tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15465209286420629212024-03-18T21:48:27.626-07:00California Campus LGBTQ Centersradical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-35154872739471257652020-10-30T11:19:00.002-07:002023-02-23T15:01:40.207-08:00Selecting Trans-Affirming Camp Sites for Retreats<p><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">Why T-Camp -- An InterCampus Retreat for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Questioning College Students -- Will Return to Pilgrim Pines Camp</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">Or... please enjoy my yelp review!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">On the last day of the 9th annual <a href="https://out.ucr.edu/programs/tcamp"><span style="color: #1155cc;">T-Camp</span></a> - an intercampus retreat for transgender, nonbinary, and gender questioning college students - I asked Pilgrim Pines Camp Director Connie if I could write a guest blog post for the camp’s web site. I wanted to share with future T-Campers why we return every year to this particular camp facility in the San Bernardino mountains in Southern California, as well as give organizers of similar retreats some tips for what to look for when researching locations. And I wanted to do a happy shout out to our excellent camp hosts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">That moment was in early 2020, and the rest of 2020 has been… interesting. Due to COVID-19, we are delaying our next T-Camp by a year. And Pilgrim Pines Camp has barely survived the El Dorado wildfire. But T-Campers will be back, and here are my thoughts on why we will return to Pilgrim Pines Camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">At T-Camp, we create an intentional community over three days in which T-Campers can be our authentic selves with minimal need to defend against strangers’ hurtful comments. Thus we look for camp locations where we can use the entire facility without running into other camp guests. We also need a camp that can accommodate around 60 people in one big circle. And Pilgrim Pines Camp can accommodate us in the Main lodge. We need multiple indoor breakout spaces, and Pilgrim Pines Camp offers several smaller lodges.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span lang="EN">Learn more about </span></i><span lang="EN"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="https://www.pilgrimpinescamp.org">Pilgrim Pines</a></span></i><i><u><span style="color: #1155cc;"><a href="https://www.pilgrimpinescamp.org"> Camp</a></span></u>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">At Pilgrim Pines Camp, we are able to reserve Upper Camp for ourselves due to our numbers of 50+ people. While there is a possibility that another group could reserve Lower Camp and we would see the other group during meals in the Dining Hall, we usually avoid this by choosing our early in the year camp date. My university has also used Pilgrim Pines Camp for a separate social justice college retreat in October in which we did share the Dining Hall, with no incidents. But there is something magical about getting away from everyone except the folks who are part of our T-Camp community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">Speaking of which… most mobile phones will not get a signal at the camp. People have <b><i>feelings</i></b> about this, believe me. But it does cut down on distractions and we can access a wireless network in the Dining Hall or use land lines in an emergency. We always share the land line phone number in case family members are concerned about reaching a student. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course we are not alone at the camp, as we interact with Pilgrim Pines Camp staff. And like every other human, including T-campers ourselves, there are times when camp staff stumble over misgendering people by assuming pronouns or using “ma’am” or “sir” based on appearance. Or, using “you guys,” an expression that is not gender inclusive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">But here’s the thing: Camp staff not only take gender inclusivity seriously, they acknowledge their mistakes and try harder when they do stumble. Connie spent some time on the microphone her first year with us apologizing with deep sincerity for unconsciously misgendering people. The next year, she shared she had been practicing dropping the “you guys” from her language entirely. I grew up in Texas and I sometimes imagine trying to drop “y’all” from my conversations. So, I appreciate the effort but mainly I appreciate the true follow through by camp staff to be respectful and gender inclusive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">When selecting a campsite, we look at other practical considerations. Since we usually hold our retreat in January, we don’t want to be too high in elevation in the mountains to avoid heavy snowfall. (Our first T-Camp was at a different but equally lovely camp facility, but the snow levels were so high that walking between cabins became treacherous to T-Campers used to warm SoCal weather.) Pilgrim Pines Camp has iced up a few times in early January with some mild snowflakes, but we’ve never been snowed in. We do repeatedly reassure T-Campers that the cabins are heated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">We feel very strongly about gender inclusive facilities at T-Camp. Other camp facilities I’ve approached over the years have very firmly told me “we have boys cabins and we have girls cabins.” This camp policy probably stems from traditional arrangements for youth camps and also because most camps are owned by churches avoiding “shenanigans.” Except our LGBTQ+ community does not live in a binary of “boys and girls.” We ask T-Campers to choose whatever cabin they wish during check-in and no cabin is labeled by gender.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">We also require gender inclusive restrooms and showers. The two restrooms closest to the Main Lodge are in the Dining Hall right next door, and they are already single occupancy gender inclusive. The sleeping cabins include single-occupancy restrooms. The main “shower house” has two sides, one labeled “Men” and one labeled “Women,” but Pilgrim Pines Camp lets us cover the signage and T-Campers can choose to use either side. Inside are individual toilet stalls and curtained shower stalls. Mostly we hear from T-Campers that it's a cold walk to the Shower House, and that it is not heated inside except for hot water. No comment on whether or not college students take showers at camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">We also want a separate space for T-Camp staff facilitators to sleep and meet. The Leadership Lodge includes multiple bedrooms and restrooms with showers, plus a small kitchen and living room. It accommodates 10 people. T-Campers know where to find staff if they need us after organized activities are complete for the day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">We’ve also needed to use the accessible apartments for T-Campers unable to walk up paths to sleeping cabins. They’ve also helped house staff who snore very loudly! (Ahem.) Apartments A and B are below the Dining Hall (same building) and around the corner from the Main Lodge. Cars can park right outside the doors, with no steps required.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">However, be advised that none of the showers, including the ones in Apartments A and B, allow wheelchairs to be rolled in. This has prevented some staff using wheelchairs from staying overnight. Buildings such as the Main Lodge, Dining Hall, and Leadership Lodge are wheelchair accessible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">We need to accommodate many dietary needs and, quite frankly, we seem to statistically be over-represented by vegans. Pilgrim Pines Camp prepares separate meals as needed for vegetarians and vegans and for those with various food allergies. The entire camp is a nut-free facility and no one can bring food with nuts to camp. However, the camp has not been able to provide halal or kosher meal options. Recently staff learned better options for diabetics requiring low carb meals. I’ve appreciated their care. Also, it’s tasty food in my opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">One thing I’ve learned about camp facilities is that we need to provide our own first aid. We make sure a facilitator is CPR-certified and we bring up our own first aid supplies. Thankfully, Pilgrim Pines Camp is located closer to hospitals and clinics than other camp facilities at higher elevation in the mountains, in case of an emergency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally, I want to return to an earlier comment that most camp facilities are owned by churches. Many members of the LGBTQ+ community have experienced religious trauma at some point in our lives. We also know that some religious organizations actively seek to support discriminatory laws and policies against LGBTQ+ people. So T-Campers want to know both about the religious iconography at camp and the actions of the church that owns it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pilgrim Pines Camp has minimal iconography. A podium with a cross on stage in the Main Lodge can be simply moved to the side, for example. One T-Camper shared with me that the “Jesus fish and posters” in the Dining Hall took them aback at first. However, that’s the extent of it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">And the United Church of Christ, which created Pilgrim Pines Camp, is one of the most LGBTQ+ affirming religious denominations in the U.S. You can check out <a href="https://www.ucc.org/lgbt_statements"><span style="color: #1155cc;">their history of Social Policy Statements on LGBT Concerns here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">When I think of T-Camp, I think of T-Campers and of message bags taped to the wall full of affirmations and of Home Groups and of sticky notes and of endless coffee and hot cocoa and of Talent(less) Shows and of fireplaces and of pine cones dropping on our heads and of that one woodpecker and of the ziplock bag of krispy marshmallow treats camp staff set aside for me. The T-Camp community is transformative and Pilgrim Pines Camp helps create that community every year. We’ll be back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: arial;">Written by Nancy Jean Tubbs, director of the <a href="https://out.ucr.edu/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">LGBT Resource Center at the University of California, Riverside</span></a>. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-90030099106369284632019-09-09T12:16:00.002-07:002019-09-09T12:19:16.298-07:00Snapshot of California Campus LGBTQ+ Centers<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California leads the nation with the number of professional staff directing LGBTQ+ resources and services on college campuses: <span style="font-size: 11pt;">15% of the 272 campuses in the U.S. and Canada with LGBTQ+ centers are located in California. According to the <b><a href="http://campuslgbtqcenters.org/" target="_blank">Directory of Campus LGBTQ+ Centers</a></b>, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">37 centers serve 43 institutions in California.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Campuses hiring professional staff to direct LGBTQ+ services is still rare, </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">found at only 8.2% of the <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2019-02-15/how-many-universities-are-in-the-us-and-why-that-number-is-changing" target="_blank">3,313 nonprofit higher education institutions in the U.S</a>. California continues to lead the way, with<a href="https://careerqueerscalifornia.blogspot.com/p/ccc-centers.html" target="_blank"> <b>6 California Community College</b></a><b>s</b> since 2016 hiring for the first time professional staff. This accounts for all but two community colleges in the nation providing LGBTQ+ services. The newest LGBTQ+ center to open on a California campus with professional staff is at the <b><a href="https://www.sandiego.edu/lgbtq/" target="_blank">University of San Diego</a></b>.</span></span><br />
