For a schedule and full listing of workshops in alphabetical order in PDF format click here.
Session 1: Saturday 11:15am – 12:15pm
Butch and Bi: Policing Gender and Sexuality in Queer Communities – INTS 1132
Saby Labor, University of Southern California
Within queer communities we reinforce rigid gender and sexuality norms and often perpetuate oppressive binary systems. Intersections of race, class, sex, age, religion, region, and ability create unique lenses for perception of and reception to portrayals of acceptable gender identity/expression and sexuality. Participants are invited to engage in dialogue about their personal experiences with female masculinity and bisexual identities and discuss strategies to expand our notions of these intersecting categories. Participants of all identity categories welcome.
Discussing and Teaching the Concept of Intersectionality – HUB 367
Diane Miller, CSU Dominguez Hills
Intersectionality, a tenet of Critical Race Theory, is a way of understanding people’s lived experiences in relation to social categories such as sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, class and so on. The lens of intersectionality is a means of understanding people’s social location and its associated privileges and oppressions. This workshop will demonstrate the use of an interactive lecture format that is used to teach students the concept of intersectionality.
From Hoes To Prophets – HUB 269
Yosimar Reyes, Neza Leal & Xuan Carlos Espinoza-Cuellar, La Maricolectiva
From Hoes To Prophets is a creative writing workshop design to explore the personal as political to better understand decolonial processing and what it means to write from QPOC pen.
Leading Education – On Being A QPOC University Administrator – HUB 265
Peter Hayashida, UC Riverside
Professionals bring a richness and depth of individual experience to their roles in the workplace. One's diverse identities can be tremendous assets if approached thoughtfully and strategically. Hear one administrator's story of leveraging QPOC identity for professional success and personal fulfillment.
LGBT ALLIES - Coming Out Stories – INTS 1134
Listen and learn as members of the UCR Allies Safe Zone Program share their experiences about coming out as an Ally! OR A panel of “Out” student and staff Allies share their stories and provide an interactive conversation about “coming out” as Allies to the LGBTQ community. The panel includes a culturally-diverse mix of UC Riverside students and staff.
Mangos with Chili: Life-Sustaining Performance Art by and for Queer and Transgender People of Color – HUB 268
By examining the Bay Area-based arts organization Mangos with Chili, this thesis explores how performance and storytelling can aid the survival of queer and transgender people of color. Interviews with Mangos co-founders, artists and audience members reveal that the performance art cabarets staged by Mangos aid queer and transgender people of color’s survival by helping build community, giving them an opportunity to see their experiences reflected and validated, and offering hope and inspiration, all of which help reduce the isolation they face in the outside world. By reducing social isolation, Mangos reduces the risk of suicide within queer and transgender communities of color by allowing queer and transgender people of color an opportunity to themselves as part of the world.
May I Kiss You: Sexual Communication & Consent – HUB 260
Sex? Intimacy? Doing it? Hooking Up? Whatever you call it, the truth is that many of us are LOVERS but sex is only fun when everyone involved agrees on what they’re going to do. But how do you know if you can’t talk about it? Come learn how to communicate with your partner(s) about what you like, how you like it, and where you like it! In this interactive workshop we will discuss and practice how to identify, ask for, and negotiate the kind of sex you want. Consent is Sexy, baby!
Navigating Our Queer South Asian American Experiences – HUB 379
Aakash Kishore & Ami Patel
This roundtable is a space for queer identified South Asian Americans to discuss their experiences navigating multiple cultural identities. We will touch upon issues such as communicating queerness to South Asian communities, gendered expectations, maintaining bio-family connections while building chosen family, and our role in the larger queer people of color movement.
POZitively at Risk: Confronting Racism, Homophobia, and Transphobia in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS – INTS 1130
Queer and Trans people of color are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, in numbers that are not seen among their white, heterosexual, and non-transgender counterparts. Queer and trans people of color, who are already on the margins of society, face incredible disparities in the areas of HIV/AIDS education, prevention, and treatment as a result of racism, homophobia, and transphobia. This workshop will examine the disproportionate numbers of HIV/AIDS infections among queer and trans people of color, focusing specifically on transgender sex workers, queer prisoners, and queer youth of color. By looking at the discriminatory obstacles that queer and trans people of color face in battling HIV/AIDS, this workshop seeks to not only pinpoint the problem, but to empower ourselves to find solutions to ending the epidemic in our communities.
