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robinsoncenter · 6 years ago

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[Qsc_asuw] Week 9 Newsletter

Welcome to Week Nine! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

Gabriella Grimes is a 23 year old queer artist from New York City. Under the handle ggggrimes, their work focuses on portraying people of color, many of whom are queer. One of ggggrimes’ goals is challenging common perceptions of race, gender, and sexuality in the western world. They want their viewers to question society’s rigid views of the gender binary, and why individuals expect artists to adhere to this binary.

ggggrimes is inspired by queer predecessors and current activists to help young queer people understand that they’re valid and their existence is important. Similarly, they acknowledge the humanity of people of color in their artwork, showing them hurting, healing, and simply living happily. Buy their art here!

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday in the ECC Asian room!

The SEED Scholarship is due this Friday, March 8th!

This scholarship is open to any undocumented student who will be attending UW during the 2019-2020 academic year. The application will close on March 8th, 2019 at 11:59 PM. If you have any questions please email [email protected]

Here is the application link: http://tinyurl.com/Seedscholarship2019

MESC & SARVA #MeToo in the Middle East (Tuesday, March 5, 2019) 4 PM - 5 PM @ Husky Union Building Room 340

Join Menosh, a Clinical Social Worker, Mental Health Therapist, and the previous Director of the Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Activists. We will be having a warm and intimate discussion with other Middle Eastern and Muslim women about issues relating to #MeToo.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Event venue is mobility aid accessible, the HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible.

An all-genders restroom can be found on the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

The Husky Union Building is near landmarks such as Allen Library, Padelford and Sieg. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: http://www.washington.edu/maps/.

The HUB is not kept scent-free, but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

Alchemy Poetry featuring Ben Yisrael and Ebo Barton

(Tuesday, March 5, 2019) 7 PM - 8:00 PM @ Alchemy Poetry

1408 E Pike Street, Seattle, Washington 98122 Join us at Lovecitylove for our 5th installment of the series on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 featuring Ben Yisrael and Ebo Barton!

Alchemy is a curated performance art space that elevates voices that are often silenced. Performers in our community focus on the brilliance of storytelling by offering personal stories and reflections that are socially relevant. We are powerful artists and our space allows our audience to witness the craft at its highest form. We believe that art is a divine power to create community. $5 Admission ALL AGES Limited Showcase Mic Spots Every first, third and sometimes fifth Tuesday of the month at 7pm, we call on two featured performers and a showcase mic at Lovecitylove. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Entry door to LoveCityLove is at least 32 inches wide

Restroom is single stall.

There is a grab bar installed in this restroom, clearance measures TBD.

There are 2 couches, and 20 folding chairs available in the space. We ask that the audience prioritize folks that need to be seated during the show.

Parking is paid street parking, or there is a paid lot on the east side of the building.

We are located near bus routes 11,12, and 2 and 0.4 miles away from the Broadway and Pike Streetcar stop

Dean Spade: Fighting to Win! Critical Queer & Trans Politics in Scary Times (Tuesday, March 5, 2019) 6 PM - 7:30 PM @ Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, Washington 98402

Join us to hear Dean Spade - trans activist, writer and teacher - discuss trans liberation. For more information, please call (253) 383-2318.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: The Washington State History Museum is wheelchair accessible.

The _ Monologues Art Festival Auditions, All Art Forms Welcome! (Thursday, March 7, 2019) 12 PM - 7 PM @ ASUW Womxn's Action Commission Office AN OPEN CALL FOR STORIES, TRUTHS, AND VOICES IN ALL ART FORMS as a part of the production previously known the Vagina Monologues, which this year we proudly present as: The Monologues Art Festival!

Please go to our website to fill this form for participating in the auditions or submitting the different art forms: http://women.asuw.org/

Join us on March 7th and 8th, any time between 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm to share with the Womxn's Action Commission your spoken poetry and artistic talents, so you can be part of this year's The __ Monologues Art Festival!

About The __ Monologues Art Festival: - It will take place on April 15th, 16th and 19th at the Intellectual House, and it will consist of a production that centers the experiences of womxn, trans*, gender non-conforming and genderqueer folks through two nights of spoken poetry/Monologues, and one final night (the art festival!) where all art forms will be displayed in a gallery/show event. - The festival will also include artisan vendors from local communities! - It doesn't matter if your work is still in progress, if you have never done this before... this is a supportive space where your stories, creative processes and truths will be honored, and where you will have the chance to meet other artists and build future projects with them. About the Audition Process: The Womxn's Action Commission team members will be at our office with welcoming beverages and a supportive environment: Here, you can share with us your spoken work/monologue work, as well as share your other art forms. - We will notify you of the next steps during the following week, and schedule 101 meetings with each participant, so we can start walking through the event. - Our audition/art submission form is coming very soon! so please keep an eye on this page and submit your responses as soon as possible.

The 2nd Annual Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics @ Walker Ames Room (Kane Hall) Kane 225 Red Square (University Of Washington), Seattle, Washington 98105 (Thursday March 7, 2019) 5:30 - 8:45 PM)

The Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics is thrilled to welcome Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs to the University of Washington on Thursday, March 7, 2019. A reception will be held from 5:30-6:30 in the Walker-Ames Room in Kane Hall. From 7:00-8:15, Dr. Simpson and Dr. Gumbs will each share a short talk on poetry, poetics, and social justice, and then will be in conversation in Room 220 in Kane Hall. A book signing will follow. This lecture is hosted by the UW English Department and is made possible through the generous support of Lee Scheingold. Free and open to the public.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the intersections between politics, story and song—bringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity.

Working for over a decade as an independent scholar using Nishnaabeg intellectual practices, Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada and has twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education. She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba, is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University and faculty at the Dechinta Centre for Research & Learning in Denendeh. Leanne's books are regularly used in courses across Canada and the United States including Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back, The Gift Is in the Making, Lighting the Eighth Fire (editor), This Is An Honour Song (editor with Kiera Ladner) and The Winter We Danced (Kino-nda-niimi editorial collective). Her latest book, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance was published by the University of Minnesota Press in the fall of 2017, and was awarded Best Subsequent Book by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. https://www.leannesimpson.ca/

As an educator, Alexis Pauline Gumbs walks in the legacy of Black lady school teachers in post-slavery communities who offered sacred educational space to the intergenerational newly free in exchange for the random necessities of life. She honors the lives and creative works of Black feminist geniuses as sacred texts for all people. She believes that in the time we live in access to the intersectional, holistic brilliance of the Black feminist tradition is as crucial as learning how to read. She brings that approach to her work as the provost of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, a transmedia- enabled community school (aka tiny black feminist university) and lending library based in Durham, North Carolina.

A queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist and a prayer poet priestess, Alexis has a PhD in English, African and African-American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University. She was the first scholar to research the Audre Lorde Papers at Spelman College, the June Jordan Papers at Harvard University, and the Lucille Clifton Papers at Emory University during her dissertation research.

She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, also published by Duke University Press; coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines; and the founder and director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, an educational program based in Durham, North Carolina. Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of Gumbs's acclaimed visionary fiction short story “Evidence,” M Archive is told from the perspective of a future researcher who uncovers evidence of the conditions of late capitalism, antiblackness, and environmental crisis while examining possibilities of being that exceed the human. http://alexispauline.com

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Restrooms: The most accessible restrooms are on the basement floor.

Seating: Wheelchair seating is available at the front of each auditorium.

For mapped and numbered ADA access information: https://www.washington.edu/admin/ada/kane.php

Parking: The Central Plaza Garage (underground) is closest, has wheelchair and disability parking on all levels. Use Kane elevator #168.

Dial-A-Ride: Stop #17 is located at the ride shelter at intersection of George Washington Lane and Memorial Way, and is uphill from Kane Hall.

Winter Quarter Social Justice Film Series (Wednesday, March 6, 2019) 6:30 PM

The Kelly ECC is back with another social justice film series for winter quarter!

Each Wednesday evening at 6:30, we'll be screening a film in the main lobby! We hope to see you there!

February's Focus: Black History Month March's Focus: Women's History Month ------ FILM LINE-UP: • March 6: Ladies First • March 13: Neerja ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall.

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/maps

The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building.

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

The ECC is not kept scent-free, but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

The In-Between Tour with DANakaDAN and Mike Bow (Wednesday, March 6, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @ Hub Lyceum Seattle, Washington 98195

Ever feel like you're not Asian enough? Not American enough? Join Youtube rapper DANakaDAN and actor Mike Bow for a hip hop style concert celebrating the feeling of being stuck between two identities.

Free general admission. Interested in VIP meet and greet tickets? Email [email protected] or register for VIP tickets!

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Husky Union Building is near landmarks such as Allen Library, Padelford and Sieg. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: http://www.washington.edu/maps/.The HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible and the common area is to the right of the main desk.

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

Indigenous and Women of Color Rise (Friday, March 8 2019) 7 PM - 10 PM @ The Seattle Public Library Central Library, 1000 4th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98104

As our world burns, injustice festers around the globe. Patriarchy, racism, and capitalism are bringing us to ruin. In the face of this brutality, we need to elevate voices from the grassroots. And not just any voices. We need radical voices that take no prisoners, that speak the truth, that rip down the fantasies of the powerful and inspire us to fight like our lives depend on it.

On March 8th, 2019 (International Women's Day), an event will be held featuring two of these powerful voices: Dominique Christina, the author of four books and the only person to EVER become a two-time world champion in slam poetry, and Cherry Smiley, warrior hero, feminist activist, scholar, and artist from the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) and Diné (Navajo) nations.

The evening program will inform, educate, empower, inspire, and strengthen our spirit for the injustices we face: male violence, objectification, sexual exploitation, and racialization. Tickets are available now! ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

All Library locations, restrooms and meeting rooms are accessible with one or more accessible public computer workstations.

Designated accessible parking spaces are available at all 27 locations.

Automatic doors at all main entrances.

Elevator access to all levels, with verbal cues at each floor at the Central Library.

TTY-enabled courtesy (public) phones on Level 1 at the Central Library.

Service Animals

In compliance with the Washington State Law Against Discrimination (WLAD), the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), and the Seattle Municipal Code, service animals are welcome in all areas of the Library where members of the public are normally allowed to go.

Free, rapid HIV Testing and PrEP counseling provided by Lifelong. First come, first serve, walk-in appointments available on the last Monday of every month during Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters! Other Times Offered (All times at Q-Center from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM)

Monday, March 25

Monday, April 29

Monday, May 27

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

The HUB IS not kept scent-free but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the Q Center in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice), 206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-7264 (fax), or [email protected] preferably 10 days in advance.

Let’s Talk is a free program that connects UW students with support from experienced counselors from the Counseling Center and Hall Health Center without an appointment. Counselors hold drop-in hours at four sites on campus:

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Let’s Talk offers informal consultation – it is not a substitute for regular therapy, counseling, or psychiatric care. To learn more, visit letstalk.washington.edu. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible and the common area is to the right of the main desk.

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

The ECC has single-stall gender-neutral bathrooms on each floor, near the gender-binary bathrooms to which signs are indicated.

Odegaard Library is not ADA accessible nor scent free.

All rooms in Mary Gates Hall are wheelchair accessible. Please contact the Disability Services Office at 206.543.6450 or [email protected]. MGH is not scent free.

Thank you for being a part of our community <3 We are so glad that you are here, and we are so glad to get to know you! Have questions about the QSC? Just want to get involved? Find our office hours online at hours.asuw.org. To hear more from the QSC be sure to like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter & instagram to stay up to date with all queer and trans related happenings on campus and in Seattle! With love, Mehria Ibrahimi, Outreach & Engagement Intern.

#events #qcs #qtpoca #film #poetry

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virtuissimo · 5 years ago

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pardon me for using my blog for its intended purpose, but I’ve gota talk about my life insecurities and the pathetic reality of my ongoing existence

if ur prone to thinking badly of ppl for having social difficulties maybe dont read lol

if uv talked to me more than a few times then u kno already tbh i sound like a broken record but I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS im so fucking mad about it, why is this so hard for me???

people say that you have to go to clubs, but honestly thats realy not enough advice for me because Findng People is not the issue, in fact i have been in several places where by all means i shuold have found someone to be friends with, but even if i do force myself to talk to people and be sociable and say uuh things and even if i do succeed in being funny and likeable (which is far from the norm and my self esteem takes a huge hit every time i exit a social situation having flopped & yes i am overly judgmental of myself but the fact that i dont got friends is proof that maybe there is some truth to it) , nothing ever comes of it!

and like i know this is a pattern with me, where ill try to do something consistently for a semester and then when i see no evidence of progress i give up. same thing happened when i decided to stick to a consistent exercise routine. i didnt feel any better, i didnt look any different, my health didnt improve, my body didnt even get any stronger my bodys limit on weight and time remained the same from beginning to end, all i felt was tired, sore, and depressed. i felt a little proud of myself for having stuck to it for that long (4-5 months? honetsly an accomplishment for me) but at the first excuse i could find i broke routine and was never able to get back on.

and honestly. same thing happened with that club. i went to almost every QTPOCA community meeting for one semester, but i just! couldnt! make!! friends!! a few people talked to me i think?? one girl named Cassie who i saw once and never again..augustine talked to me and i was really happy about that...they were very friendly and i like talking to them but i dont think our personalities mesh very well for us to be close, we also dont have any real shared interests and i dont think they particularly have fun in my company.

but other than those two people, thats it.... the meetings themselves are very different from what i expected, its absolutely not an environment conducive to my very uuh specific needs.

How did i make friends before?? i had friends in high school. or at least i thought i did. i guess thats why im not still friends with most of them. i never really went out to movies or to their houses or to get lunch or even had most of their phone numbers, & even those whose # i do have i never really USED them. maybe its cuz i didnt get a phone until high school. maybe its cuz my parents are workaholics AND overprotective and made it too much of a hassle to ask permission to go everwhere. maybe people only rly liked me for school work purposes. maybe im just too obedient and never snuck out. maybe im just too close to my sister and never felt the need for social interaction outside of school because i had her. maybe im just making a whole lot of excuses for what ultimately is an inability to interact with other people.

