February 15, 2008

INTERSEX AWARENESS WEEK: Feb. 19-22

Feb. 19 -- Keynote event: Thea Hillman, poet, spoken word artist, writer and intersex activist, performing her work about intersex issues, 6 p.m., Silo Pub.

Feb. 20 -- R!se Up: XXXY, a short documentary film about clitorectomy and other forms of sexually mutilating genital surgery for children born with clitorises that doctors or parents think are "too big," noon, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center; and Is it a Boy or a Girl? -- a Discovery Channel documentary on the controversial medical management of children with ambiguous sex characteristics, 6 p.m., LGBTRC.

Feb. 21 -- Pedagogy seminar facilitated by cultural studies graduate students Toby Beauchamp and Ben D. Harlingue, noon, 3201 Hart Hall; and health care-ethics presentation, featuring Anne Tamar-Mattis, founder and executive director of Advocates for Informed, discussing total patient care models from legal, psychological and medical perspectives, 2 p.m., 126 Voorhies Hall.

Feb. 22 -- Closed session safe space for intersex-identified, noon, Righteous Babe Lounge, Women's Resources and Research Center, first floor, North Hall; and viewing and discussion of a Freaks and Geeks episode, 1 p.m., LGBTRC.

All events are free.

For more information, contact the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center, (530) 752-2452.