Queer Awareness Days - April 15-26, 2013
Queer Awareness Days
April 13-27, 2013
Queer Awareness Days takes place annually during the last two weeks of April as a way to increase visibility of LGBTQ issues at UC Berkeley, engage the campus community through educational events and campaigns, and celebrate everything queer! This year, the theme is More than Marriage: Intersectional Issues, and is focusing on how the issues of all marginalized communities are queer issues. If you would like to add an event email details to tdunlop@berkeley.edu.
To download the calendar poster, scroll to the bottom of the page or click here.
-SATURDAY 4/13-
Queer Open Mic
4-6 p.m. 130 Wheeler
Sponsoring Organizations: Cal Q&A with collaboration from other queer groups
Come out to our first ever Queer Open Mic! People will be reading or performing stories, poems, experiences, tumblr posts, etc. Feel free to share something you have written or something by someone else!
-MONDAY 4/15-
ENVISION: White Anti-Racist Network at GenEq
6:30-8pm GenEq (202 Chavez)
For Queer Awareness Days we'll be talking about how white privilege shows up in LGBTQ community spaces and how to confront it. Our conversation will focus on developing sustainable tools to have those conversations and help others understand that anti-racism work in an ongoing process.
ENVISION is a discussion space designed to equip white* students, faculty and staff with the tools to analyze white privilege and to challenge racism within and beyond our campus¹ women's and queer communities. ENVISION supports the development of anti-racist practices and can serve as a supplement to social justice work in other spaces on campus. We welcome participants who are already actively involved in such spaces, as well as folks who are new to social justice work and interested in these conversations.
*ENVISION focuses on white students, faculty and staff for three reasons: 1) it shifts the burden off of people of color to educate white people about racism and oppression; 2) white people can play an important role in supporting each other to challenge racism; and 3) it creates an atmosphere that allows white people to share more openly and honestly about race, creating more opportunities for growth and learning.
Questions? Email Marisa at mboyce@berkeley.edu
For accessibility-related accommodations, seehttp://access.berkeley.edu/
5:30-7pm QARC (A15 Hearst Annex)
Trans*Action is a student run collaborative organization that is open to anyone who wants to work to increase equity, inclusion, and awareness of transgender and gender non-conforming identified students on campus.
Flash Mob and “Let’s Have a Kiki” Practices
7pm Outside of GenEq (202 Chavez)
In preparation for the Flash Mob on Friday, April 19th, practices to learn the “Let’s Have a Kiki” dance routine will be held on Monday and Thursday. Everyone encouraged to participate, regardless of experience with dance, queer community spaces or flash mobs!
-TUESDAY 4/16-
7:30-9pm 20 Wheeler
Come have a dialogue with members of our community on campus!! QSA will be hosting a panel on issues affecting the trans* community on campus facilitated by Marisa Boyce, co facilitator of T-Cal: A Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Space at Cal. This event is open to the public and we encourage new people to come hang out with us!
-WEDNESDAY 4/17-
Art, Activism, and Healing as Resistance: A Writing Workshop with Amirah Mizrahi
7pm GenEq (202 Chavez)
join ENVISION:White Anti-Racist Network at GenEq and QPOC Together for a writing workshop on art, activism, healing and survival - what these mean to us, how they are connected and how they are often conceived of as separate things. we will do a text study of several poems and some writing together based on our reflections. there will be an opportunity to share your writing with the group at the end.
amirah mizrahi is a queer, mizrahi poet, comics-maker, educator, translator, cat-sitter, and space creature. she is living for the first time in a place not called “south.” she has witnessed all kinds of violence with her eyes and ears and heart and other body parts, but has also known a tremendous amount of support, love, and resilience. she misses mangos and warm oceans (such as the atlantic and the mediterranean). she does not like capital letters or capitalism but does at times use them strategically. she writes herself into existence and hopes to hold a place for others. she dreams of a free palestine but not in the slogan kind of way. she makes a mean shakshouka.
