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Post your questions for panelists and the audience here! If time permits (and the questions are reasonable/appropriate) we will answer them!

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Kim Loper, University of Miami

Kloper@med.miami.edu

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Jenna Lepczyk, lepczykjenna@gmail.com

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The VA has fact sheets and resources on LGBTQ health needs, including resources on Why and How to come out to your clinicians

https://www.patientcare.va.gov/lgbt/

Vincent.Slatt@va.gov

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Film recommendations: Disclosure (documentary) 

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Film recommendations: Disclosure (documentary) 

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DISCLOSURE: Documentary by Sam Feder and Amy Scholder

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DISCLOSURE is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton, and Chaz Bono, share their reactions and resistance to some of Hollywood's most beloved moments. Grappling with films like A Florida Enchantment (1914), Dog Day Afternoon, The Crying Game, and Boys Don't Cry, and with shows like The Jeffersons, The L-Word, and Pose, they trace a history that is at once dehumanizing, yet also evolving, complex, and sometimes humorous. What emerges is a fascinating story of dynamic interplay between trans representation on screen, society's beliefs, and the reality of trans lives. Reframing familiar scenes and iconic characters in a new light, director Sam Feder invites viewers to confront unexamined assumptions, and shows how what once captured the American imagination now elicit new feelings. DISCLOSURE provokes a startling revolution in how we see and understand trans people.

We are at a crossroads as social movements are in direct conversation with Hollywood. DISCLOSURE is the manifestation of this moment for transgender people and their representation. The increasing visibility of transgender people is exhilarating, and signals the beginnings of positive social change.

Nevertheless, violence against trans people persists including the surge of efforts to constrain transgender civil rights. From current bathroom bills that paint trans women as male predators, to a Presidential military ban on trans service, there is an attempt to legislate trans people out of public life. Using history to illuminate the present, DISCLOSURE explores this fear.

DISCLOSURE shows audiences that decades-old stereotypes, memes, and tropes in the media both form and reflect our understanding of trans issues. They have shaped the cultural narrative about transgender people, and inform everything from dating and domestic violence, to school policy and national legislation. Since 80% of the population have never met a transgender person, all they know is rooted in media depictions, which are predominantly problematic and have rarely included participation by actual trans people. DISCLOSURE is aimed at that 80%.

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DISCLOSURE is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton, and Chaz Bono, share their reactions and resistance to some of Hollywood's most beloved moments.

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Marina, a transgender waitress and nightclub singer, is shocked by the death of her older boyfriend. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.

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Marina and Orlando are in love and planning for the future.

Marina is a young waitress and aspiring singer. Orlando is 20 years older than her, and owns a printing company.

After celebrating Marina's birthday one evening, Orlando falls seriously ill. Marina rushes him to the emergency room, but he passes away just after arriving at the hospital.

Instead of being able to mourn her lover, suddenly Marina is treated with suspicion. The doctors and Orlando's family don't trust her. A woman detective investigates Marina to see if she was involved in his death. Orlando's ex-wife forbids her from attending the funeral. And to make matters worse, Orlando's son threatens to throw Marina out of the flat she shared with Orlando.

Marina is a trans woman and for most of Orlando's family, her sexual identity is an aberration, a perversion.

So Marina struggles for the right to be herself. She battles the very same forces that she has spent a lifetime fighting just to become the woman she is now - a complex, strong, forthright and fantastic woman.

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Sony Pictures Classics + Mixed Media Workshop

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Marina and Orlando are in love and planning for the future. Marina is a young waitress and aspiring singer. Orlando is 20 years older than her, and owns a printing company. After celebrating Marina's birthday one evening, Orlando falls seriously ill. Marina rushes him to the emergency room, but he passes away just after arriving at the hospital.

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Can you talk about where you find resources both virtual and physical to offer your community?

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Just curious, do you have someone to take over when you are done?

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How do you steer away from "tokenism" in advocating for the LGBTQIA+ community while being the known as the gay librarian/trans librarian?

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What’s a program/ initiative you’d love to try but maybe haven’t had the resources to do (yet)?

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Please say a bit more about the sensory room! Funding, space, research done to prove need…?

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What recommendations do you have for building a LGBT sense of community within a fledgling college with one program within a conservative community?

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How do (or could) your colleagues not make you the spokesperson for the trans/disabled/autistic? I imagine that can be both exhausting and invigorating. Do you have to speak up or do they know to not lean too heavily?

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Parent Advice? Gay & Bi daughters - besides unconditional LOVE for them and their friends!

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Without causing too much pain to either of you, could you share any words/actions that your coworkers do that they think are helpful but actually more harmful?

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Advice for Public Library (I’m in a part-time position) to support the entire community. There currently is no obviously visible LGBTQIA+ support. Collection development is inclusive.

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Advice for Public Library (I’m in a part-time position) to support the entire community. There currently is no obviously visible LGBTQIA+ support. Collection development is inclusive.

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Can you please share your gay radar? Are there classes one can take to learn?

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For future workshops/events: Melissa Hood, melissarice@usf.edu

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Holly Hudson

Hhudson@uic.edu

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https://www.chronicle.com/article/here-are-the-states-where-lawmakers-are-seeking-to-ban-colleges-dei-efforts

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Mapping Anti-LGBTQIA+ Laws Impacting Libraries

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Mapping Anti-LGBTQIA+ Laws Impacting Libraries

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American Civil Liberties Union. (2024, February 6). Mapping attacks on LGBTQ rights in U.S. state legislatures in 2023 . https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2023

Chronicle Staff. (2023). DEI Legislation Tracker . The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/here-are-the-states-where-lawmakers-are-seeking-to-ban-colleges-dei-efforts

https://translegislation.com. (n.d.). 2024 Anti-Trans Bills: Trans legislation tracker . 2024 Anti-Trans Bills: Trans Legislation Tracker. https://translegislation.com/

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Most Frequently Used Words in Bills and Related Themes

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Dot Winslow

Dorothywinslow@atsu.edu

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Make a collection development annotated bibliography of what libraries need to have, should have, would like to have.

Make sure it is intersectional so we can also be allies to other minorities. Be an example for other groups to copy or join…

Vincent.slatt@va.gov

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Judy Kraemer

currently at Anaheim Public Library part-time

Please add me to your mailing list

Jkraemer@anaheim.net

Great program! ❤️