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radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-57152426348483982332019-01-16T16:22:00.001-08:002019-01-16T16:25:42.709-08:00Campus Recreation Trans Inclusive Policies Round Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/09/25/a-first-in-california-berkeley-opens-large-scale-universal-locker-room/" target="_blank">UC Berkeley unveiled its large-scale universal locker room</a> in Fall 2018, they immediately set a national standard for inclusive facilities. The student-funded project with a price tag of $2.7 million is a dream for Rec Centers wishing to upgrade their facilities. Many Rec Centers are addressing the need for trans-inclusive policies and resources to encourage all students to access recreation programs and facilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While many California college campuses do not offer Universal Locker Rooms or only offer a single occupancy locker room, the <a href="https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2017/06/FinalTextRegTransgenderIdExpression.pdf" target="_blank">CA Fair Employment & Housing Act</a> includes gender identity as a protected class. The <a href="https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/gender-and-restrooms" target="_blank">ACLU's interpretation of the Act</a> is that:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In California, business establishments, non-profits, and government agencies that serve the public cannot discriminate based on someone’s gender identity or gender expression. [Cal. Civ. Code § 51(b)]</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; text-indent: -0.25in;">Stopping you from using a restroom or other sex-segregated facility that matches your gender identity.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com/athletics.macalester.edu/documents/2015/8/3/TransgenderInclusionPolicy_format_Athletics.pdf?tab=transgenderinclusionpolicy" target="_blank">Macalester College's Transgender Inclusion Policies for Intercollegiate Athletics, Club Sports and Intramural Sports Activities</a> is available online as a PDF and provides a national model for trans-inclusive policies. Policies are reviewed annually by the Athletics Director and the Macalester Transgender Participation Advisory Committee (MTPAC). Topics range from guiding principles, NCAA policies on Intercollegiate Athletics participation, appeals process, confidentiality, club sports policies, intramural sports and PE classes policies, and inclusive expectations for participation in athletic activities (facilities, pronoun usage, travel accommodations, dress codes and uniforms, and education on gender identity and trans inclusion).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/recreation/inclusive-rec/inclusive-facilities" target="_blank">University of Colorado at Boulder's Inclusive Facilities</a> outreach includes videos for ADA equipment, Adaptive Climbing, All Gender Locker Rooms, and Ice Sleds & Walkers. Their goal is "to create a safe, accommodating, welcoming and open environment while providing equal, accessible and respectful opportunities for all."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://csurec.colostate.edu/inclusivity/inclusive-policies/" target="_blank">Colorado State University's Campus Rec Inclusive Policies</a> address asserted gender and non-gendered attire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Individuals shall be permitted to participate in Intramural Sports events in accordance with that person’s asserted gender identity.</span></blockquote>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Showing up to play for a men's, women's, or coed IM team is all you have to do to establish your gender identity and play in that division. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In an effort to be inclusive of all personal workout attire preferences, Campus Recreation has an open attire policy. </span></blockquote>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beyond our facility policies (i.e. no jeans, tennis shoes required, etc.), we do not require gender-specific attire within the Rec Center. Participants are encouraged to wear whatever attire honors their workout experience most, including sports bras, muscle tees, loose or tight-fitting clothing, etc. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.recservices.iastate.edu/inclusive-rec/" target="_blank">Iowa State University's Inclusive Rec</a> outreach also states a trans inclusive policy regarding eligibility and participation in intramural sports:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All individuals shall be permitted to participate in the Iowa State University (ISU) Recreation Services Intramural (IM) Sports Program (i.e. Leagues, tournaments, etc.), and Sport Clubs program in a manner consistent with their gender identity. While sport programs are typically offered in gender-based divisions, ISU Recreation Services seek to provide opportunities for all students to participate in its programs inclusive of gender identity. If an individual or team is unsure of which division would be most appropriate in which to participate, please contact the Assistant Director of Intramural Sports or the Coordinator of Sport Clubs to help determine which division would most appropriately fit the participation needs of the individual or team.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Members of <a href="https://nirsa.net/nirsa/" target="_blank">NIRSA</a> may access discussion boards for helpful conversations amongst Recreation professionals.</span>radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-78374251925379878242017-10-19T13:27:00.003-07:002017-10-19T14:16:05.677-07:00On LGBT Center Awareness Day, Two California Community Colleges Lead the Way In the CCC System<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Mt. San Antonio College Pride Center opened in 2016.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every October 19, we celebrate LGBT Center Awareness Day, and in 2017 Sierra College (Rocklin, CA) and Mt. San Antonio College (Walnut, CA) also celebrate supporting LGBTQ community college students with professionally-staffed Pride Centers on their campuses. When the Pride Centers opened in 2016, they effectively doubled the number of campus LGBTQ centers serving 2-year institutions in the U.S. Visit the </span><b><a href="http://campuslgbtqcenters.org/listing?field_institution_type_tid%5B%5D=5&sort_by=content&sort_order=ASC" target="_blank">Directory</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to learn more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The campuses developed different models of support. Sierra College hired a full-time Student Engagement Specialist, Mo Merritt, to supervise student scholars staff in three engagement centers, including a <a href="https://www.sierracollege.edu/student-services/support-programs/student-engagement-centers.php" target="_blank"><b>Pride Center, Cross-Cultural Center, and Women & Gender Resource Center</b></a>. Peer leaders rotate through the centers, creating intersectional equity-driven programming. For example, in their first year, students organized events such as “That’s the way the gender crumbles” – a conversation on gender identity and expression with ginger bread people. Peer leaders also staff the center’s front desk during open hours, with pro staff stationed within the space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mt. SAC’s model was to give 40% release time to their founding Faculty Coordinator in 2016, History Professor Kim Earhart. Kim coordinated special events with students, such as Harvey Milk Day and a Lavender Graduation. The <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mtsacpridecenter/" target="_blank">Pride Center</a></b> provides a space for students to find community and resources. In addition to the Coordinator’s hours in the Pride Center, other faculty volunteer their time to keep the center open more often. Mt. SAC’s new coordinator for 2017-18 is Professor Melinda Bowen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The two campuses also took different paths to opening their Pride Centers. At Sierra College, faculty drove the formation of an Equity Plan and Equity Center, to improve the success of impacted student populations. The Pride Center already existed as a volunteer-run space, and the campus added the Cross-Cultural Center and Women & Gender Resource Center to create the three new engagement centers overseen by the Student Engagement Specialist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mt. SAC’s plan for a Pride Center rose out of the World Café Dialogue on LGBTQ Climate in August 2015. Over 30 campus stakeholders came together in dialogue to answer the questions:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What are significant experiences or observations you can offer to help us understand the LGBTQ climate on campus?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What in your wildest dreams can be done to improve the LGBTQ climate on campus?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What steps should be taken immediately to make some of these dreams come true? </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The World Café Dialogue on LGBTQ Climate Summary Report of responses led to the development of the Pride Center a year later. <b><a href="http://out.ucr.edu/docs/MtSAC-WorldCafe-LGBT-Summit.pdf" target="_blank">Read the full report by clicking here</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other California Community Colleges continue to address the needs of LGBTQ students through staffing and student spaces. MiraCosta College (Oceanside, CA) for example is hiring a new part-time <b><a href="https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/1460029/student-services-specialist-lgbtqia-equity/" target="_blank">LGBTQIA Equity Specialist</a>.</b> Los Angeles Valley College is developing a business plan for a staffed Pride Center. They recently launched a campus <a href="https://www.lavc.edu/LGBT/LGBTQIA.aspx" target="_blank"><b>LGBTQ+ Resource Page</b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CCC faculty staff, administrators, and students will be attending the <u><a href="https://cccqsummit.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>CCC + LGBTQ Summit</b></a></u> on November 11, 2017 at UC Riverside, with the opportunity to share models, equity plans, and best practices for supporting LGBTQ people at community colleges. Online registration is free until October 27.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Update</u></b>: The <b><a href="http://www.ccclgbt.org/" target="_blank">LGBTQ+ @ California Community Colleges</a></b> web site also recognizes 4 CCC campuses for offering LGBT centers that are volunteer-run:</span> City College of SF, Los Medanos College, Palomar College, and San Joaquin Delta College.</span><br />
radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-60926566954573975552016-01-28T18:15:00.000-08:002016-01-28T18:28:15.917-08:00CSU Organizes for LGBTQ Resources & Support<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CSU Northridge hosted the first CSU LGBTQ Resources Meeting on January 15, 2016. Thirty professionals staff and eighteen students attended from 17 of the 23-University system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Topics included consistent LGBTQ policies across the CSU system,a CSU Mentor optional LGBTQ question, and trans student-inclusion on every campus. The meeting addressed the need for preferred name options, gender-inclusive facilities, gender-inclusive housing options, and access to hormones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Participants are developing a list of recommendations to present to the CSU Chancellor's Office to support LGBTQ students across the system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next CSU LGBTQ Resource Meeting will be in Summer 2016. For more information, contact Sarina Loeb, Coordinator of <b><a href="http://www.csun.edu/pride">CSUN's Pride Center & LGBTQ Initiatives</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Currently, <b><a href="http://careerqueerscalifornia.blogspot.com/p/csu-centers.html">11 CSU campuses offer a staffed LGBTQ center</a></b>.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State Polytechnic University, Pomona</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, Bakersfield</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, Chico</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, Dominguez Hills</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, East Bay</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, Fresno</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, Fullerton</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, Los Angeles</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, Monterey Bay</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, Northridge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, Sacramento</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">California State University, San Bernardino</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Humboldt State University</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">San Diego State University</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">San Francisco State University</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">San Jose State University</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sonoma State University</span></li>
