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LGBTRC | E-Newsletter |Winter Week 1| January 2024

What's Inside
UNITY HOUR!
T-CAMP Applications Open
Dance 005: PERFORMANCE/VOGUE STYLES
Upcoming RPYA Theatre Workshop
QT Harm Reduction Group
Aunts, aunties, and ‘tías’ offer protection to their LGBTQ youth relatives
Tuesday Talks Starting Week 2
Trans Group Meeting Week 2
BlaqOUT Meeting Week 2
Queer Cinema Nights
Student Orgs Meeting
Winter Center Hours 2024

Unity Hour!

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 12-1pm @ 245 Costo Hall
The LGBT Resource Center kicks off the Unity Hour series this Winter, with good times and community in 245 Costo Hall.  Stuff a Pride Pillow to take home (7 pride designs available), and meet new folks over coffee, tea, and sweets. We extend a special welcome to new Transfer students, and anyone who has yet to visit our space.
Join the Ethnic & Gender Centers every Wednesday at noon this Winter Quarter to find community, engagement, and some snacks too.
Upcoming Unity Hours:

  *   (1/24) Women's Resource Center
  *   (1/31) Chicano Student Programs
  *   (2/7) Asian Pacific Student Programs
  *   (2/14) Native American Student Programs
  *   (2/21) Middle Eastern Student Center
  *   (2/28) Undocumented Student Programs
  *   (3/6) African Student Programs
  *   (3/13) Foster Youth Support Services

T-CAMP Applications Now Open

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Apply to attend T-Camp 2024

T-Camp Retreat
April 12-14, 2024
Apply by Feb 9
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T-Camp is an intercampus retreat for transgender, nonbinary, and gender questioning college students. This year's retreat will be April 12-14, 2024. Apply online by February 9 for the opportunity to attend. If accepted to attend, the LGBTRC will cover the registration fee and provide transportation to the retreat for UCR students. Learn more about T-Camp here<https://ucr.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=51a00eada4c2f8c14841973b9&id=2ae1b77dbd&e=9f4a27df55>.

Dance 005: PERFORMANCE/VOGUE STYLES

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Vogue, Voguing, Performance, or Presentation, is a dance form that comes out of the New York City underground Black, Latinx, & Indigenous House Ballroom Scene culture of drag, runway walking, fashion, physique, and realness. Since the mid-1980’s, vogue has spread throughout the United States, and internationally to Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, Canada, Japan, France, Jamaica, Spain and Russia. Though its popularity and notoriety in popular culture ebbs and flows, it remains a treasured means of communication, empowerment, expression and unity for Queer and Transgender People of Color who steward the House Ballroom Scene’s ‘balls’ (pageantry competitions). This quarter, the course will focus on the techniques and creative arts of the Old Way Vogue, Vogue Femme, & Luscious Vogue. Vogue Femme being the most popular form of vogue, born in the 1990’s out of the Transgender Latinx Ballroom Scene children, who needed a dance style that was more feminine and less masculine than the earlier techniques of Vogue Old Way, or New Way Vogue. With Vogue Femme, we will explore the embodied knowledge kept in the techniques of vogue, to get a taste for the Trans*Latinidad deep in the kinesthesia and rhythms of the dance. With Luscious Vogue we expand the techniques from the runway and explore the range of movements from tight poses to expansive and experimental stage dance. By the review and werk of the FIVE ELEMENTS OF VOGUE, we will build our confidence and body strength, break a sweat, learn fabulous choreography, and create our own personal-expressive dance phrases to whip out whenever we feel a beat! We will have fun! We will get strong! And, we will be fabulous, darling!

SPECIFIC COURSE GOALS:
1. To learn the Voguing/Performance vocabulary and the fundamentals styles of the dance form.
2. To gain more understanding about the relationship between dance and culture: Queer and Gay
cultural history, Hip Hop, House Ballroom Scene(s), Drag Court Systems, Subcultural Life.
3. To understand and analyze more deeply the technique and symbolism involved behind each step
and vernacular phrases to gain an awareness of Ballroom protocol in both the composition and performance of dance.
4. To improve coordination, rhythmic skills, precision in movement execution and performance quality, and gain enough confident awareness to correct one’s technique as a mover.
5. To increase one’s personal and collaborative artistic growth while encompassing the importance of the techniques of voguing, and group-work/Housework as a culturally informed academic experience.

