Events
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07 / 4
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Cosponsors: World Peacemakers, Dayspring Church (Part of Every Church a Peace Church), Pax Christi Baltimore, Maryland United for Peace and Justice, and Montgomery Peace Action See announcement at www.nspmaryland.org On July 4th we affirm -- Bring food to share ... and if you wish, also writings, songs, hopes, dream for our program, remembering the best of who we have been in the anti-slavery movement, the women's movement, the labor movement, the civil rights movement, and all progressive movements in our history... | ||
07 / 5
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Intro to Gender & Trans Issues : Ever wonder what it means to disrupt the cultural reification of codified binary sexed embodiment? Well, I'm not so sure either - but come to this introductory workshop to learn about some of the basic terms we use to talk about gender transgression and trans identities. Open to anyone new and everyone looking to learn, we'll be defining such tricky ideas as "gender identity" and "sexual orientation" through a series of interactive activities. If you're not sure what all of the letters in LGBTGTST-SGVGQIQQA stand for, come and find out! And, get your very own assigned reading packet for Gender Theory 338-340 (e.g., a free zine!) Facilitated by Sadie. | ||
07 / 6
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Less Prisons Means More Gender and Sexual Autonomy!: Supporting Trans, Queer, and Gender Variant Prisoners: Focusing on the intersecting oppressions, such as age, race, class & ability, that lock a startlingly disproportionate number of people from our communities in jails, prisons and institutional traps of all kinds, this workshop will take a look at how & why trans, queer and gender variant folks become entangled in the criminal (in)justice system, what they face once incarcerated and some strategies for providing immediate, realistic support as we work toward a world with less walls. We'll look at the broader social context that provides the landscape for imprisonment, how the criminalization of sex work, drugs, migration and poverty affect our communities, talk about what sol idarity can look like between incarcerated and non-incarcerated people, and explore how we can build alliances and why prisoner support is a crucial point of struggle for gender & sexual freedom. Bring ideas and experiences to share, there will be plenty of time for discussion. Free zine! Facilitated by Sadie of the Prisoner Correspondence Project and local organizers with DC-specific information on sex worker issues. | ||
07 / 7
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Penetrating the tight-knit community of minority drag queens living in New York City, Jennie Livingston's acclaimed documentary was one of several films to be shut out of Oscar contention for its unconventional content, prompting the academy to reevaluate its standards in the face of critical backlash. The film offers an early glimpse at the art of "voguing," the underground dance style popularized by Madonna in her No. 1 single "Vogue." We will follow the film with a discussion based around bell hooks' essay of the same title. | ||
07 / 8
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
We'll be hosting adiscussion on how mainstream culture is selling queer identity, and why we feel that a critique of capitalism is a vital aspect of queer and trans organizing for wider social justice. Facilitated by members of QTs ATAC. | ||
07 / 9
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
The Washington Peace Center Board meetings are open to all. Paid members can vote on non-fiduciary matters. For more information: 202-234-2000. The Peace center will be planning many events for the rest of the year, find out how you can plug in! | ||
07 / 10
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07 / 11
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07 / 12
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
You're invited to Maryland's Second Annual A Benefit for Peace Action Montgomery This will be a fabulous event with outstanding music. Please help spread the word! Montgomery County's Own Singer/Songwriter, Christina Van Norman Also performing will be: Yikes McGee The Oklahoma Twisters Proceeds will enable us to continue our outreach and organizing of young people to work for peace. For questions, contact info@peaceactionMC.org Maryland's Mid-Summer Peace Concert will entertain people of all ages with a broad menu of acoustic folk music, political protest, and western swing. | ||
07 / 13
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Games in the Park: Tug of War, Fortune Telling, Kickball, Jump rope, Water balloons, Twister, Pogo-stick Challenge, Sexiest Bike Contest, Mix-Tape Exchange ... and More! | ||
07 / 14
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Beautiful Boxer: Asanee Suwan portrays kickboxer Parinya Charoenphol, who's harboring an unusual secret: He's a transvestite. Inspired by a famous Thai pugilist who lived two drastically different lives, this moving film written and directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham recounts Parinya's painful attempts to exist in paradoxical worlds. To fund the sex change he longs for, Parinya earns money in the ring, participating day after day in the ultimate male sport. | ||
