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Location: The 519 Church Street Community Centre
RSVP at www.2013igm.eventbrite.ca Join us for a panel discussion on the state of human rights issues around the world including Latin America and the Caribbean, with a cocktail reception to honour the work of this years Pride Toronto International Grand Marshal Marcela Romero of Argentina. The panel will discuss LGBT human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean where stigma, hate crimes, homophobia and transphobia, discrimination and human rights abuses against the LGBT population continue to be tremendous challenges. The panel will also discuss how such challenges can be addressed at the international level, particularly after the huge achievement in Argentinas Gender Identity Bill in 2012. Moderator: Laura Guerrero Panelists: Marcela Romero Gerardo Betancourt Ana Cisneros Alex Flores Davina Hader Jordi Dez Den Temin BIOGRAPHIES Panelists: *Marcela Romero is 2013 Pride Toronto’s International Grand Marshal, an Argentinean activist and human rights defender for the transgender population in Latin America and the Caribbean. She serves as a Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean Network of Transgender People, an organization established in 2005 to provide a positive representation of the transgender community in Latin America. Marcela also serves as Director of the Argentinean Association of Transvestites, Transsexuals and Transgender People (ATTA) where she was a driving force for the movement of public care professionals in hospitals throughout the City of Buenos Aries referring to trans identified people with a generic name. Her work also includes developing strategies to tackle stigma, hate crimes, discrimination and human rights abuses against the trans population in Latin America. She attended the Organization of American States (OAS) where she was able to increase advocacy and was part of the passing of the Gender Identity Law in Argentina in May 2012. This law allowed transgendered people to change the sex on their personal identification cards without having to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Currently Marcela is supporting projects to advocate for Gender Identity Laws in Bolivia, El Salvador, Brazil and Guatemala. * Gerardo Betancourt was born in Mexico. He migrated to Canada in 2000 and he has a Master in Education from OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto). He is currently studying his Phd in the Factor Inwentash at the Faculty of Social Work of the University of Toronto and he is also involved with HIV prevention program at the Centre for the Spanish-Speaking Peoples as an AIDS Community Educator. * Ana Cisneros is a feminist LGBTI activist, currently working in El Salvador. Ana has been working with the LGTBI community for many years in the prevention of hate violence. Anas activism has been involved with a key to a number of changes at the national level in El Salvador, in terms of anti-discriminatory public policies and the opening of political space and mobilization for the community. * Margarita Alex Flores was born and raised in Mexico City. A self-taught artist, her career in art began fifteen years ago and has taken her across North America: El Paso, Texas; San Francisco, California; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; and Toronto, where she resides.She is an eco-feminist and social justice activist as well as an independent filmmaker; Alex has worked in a variety of mediums: acrylics, wood, mosaics, and recyclable objects. She graduated as a teacher in 1988, in Mexico City. Alex moved to Toronto, Canada in the spring of 2001. In 2003 she created the Las Perlas del Mar Productions, is a bilingual (Spanish and English) internet newscast an alternative media outlet in Toronto that reports current events with a gender lens. We provide an intersectional and anti-oppressive analysis where we are committed to bringing attention to a broad range of local and global news and events related to, but not limited to: Human Rights, social justice, violence, the environment, health, as well as feminist art and culture. She is the Artistic Director of the Las Perlas Del Mar Productions Inc where she writes, directs and edits film and also teaches workshops to the Latin American community. Alex Flores has been participated in the Play me I am Yours, an installation of Pianos for the 2015 Panam Games , she painted the Mexican Piano, currently Alex has been chosen to paint a Mural in Church Street for WorldPride 2014 in Toronto. * Davina Hader is a Graduate of OCADU, an artist, photographer, filmmaker and interactive multimedia designer; creativity has always been second nature. Her artwork quite often has a queer perspective where she is currently one of the principal documentarian’s and the cinematographer on a joint Queer Ontario and York University film documentary exploring the Queer Liberation Movement in Ontario to be released early in 2014. She is a Queer activist and prominent member of Queer Ontario, the Trans Lobby Group that she is extensively involved politically advocating for the passing and addition of Gender Identity to our Human Rights code, provincially and federally. Also, she is advising on queer community; healthcare and education initiatives, giving workshops on many issues facing and changing Queer and Trans communities, as well volunteering at The 519 on a weekly basis. Recently began an initiative to help advocate with the Gender, Equality and Health Organization (GEHO) of Uganda. As a very caring, artistic and sincere Queer woman, she believe it is important to support those who are both young and old in our community creatively through her work, as well, to advocate for our Queer human rights.On July 3rd 2012, Davina was awarded The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Honorable Glen Murray, MPP Toronto Centre. * Jordi Dez is an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Guelph. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and his M.A. from the University of Essex. He joined the faculty of Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph in 2004 and earned tenure in 2007. Professor Dez has taught at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and the University of Toronto and has been a Visiting Professor at the El Colegio de Mxico, the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile, and the University of California, San Diego. A recipient of numerous research awards, from organizations including the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the International Development Research Council (IDRC), he is especially interested in comparative politics, Latin American politics, processes of democratization, comparative public policy, social movements, citizenship studies, environmental politics and policy, civil-military relations and the politics of gay and lesbian rights.Professor Dez is Research Associate of the Defence Management Studies Programme, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University and Fellow of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, and is affiliated with the Master’s Programme in Gender Studies of the El Colegio de Mxico. * Den Temin is a passionate Mexican, genderqueer feminist dedicated to supporting and participating in the struggle for LGBTQI human rights. They are a board certified sexologist by the American College of Sexologists, and a gender specialist with a Master of Arts degree in Gender and Peace Building that they received, in 2005 from the United Nations mandated University for Peace. They are currently working both as an independent consultant and as a sexologist. They were living in Turkey where they were working and volunteering with Dr. Yakin Erturk the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women as well as Kaos GL a local LGBTQI organization fighting for the recognition and rights of Turkish LGBTQI individuals. Besides their work in Turkey, Den has collaborated with the United Kingdom’s Women’s National Commission in researching, drafting, and editing the country’s 2007 CEDAW shadow report. They also participated as a gender rapporteur in a team whose aim was to evaluate the role of Brazilian peacekeepers in the UN Haitian peacekeeping operation. Den also worked with Canadians for Choice as the Research and Outreach Coordinator where they conducted research on diversity and how it can affect access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Canada Den was fortunate to be part of and present during the passing of the same-sex marriage and adoption legislation in Mexico City and was featured as part of the exhibition Faces of IGLYO youth LGBTQI activisits in the Copenhaguen OutGames in 2009. They are currently an active member of Pride Toronto as a co-team lead for the Trans Pride Team. Moderator: * Laura Guerrero is a freelance journalist and media producer. She has worked as a reporter and as a TV news anchor for several years in both South and North America. Through this experience she has become a skilled communicator, sharing knowledge and information through various multi-media platforms. Currently, Laura is the Public Educator with the Mental Health Promotion Program at CMHA Toronto, where she works as a Curriculum Developer and Public Educator, working to raise awareness about mental health challenges by addressing stigma and misunderstanding. Laura is a lesbian Latina LBGTQ activist and has a strong commitment to diversity and inclusivity. She is passionate about challenging homophobia, transphobia and other forms of discrimination. Accessibility: ASL-English interpretation will be provided Wheelchair Accessible English-Spanish will be provided Questions? Contact igm@pridetoronto.com. Supported by Latin American Researchers Ontario
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