Queer Eye for the GI – INTS 1121
Violet Vasquez & Yesenia Ayala, UC Riverside
The repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was a victory --of sorts-- in the advancement of equality for the LGBTQ community. However, one must ask, for whom? Let us take a look at the factors that made this repeal possible and how it affects Queer People of Color and the different cultural communities that they are a part of. We will discuss and acknowledge the experiences of Queer People of Color surrounding DADT before, during, and after its repeal as well as the effects towards their families, careers, and civilian life. Join us as we foster a discussion concerning topics such as: the exclusion of trans-identified individuals from the Armed Forces, the hegemony behind this institution, and how we as a community still have much progress to make in order for our people to be considered free and equal citizens of this country.
Trans/Giving: Trans People of Color Short Films Screening (Part 1) – HUB 355
Kalil Cohen, Trans/Giving
The TG Film Fest, LA's transgender film festival, showcases entertaining, poignant, and intriguing visions from the queerest part of the LGBT spectrum. Our short films collection includes comedy, documentary, music video, animation and experimental films, all exploring trans and genderqueer experiences from the comedic to the absurd. These films will entertain, titillate, and burst open contemporary definitions of gender, sex, and identity. Please note: Difference films will be screened over 2 session times.
Lunch: Saturday 12:30am – 1:30pm
Queer Women of Color Caucus (closed space)
This is a closed space for people who self-identify as queer women of color. Join others who share your identity for mutual support and explorations of common issues.
Session 2: Saturday 1:45pm – 2:45pm
Adoption for Queer People of Color: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender – HUB 367
Christine Gailey, UC Riverside
The terrain is changing fast for queer people of color seeking to foster or adopt children. This workshop discusses the difficult and not always clear-cut ethical issues, decision-making, process, and race/class/gender issues involved in domestic vs. international adoption, transracial adoption, surrogacy or gestational surrogacy as part of adoption, and foster-to-adopt strategies to becoming parents. Identifying public or private agencies, home studies, and issues of older child vis-a-vis infant adoption are also addressed.
Asexuality: Understanding and Tackling Misconceptions – INTS 1130
Rigo Gandara, UC Riverside
This workshop will discuss asexuality as an identity, and explore the diversity within the asexual community.
A Critique of Neo-Liberalism with Fierceness: Queer Youth of Color Creating Dialogues of Resistance – HUB 265
Jonathon Grady & Baldomero Gonzalez, CSU Dominguez Hills
This presentation examines how queer youth of color participate in and resist neoliberalism’s pedagogical constructs that marginalize and maintain queer youth of color as the degraded “other.” The effects of neoliberalism specifically create a loss of critical thinking, stripping queer youth of color of cultural capital, and suppressing oppositional critical thought. As a result, queer youth of color in turn, are forced to create their own spaces and discourses so that they are able think/exist as queer. Using as our theoretical framework recent scholarship in queer theory, critical race theory, critical multiculturalism and revolutionary critical pedagogy, this presentation undertakes an analysis of the first openly queer black dance group to gain media attention, Vogue Evolution, as a way of contributing to the development of a critical pedagogy for queer youth of color. Vogue Evolution represents an example of critical queer pedagogy in action (a pedagogy that is potentially anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-racist and anti-homophobic).
Dragging Issues: Decolonizing through Drag Performance – INTS 1121
Aloha Tolentino, UC Riverside
Born from a partially closeted, man-passing immigrant Filipin@'s nostalgic memories of enacting Miss Universe pageants in his living room, Aloha Tolentino performs projects close to her heart. Aloha will share her creation story in addition to the process of planning performances that drag social issues close to queer communities while keeping entertainment in mind. This presentation will include video clips from past projects and select tips on performance forms and techniques.
