of Diagnosing Difference, by filmmaker Annalise Ophelian, a queer San Francisco-based human sexuality educator and trans ally with a doctorate in clinical psychology. The film is a feature-length length (64 min) documentary featuring interviews with 13 diverse scholars, activists, and artists who identify on the trans spectrum (transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, and gender variant) about the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) on their lives and communities.
Diagnosing Difference will be shown in the 11th floor Bellet conference room, brown-bag lunches are welcome.
Historically, non-trans medical and mental health care professionals have positioned themselves as the “experts” on transgender experience, creating standards, guidelines, and diagnoses that inform legalpolicies and mediate every aspect of life. Diagnosing Difference shifts the focus to explore the many complexities of the diagnosis from the perspectives of those it affects most directly and personally, including access to medical care, legal ramifications, social stigma, implications for psychotherapeutic care, treatment trauma, and differences in experience based on factors like race, class, gender orientation, and generation.
Diagnosing Difference humanizes the debate around the GID diagnosis by valuing personal experience as a vital (and often ignored) form of expertise. Rather than trying to create an exhaustive examination of the diagnosis or offer claims of universal representation, Diagnosing Difference is purposefully personal, seeking to expand the experience of the audience,provoke thought, and create as many questions as it answers. Using the diagnosis as a departure point, the participants debunk myths and misconceptions about transgender identities, challenge stereotypical genderexpectations, and offer educative insight into the terms and language used to describe transgender lives. This groundbreaking film is the first to explore the impact of the GID diagnosis on people who identify on the trans spectrum in their own words and images.
Click here for more information, including the trailer.
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February 29, 2012 -- On Wednesday, March 7, 4:15 PM, the Program for LGBT Health will screen lesbian filmmaker Kimberly Reed's award-winning documentary PRODIGAL SONS in Room 604 of the Bellet Building (1505 Race St). Running time is 64 minutes.
PRODIGAL SONS is a powerful & dramatic chronicle of Reed's extraordinary life journey from her origins in Helena, Montana in the body & persona of Paul McKerrow: All-American Boy.
Star quarterback of his high-school football team, class president, valedictorian voted "most likely to succeed" by classmates - and now a New York-based rising star on the independent film circuit - Reed set out to document her apprehensive 2005 return to Helena for the school's 20-year reunion.
"At the film’s core, however, is the loving but long-combative relationship between [her adopted brother] Marc and Ms. Reed," says Jeannette Catsoulis in the NY Times Critic's Choice review, "a connection that ties both to a past that neither recalls with fondness. Seriously brain-damaged in a car accident, Marc suffers from seizures and terrifying mood swings (in one particularly painful scene, he brutally attacks the sexual choices of his sister and their gay brother, Todd), but Ms. Reed and her cinematographer, John Keitel, never sensationalize. Maintaining a simple, naturalistic style, they patiently capture the shifting dynamics of a family hanging in without giving out. A tale of two siblings — one basking in memories, the other fleeing them — 'Prodigal Sons' grapples with identity through the prism of sibling rivalry. In the end its conclusions have little to do with gender and everything to do with acceptance."
For more information & to view the film's trailer see: http://www.prodigalsonsfilm.com/
Space for this showing is limited. RSVP is requested: tf96@drexel.edu, 215-762-1643.
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February 28, 2012 -- On July 16-August 10, 2012, The Center for Population Research in LGBT Health at The Fenway Institute and the Department of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health are hosting a Summer Institute in LGBT Population Health in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Institute will provide participants with foundational training in interdisciplinary theory, knowledge and methods for conducting population research in sexual and gender minority health. Current doctoral or Masters’ students and recent doctoral program graduates are eligible to apply for one of 18 spots in the program.
To be held over four weeks at Boston University and Fenway Health, the Summer Institute will include several components:
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A dynamic Cornerstone Seminar in LGBT Health and Social Life that will overview key topics, methods, and perspectives in the interdisciplinary study of LGBT Health
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Short-course instruction in statistics and quantitative data analysis at the intermediate and advanced-intermediate levels
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Hands-on training in analysis of LGBT population health data in the Interactive Data Lab.
There is no cost for tuition and participants may apply for free housing* in Boston University dormitories during the Institute. The Summer Institute is funded by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (grant number R25HD064426).
Please click here for the Call for Applications and visit www.lgbtpopcenter.org/training for more information. Applications will be accepted until April 16, 2012. Questions? Please call 617-927-6348 or email summerinstitute@lgbtpopcenter.org.
*There are a limited number of slots for free housing available. Per grant funding guidelines, free housing is only available to U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals of the U.S., or those with legal permanent resident status. No temporary or student visas allowable. Non-citizens may apply for the program, but must cover their own housing and transportation costs.
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February 22, 2012 -- "Marriage Laws: LGBT Couples and Public Health": Dr. Randy Sell will lead an interactive discussion on the impact of marriage laws on LGBT couples and implications for public health. Click here to download flyer with full information. This forum will be held at noon on Wednesday, February 22, in the Bellet 11th Floor Conference Room. Attendees are asked to review two AJPH articles in advance: 1) WC Buffie 2) Hatzenbuehler. Please RSVP to Ted Faigle, 215-762-1643. This is a 'CEO LEAD Certified' Workshop.
February 2, 2012 -- The White House Office of Public Engagement (OPE) today announced a series of conferences around the country specifically focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans.
“Held in partnership with key Departments and Agencies, these White House LGBT Conferences will provide the public, including advocates, providers, and community organizations, an opportunity to hear directly from the Administration on our efforts to ensure health, dignity, and justice for LGBT Americans. These conferences will empower participants by connecting them with Federal government information, resources, and opportunities.”
The inaugural White House LGBT Conference on Health, will be held in Philadelphia on Thursday, February 16th, and will feature remarks by Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.
All School of Public Health students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend thins ground-breaking event. Please note that space is limited and registrations will only be accepted until capacity is reached.
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