Friday, July 9, 2010

Women Demanding Change Now panel discussion- July 15th in Los Angeles


Date:
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Time:
7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location:
Plummer Park Community Center- Room # 6, West Hollywood, California
Women Demanding Change Now:
The Dehumanizing Misrepresentation of Transsexual Women through the Gay Male Hollywood Lens.

Hosted by MAGNET- Media Advocates Giving National Equality to Transsexual & Transgender People
(MAGNET)

MAGNET is an anti-defamation organization dedicated to educating the media about transsexual and transgender issues, as well as pushing for more authentic and positive portrayals of trans people in the media.

Event will be filmed, so attendees must be okay with this

Some topics which be discussed:

• Finding solutions to build authentic unity and trust within LGBT community

• Spiritual/mental/physical violence incited by messages in film and TV

• Gay males producing stigmatizing, over the top & unkind images of transsexual women

• Gay Inc. and some transgender activists co-opting the medical condition transsexualism

• Inaccurately depicting transsexual women as “drag queens”, “caricatures of femininity”

• Dangerous propaganda that miseducates public and assaults transsexual women

There will be an opportunity for the audience to ask the panelists questions.



- Kiana Moore (transsexual woman, Hollywood producer- VH1,MTV, Bravo, Oxygen, Logo)--
- Arianna Davis (transsexual woman & intersex- Founder of Gender ID Empowerment Coalition)
- Cary Harrison (gay male, radio personality, award winning journalist.)
- Mannee McMurray (LGBT activist, writer, MAGNET volunteer)
- Hannah Howard (trans activist, Gender Justice LA board member)

- Also with Talia Bettcher, PHD - Matt Palazzolo - Libby Freeman

Moderated by Ashley Love- (trans rights advocate, writer and an organizer with MAGNET)


Please let us know your thoughts on this epidemic so we can include them in the planning and discussion.

FOR INFO, contact MAGNET organizer: Ashley Love @ MAGNET @ magnet_right_now@yahoo.com.


Media Advocates Giving National Equality to Transsexual & Transgender People (MAGNET)

www.TheMAGNETSource.blogspot.com
Ashley Love's blog: www.TransFormingMedia.blogspot.com

MAGNET is an anti-defamation organization dedicated to educating the media about transsexual and transgender issues, as well as pushing for more authentic and positive portrayals of trans people in the media.

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