Mestizo/a Spirituality: Negotiating Queer, Religious, and Chicano/a Identities – HUB 260
Vincent Cervantes, Harvard University
This workshop is interested in examining the social, existential, and embodied experiences of being queer and Chicano/a, so that this blending can become understood in terms of spiritual practice. Furthermore, this presentation pushes us towards thinking differently about traditional theological notions of spirituality and sexuality, and seeks ways to overcome and disrupt normative boundaries, which I argue are embedded in modern queer theologies. This work thus produces a decolonized theology of spirit and queerness, along with a new language and performance of Chicano/a queerness according to the politics of mestizaje.
QPOC Clubs – Activism, Leadership and Community – INTS 1132
Anthony Rubio, UC Riverside
This workshop is for those with a QPOC club on campus that wish to share ideas about strengthening a current organization, or simply for those who would like to see one started on their campus. Topics discussed will include, but are not limited to, advertising, fundraising, activism, leadership, and organization. This space will also be used to identify obstacles that may occur with having or starting a QPOC club.
Queer Asylum: Education, Awareness and Call to Action – HUB 379
Noel Mariano, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
What happens when home becomes an identity? Every year countless people migrate from country to country trying to find a new home and new opportunities, many of them seek asylum from countries where they would be hurt or killed for their identities and yet very few are granted asylum. What happens when someone immigrates to save themselves from the war on sexuality? This presentation will discuss the implications of SB1070 and immigration reform and how it applies to the community and what we as a community can do to answer back.
Queerly Creating: Sneaky and Soulful ways to Change the World and Ourselves – HUB 268
This workshop is geared towards making a link between performance/writing and the sneaky ways we want to be subversive in this world. D'Lo will guide participants in a series of exercises that unleash the creative spirit.
Trans/Giving: Trans People of Color Short Films Screening (Part 2) – HUB 355
Kalil Cohen, Trans/Giving
The TG Film Fest, LA's transgender film festival, showcases entertaining, poignant, and intriguing visions from the queerest part of the LGBT spectrum. Our short films collection includes comedy, documentary, music video, animation and experimental films, all exploring trans and genderqueer experiences from the comedic to the absurd. These films will entertain, titillate, and burst open contemporary definitions of gender, sex, and identity. Please note: Difference films will be screened over 2 session times.
Understanding White Privilege – INTS 1134
Oronne Wami, UC Riverside
This workshop provides a space where students can learn about what white privilege and how white privilege can oftentimes be overlooked in today's society.
Vampires, Queerness, and Color: Intersections of Identity and Popular Culture – HUB 269
The vampire is one of the most enduring images in Western popular culture, largely because it is a powerful metaphor that can be used to symbolize a wide range of social issues and cultural identities. Early vampire texts tended to use the figure to demonize ethnic and sexual minorities, but in the past three decades, more complex treatments have emerged. The vampire can now express a range of racialized fantasies and queer sensibilities. This presentation will consider the ways that the vampire has been used historically, in popular literature and film, both to stigmatize and to sympathetically address racial and sexual identity.
Session 3: Saturday 3pm – 4pm
Beneath Grassroots: Changing the world with no strings attached – HUB 367
"Grassroots" has become to social change what "Alternative" or "Hip Hop" has become to music--a meaningless buzzword. Nonprofit Incorporated promotes the illusion that to be a legitimate activist, one must apply for a grant, gain "nonprofit status," and accept funding from entities with their own interests. But Gandhi never applied for a grant in his life. How did he do it? How can we?
"black./womyn.: conversations with lesbians of African descent" Film Screening – HUB 355
“black./womyn.:conversations…” is a feature-length documentary focusing on the lives and views of lesbians of African descent from various backgrounds. The documentary is structured by interviews-”conversations”-the director had with each of the women. It features candid interviews with black lesbian women discussing coming out, sexuality and religion, love and relationships, marriage, patriarchy, visibility in media, discrimination and homophobia, activism, gender identity, Black lesbian youth and elders, balancing gender/race/sexuality, and, finally, what it means to call oneself a Black lesbian today. Directed and produced by tiona.m. Please note: This 90 minute film is screened over two workshop session times. (90 minutes)
Community Self-Defense: Taking an Active Approach to Radical Change – HUB 269
Jessica Yamane & Nasreen Popat, Within Her Strength
This workshop will be presented by Within Her Strength, a non-profit organization that equips the community in the Inland Empire Region of Southern California with self-defense skills and community activation frameworks. We aim to challenge interpersonal violence at its root levels of origin. This workshop will consist of a conversation centering on specific ways in which queer people of color and their allies can challenge violence in their communities and will tie into an interactive workshop in Kenpo Karate. (Please dress comfortably)
Marcela Ramirez, Juanita Allen & Juan Perez, UC Riverside
Learn the essentials of dating in the queer community! Where to meet people, how to meet people, where to go on a first date, low-budget dating, special occasions, inter-racial dynamics, and safety tips for online dating.
