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🏳️⚧️ It’s Transgender Awareness Week (November 13-19)! 🏳️⚧️ This is a week to celebrate and raise awareness about the transgender community (including anyone with a diverse gender experience!) -- and it leads up to Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, which honors trans lives that have been lost. Penn LGBT has a full week of events planned to both celebrate and commemorate the trans community ⤵️ 💙 Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil 🗓 Tuesday, November 26 @ 7pm 📍 Penn LGBT Center (3907 Spruce St) ✨ An evening honoring Trans Day of Remembrance and the lives of our trans and non-binary community members. 💖 Open Mic Night: Uplifting Trans & Non-Binary Voices 🗓 Wednesday, November 16 @ 7:30 pm 📍 Kelly Writers House (3805 Locust Walk) ✨ A celebration and amplification of voices and experiences across the gender spectrum. 💙 Gender-Affirming Closet Swap & Drop 🗓 Thursday, November 15 from 12-3 pm 📍 Penn LGBT Center (3907 Spruce St) ✨ Swap off clothing items you no longer need, and find new gender-affirming items for your closet! We hope to see you at some of these events! Feel free to DM @PennLGBT if you have any questions. And happy Transgender Awareness Week!! 🏳️⚧️ #pennlgbt #transgenderawarenessweek #transcommunity #nonbinarycommunity #transawarenessweek #transawareness Thanks @pennlgbt for the graphic and caption! ✨✨ -
Honoring the trans and non-binary community for Transgender Day of Remembrance ❤️🏳️⚧️ Join @PennLGBT, @PennWellness, and @Penn_PVP at the LGBT Center TONIGHT 🗓 Tuesday, November 15 from 7-9 pm 🗓 for a candlelight vigil in recognition of the lives and memories of our trans and non-binary community members. This event is in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), which occurs annually on November 20 to commemorate those who have been lost to anti-trans violence. TDOR was first created in response to the murder of Rita Hester — a 34-year-old Black trans woman — outside of Boston on November 28th, 1998. Her case is still unsolved. It was in Rita’s memory that Gwendolyn Anne Smith, then the administrator of the AOL Transgender Community Forum, and fellow activist Penni Ashe Matz organized the first Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 28, 1999 (the anniversary of Hester’s death). Smith also began the Remembering Our Dead web project, an attempt to compile a comprehensive list of murdered trans people from as far back as 1970. In 2022 so far, at least six trans women have been murdered in the U.S. alone. Violence against the transgender and non-binary communities is still very much an ongoing concern — which makes it all the more meaningful and valuable to come together as a community and show solidarity, love, and support. We hope you join us in community at the TDOR candlelight vigil on Tuesday, November 15th — and/or join our two other events for Transgender Awareness Week (November 13-19): ✨ A Trans and Non-Binary Open Mic Night on Wednesday, November 16th @ 7:30 at @kellywritershouse ✨ And a Clothing Swap N Drop on Thursday, November 17th @ 12 pm at @PennLGBT And in the meantime, feel free to reach out to @PennLGBT with any questions, or need for resources or support! 🏳️⚧️ Thank you @pennlgbt for the caption and graphics ✨ -
It’s spooky szn!! Remember costumes don’t mean consent, and respect and care for each other this Halloweekend! ✨ Costumes are NOT excuses to touch someone or make sexual comments without their consent. Also, skip the costumes that make light of interpersonal violence and folks’ identities. 🚫 If you’d like to talk through with a confidential staff member, PVP staff are available 9am-5pm every Monday through Friday. Special Services (215-898-6600) and Student Counseling (215-898-7021) provide 24/7 support if you need support this weekend or after-hours. Take care y’all and have fun. 🎃🐈⬛ 👻🐈⬛🧙♀️ -
PVP and @pennwomenscenter are planning a Candlelight Vigil on Thursday, October 27th at 7pm to honor survivors of intimate partner violence as part of our Domestic Violence Awareness Month programming. 🕯 PVP would love for students to get involved through reading poetry, spoken word, or performing a song. PVP can provide a poem to read, or students can share a piece about abuse/survivorship that resonates with them. ✨ If you are interested in being a part of this event to honor and support survivors, please email Julie Millisky (PVP staff) at julmill@upenn.edu. -
Join Penn Campus Recreation and Penn Violence Prevention on Wednesday mornings in October for a trauma-informed yoga practice. Each week we will meet from 9-10AM in Studio 414. Join Nicole from Studio 34 for the classes on October 5th and 19th, and Allyssa from Yoga Habit on October 12th and 26th. Free and open to the Penn community. Attend one class or all four. Pre-registration is encouraged, but not mandatory; classes cap at 40. If you have a yoga mat, we recommend you bring it, but you can also borrow one. Confidential staff from PVP will be in attendance for folks who would like support during or after the session. These sessions are open to everyone - survivors and supporters.
Penn Violence Prevention (PVP) engages the Penn community in the prevention of sexual violence, relationship violence, stalking, and sexual harassment on campus. We foster collaborative relationships across campus to ensure a survivor-centered, multi-faceted approach to support services and primary prevention. Through collective community action, we are committed to ending interpersonal violence by addressing gender inequity, social injustice, and oppression through outreach and education.
Penn Violence Prevention Events Calendar
Learn about upcoming Penn Violence Prevention events.