& its not like im not good at talking. im pretty quick and uuh quippy ig like i can say some off the wall shit, that just all goes out the window when im talking to strangers. idk. i can make phonecalls now, but only if i script out what im going to say in writing bcause even if i mentally script, by the time the other person picks up the phone my mind just goes blank.

i think its a part of my horrible personality maybe. like maybe i can only be in my element when i feel like i have power. my small high school & my ugly superiority complex made it easier for me to think of myself as better than p much all my peers maybe? but maybe its not that easy to do that in college since EVERYONE here got to college somehow (despite some of them actualy being dumb as fuck)? maybe?? idk if thats the case i gota change that personality quick cuz thats no way to live life. just the way im talking about it now makes it seem like maybe its not that but idk i think in actuality im a lot more egotistical than i come across as. which may or may not be saying something idk self awareness is hard.

probably also got something to do with the fact that i moved to texas away from the rest of my family & my parents work too much to make rfriends ot their own (and neither of my parents are very social people to begin with) so i never had adult social interactions modeled for me in a way that integrates friendships into ones life. thats probably just an excuse tho.

anyways. im really sick of not fitting in anywhere. im sick of not knowing anyone. im sick of being lonely all the time and feeling unlovable . and iv got like 2 friends on the internet that i rly talk to but we all know it aint the same & the MOMENT theyve busy i feel soooo fuckin lonelyyyyy

also FUCK another thing is that i am no ones priority, that shit SUCKS idk if im emotionally built for casual friendships cuz i care about all my friends so fucking much...i dont even gota be a best friend i just gota be ...important to someone lmfao maybe thast too much to ask fori know im just 21 but it rly feels like everyone already has their friends and thats that, and the worst part is that i could have made friends but i wasted all of college uuuh idk doing school or whatever LMFAO ok but other ppl can figure out how to have an active social life while doing decent in school why couldnt i do that...

whatever. if i die alone i die alone , nothin to be done about that. just gota put my best foot forward i guess. maybe learn to settle a little more. put more effort into things that arent worth it because id rather have something rancid than nothing at all.

#IM FRUSTRATED AS FUUUUUCK

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emcery · 6 years ago

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Today was such a long day. I wish someone was holding me rn even if for a short while. I want to feel warmth, especially bc of all the coldness I encountered today. I am tired of being obligated to be around people who clearly do not like me. I am tired of feeling inadequate and unworthy of love (even though I know those things aren’t true). I’m really trying my best to be around better people but I feel stuck.

I’m crying now god damn. I am bursting with so much hope but I’m scared I’ll be let down. Also my mom keeps calling me to tell me I’m not doing anything (my relationship, my academics, my fucking cooking) right and it’s another blow to my self esteem.

I know in my heart that I will be okay after this semester. I will find genuine friends (even if I don’t get into a spirit group- i have FSA and QTPOCA). I will fall deeply in love. I will get fit & healthy again. I will be okay

#mn

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queer-filam-artivism · 11 years ago

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Generic Ensemble Company seeks support for the world premier of its devised immersive performance piece, WHAT'S GOIN' ON? at The VORTEX from May 16-31.

For over a year now I've been collaborating with an ensemble of QTPOCA to create this weird, challenging, and radical performance piece called What's Goin' On?. We're having an IndieGogo campaign so we can pay ourselves and the collaborators because capitalism is real and this is a lot of unpaid labor!

So please, if you can, donate whatever possible to our ensemble (and if you cant donate please signal boost and reblog). Support radical QTPOCA art making because pretty much no one else will!

I know that labrujamorgan and I would appreciate it!

#QTPOCA #What's Goin' On?#Generic Ensemble Company #labrujamorgan

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robinsoncenter · 6 years ago

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[Qsc_asuw] SPRING! Newsletter Week 8

Welcome to Week 8! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

Peo Mitchie

Employable Femme WOC Animator, Illustrator, and Zine Artist.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday, location TBD!

LAVISH QTPOC Art Showcase (Tuesday, May 21, 2019) 6:30 PM - 9 PM @ Ethnic Cultural Theater 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

Lavish is a multi-arts showcase opportunity centering Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPoC). We will provide a platform for UW students to receive mentorship (by way of building a sustained relationship with a teaching artist) and community building among QTPoCs and artists on campus and in the greater Seattle community.

There are many ways to participate in the showcase. Opportunities include (but are not limited to): emcees/MC, deejays/DJ, performance artists, fine artists, spoken word, poetry, musicians, dramaturge, stage managers, community organizers, and more.

The showcase is student-driven and its final form will be created organically among the participating artists. Lavish centers artists who identify as QTPoC. White allies/accomplices are also welcome to participate. Artists of any experience level are enthusiastically invited to participate in this low stakes/high support experience.

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theatre is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/map

The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

The ECT is not kept scent-free, but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

From Palestine to Mexico, All the Walls Have Got to Go! (Monday, May 20, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @ Southside Commons 3518 S Edmunds St, Seattle, Washington 98118 These days, the headlines are filled with Trump's proposal for a border wall, news about brutal family separation policies and baby jails at the border, police murdering Black people in the US, Islamophobic attacks, accusations that Congresswoman Omar is "anti-semitic" because of her criticism of US foreign policy in Israel, and anti-boycott legislation at the federal and state levels. How are all these things connected? What does it mean to build a powerful movement for change that connects these issues and wins change that actually reduces the harms of systems of policing, imprisonment, border enforcement, and colonial dispossession? Join us for a conversation between Maru Mora Villalpando and Nada Elia

Maru is the community organizer at the forefront of work aiming to close the Northwest Detention Center. She has been targeted by the Trump administration for deportation based on her activism and works to build a radical, visionary, border and prison abolitionist migrant justice grassroots movement in our region and nationally. Nada Elia is a diaspora Palestinian writer, organizer, and teacher who was one of the first activists to work to expose how US law enforcement trains with the Israeli military and to build coalitional feminist work to oppose it. Maru and Nada will be talking about the overlapping and interconnected law enforcement technologies being used to target migrants to the US, US communities of color, and Palestinians, and exploring how we build internationalist anti-law enforcement and anti-military resistance. This event aims to strengthen all our imaginations and strategies for building safety through solidarity, not law enforcement.

- Image by Catherina Horan, on Instagram at @fernfemmeart. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Southside commons is wheelchair accessible and has two parking spots for people with disabilities.

Scent-free soaps will be provided in the bathrooms and we are currently working to find out what is usually used in the space and to what degree it leaves chemicals and fragrances in the space.

Gender neutral bathrooms are available.

The light rail to the Mount Baker stop, and several busses, stop nearby.

If you have any questions about accessibility please email [email protected].

My Own Precious Life: A Poetry as Therapy Workshop

(Tuesday, May 21, 2019) 6:30 - 8 PM @ The Hillman City Collaboratory 5623 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, Washington 98118

This 90-minute workshop is open to anyone living with a mental health condition. Explore your recovery by responding to poetry with writing or art. Writing is not only calming but is often an adventure of discovery. Come adventure with us! Any level of writing experience is welcome. Refreshments will be provided.

About the instructor: Naomi has a Master’s in Counseling and has worked in community mental health as a clinical intake specialist as well as a peer support specialist. One of her greatest joys is getting to companion people in poetry as therapy.

Workshop is free but space is limited; please email [email protected] or call 206-789-7722 to reserve your spot.

Education of Queer History (Tuesday, May 21, 2019) 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM @ Kane Hall Matthew Riemer, co-creator of Instagram's @lgbt_history and co-author of "We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation", uses imagery and anecdotes culled from years of research to draw connections between the struggles and triumphs of the queer past and present with an eye toward a more liberated future. Come learn about this more from Matthew himself May 21st in Kane 120!

Voices for Nicaragua

(Wednesday, May 22, 2019) 5:30 PM - 7 PM @ Grieg Garden Seattle, Washington 98195

Join us on May 22nd for an evening of poetry, dance, painting and more! This is a space for students to share their voices through art and raise awareness of the political prisoners in Nicaragua who are deprived of this right.

We will also be celebrating Mother's Day by writing cards to send to mothers in Nicaragua who have been affected by these tragic events.

Please contact us if you are interested in sharing your art at this event!

Away from the White Gaze: A Workshop for Anti-Racist Activists of Color (Thursday, May 23, 2019) 3 PM - 5 PM @ El Centro De La Raza 2524 16th Avenue South Room 311, Seattle, Washington 98144

Capacity is limited. Priority for NPARC members. Questions about membership? Contact [email protected].

Please note that this workshop is for black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) only. White allies, thank you for understanding the need for this BIPOC only space, a rare but needed space in our society (and especially in Seattle's non-profit sector). For white folks that have questions, please contact [email protected].

DARK AT DUSK - The Final Suicide (Friday, May 24, 2019) 7 PM - 9PM @ Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center 517 E Pike St, Seattle, Washington 98122 Nic Masangkay Presents... DARK AT DUSK - The Final Suicide

After a medication overdose, our protagonist lays unconscious at a Seattle hospital. Piecing together their past via music, film, and spoken word poetry, we retrace what led Them to suicide - perhaps They aren’t the true killer. Find out if They live to tell Their own story: May 2019.

Cast and Team: Brian is Ze Falon Sierra Guayaba Moonyeka Lourdez Velasco Son the Rhemic Queerbigan Vanna Zaragoza Zora Seboulisa

Help compensate this talented team at http://www.patreon.com/nicmasangkay.

More information on the album and show at http://www.nicmasangkay.com/dark-at-dusk.

Project made possible in part by Jack Straw Cultural Center's Artist Support Program.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Calamus Auditorium at Gay City is ADA accessible & minimally scented.

There are two single-stall all-gender restrooms.

There will be scent free soap in the restrooms. More info: gaycity.org/access

Celebration of Our Nations (Saturday, May 25, 2019) 10 AM - 6 PM @ wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Intellectual House

Come join us to celebrate our indigeneity with cultural dancing, stickgame, amazing food, language learning, and various indigenous arts & crafts.

If you are interested in volunteering, teaching, sharing knowledge or have any questions feel free to email us at [email protected].

Food: First Nations is pleased to offer an Elder's brunch, complimentary dinner, and snacks to fuel our community celebration.

Arts & Crafts: We will have various workshops including weaving (bear grass braids/cedar mats), beading (brick stitch earrings and mirror earrings). These stations are designed for all abilities, whether they have no experience or are experts.

There will also be a kids table where children can draw on formline design coloring sheets, play with pony beads, and learn basic weaving techniques.

Language Tables & Workshops: Learn Lushootseed phrases and how to do a proper land acknowledgment. We will also be playing Lushootseed bingo and giving out small prizes to those who remember the most words/phrases.

Stickgame: Learn how to play stick game with us, there will be opportunities to learn some new songs and win prizes. So please come out and take advantage of the chance to play a traditional strategy game.

(NO MONETARY GAMBLING, MATERIALS GAME ONLY)

Cultural Dancing: As for the dance portion we will be having powwow style dancing along with intertribal and various cultural dances for the whole community to take part in. We will also be having our Miss and Jr Miss First Nations royalty contest.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Intellectual House is wheelchair accessible into the building and Gathering Hall, there is accessible parking right next to the building. For accommodations, please contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450, or [email protected].

Ringside Revolutionary Poets at Folklife (Saturday, May 25, 2019) 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM @ Cornish Playhouse At Seattle Center 201 Mercer St, Seattle, Washington 98109

Catch the Ringside Revolutionary Poets, Dj Rise and your hosts Momma Nikki and Nikkita "KO" Oliver at the annual Northwest Folklife Festival!

ASC goes to PRIDE ASIA FEST 2019 (Sunday, May 26, 2019) 11:30 AM - 6 PM

Join the Asian Student Commission as we celebrate the wonderful intersections of being LGBTQIA+ and Asian! Feel free to bring along friends or come alone, everyone will be welcomed!

We will be gathering at the HUB Main Entrance at 11:30am and light railing down to the International District together (Please bring your Husky ID or some form of payment). People are also welcome to meet us at the event! Feel free to join in or exit at any point of the event :)

If you have any questions feel free to message our page or contact Erica (ASC Political Intern)! Visit the Official PRIDE ASIA FEST event page for the event schedule and more info! https://www.facebook.com/events/398070087671345/

FASA sa UW presents: Filipino Night 2019 (Saturday, May 25, 2019) 5 - 9 PM @ Kane Hall 1410 NE Campus Parkway, Seattle, Washington 98105 WHAT IS FILIPINO NIGHT?

Filipino Night is FASA sa UW's annual flagship event and cultural show. It is a show directed and produced by students, for the greater Seattle and UW community. Bringing in an audience of over 600 people each year, Filipino Night showcases Filipinx/Filipinx American narratives and culture through artistic expression.

Doors open: 5:00 PM Show begins: 6:00 PM EVENTBRITE LINK TO BUY TICKETS : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/filipino-night-2019-identity-defyned-tickets-60321084989?fbclid=IwAR29T2xOoPn-keE7SoysXJaz_O5zZhQQhC6wS_pf9Xd-krcRFz8tVuDMpNY Students: $7 General: $10 @ Door: $15 ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Kane Hall’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. Binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on the second floor.

Parking in the garage under Kane Hall is free during the time of this event.

WHAT IS THIS YEAR'S FILIPINO NIGHT?

Five students at UW – Alex, Emmy, Max, Reyna, and Wil – are as different from each other as could be. When a Filipino American studies class brings them together, they must work with each other amidst personal troubles, the challenges of friendship, and family struggles. Will the five of them be able to learn how to understand each other and, more importantly, how to understand themselves? Or will their differences and difficulties prove too great for them to overcome? Identity Defyned will explore the ever-changing perceptions and definitions of identity and address a question pondered by many – “What does it mean to be Filipino?”

Further questions? Email us at []!

Further questions? Email us at [[email protected]]!

ASUW SARVA Presents: Love+

(Thursday, May 30, 2019) 2 PM - 3:30 PM @ ECC Unity Room 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

We're so excited for our last event of the year! SARVA is celebrating Pride by teaming up with the NW Network to host a Love+ workshop about consent, boundaries, and healthy relationships in the LGTBQ+ community. Come grab some free glitter, stickers, and temporary tattoos :)

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall.

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the ECC, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

Queer LiberAsian: A Celebration of Queer Asian Excellence (Saturday, June 1, 2019) 7-9 PM @ Ethnic Cultural Theater 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

Tickets at: bit.ly/QueerAsian $5 for UW students w/ valid ID | $7 General ALL TICKET PROCEEDS GO TO Official Pride ASIA!

Queer LiberAsian is a performing arts showcase of Queer Asian excellence. Queer visibility and Asian visibility have both reached ground breaking high points in recent media. However, the excellence of when Queer and Asian identity intersects has yet to reach the visibility it deserves. Join me for a night of celebrating Queer Asian excellence, expression, and liberation!

SPECIAL GUESTS: Aleksa Manila Kylie Mooncakes (Mikey Xi) Atasha Manila Dawson Dang Kince de Vera Arnaldo Drag Chanteuse Mika Magbanua Rylee Raw Noona Rowan Ruthless Andre Menchavez

Transgender & Gender Diverse Support & Social Group @ U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle 205 E. Meeker St. Kent, Washington 98032

[trans] ACTION is a support/social group for sex workers that is held every first Wednesday of every month. It is an opportunity that provides sex workers a safe space to engage in topical discussions relating to their life and/or work. This gathering is open to transgender and gender diverse sex workers with current or past experience in the sex trade.

Upcoming Dates :

Wed June 12 (6-8pm)

Discussions include topics such as:

*Safety and self- care

*Decriminalization and Destigmatization of sex work

*Know your rights training

*Legal assistance

*Employment & housing

[trans] ACTION promotes and values confidentiality regarding interactions within the group.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The undisclosed location has ample parking, all-gender and ADA-accessible restroom. Come and build community with us! For more information please email Ara-lei at [email protected].

