Events
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INCLUDES PROGRAMS AND EVENTS FOR 2012-2013
| Title | Date, Time, Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| LGBTQA Garden Party: A Welcome Reception for Faculty, Staff and Students | Wednesday, Sept 12, 2012 4:30-6:30pm Outdoor courtyard of Johnson Theatre, PCAC (rain location: MUB Strafford Room) | The Garden Party is a time for socializing, reconnecting and making new
connections with one another! Please mark your calendars, bring a
friend, and be sure to join us for food, friendship and a warm welcome
to the new year! Co-sponsored by the President’s Commission on the
Status of GLBT Issues, UNH Alliance, Diversity Support Coalition student
organizations, Office of the
Provost/Inclusive Excellence Initiatives, and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs. Call 862-5053 for more info |
| Seacoast Outright - Open House | Saturday, Sept 22 11:00am-2:00pm 1 Falkland Place Portsmouth, NH | Open House - Brunch style meet and greet. Speak with parents/friends of GLBTQ youth and learn about how you can help. Meet the volunteers and executive board members from Seacoast Outright as well as staff from NH PFLAG. For more info contact - Rosalind Eaton rosalind_eaton@yahoo.com
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| Social Gathering/networking | Tues, Sept 25 Libby's Restaurant Downtown Durham 5:30-7:00pm | Faculty, staff and graduate students are invited to meet new friends, and network with colleagues. Time at this meeting will be set aside to begin the planning for Trans Day of Remembrance in November. Appetizers provided. Event sponsored by Stonewall Grads and the Graduate School. |
| Coming Out Week Keynote Speaker: Randy Roberts Potts | Monday, Oct 8 MUB, Strafford Room | Randy Roberts Potts is the grandson of well known evangelical minister Oral Roberts, and he will be sharing his coming out story of his life experience of living in the Roberts' family compound as well as his work on anti-bullying programs, and the Gay Agenda program which aims to foster love and acceptance. For Additional Information on Randy. Event sponsored by MUB Lecture Series, Kidder Fund, The Alliance. |
| Social Gathering/networking | Wed, Oct 10 7:00pm LaPanza Lounge Portsmouth Brewery | Celebrate Coming Out Week. Invite friends, faculty, staff and graduate students. Event sponsored by Stonewall Grads |
| GAFFS (Gays and Friends Film Series) Presents: The Wedding Banquet | Tues, Oct 16 7:00pm Huddleston Hall, Rm 203 | Movie followed by film discussion. Time will also be set aside to continue planning for Trans Day of remembrance. Free pizza and popcorn. Sponsored by the Graduate School and Women's & Queer Studies. |
| Transgender Day of Remembrance | Nov 13th 7:30-9:30pm MUB | Evening will begin with candlelight vigil (outside MUB Main Entrance). Reception and panel discussion to follow in MUB 338-340. |
| Gender Identities Awareness Week | Nov 13-Nov 16 MUB | Monday, November 12 Tuesday, November 13 Film
Screening,
4:00-5:30pm, MUB Theater I “Photos of Angie” Wednesday, November 14 Film
Screening,
4:00-5:30pm, MUB Theater I “Austin Unbound” Cisgender
Privilege Workshop,12:30-2:00pm, MUB 334-336 Friday, November 16: More information on events (click here) All Events are FREE and Open to the Public, all are WELCOME to attend. Events are sponsored by TG-NH, MUB, The Alliance, Stonewall Grads, Graduate School, GLBT Commission, Disability Commission, Counseling Center and Health Services |
| Annual Drag Ball | Friday, Feb 15, 2013 8:00pm-midnight Granite State Room | It's time for the 13th annual Drag Ball. This is a highlight event of the spring semester hosted by the UNH Alliance! Everyone will dance the night away! Dressing up in drag is encouraged, but not required! Just come out, have fun, and be yourself! |
Film "Transilience", followed by discussion |
Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 | Transilience is an intensely personal and powerful film that features film writer, activist and educator Joelle Ruby Ryan. The film takes viewers on a journey into her life as a gender outlaw. Mixing performance footage of trans autobiographical fragments throughout the life cycle with stock footage, found images, and still photos, the video entices viewers to imagine what life outside of the gender binary is really like, up close and personal. Raw and passionate, viewers see the persecution that Joelle has faced, as well as her complex political evolution and activist awakening. Joelle Ruby Ryan is a lecturer in the Women's Studies Program at UNH. Film is sponsored by Kidder Fund, Health Services and Women's Studies. |
| Speaker: Rabbi Sarra Lev "How Many Genders in the Biblical Creation Story"? | Tuesday, March 19, Women's Studies Lounge 12:00-2:00pm | Research faculty Rabbi Sarra Lev, Ph.D is Chair of the Department of Rabbinic Civilization and Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in the Philadelphia area. Her main topics of interest are gender and sexuality in rabbinic literature with a focus on queer theory and intersexuality. This program will enable participants to more competently understand and challenge heteronormativity and a binary gender system. Program sponsored by Women's Studies, Queer Studies, Kidder Fund, GLBT Commission. |
| Trasecting Society Conference: Visualizing the Past, Present and Future of Trans Lives | April 5-6, 2013 MUB | Transecting Society is a
two-day symposium dedicated to exploring controversial political topics related
to trans* lives in contemporary U.S. society. Although we recognize that the
word “trans*,” like all words, is limited in its capacity to name our differences,
we intend for the phrase “trans* lives” to be inclusive of the lives of all
transsexuals, cross-dressers, genderqueers, and other gender-nonconforming
