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Thursday, May 13, 12noon-1:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The American College of Radiology releases new breast cancer screening guidelines for transgender individuals in April. In this session, we’ll discuss the new guidelines with Radiologist Dr. Annie Brown and Family Medicine Physician Dr. Melissa Davis.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Wednesday, May 12, 8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

From May 7 to May 21, watch “The Years of Fierro” (Los Años De Fierro), a documentary about César Fierro, who spent 40 years on Texas’s death row before his release from prison in May 2020. Then join us on May 12 for a special panel discussion on Zoom.

Register for the links here.

Wednesday, May 12, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

“The Making of Metropolitan Inequality” explores the policies and processes that segregated our society through the lens of the creation of suburban spaces. Speaker Glennon Sweeney, Senior Research Associate at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, focuses on 20th-century development policies, how they were designed to segregate our society, and what policies and processes have been utilized to maintain that segregation over time.

Wednesday, May 12, 7-9pm, this event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live”

Learn how to take advantage of court resources with these experts:

• Judge Eileen Paley

• Judge Cynthia Ebner

• Judge Jim O’Grady

• Judge Mark Serrott

• Magistrate Mike McAllister

• Mary Kay Fenlon, Judicial Candidate

• Bill Hedrick, Judicial Candidate

• Scott Kirschman, Judicial Candidate

This event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live.”

Tuesday, May 11, 8-9:30pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Join us for BQIC’s monthly fundraiser: Speak up! Spoken Word and Open Mic. Come out and share your poems, songs, monologues, inner musings, and good encounters, bad days, good dates, etc., on the digital mic! LGBTQIA+ people of color take priority.

The suggested donation for spoken word and open mic is $5.

Please use this Zoom link to join this event.

Tuesday, May 11, 7-8pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Black Power Book Club is back! We are still reading “Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity,” by C. Riley Snorton. We will be meeting at 7pm EST on Zoom! This month, we will be discussing Chapter 2.

Please use this Zoom link to join this event.

Hosted by Black Queer and Intersectional Collective [BQIC].

Tuesday, May 11, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Updated event date and time!We are so excited to have you join us, and appreciate your understanding of our need to reschedule!

Join us on Tuesday, May 11 to debrief what the redistricting process looks like, our opportunities for engagement, and how we are going to ensure fair districts this year. Why? Because attacks on abortion access and gerrymandering go hand in hand.

Tuesday, May 11, 7-8pm, this event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live

Whether we’re from cities or the country, suburbs, or small towns, all of us want our kids to go to great schools and follow their dreams. Our school funding system has been broken for a long time; over 24 years ago, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional.

Tuesday, May 11, 3:30pm, this event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live

What is gender affirming care? What are the barriers? What should a young person expect/ask of their healthcare provider? What can you do if you’re under 18 and want to seek out affirming healthcare? What impact would potential legislation — “trans healthcare bans” — have for the community?

We’re about to answer these questions and so much more!

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