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radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-5317080534286939992015-10-07T19:27:00.000-07:002015-10-07T19:28:08.077-07:00T*Camp expands to NorCal and New England in 5th year<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After four years as the only intercampus retreat in the nation for trans/genderqueer and gender-questioning college students, three T*Camps will be offered in 2016.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="http://out.ucr.edu/programs/t-camp.html">SoCal T*Camp</a>, set for January 8-10, 2016, is <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SoCal-Tcamp-2016">now accepting applications online</a> from California college students. In addition, students from 5 Northern California campuses may apply in January 2016 to attend the new NorCal T-Camp, to be piloted later this academic year. New England T*Camp will open applications this Spring for college students in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. NE T*Camp is scheduled for October 2016.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Campus LGBT center staff at San Jose State University, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz are collaborating to pilot the inaugural NorCal T-Camp. Not only will NorCal T*Camp be more geographically accessible to students in the region, offering two California retreats will also expand the number of students benefitting from the experience.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />“Each of the past few years, over 100 California students have applied to attend T*Camp,” says Nancy Jean Tubbs of <a href="http://out.ucr.edu/">UC Riverside’s LGBT Resource Center</a>. “Due to space limitations, only about half of interested students could join us on the mountain.”<br /><br />New England campus staff, including former T*Camp facilitators, began working on their own regional T*Camp retreat earlier this year.<br /><br />“NE T*Camp will create a safe and affirming space in which students can together, and individually, explore their gender and gender identity without fear,” says Keith Waak of University of Massachusetts, Boston. “We want to utilize this program to educate and encourage dialogue and growth within, and around, trans* community members and their allies.”<br /><br />T*Camp has its origins in a 2011 <a href="http://www.lgbtrc.uci.edu/">UC Irvine</a> retreat for trans/genderqueer and gender-questioning students. In 2012, the intercampus retreat was launched as a way to build community for often isolated college students. Today, SoCal T*Camp is co-facilitated by campus LGBT center staff, returning student T*Campers, and trans/genderqueer community mentors.<br /><br />NE T*Camp organizers point to the scholarship of Sylvia Hurtado and Deborah Carter, who wrote that involvement, engagement, and affiliation are central to students' development and progress in college. And Peregrine Silverschanz theorized that students' educational success is strongly influenced by the "context of the attitude toward their education...including their sense of school and social 'inclusion' and 'exclusion.'"</span></div>
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radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-5302609653481517632015-09-20T18:18:00.001-07:002017-10-25T11:51:59.901-07:00State of Community Colleges LGBTQ Resources & Services<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"The Queer and Now Conference was held at De Anza College on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. This annual conference featured student performances and workshops led by speakers from the larger Queer community."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With 114 campuses, the <a href="http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/AlphaList.aspx">California Community College (CCC) system</a> is the largest in the nation. In a few key areas, CCC is advancing support for LGBTQ students' success, partly influenced by <a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0601-0650/ab_620_bill_20111008_chaptered.html">AB 620</a> (2011). This assembly bill amended the Education Code to encourage (but not require) CCC campuses to collect aggregate data on sexual orientation and gender identity of students and staff; and to designate a staff point person "to address the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender faculty, staff, and students." The only existing system-wide entity for LGBT issues is the <a href="http://www.asccc.org/lgbt-caucus">LGBT Caucus of the CCC Academic Senate</a>. [Note: An October 2015 email communication stated the Caucus is "defunct and inactive."]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since September 2013 (before the UC and CSU systems), the online CCC admissions application has asked voluntary sexual orientation and gender identity demographic questions. Currently, no mechanism is in place to access this data to track student success and possibly make the case that CCC Student Success & Support Program funding should be used to help at-risk LGBTQ students. SSSP funds support students experiencing "disproportionate impact," which on most CCC campuses means assisting groups based on disability, financial aid status, former foster youth status, race/ethnicity, and veterans status. <a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0851-0900/sb_860_cfa_20140615_174927_sen_floor.html">AB 860</a> (2014) requires CCC districts to maintain a student equity plan for the above target groups, but not for LGBTQ students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sierracollege.edu/">Sierra College</a>, however, is setting a precedent by hiring a full-time <a href="https://sierracollege.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=96&job=program-manager-director-student-engagement-centers">Director / Program Manager </a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://sierracollege.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=96&job=program-manager-director-student-engagement-centers">for three student engagement centers</a>: a Cultural Center, Pride Center, and Gender Equity
Center. According to the <a href="http://campuslgbtqcenters.org/">Campus LGBTQ Centers Directory</a>, Sierra College will join <a href="http://www.century.edu/studentlife/lgbtq.aspx">Century College</a> (MN) and <a href="http://www.glbtss.org/">Community College of Denver</a> (CO) as the only community colleges in the nation with professionally-staffed LGBTQ centers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other CCC campuses are also setting standards for LGBTQ student support:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The </span><a href="http://www.losmedanos.edu/studentservices/GandLcenter/default.asp" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Los Medanos College Q*Spot</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the </span><b><a href="https://www2.palomar.edu/pages/pridecenter/" target="_blank">Palomar College Pride Center</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and the </span><a href="https://www.ccsf.edu/en/student-services/student-activities/qrc.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">City College of San Francisco Queer Resource Center</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> are CCC spaces for LGBTQ students, although none are professionally sta</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ffed. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The </span><b><a href="http://cadena.fullcoll.edu/" target="_blank">Fullerton College Cadena Cultural Center</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> includes LGBTQ resources. Although not offering</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a physical space for LGBTQ students, Sacramento City College offers an excellent </span><a href="http://www.scc.losrios.edu/lgbtqia/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one-stop web page for LGBTQ resources</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">San Joaquin Delta College in 2011 heard a </span><a href="https://www.deltacollege.edu/div/planning/accred_study_evidence/documents/FacilitiesPlanningCommitteeMinutes02.09.2011.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">proposal for a Delta Pride Space</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at the Facilities Planning Meeting. Campus officials stated that physical space for instructional purposes take priority and that the State does not fund student centers. Campus officials promised to search for a shared space for a Diversity Center, although no such space appears to exist four years later.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.imperial.edu/students/lgbt-designee/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imperial Valley College</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (LGBT Design</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ee), </span><a href="http://students.ivc.edu/lgbtq/Pages/default.aspx">Irvine Valley College</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (Cam</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pus Liaison for LGBTQIA Issues), and </span><a href="http://www.miracosta.edu/studentservices/lgbtresources.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MiraCosta College</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (Campus Liaison
for LGBTQIA Issues) created an LGBT Designee position following the
authorization under the California Education Code (Section 66271.2). However, Imperial Valley College does not name the person or contact acting as the Campus Liaison. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Santa Rosa Junior College established a <a href="http://committees.santarosa.edu/presidents-advisory-committees">President’s Advisory Committee on LGBTQ Campus Climate</a>; and De Anza College founded an Equity Action Council that includes a <a href="https://www.deanza.edu/gov/eac/eacgender.html">Gender & Sexualities Advisory </a></span><a href="https://www.deanza.edu/gov/eac/eacgender.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Group</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Other campus committees are also addressing LGBTQ issues: The </span><o:p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></o:p><a href="http://www.glendale.edu/index.aspx?page=4356&parent=25700" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glendale Community College Student Affairs Committee minutes</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from March 18, 2015 includes the establishment of a Task Force to address transgender student services. The </span><a href="http://www.scc.losrios.edu/lgbtqia/campus-resources/lgbtqia-subcommittee/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sacramento City College LGBT Subcommittee of the Student Equity Committee</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is a task force focused on LGBTQ issues on campus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sierra College's </span><a href="http://www.sierracollege.edu/about-us/governance/senates/academic-senate/committees/spectrum.php" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spectrum Committee of their Academic Senate</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">a formal body whose mission include[s] improving the success and retention of Sierra College’s LGBTIQ students as well as ensuring them a safe campus climate."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also on the academic side, City College of San Francisco offers an <a href="http://www.ccsf.edu/en/educational-programs/ccsf-catalog/courses-by-department/lgbt-courses.html">LGBT Studies Major</a>; Napa Valley College's Child and Family Studies offers an <a href="http://napavalley.edu/academics/TechnicalDivision/ChildFamilyStudies/Pages/LGBTStudiesProgram.aspx">LGBT Studies Certificate Program</a>; and Sierra College offers an <a href="http://catalog.sierracollege.edu/departments/lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-studies/#degreescertificatestext">AA degree in LGBT Studies</a>. Other campuses offer at least one LGBT Studies course: College of Alameda - <a href="http://alameda.peralta.edu/college-catalog/files/2015/08/Humanities.pdf">Humanities 60: Introduction to LGBTQ Studies</a>; Butte College - <a href="http://www.butte.edu/departments/learning/english/Courses/Literature.html">English 26: Queer Film and Literature</a>; De Anza College - <a href="http://www.deanza.edu/interculturalstudies/courses.html">Intercultural Studies 26: Introduction to LGBT Studies; Foothill College</a> - </span><a href="http://www.foothill.edu/schedule/outlines.php?act=1&rec_id=1426" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">English 5: Gay & Lesbian Literature</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pasadena City College - </span><a href="http://www.pasadena.edu/meetdocs/board_21663_C.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">English 058: Queer Studies in Literature (beginning 2016)</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Allies, Safe Space, and Safe Zone projects are found o</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n many CCC campuses, offering training to staff, faculty, and students on LGBTQ issues and resources and raising visibility of campus LGBTQ support. Some campuses mention staff/faculty training on Flex Days, or train-the-trainer opportunities. Others provide a permanent web presence:</span><br />
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<li><a href="https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/campus/safe-space" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bakersfield College Safe Space</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cms.cerritos.edu/safezone/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cerritos College Safe Zone</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.craftonhills.edu/Safe_Space" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Crafton Hills College Safe Space</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://students.ivc.edu/lgbtq/pages/safespace.aspx">Irvine Valley College LGBTQ Safe Spaces</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.lbcc.edu/wmresources/safezone.cfm" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Long Beach City College Safe Zo</span></a><a href="http://www.lbcc.edu/wmresources/safezone.cfm" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ne</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.marin.edu/student_services/safespace/index.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">College of Marin Safe Space</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.miracosta.edu/studentservices/lgbtresources.html#two" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MiraCosta LGBTQIA Safe Spaces</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mvc.edu/lgbt-allies/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moreno Valley Ally</a></li>
