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Winter 2019, Week 6
UC San Diego LGBT Resource Center
Monday-Thursday 8am-7pm;
Friday 8am-4:30pm
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"Sometimes when we are generous
in small, barely detectable ways,
it can change someone else's life forever
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Spotify Spotlight is another new addition to the Rainbow Newsletter.
Alternated with the Library Spotlight, the LGBT Resource Center will feature
a Spotify playlist that hopes to embrace the vibe of the month.
Please enjoy and feel free to add more songs as this playlist will be public for everyone.
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February's
Recommendation
Valentine's Day Playlist: Love is Love
Celebrate this Valentine's Day with our Spotify playlist of 14 love songs, including Disney ballads, timeless records, and RnB hits.
Click
here to enjoy with your loved ones!
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Please click
HERE
to access our Audio Newsletter!
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QTPOC x LGBTRC Kiss In!
Feb. 13 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | The Hump (Muir)
Pick up a button, condom rose, and leave your kiss on our canvas. We'll have colorful lipstick, paint, and stamps! Come support the visibility of queer and trans people of color!
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Feb. 19 | 3:00 - 4:30 PM | LGBTRC Conference Room
Tired from studying? Take a break and join us at the LGBT Resource Center!
We'll have some art supplies out along with coffee, tea, and pastries as we chat about the differences between our gender identity and gender expression.
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TV Dinner: Rafiki
Feb. 20 | 6:00 PM | The Loft
Join us for our weekly TV Dinner series where you can get free dinner and watch a film to wind down in the middle of the week! FREE for UCSD Students w/ ID
About "Rafiki": Rafiki, or "Friend", is a 2018 Kenyan film about the relationship with two girls, as they struggle to balance their love for each other with the pressures from family, politics, and society. As their friendship begins to grow into something more, Kena and Ziki fights social stigmas for their happiness together.
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Out and Proud: Call for Programs
Deadline: March 8
The UC San Diego LGBT Resource Center's Out and Proud Series will take place from April 8-26, and we need your help to make it happen!
The weeks consist of programs meant to bring awareness to LGBTQIA+ issues, to provide an opportunity for community visibility and reflections, and to celebrate many different intersecting identities. If you would like to
facilitate
a program or event,
please
scan the code on the flyer.
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Queer Student Organization Affiliates
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Bored Gaymers
Come play board games with us weekly at the LGBT Resource Center! Feel free to see what games we have or even bring your own!
No experience required!
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Love is Light
Mondays | 5:00-6:00 PM
Conference Room, LGBT RC
Love is Light aims to create a welcoming and comforting social environment for LGBT students of all spiritual backgrounds. As inclusion is the founding principle, allies and non-religious LGBT students are welcome. The group will affirm students' identity as part of the LBGT spiritual community and promote compassion, tolerance, and self-care through mental, spiritual, and physical wellness.
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QTPOC
Odd Thursdays | 5:00 - 6:30 PM |
Conference Room, LGBT RC
QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR is a student org that creates a safe space to dialogue, educate, and socialize around LGBTQ+ identified people of color. For more information about QTPOC, contact
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Black Queer Collective
Even Wednesdays | 5:00-6:00 PM |
Conference Room, LGBT RC
Black Queer Collective is a group dedicated to finding and fostering Black queer community at UC San Diego. For more information about Black Queer Collective, please click
here
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Beyond Binaries Collective
Thursdays | 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM |
Conference Room, LGBT RC
Come to a flexible, loving space with other folks who identify outside of the gender binary or are questioning if they are. Every week is a new space to explore who you are in a safe environment and find community and support.
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oSTEM
Thursday of Week 3, 7, and 9 | 6:30-8:30 PM |
Conference Room, LGBT RC
Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics is a national LGBTQ-affirming organization that aims to provide services and support for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and to create a dynamic network between students and professionals in industry and academia. For more information, check out their
Facebook
page!
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Queer and Asian Collective
Even Thursdays | 5:30-6:30 PM |
Conference Room, LGBT RC
UCSD Queer and Asian Collective seeks to provide a brave space for TLGBQIA+ (trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic,+) Asians, South Asians, and Southeast Asians. We strive to provide support for and empower the queer Asian community at UCSD through focusing on the intersection of being trans and/or queer and Asian.