Decolonizing Our Media: The Making of an Asian Lesbian Web Series (and beyond) – INTS 1134
Narinda Heng, Allison Santos, Vicky Luu, & N. Ki, Pearl Girls Productions
Co-founders of Pearl Girls Productions recount their journey in creating "That's What She Said," an independent Asian lesbian web series, and engage participants in a discussion of media representation and how we can strengthen our relationships and build community through identifying each other's talents and interests for a common goal. PGP and participants will discuss the production process, resources, and the impact of independent media-making.
Decolonize your mind: the consequences of European imperialism on queer South Asians, and its diaspora – INTS 1132
Susan Areeckal, UC Riverside
This program will focus onto the effects of the Sec.377 legislation passed in British colonized India (South Asia). This legislation criminalized sodomy, and was the first of its kind to imply that being queer is immoral in the region. It was only sixty-two years after India's independence that Sec. 377 was finally repealed (2009). Furthermore, this workshop will focus on crimes committed against those who identify as LGBTQQIA/Queer in South Asia, and the comparisons and contrasts of LGBTQQIA/Queer South Asians, and its diaspora. Movies will be used for highlights.
Calling All Deviants: Decolonizing the Gay Assimilationist Agenda – HUB 260
From marriage and monogamy, to children and gays in the military, everywhere you look queers are lining up to adopt straight culture as their own. Trading in bathhouse memberships for marriage licenses and glittering stilettos for combat boots, mainstream gays and lesbians have forsaken the sexual and cultural deviance of our radical past in favor of a homonormative existence of “decency” and privilege behind white picket fences in gentrified communities. All too often, however, white middle and upper class gays and lesbians are the ones who reap the benefits, leaving queer people of color, youth, and transgender individuals to continue battling racism, violence, poverty, imprisonment, deportation, and HIV/AIDS. Utilizing a combination of lecture, video, and discussion, this interactive workshop will examine the dangers of the gay assimilationist agenda by critiquing a variety of issues that white gay leaders have declared as top priorities for the queer “community.” In a society that demands conformity and denounces difference, is assimilation into a heteronormative, imperialist, and racist culture the only option for queers? How do we, as queer people of color, decolonize the assimilationist agenda of the white gay elite and reassert a radical queer sensibility that rejects "normality" and celebrates deviance?
How to Make a Zine: Self-Publishing and Self-Empowerment (Parts I & II) – HUB 265
Angela Asbell, Annie Knight & Gloria Lucas, Zineworks; Ana Baginski & Cameron Joe, QUAC
The program will begin with a short presentation and discussion of self-publishing, focusing on the empowerment of creating your own media, networking with like-minded activists, and contributing your voice to the public sphere. We will highlight the ways that zinesters have used self-publishing to counter hegemonic, mainstream representations of queers of color. The editors of QUAC (Queer Under All Conditions) will discuss their process in making one of the first queer zines at UCI, emphasizing the impact it has had on the UCI queer community. QUAC editors will also be discussing their unique positionality to mainstream (gay) magazines in queer spaces at UCI, and their efforts to healthily educate the queer community through self-publishing. The larger part of the program will be hands-on zine-making while we discuss the implications of cultural protest: participants will be invited to use the provided supplies and directions to make their own zines. The larger part of the program will be hands-on zine-making: participants will be invited to use the provided supplies and directions to make their own zines. While the focus of the workshop is on the actual creation of a zine, we will also have a zine library available for those who prefer to read zines instead. (This workshop is presented over two session times.)
