Supporting Our Transgender & Gender-Expansive Students: A Panel Discussion,”
The Equity Across the Curriculum Initiative invites you to our Spring panel discussion “Supporting Our Transgender & Gender-Expansive Students: A Panel Discussion,” on Monday, April 21, 10am-Noon via Zoom. Panelists include Dean Spade, Professor at Seattle University School of Law and an advocate focused on queer and trans liberation; Jorge Barón, King County Councilmember and former Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights; Luna Crone-Barón, UW student and affiant in recent litigation challenging national bans on gender-affirming care (see WA lawsuit); and Ching-In Chen and Neil Simpkins, UW Bothell faculty who have recently conducted focus groups with UWB trans students about campus climate. While we expect the discussion to focus mostly on transgender issues in the wake of recent national anti-trans legislation and media attention, the issues are intersectional – touching on immigration, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, and more.
Please feel welcome to share this announcement with colleagues in your school and division who might be interested in joining us. We ask you to register by Friday, April 18 using the same name and email account as you plan to join the Zoom with (we will be cross-checking names with registrations before admittance to the event in order to reduce the chance of Zoombombing).
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UW Bothell’s Equity Across the Curriculum Initiative
SUPPORTING OUR TRANSGENDER & GENDER-EXPANSIVE STUDENTS
A panel discussion with Dean Spade, Jorge Barón, Luna Crone-Barón, Ching-In Chen, & Neil Simpkins
MONDAY, APRIL 21
Via Zoom | 10am-Noon
Register by April 18
The Equity Across the Curriculum Initiative invites you to our Spring panel discussion about supporting transgender students on our campus. We expect the conversations to touch on the current legal landscape in Washington, experiences of students at UW, including opportunities for advocacy. Because these conversations are intersectional we expect the conversation to broach issues of immigration, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, and more.
PANELIST BIOGRAPHIES:
Dean Spade is a professor at Seattle University School of Law. He has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation, anti-militarism, and police and prison abolition for the past 25 years. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!.” His new book is Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together.
Jorge L. Barón was elected to be a member of the Metropolitan King County Council in November 2023 and will serve as the representative for District 4 on the Council from January 2024 to December 2026. Previously, Barón served as the Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) from 2008 until 2023, and as a staff attorney with the organization from 2006 to 2008. Barón has been featured and quoted in numerous local and national publications, including the Seattle Times, the New York Times, and KUOW.
Luna Crone-Barón (she/her) is a drama student at UW Seattle. Crone-Barón has first-hand knowledge of the experience of living as a trans person in Washington, as a student, and in the UW system. She is a lifelong advocate and organizer for transgender rights and human dignity. Most recently, in February, she was part of the AGO’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Executive Order targeting transgender and gender-diverse youth – contributing to the supporting declarations for the lawsuit.
Ching-In Chen is the author of recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry), The Heart’s Traffic and the forthcoming Shiny City, Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities and a Massage Parlor Organizing Project core member. They have served as an Alphabet Alliance of Color mentor and collaborated with Neil Simpkins on the Imagining Trans Futures cross-disciplinary research cluster. After their Trans and Nonbinary Reading Room at the 2023 Asian American Literature Festival was cancelled by the Smithsonian, they organized the Reorienting Reads Collective to amplify diasporic Asian and Pacific Islander transgender, intersex, nonbinary and gender-expansive voices through community events, educational resources, and publishing projects. Chen is currently an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and MFA program in creative writing and poetics at UW Bothell.
Neil Simpkins is a teacher-scholar-writer working at the intersections of disability and trans identity. His current book project, Accommodation Work: The Rhetorical Practices of Disabled College Students, examines how the current system of accommodations in higher education shapes disabled students’ experiences of college. Simpkins is an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Bothell.
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