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GET INVOLVED WITH BENT ON CHANGE!Are you interested in helping out and volunteering for the Bent On Change conference? Do you want to be involved with organizing, promoting or executing a conference? Anyone can participate, regardless of whether you attend/teach/work at one of the sponsoring universities or any other educational institution. People from all communities and dis/abilities are welcome to participate. Contact us! Is your time over-extended already? We're still interested in hearing from you! Depending on how you would like to be involved, you can do something as simple as helping to distribute promotional materials or something a little more time consuming such as volunteering on the programming committee. Key
volunteer areas include: Or, as with any conference, you can always help us out by merely passing the word on to your colleagues, friends, co-workers, family, or whoever else you think would be interested!
Tel: (416) 946-5624 or E-mail: bentonchange@lycos.com STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Activist, student, aunt, uncle, feminist, guide, goof, anti-racist, rebel, teacher, dutiful daughter, bitch, dyke, queer - Holly Baines has been all of these at one point in her life or another, but mostly she plays with the combinations. Currently she's bashing her head against a blank computer screen on a quest to write her dissertation in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE/UT. Nadia Bello is a recent graduate of the University of Toronto and facilitates anti-homophobia education trainings and workshops in schools and community settings across the city of Toronto. Jamie Berrigan, a Black Acadian queer, is a 4th year University of Toronto student in equity and sexual diversity studies and coordinates SpeakOut, an anti-homophobia speakers panel in Toronto schools. Tony Conte works as the Educational Equity Advisor with Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Services at Ryerson University. Prior to his move into human rights, Tony worked in student affairs for a number of years at the University of Western Ontario, Carleton and McMaster. This is TonyÕs first Bent on Change Conference. Liz Devine, Manager of Skills Development for Student Services at Ryerson University. Liz oversees programs which promote leadership development and career development with students, and acts in a liaison role with student governments and equity groups. A former student member of Lesbians and Gays at Ryerson, and an active supporter of RyePRIDE, Liz wishes all the conference participants well from Sydney, Australia, where she is swimming in the relay triathlon at the Gay Games. OmiSoore H. Dryden works as Advisor on Race & Ethnic Relations/Sexual & Gender Diversity at York University's Centre for Human Rights & Equity. Amelia Golden is an Advisor for the Centre for Human Rights and Equity at York University. She also sits on the Community Advisory Committee on LGBT Issues for the City of Toronto and is a Board Member of the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic. Denise Hammond is a staff person with the Ryerson Students' Administrative Council at Ryerson University. As the Community Service Groups Organizer she has the opportunity to work with a wide a variety of students on campaigns advocating for justice and rights. Denise completed a Masters at York University studying Gender, Identities and Social Change. Today she continues to struggle, challenge and change. Lynsay Henderson is life lovin lesbian, and also happens to work at Hart House, University of Toronto. Dan Irving is a transsexual man who is getting his PhD in Political Science at York University. He is involved in community organizing and is on the executive for CUPE 3903. Ken Jeffers is secondary school teacher and youth worker who currently works for the Toronto District School Board as a Student Program Worker in the Equity Department. Ken is a strong advocate for social justice and human rights and has a history of community activism which includes his role as former support volunteer with Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia (TEACH). Ken is also a member of the board of directors for the Toronto Men's Health Network and an executive officer of local District 12 OSSTF PSSP. Jenn Kuo is a Toronto based graphic designer, journalist and general Jack of All Trades who finds herself always involved in one thing or another. Perpetually stuck between living in Toronto and moving back to Vancouver, she is currently working as the sole graphic designer at RyeSAC (Ryerson's student union). Jenn is the designer of all conference materials. She would like to thank and recognize the year of hard work everyone put in to make Bent On Change II happen. Alyssa Manning in her fourth year at U of T, manages her sanity and need for distraction through working on committees like this one. Nikki Redman is a Bajan queer who is constantly seeking signs of intelligent life in the universe. One of NikkiÕs latest exciting adventures is working in the office of LGBTQ Resources & Programs at the University of Toronto. You can also hear Nikki on CKLN 88.1 in Toronto on the program Red Light Special. Pam Shime is the National Director of Pro Bono Students Canada, a public interest law program in 16 law schools across Canada--the program is housed at the U of T Faculty of Law. She also teaches two upper year undergraduate courses at the University of Toronto - Sexuality & Law (through Sexual Diversity Studies) and Gender Issues In Law (through Women's Studies). Pam has been an activist on lesbian, gay, and AIDS issues since she came out as an undergrad more years ago than she can count. Marc Stein is a long-time community activist who has worked in peace, feminist, anti-racist, student, labour, reproductive freedom, AIDS, and lgbtq movements. He is the former editor of the Boston-based newspaper Gay Community News and the author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972. Currently working on a second book, titled The U.S. Supreme Court's Sexual Revolution?, he is also the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of LGBT History in America and an associate professor of history at York University. Jude Tate....long time friend of Fred and Barney, Lucy and Ethel, Batman and Robin and other notorious trouble makers. Also works at the University of Toronto as the Coordinator of LGBTQ Resources & Programs. The
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