Hello Everyone,

We are starting a new Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. These Meetings will start this coming Monday (January 7th) at 7:30 PM. (Meeting details and location below.)

The Washington Gender Alliance is extremely glad and humbled by this new meeting. We have always believed that to much support is not a real thing and that by giving people more options and by making meetings more accessible that people can get the kind of support and feeling of community that they want and need!

Ingersoll Gender Center celebrates a tremendous year of growth and success in 2012 and reveals ambitious plans for 2013 and beyond.

On the evening of Saturday, December 8th, in the midst of a city in full flush of gay marriage fever, Ingersoll held its long-standing annual holiday time celebration, the 6th such to be branded “Snowball”. The sub-title for the event “Rise!” was in tune with the prevailing buoyant spirit. Seattle city hall was beautifully decorated with delicately cut paper banners for the weddings the following day. The fireplace in the lobby was lit cheerily and tunes lively and mellow resounded from the grand piano in the reception area across the lofty atrium space and into the adjacent Bertha Knight Landes room. Early arrivals, dressed to the 9’s or Seattle casual, drifted in for the reception, appetizers, wine and friends chatting in comfortable conversation circles before the fireplace.

The QLaw Foundation GLBT Legal Clinic and Ingersoll Gender Center are pleased to announce a FREE legal clinic on Thursday, December 6, 2012, from 7-9pm, at Seattle Counseling Service, 1216 Pine Street, Suite 300, in Seattle. Advice and information on gender-identity based employment, housing, and economic discrimination; name and gender marker changes on identity documents; and more! Call (206) 235-7235 to schedule an appointment, or drop in before 8:30.

Updates:  

Our MC this year will be the incomparable Aleksa Manila!  Aleksa always brings the fun and energy so we are very excited to have her back running the show this year.  

Also:  We have added a pre-event reception at 6:30PM in the lobby of the Bertha Knight Landes room.  Enjoy the fireplace, piano and drinks with friends before the official opening and extend your schmooze.

Don't forget to bring your dancing shoes!  After the main program, our DJ will be spinning disks for your dancing pleasure.  What better way to make the party last? Tell your friends, the party is on.

It's another year to celebrate in Seattle and we are doing it in style.  Join us for Snowball 2012: Rise!  We are a community on the rise with so many great achievements under our collective belts.  Through the difficulties and the struggle, we rise again to transcend and become our best selves.

This year we are honored to return to the Bertha Knight Landes Room at Seattle's beautiful City Hall.  Our host this year is the amazing civic activist and leader Sally Clark, President of the Seattle City Council.

Our entertainment this year will definitely make  you rise to your feet as Kit Yan brings his inimitable brand of high energy spoken word and amazing and hilarious personal life stories.

This year we have redoubled our commitment to provide a great dining experience.  We are partnering with some of Seattle's finest restaurants to offer you a vast selection of hot, delicious soups to sample from.  With appetizers, soup, salad, drinks and desert this will have you stuffed and happy.

Best of all, Snowball brings out the community like no other party.  Friends you haven't seen for years mix with folks just discovering the community and all of our friends from the broad Seattle LGBTQ communities.  This is Seattles Trans party for the whole community.

So what will all this set you back?  Can you afford it?  Well this year we decided to Drop the price to only $20. so that everyone can come.  Still too pricey?  Send an email to info@ingerosollcenter.org if you would like to volunteer to help in any way and we will see that you can get to Snowball this year.

Info about parking and handicap access can be found on Seattle City Hall's website.

Get your tickets at Brown Paper Tickets or at the door.  Beat the rush and buy them at any Ingersoll support group meeting from board members and participating facilitators.

You are cordially invited to Beer & Blasphemy, presented by The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Abbey of Saint Joan!  In heathen style we will be raising money for Ingersoll Gender Center.  Come join us in your naughtiest attire, a salacious smile, and watch the sword swallowing, the burlesque, and the lusty lip synchs.

GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION: Clarification of Executive Order No. 31, “Non-discrimination and Affirmative Action.”The Q Center is excited to announce the following clarifications to University of Washington’s Executive Order No. 31, pertaining to Non-discrimination and Affirmative Action. The UW’s non-discrimination, harassment, and retaliation policy now explicitly includes “gender identity or expression” within the list of protected classes.

SnowballDespite the challenges facing our community we are Rising!  That's the theme of Ingersoll Gender Center's annual event Snowball.  Our community is larger and more diverse than ever.  For the first time in years Ingersoll has it's own space: Seattle's Trans Space.  We are getting our economic empowerment "STEEP" program under way.  So many great things going on and that's why we say we are on the Rise!Come celebrate with us the evening of December 8, 2012 at the beautiful Bertha Knight Landes room at Seattle City Hall.

Ingersoll Gender Co-Presents two Trans-themed films at the upcoming Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2012, both at NW Film Forum on 12th Ave in Capitol Hill.Facing MirrorsMonday, October 15, 9:30Northwest Film ForumThe first narrative film from Iran to feature a transgender main character, FACING MIRRORS is a story of an unlikely and daring friendship that develops despite daunting social norms and traditional beliefs. Rana drives a cab to make a living and pay off the debt that keeps her husband in prison.

Job and Economic support groups are now part of Ingersoll's very popular "Breakout" format provided every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7PM at Seattle Counseling Service.  This breakout group, open to all community members regardless of identity, is part of Ingersoll's "Seattle Trans Economic Empowerment Project" or "STEEP" for short.  There are no prequalifications necessary to attend the group.  The group is co-facilitated by an Ingersoll trained facilitator and a professional vocational counselor.  The group focuses on economic issues that are at the root of personal challenges f