people. In this symposium, we endeavor to cultivate a supportive and
egalitarian space in which to encourage and educate each other. We welcome
artists, performers, writers, activists, lawyers, social workers, policy
workers, non-profit workers, undergraduate students, graduate students,
faculty, independent scholars, and all others who are interested in rendering
visible the oppression and agency of trans* people and in envisioning the
advancement of our civil rights, human rights, and collective liberation. Event Sponsored by Transecting Society |
| GLBT Pancake Breakfast | Wed, April 9, 2013 8:00-9:30am MUB Granite State Room | Celebrating 20 years of coming together and celebrating the accomplishments of the GLBTQQA community through Pink Triangle and Kidder Fund Awards. Keynote speaker TBA. Event sponsored by the Kidder Fund and GLBT Commission. |
| Kidder Fund Lecture - Keynote Speaker Erin E. Buzuvis, Western New England School of Law | Tues, April 16, 2013 4:00-5:30pm MUB Strafford Room | Erin Buzuvis is the Director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at Western New England School of Law. She is an Alumnae of UNH and Cornell Law School. Professor Buzuvis researches and writes about gender and discrimination in sports, including such topics as the interrelation of law and sports culture. Additionally, she is a co-founder and contributor to the Title IX Blog, an interdisciplinary resource for news, legal developments, commentary and scholarship about Title IX's application to athletics and education. Event sponsored by Kidder Fund |
GROUPS
The Alliance: is the undergraduate student organization for
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, Questioning and Allied
students. We work to build a safer, more inclusive environment for
LGBTQA students and promote acceptance of all forms of diversity.
Meetings enable you to meet other LGBTQA students in a safe,
non-judgmental environment and foster the development of a unified Queer
and Allied community. Meetings held usually every Tuesday, 7:30pm, MUB, Room 145. For more info http://wildcatlink.unh.edu/organization/Alliance or email:theunhalliance@gmail.com
Stonewall Grads: a social and activist group consisting of gay,
lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, queer, questioning and allied (GLBTQ+)
individuals at UNH. Through community
activism and support, we strive to create a group that welcomes and
empowers all people as well as educating the entire university about
issues that affect GLBTQ+ students on campus. While we are primarily a
graduate student group, we welcome all faculty and staff who want to be a part of our
group. For More Information
LGBTQ+ Support Group: talk with others who can relate to your experiences. Small group size of LGBTQ+ students, topics based on your interests, meet weekly for 7-8 weeks per semester. Meetings held on Friday afternoons, 2:30-4:00pm at a relaxed location on campus. Sponsored by the Counseling Center (For More Info)
TRAININGS
Safe Zones Trainings are professional development opportunities for UNH faculty, staff, and graduate students to advance awareness, knowledge, and skills around the services and support that we provide to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students and colleagues. Participants of Safe Zones Trainings are a campus-wide network of allies who are supportive of LGBTQ faculty, students, and staff and are committed to contributing to a campus climate of inclusion at UNH.
Trainings are 1.5 hours in length. We offer department-specific trainings, and some trainings that are open to mixed groups of faculty and staff from various departments.
Topic areas explored during trainings:
- Increasing awareness of the issues and experiences of LGBTQ individuals,
- Using inclusive language,
- Accessing and referring LGBTQ individuals to important campus resources,
- Discovering specific ways to provide support and be an ally in the work that you do with students,
- Exploring specific issues related to providing services to LGBTQ students and assessing ways to be inclusive of and welcoming to LGBTQ individuals in the general services that you provide,
- Developing skills to take active steps toward reducing and preventing harassment, discrimination, and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression,
- As an office / department, how can you best "communicate" that you [your department] is supportive [an ally] to LGBTQ students?
Following the training, participants may decide to request a Safe Zones sticker.
To inquire about attending an upcoming training or scheduling a Safe Zones Training for the faculty and staff in your department, please contact: Ellen Semran, Safe Zones Coordinator, at 862-5053 or ellen.semran@unh.edu. For more information, please visit our web site: http:www.unh.edu/safezones/involve/facstaff.htm.
Safe Zones is sponsored by the President's Commission on the Status of GLBT Issues and the Office of the Multicultural Student Affairs.
Social Justice Educator Training (SJE)
Social Justice Educator Training (SJE) is a professional development
opportunity for UNH faculty, staff and graduate students to further
diversity awareness, knowledge and skill sets. We will explore “social
justice” via personal and institutional lenses to analyze: power and
privilege, discrimination and prejudice, inclusion and equity through
the multiple social identities of race, gender, sexual orientation,
class, nationality, ethnicity, ability (physical and mental), religion,
etc. This process will include open and honest discussions, readings,
and interactive/experiential activities in a respectful environment. The
eight-hour training which is divided into two days is facilitated in a
small-group setting. For More Information and Registration Form