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Session 1 - Saturday 10:00am to 11:20am

Gender Neutral Restrooms
Sarah Archibald (UC San Diego) & Debbi Blake (UC San Diego)

Hot, Healthy, & Sex Positive!
Jenny Hoang (A&PI Wellness Center)

So there’s a hottie at this conference that you want to get to know better? Well here’s you chance to figure out how. Come and learn about how to go after what you want, learn some dating skills, and see how you can make your world more sex positive. Join our session to utilize great tools to work the dating game and show us how hot and healthy you can be.

How to Run a CLUH???? Workshop on Your Campus
Emme Bruns (UC Santa Cruz)

An interactive workshop and discussion for activists interested in spreading education about heterosexism and homophobia on campus. CLUH (Challenging, Learning about, and Understanding Heterosexism) is a 10 year old organization at UCSC that has run workshops on campus dealing with the differences between heterosexism and homophobia and the ways in which they fit within the broader social contexts of privilege, power, and binary modes of thought. This program contains and interactive workshop as well as a follow up discussion of how to run a similar workshop on your campus.

In Our Own Words: A Chican@/Latin@ Dictionary of Gender and Sexuality
Ed’d Luna (UC Davis)

This workshop is meant to introduce the ways that traditional notions gender and sexuality shape the Chican@ community's treatment of queer people and womyn. An exploration of the origins of hate vocabulary will preceed a discussion of ways to mediate the culture clash between our parents' generation and ours.

“Kings On the Road" - Documentary Film
38mins. Director Sonia Slutsky, Lakeland Productions, CAN
Sile Singleton

Join SILE SINGLETON as she is joined by members of the KINGDOM COME TOUR documentary, in a post abbreviated screening discussion about their involvement in this ground-breaking and celebrated work, filmed in part on the stages of the NWMF '03. 4 Americans and 5 Canadians performing FTM gender twist up and down the country-side--a must see for sure!

Laramie Inside Out--Documentary Film
Beverly Seckinger (University of Arizona)

In October 1998, Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die. His shocking murder pushed Laramie into the media spotlight and sparked a nationwide debate about homophobia, gay-bashing and hate crimes. Filmmaker Beverly Seckinger, a Laramie native, returns home to the site of her own closeted adolescence to investigate the impact of Shepard's murder. She encounters students, teachers, parents, and clergy suddenly moved to speak out and take social action. A deeply inspiring story of personal discovery and the meaning of community.

Out at Work: Making Work Place Equality a Reality
Francisco Duenas (Lambda Legal)

Has the gritty reality of Workplace Inequality been overshadowed by the allure of the future promises of marriage equality? As we go to work day in and day out, the luxury of Being Out at work is NOT a reality for most of us. This workshop will cover what “on the job” rights our LGBT communities have and lack. What you can do to exercise those rights and how you can be a part of expanding them. Becoming a more effective workplace equality advocate. What you need to know to protect yourself, your family and your livelihood!

Polyamory Caucus

Queer Disability
Carolyn Tyjewski (UC Davis)

QUEER MIQ: Polypoetry for the People
Sarwat Rumi

Experiment with group expression! In this workshop we will engage our multifaceted identities as Asian, American, Queer, as people of spiritual practice, as atheists, as scientists, as artists, as chocolate eaters, as terrible-at-math folk. We will explore our personal hirstories through theater exercises and creative writing, ultimately achieving group ecstasy as a spoken word spit of our uncloseted stories. We hope. Please wear comfy clothing and bring your journals.... You do not need to identify as a poet or spoken word artist to attend this workshop!

Recruitment and Organization Building for Campus Groups
Steven Alvarez (UC Santa Cruz)

Staff and Faculty Caucus and Reception
Joy Fergoda (UC Davis)

A forum for staff and faculty to informally discuss queer issues as they relate to staff, faculty and students in various campus settings.

You Say Allies, I Say Safe Zone: An LGBT Support Model for College Campuses
Jami Grosser (UC Riverside)

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students face multiple challenges on college campuses. The Allies program at the University of California, Riverside and the Safe Zone program at Arizona State University provide a model for reaching out to LGBT students. Allies are students, staff, and faculty of any sexual orientation who pledge to support LGBT people, educate themselves about LGBT issues and resources, and publicly declare their ally status by displaying an ally placard. This session provides tools and resources for creating an allies program on any campus.

