Transgender Day of Empowerment or Transgender Empowerment Day is celebrated each spring to honor the diverse lives in the transgender community. It is an event conceived originally in 2003 by Tracie O’Brien, director of Project STAR (Supporting Transgender Access to Resources), a program of Family Health Centers of San Diego. It is a day designed to counterbalance the mournful Transgender Day of Remembrance six months earlier, the first major holiday in the transgender community, honoring those who have been killed by transphobic violence. Instead of memoralizing those who have lost their lives, this event celebrates the diversity of living transgender people. Empowerment Day features speakers, live music and an awards ceremony honoring those who have made a positive impact upon transgender people's lives. The 2009 event addressed the mistreatment of incarcerated transgender people, and the empowerment they enjoyed when the San Diego Sheriff's Department unveiled a new treatment policy on transgender detainees.
The event has spread to other cities, often by another name (e.g., Transgender Advocacy Day) and publicized on Facebook. For example, Detroit hosts their own Transgender Empowerment Day, starting in 2008 and again in 2009. With high unemployment and underemployment within the transgender population, coinciding with housing discrimination and security issues, the Detroit event features workshops to help empower transgender persons to meet these challenges. And how to avoid becoming another name memoralized on the Day of Remembrance.
The event has spread to other cities, often by another name (e.g., Transgender Advocacy Day) and publicized on Facebook. For example, Detroit hosts their own Transgender Empowerment Day, starting in 2008 and again in 2009. With high unemployment and underemployment within the transgender population, coinciding with housing discrimination and security issues, the Detroit event features workshops to help empower transgender persons to meet these challenges. And how to avoid becoming another name memoralized on the Day of Remembrance.
Azerbaijanis in the United Kingdom (alternatively Azeris) are citizens or residents of the United Kingdom who's ethnic or national origins lie in the Caucasus nation of Azerbaijan.
Demographics
According to the 2001 UK Census, a meer 561 Azeris were residing in the United Kingdom.
Culture and community
Araz Azerbaijan newspaper is a newspaper published in the United Kingdom which caters for the country's Azeri population. It was founded in 2006 and is considered to be the first Azerbaijani newspaper to be published in Western Europe. It is published monthly and has a circulation of approximately 3,000. In June 2009, an official presentation of the project creating informational background of Azerbaijani cinema and music was held in the London based Culture and Friendship Centre Azerbaijani Houses. The aim of this visual and audio presentation was to help promote Azerbaijani culture within the United Kingdom and help some Azerbaijani students portray what their home nation is like to the general British population. Azerbaijians in the United Kingdom regularly celebrate their traditional new year holiday, Novruz. The holiday occurs yearly in mid-March. London, which has the country's most significant Azeri community, hosts celebratory meetings. Hundreds attend the gettogethers and enjoy traditional Azerbaijani food, dance and music. Often prominent Azerbaijani figures make an appearance as Azerbaijani and British newsstations alike report the celebrations.
Demographics
According to the 2001 UK Census, a meer 561 Azeris were residing in the United Kingdom.
Culture and community
Araz Azerbaijan newspaper is a newspaper published in the United Kingdom which caters for the country's Azeri population. It was founded in 2006 and is considered to be the first Azerbaijani newspaper to be published in Western Europe. It is published monthly and has a circulation of approximately 3,000. In June 2009, an official presentation of the project creating informational background of Azerbaijani cinema and music was held in the London based Culture and Friendship Centre Azerbaijani Houses. The aim of this visual and audio presentation was to help promote Azerbaijani culture within the United Kingdom and help some Azerbaijani students portray what their home nation is like to the general British population. Azerbaijians in the United Kingdom regularly celebrate their traditional new year holiday, Novruz. The holiday occurs yearly in mid-March. London, which has the country's most significant Azeri community, hosts celebratory meetings. Hundreds attend the gettogethers and enjoy traditional Azerbaijani food, dance and music. Often prominent Azerbaijani figures make an appearance as Azerbaijani and British newsstations alike report the celebrations.
Bernard Herman (1985-2007) was an activist who attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Herman, a native New Orleanian, was a frequent speaker and author on issues of social justice and inequality surrounding Hurricane Katrina, the government's response (or non-response) to it, and racial issues in New Orleans.
Herman was a writer and an avid participant in slam poetry. He often used it as a vehicle to express his emotions over the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, his love for his city, and challenges in his personal life.
Bernard Herman took his own life on Saturday, May 12, 2007 on the levee bordering the 17th Street Canal in the Lakewood South area of New Orleans on Bellaire Drive.
Herman was the son of Mollie and the late Avram Herman. Herman was educated at the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans.
Herman was a writer and an avid participant in slam poetry. He often used it as a vehicle to express his emotions over the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, his love for his city, and challenges in his personal life.
Bernard Herman took his own life on Saturday, May 12, 2007 on the levee bordering the 17th Street Canal in the Lakewood South area of New Orleans on Bellaire Drive.
Herman was the son of Mollie and the late Avram Herman. Herman was educated at the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans.
Matt Davis (1976 - August 10, 2003) was most notably the lead vocalist and guitarist for the post-hardcore outfit Ten Grand. Davis was an accomplished guitarist, bold vocalist, and was also known to be gentle and personable off-stage. He was especially known for giving bear hugs. Davis formed numerous bands in the Iowa City, Iowa area. Most notably were Brazil, Only Ten Between Us, and Ten Grand. Being of African-American descent in a largely white population he had a unique perspective. His Black identity was featured along with other Black rockers in the film Afro-punk. Matt's younger brother Dan Davis, also a musician, plays in the group Sunshine Viper. Murder by Death, a band from Bloomington, Indiana, created a tribute 7" in his honor.
Davis died of a fatal heart attack.
Davis died of a fatal heart attack.