Yearly TFA Membership Meeting July 24th
The Transgender Foundation of America is the organization that is responsible for Transgender Center, library and archive. As per TFA By-Laws, we are a 501[c]3 nonprofit membership organization. Our By-laws stipulate, “Membership in this organization shall be open to all who are dealing with issues relating to cultural gender stereotypes.” The annual membership meeting of TFA will be...
Read MoreNew TG Center Donations: Music and History
The TG Center would like to acknowledge the following generous gifts: 1911 Packard upright piano: Thanks to Grace Lutheran Church and Dawn M! Extremely Rare 1914, 1st edition “Die Homosexualitat” by Magnus Hirschfeld: Thanks to Cristan Williams! Entire personal collection of trans magazines, zines and books: Thanks to Kristen Schilt, professor of Sociology at the University of...
Read MoreFor the Girls
Kristen Schilt is a professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD from UCLA in 2006 and then spent two years at Rice University. She has just finished a book, coming out this winter, about the workplace experiences of transgender men. For this project, she interviewed transmen in Texas and California who were stealth at work and who had openly transitioned and stayed...
Read MoreHurricanes and the TG Community
Community Hurricane Preparedness Why It’s Needed - As many of you know, emergency shelters continue to refuse service to transgender people and the emergency shelter system has even jailed transgender hurricane evacuees 1. Some of us within the community do not have family that we can rely upon during a natural disaster. During Hurricane Ike, our community’s ability to get help or...
Read MoreNew and Returning Meetings Announced!
Now that the TG Center is up and running again, many groups, meetings, classes and activates are returning or being put together by the community. Below is a list of new and returning activities that are confirmed. Returning… Returning: Friday TG Social: Starting in May: The Friday Night Transgender Social is a special, once-a-month event hosted by the TG Center for the Houston area...
Read MoreThe TG Center and Media
Call 713-520-8586 to learn how you can help or make the choice to give. “Syntactical Distancing in the Case of Myra Ical” Check out the most articulate and insightful deconstruction of the postmortem violence inflicted upon Myra Ical’s humanity while getting an update on where the murder investigation stands. Laura Richardson presented this paper at the 2010 Rice University SWGS...
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