November is Trans Awareness Month—a celebration and recognition of transgender communities and people.
Trans Awareness Month also includes Transgender Day of Remembrance, honoring the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-trans violence.
Join us for a month of focused educational, social, and community activities as we continue to raise visibility, belonging, and understanding of trans and nonbinary people and to advocate for students. Friends and family are also invited to join us in supporting the Trans Belonging Fund all November through Giving Tuesday.
List of events
Help us co-create this calendar by submitting your event. Posted events will also receive access to a special commemorative Trans Awareness Month badge they can append to their marketing materials.
EVENTS
★ TRANS AWARENESS MONTH SIGNATURE EVENT
Trans Awareness Month kickoff: Gaming Extravaganza
November 4, 2026 | 2:30-4:30 pm
Shapiro Library, Room 4059
Sponsored by Spectrum Center
Celebrate Transgender Awareness Month while being in community through gaming! Engage with different kinds of gamers while learning about trans developers and character identity development. Food will be served. Registration is required.
Pronouns 101*
November 5, 2026 | 11:00 am-2:00 pm
Zoom
Sponsored by Spectrum Center
Spectrum Center's Pronouns 101 workshop is for U-M faculty, staff, and students. In this 2-hour workshop on the basics of pronouns and their usage, participants will have the chance to practice using different sets of pronouns and work on bystander intervention skills.
Queer Art Showcase
November 6, 2026 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Stamps Gallery, 201 South Division Street
Sponsored by Spectrum Center's Programming Board and Stamps Gallery
Join Spectrum Center and Stamps Gallery for an incredible showcase of queer and trans art from U-M students of all genders and sexualities.
Inqueery in Precarity: The Queer Campus Lab: Research and Practice for Queering and Trans*ing Higher Education
November 12, 2025
2:00-3:00 pm | Virtual
Sponsored by Spectrum Center and Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice
We invite you to join us for "Inqueery in Precarity,” a discussion that centers on the experiences of faculty conducting research on gender, sexuality, and 2SLGBTQIA• communities and identities. As anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ efforts reshape the landscape of higher education and the Academy, esteemed faculty will reflect on what it means to carry out 2SLGBTQIA+ scholarship right now, including the ways they care for their own and their community’s overall well-being.
QTBIPOC Kickbacks
November 13, 2026 | 7:00-9:00 pm
Spectrum Center, Michigan Union
Sponsored by Trotter/MESA and Spectrum Center
Be one with your community! Join our social gatherings as we create memorable connections around community and meals, centering Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Drop in, grab food, enjoy some tunes, play some games and hang out! Open to all U-M students.
★ TRANS AWARENESS MONTH SIGNATURE EVENT
Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2026 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Location TBA
Sponsored by Spectrum Center
Save the date for UM-Ann Arbor's Transgender Day of Remembrance event.
More opportunities and resources
Trans guide to U-M
Find policies, guides, and information that may be relevant to you or someone you know, including:
- Nondiscrimination, bathroom, and name policies
- Healthcare and housing
- Updating your documents
Download our marketing toolkit
With U-M login, student organizations and schools, departments, and units can download and use our pre-designed LGBT History Month marketing toolkit, which includes:
- slides for your building's digital signage
- social media graphics
Slides are also available for units in the U-M Digital Signage Community Content Feed.