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Events - 2009 - 2010

FOR A COMPLETE LISTING OF DIVERSITY RELATED EVENTS

 

ONGOING

Colleagues Lunch

Join us on Wednesdays 9/30, 10/21, 11/18, 12/9, 1/27, 2/24, 3/31, 4/28 for a luncheon gathering for faculty and staff of color and allies. MUB Strafford room 12:00noon-1:00pm. Sponsored by the UNH Diversity Team call Shannon Marthouse at TEL# 862-2268 for more info

The Alliance: meet weekly on Tuesday nights, MUB Rm 145, 7:30pm. The UNH 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. Questions?email: theunhalliance@gmail.com

Stonewall Grads - Grad students meet weekly on Wednesday nights, Women's Study Lounge, Huddleston Hall, 7:00pm, starting September 2

 


2009


September 2009
Wed, September 16
4:30-6:30pm
Outdoor courtyard of Paul Creative Arts Center (theatre entrance)
LGBTQA Garden Party, A UNH LGBTQA community tradition. 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! Sponsored by OMSA, President's Commission on Status of GLBT Issues, Diversity Initiatives.
Wed, September 23
MUB Theater I
3:00pm

Self Loving: Portrait of A Woman's Sexuality Seminar. Explores the lives of 10 women during an interactive workshop that helps them better know sexual pleasure through masturbation. Film is 60 min. Sponsored by Office of Health Education and Promotion, Health Services and the Women's Studies program.

Wed, September 23
Women's Studies Lounge Huddleston Hall
7:00pm

Film/discussion "Puccini for Beginners". Sponsored by Stonewall Grads, Queer Studies and Women's Studies for our community and allies.
Sunday, September 27
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 12 Elm St
Exeter, NH
9:00-10:00 or 11:00-12:00
"Love Makes a Family" Anne Stanback, Yale Divinity School graduate, has a story to tell that inspires more work to gain civil rights for all people and more attention to ending the federal Defense of Marriage Act and discrimination against GLBT persons.
Tues, September 29
MUB Theater I
6:00pm
Film/discussion "Do I Look Fat?" a documentary on gay men, body image and eating disorders. Film is 58 min. Sponsored by Office of Health Education and Promotion, Health Services and the Women's Commission. Watch trailer
OCTOBER 2009
Monday, October 5
MUB Strafford Rm
7:00pm
StaceyAnn Chin, slam poet, performer, activist, entertainer. Part of UNH Coming Out Week activities. Sponsored by UNH Alliance, OMSA. For more information on Chin
Tuesday, October 6
Waysmeet Center
6:00pm
Ally Dinner. Part of UNH Coming Out Week activities. Event sponsored by UNH Alliance, OMSA
Wednesday, October 7
MUB Theater I
2:00pm
Film/discussion "Call Me Malcolm". Tells the story of the Rev. Malcolm E. Himschoot, then a seminary student, who explores his struggles with faith, love and gender identity. Post-film discussion with Matt Kailey who is featured in the film. Film is 90 min. Sponsored by Office of Health Education and Promotion, Health Services and Women's Studies Program. Watch clips from film
Wednesday, October 7
MUB Strafford Room
7:00pm
Beyond the Gender Binary: A Conversation with Matt Kailey. Join transsexual author of "Just Add hormones: an Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience", activist, and nationally known speaker as he challenges the myths and realities of our binary gender system through sharing his life story. Part of UNH Coming Out Week activities. Event sponsored by UNH Alliance, OMSA, Diversity Initiatives, MUB Lecture Series, Counseling Center, Graduate School, Queer Studies, Women's Studies, Office of Affirmative Action and Equity For more details
Wednesday, October 7
Women's Studies Lounge Huddleston Hall
7:00pm
Film/discussion "Wilde" with Stephen Fry, Jude Law, and Vanessa Redgrave. Sponsored by Stonewall Grads, Queer Studies and Women's Studies for our community and allies.
Thursday, October 8
MUB Rm 338
6:00pm
Come Out, Speak Out. Part of UNH Coming Out Week activities. Sponsored by UNH Alliance, OMSA
Friday, October 9
MUB Strafford Rm
9:00pm
Come Out, Rave Out! Part of UNH Coming Out Week activities. Sponsored by UNH Alliance, OMSA
Wednesday, October 21
MUB Theater I
4:00pm
Film/discussion "Silence: In Search of Black Female Sexuality in America". Explores the sexual wants, needs, and desires of 15 Black women from many walks of life. Film is 74 min. Sponsored by Office of Health Education and Promotion, Health Services and Women's Studies Program. Watch Trailer
Wednesday, October 21
Women's Studies Lounge
Huddleston Hall
7:00pm
Film/Discussion "They Were Eleven". Sponsored by Stonewall Grads, Queer Studies and Women's Studies for our community and allies.
   
NOVEMBER 2009

Wednesday, November 18
MUB Theater I
3:00pm

 

Film/discussion "Juchitan Queer Paradise". Film provides a portrait of Juchitan, a small Mexican city where being gay is fully accepted and embraced. Film is 64 min. Sponsored by Office of Health Education and Promotion, Health Services and Women's Studies Program.
Mon. Nov 30 - Tues. Dec 1
MUB, Strafford Room
Time: TBA
World AIDS Day: Focus on Living Photography Exhibit. Based on Rosalyn Banish 's book, Focus on Living, (U. Mass Press) with introduction by Paul A. Volberding, M.D., Vice-Chair of the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Exhibit is combination of text and photos of 16 Americans living with HIV and AIDS. Sponsored by Office of Health Education and Promotion, Health Services. Learn more about the exhibit
DECEMBER 2009
Tuesday, Dec 15 and Thursday, Dec 17
8:30am - 12:30pm
Gables Community Center

And

Tuesday, Jan 12 and
Thursday, Jan 14
8:30am-12:30pm
Holloway Commons, Swamscott Room
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
   

SAFE ZONES TRAININGS

The 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.


     

     

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