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Let’s Talk offers informal consultation – it is not a substitute for regular therapy, counseling, or psychiatric care. To learn more, visit letstalk.washington.edu. The HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible and the common area is to the right of the main desk. An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB. The HUB IS not kept scent-free but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the Q Center in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

Find Out More

#events #qsc #qtpoca

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[Qsc_asuw] SPRING! Newsletter Week 7

Welcome to Week 7! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

AYIRANI BALACHANTHIRAN

NYC based visual artist.

We are in the process of securing CART captioning for the event.

The HUB front entrance is wheelchair accessible.

The HUB Lyceum is located on the first floor, to the right of the entrance. It is a reception space, with overhead and natural lighting. There are large windows on the right side wall of the Lyceum.

All gender restrooms will be available on the first floor of the HUB on the night of the event. There is also an all gender restroom on the third floor of the HUB.

The HUB is not kept scent-free but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the HUB in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity. We will have baking soda and scent free soap available if folks are asked to wash off scents.

For more information about MCS and being fragrance-free:

http://billierain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Myths-and-Facts-About-Chemical-Sensitivity.pdf

To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail [email protected].

If you have questions, concerns or accessibility details that were not addressed here email [email protected]!

All updates concerning the event and its accessibility will be posted here.

Directions - The HUB is near landmarks such as Mary Gates Hall and Drumheller Fountain. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps:http://www.washington.edu/maps/ - University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html - Driving directions can be found at: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Husky+Union+Building/@47.655762,-122.3076257,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x5490148d64534c71:0xc91793fd02335246 - The Central Plaza Parking Garage is the largest parking lot to the close to the HUB. Accessible parking is available in the lot located next to the HUB. Additional information can be found at: https://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/park - There is also potential street parking surrounding the campus, on 15th Ave, University Way, and Brooklyn Ave.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday, location TBD!

LAVISH QTPOC Art Showcase (Tuesday, May 21, 2019) 6:30 PM - 9 PM @ Ethnic Cultural Theater 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theatre is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/map

The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

#whoisboeingbombing INFO SESSION

(Thursday, May 10, 2019) 6 - 9 PM @ Washington State Labor Council 321 16th Ave S., Seattle, Washington 98144

Boeing is currently profiting from mass deportation, imperialist war manufacturing, worker exploitation, and environmental devastation. It is long overdue that we hold them accountable for their anti-people actions across the earth as well as here in Seattle especially given the massive tax subsidies they are given by our local government.

We are excited to present the critical information we have discovered regarding the manufacturing of Boeing war machines in the Pacific Northwest and their deployment abroad. We want to hear from you: why does this campaign matter to you? What ideas do you have for strategies and tactics which could garner mass support and actually stop war production, deportation, etc?

* Educational presentation * Performances * Panel - why this campaign matters for various struggles * Break out discussions on campaign next steps This campaign launch event will be action oriented. We hope to gain the commitment of campaign partners who will work with us in the capacity they are able to make this successful! There will be much hard work in confronting a giant such as Boeing, but history has shown us that with sufficient dedication and creativity, regular people can win against multinational corporations. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

WA State Labor Council has wheelchair accessible ramp into main building and wide doors for entry, building may have some scents from cleaning supplies but we advise participants to come scent free. children and families are welcome. Please let us know if you have particular access needs that we can accommodate.

Artist Lecture: Ariella Tai (Friday, May 17, 2019) 7-8 PM @ Wa Na Wari 911 24th ave, Seattle, Washington 98122 Artist Lecture: Ariella Tai Tai will be discussing their three videos currently screening at Wa Na Wari-- “hold me,” “adore” and “i just.” They will be talking about their research and video work exploring possibilities of black agency, interiority, pleasure and refusal and exploring the cinematic as space where alternative social arrangements of blackness can be revealed. Bio: Ariella Tai is a video artist, film scholar, and independent programmer from Queens, New York. They work with appropriated and re-purposed images from film, television and popular media to explore how black gesture, gaze and corporeality work to interrupt, subvert and defy the diegetic cohesiveness of narrative. Excerpt of “I’m yours.” https://vimeo.com/287777532

Transgender & Gender Diverse Support & Social Group @ U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle 205 E. Meeker St. Kent, Washington 98032

Discussions include topics such as:

*Safety and self- care

*Decriminalization and Destigmatization of sex work

*Know your rights training

*Legal assistance

*Employment & housing

[trans] ACTION promotes and values confidentiality regarding interactions within the group.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The undisclosed location has ample parking, all-gender and ADA-accessible restroom. Come and build community with us! For more information please email Ara-lei at [email protected]

Upcoming Dates :

Wed June 12 (6-8pm)

Seattle Launch: Tongue-Breaker (Tuesday, May 14, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @ Third Place Books Seward Park 5041 Wilson Ave S, Seattle, Washington 98118 Seattle family, please come celebrate the New York launch of writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's latest book of poetry, Tonguebreaker.

Tonguebreaker is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through your beloved's neighbourhood in Queens. Building on LLPS' groundbreaking work in Bodymap, Tonguebreaker is an unmitigated force of disabled queer-of-colour nature, narrating disabled femme-of-colour moments on the pulloff of the 80 in West Oakland, the street, and the bed. Tonguebreaker dreams unafraid femme futures where we live -- a ritual for our collective continued survival.

about the weirdo who wrote the poems: LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a queer disabled femme writer, cultural worker and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. They are the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (short-listed for the Lambda and Publishing Triangle Awards, ALA Above the Rainbow List), Bodymap (short listed for the Publishing Triangle Award) ,Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner), and Consensual Genocide, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. Their next book, Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies From the Transformative Justice Movement (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon) is forthcoming in 2020. A lead artist with Sins Invalid, her writing has been widely published, with recent work in PBS Newshour, Poets.org's Poetry and the Body folio, The Deaf Poets Society, Bitch, Self, TruthOut and The Body is Not an Apology. She is a VONA Fellow and holds an MFA from Mills College. She is also a rust belt poet, a Sri Lankan with a white mom, a femme over 40, a grassroots intellectual, a survivor who is hard to kill. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: wheelchair accessible including bathrooms, armless chairs available, coffee tea and snacks for sale, please come fragrance-free. Free. Bring your kids.

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Find Out More

#qsc #qtpoca #events

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[Qsc_asuw] SPRING! Newsletter Week 6

Welcome to Week 6! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

YallaRoza

YallaRoza is a queer, Muslim artist of colour who is currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto (Dish with One Spoon Territory). Her art centres qtpoc and explores themes of radical self-love, collective care and healing.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday, location TBD!

LAVISH QTPOC Art Showcase (Tuesday, May 21, 2019) 6:30 PM - 9 PM @ Ethnic Cultural Theater 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theatre is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/map

The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

Legendary Children

(Friday, May 10, 2019) 8 - 11 PM @ Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, Washington 98101

Legendary Children is an all-ages celebration of house and ball culture and queer and transgender Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) communities. Optional RSVP is encouraged.

Celebrate Legendary Children on May 10! Our May edition celebrates Indigenous Sovereignty and house-and-ball culture, along with our broader QTPOC (Queer and Trans) communities. Legendary Children is where arts and social justice get real, with QTPOC voices ringing loud and clear.

Enjoy fab in-gallery performances, hot DJs, and the sublime artistry of the Pacific Northwest's house-and-ball performers and premier drag royalty (kings, queens, and the crowns in between). Come for the art, stay for the public runway. Plus, don’t miss the SAM special exhibition "Like a Hammer" by Jeffrey Gibson and a deluxe Seattle Public Library reading station focused on trans and queer BIPOC authors.

This event is all ages, but must be 21+ and have ID to drink. Legendary Children is made possible with generous support from The Seattle Public Library Foundation and the Seattle Art Museum. Co-presented with: Indigenize Productions Somos Seattle Official Pride ASIA Q Center at the University of Washington festival:festival 2019 Hyena Culture Photo credit Meagan Mishra (photographer) Erik Warren (HMUA)

The Luxurious "No" (Friday, May 10, 2019) 1- 3 PM @ Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

In the Chicano Room!

Join us for an afternoon of saying "no" with Seattle civic Poet Anastacia- Reneé Tolbert!

Here's her website: https://www.anastacia-renee.com/ Please RSVP At this link! https://tinyurl.com/ARTPoetWS Our planning committee is composed of Indigenous women who represent interdisciplinary academic fields of study and philanthropy in the Northwest Coast; women who are committed to Indigenous food sovereignty and environmental justice, and whose lived and scholarly experiences, personal passions, and academic research are firmly grounded in their homelands and communities. We volunteer our time to host this annual community-driven event as we recognize the need to come together in dialogue and action as we build collaborative networks to sustain our Indigenous food practices and preserve our healthy relationships to the land, water, and all living things. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theatre is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/maps The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building. There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls. The ECT is not kept scent-free, but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity. University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

Black Radical Imagination: Fugitive Trajectories (Saturday, May 11, 2019) 1-3 PM @ Frye Art Museum Auditorium 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, Washington 98104

Black Radical Imagination: Fugitive Trajectories is a film showcase programmed by Jheanelle Brown and Darol Olu Kae, originally co-founded by Erin Christovale and Amir George.

Black Radical Imagination is an international touring program of experimental short films emphasizing new stories from within the African diaspora. The series builds on afro futurist, afro surrealist, and magical realist aesthetics to interrogate identity in the context of cinema. Black Radical Imagination has screened in museums, art spaces, and film festivals, most notably MCA Chicago, MoMA PS1, Black Star Film Festival, and articule in Montréal.

This year’s showcase, FUGITIVE TRAJECTORIES meditates on the ways black people tend to the complexities of our lives while forced to move within, through, and around structuring narratives of power, violence, confinement, and trauma—thereby negotiating how the multi-dimensionality of diasporic blackness is understood in relationship to prevailing notions of death, resistance, and freedom. The films featured in this program explore concepts of grief, kinship, an idealized homeland, and the dynamism of blackness and black culture.

FILMS Garden by Alima Lee 2017, 5 minutes Garden focuses on black women's healing and daily rituals in order to overcome anxiety & depression on a daily basis. Our protagonist struggles, yet persists to honor herself by accomplishing tasks that seem mundane but are essential for her survival. Clean Water by Kamau Wainaina 2017, 7 minutes In a three-part visual soliloquy, Wainaina outlines his ideological journey: immigrating from Kenya to England, and finally New York. Beginning from his parent’s earliest fears and hopes of what life in "the West" would bring to where he is now, Wainaina explores how he sees the world, how others see him, and the ways in which the two perspectives interact with each other in contemporary global society, portraying a cognitive journey that he believes many African immigrants experience in their own ways. Fluid Frontiers by Ephraim Asili 2017, 23 minutes The fifth and final film in an ongoing series of films exploring Asili’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation exemplified by the Underground Railroad, Broadside Press, and works by local Detroit artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications by natives of the Detroit Windsor region and were shot without rehearsal. Mugabo by Amelia Umuhire 2016, 7 minutes A short experimental film about a young girl's return to the idealized homeland, a place full of borrowed memories. Rebirth is Necessary by Jenn Nkiru 2017, 10 minutes This film explores the magic and dynamism of Blackness in a realm where time and space are altered. The now, the past, and the future are rethought and reordered to create something soulful and mind-bendingly visceral. Unfolding through the gaze of Jenn Nkiru, it is an audio-visual feast, which pulls on broad yet unique sound and visual references to push the story forward. The soundtrack features music and sounds from James Baldwin, Sun Ra, Chance the Rapper, Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment, Rotary Connection, Pharaoh Sanders, and Shafiq Husayn. It also includes quotes and moments from Alice Coltrane, Audre Lorde, Kwame Nkrumah, Sun Ra, and James Baldwin. Under Bone by dana washington 2017, 5 minutes A narrated experimental drama featuring ethereal vignettes linked by a woman’s devotion, grief, and ancestral evocation, as she traverses stories beneath her rib cage. --- REGISTRATION Tickets to this program are free of charge, and our seating capacity is limited. Free tickets, limit 2 per person, may be reserved in advance, up to two days before the program. The reserved tickets may be picked up on the day of the program at the desk in the foyer outside the auditorium. There is no late seating, so please arrive at least 15 minutes early. All unclaimed tickets (regardless of reservations) will be released to standby 10 minutes before the program! TICKETING On the day of the program, pre-registered and standby tickets will be available at the desk in the foyer outside the auditorium. Tickets for Members may be picked up beginning one hour before the program. Pre-registered tickets for nonmembers may be picked up beginning 30 minutes before the program. All unclaimed tickets (regardless of reservations) will be released to standby 10 minutes before the program.

Collective Liberation Workshop (Thursday, May 9) 6:30 - 7:30 PM @ Q Center Broadening Our Vision: Collective Liberation through Black & Arab Solidarity Presented by Anisa Jackson and Alia Taqieddin Poster Design: Eli Kahn Please consider completing the following form as an RSVP: https://forms.gle/KGQyDGDd5Y85agy88 The purpose of this workshop is to explore collective liberation through constructions of the “other”. We will discuss overlapping struggles against white supremacy and western imperialism, while reframing our conceptions of solidarity away from shared lenses informed by oppression and towards shared lenses informed by liberation. What systems and institutions today make it important to use a multi-issue approach to organizing? How can we consider the similarities and unique distinctions between Orientalism & AntiBlackness as tools to bridge gaps between organizers and imagine a shared future? How do we draw on contemporary examples of Black and Arab solidarity to move beyond theorizing into action-based, collective organizing? Alia Taqieddin is a Seattle-based organizer of mixed Arab descent. She graduated in 2018 with her degree in Community Health and an interdisciplinary concentration in Critical Arab Diaspora Studies at WWU. Alia co-founded her campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. She has also worked with SWANA-LA, an anti-imperialist collective that aims to raise political consciousness and advocate for the self-determination of all people from the Southwest Asian and North African regions and their diasporas. Her work can be found in various conferences in Bellingham, Seattle, and Los Angeles, as course syllabi, and in publications including Jaffat El Aqlam and Mondoweiss. Alia currently works at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project as a legal advocate for immigrants facing detention. She continues to build a critical conciousness around abolition, drawing from Women of Color feminist thought and the stories and imaginations of her cousins, and aunts and grandmother in historical Bilad al Sham. Anisa Jackson is an artist, writer, and organizer of South Asian and Afro-Caribbean descent based in Seattle. With a background in geography, Anisa’s research-based practice draws on care ethics and black feminist thought. Their work has appeared as installation, moving image, and as print and digital text. They are the project manger of #BecauseWeveRead, a radical international book club with over 30 chapters internationally; and facilitator for miXed, a zine collective which centers the experiences of multi-racial, multi-ethnic, trans-racially adopted folx and those who hold a multitude of identities. Anisa graduated from the University of Washington in 2015 where their research explored relational poverty knowledge and geographies of embodiments, and they will be starting a doctoral program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU in the fall of 2019. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Husky Union Building is near landmarks such as Allen Library, Padelford and Sieg.

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps:http://www.washington.edu/maps/

The HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible and the common area is to the right of the main desk.