07 / 15
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07 / 16
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07 / 17
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07 / 18
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
The monthly antiwar witness in Takoma Park/Silver Spring organized as part of the national Iraq Moratorium will take place on Friday, July 18 from 6 - 7 p.m. at the Silver Spring Metro station. Signs are encouraged and will be provided. The August witness will take place at the Takoma Park metro station on Friday, August 15 from 6 - 7. Participants warmly invited. For information contact takomapeace@yahoo.com or visit www.takomapeace.org or iraqmoratorium.org. | ||
07 / 19
Start: 1:30 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Can A Confederation Help Solve The Israeli- Palestinian Conflict? Panel and Discussion Featuring: HUSSEIN IBISH (Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine; Executive Director of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership) PAUL SCHAM (Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.) MITCHELL PLITNICK ( Former Policy Director at Jewish Voice for Peace; widely published Middle East analyst) KAMAL NAWASH (Palestinian born attorney based in Washington D.C.) Moderator: JOSEF AVESAR, Esq President of the Israeli Palestinian Confederation No cost, but $15 or other donations appreciated. Seats are limited - Please RSVP. To RSVP, please call (818) 317-7110. For more information go to: www.aboutipc.org. | ||
07 / 20
Start: 2:15 pm
End: 4:15 pm
THE WARRIOR
By Jack Gilhooley, directed by Kevin Murray featuring Marietta Hedges with Mary Lechter
Theater of the First Amendment
Opens at the Capital Fringe Festival, Sunday, July 20
“Tammy has just returned from two tours of duty in Iraq and all she has to show for it are Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and a broken marriage. Her filmmaker friend thinks she deserves a forum. Hold on tight, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride… “ | ||
07 / 21
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Monday evening a coalition of peace and social justice groups, including the Washington Peace Center, wishing to foster greater understanding between faith traditions and stopping an illegal and immoral military strike on the nation of Iran will be protesting outside the Christians United for Israel Conference at the DC Convention Center. Join us to protest the right-wing conference, and raise awareness about preventing war with Iran and the importance of respecting world religions. | ||
07 / 22
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
In short, reproductive justice is the ability to decide how to control our sexual lives and to choose when and how we build a family, if we do. From forced sterilization, to unequal access to healthcare, to significant barriers in adopting, and more, reproductive justice is not a reality for queer and trans communities, but something important for which we must fight. A workshop about the different aspects of justice and barriers to it, as well as a discussion about how we can change things.Facilitated by Emily. For location, email malachykilbride@yahoo.com | ||
07 / 23
Start: 7:00 am
End: 8:00 am
Wednesday, July 23 morning vigil at "The Unthinkable Two," houseboat of Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Gender 340: Experiences - The final installment will focus on our lived experience in a world of binaries, how we reconcile multiple identities and our relationship to identity-based movements (i.e. transfeminism), how we experience validation and invalidation of these multiple identities, our changing senses of who people are and our sense of who we think they want to be. Facilitated by Jake & Cyrus Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
THE WARRIOR
By Jack Gilhooley, directed by Kevin Murray featuring Marietta Hedges with Mary Lechter
Theater of the First Amendment | ||
07 / 24
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07 / 25
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Washington Peace Center teams up with The U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation for a special speaking engagement! Norman Finkelstein is a famous author of many books, including "The Holocaust Industry" and "Beyond Chutzpah." Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics, Princeton University, for a thesis on the theory of Zionism. He's currently an independent scholar. Start: 8:30 pm
Start: Jul 25 2008 - 8:30pm
End: Jul 26 2008 - 12:00am
Critical Mass 6:00 PM Baker Park (Frederick, MD), riding in Critical Mass to the location. Start: 8:30 pm
End: 10:30 pm
THE WARRIOR
By Jack Gilhooley, directed by Kevin Murray featuring Marietta Hedges with Mary Lechter
Theater of the First Amendment Start: 9:00 pm
Waltzes, jigs, soft rock, and some smooth R&B. Formal attire recommended, but not required. Optional, risk-free, but super-fun match-making game comes included. A benefit for the Wanda Alston Center. | ||
07 / 26
End: 12:00 am
Start: Jul 25 2008 - 8:30pm
End: Jul 26 2008 - 12:00am
