Category: Gender Equity - PACG - Progressive Action for the Common Good

"Becoming An Ally" panel - Of Interest to Our Forums

3/26/2023

Community Forum: Becoming an Ally panel
Wednesday, April 26th at 6:30 pm

Moline Public Library
3210 41st St
Moline, IL (map)

Rooting Out Poverty Book Club

The Gender Equity Forum and the PACG Book Club are excited to invite you to a panel discussion on becoming an ally to the LGBTQI+ community. The panel arose from Project Now's Rooting Out Poverty book club's discussion of the book The Savvy Ally in March. You don't need to read the book to benefit from the panel discussion.

Alta Price

"Transgender Day of Visibility" panel - Of Interest to Our Forums

3/17/2023

Transgender Day of Visibility Panel
Friday, March 31st at 5:00 pm

Clock: LGBT+ Community Center
4106 46th AV
Rock Island, IL (map)

Gender Equity Forum

"Reproductive Freedom Alert" Zoom - Community Event

3/14/2023

Iowa Reproductive Freedom Alert
Tuesday, March 14th at 7:00 pm via Zoom

Gender Equity Forum

PACG cannot, and does not, ever endorse a particular candidate for office or ask people to vote for a certain political party. However, there are currently bills in the Iowa legislature that we are very concerned about regarding reproductive freedom.

Get a preview from House Democratic Leader Rep. Jennifer Konfrst of our newest legislation to protect reproductive freedom for Iowans:

When we started session in January we made a promise to listen to Iowans and then focus on the issues important to them.

In the next week, we'll be releasing our plan for reproductive freedom that will give everyone the right to make their own health care decisions, especially when it comes to reproductive care and abortion.

We believe lawmakers have no place interfering in someone else’s decisions about when to start a family. We believe that private health care decisions belong between an individual, their family, and their doctor.

Please stay tuned!

And learn more about the bills circulating by GOP lawmakers that could restrict access to reproductive care.

Register for the discussion on ZOOM at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrdO-rqj8pGdK0U5YiP6aD-GJvhJNX65B7

Watch live on Facebook at: https://fb.me/e/3jwrFDW6B

Marie Gleason

Lobby Day for Abortion - What You Can Do Now

3/7/2023

Lobby Day in Des Moines on Abortion Rights
Tuesday, March 21st at 9:00 am

Iowa State Capitol
1007 E Grand AV
Des Moines, IA (map)

Gender Equity Forum

The Gender Equity forum invites you to a Lobby Day in Des Moines on Tuesday, March 21st hosted by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa and the Iowa Abortion Access Fund. Although the abortion bans did not make it through the “funnel” in the legislature this year, anti-trans bills are moving forward and also need to be opposed.

If you are on Facebook, you can sign up here. The event is free but they ask that you get a ticket to register.

If you are not on Facebook, contact me and I'll register for you.

I'm going! Hope you can join me!

Alta Price

Project Now Book Club for March 2023 - The Savvy Ally

3/4/2023

The Savvy Ally - Project Now Book Club
Wednesday, March 22nd at 6:30 pm

Moline Public Library
Gold Room
3210 41st St
Moline, IL (map)

PACG Book Club and Gender Equity Forum

PACG Book Club members and members of the Gender Equity forum will be interested in reading and discussing The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Ally by Jeannie Gainsburg. This is the next book for the Project Now Book Club, which welcomes anyone to come to their discussions.

The book is only 150 pages long. The Moline Public Library has 5 copies of the book available for checkout at the second floor desk.

Alta Price

Our abortion reading list - Of Interest to Forum Members

3/3/2023

Abortion reading list

Gender Equity Forum

Health care discrimination for queer people - No Hate In Our States

2/21/2023

Queer people face discrimination in health care - Here are the people changing that

No Hate In Our States

LGBTQ Nation

LGBTQ Nation is an online news magazine, reporting on issues relevant to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community.

Many barriers exist for queer people and health care discrimination causes serious harm to the LGBTQIA+ community. Happily, things are changing for the better. This article dives into a range of queer people inspired by their experiences to become health care advocates and providers. Read it here.

Dee VanThournout

Hands Off! Happy Hour is back! PACG Event

2/11/2023

Join us for Hands Off! Happy Hour
Tuesday, February 21st at 5:00 pm

Tony's Chicago Style Pizzeria
1321 5th AV
Moline, IL (map)

Gender Equity Forum

We have decided to do something similar to what our friends in the PACG Environmental Forum have been successfully sponsoring for many years. They offer a monthly educational meeting called Green Drinks.

Hands Off! Happy Hour will meet in-person monthly to discuss how we can more effectively coordinate our action groups to create educational actions and events that meet our purpose. We hope to alternate venues on either side of the river.

Please join us on February 21st at 5:00 pm for noshing and strategizing.

Alta Price

LGBTQ+ Prayer Vigil - What You Can Do Now

2/7/2023

Prayer Vigil for our LGBTQ+ Neighbors
Friday, February 10th at 6:30 pm

Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad Cities
2930 W Locust ST
Davenport, IA 52804 (map)

One Human Family - QCA

Here is a link to an article in Saturday, February 4th's QC Times about how the Davenport police foiled a plot to violently attack the QCA’s LGBTQ+ community. The threat of a mass shooting event has come to our town! There is no underestimating the seriousness of this threat!

This is a time when we need to stand in solidarity with our LGBTQ+ neighbors. One way is by attending a Prayer Vigil that will be held next Friday (February 10th) at the Metropolitan Community Church, starting at 6:30 p.m. Since the Prayer Vigil has been scheduled at the same time as the Jewish community’s weekly Shabbat evening service, unfortunately, many from the Jewish community will be unable to attend. Please do not take the absence of Jews at the Prayer Vigil to mean that the Jewish community does not care about this issue. The Jews of the Quad Cities stand in firm solidarity with our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

Rabbi Henry Karp
One Human Family - QCA

"Elite Capture" of Identity Politics - No Hate In Our States

12/6/2022

Confronting the “Elite Capture” of Identity Politics in Our Movement Spaces

Truthout

The Truthout mission statement includes: Truthout is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues. Kelly Hayes is the host of the Truthout podcast, Movement Memos, which she describes as: a Truthout podcast about solidarity, organizing and the work of making change.

From the podcast website:

"We have to be politically serious about how much agreement and how much alignment we’re going to require in a world of a resurging far-right fascist movement across the globe,” says philosopher and author Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.

In this episode of “Movement Memos,” Táíwò and host Kelly Hayes discuss the lessons of Táíwò’s book, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else).

Find a complete transcript and listen to the podcast here:
https://truthout.org/audio/confronting-the-elite-capture-of-identity-politics-in-our-movement-spaces/

Dee VanThournout