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

ASUW QSC 17th Annual DRAG SHOW (Thursday, May 16, 2019) 7:30 PM - 10 PM @ HUB Lyceum The ASUW Queer Student Commission is proud to present this year's ASUW QSC Drag Show! This historic event is a showcase of student and local drag performers from the UW and Seattle community. featuring a queer student art market! if you are interested in vending art, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7opdkIGeiGSOXGTaBeUi1o3M94H6NqYqSG1eIDKWsIp4MkA/viewform?usp=sf_link Directions - The HUB is near landmarks such as Mary Gates Hall and Drumheller Fountain. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps:http://www.washington.edu/maps/ - University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html - Driving directions can be found at: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Husky+Union+Building/@47.655762,-122.3076257,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x5490148d64534c71:0xc91793fd02335246 - The Central Plaza Parking Garage is the largest parking lot to the close to the HUB. Accessible parking is available in the lot located next to the HUB. Additional information can be found at: https://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/park - There is also potential street parking surrounding the campus, on 15th Ave, University Way, and Brooklyn Ave. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

We are in the process of securing CART captioning for the event.

The HUB front entrance is wheelchair accessible.

The HUB Lyceum is located on the first floor, to the right of the entrance. It is a reception space, with overhead and natural lighting. There are large windows on the right side wall of the Lyceum.

All gender restrooms will be available on the first floor of the HUB on the night of the event. There is also an all gender restroom on the third floor of the HUB.

For more information about MCS and being fragrance-free:

http://billierain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Myths-and-Facts-About-Chemical-Sensitivity.pdf

To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail [email protected].

If you have questions, concerns or accessibility details that were not addressed here email [email protected]!

All updates concerning the event and its accessibility will be posted here.

Gathering Our Matriarchs - Addressing Our MMIWG (Sunday, May 12, 2019) 12 PM - 8 PM @ Peace Arch Park 19 A St, Blaine, Washington 98230

Come and join us on Mother's Day and help honor our Matriarchs. With our growing awareness of our Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. We want to Decolonize our people and bring them together. We want our Indigenous Women to come together and help resolve some of our issues that are facing our people yesterday, today, and tomorrow. - Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Washington will be walking from Olympia WA beginning May 5, 2019 during the National Day of Awareness for our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. They will arrive to the PeaceArch Mother's Day. We encourage other organizers to Walk, Run, or March and join us! - Potluck Salmon Dinner will be served. Share your favorite food and drink. Bring your Matriarchs, your medicines, songs, your drum, your rattles, and prayers. *Drug and alcohol-free event *We are not responsible for injury, theft, or stolen items.

Transgender & Gender Diverse Support & Social Group (Wednesday, May 8, 2019) 6-8 PM @ U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle 205 E. Meeker St. Kent, Washington 98032

Discussions include topics such as:

*Safety and self- care

*Decriminalization and Destigmatization of sex work

*Know your rights training

*Legal assistance

*Employment & housing

[trans] ACTION promotes and values confidentiality regarding interactions within the group.

The undisclosed location has ample parking, all-gender and ADA-accessible restroom. Come and build community with us! For more information please email Ara-lei at [email protected] Upcoming Dates :

Wed May 8 (6-8pm)

Wed June 12 (6-8pm)

DARK AT DUSK - The Final Suicide (Friday, May 10, 2019) 7 PM -10 PM @ Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center 517 E Pike St, Seattle, Washington 98122 Nic Masangkay Presents... DARK AT DUSK - The Final Suicide

Cast and Team: Brian is Ze Falon Sierra Guayaba Moonyeka Lourdez Velasco Son the Rhemic Queerbigan Vanna Zaragoza Zora Seboulisa

Help compensate this talented team at http://www.patreon.com/nicmasangkay.

More information on the album and show at http://www.nicmasangkay.com/dark-at-dusk.

Project made possible in part by Jack Straw Cultural Center's Artist Support Program.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Calamus Auditorium at Gay City is ADA accessible & minimally scented.

There are two single-stall all-gender restrooms.

There will be scent free soap in the restrooms. More info: gaycity.org/access

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Find Out More

#events #qsc #qtpoca

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[Qsc_asuw] SPRING! Newsletter Week 5

Welcome to Week 5! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

Rudy Loewe

Rudy Loewe is a visual artist utilising drawing, painting and printmaking as a means of building narrative and contributing to dialogues on social themes. They work with large scale, sometimes directly onto surfaces that then ensure their temporality; as well as small scale in forms such as publications.

The work itself is bright and colourful, referencing aesthetics from the Afro Caribbean diaspora. It also represents different kinds of bodies, highlighting differing races; non conforming genders; sexualities; classes and (dis)ability. Rudy makes the work that reflects the narratives they would like to see in the world, the histories that are not getting the visibility or care that they deserve.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday, location TBD!

LAVISH QTPOC Art Showcase (Tuesday, May 21, 2019) 6:30 PM - 9 PM @ Ethnic Cultural Theater 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

Please consider filling out the following form if you are interested in participating at Lavish: https://forms.gle/dq7TMqV8YQAfvtu2A We will host an Informational Session on May 3, 2019, 3:00PM at the Q Center (HUB 315). Note: Prospective performers may submit their application using this form or in person at the informational session. Questions? Please contact Juan Franco or Jaimée Marsh @ the Q Center: [email protected] or 206-897-1430. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Accessibility Information: The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theatre is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/maps The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building. There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls. The ECT is not kept scent-free, but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity. University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

2019 Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Food Symposium (Friday, May 3, 2019) 8:45 AM - 5 PM @ wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Intellectual House

Our 2019 theme is “Reclaiming Food as Family Medicine.” This theme focuses on how Indigenous families are working together to reclaim and revitalize food traditions as a way to support community health and wellness. Other themes this symposium covers are: traditional foods, plants and medicines; environmental and food justice; food sovereignty; health and wellness; and treaty rights.

---------------------------------------------------------------- Our planning committee is composed of Indigenous women who represent interdisciplinary academic fields of study and philanthropy in the Northwest Coast; women who are committed to Indigenous food sovereignty and environmental justice, and whose lived and scholarly experiences, personal passions, and academic research are firmly grounded in their homelands and communities. We volunteer our time to host this annual community-driven event as we recognize the need to come together in dialogue and action as we build collaborative networks to sustain our Indigenous food practices and preserve our healthy relationships to the land, water, and all living things. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Sacred Breath: Writing and Storytelling (Wednesday, May 1, 2019) 6:30-8:30 PM @ wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Intellectual House

This event features writer and Sacred Breath founder, Elissa Washuta (Cowlitz) and local northwest storyteller Sondra Segundo (Haida).

Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a writer of personal essays and memoir. She is the author of two books, Starvation Mode and My Body Is a Book of Rules, named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. With Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction, forthcoming from University of Washington Press. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, 4Culture, Potlatch Fund, and Hugo House. Elissa is an assistant professor of English at Ohio State University.

Sondra Segundo is an artist and singer of the Haida language. She is an educator and has worked with youth in schools and programs throughout the Northwest, teaching art and sharing her Indigenous children’s books and songs. Everything Sondra does tells a story. Her composed Haida songs tell a story. Her illustrations in her books tell a story. Her movements while she dances, tell a story. Although she is individually accomplished in each of these facets of her life, they are all intertwined by her passion—storytelling. Recently, Sondra has been recruited by tribal-funk band Khu.eex’ as lead female vocalist and has performed at venues such as The Paramount Theater & Upstream Music Fest. She released her first personal music album “Díi Gudangáay uu Síigaay-I Can Feel the Ocean” on 8-8-18.

Free event. Registration required: https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

DISABILITY MONTH APRIL 2019

Disability Studies Program Brown Bag Sharan Brown (Tuesday, April 30) 12-1 PM @ MGH 024 Sexual Assault Open Mic (Tuesday, April 30) 5-7 PM@ HUB 340

Lifting the Sky: An Indigenous Fashion Show (Thursday, May 2) 5 - 8:30 PM @ Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, Washington 98101

In partnership with the Seattle Art Museum, yəhaw̓ presents Lifting the Sky: An Indigenous Fashion Show. Curator Lisa Fruichantie (Seminole/Mvskoke-Creek) brings together Native designers, artists, and performers from across the Pacific Northwest for a night of Indigenous fashion. Watch contemporary styles walk the runway to the beat of a powwow drum, learn about intertribal regalia created by local community members, and shop at an all-Native fashion market. The fashion show starts at 6 pm and the Native Fashion Market takes place throughout the evening. Visitors can continue exploring urban Indigenous perspectives upstairs in the SAM galleries with half-off admission to Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer.

This event will be held in SAM's lobby and is free, open to the public, and family friendly. Seeing SAM's exhibitions upstairs will be half-off usual museum rates. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

There are drop-off areas adjacent to the main entrance to the Seattle Art Museum on the south side of Union Street and on the east side of 1st Avenue near Union Street. Both are three-minute load/unload zones and the 1st Avenue zone is valid 9 am to 3 pm.

Accessible parking is available in the Russell Investments Center Garage. The entrance is on Union Street Between First and Second Avenues adjacent to the SAM building. This is an ADA-accessible garage; it has an elevator that will deposit you around the corner from the museum’s main entrance or inside the museum. Garage height limit is 6' 7". The garage allows a 10 minute grace period for drop-off or pick up with no charge. After 10 minutes, regular rates apply.

The Seattle Art Museum's facilities are wheelchair accessible. Wheelchairs are available through the coat check at the 1st Avenue and Union Street entrance. A piece of identification must be left with the coat check attendant for wheelchair loan. Wheelchairs are on a first-come, first-served basis and the number of wheelchairs is limited.

The Art Beyond Sight program provides regular tours of the museum’s collection to visitors with low or no vision. Tours are held at all three SAM locations and are free with advance registration. Private tours are also available upon request. For more information, please email us or call 206.654.3133.

For more accessibility information visit here!

La Luz Somos Nosotros: A Dance for Venezuela (Tuesday, April 30, 2019) 6 PM - 9 PM @ wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Intellectual House

Join us for a night of music, dance, food, and games. All of the proceeds from this event will go towards Acción Solidaria, a Venezuelan organization providing essential food and medicines for Venezuelan people. We really appreciate your support, come celebrate and learn about the beauty of Venezuelan culture ♥ We'll see you on April 30th! To learn more about Acción Solidaria, or about what's happening in Venezuela, please visit http://www.action4help.com/ RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/p2pKF4LuHvExoPNy9 $7 Pre-sale $10 at the door Venmo (@marirami) or cash accepted ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hola mi gente! Acompañanos para una noche de música, baile, comida y juegos. Todos los ingresos irán hacia la organización Venezolana Acción Solidaria, ayudando a comprar medicinas e alimentos esenciales. Apreciamos mucho su apoyo, ven a celebrar y aprender de la hermosa cultura Venezolana ♥ Nos vemos el 30 de Abril! Para aprender más de Acción Solidaria o de lo que esta pasando en Venezuela visita a http://www.action4help.com/ RSVP Aqui: https://forms.gle/p2pKF4LuHvExoPNy9 $7 Pre-sale $10 en la puerta Aceptamos Venmo (@marirami) y efectivo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accessibility Info: The Intellectual House is wheelchair accessible into the building and Gathering Hall, there is accessible parking right next to the building. For accommodations, please contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450, or [email protected]. Intellectual House es accesible con silla de rueda a el Gathering Hall y el edificio. Hay puestos de estacionar accesibles justo afuera del edifico. Si necesita acomodación porfavor contacte a Disability Services Office a 206-543-6450, o [email protected]. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our event is made to celebrate and affirm people of all identities! Bring a friend, a partner, and/or family, y vamos a rumbear! ***Gracias a la hermosa Abigayil Talkington for her poster design ♥

Unity Day 2019 (Thursday, May 2, 2019) 11AM - 2PM @ HUB Lawn

Join La Raza Student Commission as we host our annual Unity Day, which acknowledges food and cultures associated with the Latinx community. Food is a way for many people to come together, La Raza's constituents will be selling food and beverages that honors many Latin American countries.

Organizations participating:

Omega Delta Phi Fraternity, Inc. -----Tacos

Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. ----- Duros and paletas

Unidas Seremos ----- Fruta Picada

Lambda Theta Alpha ----- Tamales

Gamma Alpha Omega ---- Aguas frescas (Jamaica & horchata)

M.E.Ch.A ----- Pupusas

Purple Group -----Flautas

Kappa Delta Chi ----- Elotes

Sigma Lambda Beta ----- Hot cheetos w/ cheese, Fresas con crema

Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority Inc. ---- Tres leches cake & jarritos

Chicanos/Latinos for Community Medicine ----- Churros w/ Ice Cream & Jumex

Poster Design by Brenda Gonzalez

Transgender & Gender Diverse Support & Social Group (Wednesday, May 8, 2019) 6-8 PM @ U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle 205 E. Meeker St. Kent, Washington 98032

Discussions include topics such as:

*Safety and self- care

*Decriminalization and Destigmatization of sex work

*Know your rights training

*Legal assistance

*Employment & housing

[trans] ACTION promotes and values confidentiality regarding interactions within the group.

The undisclosed location has ample parking, all-gender and ADA-accessible restroom. Come and build community with us! For more information please email Ara-lei at [email protected] Upcoming Dates :

Wed May 8 (6-8pm)

Wed June 12 (6-8pm)

Cast and Team: Brian is Ze Falon Sierra Guayaba Moonyeka Lourdez Velasco Son the Rhemic Queerbigan Vanna Zaragoza Zora Seboulisa

Help compensate this talented team at http://www.patreon.com/nicmasangkay.

More information on the album and show at http://www.nicmasangkay.com/dark-at-dusk.

Project made possible in part by Jack Straw Cultural Center's Artist Support Program.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Calamus Auditorium at Gay City is ADA accessible & minimally scented.

There are two single-stall all-gender restrooms.

There will be scent free soap in the restrooms. More info: gaycity.org/access

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Find Out More

#events #qsc #asuw #qtpoca

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[Qsc_asuw] SPRING! Newsletter Week 4

Welcome to Week 4! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

Monyee Chau

Monyee Chau (b. 1996) is a Seattle-based contemporary Chinese American artist. She received BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in 2018. Monyee explores the journey of healing through decolonization and reconnecting with her roots and ancestors through a variety of mediums. She has shown at Cornish College of the Arts, Pilchuck Glass School, and has independently curated various DIY exhibitions throughout Seattle. She has been the recipient of multiple Pilchuck scholarships, Cornish’s Art Merit scholarship, and nominations to the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture, and the Corning award.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday, location TBD!

LAVISH QTPOC Art Showcase (Tuesday, May 21, 2019) 6:30 PM - 9 PM @ Ethnic Cultural Theater 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

Kitchen Sessions with Imani Sims and CD Forum

(Friday, April 26, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @ Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, Washington 98101

In celebration of "Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer," SAM has partnered with poet and educator Imani Sims and The Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas for an evening that explores themes of the exhibition. Entry to the exhibition is included with ticket purchase. bit.ly/SAMKitchenSessions

Kitchen Sessions are an opportunity to celebrate Black femme and non-binary identified artists as they reflect on and discuss with an intergenerational audience.

