Santa Rosa Junior College Queer Resource Center staff will host an intergenerational storytelling event to honor the lives of transgender people and celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. March 30 at the Student Activity Center in Bertolini Hall on the Santa Rosa campus.
Through collaboration with LGBTQ Connection, attendees can come together to celebrate the joy and creativity of the trans community through multimodal storytelling. QRC staff will provide free food at the event.
“A big piece of this is that, during an incredibly difficult time for people who identify with trans and queer experiences — where it’s essentially trying to be erased altogether — we are taking the time to not only reflect, but experience joy as a form of resisting,” QRC coordinator Bree Clark said.
Members from LGBTQ Connection, an initiative focused on bringing queer people together and highlighting the importance of community, will share their stories through music, art and other forms of narrative expression before inviting attendees to do the same.
“I want it to feel intentionally connected,” Clark said.
International Transgender Day of Visibility became a globally recognized day of celebration on March 31, 2009, when Rachel Crandall-Crocker encouraged trans people to organize festivities in their communities. Prior to this, the only global commemoration of trans lives was Transgender Day of Remembrance, held annually on Nov. 20 to remember Rita Hester, a Black transgender woman who was murdered in her apartment in 1998, and the thousands of trans people who have been hurt or killed in transphobic attacks.
QRC staff invite all students, staff and faculty to attend the free event and celebrate the trans community.
For questions, contact Clark at [email protected].