Q-Pop: QPOC in Pop Culture – INTS 1121
Horace Buenrostro, UC Riverside
When you flip through a magazine or TV channel, how often do you see a queer identified person, let alone a Queer Person of Color? In this workshop, we will examine the ways in which the popular media chooses to hide and ostracize not only LGBT identified individuals but also specifically QPOC individuals. Maybe we can examine how long it will take until we have the first Chicana lesbian pop star.
Queer Multiracial Caucus – HUB 379
This is a closed space for people who self-identify as queer and multiracial. Join others who share your identity for mutual support and explorations of common issues.
Stop callin’, stop callin’, I don’t wanna talk anymore! – INTS 1130
Mary Case & Giovanna Martinez, LA Gay & Lesbian Center
What is a healthy relationship anyway? This session will examine Queer and LGBTQ relationships, identify healthy forms of intimacy and communication, as well as, what types of behaviors and/or patterns within intimate relationships can be unhealthy or cross over into being abusive. Participants will be informed of the fact that dating violence occurs in about 1 in 3 LGBT relationships and how to identify signs of abuse. Participants will also learn about available resources.
Session 4: Saturday 4:15pm – 5:15pm
Challenging Coloniality by Queering, Coloring, and Feminizing Space and Time – INTS 1130
Xamuel & Xuan, UC Berkeley
This satire/dramedy short performance piece was produced at the University of California at Berkeley by representatives of the group Young Queers United for Empowerment (YQUE!). This film highlights race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality as they relate to identity, social justice, and decolonization Queer Xican@ style.
Coming Out in the Latino Community – INTS 1134
Marcela Ramirez & Juan Perez, UC Riverside
LGBT Latinos will have an opportunity to explore and discuss the intersections of identity and how to navigate the coming out process. Cultural traditions, pre-defined gender roles, and religious practice can be great challenges to overcome. Ethnic discrimination, internalized oppression, immigration status, and homophobia within the community can make us double and triple minorities. Striking a balance can be done and comes with life experience. Come listen to presenters who will share their experience with this process; they will affirm that it does get better in the long run and you can create supportive environments.
Cross Sections Made Whole, Half Nothing: The Whole Story of being a Bi/multiracial and Bisexual! Using Poetry as a tool, poems for our unwritten legacy – HUB 260
Jasmine Schlafke & ReGina Chavez, Bethany University & UC Santa Cruz
A safe place for Queers who identify as bi-sexual or multi-sexual, bi-racial or multi-racial and/or genderqueer to explore their identities with pride and love; both facilitators use their own experience to talk about the intersectionality of privilege and oppression. Let's get creative in the name of our healing! Poetry, movement, audio and collage are all components of the workshop.
Drag 101: Don’t Be A Drag. Just Be a King! – HUB 269
Bonnie Sugiyama, San Jose State University/Gender Queer Society
Join Jason Da Kine Okama, member of the San Jose drag troupe Gender Queer Society, in an interactive workshop on the in's and out's of gender performance as a Drag King. We will be discussing the politics of bending gender, specifically the representation of identities through music choices and character identity/presentation; and you will have an opportunity to learn how to pack, bind, put on facial hair!
Gender Patrol: Policing and Imprisoning the Queer Body – INTS 1132
Brandon Wagner & Joshua Mitchell, UC Riverside
Providing a basic 101 crash course on the Prison-Industrial Complex, explaining the complexities within the correctional facility system. This leads to an in-depth revelation on the violences the PIC places on bodies of queer/trans people of color. This all will culminate into a prison abolitionist argument on why queer/trans people do not belong in prisons.
Transgender/Genderqueer Caucus – HUB 379
This is a closed space for people who self-identify as transgender or genderqueer. Join others who share your identity for mutual support and explorations of common issues.
Transphobic Violence, Sexual Violence, and Racial Oppression – INTS 1121
Talia Bettcher & Alexis Rivera, CSU Los Angeles
Many transphobic murders are committed against trans women of color, and in general it seems that trans women of color are particularly subject to various manifestations of transphobic hostility as well as institutional forms of transphobic violence. This suggests that there is a convergence of transphobia, sexism (particularly sexual violence), and class-inflected racial oppression. Drawing on both theoretical research and experience grounded in community-based activism, this workshop will examine what it means to consider transphobia as an essentially racialized and sexualized form of violence.
