Activist Event: Book Discussion on Transgender Rights
Discussion and Q&A with Paisley Currah, co-editor of Transgender Rights
Friday, April 20, 7 p.m at
Amazon Feminist Bookstore
4755 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis 55407
612-821-9630
While the transgender movement has achieved visibility and victories in the last thirty years, violence and discrimination against transgender people continues to be a significant problem. With analysis from legal and policy experts, activists and advocates, the essays in Transgender Rights bring transgender people's activism into view, articulate the challenges they face, and offer perspectives and strategies for future action. Examining crucial topics like family law, employment policies, public health, economics, and grassroots organizing, this groundbreaking book is an indispensable resource in the fight for the freedom and equality of those who cross gender boundaries. Moving beyond media representations to grapple with the real lives and issues of transgender people, Transgender Rights will launch a new moment for human rights activism in America.
Paisley Currah is associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College, executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute.