Transgender Awareness Week 2013 starts today, and people all over America are organizing events to educate the general public and raise visibility around issues facing transgender people.

November 11 – 17 marks this year's Transgender Awareness Week, also known as #TransWk, which is a time when transgender people, gender non-conforming people, and their allies take action, educate others, and bring attention to important issues. 

To see how individuals and organizations are choosing to support the trans community, check out the list below for #TransWk events happening near you:

Monday, November 11

• 12PM-1PM - Pizza Rolls Not Gender Roles @ University of Missouri in Columbia, MU Women's Center
• 7PM – Indigenous and Queer: Two Spirit Identity in Native America @ University of Missouri in Columbia, MU LGBTQ Lounge

Tuesday, November 12

• 12PM-1PM – Reading of the Names @ University of Missouri in Columbia, Speaker's Circle
• 6PM-7PM – Transgender Remembrance Vigil @ A.P. Green Chapel in Columbia, Missouri
• 6PM-8:30PM – Being a Trans Ally @ Fenway Health, Ansin Building, 9^th floor in Boston, Massachusetts

Wednesday, November 13

• 11/13 -11/21 – Free trans-friendly HIV Testing @ Boulder County Aids Project in Boulder, Colorado
• 3PM-4PM – InsideOUT: Trans in the Media @ University of Missouri in Columbia, MU LGBTQ Lounge
• 3PM- 4:30PM – LGBTQ and Allies Safe Zone training (includes Trans 101 curriculum), part of the Diversity and Inclusion Summit @ Colorado University – Boulder, location TBA
• 6:30PM – Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition Reception @ Club Café in Boston, Massachusetts
• 6PM-9PM – Screening of Documentary "TRANS" @ Fenway Health, Ansin Building, 10^th floor auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts
• 7:30PM-8:30PM – Transgender Representation in the Media @ University of Missouri in Columbia, Leadership Auditorium in MU Student Center

Thursday, November 14

• 11AM- 12:15PM – Transgender Inclusion in Policy & Practice: Examining US & Collegiate Sports, part of the Diversity and Inclusion Summit @ Colorado University in Boulder, UMC
• 6PM-7PM – A Parent's Love @ University of Missouri in Columbia, MU LGBTQ Lounge
• 7:30PM – LGBTQ Trans Law Reception @ Boston, Massachusetts – email ari.kristan@gmail.com for more info

Friday, November 15

• 8AM, 11AM, 2PM – "TRANS" Documentary Showing @ University of Missouri in Columbia, MU LGBTQ Lounge
• 10AM, 1PM, 4PM – "Toilet Training" Documentary Showing @ University of Missouri in Columbia, MU LGBTQ Lounge

• 3:30PM-5PM – Film showing: STILL BLACK @ Colorado University in Boulder, CU GLBTQ Resource Center
• 5PM-6PM – Fluidity @ University of Missouri in Columbia, MU LGBTQ Lounge
• 7PM – Trans & Queer Identified Art & Performance event @ Boulder Center for Conscious Community in Boulder, Colorado
• 8PM – The Bad Romantics present Apocalypse Wow @ Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, Calhoun College Cabaret
• 8PM-10PM – One Night Stand Up with FTM trans comic Ian Harvie @ Who's On First in Boston, Massachusetts

Saturday, November 16

• 1PM-3PM – Race & Trans Identity: Oppression and Privilege at the Intersections @ MIT Room 4-163 in Boston, Massachusetts
• 8PM & 10PM – The Bad Romantics present Apocalypse Wow @ Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, Calhoun College Cabaret

Sunday, November 17

• 4PM-7PM – Boston's Transgender Day of Remembrance @ Cathedral of St. Paul in Boston, Massachusetts

More events:

• 11/18 6PM – Eleanor Hubbard, TRANS-KIN Session for SOFFA's. Concurrent with Ashley Wheeland, One Colorado: Obamacare, Discrimination Law & Transgender Coloradans, followed by potluck @ First United Methodist Church of Boulder in Boulder, Colorado
• 11/18 7-9PM - Open Mic @ The Meeting Point in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 
• 11/18-11/21 @ Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
• 11/18-11/21 @ California State University in Northridge
• 11/19 7PM – QAPA SpeaksOut: Me, My Gender and You @ BAGLY's 3^rd floor in Boston, Massachusetts
• 11/19 7:30PM – Taco Tuesday @ the Pridehouse in Boulder, Colorado
• 11/20 – 11/26 @ University of Arizona
• 11/20 – 11/26 @ Tuscon, Arizona
• 11/21 6PM-8PM – CONVERSATIONS on Healthy Transition & Living: Food 4Body & Soul @ Club Café in Boston, Massachusetts
• 11/22 7PM – Documentary: Too Cold Out There Without You @ Unitarian Universalist Church in Medford, Massachusetts