[Vcsa-announcements] LGBT Spring Events @ UCR

[Nancy Jean Tubbs]

The LGBT Resource Center invited you to attend the following
UCR Spring events, open to all. Learn more at http://out.ucr.edu

-- “On These Shoulders We Stand” Film Screening
-- The Coming Out Monologues 2010 - two performances
-- A Trail of Words and History: Naming Ourselves as Disabled People and
LGBT People - featuring Eli Clare
-- Breaking Through the Foundation: Gender & Performance In Southeast  
Asia
-- Allies Seminar - Join the Allies Safe Zone Program!
-- Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists,  
Immigrants,
Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
-- Pride Prom
-- "Saving Face" Film Screening & Panel
-- A Rainbow from the East: Supporting & Understanding the Needs of  
South
Asian Queer People on Campus
-- Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture featuring Dr. Jennifer D. Brody
-- Lambda Celebration

-- “On These Shoulders We Stand” Film Screening
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 6:30p.m. @ HUB 379

Too seldom told is the story of Los Angeles' rise as a mature gay
mecca, but its struggles and achievements have been many. In this
stirring documentary, 11 noteworthy gay and lesbian seniors recall the
challenges, trials and triumphs of the city's gay past. From hidden
identities, underground parties and police raids, to organization,
defiance and leadership, the details of this story reveal its sweep
and grandeur and remind us of the advancements we can't afford to take
for granted. Director Glenne McElhinney will join us for the
screening.

-- The Coming Out Monologues 2010 - two performances
Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 8p.m. @ UNLH 1000
Friday, April 16, 2010, 8p.m. @ INTN 1020
A Queer Alliance Event

Inspired by Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, UCR's The Coming Out
Monologues is a community-based theatre project celebrating the
diversity of experience and identity as a culmination to the Day of
Silence. Monologues are written and performed by members of the UCR
campus community. FREE - suggested donation of $5 supports UCR student
scholarships.

-- A Trail of Words and History: Naming Ourselves as Disabled People and
LGBT People - featuring Eli Clare
co-sponsored by the Student Disability Union
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 4:30p.m. @ HUB 367

Naming ourselves and our communities are often acts of both pride and
resistance. Join poet and activist Eli Clare in exploring the words
disabled people and LGBT people use and histories we reference in this
act of naming. Weaving stories, images, and analysis, Eli delves into
the words gimp, crip, queer, and freak and into the history of the
freak show to learn more about naming. ASL interpretation provided.

-- Breaking Through the Foundation: Gender & Performance In Southeast  
Asia
Friday, April 16, 2010, 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m. @ CHASS Interdisciplinary  
Courtyard
presented by the Department of Music and Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual
& Performance

This half-day conference includes panel presentations, beauty pageant,
and music and dance workshops.

-- Allies Seminar - Join the Allies Safe Zone Program!
Monday, May 3, 2010, 1–4 p.m. @ HUB 268
RSVP

Any student, faculty, or staff interested in joining the Allies Safe
Zone program should attend an Allies seminar. Allies is a network of
UCR students, faculty, and staff who are supportive of lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender people, and of anyone dealing with sexual
orientation or gender identity issues. Potential Allies members will
learn about LGBT issues, receive resources and referral info, interact
with a panel of LGBT students, and discuss issues of heterosexism and
privilege. After attending the seminar, participants may choose to
sign a contract promising to be a safe space, and they receive an
Allies placard sign to hang outside their office or residence hall
room. Participants must RSVP to the LGBT Resource Center, 827-2267 or
out at ucr.edu.

-- Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists,  
Immigrants,
Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
with author Stan Yogi, co-sponsored by Asian Pacific Student Programs
Thursday, May 13, 2010, 1p.m. @ HUB 355

Wherever There's a Fight captures the sweeping story of how freedom
and equality have grown in California, from the gold rush right up to
the precarious post-9/11 era. The book tells the stories of the brave
individuals who have stood up for their rights in the face of social
hostility, physical violence, economic hardship, and political
stonewalling. It connects the experiences of early Chinese immigrants
subjected to discriminatory laws to those of professionals who
challenged McCarthyism and those of people who have fought to gain
equal rights in California schools: people of color, people with
disabilities, and people standing up for their religious freedom. The
authors bring a special focus to the World War II internment of
Japanese Americans, focusing on the infamous Korematsu case, which was
foreshadowed by a century of civil liberties violations and
reverberates in more recent times—regrettably, even today in the
Patriot Act. And they follow the ongoing struggles for workers' rights
and same-sex marriage.

-- Pride Prom
A QA Youth Outreach Event
Saturday, May 15, 2010, 7:30–10:30 p.m. @ The Barn

Queer Alliance invites area high school students and members of the
LGBT and Allies campus community to Pride Prom 2010. This QA Youth
Outreach Event provides a safe space for a fabulous evening of music,
dancing, food, and fun. Dress for comfort, or dress to impress. A
professional photographer will be on site. Parents, teachers, and
allies also welcome. This is a non-alcoholic and non-smoking event.
FREE. UCR volunteers appreciated!

-- "Saving Face" Film Screening & Panel
co-sponsored by Asian Pacific Student Programs
Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 5 p.m. @ HUB 355

Saving Face is a romantic comedy that follows Wilhelmina (Michelle
Krusiec), a young Chinese American lesbian, and her traditionalist
mother (Joan Chen), who are both reluctant to go public with secret
loves that clash against cultural expectations. Wil struggles with
allocating time between her mother, who has been shunned by the
Chinese American community and thus has come to live with Wil and her
life with her girlfriend, Vivian (Lynn Chen), who she presents to her
mother as only a friend. The film screening will be followed by a LGBT
API student panel.

-- A Rainbow from the East: Supporting & Understanding the Needs of  
South
Asian Queer People on Campus
with Raja Bhattar, co-sponsored by Asian Pacific Student Programs
Wednesday, May 19, 2010, noon @ HUB 265

Queer People of Color (QPOCs) face marginalization as a result of
heterosexism and white privilege. Within this community, South-Asian
Queers (SAQs) have a unique experience due to a lack of support from
the South Asian community and absence of role models within higher
education. Come find out characteristics and issues they face in
navigating various communities. The presenter will provide survey
results and themes that emerge from a recent study conducted about SAQ
students, staff and faculty and how to support this community. This is
an Allies Brown Bag event.

-- Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture featuring Dr. Jennifer D. Brody
Presented by LGBIT Studies Minor
Monday, May 24, 2010, 4 p.m. @ Humanities 1500

Jennifer D. Brody is a Professor of African and African American
Studies at Duke University where she teaches cultural and performance
studies, gender and sexuality as well as film and literary studies.
She is the author of Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and
Victorian Culture (Duke University Press, 1998) and Punctuation: Art,
Politics and Play(Duke University Press, 2008).  She has held a
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and her research has
been supported by the Monette/Horwitz Trust for Independent Research
as well as the British Society for Theatre Research. Her work on race,
visual culture and African American Literature has appeared in
journals such as Genders, Signs, Callaloo, Theatre Journal, Text and
Performance Quarterly and numerous edited volumes. Before joining the
faculty at Duke, Prof. Brody was the Weinberg College Board of
Visitors Research and Teaching Professor at Northwestern University.
She was also the President of the Women and Theatre Program, a
division of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

-- Lambda Celebration
Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 6 p.m. @ HUB 355
RSVP

Join together with the LGBT and Allies campus community for a
celebration of our students, staff, faculty, and alumni. The evening
includes an alumni speaker, presentations of the Lambda Awards,
honoring of graduating seniors with rainbow tassels, the Significant
Others Awards, and recognition of students graduating with a Minor in
LGBIT Studies. Enjoy the vocal talents of UCR students. A buffet
dinner is provided with RSVP online by May 25.
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