Hey Berkeley Folks - Art and Allyship Call for Submissions
Hey, all you folks in the Berkeley campus community: interested in art? interested in allyship? procrastinating on papers and want something more fun to do? Why not make something to submit?
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Art and Allyship: (Re)Imagine, (Re)create, (Re)define Allyship
[April 26th • 7:30pm • Location TBD]
Submissions due by April 19th at 5:00pm (see below for details)
What does it mean to be an ally and how do we navigate our identities in different spaces? How can we be allies to communities we are not a part of and how can we be allies within our own communities? Being an ally is more than just a checklist; there are multiple experiences and definitions in doing ally work that we should create for ourselves. Join us in exploring the multiplicity of allyship through art!
Art and Allyship will be a night of performance and visual art created by multiple communities for the event. We encourage everyone to participate by submitting pieces that capture your thoughts on allyship; this could even be as simple as a photograph of yourself and a statement exploring one or many of the prompts below. Submissions can also be other forms of artistic expression, though we ask that each piece be accompanied by a statement.
Questions to consider:
- What does being an ally mean to you?
- How do you do your ally work?
- Why is being an ally important?
- What drives your ally work?
- (any other question around allyship that resonates with you!)
All submissions should be emailed to geneqintern@gmail.com or dropped off at Marisa’s office (203 Chavez) in the Gender Equity Resource Center by Thursday, April 19 at 5pm.
This event is presented by the PRISM* interns at the Gender Equity Resource Center.
*Prism Interns are leaders in various queer or women’s groups on campus that come together at GenEq to learn how to make their groups thrive in the larger campus space.
[QSA] This week’s FUN general meeting and other info!
Hey all!
Do you love arts and crafts? Do you love games? Are you excited to hang out and have fun with QSA? Come to our general meeting on Tuesday March 6th from 7:30pm-9:00pm in 155 Barrows! We’ll be doing all things FUN! There will be board games, art supplies, music and best of all good company. We hope to see you there!
Also, this week (March 2nd-March 7th) is the Week of Cultural Resitance (WoCR)! WoCR is a week of events and workshops colobrating activism and liberation on multiple levels. This week culminates in the NoCR (Night of Cultural Resistance), which will feature live music, art, and other exciting activities, such as beading, t-shirt making, live graffiti, and haircuts! For more info and a list of daily events, check out the facebook event page here: http://www.facebook.com/events/274580899273810/.
Also coming up from March 30th-April 1st is the National Queer People of Color Conference! The Queer People of Color Conference gives people the opportunity to understand the diversity of being a person of color within the queer community. It focuses on the issues of injustice and oppression faced by those within such communities, while simultaneously seeking methods of social reformation to alleviate such issues. It sheds light on various issues from the current political climate, safe sex and HIV, the coming out process for ethnic communities, to the movement of art; visual and performing. By illumination these perspectives, through engaging workshops, discussion groups, caucuses and a captivating keynote speaker, QPOCC strives to fully expand your knowledge and empower the identities of queer people of color. To register or find more information, check out the website: http://www.qpocc2012.org/
This Wednesday, March 7th from 10am-2pm YQUE! will be having its second Ensalada de Fruta Fundraiser to raise money to go to the 2012 Queer People of Color Conference in late March. Stop by their table on Upper Sproul where they’ll be selling delicious fruit salad and fruta con chile! For more info, check out the facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/240163896075521/.
On Saturday, March 17th, oSTEM (Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) will be participating in Engineering 4 Kids Day. It is a day long activity where engineering groups on campus hold lessons and projects with 4th, 5th, and 6th graders to inspire them to pursue engineering. oSTEM’s participation will involve seven 30 minute lessons teaching the kids about collisions and energy, and then having the kids participate in an egg drop contest. Currently, they need volunteers to help facilitate this lesson plan (volunteers will also get a free t shirt and free lunch!) If you are interested, please email Paul Zarate at paulgz@berkeley.edu.