<li><a href="http://napavalley.edu/President/BIRT/Pages/SAFESPACEProgram.aspx" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Napa Valley College Safe Space</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.norcocollege.edu/Pages/Norco-ALLY.aspx" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Norco College Ally</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.palomar.edu/pc3h/SafeZone.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Palomar College Safe Zone</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rcc.edu/Pages/lgbt-allies.aspx" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Riverside City College Ally</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.scc.losrios.edu/lgbtqia/campus-resources/safe-space/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sacramento City College Safe Space</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sjcc.edu/current-students/on-campus-resources/safe-zone" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Jose City College Safe Zone</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sac.edu/StudentServices/HealthCenter/PsychologicalServices/Pages/Safe-Space.aspx" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Santa Ana College Safe Space</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sccollege.edu/StudentServices/safespace/Pages/SafeSpaceAlly.aspx" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Santiago Canyon College Safe Space</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sierracollege.edu/student-services/campus-services/safe-space.php" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sierra College Safe Space</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De Anza College hosted the <a href="http://www.deanza.edu/news/lgbtqi.html">Queer & Now Student Conference</a> in June 2015. The events were sponsored by the <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Office of Equity, EAC Gender & Sexualities Advisory Committee, the Black Leadership Collective, and African American Studies Department. About 300 people attended the conference.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The MiraCosta College Gay Straight Alliance endowed an annu</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">al $1,000 </span><a href="http://www.miracosta.edu/studentservices/lgbtresources.html#five" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GSA Student Scholarship</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in 2014, by raising more that $25,000. In 2015, the </span><o:p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></o:p><a href="http://www.miracosta.edu/studentservices/studentclubs/downloads/SBFY15-06RainbowRegaliaforCommencement.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MiraCosta College Inter-Club Council </a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">purchased rainbow tassels and stoles for graduating students. The request for funding highlighted NEA statistics on homophobic campus climates and the need to create an inclusive and welcoming campus that values diversity.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Gay & Lesbian Association of District Employees (GLADE) serving Cypress College and Fullerton College (North Orange County Community College District) established a <a href="http://transfer.fullcoll.edu/finaid_scholarships/pdfs/GLADE%20Scholarship%20Application%202013-14.pdf">scholarship for students active in the LGBT community</a>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Lake Tahoe Community College Board of Trustees supported a
faculty member's professional development leave in which she learned about
issues of sexual orientation as they relate to career decision making and
development. She reported back at the </span><a href="http://www.ltcc.edu/web/about/minutes" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 12, 2013 Board of Trustees meeting</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Student Senate for CCC hosted the first conference of the
Spectrum Caucus in 2012, according to the </span><a href="http://www.lamission.edu/facstaff/weeklymission.aspx?id=260" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May 14, 2012 Weekly Mission STEM newsletter</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of Los Angeles Mission College. However, the current SSCCC web site makes no mention of the Spectrum Caucus or any other LGBT entity.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, a grant through the California Mental Health Services Authority provides </span><a href="http://www.cccstudentmentalhealth.org/docs/trainings/Kognito/CCCSMHP-Kognito-Courses-and-Colleges.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">free online training to support at-risk students via Kognito for all CCC campuses</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Modules include LGBTQ on Campus for Faculty & Staff; and LGBTQ on Campus for Students. However, a survey of all 113 CCC campuses show that many do not offer any of the Kognito trainings or do not mention the LGBTQ modules (even though other modules such as Veterans on Campus are highlighted). The free LGBTQ modules are available through 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A note on this blog post: </b>Nancy Jean Tubbs, Director of <a href="http://out.ucr.edu/">UC Riverside's LGBT Resource Center</a>, took this inventory of LGBT services and resources on CCC campuses by accessing web sites between July 3 and September 18, 2015. No effort was made to contact individuals as a follow-up to accessing web information, so this inventory is limited to what CCC campuses choose to include on the internet. Please contact <a href="http://out.ucr.edu/whoweare/ourstaff.html">Nancy Jean Tubbs</a> to correct errors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting Fall 2015, the entire University of California system will begin collecting data on UC freshman and transfer applicants to the nine undergraduate campuses regarding sexual orientation and gender identity through voluntary self-identification. </span><a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/ensuring-inclusive-campus-environments-lgbt-students-faculty-and-staff" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Read the UC Press Release.</b></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We will have data from the approximately 193,000 students who apply for the UC. This means we will have meaningful population data for approximately 92,000 freshman students and an additional 20,000 transfer students who accept and enroll," says UC San Diego LGBT Resource Director & Diversity Officer Dr. Shaun Travers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"With this data, we can target resources and other student support services, such as scholarships and themed housing" says Travers. "This data will also enable campuses to develop curricular and co-curricular offerings that reflect students’ diverse perspectives, and that promote a safe and welcoming learning environment for all students."</span></div>
radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-57553644656482810432015-03-05T12:35:00.002-08:002015-03-05T12:35:46.883-08:00UCSC hate crime rallies students seeking better support<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A University of California, Santa Cruz student was attacked on February 7, 2015 in an alleged hate crime based on sexual orientation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/university-of-california-santa-cruz-we-ask-that-you-stand-in-solidarity-and-support-this-petition?utm_medium=email&utm_source=signature_receipt&utm_campaign=new_signature&tk=096wGj1m1RqzRWI-U7qWEkykGRBeOpYjQuco_ekUxN4">student petition calling for action</a>, "the victim had their wrist broken in three places, and shattered in one place, broken knuckles, a fractured jaw, a dislocated hip, and suffered a concussion."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UCSC <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;">Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway</span> shared a campus-wide email on February 12 that named the attack as a possible hate crime but did not specify sexual orientation as the motivation:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gravity of this incident is disturbing, and the allegation of a hate crime is particularly troubling. As a campus, we welcome students, staff, faculty, and guests of all races, religions, ethnic groups, nationalities, traditions, backgrounds, orientations, physical abilities, and cultures. Targeting a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a particular group is unacceptable—and illegal. I want to assure the campus community that we are investigating this hate-crime allegation with the seriousness it deserves. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/general-news/20150227/uc-santa-cruz-lgbtq-community-calls-for-change-after-attack-on-gay-student">Santa Cruz Sentinel</a> reported students' belief that the attack was hate-motivated based on sexual orientation:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It was very clear that it was a hate crime because people who were there heard the attackers screaming slurs and saying things along the lines of, ‘You better not be gay. That’s not OK,’” Epstein said.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Galloway's email and follow-up staff communications emphasized campus resources available to students impacted by the alleged hate crime. Campus community members were also urged to report hate/bias crimes and incidents to campus police or online at <a href="http://reporthate.ucsc.edu/">reporthate.ucsc.edu</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The student online petition includes four demands:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">multi-stall, all-gender restrooms within walking distance of all classrooms</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">free self-defense workshops and classes available to all students</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mandatory University-wide workshops regarding "queer, trans, and gender non-conforming life, existence, terminology, and issues"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hiring of multiple staff professionals, including a trans-specialist, to provide training, etc.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of the 9 undergraduate UC campuses, only UC Merced has less professional staffing to provide LGBTQ-focused campus services on campus. The Lionel Cantú Queer Center is staffed by one full-time director, who is currently on medical leave.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Facebook and other social media, UCSC students are speaking out about the hate crime, its impact, and the University response, especially in the context of other UCSC student protests against tuition increases. UCSC undergraduate student Avery's Facebook post has garnered peer support for expressing the emotional toll of the hate crime on students:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How f---ing long is it going to take for the violent hate crime at Kresge to gain a fraction of the public notice the six students protesting yesterday did? Already the petition to rally expulsion of these students has gained more signatures IN ONE DAY.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hold so much pain and trauma on my back today, for myself and for the ones I love who are being told they don't matter. Through these consequences, we are told we don't matter. Our amount of money matters. Our bodies do not. Our obedience to the UC matters. Our pain and suffering does not. People of color do not matter. Queer people do not matter. Trans people do not matter. Those who suffer systemic, institutional physical/financial/gender/sexual violence do not matter.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THIS IS WHAT I AM LIVING WITH AND HOLDING IN MY BODY TODAY AND IT HURTS SO MUCH.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am TIRED of trying to go on and function as a student, as a student leader, as a young adult trying to learn how to be responsible and successful in this world and PRETEND as if all of this bullsh-- weren't happening all around me! I am so tired and so heavy. I almost want someone to tell me what to do with this body that has been made to feel so useless, so insignificant.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I know I can't. Anger and pain is the only feeling I embody today. I feel anger out of love. Pain out of love. Love for myself and the people I love, because we deserve more out of this f---ing world than we are getting. I feel angry out of compassion because I want more for us than this violence! So I'm going to hold on to this anger. I don't know where it's going or what to do with it yet but my body will not forget.