The Kitchen seems like the place where nourishment is found. Not only food but also valuable lessons. Little girls go from childhood to the kitchen. At some point, we graduate into womanhood. What is the rite of passage that allows you to enter the sacred space of the kitchen? It functions as an epicenter, a doorway into a space where it is safe to examine the crooked room. It is safe to talk about the long list of things we experience as Black women. As our hands conjure nourishment, our mouths begin to form spells and we reshape our reality for a moment.

A Talk About Border Imperialism and more (Tuesday, April 23) 5 - 6 PM @ Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

Join us for a conversation about border imperialism and more. Leading this discussion will be the founding members of Shot of Truth Podcast.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall.

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/maps

The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building.

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

Sacred Breath: Writing and Storytelling (Wednesday, May 1, 2019) 6:30-8:30 PM @ wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Intellectual House

This event features writer and Sacred Breath founder, Elissa Washuta (Cowlitz) and local northwest storyteller Sondra Segundo (Haida).

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Free event. Registration required: https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp

Palestine Awareness Week 2019!

Get ready for SUPER’s 7th annual Palestine Awareness Week! Join us for a full week of Palestinian culture, history and resistance. This year’s PAW lineup includes:

Film Screening: “Salt of the Sea” (Monday, April 22) 4 PM - 6 PM @ Media Arcade - Allen Library Discussion: The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Movement (Tuesday, April 23) 4 PM - 6 PM @ Chicano Room - Ethnic Cultural Center Art & Discussion: Borders, Detainment & Resiliency with MEChA de UW (Wednesday, April 24) 5 PM - 6:30 PM @ HUB 250 Dance workshop: Dabke Day! (Thursday, April 25) 5 PM -7 PM @ DEN 113 Panel + Discussion: From Kashmir to Palestine || Mental Warfare, Cultural Erasure, & Resiliency (Friday, April 26) 4 PM - 6 PM @ HUB 307

DISABILITY MONTH APRIL 2019

Disability Studies Program Brown Bag Sharan Brown (Tuesday, April 30) 12-1 PM @ MGH 024 Sexual Assault Open Mic (Tuesday, April 30) 5-7 PM@ HUB 340

Native Country of the Heart - Native Country of the Heart (Wednesday, April 24) 7:30-9 PM @ Town Hall Seattle

How do we trace the stories of our parents’ lives alongside that of our own self-discovery? Celebrated author and pioneering queer Latina feminist Cherríe Moraga presents Town Hall audiences with her own intergenerational narrative in Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir, charting a personal coming-of-age alongside her mother’s decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora. Moraga charts her mother’s—journey from an impressionable young girl to a battle-tested matriarch to an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer’s—while simultaneously tracing her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. Join Moraga for a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.

Cherríe Moraga is a writer and cultural activist whose work serves to disrupt the dominant narratives of gender, race, sexuality, feminism, indigeneity, and literature in the United States. A co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Moraga co-edited the highly influential volume This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color in 1981. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Playwriting Fellowship Award and a United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature. Presented by Town Hall Seattle.

Pasifik Voices Spring 2019 (Wednesday, April 24, 2019) 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM @ ECT

We are back for the last Pasifik Voices of the school year! You know the drill: come out and join us for a night of showcasing and celebrating the unique talents and performances of individuals who make up the greater Pacific Islander community on the UW campus!

As always, you can look forward to... music, dance, art, spoken-word, community and more!

Admission is FREE, bring all your homies!

Interested in performing? Sign up NOW at: tinyurl.com/pvspring2019 Interested in MCing? Apply here: https://forms.gle/GFHgbk6di1ZrCVhx7 ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theater is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall.

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the ECC, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

SARVA, WAC, D-Center and SDC Present: Open Mic Night (Tuesday, April 30, 2019) 5-87PM @ HUB 340

Join this safe space and hear stories from disabled survivors of assault and domestic violence.

Light refreshments will be provided! (Vegan/gluten free options available!) ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

CART Captioning will be provided.

This is a scent free space! Please refrain from using scented products if you plan on attending.

Transgender & Gender Diverse Support & Social Group (Wednesday, May 8, 2019) 6-8 PM @ U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle 205 E. Meeker St. Kent, Washington 98032

Discussions include topics such as:

*Safety and self- care

*Decriminalization and Destigmatization of sex work

*Know your rights training

*Legal assistance

*Employment & housing

[trans] ACTION promotes and values confidentiality regarding interactions within the group.

The undisclosed location has ample parking, all-gender and ADA-accessible restroom. Come and build community with us! For more information please email Ara-lei at [email protected] Upcoming Dates :

Wed May 8 (6-8pm)

Wed June 12 (6-8pm)

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Southside commons is wheelchair accessible and has two parking spots for people with disabilities.

Scent-free soaps will be provided in the bathrooms and we are currently working to find out what is usually used in the space and to what degree it leaves chemicals and fragrances in the space.

Gender neutral bathrooms are available.

The light rail to the Mount Baker stop, and several busses, stop nearby.

If you have any questions about accessibility please email [email protected].

Cast and Team: Brian is Ze Falon Sierra Guayaba Moonyeka Lourdez Velasco Son the Rhemic Queerbigan Vanna Zaragoza Zora Seboulisa

Help compensate this talented team at http://www.patreon.com/nicmasangkay.

More information on the album and show at http://www.nicmasangkay.com/dark-at-dusk.

Project made possible in part by Jack Straw Cultural Center's Artist Support Program.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Calamus Auditorium at Gay City is ADA accessible & minimally scented.

There are two single-stall all-gender restrooms.

There will be scent free soap in the restrooms. More info: gaycity.org/access

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Find Out More

#events #qsc #qtpoca #Palestine #Lavish #Disability

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[Qsc_asuw] SPRING! Newsletter Week 3

Welcome to Week 3! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

Sonia Lazo

Illustrator and graphic design student Illustrator from small and tropical El Salvador. Sonia Lazo is creating attention-getting art. Her lively, intriguing work addresses not only the world we live in but also unseen worlds—the land of the past and the realms of myth and fantasy.

The QSC Director is moving on to other opportunities. Now, it's your turn to take a swing at change-making and advocacy! Apply today to be the new QSC Director!

Applications close April 21st, 2019 at 11:55 pm. In addition, every position at ASUW is hiring! If you're interested in serving in different capacities, check out all available positions here!

The mission of the Queer Student Commission (QSC) is to first support, educate, and to provide an open-minded environment for queer UW students. In addition, it aims to provide non-heteronormative, anti-racist, non-ableist and non-sexist programming, services, and atmospheres. The commission aims to create an anti-oppressive community by funding, sponsoring and endorsing events, ideas and information that share these anti-oppressive principles, promoting community, and working to increase acceptance of queer students. The QSC also values the development of leadership skills among its members by encouraging them to be involved with commission activities and operations. Furthermore, the QSC commits to itself to inclusivity and intersectional activism by maintaining strong relationships with other ASUW Commissions, student groups, community groups, and UW faculty and the Student Activities Office (SAO) staff.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday, location TBD!

Machismo and Toxic Masculinity (Monday, April 15, 2019) 6 PM - 8 PM @ ECC Unity Room ASUW SARVA and ASUW La Raza Present:

A roundtable dissection of machismo and toxic masculinity in the Latinx community with La Raza Student Commission.

Celebration of National Poetry Month! (Tuesday, April 16, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @ Warby Parker (305 East Pine Street, Seattle) 305 East Pine Street, Seattle, Washington 98102

SAL is delighted to partner with Warby Parker to present a free poetry reading at Warby Parker Capitol Hill. This celebration features 2016/17 Youth Poet Laureate, Maven Gardner; members of the 2018/19 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Cohort, Maia Ruth Pody, Alex Newsom, and Kiyoshi Sakauye; Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna; and Seattle Civic Poet Anastacia-Reneé.

Seattle Reads presents Thi Bui (Tuesday, April 16) 6:30 - 8 PM @ Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS)

3639 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, Washington 98144

Thi Bui will discuss "The Best We Could Do." The evening will also feature a staged reading from the book, adapted by Susan Lieu and directed by Kathy Hsieh, in partnership with Book-It Repertory Theatre.

"The Best We Could Do" is a haunting memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for a simpler past. Thi Bui documents her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves in America. As the child of a country and a war she can’t remember, Bui’s dreamlike artwork brings to life her journey to understanding her own identity in a way that only comics can.

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam three months before the end of the Vietnam War, and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees from Southeast Asia. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017), has been selected as UCLA’s Common Book for 2017, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, an Eisner Award finalist in Reality Based Comics, and made several Best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’s top five picks. Bui is also the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of A Different Pond, a picture book by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017). Her short comics can be found online at the Nib, PEN America, and BOOM California. Seattle Reads is a “one book, one city” program, where people are encouraged to read and discuss the same book. It’s designed to deepen engagement in literature through reading and discussion. - Everyone is invited to participate in Seattle Reads by reading the featured book, joining in a book discussion, and/or attending programs with the featured writer.

Baile Folklórico comes to the University of Washington (Wednesday, April 17) 7-9 PM @ wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Intellectual House

Come join us at the Intellectual House to learn how to dance the traditional Mexican dance known as Baile Folklórico. The instructors will be from the group "Ballet Folklorico Angeles de México". We ask for you to bring small heels or flats (non-marking shoes) and water is encouraged! The event is free, for UW students only. Any questions please email [email protected].

(Tuesday, April 16) 7-9PM @ Elliott Bay Book Company 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122

Hanif Abdurraqib at Elliott Bay Book Company

Elliott Bay Book Company presents Hanif Abdurraqib for his New York Times Bestselling book GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN.

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself.

Abdurraqib traces the Tribe’s creative career, from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Their work is placed in the context of the broader rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast-West Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record labels’ shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact. Whether he’s remembering The Source magazine cover announcing the Tribe’s 1998 breakup or writing personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg’s death, Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths that—like the low end, the bass—are not simply heard in the head, but felt in the chest. This event is Free and Open to the Public.

DISABILITY MONTH APRIL 2019

Sara Acevedo: Building Collectively Toward Institutional Access

(Wednesday, April 17) 5-6 PM @ HUB 340

F*** Stairs Kick Off

(Friday, April 19) 4-5 PM @ HUB 340

Disability Studies Program Brown Bag Sharan Brown

(Tuesday, April 30) 12-1 PM @ MGH 024

Sexual Assault Open Mic

(Tuesday, April 30) 5-7 PM@ HUB 340

ASUW SDC Presents: ASL Workshop (Thursday, April 18) 5-7 PM @ HUB 332

Learn the basics of American Sign Language from the UW ASL Club, featuring presentations from TEDxUCLA speaker Austin Vaday and UW Professor Lance Forshay.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION

CART captioning and ASL/voice interpretation will be provided.

This event is a scent-free space! Please refrain from using scented products if you will be in attendance.

F*** Stairs Kick Off (Friday, April 19) 4-5 PM @ HUB 340

Come learn about the purpose of the pledge, hear from Disability Rights advocates, and celebrate the beginning of our 2019 F*** Stairs campaign!

There will be donuts, veggies, coffee/tea, and lemonade! (Vegan/gluten free options available)

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

CART Captioning will be provided.

This is a scent free event! Please refrain from using scented products if you plan on attending.

2019 Youth Speaks Seattle Grand Slam (Friday, April 19) 6-10 PM @ Kings Hall MS LLC 2929 27th Ave S, Seattle, Washington 98144

After months of preliminary slams, join Youth Speaks Seattle in our finale and the biggest youth poetry event of the year: GRAND SLAM.

10 of the highest-scoring poets of the season grace the stage for one transformative night of competition, storytelling, and community celebration. By the end of the night, the top 5 poets will be chosen to represent Team Seattle at renowned international youth poetry festival, Brave New Voices, this year in Las Vegas. You don't want to miss this!

TICKETS: $10 for youth $20 for adults Tickets available at the door and Brown Paper Tickets. Email slam@artscorps for discounts on groups of 5+ youth ($7)! HOSTED BY: Youth Speaks Seattle teaching artists, award-winning poets Ebo Barton, and Youth Poet Laureate of Seattle, Azura Tyabji. FEATURING: Incredible singer and organizer, JustMoni ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

King's Hall is below and behind the Mt. Baker Light Rail Station Stop

Bus Routes nearby are 8, 48, 14, 7, 9, 106, 987 (many of which are available at the Mt. Baker Transfer Station)

Parking: There is a parking lot available at Kings Hall and overflow parking available next door at the University of Washington Consolidated Laundry parking lot.

No stairs or ramps necessary to enter King's Hall.

Two wheelchair accessible, gender free restrooms on the main floor.

Four spaces in the parking lot are designated for folks with disabled parking placards.

CART services will be available at this event.

This is not a scent free event/space but to request a scent free zone, email [email protected] by March 29th (acknowledging that King's Hall is not a scent free space overall).

For anyone needing seating anywhere in the seating area, we are happy to accommodate by moving any chairs.

There will be a row of seating reserved for folks that need access to the front for visibility.

Have access needs that are not listed here? Please email [email protected] with any questions, comments or concerns

YOUTH RIGHT NOW ARE THE TRUTH RIGHT NOW!

Emergent Strategy: An Evening with Adrienne Maree Brown

(Thursday, April 18, 2019) 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM @

The Seattle Public Library

Central Library, 1000 4th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98104

Join activist and author Adrienne Maree Brown for a reading centered on her book "Emergent Strategy" and a celebration of community-led organizing in Seattle.

This event is made possible with support from The Seattle Public Library Foundation and the Seattle Office of Civil Rights. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

This program will be ASL interpreted.

Pasifik Voices Spring 2019 (Wednesday, April 24, 2019) 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM @ ECT

As always, you can look forward to... music, dance, art, spoken-word, community and more!

Admission is FREE, bring all your homies!

Interested in performing? Sign up NOW at: tinyurl.com/pvspring2019 Interested in MCing? Apply here: https://forms.gle/GFHgbk6di1ZrCVhx7

SARVA, WAC, D-Center and SDC Present: Open Mic Night (Tuesday, April 30, 2019) 5-87PM @ HUB 340

Join this safe space and hear stories from disabled survivors of assault and domestic violence.

Light refreshments will be provided! (Vegan/gluten free options available!) ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

CART Captioning will be provided.

This is a scent free space! Please refrain from using scented products if you plan on attending.

Transgender & Gender Diverse Support & Social Group (Wednesday, April 10, 2019) 6-8 PM @ U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle 205 E. Meeker St. Kent, Washington 98032

Discussions include topics such as:

*Safety and self- care

*Decriminalization and Destigmatization of sex work

*Know your rights training

*Legal assistance

*Employment & housing

[trans] ACTION promotes and values confidentiality regarding interactions within the group.

