INSTITUTE NEWS & EVENTS
NEXT WEEKEND! Join us for Artistic InQUEERies at Metal Arts Village!


Artistic InQUEERies is almost here! Saturday, Nov. 9th from 6-9PM come down to Metal Arts Village (3230 N Dodge Blvd) for an evening event centering LGBTQ+ artistry and culture! Purchase artwork from local queer artists, catch drag performances, and peruse a wide array of goods and services offered by local queer vendors! Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Artistic In QUEERies is a free event, and all ages are welcome!

For more information, check out our Facebook page
Join Trans Studies Reading Group for discussion of  Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender by Cáel Keegan!

image description: Blue book over white background with pages colored in the style of transgender flag (light blue, light pink, white stripes) over the Book covers of each of the books featured on the reading list. Next meeting is November 5th, 2019. 

For more information, please contact Adrienne Carmack: [email protected].
Queer Conexiones: This Week!
Celebrate Día De Los Muertos at Guerrero Center!

image description: purple background with gold accents, multi-colored sugar skulls and flowers. event text includes: sugar skull decorating on Oct. 28th, Coco movie screening on Oct. 29th, Sip & paint on Oct. 30th, and Día De Los Muertos Celebration on Oct. 31st.  

image description: Flyer with light pink background and multi-colored, painted pumpkins with bats, ghosts, squiggles, and other geometric shapes. Event text reads: LGBTQ+ Resource Center Presents Midweek Reset, Pumpkin decorating and pizza, Wed. Oct. 30th, 12-2PM. 

Don't miss out on Early Bird Registration for Infinite Variation: A 5Rhythms Ex ploration of Gender !

Early Sale Bird Ends: Oct. 31st
Retreat: Nov. 15th-Nov. 17th
Rhythm Industry Performance Factory | 1013 S Tyndall Ave
195.00, some scholarships available

The full range of expression is our birthright. No way of being is off bounds to us because of our bodily shape. Man, woman, femme, genderqueer, trans*, non-binary-the full range of human possibility is ours to explore and express. An infinite palette. Attendees of this movement retreat will explore those possibilities with the map of the 5Rhythms® as our guide: the expressions we've learned to contain ourselves within, the expressions we've learned to avoid, the expressions we have fought hard to claim for ourselves. Inviting our bodies to tell the stories of our gendered becoming. And together we will begin to map the territory of expansion, the possibilities of infinite variation each of us is.

Learn more about this event here. Purchase tickets/register here.
CALLS, CONFERENCES, CLASSES and FUNDING
Need to declutter your wardrobe? Donate to the Queer Closet!

Now open in the WGRC, the Queer Closet seeks the following items to widen our fashion selection:
- Shoes
- Formal shoes
- Formal clothing
- XS & S sized clothing
- XL-XXXXL sized clothing




Additionally, the Queer Closet is seeking donations for the following products (please note that these products MUST be unused): 
- Hygiene products
- Body soap
- Shampoo & Conditioner
- First-aid kits
- Black hair products
- Makeup

To coordinate donation drop offs, or to ask a question about the Queer Closet, please contact Ruben Zecena:  [email protected]
Call for Participants: Share your thoughts on LGBTQA+ inclusion in school health education! 

Did you attend health classes at some time during your schooling? Are you LGBTQ+-identified (or an ally)? Are you willing to share your experiences to inform a youth-led research project regarding inclusive health education? If yes, consider following this link to give your input via confidential survey. 

This research is associated with a youth senior capstone project from City High School. Your participation is greatly appreciated. Any questions can be directed to principal investigator, Lilith ( [email protected]).
Mark Your Calendar!

image description: Author Kristen Nelson sitting atop the hood of a car with headlights lit in front of sunset desert landscape. Event text reads: Loving our Queer Bodies: A letter writing workshop with Kristen Nelson, Saturday Nov. 9th, 3-5PM, Haunted Hands, 3230 N Dodge.

image description: flyer background featuring a white fist with pink fingernails and a pink tattoo of transgender symbol(s), in the center of an agave plant with light blue, pink, and beige fronds, with Center on 4th logo in bottom right corner. Image text reads: Trans day of resilience, Nov. 20th, the Thornhill Lopez Center on 4th, 6:00 PM, Save the date for an evening of celebrating trans resilience. Honor those who came before us with a night of art, poetry, and music. #WontBeErased.
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