Trans* Awareness Week Potluck Dinner at Towson University
Hey, everyone! My name is Noel, and I'm the vice-president/co-founder of Towson University's trans*, genderqueer, gender-variant, & agender student support group, GenderBLUR. If you live in the Baltimore, MD (USA) area and are:
- a student at Towson University
- a prior student/alumn of Towson University
- a "prospective student" of TU (even if you're not really looking to attend/transfer to TU, we can pretend you are, especially if you're still in high school!)
- faculty/staff or prior faculty/staff of TU
AND
- you identify absolutely anywhere on the trans* & gender-variant or agender spectrum (basically anything but cisgender)
we would like to invite you & your family/chosen family to a potluck dinner at our school on Wednesday, November 16th at 6:30 as part of our Trans* Awareness Week programming!
If you don't know or are unsure what "chosen family" means, it refers to people who, though they aren't biologically related or legally bound to you, are just as close as "traditional" biological/legal family and may have in fact replaced them--since many of us are not on good terms with biological family.
Support, whether it's biological/legal family, chosen family, friends, or other trans* folk, is so important in our lives! This is an event for sharing that support & making new friends. Many of us at TU have found that our relatives, especially those still on the fence about their kin being trans*, improved their attitudes and learned a lot from speaking with other relatives of trans* people.
If you're interested, please email me at sheimp1@students.towson.edu so that we can work out the details & get you a formal invitation! If you're unsure about anything and have questions, please don't hesitate to ask. If you know someone who may be interested, please send them my way!
I apologize that the criteria for attending is so limited, but it's what the university has agreed to help pay for :( The "prospective student" thing is our only real loophole!