The undisclosed location has ample parking, all-gender and ADA-accessible restroom. Come and build community with us! For more information please email Ara-lei at [email protected] Upcoming Dates :

Wed May 8 (6-8pm)

Wed June 12 (6-8pm)

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Find Out More

#events #qsc #qtpoca #SARVA #D Center #ASL #UTOPIA

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[Qsc_asuw] SPRING! Newsletter Week 2

Welcome to Week 2! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

Trinidad Escobar is a storyteller and poet, mother and bruha, student and educator from Oakland, California. Her graphic memoir CRUSHED was published in 2018. Her graphic novella TRYST, about queer aswang love, will be published by Gantala Press in the Philippines in 2020. Her graphic novel Of Sea And Venom will be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2021. Trinidad teaches Race & Comics at California College of the Arts in the Bay Area, California.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will NOT be meeting this Friday due to the Queer Students of Color Conference!

Transgender & Gender Diverse Support & Social Group (Wednesday, April 10, 2019) 6-8 PM @ U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle 205 E. Meeker St. Kent, Washington 98032

Discussions include topics such as:

*Safety and self- care

*Decriminalization and Destigmatization of sex work

*Know your rights training

*Legal assistance

*Employment & housing

[trans] ACTION promotes and values confidentiality regarding interactions within the group.

The undisclosed location has ample parking, all-gender and ADA-accessible restroom. Come and build community with us! For more information please email Ara-lei at [email protected] Upcoming Dates :

Wed April 10 (6-8pm)

Wed May 8 (6-8pm)

Wed June 12 (6-8pm)

Grace L. Dillon: Indigenous Futurism | Free at SAM (Thursday, April 11, 2019) 7 PM - 8 PM

Explore the creative genre of Indigenous Futurism across different media including literature, music, and art that feature “Native-centered worlds liberated by the imagination.” FREE with RSVP: bit.ly/IndigenousFuturismSAM About the Presenter Grace L. Dillon is a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at Portland State University in Oregon, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on a range of interests including Native American and Indigenous studies, science fiction, Indigenous cinema, popular culture, race and social justice, and early modern literature. She is the editor of Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (University of Arizona Press, 2012) and Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (Oregon State University Press, 2003). Her work appears in diverse journals including The Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television; Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction; Extrapolation; The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television; Science Fiction Studies; and Renaissance Pape.

Storytelling Strategies for Dismantling Racism

(Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM)

Storytelling is an ancient human technology meant to encapsulate information and build connections. We are all capable of sharing our stories and more importantly, to witnessing and hearing each other with openness and compassion.

· Facilitators: Nikkita Oliver (featured) with youth storyteller, Azura Tyabji, Natasha Marin, Fleur Larsen, and Bert Hopkins.

+ Bios Available Here: https://ssdr-apr2019.paperform.co/

How can we strategically explore and dismantle problematic racial structures in our organizations using our own personal stories?

During this training, facilitators will guide participants in the following:

+ Exploring institutional narratives and the structures. + Practicing deep listening, especially with regards to the language of power & privilege. + Role-play for navigating difficult conversations.

Join us in this training to explore how storytelling can be used to develop concrete strategies to help individuals and organizations actively engaged in anti-racist work.

DISABILITY MONTH APRIL 2019

Disability Conference

(Saturday, April 9) 4-5 PM @ HUB 145

ASL Workshop

(Thursday, April 11) 5-7 PM @ HUB 332

Sara Acevedo: Building Collectively Toward Institutional Access

(Wednesday, April 17) 5-6 PM @ HUB 340

F*** Stairs Kick Off

(Friday, April 19) 4-5 PM @ HUB 340

Disability Studies Program Brown Bag Sharan Brown

(Tuesday, April 30) 12-1 PM @ MGH 024

Sexual Assault Open Mic

(Tuesday, April 30) 5-7 PM@ HUB 340

ASUW SDC Presents: ASL Workshop (Thursday, April 18) 5-7 PM @ HUB 332

Learn the basics of American Sign Language from the UW ASL Club, featuring presentations from TEDxUCLA speaker Austin Vaday and UW Professor Lance Forshay.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

CART captioning and ASL/voice interpretation will be provided.

This event is a scent-free space! Please refrain from using scented products if you will be in attendance.

F*** Stairs Kick Off (Friday, April 19) 4-5 PM @ HUB 340

Come learn about the purpose of the pledge, hear from Disability Rights advocates, and celebrate the beginning of our 2019 F*** Stairs campaign!

There will be donuts, veggies, coffee/tea, and lemonade! (Vegan/gluten free options available)

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

CART Captioning will be provided.

This is a scent free event! Please refrain from using scented products if you plan on attending.

Narratives of Pain: Healing Trauma through Storytelling (Friday, April 12, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM

Hugo House 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122

Narratives of Pain is a storytelling showcase geared towards community-centered healing. Each showcase features a collection of brave storytellers who share about personal pain, in the presence of supportive community. Stories range in subject matter and form, focused on the needs of each person. The Narratives of Pain structure honors both storytellers and witnesses (i.e. audience) within its format. We invite all community members to experience this event, in hopes that the evening will be valuable and cathartic. If interested in storytelling, please reach out to Zain Shamoon at [email protected]. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The new Hugo House is fully ADA-compliant. If you require specific accommodations, please contact us so that we may assist you.

There are gender-neutral bathrooms.

Public transportation: The new Hugo House is a short walk from the Capitol Hill light rail station and the First Hill streetcar (Broadway & Pike-Pine stop) and within a half-mile of many buses, including routes 8, 10, 11, 43, 49, and 60.

Parking: A pay parking lot is available nearby at the Greek Orthodox Church at 13th and Howell, or at Seattle Central College’s Harvard Garage at 1609 Harvard Avenue. Street parking is also available but not guaranteed. The garage beneath Hugo House is for tenants only.

Machismo and Toxic Masculinity (Monday, April 15, 2019) 6 PM - 8 PM @ ECC Unity Room ASUW SARVA and ASUW La Raza Present:

A roundtable dissection of machismo and toxic masculinity in the Latinx community with La Raza Student Commission.

Pasifik Voices Spring 2019 (Wednesday, April 24, 2019) 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM @ ECT

As always, you can look forward to... music, dance, art, spoken-word, community and more!

Admission is FREE, bring all your homies!

Interested in performing? Sign up NOW at: tinyurl.com/pvspring2019 Interested in MCing? Apply here: https://forms.gle/GFHgbk6di1ZrCVhx7

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

#events #qsc #la raza #hugo house #qtpoca #asuw

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[Qsc_asuw] SPRING! Newsletter Week 1

Welcome to Spring Quarter! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week:

Vienna Rye is a 27 year-old artist / organizer based in New York City. They use art as a catalyst to confront and uproot settler colonialism, racism, capitalism, and patriarchy.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday (Location TBD)!

Support arrested Chinese labor activists! (Monday, April 1, 2019) 1PM - 3:30 PM @ Red Square at UW Seattle, Washington 98195

We, as Parisol, USAS and allied groups, write to you asking for your support in protesting the disappearance of labor activists in China. In recent months, government crackdowns on factory organizing have resulted in a wave of arrests and disappearances on students and activists. The climate is highly repressive at this time. Across the ocean, we will not let these injustices pass in silence. Please join us on April 1st in Red Square for a speak out at 2pm, call-ins to the US Chinese embassy asking for immediate release of these activists, and postcard writing to Wei Zhili at the Shenzhen detention center directly. Please read here for more insight.

Magical Negro: a reading by Morgan Parker (Thursday, April 4, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM

Hugo House 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122

Join acclaimed poet Morgan Parker as she reads from her latest collection, MAGICAL NEGRO.

MAGICAL NEGRO (Tin House Books, 2019) is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. Focused primarily on depictions of Black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics—of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Morgan Parker is the author of THERE ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAN BEYONCÉ (Tin House Books, 2017) and OTHER PEOPLE’S COMFORT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT (Switchback Books, 2015). Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House, the Paris Review, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The Nation, and more. She is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts in Literature Fellowship, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The new Hugo House is fully ADA-compliant. If you require specific accommodations, please contact us so that we may assist you.

There are gender-neutral bathrooms.

Alchemy Poetry Featuring JOY MA (Tuesday, April 2, 2019) 7:30 PM - 10 PM @ Alchemy Poetry

1408 E Pike Street, Seattle, Washington 98122

Alchemy is a curated performance art space that elevates voices that are often silenced. Performers in our community focus on the brilliance of storytelling by offering personal stories and reflections that are socially relevant. JOY MA is an emerging, interdisciplinary artist who delves in media including but not limited to performance, experimental music production, DJing, and writing. They are passionate about bridging the arts, historical research, and community organizing for racial, economic, and gender justice. JOY MA reps the South Side of Chicago and the planet Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, all day every day. They are musically influenced by Chicago house, juke, and footwork style tunes. You can win their heart by bringing vegan deep dish pizza and flamin’ hots to the turn up. $5 Admission ALL AGES Limited Showcase Mic Spots Every first, third and sometimes fifth Tuesday of the month at 7pm, we call on two featured performers and a showcase mic at Lovecitylove. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Entry door to LoveCityLove is at least 32 inches wide

Restroom is single stall.

There is a grab bar installed in this restroom, clearance measures TBD.

There are 2 couches, and 20 folding chairs available in the space. We ask that the audience prioritize folks that need to be seated during the show.

Parking is paid street parking, or there is a paid lot on the east side of the building.

We are located near bus routes 11,12, and 2 and 0.4 miles away from the Broadway and Pike Streetcar stop.

Queer Staff Narratives (Friday, April 5, 2019) 5:30 PM - 7 PM @ ECT

Come hear UW LGBTQ Staff share their experiences growing up queer, their present lives, and their advice for students (LGBTQ and ally alike)! The event will conclude with a panel where students will have the opportunity to ask the speakers questions.

6th Annual DREAM Banquet (Saturday, April 6, 2019) 4 PM - 7 PM @ UW "wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ" Intellectual House La Raza Student Commission and constituents invite you to the 6th Annual Dream Banquet!

Table (8 people): $400

General Individual tickets: $60

UW Students: $30

You can purchase tickets in the following website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dream-banquet-tickets-59559489035

Storytelling Strategies for Dismantling Racism

(April 11, 2019 - 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM)

· Facilitators: Nikkita Oliver (featured) with youth storyteller, Azura Tyabji, Natasha Marin, Fleur Larsen, and Bert Hopkins.

+ Bios Available Here: https://ssdr-apr2019.paperform.co/

How can we strategically explore and dismantle problematic racial structures in our organizations using our own personal stories?

During this training, facilitators will guide participants in the following:

+ Exploring institutional narratives and the structures. + Practicing deep listening, especially with regards to the language of power & privilege. + Role-play for navigating difficult conversations.

Join us in this training to explore how storytelling can be used to develop concrete strategies to help individuals and organizations actively engaged in anti-racist work.

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

#events #qsc #qtpoca

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[Qsc_asuw] Week 8 Newsletter

Welcome to Week Eight! <3

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week: Amira is a queer, black, multiracial artist who specializes in drawing, painting, and makeup art. She is a University of Washington sophomore majoring in psychology, and art offers her an avenue to express herself and her beliefs. She uses social media as a platform to share her work and to gain inspiration. Support her at paypal.me/amiranaf !

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday in the ECC Asian room!

The Global Struggle Against Policing: From Seattle to Palestine (Wednesday, February 27, 2019) 3:30 PM - 5 PM @ University of Washington School of Law 4293 Memorial Way, Seattle, Washington 98195 Event Description:

This will be a two-prong event. First, there will be an educational presentation about US-Israel police partnerships, including exchange trips that bring together police, ICE, border patrol, and FBI from the US with soldiers, police, and from Israel. In these programs, harmful practices are shared to promote and extend discriminatory surveillance and policing in both countries.

Following the presentation, there will be a panel of community-organizers who will highlight their experiences resisting policing across different social movements and borders. In linking issues of militarism, imperialism, border enforcement, racism, colonialism, and surveillance, MLSA strives to build a conversation that interconnects communities in their struggle against policing.

Hosted by The Minority Law Student Association (MLSA) as a part of UW Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Week at UW Law.

Room #: TBD ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The front entrance is wheel-chair accessible (with a ramp and automatic doors). The hallways are very wide and not carpeted, and there are all-gender (multi-stall) and single occupancy bathrooms near the main entrance to the school.

This map shows accessible walk-ways on campus: https://facilities.uw.edu/.../ada-route-print-map-jan2019..., as well as the location of the accessible entrance to the school (the school is the William Gates Hall).

There will be light refreshments (some vegetarian, no gluten-free or dairy-free). We will not provide drinks but there are water fountains (the type you can refill a bottle in).

The building is not scent free, but we ask folks coming to this event to minimize scents. Please feel free to message or comment about any other access needs or questions.

La Comunidad: LGBT+ Members of the Caravan (Monday, February 25, 2019) 7 - 9 PM @ Thomson Hall (THO) 101 Join us to hear Owen Harris and Simon Fox discuss conditions for LGBT+ members of the caravan and the ongoing efforts of these organizations and activists on both sides of the border. They will present photos and video testimonials from interviews with LGBT+ caravan members and then open a Q&A session about LGBT+ members of the Caravan and efforts on the ground to support them.

In the last few months there has been a huge surge in demand for shelter for migrants and asylum seekers on the border with Mexico, and in December 2018, Owen Harris and Simon Fox travelled to Tijuana to support efforts by organizations and activists on the ground to establish a permanent shelter for LGBT+ migrants and asylum seekers, including members of "the caravan," to ensure that the LGBT+ population has a safe and adequate place to eat, bathe, and rest.

Many of those arriving at the border need treatment for chronic illnesses including HIV, hormone treatments for trans folks, scabies treatment, safe food and drinking water, first aid and mental health support. Local activists and organizations including Enclave Caracol and COCUT are working to connect those arriving at the border with the resources they need.

About the speakers: Owen Harris - co-founder of Safe Place International and currently a Master's student in the Jackson School of International Studies and the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance who has previously worked with LGBT+ refugees and asylum seekers in Mexico, Turkey, Greece, Lebanon, and Bangladesh. Simon Fox - a Seattle native and film-maker who studied journalism and international studies at the UW and has spent the last three years working to tell the stories of refugees and migration through film.

