This notice is directed at everyone – public, press, community members and our allies – with an interest in asexuality. If this is you, please read on!The International Asexuality conference is now only 4 weeks away. The conference is a WorldPride affiliate event and will be held at Ryerson University, Toronto on 28 June 2014 – the day before the WorldPride march in Toronto. We will bring together community members from North and South America, Europe and Asia as well as activists, educators, researchers and interested members of the public and press. With 170 participants signed up so far, we are looking forward to our biggest and most international asexuality event of all time.
Further we will be holding our first ever press Q&A involving community leaders.
http://www.worldpridetoronto.com/festival/events-calendar/2014/the-international-asexuality-conference-We have a limited number of travel grants to help partially cover the travel for those community members coming from outside North America; if you are interested in applying please reply to this email as soon as possible. If you can’t make it but know anyone else who might be interested, please forward this email to them!
The many featured speakers, presenters and panelists will include
– David Jay (founder of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network)
– Sara Beth Brooks (founder of Asexual Awareness Week)
– Ivy Decker also known as Swankivy (author of a forthcoming book on asexuality)
We will be holding a 1 hour press Q&A session featuring the leaders of our community. Anyone interested in writing a story on asexuality is particularly encouraged to attend the press Q&A.
There will be numerous other sessions covering everything from asexual relationships to the history of asexuality and the language of asexual discourse. The conference will also be a great opportunity to interview asexual people and their friends and allies, including the leaders of the movement.
We will also be providing a free lunch with cake to all attendees!
If you need help with finding suitable travel and accommodation please let us know. There is a masterpost available here.
http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/97995-worldpride-2014-master-post/
You can also help by following our Tumblr and Facebook pages
https://www.facebook.com/awp2014
http://awp2014.tumblr.com/
and by contributing to our campaign to make the conference accessible to the Deaf community.
https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/help-make-aven-world-pride-inclusive/description
If you are interested in writing a story on asexuality – whether in a paper, magazine or online media – or are just want to hang out and have fun, please come along to the largest gathering in the asexual community’s history.
For more information about the conference and to register, please see:
http://www.asexuality.org/home/wp14registration.html
http://www.worldpridetoronto.com/festival/events-calendar/2014/the-international-asexuality-conference-
Michael
Mark Carrigan 