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Links:</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Prevent Hate Crimes at Santa Cruz</b> - blog for updates</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 22px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://preventhatecrimesatucsantacruz.wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">https://preventhatecrimesatucsantacruz.wordpress.com</a> </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2015/02/26/submission-letter-to-the-university-of-california-uc-santa-cruz-chancellor-blumenthal-and-administration/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2015/02/26/submission-letter-to-the-university-of-california-uc-santa-cruz-chancellor-blumenthal-and-administration/</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/general-news/20150227/uc-santa-cruz-lgbtq-community-calls-for-change-after-attack-on-gay-student" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/general-news/20150227/uc-santa-cruz-lgbtq-community-calls-for-change-after-attack-on-gay-student</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two unique events serve trans* people and allies on campus in different ways this academic year. T*Camp and the Asterisk Trans* Conference both focus on gender identity and expression. However, their audiences, format, and registration differ significantly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 4th annual <b><a href="http://out.ucr.edu/programs/Pages/T-Camp.aspx">T*Camp</a> - an intercampus retreat for transgender, genderqueer, and gender questioning college students</b> - will be held <b>January 9-11, 2015</b>. College students must <b>apply to attend the retreat by October 30th</b>. Last year, over 100 students applied to attend and about 55 students were selected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Held for three days at a camp facility, <b>T*Camp</b> creates an intentional and courageous space for participants via home groups, break-out sessions, and community-building activities The <b>$140 per person fee</b> covers transportation to the camp from a southern Californian college campus; meals including Friday lunch through Sunday lunch; and cabins and other camp facilities. T*Camp is facilitated by campus LGBT center staff and T*Camp alums.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The inaugural <b><a href="http://asteriskconference.blogspot.com/">Asterisk Trans* Conference</a></b> will be held <b>February 27-28, 2015 at UC Riverside</b>. The conference is <b>open to people of all gender identities and expressions</b>. Friday's events are free and open to the public. Saturday's events, including a keynote, lunch, workshops, and closing performance, require a <b>$20 or $10 registration fee</b>. Currently, 12 college campuses can send unlimited participants under a Group Registration. Online registration opens in late October, and the deadline to submit a program proposal is November 15.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b>Asterisk Trans* Conference</b> is organized by Asterisk of UCR student group and the <a href="http://out.ucr.edu/">LGBT Resource Center</a> with major support from the <a href="http://calendow.org/">California Endowment</a>. Its mission is to <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">build community for trans* people and allies, to address trans* health and well-being, and to provide education and resources for trans* youth advocates. Anyone may register to attend.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://campuslgbtqcenters.org/">Campus LGBTQ Centers Directory</a> launched online today, providing a new tool for finding professionally staffed campus resources in the U.S. and Canada.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the site, "The Campus LGBTQ Centers Directory is a project to document staffed campus resources regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. The Directory's purpose is to connect people with the offices and to further research on the state of the profession providing LGBTQ resources in higher education."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Directory includes both a visual map and a listing with information on the center and the campus. Visitors can search by keyword, or search by criteria such as location, type of institution, public v. private, enrollment, religiously-affiliated, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inclusion in the Directory follows a standard set by the <a href="http://www.lgbtcampus.org/">Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Directors</a>, which hosted a similar directory in the past. Campus centers or offices must be staffed by a professional staff person or graduate student who works at least 20 hours a week providing LGBTQ services. Centers staffed by volunteers or undergraduate students are not included. Some exceptions are made for small enrollment campuses at which staff provide multiple functions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Directory was developed with support from the <a href="http://www.calamusfoundation.org/">Calamus Foundation</a>, and LGBTQ centers at <a href="http://studentaffairs.psu.edu/lgbta/">The Pennsylvania State University</a>, the <a href="http://lgbt.uoregon.edu/">University of Oregon</a>, and the <a href="http://out.ucr.edu/">University of California, Riverside</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Penn State has some of the most progressive policies and proceeudresfor the LGBTQA community in the country," says Allison Subasic, LGBTA Student Resource Center director. "We are supported by the administration 100% and we also wrote a grant which supports this project and the LGBTQArchitect."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nancy Jean Tubbs, director of UC Riverside's LGBT Resource Center, currently maintains the online Directory. "It's always a work in progress," she says. "New centers open every year. Unfortunately, sometimes positions are eliminated, too. But since the Consortium was founded in 1997, the list has grown from 48 centers to over 240 campuses with professional LGBTQ services."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Directory includes a <a href="http://campuslgbtqcenters.org/history">history page</a> listing the dates in which campuses first established professional LGBTQ services. However, 11 centers' dates of origin are unknown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Based on the current Directory, 241 campuses are served by 233 centers in the U.S. and Canada. (One center serves 7 campus in Claremont, CA and one center serves 3 campuses in Denver, CO.) 150 or 64% are stand-alone LGBTQ centers, while 14 or 6% are located within a Women's or Gender Equity Center and 61 or 26% are located within a Cross Cultural Center or Diversity Office. Another 8 centers are housed elsewhere on campus.14 centers are directed by Graduate Assistants and 4 centers are affiliated with student governments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 (less than 1%) = Community College</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 (2%) = Bachelor's Conferring / General</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">24 (10%) = </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bachelor's Conferring / Liberal Arts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">68 (28%) = Master's Conferring</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">143 (59%) = PhD Conferring / Research</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">85 (35% = private</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">156 (65%) = public</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">37 (15%) = Under 5,000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">33 (14%) = 5,000 to 10,000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">70 (29%) = 10,000 to 20,000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">55 (23%) = 20,000 to 30,000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">25 (10%) = 30,000 to 40,000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">21 (9%) = More Than 40,000</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">55 = </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great Lakes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">26 = </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mid-Atlantic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12 = </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Midwest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">44 = </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Northeast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11 = </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Northwest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7 = </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">South Central</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">34 = </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">South/Southeast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">52 = </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Southwest</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">California has the most centers: 29 centers serving 35 institutions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">States with no centers: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/lgbt-advisory-group-advances-recommendations-make-campuses-more-inclusive">University of California Office of the President announced</a> the formation of a permanent LGBT Advisory Council, as well as new support to include preferred names in student records and to mandate gender inclusive restrooms in new construction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The actions by President Janet Napolitano follow a report from the Task Force & Implementation Team on LGBT Climate & Inclusion that included 8 recommendations regarding the collection of data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression; name change policies in campus computer systems; gender-inclusive restroom policies and practices; support for the bisexual community; cultural competency training programs; community-based counselors; enhancement of academic initiatives on genders and sexualities; and tax equalization of domestic partner employee benefits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The conversion of single-occupancy restrooms to gender inclusive signage has been, until the UCOP announcement, a campus-by-campus issue. Some UC campuses also have not addressed yet the need for including gender inclusive restrooms in new construction. Likewise, so far only UC Davis, UC irvine, and UC Santa Cruz have <a href="http://careerqueerscalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/05/uc-davis-launches-preferred-name-system.html">implemented preferred names in student records</a>. A UC-wide mandate to address these issues will advance trans-inclusion for all UC students, staff, and faculty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Members of the new LGBT Advisory Council, which met for the first time in September, include representatives from all 10 UC campuses as well as from organizations such as the Horizons Foundation, BiNet USA, the Williams Institute, and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-75117573012877656882014-09-11T16:14:00.001-07:002014-09-11T16:19:08.584-07:00All 10 University of California campuses offer LGBT services as UC Merced adds LGBT Coordinator position<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The youngest University of California campus, UC Merced, announced a new open position for Women's Program and LGBT Coordinator. All 10 UC campuses now offer professionally staffed LGBT service offices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the job description, "The Coordinator will have responsibility for the programmatic development, support, service, education, and advocacy for the program areas of Women’s Programs and LGBT Initiatives."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UC Riverside was the first California campus to open a professionally staffed LGBT center in 1993. The other 8 UC campuses opened offices between 1995 and 1999. UC Merced became the newest UC campus when it opened in 2005. UC Merced joins 35 other California campuses with professional or graduate assistant-level LGBT services positions in 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn more about the UC Merced position, including how to apply, <a href="https://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/staff/position.jsf?positionId=5592">here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UC Merced's LGBT Initiatives-related job duties include:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Develops resources and networks through campus/community partnerships in support of the UC Merced LGBT community. Efforts will include support, resource services, education, and advocacy to, for, and about the LGBT community. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Advises students on gender and sexuality concerns/services, including women's, lesbian, bi-sexual, gay, and transgender issues. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Develop LGBT and social justice related programs, trainings, workshops, and provide support and advocacy on issues of power, privilege, and intersecting identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, etc. and increase campus-wide dialogue and understanding on topics related to the LGBT Community. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Develop, a workshop/film/lecture series promoting LGBT awareness and the understanding. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Serve on a campus committee providing insight, feedback and recommendations to University administrators regarding the LGBT community. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Provide advice, mediation, and support to student organizations and student leaders. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coordinate and facilitate large and small-scale annual programs, activities, workshops, mentor programs, and signature events. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chair work-group and collaborate with other departments to develop and maintain Safe Zone Project. •</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Develops and maintains relationships with internal and external campus stakeholders critical to program success.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UC Santa Barbara is also searching for a new Director of the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity.</span>radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-92083482707300319262014-06-15T23:20:00.001-07:002014-06-15T23:30:20.399-07:00Job openings roundup for June 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several California campus LGBT centers are hiring professional staff. In addition to the positions below, UC Santa Barbara will be recruiting a new Director of the UCSB Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity soon. Recruitments for Cal Poly Pomona's Pride Center Coordinator and UCLA's LGBT Campus Resource Center Program Coordinator have closed already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.pomona.edu/administration/qrc/">Q<b>ueer Resource Center of Pomona College</b></a>, serving all the Claremont Colleges, is hiring a <b>Program Coordinator</b>. Visit the <a href="http://www.pomona.edu/administration/human-resources/employment/">Pomona College Staff Jobs web side</a> for more information. Job Summary:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #45484d; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reporting directly to the Director, Queer Resource Center, the QRC Program Coordinator will provide support, encouragement, resources and education to meet the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, and allied (LGBTQQIAA) students, faculty, and staff for the Claremont Colleges. The QRC Program Coordinator will stay abreast of issues pertinent to the LGBTQQIA community and aligns QRC programming and events according to the community’s current needs. The QRC Coordinator will coordinate QRC student support programs for The Claremont Colleges including Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, Scripps – The Women’s College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences. This position will support, empower and encourage student development of QRC Student Interns and LGBTQQIA students and allies, support students doing intersectional programming, facilitate LGBTQQIA and ally student discussion groups that provide a safe space for peer support, provide support and tools for LGBTQIA and Ally students to develop skills needed to facilitate regular dialogues around LGBTQIA issues, supervise QRC Project Teams, and plan and organize around annual events such as Gaypril, Pride Month Celebration, Queer Prom, and Lavender Graduation. This position will also coordinate and plan weekly QRC staff meetings, collaborate on planning staff retreat, programming and training schedule for fall and spring semesters, coordinate weekly meetings with Director and bi-weekly meetings with Director and Graduate Assistant, and assist with the supervision of QRC Interns.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://lgbtcenter.ucdavis.edu/"><b>LGBTQIA Resource Center of UC Davis</b></a> is hiring an <b>Assistant Director</b>. The final filing date is June 23rd. This position reports to the Director of the center. Visit the <a href="https://www.employment.ucdavis.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/search/Search_css.jsp">UC Davis Job Listings web site</a> for more information. Job summary:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="di_20132" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Under general supervision of the Director, serves the entire campus community with a focus on those who are underrepresented, underserved, and marginalized. The Assistant Director will work as a part of a leadership team to oversee the daily operations of the department and services for the campus community and is independently responsible for directing the LGBTQIA Resource Center's educational programs and events on topics related to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit, Same Gender Loving, and Questioning people, students of color, and the many intersecting social group identities that LGBTQIA people hold. The Assistant Director oversees the development of the Peer Education Program and Queer Mentorship program as well as other key educational initiatives and collaborates with other campus departments and student organizations to meet the needs of the broader campus community.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Adriana di Bartolo and Steve Willich are the new <a href="http://www.lgbtcampus.org/">Consortium</a> regional representatives for the Southwest Region, which includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawai'i, Nevada, and Utah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adriana is currently the Director of the <a href="http://www.pomona.edu/administration/qrc/">Queer Resource Center</a> serving the seven Claremont Colleges. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve is the Director for <a href="http://www.msudenver.edu/glbtss/">GLBT Student Services at Auraria</a>, which serves three institutions: Metropolitan State University of Denver, the Community College of Denver, and the University of Colorado, Denver. Steve is also the GLBT Knowledge
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both Adriana and Steve believe their new Consortium positions are a way to give back to a professional organization that has supported them. R</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">egional representatives work</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to ensure member and non-member institutions have access to continuing professional development, education, advocacy, and support resources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"During my time as QRC Director, I've come to understand the importance of support, colleagueship, and friends who do LGBTQ work on college campuse</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s," says Adriana. "In times of need, it is to those colleagues I turn to navigate difficult situations. I am grateful to be that support to others in the field."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Consortium and the colleagues that I have
met through the organization have given me so much inspiration, advice, information, and hope as I work to support and educate the students on my campus and in my
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals's mission is "to</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> critically transform higher education environments so that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, faculty, administrators, staff, and alumni/ae have equity in every respect." Currently, over 30 college and university member institutions are located in the Southwest Region.</span></span>radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-90085932296120695802014-05-12T13:38:00.000-07:002014-05-12T13:39:56.643-07:00UC Davis launches Preferred Name system, joining 7 other California campuses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Spring 2014, the University of California, Davis launched a <a href="https://registrar.ucdavis.edu/records/preferred-name.cfm">Preferred Name Policy</a> that allows students to add a preferred name using the campus online directory system. When at all possible, the preferred name is then used on campus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the <a href="http://www.campuspride.org/tpc-records/">Trans Policy Clearinghouse</a>, UC Davis joins 74 other campuses in the U.S. and Canada and 7 other California campuses in allowing the use of a preferred name on campus documents and records. In the UC system, they follow the example of <a href="http://www.reg.uci.edu/request/preferredname.html">UC Irvine</a> and <a href="http://queer.ucsc.edu/resources/trans/ucsc/gender-name-change.html">UC Santa Cruz</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition, UCLA is on course to use a preferred name system in Fall 2014, and UC Riverside is implementing a new preferred name policy in the next two years as the campus switches to Banner for its student information system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~rgweb/?Page=policiesandprocedures/p_preferredname.html&SM=p_menu.html">University of Vermont</a> was a trailblazer in allowing all students to select a preferred name online when they launched their system in 2009.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other California campuses using preferred names are Cal Tech, Cal Poly SLO, Chapman University, Stanford University, and USC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cr80news.com/2014/04/02/uc-davis-allows-student-ids-to-feature-non-legal-names">CR80 News</a> reported on the UC Davis preferred name policy in a recent post:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A student ID can verify an individual’s identity with a simple swipe, tap or scan, instantly tethering the person who presents the card to a user account on the backend system. But what happens when the cardholder no longer uses their legal name? </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a challenge that the University of California at Davis is meeting head on by enabling students to have a non-legal name printed on their IDs. The university’s <a href="http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/records/preferred-name.cfm" style="color: #002288; text-decoration: none;">Preferred Name Program</a> is acknowledging that an individual’s identity is just as much reflected in the moniker that they respond to as the information stored in the backend system. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The program was instituted following requests from UC Davis students, in an attempt to better accommodate transgender and foreign students who don’t use or respond to their given name. Understandably, a legal first name may be substituted on the student ID so long as the use of a preferred name is not for the purpose of falsification. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weekend of April 19-20, 2014, UCLA students hosted <a href="http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu/PrideAdmitWeekend.htm">Pride Admit Weekend (PAW)</a>, the campus's first-ever LGBTQ overnight admitted student weekend for 9 students from across the country. Organizers believe it may be the first of its kind in the nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UCLA students braved many obstacles and navigated campus to identify LGBTQ admitted students and hosted them for two days of panels, activities and even a queer short film festival in collaboration with OutFest. They aimed to demonstrate the diversity of the queer community at UCLA and all the ways they could get involved if they choose to come to campus in the Fall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151963888126326" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UCLA students bidding farewell to PAW students… in song!</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We hope this first cohort of students will be the beginning of a year-long leadership development program and serve as a pipeline for campus-wide LGBTQ visibility and involvement," says Raja.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://transgenderlawcenter.org/">Transgender Law Center</a> is partnering with host <a href="http://pride.csun.edu/">CSUN</a> to present the <a href="http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/ai1ec_event/transgender-leadership-summit-2014?instance_id=254"><b>Transgender Leadership Summit</b></a> this 11-13, 2014. New this year is a Trans People of Color Summit on Friday, and a Campus Track of programs Saturday & Sunday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8th Annual Transgender Leadership Summit</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"> one-of-a-kind leadership conference that builds the foundation for community members to take action for transgender equality and justice through informative workshops ranging in topics from legal, health care, organizational development and much more.