Upcoming RPYA Theatre Workshop

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Wednesdays 5-7pm : Starting January, 17, 2024

Queer Theatre: A Healing and Acting Workshop is a 4-week course where we will be exploring various acting techniques and repurposing them for our needs as queer folks. The workshop will end in a showcase where we will be presenting what we have learned to the community. Free and open to the local community, ages 18+
Here is the registration <https://ucr.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=51a00eada4c2f8c14841973b9&id=89e1dadf99&e=9f4a27df55> link<https://ucr.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=51a00eada4c2f8c14841973b9&id=13451a2b31&e=9f4a27df55>

QT Harm Reduction Group

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A peer support group for Queer and Trans undergraduate and graduate students across the UC system in/seeking recovery, practicing harm reduction, struggling with substance use or anything in between. Potential topics include moderating use, responding to triggers, exploring alternate coping strategies, identity and substance use, navigating relationships and more. All are welcome.

Please register using the form tinyurl.com/qtgroup<http://tinyurl.com/qtgroup<https://ucr.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=51a00eada4c2f8c14841973b9&id=fc1231589b&e=9f4a27df55>> to receive the Zoom link.

Aunts, aunties, and ‘tías’ offer protection to their LGBTQ youth relatives

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From UCR News:

A new research study found that aunts play a crucial role in supporting the well-being of their LGBTQ youth relatives, including preventing them from experiencing homelessness.

These findings were published in Socius, an open access journal of the American Sociological Association. The research paper, coauthored by Brandon Andrew Robinson, associate professor and chair of the University of California, Riverside’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, is based on a longitudinal study of 83 LGBTQ youth from the Inland Empire and South Texas, two geographic areas identified as understudied places in LGBTQ research.

Read the full story here:
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2023/12/29/aunts-aunties-and-tias-offer-protection-their-lgbtq-youth-relatives<https://ucr.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=51a00eada4c2f8c14841973b9&id=db05af17d0&e=9f4a27df55>

Tuesday Talks Starting Week 2

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Starting Week 2: Tuesdays 5-6pm

Tuesday Talks is a series of supportive discussion groups for UCR students. Each week the talk is based around LGBTQ+ topics based on the interests of students. We hope to see you there!

*Not available for class credit

Trans Group Starting Week 2

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The Trans Group is a supportive discussion space for transgender and nonbinary, and questioning UCR students, facilitated by LGBTRC staff. T-Group meets weekly on Thursdays in-person at 2pm.
For more information, contact nancy.tubbs at ucr.edu<mailto:nancy.tubbs at ucr.edu>.

BlaqOUT Starting Week 2

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Thursdays 4-5pm at 245 Costo Hall

The BlaqOUT Discussion Group is for same-gender-loving, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning students who identity as Black/African American or of African descent. The group offers a space to come together and discuss community and life issues as well as shared experiences. For more information, please email kade.lukiyo at ucr.edu<mailto:kade.lukiyo at ucr.edu>

Queer Cinema Nights

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Fridays 6-8pm @245 Costo Hall: Starting this Week!

Join us in the LGBT Resource Center for weekly, student led, Queer Cinema Nights! Discover classic and contemporary "movies in the closet.” Bring some snacks, make some friends, and stay for the discussion about the very best and queerest movies in the community. We begin gathering at 6:00pm in the LGBTRC Lounge.

Student Orgs Meeting

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Student orgs now Meeting:

Find Your Student Org
You can connect directly with the various student groups by sending an email via Highlander Link. Just look up the groups you are interested in reaching out to and send them an email.
Step 1 – Go to this website: https://highlanderlink.ucr.edu<https://ucr.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=51a00eada4c2f8c14841973b9&id=900bee1987&e=9f4a27df55>
Step 2 – Type in what you are looking for (“Queer” or group's name)
Step 3 – Click on the organization you want to reach
Step 4 – Click “contact” and send that organization an email

Meetings Info

Drag Club: Mondays 4-5pm
La Familia: Wednesdays 1-2pm[odd weeks only] starting week 3
Queer Alliance: Thursdays 6-7pm
Queer Trans People of Color(QTPOC): details announced via Instagram @qtpoc.ucr
Queer Grad Student Association: @The Getaway Cafe, details on highlanderlink

Winter Center Hours 2024

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Winter Center Hours:
Monday – Thursday, 9am to 7pm
Friday, 9am to 5pm

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