Session 2 - Saturday 2:00pm to 2:50pm

African American Caucus
Arlisha Adams (UC Davis) & Rien Murray (NY Black Gay Network)

The Big O: Creating a QPOC Safe Zone on Your Campus
Aldrich Tan (UC Davis) & Kalim Khogiani (UC Davis)

This workshop invites queer people to discuss their involved their involvement in the mainstream LGBT community with a focus on Queers of Color communities, as well as educate on how UC Davis has created a safe zones to empower those who aren't out enough to take advantage of such communities.

En(gay)ging OUR Community
Kristo Gobin (San Jose State University) & Teresa Perales (San Jose State University)

This program is designed to provide a discussion about the biases within our community. We will analyze issues such as current issues in the media, exclusion of minorities within our minority and what we can do to form a conscious and more aware community. Please come prepared to network, make contacts, and claim a space.

Family Feud: Queer API Issues
Dianne Chui (UC Davis)

Take a break from all the intense workshops by participating in a game-show style workshop that will educate you on the issues that queer API’s go through.

Intersecting Inequalities: Mental and Community Health Issues for Marginalized Women
Sabrina Akbar Alimahomed (UC Riverside)

Queer women of color experience multiple intersecting inequalities that position them on the margins of society. As people who are oppressed by their gender, race, and sexuality, it is imperative to examine the ways these women maneuver between and among different identity based communities. This research attempts to uncover the different ways queer women of color are marginalized culturally and structurally in the LGBTIQ community as well as their respective racial/ethnic communities in regards to their identity. This presentation will shed light on how women of color articulate their marginalization and how they actively resist and conform to notions of hegemonic gender, race/ethnic, class, and queer representations.

The Mystical Gaze of Queer Attraction: Supernatural Vision as a Metaphor of Queerness in Interwar Popular Culture
David Chiu (UC Davis)

Ideas about magic and the supernatural in the Interwar West were dominated the image of the gazing individual, whether it be monsters voyeuristically looking in or mesmerists projecting power with their eyes. These supernatural notions intersected with subtexts about queerness, making vision a dominant metaphor in depictions of homosexuality. By examining monster movies and Conan the Barbarian stories, as well as the writings of Bataille, it will be useful to see how the monstrous queer gaze of the Interwar West anticipates the Foucauldian panoptic one.

Queer Media
Jenn de la Vega (KDVS)

We will discuss the many entertainment outlets that are available to us and how people of the LGBTI community express themselves and become involved in the mass media.

The Rhetoric of Rainbow or Why Are All the Gay People White?
Sile Singleton

Singleton ponders and challenges the belief that communities of color are more homophobic than white communities. She explores the effects of these beliefs in a community that presents itself as accepting of difference. These ideas are presented as ideas for a jumping off point for panel discussion. Panel discussion will include performers for tonight s show KING HEAT brought to you by Fast Friday Productions.

Sexterpiece Theatre
Cowell Health Center (UC Davis)

Health Education and Promotion, of the Cowell Student Health Center, proudly presents selected scenes from: Sexterpiece Theatre! Sexterpiece is a theatrical production by UC Davis students, for students, working to educate and promote healthy ideas regarding sexual health and wellness embracing acceptance of all aspects of sexual orientation.

Writing Your Queer Experience
Jaime Clevenger (UC Davis)

We will discuss ways to achieve creative expression of your LGBT experience through short autobiographical clips. Each workshop participant will be encouraged to write a short story about one event that defined or encouraged their identity as an LGBT community member/activist. We will make this a fun and positive experiment - not extra homework! The stories that are generated through the workshop will be posted online (only by those willing to share their work). This workshop will also provide information for anyone wishing to publish LGBT novels and short stories.

Session 3 - Saturday 3:00pm to 4:20pm

A Lo Mero Macho: What It Means To Be a Man
Eddie Carmona (UC Davis)

A discussion forum dedicated to raising awareness on issues of sexism, homophobia as misogyny, the influence of the Catholic Church, as well as the influence of Indigenous cultures! La discussion va ser conducida en Espanol e Ingles. The discussion will be in Spanish and English.

Allies Caucus
Sponsored by the UC Davis Cross Cultural Center
Diego Luna (UC Davis)

Bitching, Eroticizing, and Dating in the Age of HIV/AIDS
Bryant Tan (A&PI Wellness Center)

Sex is fun, but it sure can get complicated. You have to worry about STIs, HIV, drugs, your partner’s history, if you’re good in bed. Come to this workshop to liberate yourself with a frank discussion about sex, the risks that come with it, and making decisions in the heat of the moment. Get educated about HIV and how to keep your sex hot and safe.

