The UR Pride Centre is pleased to announce that they are offering workshops this semester:

1. Intro to Positive Space Network:

“Positive Space is a movement that seeks to create a campus and community environment that welcomes sexual and gender diversity. The goal is to challenge homophobia and heteronormativity to promote a safe, welcoming environment for all students, employees and citizens.” Come and learn some basic terms and theories and learn how to apply them to your study/practice.

2. Intro to LGBTQ- In this workshop we dive into more terminology, talk about self-defined terms, differentiate between sex and gender and talk about language.

 3. Sex and Gender- This workshop is all about the “grey area.” We discuss alternatives to binary sex and gender including: transgender, transsexual, intersex, two-spirit, cross-dressers, etc. etc. etc.

 The schedule for this semester thus far is:

 Jan 17th 1pm Aboriginal Student Centre (PSN) Intro to LGBTQ

Jan 19th 1pm URSU Board Room (PSN) Intro to Positive Space Network

Jan 20th 10am URSU Board Room (PSN) Intro to LGBTQ

Jan 24th 11am URSU Board Room (PSN) Intro to Positive Space Network

Jan 24th 12pm URSU Board Room (PSN) Intro to LGBTQ

Jan 26th 1pm URSU Board Room (PSN) Intro to Positive Space Network

Feb 13th 1pm Aboriginal Student Centre (PSN) Sex and Gender

** The PSN workshops should be attended on a volunteer basis, therefore the UR Pride Centre will not be presenting these workshops at staff meetings or other instances where attendance is mandatory.

 ** If you do not have time to come to the “Intro to Positive Space Network” presentation but would like to be part of the PSN, there will be an on line test put on the urpride.ca website by the end of the month. Stay tuned.

 To sign up to attend workshops, please email executive.director@urpride.ca, Please RSVP if you know you are coming. although we do encourage walk ins, if no one signs up for a workshop it will be cancelled.