But Can I Pay My Rent Tho?!: Surviving as a TQPOC Artist @ Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center (Thursday, February 28, 2019) 6 - 9 PM)

But Can I Pay My Rent Tho?!: Surviving as a TQPOC Artist Feb. 28 (Part 1) & Mar. 7 (Part 2) Free (Donations Accepted at gaycity.org/donate) Without art, there can be no movements. Yet, artists are often unrewarded for being the drivers of change, which has created a culture of unsustainable practices. In particular, being a Black/Brown artist who is along the trans and/or queer spectrum means that we are more at risk of being underpaid and undervalued for our brilliance. This workshop will make space for trans & queer artists of color to develop long-term strategies towards a life supported by their creative work. Participants of these sessions are artists and cultural producers of all disciplines who are ready to build a career from their practice. Part 1 (Feb. 28) will focus on evaluating your financial needs and plans as an artist. Part 2 (Mar. 7) will recharge your marketing needs and put your plan into action. This workshop will intentionally engage a framework of dismantling anti-Blackness, white supremacy, transphobia, and more as we imagine the role of TQPOC artists creating their own liberation. FACILITATOR BIO: J Mase III is a Black/Trans/Queer poet based in Seattle by way of NYC. A blogger for the Huffington Post, he is the author of “If I Should Die Under the Knife, Tell My Kidney I was the Fiercest Poet Around” as well as "And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer's Reflections on Grief, Unemployment and Inappropriate Jokes About Death." As an educator, Mase has worked with thousands of community members in the US, UK, and Canada on the needs of LGBTQIA youth and adults in spaces such as k-12 schools, universities, faith communities, and restricted care facilities among others. He is the founder of the international performance tour "Cupid Ain’t @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine’s Day Poetry Movement" and of awQward, the first ever trans & queer people of color specific talent agency. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, and awQwardtalent.com. Sponsored by Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center and Ingersoll Gender Center ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Calamus Auditorium at Gay City is ADA accessible & minimally scented.

There are two single-stall all-gender restrooms.

There will be scent free soap in the restrooms. More info: gaycity.org/access

A Poetry Reading with Terisa Siagatonu (Tuesday, February 26 2019) 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM @ UW "wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ" Intellectual House

Join the ASUW Pacific Islander Student Commission as we welcome Samoan poet, educator, speaker, and activist, Terisa Siagatonu! The night will consists of poems and conversation around topics of identity and intersectionality. Admission is FREE! About Terisa (from her website @ terisasiagatonu.com): Terisa Siagatonu is an award-winning poet, teaching artist, mental health educator, and community leader born and rooted in the Bay Area. Her presence in the poetry world as a queer Samoan woman and activist has granted her opportunities to perform and speak in places ranging from the White House (during the Obama administration) to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris, France. The most memorable moment in her career was receiving President Obama’s Champion of Change Award in 2012 for her activism as a spoken word poet/organizer in her Pacific Islander community. ... With numerous viral poetry videos garnering over millions of views collectively, Terisa's writing blends the personal, cultural, and political in a way that calls for healing, courage, justice, and truth. ... Offstage, Terisa creates and facilitates workshops, leads artistic and professional development trainings, provides mental health clinical support, and delivers keynote speeches across the country on issues that inform her 10+ years of community work involving: youth advocacy, educational attainment, Pacific Islander/Indigenous rights, climate change, LGBTQQIA rights, gender-based violence, and others. She holds a Bachelors degree in Community Studies and minor in Education from the University of California- Santa Cruz and a Masters Degree in Marriage/Family Therapy from the University of Southern California (USC), aiming to use her background as a mental health clinician and poet to bridge the gaps in our quest for collective healing and liberation.

That We Should Be Heirs Writing Workshop (Friday, March 8 2019) 5:30 PM - 7 PM @ Othello Commons 4200 S Othello St, Seattle, WA 98118-3843 A call to immigrant and refugee families to participate in a collaborative arts project from our colleagues at the Southeast Asia Center at the University of Washington:

Refugees and immigrants are invited to contribute handwritten letters about their experiences as a method of alleviating burden and promoting healing. UW visiting artist Trinh Mai will then roll and bind these letters with string, forming a small scroll enclosing and concealing the words. These will be displayed as part of an art exhibit at Seattle's Gould Gallery from April 3 - May 3.

UW Faculty members Linh Nguyen and Jenna Grant will lead the workshop where you can write your story in a supportive, communal space. All are welcome to take part in this collaborative project for empowerment and voice, then view the exhibit. Paper and pencils will be provided.

How The Body Hold's It's Stories (Thursday, February 28, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM

Hugo House 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122

How do our bodies hold onto experiences? How do generations of people of color, queer and trans people, and others who have experienced marginalization carry those stories over generations? Join writers Jordan Alam and Tessa Zeng for a reading and conversation on feeling a story in your bones and translating it to the page. Musician Lex Gavin will also perform. ABOUT THE PERFORMERS: Jordan Alam is a queer Bangladeshi-American writer, performer, and social change educator based out of Seattle. Her work engages with moments of rupture and transformation in the lives of people on the margins. Jordan’s work is heavily engaged in the ? community, and she is a current Kundiman Pacific Northwest co-chair and 4Culture Artist Grant recipient. Her short stories and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, CultureStrike Magazine, The Rumpus, and AAWW’s The Margins; she has spoken at events including the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Eyes on Bangladesh exhibition. She is also the founder of the Asian American social justice publication, Project As [I] Am (http://www.project-as-i-am.com). Most recently, she has completed a fellowship with Town Hall Seattle to create collaborative performance pieces about stories of the body and been editing a draft of her debut novel. Lex Gavin is a multidisciplinary artist living in Seattle. Their brain (and thus their work) grapples with paradox, perception, nuance, and the failures of identity. They are interested in magic, neuroscience/somatics/epigenetics, and human systems. When they are not neglecting their creative pursuits, they work in the youth development field and play in the kitchen. Tessa Zeng is a writer, systems change advocate, and co-creative maker. She has been published in various poetry anthologies and journals, and received an Individualized BA from Goddard College for her work on social misrecognition. With their work, they hope to create beautiful experiences of interconnection and recognition that can heal traumas caused by oppressive structures.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The new Hugo House is fully ADA-compliant. If you require specific accommodations, please contact us so that we may assist you.

There are gender-neutral bathrooms.

A Certain Type of Brilliance (Friday, March 1, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @ Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center 517 E Pike St, Seattle, Washington 98122

Femmes possess an alchemy that can’t be quantified, but which draws us together and enables us to be bold, ingenious, and capable of a magic that fortifies our own hearts and the soul of the community around us. A Certain Type of Brilliance is a celebration of femmes’ ability to pull amazing things out of thin air, to create on a dime, to use our vulnerability and creativity as our greatest assets in resistance to oppression.

The production features a unique cast each night; performers will create a new piece of work in the 24 hours prior to the show in response to one of a series of prompts, drawing on themes of resistance, resilience, femme identity & power.

Other Dates:

SATURDAY March 2 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

SUNDAY March 3 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: https://www.gaycity.org/accessibility/

There are two steps from the auditorium/library hallway to Kaladi Bros Coffee and to go to the restrooms. In order to go between the coffee shop/restrooms and the auditorium/library without using any steps, you will need to go outside and enter through the other external door.

Winter Quarter Social Justice Film Series (Wednesday, February 27, 2019) 6:30 PM

The Kelly ECC is back with another social justice film series for winter quarter!

Each Wednesday evening at 6:30, we'll be screening a film in the main lobby! We hope to see you there!

February's Focus: Black History Month March's Focus: Women's History Month ------ FILM LINE-UP • February 27: Dark Girls • March 6: Ladies First • March 13: Neerja ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall.

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/maps

The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building.

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

Sister Spit 2019 x NW Film Forum (Thursday, February 28, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @ Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122 7 artists 2 hours of QTPOC brilliance ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The main floor of the Forum, including the theaters and lobby, are accessible via a ramp. We have one restroom on the main floor built to ADA standards.

An affordable pay parking lot is available 3 blocks from the Northwest Film Forum at the Greek Orthodox Church at 13th and Howell.

Street parking is metered from 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m., Monday – Saturday, and free all day on Sundays.

Lineup: ▼KATIE FRICAS▼ Katie Fricas is a cartoonist and library worker from New York City. She makes non-fiction essay comics about art, politics, cultural events, oddities, and hidden histories in a wiggly, sloppy style for various publications and websites. She got her start illustrating for $pread Magazine (R.I.P) and self-publishing a comic about her life called Blabbermouth. Her work pops up in various anthologies, including the 2018 Ignatz Award-winning book, Comics for Choice, and she's also published comics in the Guardian, Hyperallergic, the New Yorker, and a bunch of other shiny places. Her series Checked Out, about almost a decade spent working at NYC's oldest Library, appears regularly on the website Spiralbound. When she isn't scuttling all over NYC for work or elbow-deep in ink, she can be found scanning the funnie pages. ▼CRISTY ROAD▼ Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American artist, writer, and musician. Through visual art, storytelling, and punk rock music, C.Road has thrived to testify the beauty of the imperfect since she began creating art in her hometown of Miami, FL. She grew up as a self-taught figure drawing artist with a penchant for all things that questioned society and began publishing Green'Zine in 1997-- a fanzine which was originally devoted to the punk rock group, Green Day. C.Road graduated from the the Ringling School of Art and Design in 2004 with a BFA in Illustration. In early 2006, C.Road released her first illustrated novel, Indestructible (Microcosm Publishing), a 96-page narrative about high school; and later in 2007, a collection of postcards entitled Distance Makes The Heart Grow Sick (Microcosm Publishing). In 2008, she released Bad Habits (Soft Skull Press), an Illustrated story about healing from an abusive relationship; and lastly in 2013, her most recent book, Spit and Passion (Feminist Press, 2012), is a coming-out memoir about Cuban identity, discovering Green Day, and surviving in the closet. C.Road's current project is The Next World Tarot (2017), a 78-card tarot deck detailing themes of justice, knowledge, accountability, and reclaimed magic. ▼AUSTIN HERNANDEZ▼ Austin Hernandez is a Tejano designer and writer living in Brooklyn. His creative work is strongly influenced by his mom's second-wave feminist teachings, his family's Mexican-American or Hispanic or Chicanx or Mexica or "just American" origins, and high school riot grrrl mix tapes. Through traveling, sharing, and storytelling by film and spoken word, he focuses on the feeling of estrangement from society and analyzing seemingly conflicting identities—transman with strong lesbian roots, a monolingual mestizo with bilingual family, and a working-class Texan, raised on homemade flour tortillas and fast food, turned tech anti-bro. He recently left an international corporate life to become a civic technologist, improving the ways governments provide services to the public. He sits on the board of directors for Maven, a nonprofit that empowers LGBTQ+ youth to use technology for social change. ▼KATHERINE AGARD▼ Katherine is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Trinidad and Tobago. She recently graduated from the MFA program in Writing from UC - San Diego and now lives in San Francisco. You can find her writing in Yes Femmes, Anmly, the Black Warrior Review and forthcoming in Feminist Studies. ▼BARUCH PORRAS HERNANDEZ▼ Baruch Porras Hernandez is a queer Mexican Immigrant from Toluca, Mexico. He is a writer, performer, storyteller, playwright and stand-up comedian, a two-time winner of Literary Death Match, a Lambda Literary Poetry Fellow, a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and was named a Bay Area Writer to Watch! in 2016 by 7×7 San Francisco Magazine. He is the founder and host of ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? Latinx Literary Series, a regular KQED Arts host, and was the Voice of Shipwreck SF Erotic Fan Fiction Competition and podcast for four years and hosted the legendary SF Queer Open Mic for 7 years. His poems have been published in several anthologies and journals, both online and in print. Last summer he had the honor of being an artist in residence at the Ground Floor Summer Lab with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He lives in San Francisco. ▼IMANI SIMS▼ Imani Sims is a curator, alchemist, and author. She believes in the healing power of ritual, performance art, and the power of words. She is the Curator of Kitchen Sessions, a running show series in collaboration with Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and Theater Off Jackson. Her goal is to continue to shift the social narrative by providing artists of color with resources that empower and display our stories in public spaces all over the nation. Her book (A)live Heart is available on Sibling Rivalry Press.When she isn't working, you can find her on the couch with a chilled glass of rose. ▼JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA▼ Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer, historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award, and a finalist of the Clark- Gross Novel award, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants (Aunt Lute 2017) which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017). She's received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The SF Grotto, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in various publications. She’s the creative director of RADAR Productions. SPECIAL GUEST: Jessica Ry’Cheal

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[Qsc_asuw] Week 6 Newsletter

Welcome to Week Six! <3 We hope you have stayed safe and warm these past few days and continue to enjoy the days to come. REMINDER THAT THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW DUE TO CONTINUED DANGEROUS CONDITIONS, PLEASE STAY SAFE, take care of yourselves and each other. We hope you might find time to spend warmly with friends and community this week and engage in some necessary self-care. QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week: Amir Khadar Amir Khadar is a Non-binary West African multidisciplinary artist, whose main mediums are poetry, fibers, and digital art. For them, art is a space to rationalize their feelings as a marginalized individual, resist oppressive structures, and ultimately facilitate healing. Afrofuturism, black beauty, bitterness, hair, and spirituality are running themes in their work. Currently, Amir is a Sophomore at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where they are pursuing a B.F.A in Fibers and Humanistic studies.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday (Location TBD!)

REMINDER: Disability is an Asset: An Evening with Haben Girma this Wednesday, February 13th has been canceled and will be rescheduled.

Liberated Love: Growing a Healing Practice:

(Thursday, February 14) 6 PM - 8 PM @ The Rainier Arts Center

3515 S Alaska St, Seattle, WA 98118-1633

Experiencing hate is nothing new for us as LGBTQ+ people, particularly those of us LGBTQ folks that are also people of color. While national and local numbers of hate violence incidents’ are rising, we have known this hate to be true long before the numbers began to catch up. One of the most powerful ways we continue to resist hate and survive throughout the violence is by coming together; growing and sustaining deep, celebratory, and liberated communities rooted in love. Existing in community can be difficult though if we forget to tend to ourselves as well. Join the Northwest Network to learn and practice self-healing techniques. We hope for these techniques to serve as groundwork to engage and be fully present in communities, relationships, and families, of liberated love.

* More information about workshops and facilitators will be posted soon! Thank you for your patience.

This event is open to LGBTQ+ folks and their loved ones who have been affected by hate and hate violence.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Getting Here: The Rainier Arts Center is a 5-minute walk from the Columbia City Light Rail Station. Bus routes 7, 50, and 9 also stop within a block of the Rainier Arts Center.

The event space is the lower level of the Rainier Arts Building. The entrance for the space is on the northeast corner of the building. At the main entrance, there are both stairs and a ramp which lead into the basement of the building. The space has both ADA accessible and all gender restrooms. *Feel free to reach out with any other accessibility questions.

Winter Quarter Social Justice Film Series

(Wednesday, February 13, 2019) 6:30 PM

The Kelly ECC is back with another social justice film series for winter quarter!

Each Wednesday evening at 6:30, we'll be screening a film in the main lobby! We hope to see you there!

February's Focus: Black History Month

March's Focus: Women's History Month

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FILM LINE-UP:

• February 13: American Promise

• February 20: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

• February 27: Dark Girls

• March 6: Ladies First

• March 13: Neerja

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall.

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/maps

The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building.

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here:

metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

A Certain Type of Brilliance

(Thursday, February 14, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM @

Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center

517 E Pike St, Seattle, Washington 98122

Other Dates Offered:

FRIDAY FEB. 15 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

SATURDAY FEB. 16 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

SUNDAY FEB. 17 (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

https://www.gaycity.org/accessibility/

All restrooms are gender-neutral.

Smoking & Fragrances are prohibited on Gay City premises. Do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

All spaces, doors, and corridors are at least 32 inches wide and ADA compliant.