About QPOC Together:
QPOC Together is a monthly community forum and chill space for queer-identified students of color at UC Berkeley. No matter how you identify: Same-Gender Loving, Queer, Butch/Femme, Fluid, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Downe, etc. In creating a safe and brave space for queer identified students of color at UC Berkeley, we come together with our commonalities and differences as a form of self-love and self-care.
As Audre Lorde put it, “caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
QPOC Together is that 'act of political warfare.'
About ENVISION: White Anti-Racist Network at GenEq:
ENVISION is a discussion space designed to equip white* students, faculty and staff with the tools to analyze white privilege and to challenge racism within and beyond our campus¹ women's and queer communities. ENVISION supports the development of anti-racist practices and can serve as a supplement to social justice work in other spaces on campus. We welcome participants who are already actively involved in such spaces, as well as folks who are new to social justice work and interested in these conversations.
*ENVISION focuses on white students, faculty and staff for three reasons: 1) it shifts the burden off of people of color to educate white people about racism and oppression; 2) white people can play an important role in supporting each other to challenge racism; and 3) it creates an atmosphere that allows white people to share more openly and honestly about race, creating more opportunities for growth and learning.
Flash Mob and “Let’s Have a Kiki” Practice
7pm Outside of GenEq (202 Chavez)
In preparation for the Flash Mob on Friday, April 19th, practices to learn the “Let’s Have a Kiki” dance routine will be held on Monday and Thursday. Everyone encouraged to participate, regardless of experience with dance, queer community spaces or flash mobs!
-THURSDAY 4/18-
Zawadi - Black LGBT at Cal Meeting
5:30-7:30pm GenEq (202 Chavez)
Kick back, chill social space for LGBT and Same Gender Loving students, alumni, faculty, staff and post-docs of African Ancestry* at UC Berkeley. Zawadi’ is Swahili for ‘gift.’ This name was chosen in recognition of the fact that each of us is a precious gift to our families, our communities, and to the world.
*African Ancestry (African American, Multi Racial, Afro Caribbean, Black, bi racial,….you get the picture..the diaspora)
6-8pm Thalassa Bar & Billiards (2367 Shattuck Ave - at Durant)
Accessible Location
Hey everyone. For those of you who couldn't make the first happy hour, we're continuing to change venues since the(Bear's Lair closed (*tear*). Thanks to funding by the Graduate Assembly we are able to offer FREE PIZZA and FREE POOL for our happy hours! We're still working with Thalassa to figure out the best location for our group but check for updates (we may be in the back of the bar). Looking forward to seeing you all and catching up.
-FRIDAY 4/19-
Queer Flash Mob - Let’s Have a Kiki
12pm
Upper Sproul Plaza
Dyke Party: Supernova Soiree
9pm-1am
Oscar Wilde House - 2410 Warring St.
Sponsored by Gamma Rho Lambda and Oscar Wilde
A Blacklight Space Adventure themed party
BYOB 18+
ADA Accessible
$3 with an intergalactic costume
$5 without
Glow with us in this out of the world event!
-SUNDAY 4/21-
Wilde Mural Walk
4-6pm
Oscar WIlde House-2410 Warring St.
Interested in living in Oscar Wilde House, the nation’s first LGBTQ themed student cooperative? Come socialize with current housemates, and munch on snacks while perusing our home’s many interesting wall murals. If you have any questions feel free to contact wiloutreach@bsc.coop.
https://www.facebook.com/events/445954182160086/
-MONDAY 4/22-
T-Cal: A Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Space at Cal Meeting
5-6:30pm
Email mboyce@berkeley.edu for location.
T-Cal is a group that seeks to address the spectrum of gender and gender expression, especially for students, staff and faculty who may identify across the transgender spectrum at UCB. Join us for conversation, community, and resources!
-TUESDAYTuesday 4/23-
Infosession for GenEq Internships
4-5pm
GenEq - 202 Cesar Chavez
Work with a dynamic and diverse team to foster social change!
Become a GenEq Intern and work on LGBTQ issues, women’s issues and sexual/relationship violence issues!
For full information and to download an application visit: http://geneq.berkeley.edu/internships
Eliminating homophobia
Stopping hate crimes
Subverting sexism
Ending violence against women
Toppling transphobia
Redefining masculinities
Positions:
Graphic Design, Lavender Action, Prism:, Program Assistants, Queer People of Color Together, Spectrum.
Questions? Email Marisa at mboyce@berkeley.edu
Critical Intersections of LGBTQ Issues
5pm
MCC
Same-sex marriage is a very visible issue right now, what are other critical issues affecting LGBTQ communities?
Questions? Contact Marisa at mboyce@berkeley.edu.
Queer Self Defense Workshop
7-8:30pm
GenEq
Learn tools for self-defense specially tailored for LGBTQ students.
Questions? Contact cici Ambrosio at ambrosio@berkeley.edu.
Elections/Pass the Parcel/Craft Night with QSA
7:30-9pm
20 Wheeler
Come join QSA for our general meeting! We’ll be holding our semesterly elections and a few games of ‘Pass the Parcel,’ a hot-potato-like game with prizes!
-WEDNESDAY 4/24-
Threaded Souls: Fashion As Survival
6-9pm
Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex D-37
It all started with the questions: How do we use fashion and how we dress to share our stories and experiences? From the time we wake up and dress ourselves, what is it that we are both intentionally and unintentionally telling others? How are others reading us based on our personal style?
From there followed a photo campaign for folks to share their style on a daily basis as well as a fashion show happening Wednesday, April 24 from 6-9pm at the Multicultural Community Center!
**What should I expect at the TSP Fashion Show?!**
Join us for an evening of fashion, dialogue, reflection, and expression as we present the Threaded Souls Project Fashion Show! See what collections and narratives our featured designers have to share followed by a dialogue/sharing among all of us with our designers and their collections as featured speakers.
Also, when you come, DRESS to EXPRESS!
If you want to get involved or have any questions, you can reach Darrin and kristin at threadedsoulsproject@gmail.com
-THURSDAY 4/25-
QPOC Together: Queer People of Color
5:30-7pm
QARC - A15 Hearst Annex
QPOC Together is a monthly community forum and chill space for queer-identified students of color at UC Berkeley. No matter how you identify: Same-Gender Loving, Queer, Butch/Femme, Fluid, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Downe, etc. In creating a safe and brave space for queer identified students of color at UC Berkeley, we come together with our commonalities and differences as a form of self-love and self-care.
As Audre Lorde put it, “caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
QPOC Together is that 'act of political warfare.'
-FRIDAY 4/26-
Queer Identity in Yiddish Theater and Film
3-5pm
Berkeley Hillel 2736 Bancroft Way (near Piedmont Ave)
Come discover the largely unknown, queer world of Yiddish theater and
film. Read excerpts from "God of Vengeance," a 1907 drama about a love
affair between a female sex worker and a rabbi's daughter. View clips
from classic Yiddish films,including "The Dybbuk," "Yidl Mitn Fidl,"
and "American Matchmaker," a 1940 Yiddish film about an elegant and
eligible bachelor who can never seem to close the marriage deal. We'll
follow with a discussion about queer representations in early
twentieth-century Yiddish film and theater. Workshop facilitated by Anna Elena Torres, UC Berkeley grad student in Yiddish literature and community muralist.
Lavender Graduation Celebration
6:30pm
Alumni House
Dress: Informal, fabulous, drag, no academic regalia.
RSVP AT LINK BELOW PLEASE--FB "join" does NOT count.
http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lavendergraduation
Thank you to everyone who are joining us to celebrate the end of another year at Cal and bid farewell to our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer graduating seniors, graduate students, and allies.
Graduating students receive a rainbow tassel (no charge).
Food, Friends, Fun and FREE
Keynote: John A. Pérez, California Speaker of the Assembly (For more information, please visit: http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lavendergraduation)
Questions: Contact Billy Curtis 510.643.0788 or billyc@berkeley.edu
-SATURDAY 4/27-
QSA Community Service at Spiral Gardens
more information coming soon! If you have questions please contact jbazzini@berkeley.edu.
Sigma Epsilon Omega's RAINGLOW
+ Neon Rainbow themed queer party!
+ IT'S FREEE
+ Need a Cal ID for entry!
10pm
2708 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA
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