Family of Family: The Asian Pacific Islander American Experience
Jeff Lagasca (UC Davis)

You may have been in that space of asking yourself whether or not you had the courage and openness. “Should I come out to my family?” and “What’s going to happen to me?”. Asian Pacific Islander Americans may face greater stigmas in coming out to family due to cultural traditions and lack of communication and education in regards to sexuality. For once, let’s take a look into the Asian Family’s perspective with a panel of non-queer Asians discussing their experiences and opinions of having a family member coming out to them.

queer womyn of colour caucus
Arlisha Adams (UC Davis) & Pam Libed (UC Davis)

a safe space for queer womyn of colour to share & discuss lived experiences & gender, cultural, queer, & gender/cultural/queer politics, & intersecting identities.

Sex Positivity
Goodvibes.com

Encourages participants to feel good about sex and non-judgmentally celebrate sexuality by: defining a sex positive attitude and how negative messages affect our daily lives, breaking down ideas of "normal" by exploring variety in personal fantasies and experiences, brainstorming the value (or sexiness) of consensual "taboo" activities, discovering personal barriers through self-awareness exercises , and providing information on pleasure physiology and sexual response

Sexuality: Genetics or Environment?
Phoenix Eagleshadow (UC Santa Cruz)

We will discuss the impact of genes on sexuality, dispel common myths, and address key questions about how genetic information impacts our lives. Now that we understand more about our DNA, we have to be careful about how this knowledge is used. We need to ensure that it is used for purposes that benefit all people equally, without discrimination, and that it isn’t used to cause harm.

Slash Fanfiction and the Queer Community
Stacy Hartman (UC Santa Cruz) & Mozelle Foreman (UC Santa Cruz)

We will be examining slash fanfiction, with a focus on how it is utilized to disrupt gender binaries but also to reinforce them. We will be looking at both male and female slash, discussing why male or male centered slash is predominate. We will look at homophobia within the slash community, as well as stereotypes of queer relationships and how they are heterorelationized in slash fiction.

So You Wanna See Some Change Happen? Well, What Are You Going To Do About It?
Monroe France

This interactive session will provide students the tools to move from apathy to action by examining through models, case studies, dialogue, and approaches to building coalitions committed to creating social change on campus. Students are asked to explore the many issues and challenges that fall within the expansive category of social justice by examining concepts of power, privilege, and access. Frameworks for creating social justice initiatives that include constructive student, staff, and faculty coalitions centered on identifying and dismantling barriers to institutional change will be explored. Participants will construct a collective plan of action that can be utilized on their college campuses. In short, "Be the change you want to see happen."

Youth Speak: Gay Straight Alliances Report Schools Aren't Making the Grade
Donna Matthews (GLSEN GSAC)

Gay-Straight Alliances have driven the struggle for equal rights in California schools further in the past few years than any amount of adult advocacy has. As queer, straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth activists in California learn that anti-harassment laws have been in place for four years to protect them, they are demanding their rights and calling those accountable to task for breaking the law. Listen as students from regional schools share who they are and how they are creating change across the state! Learn how the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) supports these student leaders.

Session 4 - Saturday 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Bulding On Community Strengths and Assets
Rien Murray (New York State Black Gay Network)

Working with diverse communities can be a challenging task. This workshop will tackle this challenge and opportunity, especially in working with black same-sex desiring communities by engaging participants in activities that: A)Help them to identify community strengths and assets that can support this work, B) Partner in Strategizing around community assets, and C) Share tactics that build community power across identities and experiences.

Building the Jigsaw Pieces
Kenny Kroll (UC Berkeley)

Built and good jigsaw puzzles lately? Have you ever been involved with the Resource Center for Queer students on your campus? Does your college have a strong, organized and active Queer Resource Center??? Are you aware of the programs, events or socials, historic or current, which come out of your school? Would you even be interested in helping to formulate future happenings in your area between different campuses? Aren’t you interested to see what the other campuses are doing? Well, it is high time we found answers to these questions. Join me at our Building the Jigsaw Pieces workshop. It’s high time we started making some lasting relations! With members from each of the Queer Student Resource Centers from every University of California campus and beyond, we hope to present the work we’ve done in the past, those projects which we’re currently entertaining and future, dream ideas we’re conjuring up. This workshop is a continuation and follow-up of the revolutionary meeting we had at last year‚s conference. Come to listen, come to participate, come to learn, come to represent, come to get involved, and come to build yourself and your campus into the newest jigsaw piece in the big, Queer picture.

