The University of Portland School of Nursing is hosting a screening of the film Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer, a documentary co-filmed by Brooks Nelson and Yee Won Chong. The film illuminates Brooks' and Yee Won's experiences as trans-masculine people undergoing treatment for breast and ovarian cancer.

More information: http://www.transdudeswithladycancer.org/

Event Details:

• Date: Monday, November 18, 2019
• Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
• Location: Eastern (quiet) side of the University of Portland Bauccio Commons
• FREE event - open to general public
• Q & A with filmmakers and panelists!

Accessibility:

• Film will have closed-captioning in English
• For AES accommodations, please email birkett@up.edu.
• TriMet Bus Route 44 stops right outside of University of Portland
• Stop ID 6290 Eastbound
• Stop ID 6271 Westbound
• Pedestrian crossing with button for lights with auditory cues

• ADA parking available
• Two accessible automated entrances in front of the Bauccio Commons
• Bathrooms near the event space will be made gender-neutral

Program:

(5:30pm) Welcome & popcorn

(5:35pm) Presentation by Erin Waters

(6:05pm) Filmmaker introductions

(6:10pm) Film screening

(6:40pm) Q&A with filmmakers & guest panelists

(7:30pm) End

Land acknowledgement:

We acknowledge the land on which we sit and which we occupy at the University of Portland. "The Portland Metro area rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River creating communities and summer encampments to harvest and use the plentiful natural resources of the area" (Portland Indian Leaders Roundtable, 2018). We take this opportunity to thank the original caretakers of this land. To learn more about Portland's Native diverse and vibrant community, please click here for a document created by the Portland Indian Leaders Roundtable.

Bios:

Brooks Nelson - Filmmaker

Brooks Nelson is an experienced filmmaker and founder of Boxxo Productions. He made Switch: A Community in Transition, a documentary that explores the impact of a gender transition - not on the individual going through transition, but on the surrounding community of family, friends, co-workers, and others.

Yee Won Chong - Filmmaker

As an advocate of transgender justice, Yee Won Chong gave a TEDx talk, Beyond the Gender Binary, weaving his personal story about being a transgender immigrant with practical tips on how to be a good ally. Yee Won also provides transgender inclusion training to workplaces and college campuses.

Erin Waters - Speaker

Erin Waters is an Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity Consultant for Kaiser Permanente Northwest, helping to educate both patients and providers on how to navigate the complex world of transgender health. She educates providers both inside and outside of the Kaiser system on how to provide the best care possible to gender and sexual minorities. As a member of the transgender community, her goal is to help everyone find better ways of improving healthcare outcomes and break down barriers to accessing affirming care. She firmly believes that as we learn how to better support the most marginalized voices in our communities, we create a rising tide of change that raises all ships.

Suzanne Scopes - Q&A Panelist

Dr. Scopes is a naturopathic physician in private practice in Portland, specializing in transgender health for close to 20 years. She was the medical director of the Outside In Trans Clinic from 2005-2015 and has lectured extensively on trans health care.

adem cardona - Q&A Panelist

adem cardona lives in Portland, Oregon. They are 2 Spirit Taino, disabled, grandfather who enjoys creating large pieces of art, working with leather, oil on canvass, and mask making. They are an alumni of Portland State University and are retired from social services after having worked with both children and adults at the State of Oregon, and at several nonprofits before running a small outdoor adventures company in Guajataka, Boriken. Currently adem volunteers in a classroom introducing Native and Indigenous kids to art. Much of adem's art focuses on gender, body positivity, and Indigenous issues. They take inspiration from ancestral stories and the experience of living in the Pacific Northwest for almost 30 years. adem paints almost exclusively using paint scrapers and occasionally their hands. While a paint brush has never felt comfortable in their hands, alternative tools have allowed them to work with ease applying oil to large sized canvases. Due to degenerative disease they are only able to work on their art a few hours each week. adem's work has been showcased at Portland State University, Portland Community College, Southern Oregon University, Portland Q Center, Multnomah Arts Center, and in a number of galleries and publications, including in Puerto Rico.

Amy Penkin - Q&A Panelist

Amy Penkin, LCSW joined OHSU in January 2015 as the Program Supervisor for the newly launched Transgender Health Program. She has been a clinical social worker for 20 years and throughout her career has provided direct care, advocacy, education, program management, and supervision/consultation in community mental health and healthcare environments. Amy has a history of providing and overseeing care for the LGBTQ+ community and is dedicated to promoting health equity for these and other underserved populations experiencing health disparities. In addition to working in the Portland Metro Area since 2009, her history includes teaching and working as a social worker, advocate, consultant, private practice therapist, and program manager in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has traveled extensively for social work and human rights projects in Central and South America and throughout Asia. Amy earned her Master’s degree in Social Work from the Univ. of California, Berkeley and subsequently served as Adjunct Faculty and Field Instructor for Schools of Social work at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, Smith College, Boston University, and Portland State University.

Resources: If you feel that you would like further education about some of these topics to better understand the event

• What is gender? Also see here.
• What does current transgender healthcare look like on a national level? (2015 U.S. Trans Survey - view Chapter 7)

Event organized by the University of Portland School of Nursing International Education, Diversity & Inclusion (IEDI) Committee and the Office of International Education, Diversity and Inclusion (OIEDI) in partnership with Yee Won Chong and Brooks Nelson.