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pre-conference Institute for Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color</span><span my="my" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is </span></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">for Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color to build our awareness of the issues our communities face and discuss strategies and solutions toward building a broader movement that centers our experiences.The institute is from 9am to 4pm on Friday, April 11th. RSVP for this institute to kris@transgenderlawcenter.org</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Visit the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TransLeadershipSummit">TLS 2014 Facebook page</a></b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/219747018220256/"><b><span style="line-height: 18px;">A Ride/Room Share Facebook page can be found here</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 18px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; outline: none !important;" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444; outline: none !important;">FRIDAY April 11, 2014</u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Pre-Institute For Trans and GNC People of Color (9am-4pm)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Gender and Name Change Clinic (11am-4pm)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Film Screenings (1pm-5pm)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Registration (2pm)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Plenary and Opening Reception (6:00 pm – 8:30 pm</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; outline: none !important;" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444; outline: none !important;">SATURDAY April 12, 2014</u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Registration (8am)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Workshops and Plenary (9am-4:30pm)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Evening Party – Host Committee (7pm)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444; outline: none !important;">SUNDAY April 13, 2014</u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Registration (8am)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Workshops and Plenary (9am-3:30pm)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Valerie Spencer</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit;">Valerie Spencer has worked in the arena of Social Services, focusing on health disparities as it relates to Transgender persons and others within LGBT communities for over two decades (that’s 20 years folks). Over time she has worked with the federal government, health departments, universities, community groups, conferences and community based organizations around the country ranging from capacity building training, national advocacy consultation, and of course those key note addresses she is famous for. The directive she gives herself is simple, to make the complex comprehensive. Valerie has even dipped into artistic endeavors by co-staring in the 2004 V-Day production of, “The Vagina Monologues”, featuring an ensemble cast of all Trans-Women cast and the documentary, “Beautiful Daughters”, which aired on LOGO and Showtime networks. In 2011 Christopher Street West (CSW) – LA Gay Pride honored Valerie with the prestigious Berman Shaffer award, given for her years of community service in progressive action. In this same year the California Legislative LGBT caucus conferred upon her a state resolution recognizing her as a statewide and national leader in the movement for LGBT political and social freedoms. Currently she is pursuing her Masters degree in Social work at California State University Long Beach.</span><br />
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<span my="my" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pat Cordova-Goff</span></strong></span><br />
<span my="my" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pat is a 17-year-old senior at Azusa High School. Identifying with the Queer community at the start of her high school career, she gladly began my journey as an activist. Living in a religiously-influenced town, this was not the easiest, especially following her coming out as transgender. Nevertheless, she was taught to walk with her head high and has a jump in her step. Being elected as ASB President, running for Homecoming Queen, and making the Varsity softball team, she intends to continue to live her life, happily, respecting her identity. With that, she will also continue to advocate and work for Queer community to ensure every person is able to experience true happiness, acceptance, and peace themselves, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.</span></span><br />
<span my="my" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span><span my="my" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jay Toole aka Super Butch</span></strong></span></span><br />
<span my="my" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Born in 1948, Jay Toole grew up in an Irish Catholic home in the South Bronx during the 1950’s. At the age of 13, Jay returned home with the classic butch haircut of the day, a flat top. Her father threw her out immediately, with no one and nowhere to turn. For the next 8 years she lived on a park bench in Washington Square Park, a unique viewing perspective for the evolution of the 1960’s in the West Village. Ultimately she did not get off the streets or have an apartment to call her own until November 2000. She spent the five years prior navigating the NYC homeless shelter system. During her time on the streets she was arrested for crimes such as sleeping on a subway bench, sexual deviancy resulting from not wearing 3 articles of women’s clothing and much more. Jay was also beaten and abused by the NYPD regularly; she has visible scars on her leg to this day. She became addicted to drugs and alcohol as the only coping method available. Jay identifies the one reason she made her way out of the shelter system being the assistance of a few supportive queer individuals from the outside.</span></span></span><br />
<span my="my" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s precisely this kind of hands-on support that led Jay in 2002 to become a Co-Founder and the Shelter Director at Queers for Economic Justice (QEJ), a progressive non-profit org. committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation. From 2002-2012 Jay spearheaded movements at QEJ, which resulted in 2 written policy changes at the Dept. of Homeless Services (DHS) and the City of New York. In January of 2006 transgender folks were ensured the right to self determine which side (male/female) of the shelter system to enter. In 2007 a policy was created for homeless queer families to be housed and sheltered together. These policies continue to be honored today. Because of Jay’s work QEJ became the first and only LGBTQ organization to facilitate support groups for queer individuals inside the shelter system. Doors are open in these support groups regardless of gender identity, legal or immigration issues, mental or physical health needs, or substance abuse.</span></span></span><br />
<span my="my" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span my="my" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jay began a new chapter in 2012, moving forward with her long time dream of Jay’s House. Currently she is working alongside her team to create the very first LGBTQ adult shelter in the country. Jay’s House will bring together a resource center, support and services, housing, follow up care, skill shares, mentorships and hold hands as people move through difficult systems, such as health care.</span></span></span>radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-24873547044614678472014-03-04T20:16:00.001-08:002014-03-05T10:33:12.022-08:00CSU San Marcos LGBTQA Pride Center moves into new space<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The CSU San Marcos <a href="http://www.csusm.edu/pridecenter/">LGBTQA Pride Center</a> has moved into a new 1546 square foot space. Part of the new University Student Union building, the center now includes a study room with computers, refrigerator and microwave; an office for counseling & HIV testing; a Director's office; and a storage room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The LGBTQA Pride Center was founded in 2007 by <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Associated Students, Inc. (ASI). The center is overseen by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Robert Aiello-Hauser, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ASI Community Centers Director.</span></span>radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-4781328176470116942014-02-25T13:16:00.000-08:002014-02-25T14:02:31.669-08:00UC San Diego LGBT Resource Center models Intergenerational Dialogues<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who are the elders in our communities that have challenged gender and sexual normativity? What are the experiences of our queer youth? What does it mean to be in the middle age and part of the LGBT community?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://lgbtrc.ucsd.edu/">UC San Diego's LGBT Resource Center</a> launched a new program to encourage mentoring across generations. Histories, stories, and common experiences are shared over lunch, with such conversation starters as:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">What is the most meaningful queer/LGBT moment for you in history to date?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Who was the first person you shared your gender identity and /or sexual orientation with</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">What has been the biggest difference you have seen since starting to understand queer and LGBT issues?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">What do you think the future of the queer/LGBT movement is?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-indent: -0.25in;">How did you understand queerness/difference in your early years?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-indent: -0.25in;">What words and phrases were most commonly used to support the community? To disparage the community?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The program includes pre- and post-experience assessments. Learning outcomes are that at the end of the dialogues, participants will be able to:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Identify mutual areas of shared experiences around queer and LGBT identity across generations</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Understand unique experiences of differing generations of queer and LGBT identified people</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Name key practices and politics relating to a specific generation of queer and LGBT people</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Recognize definitions of variant genders and sexualities across generational years</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn more details about this program on the<a href="http://architect.lgbtcampus.org/mentorship_program"> LGBTQArchitect website, under "Intergenerational Dialogues."</a> UCSD plans to report back data from the program this summer, and invites other campuses to adopt and modify the model to meet the needs of their community.</span>radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-69578836870369441482014-02-18T16:04:00.002-08:002014-03-04T20:18:23.385-08:00San Diego State University continues 9 years of the Queer People of Color Conference<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://qpocc.sdsu.edu/student_affairs/qpocc/files/02806-Call_for_Proposals_Flyer.pdf" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdboqXjSrbtLB_KSEKggzO3NmQum9qX9wyIoejlT1OSxF18OTFnZ6bRRQYNM-pJzFB2B0PQfnORn0Oid4EQAzCdYQ9vhocD8TTsWDL1FFM5s77vh621ksChcU3zTQn-NvcWIPCe9jVI9Q/s1600/qpoccFlyer.jpg" height="320" width="247" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 9th Annual Queer People of Color Conference will be hosted by San Diego State University this May 2-3, 2014. The theme is "(In)Visible: Our Story, Life, and Future."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit the web site at <a href="http://qpocc.sdsu.edu/">http://qpocc.sdsu.edu/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a FREE conference. However, you must register online because space is limited. The Call for Programs is also open online, with a deadline to submit a proposal by March 9, 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's more about the history of QPOCC, which began as a leadership summit hosted by UC Berkeley:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9th Annual Queer People of Color Conference</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Diego State University, 2014</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"(In)Visible: Our Story, Life, and Future."</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8th Annual Queer People of Color Conference</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CSU Fullerton, 2013</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“To Exist is to Resist: Empowering our Roots through Activism, Community, and Intersectionality"</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7th Annual Queer People of Color Conference</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CSU Northridge, 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">“Fourway: Intersections of Race, Class, Gender and Sex[uality]”</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6th Annual Queer
