NOGLSTP at Purdue

November 20, 2008, is the tenth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). This is a day that is set aside to honor and remember those people who have died due to violence and hate crimes inflicted upon them by others who took exception to their gender expression. NOGLSTP at Purdue and PQSU will conduct a Service on the Purdue Engineering Mall (near the Hovde Administration Building) at 5:00pm to memorialize those murdered as a result of their gender expression.

The service will include a graveyard of the 23 transgender-based murder victims from the past year in the grass between the fountain and Hovde and a large lawn display around the fountain reporting the names and details of death of the 238 gender-based murder victims from the last decade known to the organizers. Recent events on the Purdue campus and/or involving Purdue students has motivated the organizers to draw the attention of Purdue Administrators to the social environment that transgender people face every day—an environment of oppression similar to that faced by African-Americans in the Jim Crow era— including lynching.

The service will be preceded by a funeral procession with pall bearers and a casket leaving the QRC to arrive at the tombstone plots at 5:00pm. The service itself will feature several speakers and conclude by the blowing out of 23 candles (one at a time) as we read each name. If you would like to be a part of the funeral procession, dress in black and come to the QRC (Stewart G20) no later than 4:30pm.

More TDOR related links…

Transgender Day of Remembrance Video
Information about our Purdue TDOR Event
TDOR Event article - from the Purdue Exponent Kay Johnson’s TDOR article - in the Purdue Exponent

NOGLSTP at Purdue weekly meetings are held every Wednesday during the Fall semester at 5:30 pm in ARMSTRONG HALL #1028. Everyone is welcome. Our last meeting of the year is scheduled for 12/17/08. We will not meet on 11/26/08 due to Thanksgiving Vacation.

The next National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP) at Purdue meeting will be at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, September 24, in the Queer Resource Center (QRC). The QRC is located in the Stewart Building room G20. We will meet weekly the rest of the semester at 5:30 pm in Armstrong Hall room 1028 every Wednesday. Everyone is welcome.

NOGLSTP at Purdue will meet this Wednesday, September 17, at 5:30 pm in ARMSTRONG HALL #1028. I tentatively envision that we will have all our meetings at this same time and location each week. We will discuss this at the meeting. Anyone interested in getting involved is encouraged to attend. Everyone is welcome. I hope to see you on Wednesday at 5:30 pm in ARMSTRONG HALL #1028.

Kay Johnson

National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals

NOGLSTP at Purdue Fall Callout
Monday, September 8, at 6:00 pm
Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering
FRNY #G124

Are you Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) or Ally?
Are you a Graduate Student at Purdue University?
Are you enrolled in (or employed by) the college of Engineering, Science, or Technology?

If you answered “YES” to any one of the above questions, you are encouraged to join the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, Inc. (NOGLSTP). NOGLSTP was founded 25 years ago and is an official affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAE). Everyone is welcome. The annual dues for college students is only $10.
For more information about joining NOGLSTP, visit: http://www.noglstp.org/

NOGLSTP at Purdue is an official Purdue Student Organization.