Critical Mass 6:00 PM Baker Park (Frederick, MD), riding in Critical Mass to the location. Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Taking seriously the trauma of colonial late-capitalism on all non-normative bodies and behaviors, this workshop is structured as a peer-facilitated dialogue, with the goal of collectively brainstorming how we might cultivate accountable, healthy relationships to our notions of "madness" as they relate to our struggles for queer and trans liberation within our many, varied communities, prioritizing self care and personal autonomy. Mapping "madness" onto the current North American colonial landscape requires a sense of how multiple socially engineered traumas interlock to produce the linked oppressions of psychiatrization, psycho-pathologization, disability, racialization, oppositional sexism, homo/transphobia, poverty and incarc eration. Part historical analysis, part focused brainstorm, and part resource sharing, this workshop attempts to construct a safe space in which to think through the idea of "madness" as a social process, a personal experience and a site for community building. This workshop aims to historicize madness alongside queerness or non-gender-conformity. It also endeavors to function as a strategizing session, specifically to think through how we can frame coherent opposition to the incarcerative racialized, classed and gendered violence of psychiatry without reinforcing the "mad" and "not mad" binary in our struggle for autonomous self-realization and access to appropriate resources and services for trans and non-gender-conforming folk. The workshop will aim to strategize coalition building between trans and queer movements, disability activism and psych-survivor organizing, asking: who have we made room for in our movements, and who have we left out? Presented by Griffin, a member of the Icarus Project and has previously collaborated with them for projects in New York, and currently works at a drop-in for psychiatrized folks and with DAMN 2025, a radical cross-disability coalition, in Toronto. Start: 5:45 pm
End: 7:45 pm
THE WARRIOR
By Jack Gilhooley, directed by Kevin Murray featuring Marietta Hedges with Mary Lechter
Theater of the First Amendment | ||
07 / 27
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
For those who believe that the Constitution still matters, and that the ringleaders of this criminal adminsitration must be held to account, the last weeks have brought some very good news. First, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had dropped her opposition to impeachment. Now, it has been announced that the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by John Conyers, will hold a preliminary hearing on impeachment next Friday, July 25! Please join the Washington Peace Center, CodePINK DC, and the pro-peace and justice community for our 3rd Impeach For Peace Picnic on Sunday at the Grassy Knoll by the Washington Monument, on the National Mall between 14th and 15th Streets. We'll have rock music and fiery rhetoric, please bring signs, banners, blankets. There will even be a photographer on top of the Washington Monument to capture all the action as we spell a giant IMPEACH with our bodies and blankets! We will be joined by DC indy rock legend Phil Duarte (aka Philvis) for sounds of rock, rage and justice. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
THE WARRIOR
By Jack Gilhooley, directed by Kevin Murray featuring Marietta Hedges with Mary Lechter
Theater of the First Amendment Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
We are charmed and excited with amazing music. For specific artist descriptions visit our websites. A benefit for Different Avenues. | ||
07 / 28
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Screaming Queens: A documentary about transgenders and transvestites fighting police harassment at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin in 1966, three years before the famous riot at Stonewall Inn bar in NYC. Watermelon Woman: While doing research for a movie about a forgotten African-American actress, black video-store clerk Cheryl (writer-director Cheryl Dunye, playing herself) discovers that her subject shared a secret love affair with a white female director. In a stroke of intergenerational coincidence, Cheryl soon finds herself in love with a white woman. | ||
07 / 29
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Join us for a conversation about histories of queers and trans communities in DC and their relationships and resistance to gentrification and displacement. Topics of conversation will include gay clubs closed in Southeast and opened in Shaw, policing and public safety, housing, grassroots organizing and more. Facilitated by Darby from New Avenues for Youth, presented in collaboration with Different Avenues. | ||
07 / 30
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
This workshop will feature a panel from HIPS and others to discuss various factors that contribute to different levels of substance use while addressing the specific lived realities and needs of substance using communities. Utilizing a harm reduction model, we will discuss ways to support each other with respect to empower self-determination and health. Bring candy to benefit HIPS. For location, please e-mail queerandtransjuly@gmail.com | ||
07 / 31
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
A reflection on the past month's events, what we've learned and where to go from here. | ||
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