When: Saturday 25th May, 1.45 - 5PM

Where: Central School of Speech and Drama, London, NW3 3HY (Map) Nearest tube: Swiss Cottage (Exit 2)

Let’s look closely at our friendships and relationships - or the ones we might want to have. How can I find the right friends and relationships for me? What’s OK and not OK? How can I deal with all my feelings of jealousy, insecurity or simply fancying someone? How can I be safe and how or when do I come out as trans?
 
This session is for all of you - whatever your age, whether you’re having relationships or not – this session will help you think about yourself and feel better about being you and doing the right thing for yourself and others.
 
The session will be very interactive, with lots of games and activities. It will be a safe and supportive space – it won’t be embarrassing and you won’t be asked to say anything you don’t want to.
 
The session is being run by Catherine Bewley from Galop. Galop is a London-based LGBT anti-violence charity that has worked a lot with GI over the years. Catherine does lots of outreach and development work with trans* people, works with lots of individual trans* people who’ve experienced sexual abuse, and helps run cliniQ, the new sexual health service for trans* people at Dean Street.
 
They’ll be a chance to ask questions, meet other young trans people and socialise. Light refreshments will be provided. Travel bursaries of up to £7 will be provided with a receipt. Our spaces are wheelchair accessible, but please contact us if you have any access needs we may need to take in to consideration.

‘TRANS GUYS ARE….’
A film by Tom O’Tottenham & Serge Nicholson

Made in partnership with Galop

When: 9pm on Friday 17^th May 2013

Where: Unskinny Bop, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Pollard Row, London E2 6NB (Map)

Cost: £1 (and free entry to club afterwards at 10pm)

Tom and Serge, two London trans guys enlist their extended queer family of friends and community allies to share a playful, joyous, affirmative message. Trans guys are… hot.

The film shows a message held close to the hearts of London queers and trans people. Set to a steaming soundtrack, Happiness Train by the Jessica Lauren Four (www.jessicalauren.com), the film is an extended family album shot on location on the streets of London and in queer nightspots. Tom and Serge’s aim is to celebrate that trans guys are very much part of the wider community, as friends, allies, activists and… hot lovers

For more information see http://transguysare.com/

When: Tuesday 14th May, 5.45 - 8PM

Where: The Tavistock Centre, London, NW3 5BA (Map) Nearest tube: Swiss Cottage / Finchley Road

For our next Tuesday youth session, we’ll be having a discussion on families. This will be a chance to reflect on our SOFFA session on the 27th April, as well as an opportunity to share strategies on negotiating relationships with our families as young trans people.

They’ll be a chance to ask questions, meet other young trans people and socialise. Light refreshments will be provided. Travel bursaries of up to £7 will be provided with a receipt.

This book reading event features a book published by one of our long-time youth group members. 50% of the proceeds from this event will go towards GI trans youth support work!

When: Thursday 30th May, 7pm - 9pm

Where: Gay’s the Word Bookshop, Marchmont Street, WC1N 1AB. (Map)

Cost: £4 (50% of proceeds go to Gendered Intelligence)

Facebook event link here.

The groundbreaking autobiography of the boy who was born a girl.

In 2009 Luisa and Jon appeared in the BAFTA nominated Channel 4 documentary. It was the first time a family with a transgender child had agreed to be on camera and the programme hit record figures of over a million viewers.

Brought up as Natasha for 15 years, Jon can remember feeling male since the age of five. Having grown up always feeling differently to the girls in school, it was impossible to identify as female.

Jon eventually confided in his mother Luisa, who supported him in seeking help from his GP and subsequently a gender specialist. Diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a condition that affects over 100 British children every year, he embarked on an extraordinary journey of transition at the age of 16.

For Jon, the changes that followed were things he’d always wanted - but for Luisa, this meant coming to terms with the enormous loss of her daughter.

When: Friday 17th May, 7pm

Where: The Commonwealth Club, Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5AP (Map) Nearest tube: Embankment

Anna Grodzka, who we featured in our Trans History for LGBT History Month series in February, is giving a free lecture with the Kaleidoscope Trust in London on 17th May. You must book your place to attend.

Click the link for more information and how to book.

On Saturday 27th April after our youth group & SOFFA session, we’ll be celebrating Gendered Intelligence turning 5!

Come along at 6.00pm for a free event with cake and drinks! We’ll be having some of our young trans people performing for us. A bar will be open with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.All ages - friends, family members and allies all welcome! Click the link for more details.

See you there!

When: Saturday 27th April 2013, 1.45 - 5PM

Where: Central School of Speech and Drama, London, NW3 3HY (Map) Meet in main foyer outside the Embassy Theatre at 1.45.

For our next session, we’ll be having another Imagining Our Futures session, after our hugely successful event in April last year. In this session, we’ll be having trans professionals from a range of backgrounds coming to talk about their career, what inspires them, and how being trans may have had an effect on things for them.

This session will also be a SOFFA session, where significant others, friends, and family members are welcome to attend. This is a good opportunity for family and friends of young trans people to meet eachother and gain mutual support.

Some of the careers of our confirmed guests so far are:

- Primary school teacher
- Lecturer
- Published poet & bookshop worker
- Chemist
- Policeman
- Conservation Scientist
- Creative
- A former Navy medic
- Senior Policy Officer in local government
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

We’ve tried our best to get a diverse range of participants, but we would still like more guest speakers who identify as non-binary.

This session will give young trans people an opportunity to hear from older trans people and ask questions - whether it’s about the career path itself or information on being trans or transitioning in a particular field.

The venue is fully accessible. Travel bursaries will be available, for up to £7 per person, with a receipt. Light refreshments will be provided.

