Join GPN on Tuesday 22nd March 2022 at 6:30pm.
This month we welcome Ed Davies, a very successful author.
Author Ed Davies will share his story as a gay, nonbinary trans man, and discuss the present challenges facing trans people, particularly trans men in the UK.
Ed began his transition in Canada before moving to the UK in 2015. What started as a journey of self-actualisation has led him to the heart of a fragile political moment where the trans tipping point often feels like a cliff-edge behind us.
Trans hypervisibility has rapidly increased, linked to a culture war driven by those who aren’t affected by its outcome, and platforming many without personal experience or real expertise. Anti-trans rhetoric is now a recognised UK export—for example, discussed in the recent Council of Europe report on combating rising hate against LGBTI people.
What’s missing in most of these discussions is personal experience and real expertise. Even when experts are invoked, they usually forget to acknowledge that their expertise comes solely from what trans people have chosen to tell them, or, of that, what they’ve chosen to hear.
Trans people are often depicted as existing in unsatisfiable longing: gazing into the authentic, real, cis experience of gender from the outside, or perhaps attempting to mimic this experience from an outsider’s perspective, knowing deep down they’re never truly able to belong.
What if this were taken not as truth, but as just one possible story? And one that reveals, as most stories do, more about those telling it than its supposed main characters? Ed is looking forward to this chance to narrate on his own terms as well as exist in that story, reflecting on transmasculine existence, coexistence, desire, longing, and more.
Question time afterward will leave space for further discussion. Ed hopes that everyone attending will see themselves as a co-creator and notice what’s most prominent in their version of the story we tell together. The joy of writing is in turning a page and finding potential in the next blank chapter.
"My visibly trans body is not broken, mutilated, heartbreaking, or tragic. It’s resilient, defiant, strong, and joyful. And best of all, I don’t feel like I’m looking after someone else’s body anymore. So put aside your assumptions and let me tell my own story about myself.” -@thisboyisstrange
#crystalproject #trans #lgbt #pride #transgender #bodypositivity
The presentation will be followed by a Q & A session. I am sure that many of us will want to contribute to this.
Members: Free
Non-Members: £10
Profile of people attending are: #Directors, #Freelancers, #Soletraders, #Doctors, #Lawyers, #Bankers, #Hedge Funds Owner, #PropertyDevelopers, #CEO, #Diplomats, #Actors, #Entrepreneur, #Singers, #Models, #students aspiring to network with people in the know, people looking at their next step in their careers and others in the entertainment and communication industry . All very nice people in a relaxed atmosphere.
After this all participants have the opportunity to introduce themselves to promote their businesses or themselves briefly after the talk.
Such as: "Hi, I am J-F and organise events, let me know if you need help with any forthcoming celebration, meeting, incentive, conference and event., check my website on https://jfdor.org"
Expect a mix of great people and conversation to make meaningful social and business contacts.
Do bring your business cards to network. Please kindly note the timings further below.
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Timing (approximate)
06:30 pm Start, drink & nibbles purchased from the bar on the ground floor, bring with you to the room, networking.
07:30 pm Presentation by guest speaker & Q & A
08:00 pm Anyone else who want to speak to present themselves or their company to the Network ( up to five people - this usually takes about 15 minutes).
08:15 - 9:30 pm networking with hosts introducing people who need to be in touch (the registration process gives us the needs of all present and we put 2 & 2 together)
09:30 pm Carriages
When you register you are asked for your name and email address for you and your guests and a few simple questions so that we can better match your requirement of the evening and to help you further your business or career.
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Full cash bar in operation throughout the evening can be purchased from the bar on the ground floor.
We very much look forward to seeing you and your friends and colleagues to make meaningful business and social contacts.
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I very much look forward to seeing you then.
With all best wishes,
J-F for GPN
jf@gpn.one
www.gpn.one
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