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Transgender Awareness Week

Explore Library resources on Transgender Awareness Week from Lancaster University Library, and find out about events in the Library and across the University.

Transgender Awareness Week 13-19 November 2022

                            

Each year between November 13 – 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help raise the visibility about transgender people and address issues members of the community face.

The week before Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help raise the visibility of transgender people and address issues members of the community face.

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence that year. 2021 marks the most deadly year recorded with at least 45 transgender people, most of them Black or Latinx, killed. 

What is Transgender Awareness Week?

Transgender Awareness Week is a week when transgender people and their allies take action to bring attention to the community by educating the public about who transgender people are, sharing stories and experiences, and advancing advocacy around the issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that affect the transgender community.

What is Transgender Day of Remembrance?

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was founded by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor her memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence that year and began an important memorial that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Participate in TDOR by attending or organizing a vigil on November 20 to honor all those whose lives were lost to anti-transgender violence that year.  Vigils are typically hosted by local transgender advocates or LGBTQ organizations, and held at community centers, parks, places of worship and other venues. The vigil often involves reading a list of the names of those who died that year. 

Information quoted from glaad Trans awareness week 2022

What's happening in 2022?

For Transgender Awareness Week 2022 the Library has collaborated with the LGBTQ+ Forum and the LGBT Staff Network to purchase books and ebooks for the Library collection. 

  • Take a look at the Transgender Awareness Week resource list to view the books and ebooks available through your Univeristy library
    • Have a look at the Transgender Awareness Week book display (until Wednesday 16th) on A floor of the Library to discover the new books exploring Trans history, information and fiction titles recently acquired.  If you would like to suggest titles for the library, please add them to the Request a Resource online form or email library@lancaster.ac.uk

Other events happening on campus during Transgender Awareness Week and the following week include:

  • A Trans Awareness session for Lancaster University students with Christian Owens, a transgender speaker, founder of GenderSpace, retired Detective Sergeant and National Diversity Awards'Lifetime Achiever' 2020 finalist.  This will take place on Thursday 24th November from 4.30 - 6 p.m. in the Library Events space (behind the Living Wall on A floor).  This session is limited to 30 people - book your place now
  • Lancashire Victim Support will be available in the Library Entrance Foyer on 21st November from 11a.m. - 2 p.m. if you have any questions or concerns about hate crime relating to trans people.
  • Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil taking place at Lancaster University Chapliancy Centre on Monday 21st November 6 p.m.