Two Spirits in History – HUB 268
Ruth Villasenor, Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits
A film screening of "Traditional Indigenous Values" will give an Indigenous woman’s perspective on Prop 8, being Two Spirit and the effect of Colonization. Learn about historical references of acceptance of multiple genders, the continued effects of "manifest destiny", and current colonization of Indigenous people. Understand more about the Two-Spirit identity: a complex interaction between biological sex (male/female/intersex), gender identity (man/woman/other gender), traditional role (spiritual/cultural), partner choice (sex of partner), and acculturation (identification through traditional terms and/or contemporary GLBT terms).
The Visibility Project: a national portrait and film project on the Queer API community – HUB 367
Mia Nakano & Shawn Tamaribuchi, The Visibility Project
The Visibility Project is a photographic portraiture series focused on the Queer Asian American identified community. All participants currently or have once identified as female and the project is inclusive to: transfolk, genderqueer, bisexuals, lesbian, queer, intersex, etc. It seeks to breakdown ethnic, racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes while providing through the accessible mediums of photography and film. Through personal storytelling and self-identification, participants share how they view themselves in contrast to how the outside world views them, along with numerous other experiences from transitioning genders, coming out, growing up as an adoptee, and the process of finding community.
Caucuses: Saturday 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Allies (straight and/or white) Caucus – HUB 269
This is a closed space for people who self-identify as straight and/or white. Join others who share your identity for an exploration of how to be better Allies to queer people of color.
The following are closed spaces for people who self-identify with the caucus community. Join others who share your identity for mutual support and explorations of common issues.
Queer Asian / Pacific Islander – HUB 355
Queer Black, African American, or African – HUB 268
Queer Chicano/a or Latino/a – HUB 302
Queer Middle Eastern – HUB 367
Queer Native American – HUB 379
Queer South Asian – HUB 260
Session 5: Sunday 9:00am – 10:00am
Depictions of South Asian queers and its diaspora – HUB 265
Susan Areeckal, UC Riverside
This workshop will focus on South Asian queers in film. It will look into relationships, interacial, religious, intersex, and how they are portrayed in the media. This workshop will also focus on mediocre Bollywood depictions, to deep and understanding indie films in regards to being South Asian and queer.
Every (White) Man's Fantasy: Colonial Depictions of Men of Color in Gay Porn – HUB 269
Visit three of gay porn's most popular and successful websites (Sean Cody, Corbin Fisher, and Randy Blue) and you're ready to enter a white man lover's paradise. Video after video, "model" after "model," colonial ideals of white, masculine beauty are celebrated, with a black, latino, asian, or middle eastern actor rarely appearing. To find men of color, one is forced to seek out "niche" categories, where racist and colonial stereotypes are played out on the screen. Through a visual analysis of "ethnic" gay porn websites and a brief history of the racist sexual myths that inspire them, this workshop will examine the blatant stereotypes that are perpetuated in mainstream gay pornography in the U.S. How do we, as queer people of color, negotiate and accept our own sexual desires and preferences, while resisting the very images that have historically colonized and oppressed us? Through presentation, discussion, and an interactive activity, we will explore what it means to decolonize our j/o fantasies in a way that empowers us.
Gender Kaleidoscope: Participatory Image Theatre – HUB 260
Julianne Gale, University of Southern California
Using participatory techniques from Theatre of the Oppressed, we will explore the multiplicity of gender expression and gender identity through the lens of race, ethnicity, and culture. Using our bodies to make physical images, we will start by creating representations of our current challenges and then transition to embodying alternative futures. This workshop is open to all genders and cultural backgrounds, as well as to bodies with and without physical restrictions. Absolutely no experience necessary.
Hypermasculinity and Violence – HUB 367
Lazaro Cardenas, UC Riverside
The consequences of pressures that society has constructed for male identified individuals and their role as “men” can often lead to remarkable violence if an individual cannot live up to those roles. Rape, domestic violence, shootings, serial killings can all be viewed as by products of hypermasculinity. Join your peers in an analysis and group discussion of hypermasculinity and what it means, not only for the LGBTQ community, but to an overall patriarchal system. Particularly the expectations and stereotypes set up to dehumanize people of color, (ie. Sexualization of black women, Asian men socially emasculated in the media, etc).
