Point Foundation
Bullet
Point
alerts regents, trustees and staff about Joelle Ruby Ryan's upcoming IFGE
Workshop
Lynn Conway, January 29, 2009
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The Point
Foundation provides financial support, mentoring, leadership training and
hope to meritorious students who are marginalized due to sexual orientation,
gender identity or gender expression. By supporting diversity in the
academic environment, Point hopes to create a greater level of acceptance,
respect and tolerance within future generations for all persons regardless of
sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression.
In December 2008 the Point Foundation newsletter,
the "Mentoring
Messenger", reported on the community-service advocacy work of
Point
Foundation Scholar Joelle Ruby Ryan,
a Ph.D. candidate at Bowling Green State University and her mentor
Prof. Lynn Conway
of the University of Michigan. You'll find
the article at this link, and
an online version of the full newsletter
at this link.
That article was followed by an alert to the Foundation's regents, trustees and
staff on January 21, 2009 in
the Bullet Point newsletter. We've excerpted the alert about Joelle's
work and included it here:
From the Point Foundation's
Bullet Point
January 21, 2009
SCHOLAR RELATIONS
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Scholar Participates in International Foundation
for Gender
Education
As you
may have read in the most recent issue of
Mentoring Messenger,
2007 Point Scholar Joelle Ruby Ryan, PhD candidate at Bowling Green
State University, chaired a
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) panel discussion on
resisting transphobia in academia. Her mentor, Lynn Conway, attended
the panel session and reported about it on her personal website (Lynnconway.com).
On the heels of her success, Joelle will be participating in another
panel at the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) in
Washington D.C. next month. The Conference will address issues related
to how transgender identities have been pathologized in academia.
“I am
very excited to be participating in a panel at the
International Foundation for Gender
Education (IFGE) in February 2009 in Washington, D.C. The panel is
entitled
"
'Disordered' No More: Challenging Transphobia in Psychology, Academia
and Society" and it examines the ways in which transgender
identities have been pathologized and demonized in some streams of
scientific and academic research and policy. I have had the pleasure of
working on this panel, as well as a previous (2008)
panel
held at the National Women's Studies Association, with my
Point Foundation Mentor Lynn Conway.
Lynn has served as a Session Advisor and has been generous with her
time, enthusiastic and supportive of this work. It is our hope that
this panel will be one more humble contribution to aid in the struggle
for civil rights and human dignity for all transgender people. The
Mentorship and Community Service Projects are wonderful components of
the Point Foundation that are spurring both positive community
relationships and important academic and activist work. We are at an
exciting tipping point in the quest for LGBT Liberation, and Point
should be commended for the formidable role it is playing in engendering
positive social transformation.”
For
information about the conference, please visit:
http://www.ifge.org/register/db_wrkshp_one.php?the_id=77
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*Citation:
"Scholar Participates in
International Foundation for Gender Education", Bullet Point, Point Foundation,
January 21, 2009.
For more information see:
1.
Bullet Point,
Point Foundation, January
21, 2009.
2.
Point Foundation Mentoring Messenger, December 2008
3. "Report on Joelle Ruby Ryan's
NWSA Panel Discussion published in the Point Foundation's Mentoring Messenger",
Lynn Conway, LynnConway.com, January 10, 2009.
4.
"Joelle Ruby
Ryan chairs NWSA panel on resisting transphobia in academia: The event Alice
Dreger failed to stop", A Report by Lynn Conway, lynnconway.com, June 27,
2008.
LynnConway.com >
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