Drop It Like It's Hot: Coming Out in 2005
Tommi Ko (A&PI Wellness Center)

We all go through it and we know it’s tough. Are you still in the closet? Still figuring out what it means to come out and how to do it? Want to get a better understanding of your sexuality? Join this workshop to share your experiences and find some support for letting yourself and others know about your sexuality. We promise, this won’t be your typical coming out workshop. Queers of color especially recommended.

“Hey You Fags, Dykes and Freaks!!” The Ugly Reality of Anti-LGBT Hate Crimes
Jami Grosser (UC Riverside) & Fernando Estrada (Cal Poly Pomona)

This workshop will explore the issue of anti-LGBT hate crimes and hate incidents. A terrorizing and ugly reality that exists in our community, the workshop aims at increasing awareness on the distinction between hate crimes versus hate incidents. Additionally, the workshop will explore the alarming phenomenon of underreporting as well as offer solutions to overcome those barriers. The workshop will use current statistics, real-life scenarios and interactive activities to explore the on-going reality of crimes motivated by hate.

Intersex & the LGBT Movement
Emi Koyama

This workshop covers basic understanding of intersex experiences and movement, including common misperceptions that exist among its LGBT allies, and explores ways in which intersex and LGBT movements can work together most effectively.

Learn To Say YES [to sex...] It's as important as learning to say NO
Lani Ka’ahumanu

An informative hands-on interactive non-judgmental romp with latex, lube, gloves, condoms, toys, etc... Demonstrations using sex and body positive language and role modeling. Learn basic tips and techniques to navigate the ins and outs of safer sex. Challenge shame and the misinformation mainstream culture and institutions perpetuate about sexuality and our precious bodies. No assumptions made about sexual experience, sexual and gender identity and/or behavior. Feel no shame for your desire.

LGBTQIA Self Defense
Becca Loya (UC Davis)

This workshop will include awareness, prevention, risk reduction and realistic self-defense techniques specifically tailored for the LGBTQI community. Participants will learn risk reduction strategies and have an opportunity for hands-on practice with realistic physical defense tactics. Open to all genders.

Marriage Equality in the Broader Context of ALL LGBT Rights
Francisco Duenas (Lambda Legal - Western Regional Office)

This workshop will analyze how marriage rights are connected to all LGBT rights. Recently, issues have been raised about the LGBT community’s current focus on marriage equality. Some are concerned that we are neglecting more pressing issues. Others feel we’ve allowed marriage to be used as a “wedge” issue. Increased media attention feeds the perception that we are “all marriage, all the time.” Come discuss how marriage equality grows out of past victories for LGBT rights and strategize about how we can use the current momentum to make strides on a broader agenda and push for total equality of LGBT people.

Safe Sex Inservice
Brought to you by UC Davis ASUCD Gender and Sexuality Commission
Goodvibes.com

Modeled for those who want to start educating their respective campuses about safer sex and how to increase awareness about personal discomfort, improving communication with clients by addressing language, increasing empathy for clients with diverse sexual behaviors or interests, teaching how to look for underlying barriers to safer sex behavior and providing counselors with specific suggestions for addressing these barriers, providing information on pleasure physiology and sexual response, and finally providing sex toy, book and video information as resources

The Survivors Everywhere Project: Survivors of Childhood/Sexual Assault

A safe space for survivors of childhood/sexual assault & allies to share personal stories. We will examine the negative stereotype of LGBTQI's child molestation & the affects of this stereotype on the queer community, queer survivors, & the stigmas on different genders.

Trans Health Care Caucus

Youth Caucus
Bryant Tan (A&PI Wellness Center)

Session 5 - Sunday 9:00am to 9:50am

How Queer Do You Have To Be? Including Bisexual, Identity Questioning, and Straight Allies in Your Campus Queer Community
Angela Ward (Humboldt State University)

Do you invite your straight friends to queer student meetings? Do you consider a bisexual in a heterosexual relationship to be a queer community member? Do you ever assume that everyone at a queer student meeting is queer without asking? This workshop will discuss current perceptions of who gets to participate in campus queer communities, ways to help people who are not openly queer feel included in activities and meetings, and address ways to reach out to allies on campus. Join us to learn tools for connecting your organization to the greater campus community.