QACON, an annual conference seeking to educate individuals and initiate discussion around the intersectionalites of the queer and Asian communities, is happening Friday, April 27th-Sunday, April 29th. This 3-day conference, “Collide, Connect, Create,” includes workshops, keynote speakers, community performances, and social events aimed at bringing together those interested in queer and Asian issues. Whether you are working on a particular campaign, reclaiming a Queer and Asian identity, or discovering new ways of self-care, you’re invited for a weekend of thoughtful dialogue, social bonding, and Queer and Asian empowerment. For more info, visit http://calqacon.com/ or email Vy Hoang & Wendy Wu at qaconference.outreach@gmail.com.
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Queer Straight Alliance at Cal
Website: http://qsaberkeley.tumblr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000838015797
Meetings are every Tuesday from 7:30-9pm in 155 Barrows.
[QSA] General Meeting: Queer History!
Hey everyone!
Come join us for our QSA Queer History Meeting this Tuesday, February 28th from 7:30-9pm in 155 Barrows! We will be learning about the vibrant history of our LGBTQ community. And after the meeting, we’ll be heading over to Caffe Strada to hang out and chat a bit. If you have questions, feel free to head over to the Facebook event page and ask them: http://www.facebook.com/events/276374562435483/. Hope to see y’all there!
Coming up Saturday, March 17th from 1-4pm in 2050 VLSB is a screening of the documentary Miss Representation (http://vimeo.com/28066212), which exposes how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself. Following the screening, which is open to the general public, appropriate for all ages, and ADA accessible, there will be a panel conversation with esteemed women in the Bay Area. Admissions is $5 online/$10 at the door for UCB students and $10 online/$15 at the door for non-UCB students. Visit the Facebook event for more details: http://www.facebook.com/events/304829752898230 or email missrepresentationatcal@gmail.com if you have any questions!
QACON, an annual conference seeking to educate individuals and initiate discussion around the intersectionalites of the queer and Asian communities, is happening Friday, April 27th-Sunday, April 29th. This 3-day conference, “Collide, Connect, Create,” includes workshops, keynote speakers, community performances, and social events aimed at bringing together those interested in queer and Asian issues. Whether you are working on a particular campaign, reclaiming a Queer and Asian identity, or discovering new ways of self-care, you’re invited for a weekend of thoughtful dialogue, social bonding, and Queer and Asian empowerment. For more info, visit http://calqacon.com/ or email Vy Hoang & Wendy Wu at qaconference.outreach@gmail.com.
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Queer Straight Alliance at Cal
Website: http://qsaberkeley.tumblr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000838015797
Meetings are every Tuesday from 7:30-9pm in 155 Barrows.
QSA General Meeting, QPOC Townhall, QACON
Hey all!
Have any thoughts, opinions, questions, or comments about the Occupy movement? Bring them to QSA’s meeting this week on Tuesday from 7:30-9pm in 155 Barrows! We will be giving a basic overview of the history of the Occupy movement, it’s goals, and how the movement relates to others both within and without the queer community, as well as leading various discussions. Did you miss last week’s QSA meeting and are interested in what we talked about in our self-care workshop? Check out our super awesome self-care brainstorm here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EnmQM9x1w9Oz9oo_3WSN_kqG9SiT-TB-ktVLDfqsBvk/edit?pli=1. We hope to see you at this week’s meeting!
Also, a QPOC Townhall is going to be happening sometime in the near future, where there will be a discussion about issues of queer people of color, and how the QPOC communities and on-camus spaces are not being addressed in the large queer conversations happening on campus. If you are interested in going, please fill out this Doodle: http://www.doodle.com/dvrb6wuvffs7v4pa to help select a date for the Townhall.
QACON, an annual conference seeking to educate individuals and initiate discussion around the intersectionalites of the queer and Asian communities, is happening Friday, April 27th-Sunday, April 29th. This 3-day conference, “Collide, Connect, Create,” includes workshops, keynote speakers, community performances, and social events aimed at bringing together those interested in queer and Asian issues. Whether you are working on a particular campaign, reclaiming a Queer and Asian identity, or discovering new ways of self-care, you’re invited for a weekend of thoughtful dialogue, social bonding, and Queer and Asian empowerment. For more info, visit http://calqacon.com/ or email Vy Hoang & Wendy Wu at qaconference.outreach@gmail.com.