See you there!

genderedintelligence:

We won’t be having a session on Saturday 30th March as it’s the bank holiday weekend. We’ll instead be having a trip to see Ajamu’s exhibition, ’FIERCE’ - Portraits of young, Black, LGBTQ people,on April 5th.

When: Friday April 5th, 2pm - 4pm

Where: Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall…

Remember to let us know if you want to come to this on Friday! We can pay your travel expenses up to £7.

We won’t be having a session on Saturday 30th March as it’s the bank holiday weekend. We’ll instead be having a trip to see Ajamu’s exhibition, ’FIERCE’ - Portraits of young, Black, LGBTQ people,on April 5th.

When: Friday April 5th, 2pm - 4pm

Where: Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE (Map). Nearest tube: Bank.  Meet outside the main Gallery entrance.

Cost: FREE (usually £5)

Acclaimed London-based photographer Ajamu explores the power of the portrait to capture a generation of movers and shakers. FIERCE is a series of portraits of under-35, Black, British-born LGBTQ people including, among others, artists, activists, poets and designers.

We’ll be having a free tour with Ajamu around the FIERCE exhibiton, plus a tour with the curator of the Guildhall Art Gallery to show us round the other exhibits. 

As usual, we’ll provide travel bursaries up to £7 per person.

If you’re planning on coming, drop us an email or an ask, so we have an idea of numbers!

We’ve got at least 4 spare tickets to see Young, Sex-Changed and Lonely, our Gendered Intelligence youth satirical film, as part of the ‘We Can Be Heroes’ series of shorts at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival tomorrow, Tuesday 19th March at 8:40pm.

We’d like to offer the tickets to any young trans people interested in coming along for FREE. If you want to come, email us on admin@genderedintelligence.co.uk. We’ll meet at 8:15pm at the main entrance to the BFI and go as a group.

We also have loads of free tickets going for young trans people to see the screening on Wednesday 20th March at 6:10pm - however, we will not be meeting as a group to attend this screening, so you’d need to pick up your ticket and head in yourself.

If you’re interested, drop us an email or a tumblr ask!

When: Wednesday 27th March, 6.30 - 9 PM 

Where: 

Central School of Speech and Drama, London, NW3 3HY (Map) Meet in main reception.

Join us at our next Gendered Intelligence Film Club! Our film club is open to anyone of any age - whether you’re trans or an ally.

We’re showing Beautiful Boxer, a Thai film that brings to life the story of Nong Thoom, a famous trans woman, Muay Thai (kickboxing) fighter, model, and actress. Parinaya Charoemphol AKA Nong Toom, becomes a kickboxer so that she can earn enough money from winning matches to pay for her medical transition. Beautiful Boxer follows the life of Nong Thoom from childhood to adulthood with respect and eloquence.  

There is suggested donation of £5 / £3 concessions.

The bar will be open serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, and popcorn. 

All profits from the bar and any donated money will go towards Gendered Intelligence’s trans youth support work.

Click ‘attending’ on the Facebook event here.

See you there!

When you log on to the internet does it increase your connection to the world around you or make you feel more alone?

Are dating websites and apps a good way to meet new people or a place where you feel judged and exposed? Or both?

MAGIC ME is the UK’s leading provider of intergenerational arts activities. We are working with GENDERED INTELLIGENCE and AGE UK CAMDEN to run a creative project called DIGITAL INTIMACY?

The project will bring together younger and older men (cis or trans) who identify as gay, in order to explore their experiences of using the internet and mobile phone platforms for dating and relationships.

The group will meet every Saturday in April and May 2013 anduse discussion, movement and photography to explore ideas. On 25 May the group will hold an informal event for invited guests in order to share work created throughout the project.

To take part you must be a cis or trans man identifying as gay aged 18-25 or 50 plus.

You will be available to attend sessions at the CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH & DRAMA between 1.30pm and 4.30pm on Saturday 6, 13, 20, 27 April and 4, 11, 18 and 25 May 2013. The project will be facilitated by two Magic Me artists -

Kieran Sheehan (movement practitioner) and Douglas Nicolson (photographer).

You can read the full flyer here.

INTERESTED?

For more information or to sign up please contact admin@genderedintelligence.co.uk. Magic Me will arrange a time to meet you in person before the project starts.

A small budget for travel bursaries will be available for participants.

When: Tuesday 12th March 2013.
5.45 - 8PM

Where: 
Tavistock Centre
Belsize Lane
London
NW3 5BA (Map) Nearest tube: Swiss Cottage. Meet in reception at 5.45pm.

For our next Tuesday youth group for young trans people aged 13 - 25, we’ll have guests Trans Media Action coming in to tell us about their project,working towards more positive portrayals of trans people in the media, and upcoming opportunities to get involved for young trans people.

We’ll follow it up with a discussion, talking about how you feel mainstream and non-mainstream media represents trans people, how media representations have affected your own trans journey, and how we can change the way we’re represented in the future.

As always, they’ll be plenty of time to chat, with light refreshments provided.

We can reimburse your travel for up to £7 per person. 

If you have any questions, get in touch!

transclothingswap:

[A poster for Trans* Clothing Swap which says:

Trans* Clothing Swap

Bring clothes you don’t need and take the ones you do need for free. Donations go toward Gendered Intelligence’s trans* youth group.

When: March 30th, 2012 12:00 - 4:00 PM

Where: 227A Upper Street, N1 2TZ

For more information, look up “Trans* Clothing Swap” on Facebook or follow @TransClothSwap on Twitter for updates.

The current location is fully accessible. Please contact us via Facebook or Twitter for details.]

genderedintelligence:

When: Thursday 28th February, 6.30 - 9 PM (Facebook event here.)

Where:
Room GCG-08, Tower Building, London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road, N7 8DB (Map)

Join us at our first Gendered Intelligence Film Club for 2013, with three short films on trans and intersex issues.…