Papis, GAMeBois and Thugz ...Oh My! – HUB 355
Alfredo Del Cid, UC Santa Barbara
Many Queer night clubs and parties are themed after specific ethnic group. Some argue that these provide spaces for these communities to celebrate each other while others say that it tokenizes them. Join us as we debate and deconstruct what these parties really mean, what they are doing to our communities and who is behind them.
P.O.S.E. Advocates: Middle Eastern Straight Allies – HUB 268
Nooshan Shekarabi & Yasi Alemzadeh, P.O.S.E. Advocates
P.O.S.E. is a newly developed community organization focused on providing outreach, support, and education to the Iranian American and Middle Eastern LGBT communities as well as the broader Middle Eastern Community. Learn about ways straight allies can support this often invisible community.
Queer Families of Color – HUB 379
Sandra Loughrin, UC Riverside
This program attempts to view queer families of color in various capacities. The goal is to examine families of origin of queer people of color and familial relationships of queers with their families of origin, the relationships of queer people of color with their partners and/or children, and the everyday family lives of queer people of color in light of social and legal constraints.
Session 6: Sunday 10:15am – 11:15am
The Anarchistic Queer Person of Color – HUB 265
Anthony Millan, Riverside Community College
This workshop will go over a brief history of the origin of Anarchism, important historical figures of people of color who were anarchist and how a Queer person of color can find a place within the Anarchy movement today.
Being a QPOC Ally...and not being an ass – INTS 1130
Derek Roberts & Tim Grove, UC Riverside
This workshop will focus on how to be a better ally towards the QPOC community. It will touch on topics such as privilege and "white liberal guilt." This workshop will help you to accept, and work past these issues by explaining why they are not helpful towards being an ally of the QPOC community.
Beyond Behavior: Racism, Homo/Transphobia HIV in Black Communities – HUB 269
Black gay/bi men and trans women are the only group(s) in the US with HIV infection rates similar to sub-Saharan African nations. Do these groups have more HIV because they have more sex partners, more down-low men, more drug abuse, and unprotected sex than other communities? Recent public health research shows that risk behaviors do NOT account for the racial disparity in the epidemic. This workshop will explore how racism, homo/transphobia and economic inequality are driving the epidemic, and what are some strategies to reduce new infections in Black queer communities.
"In My Skin" Screening & Dialogue on Trans Experience – HUB 367
Miguel Ruelas & Maria Cruz
"In My Skin" documents the story of a young Latino transman from his first T-shot to six months into transition and forging new relationships with family and his girlfriend. Don't miss this opportunity to speak with Miguel in person regarding his life since the film, as well as his experiences creating the film with partner Maria.
Labels: How They Are an Obstacle to Intersects of One's Identity – HUB 260
Rigo Gandara & Zizi Bandera, UC Riverside
This program will be addressing the use of labels for Queer People of Color. It will discuss how labels create obligation to an identity, and how this may be an obstacle to those struggling between more than one identity (such as gender expression, sexuality, or ethnicity).
LGBTIQ & Undocumented Struggle: The Parallels and Intersectionality of Two Movements – HUB 268
Imelda Plascensia & Javier Hernandez, UCLA & Chaffey Community College
This workshop is presented by queer and undocumented students who found significant similarities between the undocumented and queer movements. It will educate other students about the oppression that exists within both communities in an effort to foster collaboration and unity between both groups. This workshop highlights how both communities have been socially and politically attacked, held uprisings, share hate crimes and suicides within their communities as well as unjust legal systems.
Pansexual/Bisexual Caucus – HUB 355
This is a closed space for people who self-identify as pansexual or bisexual. Join others who share your identity for mutual support and explorations of common issues.
Queer People of Color Organizing: Implications for Today – INTS 1134
Queer People of Color organizing is largely ignored in queer and people of color spaces. My presentation will look at organizing from the Knights of the Clock in Los Angeles in the 1950s to QPOC student groups today. Examining this trajectory, we will explore ways that we can improve our organizing, visibility and representation.