People of Color Conference</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UC Riverside, 2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Decolonize Your Mind”</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5th Annual Queer
People of Color Conference</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Diego State University, 2010</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Building Visibility through our Traditions, Active
Leadership, and Pride”</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4th Annual Queer
People of Color Conference</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UC Davis, 2009</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Building Communities Through Art, Action, and Resistance”</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1st - 3rd Annual Queer
People of Color Conferences</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 1st - 3rd Annual Queer People of Color Conferences all took place at UC Berkeley. Each year it was hosted by different
organizations with the theme of the conference changing as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 1st Annual QPOC Conference focused
on "Exposing Our Institutionalizations and Challenging
Tokenisms." The 2nd Annual QPOC Conference's theme was "At the
Crossroads of Age, Race, and Sexuality." Lastly, the 3rd Annual QPOC
Conference's theme was "(re)Generations of Solidarity: Shifting
Lenses and Igniting Hearts."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Why was the Queer People of Color Summit started?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To honor the advances made by queer people of color amid
various geopolitical, sociological, and institutional pressures that have
informed our individual consciousnesses and the structures of our supporting
organizations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Queer People of Color Leadership Summit aspired to
provide an arena for QPOC, our organizations, and those invested in our development
and proliferation to reignite the dialogues of what a QPOC identity means, what
Queer People of Color represent, and how Queer People of Color can strategize
more effectively.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What can QPOC gain from coming to the summits and
conferences?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By contesting notions of a singular QPOC identity,
participants can expect to explore new methods of negotiating challenges that
relate to our varied experiences.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the organizing committee of the past and current
summits/conference has extended welcome to all, it hopes participants approach
the summit as an opportunity—not only for those who can rely on their
privileges (as varied as they are) as assurance of their agency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Who were/are responsible for creating the summit?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first QPOC Leadership Summit, which took place on April
29, 2006, sprung out of the collaborative efforts and initial conversations
between QPOC at SFSU and YQUE at UCB. La Familia at UCD would also become
involved in the planning process and sponsorship of the summit. SFSU had
hoped to host the summit. However they were unable to secure a
location on campus so UCB offered to host.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The overall goal was to unite
the local queer of color orgs/leaders--which is why it was structured in the
form of a summit, as opposed to a conference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What did the agenda look like in terms of guest speakers,
entertainment, and workshops?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Celia Herrera Rodriguez (keynote), Dalit Baum (keynote),
Coral Lopez (unable to attend), and performances by Chueh Jun-Fung & other
local artists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What was discussed in the past workshops?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Identity Politics, Institutions and Institutionalizations,
Strategic Networking and Organizing and much more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Q&A from UC Berkeley Contacts</span><br />
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The UCR LGBT Resource Center announces the Inaugural <b><a href="http://blaqoutucr.blogspot.com/">BlaqOUT Conference on April 18-19, 2014 @ University of California, Riverside.</a></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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We cordially invite all folks who self identify as Black/African American or of African Descent and as Same Gender Loving, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning or somewhere on the LGBT Spectrum to apply to attend.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are an ally to our communities, we encourage you to attend the QPOC Conference on May 2-3, 2014 at San Diego State University. The QPOC Conference is open to all individuals. (<a href="http://qpocc.sdsu.edu/">qpocc.sdsu.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through the <a href="http://blaqoutucr.blogspot.com/">BlaqOUT Conference</a>, we hope to create safe and courageous spaces that foster the discussion of issues relevant to those who self identify as Black/African American or of African Communities on the LGBTQ Spectrum. Various Workshops, keynotes, and activities will be designed to unite our community and equip us with the resources necessary to face issues that affect us as marginalized individuals.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All Program Proposals must be in by <b>Friday, February 28, 2014</b>. You will be notified by email if your program has been accepted by March 14, 2014. Your registration payment will be due by April 4, 2014. All presenters, including co-presenters, must also apply to attend BlaqOUT and self identify as Black/African American or of African Decent and on the LGBT Spectrum.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Questions? Email <a href="mailto:Blaqout@gmail.com"><span style="color: #0000e9;">blaqoutucr@gmail.com</span></a> or LGBT Resource Center Program Coordinator Toi Thibodeaux at <a href="mailto:too.thibodeaux@ucr.edu"><span style="color: #0000e9;">toi.thibodeaux@ucr.edu</span></a> or <b>951-827-2267.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Visit <a href="http://blaqoutucr.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="color: #0000e9;">http://blaqoutucr.blogspot.com/</span></b></a></span></span>radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-18142801620195260462014-02-12T16:08:00.002-08:002014-03-04T20:19:23.553-08:00UC Santa Cruz Trans* Community Voices and Advocacy<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">City On a Hill Press spotlights the UCSC campus community, including current advocacy for gender-inclusive resources and policies, with the article <a href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2014/01/31/trans/">"</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; line-height: 1.25em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2014/01/31/trans/">Transitions: Voices of the Trans Community."</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em;"> [</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Joel Escobedo 1/31/14] Projects include the Free to Pee Campaign and access to health care.</span><br />
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radical bureaucrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847690792889942450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1546520928642062921.post-14484244592093173552014-02-06T21:07:00.002-08:002014-03-04T20:17:48.994-08:00UC Davis updates center name to LGBTQIA Resource Center<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Interim Director <span style="text-align: start;">Elizabeth C</span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #500050;">oté stands outside the center now sporting new signage.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This academic year, <a href="http://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/">UC Davis </a>updated the center's name to the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual Resource Center. </span><br />
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"While some similar centers have chosen to take on a name
that serves as an umbrella (i.e. Pride Center, Equity Center)," says center interim director Elizabeth C<span style="color: #500050;">oté, </span>"our new name provides the opportunity to educate around each of these historically
underrepresented groups every time the Center’s name is introduced."</span><br />
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The <a href="http://architect.lgbtcampus.org/research">2011 Consortium Directors Survey</a> documents the following center names* (N=136):</span><br />
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You may have noticed that two additional gender-neutral bathrooms have been added on campus. One is behind Club 88 and the other is in the Science building.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the result of an important discussion last summer aimed at supporting individuals on campus (and guests) who identify as transgender and/or gender non-conforming. In addition, we want to accommodate people who have families or require assistance due to a temporary or permanent disability.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The big question: Why is this necessary?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Transgender people often experience significant anxiety and are subject to harassment and violence when using male- or female-specific campus restrooms. “Gender-neutral” bathrooms—typically single-stall, lockable restrooms available to people of all genders—provide a safe facility for transgender people by not requiring individuals to “choose” a gender based on how they identify or physical presentation. These restrooms also help families with children (such as mothers bringing sons, or fathers bringing daughters, to a restroom) and people with disabilities who need the assistance of an attendant of a different gender. Single-stall restrooms also more easily meet the accessibility regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).1<o:p></o:p></div>
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Up until now, the only gender-neutral bathroom available was in Mendenhall. This means that parents with small children, people requiring assistance, and transgender and/or gender non-conforming individuals had few restroom options.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We understand that most gender-neutral bathrooms are single-stall, as described previously. Therefore, the facility by Club 88 is not a “traditional” gender-neutral bathroom because it includes more than one stall. However, it became more important to accommodate our community members than worry about whether or not we had a traditional facility. As with all gender-neutral bathrooms, they can be locked for privacy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Adding gender-neutral facilities to our campus not only provides safety for our community; it honors the diversity of community members and promotes an inclusive environment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1546520928642062921" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>For those who wish to use gender-specific restrooms, there are plenty on campus. In the campus center alone, there are three: downstairs by the Cultural Center and LEAP, upstairs by The Spot, and in Villalobos Hall. While it may feel inconvenient to walk to these facilities if you are accustomed to using the women’s restroom in Club 88, please consider that before now, we had individuals on campus who had to walk all the way over to Mendenhall. Now they have options too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In addition, the gender-neutral bathroom is not suddenly unavailable to women. If you are comfortable using it, knowing that various individuals may use it as well, go for it! No one will stop you from doing your business. If you want/need privacy, simply lock the door. However, if you would rather use a gender-specific bathroom, they are available in other campus center locations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you have further questions, please contact me directly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 University of Chicago QueerAction, “Gender-Neutral Bathrooms Campaign: A QueerSafeCampus Initiative”: <a href="http://queeraction.uchicago.edu/statement.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://queeraction.uchicago.edu/statement.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Brush Script Std'; font-size: 16pt;">Joy L. Hoffman, Ed.D.</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #5f497a;">Director of the Cultural Center</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #5f497a;">Whittier College </span><b><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; font-size: 7.5pt;">¡</span></b><span style="color: #5f497a;"> Campus Center, 7214 Painter Avenue, Whittier, CA 90602<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5f497a;">Phone: (562) 907-4963</span></div>
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