Intersections of Transgender Rights and Feminist Movement

How have transpeople been represented in mainstream feminism? How does transphobia work together with racism, capitalism, sexism, heterosexism and ableism? What kinds of assumptions might feminist theory make about the kinds of bodies that are “women‚s‰ bodies or “men‚s‰ bodies? This workshop will explore the connections between transgender rights and feminist practice through a brief presentation and facilitated discussion.

Jew and Q
David Chiu (UC Davis)

This is an open invitation to Jews and Gentiles alike, to come and in a safe environment discuss intersections between Judaism, Jewish culture, and Queerness.

Politics of Public Sex, Gay Men Break the Silence
Enzo Ybarra (AIDS Project L.A.’s Mpowerment Youth Program)

This is a workshop that aims to explore and share the dynamics of a public sex venue. We will discuss, race and class as it informs the choices of those who participate in public sex as well as how it informs risk behavior and exposure to STD’s and HIV. A paradigm for a hierarchy of gay sex will also be presented as it relates to ideas of love, value and safety. The workshop will mainly focus on these dynamics as they are played out in Elysian Park.

Queer as Folk, White as F***
Kevin Mann (UC San Diego)

In the LGBT community whiteness dominates. In LGBT communities, spaces, media - EVERYTHING queer people are often left out of the picture. Seen as a “minority within a minority” QPOC students are often discriminated against, racially profiled and sexually objectified within the very communities they seek to feel safe in. This workshop will address the concept of whiteness and the qpoc community.

QCCC: Queer College Coalition of California
J.C Oropez & David Kilgo

The Queer College Coalition of California (QC3) is the recognized student forum for Queer College Students advocating student interests on-campuses and in local, state and national forums. The QC3 strives to develop relevant and quality-minded services and experiences, which are responsive to members of the campuses and surrounding communities. The QC3 fosters meaningful student development opportunities through leadership, volunteer, and employment experiences. In addition to out-of-classroom learning opportunities, the QC3 provides campus community members with important social, cultural, and recreational opportunities as well as a wide range of programs and services. In recognition of its responsibility to enhance queer student life, the QC3 encourages and supports the activities of all campus queer recognized student organizations whose activities stimulate individual and group participation within the higher education community.

Queer Geek Identity Caucus
Anna Mattinson (UC Santa Cruz)

Are you Geeky and Queer? Is your method of self-expression nonexistent or considered obscure, extreme, nonsensical, mathematical, anti-social, or otherwise conflicting with mainstream or popular queerdom? Is your idea of an enjoyable evening discussing Star Trek episodes, playing RPGs, watching anime, reading fantasy novels, or something else that your other queer friends just don't seem to understand? The Queer Geek identity caucus is a safe space for us to come together and talk about the issues about being a Queer Geek in a supportive environment. We ask that only those who identify as Queer Geeks attend.

Queer Migrations
Hector Marin-Rodas (UC Davis)

This will look into the effects of Immigration laws and patterns in the United States and how they affect the LGBTSTQIA community.

United By Love, Divided By Law
Belinda Ryan,(Immigration Equality SF)

One of the 1138 Federal Rights that Married couples receive but are denied to Gay couples is the right of an American to sponsor their partner for Immigration. We will address the Immigration Struggle facing LGBT Immigrants and their American partners. Many foreign students come to the US to study and then fall in love and face extremly challenging times seeking to stay with their partner. We will discuss the effects of "Gay Marriage" on the Bi-National same-sex couples. Asylum and HIV waivers and the Permanent Partners Immigration Act.

Session 6 - Sunday 11:30am to 12:20pm

"But I Have a(n) 'Other' Friend..." "Reverse Racism" and the Construction of Whiteness in Progressive Politics
Diego Luna (UC Davis)

How does being white, “acting white”, being thought of as white, being thought of as not white or having nothing to do with white, affect your life and your activism? Come prepared to personally and politically deconstruct what it means to be white and what it is means to be not white in a society that desperately needs be real and upfront with its obsession with whiteness.

Language and Culture Barriers
David Do (UC Davis)

This workshop will expose the difficulties of being a first generation Queer Person of Color stuck in-between two languages and two cultures. We will specifically address and discuss the communication problems of being separated by a language and culture barrier and how being queer can leave a person lost in the midst.

Mouth Moving Freely: Poetry and Dance with Ray Fernandez
Ray Fernandez (AIDS Project L.A.’s Mpowerment Youth Program)

In this workshop I will present work on issues of body, family, longing and love, joteria and friendship. I will also use movement as a way to communicate and express when words aren’t enough.

