Health Ethics Book Club: Trans Like Me
April 27, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location
Virtual Event
Calendar
Download iCal FileThe final texts of this year's Health Ethics Book club include: CN Lester’s Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us (2017), with two podcast episodes and an article (links below). While book clubs do not make the change needed, folx attending these sessions have reported making substantive, meaningful changes in their teaching, policymaking, clinical practice, community engagement and interpersonal relationships.
This event will include up to 9.9 CNE credits (disclosure below).
You must register in advance for this meeting (link below). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Additional Reading:
- Cat Harsis’s “We need to talk about transmisogyny,” May 2020 (14-minute read)
Podcasts:
- Transcripts podcast: podcast: July 1, 2020, Transcripts BONUS: LaSaia Wade and Diamond Stylz with Andrea Jenkins and Myrl Beam (70-minute listen)
- Trans and Caffeinated: podcast: December 19, 2020, Em Rabelais (They/Themme, Fae/Femme) on White Feminist Violence in Nursing (62-minute listen)
NOTE: You do not need to have finished the book to attend. One of the goals is to get folks together to talk. If you've started thinking about this by having made investment in the text, then please come. If you'd like to stay up-to-date with announcements about the Health Ethics Book Club, including hearing what some discussion questions are before the meeting, join the mailing list here.
Text availability:
- If you are UIC affiliated, you can read the text online (one user at a time) through this link.
- Chicago Public Library: available as an audiobook (read by the author) and is “always available”. There are also print copies.
- Use Libby to search your public library, if different.
- Available at your local bookstores. Semicolon Bookstore (Chicago) will ship to you.
This year the Health Ethics Book Club, A Public Syllabus is critically examining white feminism, especially within the context of nursing. You can find the current version of the living document at this link.
This activity will award 9.9 contact hours upon successful completion. Criteria for successful completion include reading the book Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us by CN Lester, the associated texts, attendance of the live book discussion, credit awarded commensurate with participation, and completion of the post activity online evaluation form. There is no conflict of interest for anyone in a position to control content of this activity. University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91)
Date posted
Mar 23, 2021
Date updated
Mar 23, 2021