Meet The QCC Crew: Kevin Fu

Name: Kevin Fu
Major: Business
Year: Grad School

What does the Queer People of Color Conference mean to you?

"The challenges and inspirations of being a queer person of color are unique. The conference is a platform for queer people of color to come together and talk about their experiences. However, this conference will also serve as a platform to understand struggles outside of the LGBT community, revealing that people need to look out for each other, no what community they are from. I hope that by the end of this experience, the members of my community will fully absorb the beauty, the promise, and the potential of being a queer person of color."

Meet The QCC Crew: Stacey Hartnett

Name: Stacey Hartnett
Major: Business Administration
Year: 4th

What does the Queer People of Color Conference mean to you?

"To me, the QPOC Conference gives people of every background a chance to come together and talk about what it means to be a queer person of color or a QPOC ally. It gives students a space to express themselves in a forum that they usually don't have. QPOC ROCK! "

Meet The QCC Crew: Toi Thibodeaux

Name: Toi Thibodeaux
Majors: Health Care Management & Health Services Administration
Year: Staff

What does the Queer People of Color Conference mean to you?

"The Queer People Of Color Conference to me is all about Empowerment, Visibility, Support, Education, Community."

Meet The QCC Crew: Nancy Jean Tubbs

Name: Nancy Jean Tubbs
Majors: Educational Administration
Year: Staff

What does the Queer People of Color Conference mean to you?

"The QPOCC is a space to critically think about the messages we receive from majority cultures, and to courageously discuss our many communities and identities. Plus, 600 queer people and allies in the HUB, yay!"

Meet The QCC Crew: Jessica Fu

Name: Jessica Fu
Major: English and Political Science
Year: 4th

What does the Queer People of Color Conference mean to you?

"The Conference is a chance for me to find community and create discourse around the trauma of being an Other. As a first generation Taiwanese-American queer of the working class, I struggle against but also find solace in the margins. I see the Conference as a springboard for social change."

Meet The QCC Crew: Sinia Rodriguez

Name: Sinia Rodriguez
Majors: Love and Respect
Year: 5th

What does the Queer People of Color Conference mean to you?

"I am astounded by the sheer amount of under representation QPOC identified people endure. This conference will hopefully change people's minds and get them to stand up and get noticed. Let's call out these racist shenanigans!"

Meet The QCC Crew: Jim Clark

Name: Jim Clark
Major: English
Year: 4th

What does the Queer People of Color Conference mean to you?

"I think that as a person of mixed race I have always struggled with my identity. I believe that the QPOC Conference will give me the opportunity to start a dialogue with other individuals that share a similar story. I also believe the intersections of race and queerness are often overlooked in the LGBTQIA community and hopefully we can change that."

Meet The QCC Crew: Vincent La

Name: Vincent La
Major: Biochemistry
Year: 4th

What does the Queer People of Color Conference mean to you?

"I believe this conference is one of the major rally points where those that want to get involved and those that are currently in the struggle for Queer People of Color visibility can meet and discuss ways to empower each other and essentially combat the social struggle it is to be a Queer Person of Color. More can be read here."

Definition, Deconstruction, and Empowerment

By Vincent La
Co-Chair of the Queer People of Color Conference

Decolonization is to deconstruct our own identities and to forge leadership that reverberates throughout our different communities. Individuals obsess over the definition instead of the issue at hand and that in my opinion is what keeps progressive movements from pushing forward into leaps and bounds. We must not focus on our own personal oppressions but choose to work to our strengths to empower each other. Definitionalism is a damaging style of intellectual inquiry based on perverse, fetishistic involvement with definition. We are our worst oppressors.