All doors in the building open manually.

Playfulness as Resistance! 25th Anniversary Party

(Saturday, February 16, 2019) 7 PM - 11 PM @ Jacob Lawrence Gallery

University of Washington Art Building 1915 Chelan Lane Seattle, WA 98195

Tickets: $15 General admission/$5 students

With DJ sets by:

SassyBlack

Felisha Ledesma (S1 Portland)

dos leches + Eve Defy (TUF Collective, Seattle)

Dive into a ball pit by Colleen Louise Barry, sip a cocktail crafted by our celebrity bartender Timothy Rysdyke, get a copy of the brand new MONDAY (Vol. 3), dance under an installation by Disco Nap, snack on a donut from General Porpoise, and leave wearing a temporary tattoo by Claire Cowie!

FOOD + DRINK + FUN!

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The gallery is wheelchair accessible.

The Gallery is smoking-free but not kept scent-free, we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

There are no dogs allowed in the gallery.

Generifus • Flying Fish Cove • Izumi

(Wednesday, February 20, 2019) 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM @

Timbre Room

1809 Minor Avenue #10, Seattle, Washington 98101

$8 • Doors at 7:30 • Music begins at 8pm sharp

Generifus •

Intricate and magnificent legendary rock pop from Olympia, WA

https://generifus.bandcamp.com

Flying Fish Cove •

Mythical melodies and dreamy moods, and they bop

Izumi •

Modern folk that is pure heart and magic spun into song

https://izumi.bandcamp.com

How The Body Hold's It's Stories

(Thursday, February 28, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM

Hugo House

1634 11th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122

How do our bodies hold onto experiences? How do generations of people of color, queer and trans people, and others who have experienced marginalization carry those stories over generations? Join writers Jordan Alam and Tessa Zeng for a reading and conversation on feeling a story in your bones and translating it to the page. Musician Lex Gavin will also perform. ABOUT THE PERFORMERS: Jordan Alam is a queer Bangladeshi-American writer, performer, and social change educator based out of Seattle. Her work engages with moments of rupture and transformation in the lives of people on the margins. Jordan’s work is heavily engaged in community, and she is a current Kundiman Pacific Northwest co-chair and 4Culture Artist Grant recipient. Her short stories and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, CultureStrike Magazine, The Rumpus, and AAWW’s The Margins; she has spoken at events including the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Eyes on Bangladesh exhibition. She is also the founder of the Asian American social justice publication, Project As [I] Am (http://www.project-as-i-am.com). Most recently, she has completed a fellowship with Town Hall Seattle to create collaborative performance pieces about stories of the body and been editing a draft of her debut novel. Lex Gavin is a multidisciplinary artist living in Seattle. Their brain (and thus their work) grapples with paradox, perception, nuance, and the failures of identity. They are interested in magic, neuroscience/somatics/epigenetics, and human systems. When they are not neglecting their creative pursuits, they work in the youth development field and play in the kitchen. Tessa Zeng is a writer, systems change advocate, and co-creative maker. She has been published in various poetry anthologies and journals, and received an Individualized BA from Goddard College for her work on social misrecognition. With their work, they hope to create beautiful experiences of interconnection and recognition that can heal traumas caused by oppressive structures.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The new Hugo House is fully ADA-compliant. If you require specific accommodations, please contact us so that we may assist you.

There are gender-neutral bathrooms.

Free, rapid HIV Testing and PrEP counseling provided by Lifelong.

First come, first serve, walk-in appointments available on the last Monday of every month during Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters!

Other Times Offered (All times at Q-Center from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM) :

Monday, February 25th

Monday, March 25

Monday, April 29

Monday, May 27

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Let’s Talk offers informal consultation – it is not a substitute for regular therapy, counseling, or psychiatric care. To learn more, visit

letstalk.washington.edu.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible and the common area is to the right of the main desk.

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

The ECC has single-stall gender-neutral bathrooms on each floor, near the gender-binary bathrooms to which signs are indicated.

Odegaard Library is not ADA accessible nor scent free.

All rooms in Mary Gates Hall are wheelchair accessible. Please contact the Disability Services Office at 206.543.6450 or [email protected]. MGH is not scent free.

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The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday in the Asian Room at the ECC!

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[Qsc_asuw] Week 7 Newsletter

Welcome to Week Seven! <3 QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week: Kendrick Daye: harlem based artist and designer burdened with glorious purpose.

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday in the ECC Asian room!

Queer NAPI Narratives is an open mic night centering queer Native, Asian, & Pacific Islander voices and stories through poetry, spoken word, singing, dance, and more! It seeks to explore the intersections of our identities, build solidarity, and ultimately provide a space to heal through art and community.

(Wednesday, February 20, 2019) 6 PM - 8 PM @ Parnassus Cafe and Gallery University of Washington - Basement of the Art Building, Seattle.

Sign-up form here: https://goo.gl/y2ytV6 OR at the event! This event is done in collaboration between the Queer Student Commission, the Asian Student Commission, the Pacific Islander Student Commission, & the American Indian Student Commission. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

We ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products or clothing in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

Gender-neutral bathrooms are on the 1st floor, Room 111; Basement, one near Stair #4 and one near Room 9.

To request a disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice), 206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-7264 (fax), or [email protected] preferably 10 days in advance.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and/or [email protected].

11TH ANNUAL EVERYBODY EVERY BODY FASHION SHOW! (Tuesday, February 19, 2019) 6 - 9 PM @ Both HUB Ballrooms FREE to students & the public. The ASUW Student Health Consortium's 11th Annual, Everybody Every Body Fashion Show aims to create dialogue around the discourse of bodies and identities. After 10 great years of showcasing the multitude of students that attend this school, your peers and deconstructing what health looks like in different bodies, we are excited to continue this tradition of destigmatization! - Keynote Speaker: Jes Baker - Caricature artists from 5:30-7:30pm (HUB 2nd floor) - Photo gallery - Refreshments provided - Photo booth & props - DJ live music - Fashion Show Starts at 7 PM - Performances by Hip Hop Student Association and UW Kahaani Keynote Speaker: Jes Baker is a positive, progressive, and magnificently irreverent force to be reckoned with in the realm of self-love advocacy and mental health. Jes is internationally recognized for her books, writing on her blog, The Militant Baker, the “Attractive and Fat” campaign, and her dedication to shifting social paradigms into a place where all people are offered the opportunity to love themselves just as they are. The "Attractive and Fat" campaign drew coverage from CNN, the Today Show, the BBC, and many other national and international media networks. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Event venue is mobility aid accessible.

HUB Ballrooms are on the second floor, with elevator access.

An all-genders restroom can be found on the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

The Husky Union Building is near landmarks such as Allen Library, Padelford and Sieg. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: http://www.washington.edu/maps/.

Short Talks: Love (Thursday, February 21, 2019) 7 PM - 9:30 PM @ KEXP Gathering Space Seattle, Washington 98109

When the personal is political, love makes all the difference. In celebration of the Q Center at the University of Washington’s 15th anniversary, four recent alumni will share their personal stories of love — of themselves, for the community and as a catalyst for change. $7 UWAA members / $10 public Featuring speakers Selma Al-Aswad, ’09, ’10, Helen "Hel" Gebreamlak, ’18, Jaimée Marsh, ’09 and Casey Wynecoop, ’16, with moderator Randy Ford. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

How to get here: KEXP is located at the northwest corner of Seattle Center's campus just north the Seattle Arena project and a short walk from the Space Needle, MoPop, Chihuly Garden and Glass, McCaw Hall, Seattle Center Armory and more. The main entrance is on 1st Ave N between Harrison and Republican, and all public entrances are accessible.

From I-5 - Take the Mercer Street Exit and follow the signs to Seattle Center. Turn left on Warren Avenue North.

Metro busses northbound #1, 2, 8, 13, 32 and RapidRide D Line stop at our front door. To find bus routes, visit www.tripplanner.kingcounty.gov

The Monorail can bring you from downtown to Seattle Center campus, a short walk from KEXP.

Lyft car share has a drop-off point near KEXP at Warren and Republican streets.

Parking: KEXP has no dedicated parking. There is paid street parking surrounding Seattle Center and Seattle Center parking garages are located around the campus. There is bike parking available within the courtyard to the east of our building.

Let's Talk About Inspiration Porn with Rooted in Rights @ HUB Room 334 (Thursday, February 21, 2019) 2:30 - 4:30 PM)

Re-telling disabled stories. Challenging 'Inspiration Porn' and Celebrating the Stories of Disabled People

Join Rooted in Rights and the D Center for an afternoon of storytelling and disability culture. In this workshop, we will discuss the topic of 'Inspiration Porn' and why its harmful messaging perpetuates ableist narratives that denigrate the lives of disabled people. As well we will facilitate a safe and creative space for attendees to share and celebrate their stories.

"Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity'... disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live." - Neil Marcus PLEASE RSVP ON EVENTBRITE IF PLANNING TO ATTEND: http://www.bit.ly/inspoporn-workshop ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Standard platform ASL and CART captioning will be provided.

Event venue is mobility aid accessible.

Please arrive scent free or wash off at the provided station. For other access needs or inquiries please email [email protected].

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

Winter Quarter Social Justice Film Series (Wednesday, February 20, 2019) 6:30 PM

The Kelly ECC is back with another social justice film series for winter quarter!

Each Wednesday evening at 6:30, we'll be screening a film in the main lobby! We hope to see you there!

February's Focus: Black History Month March's Focus: Women's History Month ------ FILM LINE-UP: • February 20: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross • February 27: Dark Girls • March 6: Ladies First • March 13: Neerja ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall.

For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/maps

The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building.

There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

Alchemy Poetry Featuring Christopher Diaz and Amy Lp with Dayana (Tuesday, February 19 2019) 7 PM - 9:30 PM @ Alchemy Poetry 1408 E Pike Street, Seattle, Washington 98122

Alchemy is a curated performance art space that elevates voices that are often silenced. Performers in our community focus on the brilliance of storytelling by offering personal stories and reflections that are socially relevant. We are powerful artists and our space allows our audience to witness the craft at its highest form. We believe that art is a divine power to create community.

Every first, third and sometimes fifth Tuesday of the month at 7pm, we call on two featured performers and a showcase mic at Lovecitylove.

Limited Showcase Mic Spots ALL AGES, $5 Admission

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Entry door to LoveCityLove is at least 32 inches wide

Restroom is single stall.

There is a grab bar installed in this restroom, clearance measures TBD.

There are 2 couches, and 20 folding chairs available in the space. We ask that the audience prioritize folks that need to be seated during the show.

Parking is paid street parking, or there is a paid lot on the east side of the building.

We are located near bus routes 11,12, and 2 and 0.4 miles away from the Broadway and Pike Streetcar stop.

That We Should Be Heirs Writing Workshop (Friday, February 22, 2019) 2:30 PM - 4 PM @ Student Union Building (HUB) room 332 A call to immigrant and refugee families to participate in a collaborative arts project from our colleagues at the Southeast Asia Center at the University of Washington:

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

Event venue is mobility aid accessible, the HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible.

Please arrive scent free or wash off at the provided station. For other access needs or inquiries please email [email protected].

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

The Husky Union Building is near landmarks such as Allen Library, Padelford and Sieg. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: http://www.washington.edu/maps/.

Generifus • Flying Fish Cove • Izumi (Wednesday, February 20, 2019) 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM @ Timbre Room

1809 Minor Avenue #10, Seattle, Washington 98101

$8 • Doors at 7:30 • Music begins at 8pm sharp Generifus • Intricate and magnificent legendary rock pop from Olympia, WA https://generifus.bandcamp.com Flying Fish Cove • Mythical melodies and dreamy moods, and they bop Izumi • Modern folk that is pure heart and magic spun into song https://izumi.bandcamp.com

How The Body Hold's It's Stories (Thursday, February 28, 2019) 7 PM - 9 PM

Hugo House 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122

How do our bodies hold onto experiences? How do generations of people of color, queer and trans people, and others who have experienced marginalization carry those stories over generations? Join writers Jordan Alam and Tessa Zeng for a reading and conversation on feeling a story in your bones and translating it to the page. Musician Lex Gavin will also perform. ABOUT THE PERFORMERS: Jordan Alam is a queer Bangladeshi-American writer, performer, and social change educator based out of Seattle. Her work engages with moments of rupture and transformation in the lives of people on the margins. Jordan’s work is heavily engaged in community, and she is a current Kundiman Pacific Northwest co-chair and 4Culture Artist Grant recipient. Her short stories and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, CultureStrike Magazine, The Rumpus, and AAWW’s The Margins; she has spoken at events including the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Eyes on Bangladesh exhibition. She is also the founder of the Asian American social justice publication, Project As [I] Am (http://www.project-as-i-am.com). Most recently, she has completed a fellowship with Town Hall Seattle to create collaborative performance pieces about stories of the body and been editing a draft of her debut novel. Lex Gavin is a multidisciplinary artist living in Seattle. Their brain (and thus their work) grapples with paradox, perception, nuance, and the failures of identity. They are interested in magic, neuroscience/somatics/epigenetics, and human systems. When they are not neglecting their creative pursuits, they work in the youth development field and play in the kitchen. Tessa Zeng is a writer, systems change advocate, and co-creative maker. She has been published in various poetry anthologies and journals, and received an Individualized BA from Goddard College for her work on social misrecognition. With their work, they hope to create beautiful experiences of interconnection and recognition that can heal traumas caused by oppressive structures.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The new Hugo House is fully ADA-compliant. If you require specific accommodations, please contact us so that we may assist you.

There are gender-neutral bathrooms.

Monday, February 25th

Monday, March 25

Monday, April 29

Monday, May 27

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

Mondays, 2-4 PM, Odegaard Library Room 222

Tuesdays, 2-4 PM, Ethnic Cultural Center Room 306

Wednesdays, 2-4 PM, Q Center (HUB 315)

Thursdays, 2-4 PM, Mary Gates Hall Room 134E

Let’s Talk offers informal consultation – it is not a substitute for regular therapy, counseling, or psychiatric care. To learn more, visit letstalk.washington.edu. ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The HUB’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible and the common area is to the right of the main desk.

An all-genders restroom can be found at the 3rd floor, down the hallway from the Q Center. Gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls can be found on each floor of the HUB.

The ECC has single-stall gender-neutral bathrooms on each floor, near the gender-binary bathrooms to which signs are indicated.

Odegaard Library is not ADA accessible nor scent free.

All rooms in Mary Gates Hall are wheelchair accessible. Please contact the Disability Services Office at 206.543.6450 or [email protected]. MGH is not scent free.

Thank you for being a part of our community <3

We are so glad that you are here, and we are so glad to get to know you!

Have questions about the QSC? Just want to get involved? Find our office hours online at hours.asuw.org. To hear more from the QSC be sure to like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter & instagram to stay up to date with all queer and trans related happenings on campus and in Seattle!

With love,

Mehria Ibrahimi, Outreach & Engagement Intern.

#events #qcs #qpoca #let's talk #hugo house #lifelong

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