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UCSD Multi-identity Art Collective
Fridays | 4
:30-7:00 PM | LGBT RC
Multi-identity Artist Collective is an intersectional art group geared toward no one in particular because we take just about everyone! Humans of all artistic skill levels, specialties, and identities are welcome to join us. We hold art workshops and other social events!
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Sapphic Circle
Sapphic Circle is a diverse and accessible support network inclusive of all sapphic-identifying individuals. Please bring your lovely Sapphic self and an open, inclusive mind! The space will change and evolve to accommodate the needs of the community on a quarter-by-quarter basis.
Please fill out the
Google Form if interested!
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Trans Name & Gender Marker Changes Clinic
6:30 - 9:00 PM | Hillcrest LGBT Community Center
Free clinic for transgender and non-binary individuals seeking name and/or gender-marker changes on official documents.
Based on recent demand, we are going to pilot having the Clinic twice monthly for the first part of the year - the second Tuesday and fourth Wednesday of the month for January through March.
2019 dates:
- February 12th and 27th.
- March 12th and 27th.
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Weeks 2-10 M
ondays | 2:30- 4:00 PM |
Small Meeting Room, Women's Center
Join us for conversations about our experiences as gay men, and connect with other gay men on campus.
This group addresses relationships, sexual health, community building and more.
For more information please contact:
Greg Koch at
[email protected].
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Chicahua Unveiling Winter Quarter
Feb. 12 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM | SPACES Workroom
Hey y'all! M.E.Ch.A. (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán), a Latinx/Chicanx political, social, and cultural org, is bringing back its mxntorship/fxmtorship program for winter quarter! If you were interested in the Chicahua program but weren't able to fall quarter, do apply! Don't miss out on the opportunity to share your knowledge and also learn from others. The application is
here.
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OASIS Job Fair
Feb. 13-14 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM | OASIS 3rd Floor Center Hall
Find out about all the student staff positions OASIS will have available for Summer 2019 and academic year 2019-2020! The job fair will take place on two dates Feb 13th and Feb 14th.
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Traitify Assessment: Find the Right Career for Your Personality
Feb. 15 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | The Zone
Traitify is a unique visual personality assessment that helps you to make better decisions about career direction based on your results. Take the Traitify assessment and learn how you can find the right career that matches your personality, skills, and strengths. A collaboration with the Career Center.
Bring your laptop, cellphone, or tablet to take the assessment during the workshop. Refreshments will be provided.
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The Art of Expression
Feb. 20 | 6:00 - 7:00 PM | Cross-Cultural Center Art Space
Come out and enjoy artwork created by members of the Multi-Identity Art Collective, that centers identity in its various ways.
Light refreshments will be provided.
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My Journey
Feb. 21 | 5:30 - 6:30 PM | Study Abroad Dance Hall
My Journey is a study abroad workshop designed to encourage Black students to travel abroad. The event consists of an information session lead by the amazing study abroad advisor Andra Jacques, followed by dinner and the space to interact and learn from Black students who have studied abroad previously. If you are at all interested in studying abroad, this is the program for you.
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Apply for EDS 116 Mentor Practicum
Deadline Feb. 22
All Students interested in becoming mentors at OASIS are required to enroll in the EDS 116 & Mentor Practicum course (students learn basic counseling and communication skills in addition to exploring themselves and other within the group). In order to participate in the course, students go through an interview process to ensure their readiness.
The application deadline is Friday February 22nd, and we will also be having a job fair next week where students can find out more information.
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The Vagina Monologues & TheirStories 2019
Feb. 22 | 7:00 - 10:00 PM | PC East Ballroom
The Vagina Monologues & TheirStories 2019 is a production consisting of a series of monologues that gives a voice to those commonly forgotten and persecuted by society. ALL profits go towards local and abroad beneficiaries.
Tickets are ON SALE at the Box Office, $10 for students, $15 for general public!
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"Mental Health Matter" Symposium
Feb. 24 | 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Price Center
The Graduate Students Association is sponsoring a full day conference about improving campus climate welcoming graduate students from all UC campuses (not pictured - 02/26 from 9am-6pm in PC) as well as a half-day symposium on mental health issues.
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