Mpowerment LGBT Youth and Media, Addressing Issues of Violence, Homophobia, HIV/AIDS and Community Mobilization
Tomas Parker (AIDS Project L.A.’s Mpowerment Youth Program)

In this workshop we will be presenting four short videos of youth activists addressing issues such as violence, HIV/AIDS, coming out and community building. The videos will be used generate public discussion around issues affecting Queer youth and media use as a tool for activism and community building and knowledge sharing.

The Penetrator: Gender Identity Through Pornography
Matthew Taylor (CSU San Bernadino)

This workshop is a beginning discussion about the dichotomy of the adult industry and its effects on gender identity. I will present information that discerns the difference between heterosexual pornography and gay erotica, based upon the gendered power dynamics first examined by Feminist theorists Andrea Dworkin and Catherine Mackinnon. This workshop will also address issues of race and racial stereotypes and how they affect the industry and gender identity as a commodity.

Queer Connection: Theory As a Puzzle Framework
Yancey Gulley (Long Beach City College)

What is queer? From where did the framework of queer theory emerge? What is queer theory? What does queer theory say? What/Who is included in discussions of queer theory? This presentation is designed to explore these questions and more. Queer theory is one framework through which the puzzle of our intertwined existence is put together. At its root, it is inclusive of all non-normative sexual beings. It deals with issues of sex, sexual preference, sexual desire, gender, perversion, stigmatization, empowerment, etc. Join us for the queer connection.

Queer Greek Caucus
Sponsored by Delta Lambda Phi of UC Davis
Maveric Vu (UC Davis)

Stonewall Hall & Gender Neutral Housing
Nancy Jean Tubbs (UC Riverside) and Bryon Nuttall (UC Riverside)

In Fall 2005, UC Riverside will open Stonewall Hall, the first gender-neutral residence hall living community at a public University. Learn how UCR created an LGBTQQIA theme hall inclusive of Transgender residents; the creation of gender-neutral housing within Stonewall Hall and without; and model Housing Policies Related to Gender Identity/Expression.

TransAction Steps: Creating Change on Your Campus
Jessica Pettitt (Arizona State)

UCLGBTIA Student Caucus
Jeff Lagasca (UC Davis)

Help affect the UC-wide LGBTQI student agenda! Insert yourself into the University of California Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Association (UCLGBTIA).

Session 7 - Sunday 12:30am to 2:00pm

Connecting Communities and Identities
Jeff Lagasca (UC Davis), Ed’d Luna (UC Davis) & Diego Luna (UC Davis)

We often see those faces in the crowd, but never think twice about the person behind the image. Let's look deeper to see who's behind the image. Breaking boundaries between groups and individuals we'll share identities and experiences as LGBTQI identified individuals. Time to finally put the puzzle together!

On the Forefront: Fighting for Equality
Steve Hansen (Equality California)

At the forefront of the fight for LGBT equality stand regular people in committed same-sex relationships who want and deserve the same rights as straight couples. Equality California’s Legislative Advocate and several of the couples from the front lines will discuss how to fight and win equality.

Playing the Game
Lindsey Swift Arrow (UC Berkeley)

You have the pieces, but do you know how to make your game work? Come on in and learn about STDs, safer sex supplies, and how to pleasure yourself and others. Learn about various condoms, flavored and non-, and which lube you’ll like best. Afterwards walk away with a bit of supplies too!

Queer People of Color Caucus
Rigo Marquez (UC San Diego)

Queer Leadership On Your Campus
Jenn de la Vega (UC Davis)

The Associated Students of UC Davis have a legislative component called the Gender and Sexuality Commission. Gender, Sexuality, and sexual assault awareness and education is now established within Student Government. Join us in recapping the history of GASC and a panel discussion with UC Davis Campus leaders on mobilizing their activism.

Safe Zone Roundtable: Brainstorming
Angelina Malfitano, UC Davis

Bring your Safe Zone program to the table and discuss with other campus leaders how they have implemented ally development programs. This is a chance to share information on what has worked, what hasn't and how to create more successful Safe Zone programs on all of our campuses. This is not an actual Safe Zone workshop, but more of a collaborative brainstorming session.

Strategizing Student Power
Steven Alvarez (UC Santa Cruz)

Transnational: Trans People in the Latin@ Community
Hector Marin-Rodas (UC Davis)

This will consist of a cursory look into Latin America society overall with little concentration on the individual states because of the number and complexities in each one. This program will take a look at the general cultural similarities throughout all of Latin America, and the commonalities in their understanding, or lack thereof, of Gender Identity while addressing machismo and sexism.