The Red Bank Humanists, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to secular humanism, will hold a forum on gender, with a focus on those who identify as transgender and those who do not identify as a gender.
Entitled “Beyond Binaries: Justice for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People,” the forum will feature Kiki Jamieson, president of the Fund for New Jersey, a private grant-making foundation. The Fund for New Jersey seeks to improve the quality of public policy decision-making on issues that affect residents of the state, according to Red Bank Humanists Vice President Tracy Lagan.
To help keep the state’s public informed, the fund launched a series of policy reports entitled “Crossroads NJ,” according to Lagan.
The event will be held on Sept. 10 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Red Bank Charter School, 58 Oakland St. Admission is free and all members of the public are invited to attend.
According to Lagan, Jamieson’s talk will discuss gender. Jamieson previously directed the Pace Center for Civic Engagement and has taught at Princeton University and Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania and Haverford College in Pennsylvania. As a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, her work focused on discrimination and punishment related to gender identity and expression.
Topics to be discussed by Jamieson, according to Lagan, include when, how and why gender matters to American political institutions; what difference gender makes; how gender constraints can be challenged; and what might be gained by a new framework that looks beyond binaries.
The Red Bank Humanists will be collecting canned goods, rice, pasta and peanut butter at the forum for Ocean County Hunger Relief, which provides emergency food assistance for people in need, according to Lagan.
