pridefest programming
Virtual Pridefest 2020
From trans, non-binary and family panels to confronting racism in the LGBTQIA+ community, we are committed to providing educational opportunities during pridefest. All sessions will take place on virtual platforms, unless otherwise noted.
events schedule
JULY 16 | IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN BE IT!
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If you dream it, you can be it--all it takes is little creativity. Join us on Thursday, July 16 and watch Chicago drag king Mick D use his creativity to transform into a pig!
Mick is a Chicago-based drag king with Iowa roots. He loves playing with makeup to bring characters to life. |
AUGUST 6 | FAT QUEER BIPOC: FAT ACTIVISM
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"How do you demand the right for your fat body to exist?"
"It is an ongoing political process to live your fat queer brown body." -- Sonalee Rashatwar, The Fat Sex Therapist Join us on Thursday, August 6 at 7pm to hear BIPOC fat activists Ady Del Valle, Joi Latson, Miguel M Morales, and Sonalee Rashatwar share their experiences with race, queerness, and bodies in conversation with one another. |
SEPTEMBER 10 | INTERSECTIONAL ACTIVISM WITH REYMA MCCOY MCDEID
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How do we step outside our silos to ensure our activism is intersectional? Reyma McCoy McDeid will share her experiences as an activist and offer advice for ensuring that the activism we engage in is serving as many people as possible as we work towards common goals.
Reyma McCoy McDeid is the executive director of Central Iowa Center for Independent Living (winner of the 2018 Organization of the Year award from the Des Moines Civil and Human Rights Commission) and serves as treasurer and Anti-Racism and Equity Taskforce Co-Chair for the National Council on Independent Living. She is the recipient of a 2019 AT&T Humanity of Connection award and her 2018 run for office was endorsed by the Working Families Party, the Asian & Latino Coalition, and Iowa Women for Progressive Change. She is also a single mom. Her work has been featured in Vice, Pantsuit Nation, TIME, USA Today, The Guardian, and The Des Moines Register. After a twenty year career in social services, her vocation has shifted from simply serving marginalized people to addressing how systems creates them in the first place. |
November 5 | Black Activism in Central IOwa
7pm
Black activists from Central Iowa will be sharing their experiences with activism in an informal, panel-style conversation with one another. Join us to hear about the work they're doing around Black lives, reforms they're working towards, and inspirations and challenges of their activism work.
Presented by the Ames Public Library in partnership with Ames Pridefest and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames
Black activists from Central Iowa will be sharing their experiences with activism in an informal, panel-style conversation with one another. Join us to hear about the work they're doing around Black lives, reforms they're working towards, and inspirations and challenges of their activism work.
Presented by the Ames Public Library in partnership with Ames Pridefest and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames