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Queer Straight Alliance at Cal
Website: http://qsaberkeley.tumblr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000838015797
Meetings are every Tuesday from 7:30-9pm in 155 Barrows.
QSA’s Bisexuality and Pansexuality Panel and More!
Hey everyone!
For this week’s meeting, join us for QSA’s Bisexuality and Pansexuality Panel on Tuesday, February 7th at 7:30pm in 155 Barrows. Learn more about these identities in a presentation put on by QSA Officers. The presentation will be followed by a panel comprised of people who identify as either bisexual or pansexual. Hear about their experiences and have the opportunity to ask them questions! Also, if you left dance shoes in a red bag at this past week’s meeting, contact Mary Ginoza at mary_kame_ginoza@berkeley.edu, she has them!
The Vagina Monologues, put on by V-Day at UC Berkeley, is coming up next weekend, and QSA is going! Join us on Saturday, February 11th at 5pm at Indian Flavors (2548 Bancroft Way) for dinner, and then onto the performance at 7pm. You can buy tickets for $10 (cash only) on Sproul Plaza. For more info about The Vagina Monologues, check out http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~vday/Performances.html.
YLEAD’s first planning meeting of the semester is coming up this Sunday (2/5) from 11am-12:30pm in 106 Wheeler Hall. YLEAD (Young Leaders for Empowerment, Advocacy and Diversity) is a two day camp that emphasizes empowerment for high school age youth that are LGBTQ, Questioning, or Allies. The camp is designed to create a community space for youths to express themselves, gain tools and knowledge that will assist them in their school and home environments, and provide necessary supports to help youths be successful, empowered, and community driven. If you want to be a part of the camp, make a donation, or hear more about it, come to the planning meeting this Sunday. Consecutive meetings will be every Sunday at the same time and location. For more info, check out the facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/305746176139866/.
Interested in having a more involved role in the queer community on campus? Need to relieve some of the damage done by purchasing textbooks? Apply to be QARC’s office manager! QARC is the location of the newly formed queer coalition on campus and needs an officer manager. Responsibilities would include: Tidying up 305 Eshleman twice a week, purchasing office supplies at the request of the Office Board, minor administrative tasks at the request of the Officer Board, and the option to participate in Officer Board meetings for the Queer Coalition. The time requirement for this position is minor and is repaid in the form of a stipend. Email Erik Lugo ateriklugo@berkeley.edu if you’re interested or want more information.
Also coming up is the Western Regional LGBTQIA College Conference from Friday, February 24th to Sunday, February 26th at University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. The conference is three days of workshops, discussions, lectures and special events open to students, faculty, staff, and community members, and is intended to be a place for growth and development for anyone who fits within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and Ally community. For more information, please visit their website, www.comeoutwest.org. The application can be found here: www.tinyurl.com/wr-ucbdeleg2012. The application deadline is February 10, 2012 and your notification of decision will be February 13, 2012. If you have any questions or concerns, please email any of the following people: Kristin Aquino (kristin.aquino@berkeley.edu), Jordan Tauber (jordan.tauber@gmail.com), Thomas Siu (siu.thomas3@gmail.com).
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Queer Straight Alliance at Cal
Website: http://qsaberkeley.tumblr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000838015797
Meetings are every Tuesday from 7:30-9pm in 155 Barrows
OUT AND ABOUT AFTER GRADUATION: TRANSLATING INVOLVEMENT TO EMPLOYMENT
While undergraduate experiences ignite the spirit of social justice in many students, graduation can feel like a threat to that spirit. How can students navigate leaving university life while maintaining their commitment to social change within women’s and LGBT communities? How does their work within those communities as undergraduates translate into their post-undergraduate plans? What are options for those students who seek to continue their work after leaving Cal?
The Prism interns at GenEq (a cohort of leaders of women- and LGBTQ-focused organizations) present a panel that offers the perspectives of actual Berkeley alumni that were engaged in women’s and LGBT communities on campus that have gone on with their life trajectories in various ways. Through this event, we hope to illuminate how on-campus organizing and activism is directly in conversation with a number of post-graduation routes and to empower the Berkeley community to remain continually engaged with LGBT and women’s issues as a lifelong project. Panelists will speak to their own experiences then address audience questions.
Cosponsored by Cal Queer & Asian, PASS Gender and Sexuality Awareness Coordinator, Queer Straight Alliance and Delta Gamma.
For disability-related accommodations see http://access.berkeley.edu/. Questions? Contact beamprism@lists.berkeley.edu.
Interested in learning more about transgender identities and related issues? Come check out this workshop facilitated by our own Queer Straight Alliance officers Ayden and Antmen (also a GenEq LGBT peer educator)!
The workshop offers a great opportunity to begin a conversation about what it means to identify as transgender, and how the nuances shape the way we perceive gender and sex. Finding the words to describe what is innate and true to the way in which a part of our community lives and identifies, is the first part of engaging in an important dialogue. GenEq Peer Educators/QSA officers have worked to create a workshop that gives everyone the opportunity to be in a safe space, to ask questions, and learn more about what it means to identify as transgender.
Also, check out the list of events for Transgender Awareness Week or see the poster!
Sponsored by the Gender Equity Resource Center and the Queer Straight Alliance.
Also, stay tuned for a fun meeting of art and board games on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving!
Please make an effort to make a small protected historical district out of the three remaining and connected historical buildings on Washington Street that constitute NYC’s “Little Syria” neighborhood. If the most important buildings in Little Syria are not protected as in other historical ethnic neighborhoods in New York City - especially after the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel already destroyed the vast majority of them - this implies that Arab-American history, along with Greek, Armenian, and Slovak, is not valued as much as that of other ethnic groups.
We need your immediate help in sharing this petition with your friends and family (forward the link in emails! post it on twitter and facebook!)
Demonstrating that people do value Little Syria and Washington Street will be crucial in establishing the perceived social and historical importance of these buildings.
They need 1,000 signatures for the petition to even be considered, but with social media nowadays, I really believe that we can easily spread the word and reach those numbers.
For more information about Little Syria and to access the petition itself, please visit this link:
http://www.change.org/petitions/new-york-city-landmarks-preservation-commission-designate-the-mother-colony-community-house-in-lower-manhattan
Hi folks! We’ve got a fun event planned before our next general meeting on Tuesday…we’re playing Capture the Flag with our friends at Cal Q&A! Join us on Sproul Plaza for a couple rounds, or feel free to cheer from the sidelines while chatting and getting to know each other. And if you stick around, we’ll probably get a group together afterwards to grab food somewhere! See the facebook event for any updates.
Asexual Awareness Week is coming up! Asexual Awareness Week (October 23-29th) is an international effort to increase education and visibility about asexuality, and to dispel some of the common myths and misunderstandings surrounding asexuality.
QSA will be hosting two fun and exciting events in honor of AAW:
QSA General Meeting: Asexuality 101
Tuesday, October 25th
101 Wheeler, 7:30-9:00pm
He’re we’ll be doing a basic explanation of what asexuality is and is not, as well as a brief intro into some asexuality-related terms and theory and how the asexual community interacts and intersects with the queer community. There will be many chances for Q&A, so bring questions and don’t be afraid to ask!
(A)sexual Screening
Saturday, October 29th
60 Evans, 6:30-9:00pm
Here we’ll be presenting (A)sexual, the first ever feature length documentary on asexuality, which premiered at the Frameline and Newfest LGBT film festivals this summer, and which is a nominee for Best Documentary at the upcoming MIX Copenhagen LGBT.
“Facing a sex obsessed culture, a mountain of stereotypes and misconceptions, and a lack of social or scientific research, asexuals – people who experience no sexual attraction—struggle to claim their identity.
(A)sexual follows the growth of a community that experiences no sexual attraction. In 2000, David Jay came out to his parents. He was asexual and was fine with it. And he was not alone. Studies show that 1% of the population is asexual. But in a society obsessed with sex, how do you deal with life as an outsider? Combining intimate interviews, verite footage, and animation with fearless humor and pop culture imagery, David and our four other characters grapple with this universal question, and the outcomes might surprise you.
Screening will be followed by Q&A with David Jay, one of the main subjects of the film and the founder of the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network.
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