Events

Crossing Pride with LGBTQI+ Refugees: Storytelling and Healing ♥

The White Room, Cross Cultural Center

Details 10:00am-11:30am - Embodied / Digital Storytelling and Healing (The White Room at the Cross-Cultural Center) Led by: Dario Valles (Chicano/Latino Studies, CSULB, activist and filmmaker) and Anna Winget (UCHRI Scholar, activist, and theatre artist) Introduction to the tools and methods of healing through embodied practices and their intersection with digital media. Explore how these…

Crossing Pride with LGBTQI+ Refugee Storytelling: “My Story Doesn’t End” ♥

The White Room, Cross Cultural Center

Details 2:30pm-3pm: Screening of Home/Less: LGBTQ+ refugee storytelling (The White Room at the Cross-Cultural Center) Home/Less is a digital performance event centralizing the stories and experiences of LGBTQ refugees in Sweden who reflect on themes of “home.” The performance was recorded at the Strindberg Theatre and was a collaboration between the Newcomers Performance Project, University of…

The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies invites you to the End of the Year Graduation Celebration! ♥★

Humanities Gateway 1010

The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies invites you to the End of the Year Graduation Celebration! The celebration will be Wednesday, June 1st. The beginning of the event will consist of senior presentations in Humanities Gateway 1010 from 4:00pm - 5:30 pm. The reception will follow with graduate recognitions and student awards in Humanities Gateway 1030. If you would like to join the celebration RSVP here: https://bit.ly/RSVPendoftheyear

Queer, Trans, and Allies in the Biological Sciences (QTABS) Community Symposium ♥

CNLM Courtyard and Herklotz Conference Room

1st Annual Queer, Trans, and Allies in the Biological Sciences (QTABS) Community Symposium to highlight the work of LGBTQIA+ trainees in STEM at UCI. The event will include a poster session and keynote speaker (TBD). The symposium will be held on June 2, 2022 from 1:00-5:00 PM in the CNLM Courtyard and Herklotz Conference Room…

An Evening with Mercury Stardust ♥

LGBT Resource Center G301 Student Center, Irvine, CA, United States

About Mercury: Mercury Stardust is a Professional Home Maintenance Technician, burlesque performer, and award-winning activist. Known widely as the Trans Handy Ma'am, her unique brand of compassionate education in the Home Repair space has earned her internet fame. With over 1.7 million followers on TikTok, Mercury spreads DIY knowledge with love. For questions and information,…

Pride Buttons, Y’all! ♥

LGBT Resource Center G301 Student Center, Irvine, CA, United States

Join us at the LGBTRC to wrap up our fun pride week with some button making! we'll have pre-printed pride flags available, as well as materials for the community to create their own buttons as well! Come show your pride!

CBGHP: Confronting American Health Disparities: Reproductive Landscape Post-Roe ♥

Zoom

In this year-long series, Confronting American Health Disparities, we amplify urgent health concerns related to women and LGBTQ communities. In the United States, health disparities track along nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery, too often resulting in unequal treatment, poor health outcomes, and sadly, even death. From birth to death, race, sex, disability and LGBTQ discrimination…

Safe Zone Summer 2022: Trends & LGBTQ+A ♥

Zoom

What is Safe Zone? Safe Zone: Practice of Allyship is a series of three workshops for any of the UCI community to join. While attending all is not mandatory, we highly encourage folks to do so in order to help create their practice of allyship for the LGBTQ+ Community and to gather all educational material…

Sex & Trauma Healing Workshop for Queers & Community ♥ ✚

Virtual

Reaching for pleasure and connection together. Come gather tools for your healing journey in this queer-centered workshop for survivors. About this event Sexual abuse leaves lasting imprints in our bodies, minds, and hearts. These imprints inhibit our capacity to feel ease, grounding, connection, and pleasure in daily life. It’s common to experience isolation, shame, hyper-vigilance,…

Safe Zone Summer 2022: LGBTQ+ Vocabulary ♥

Zoom

What is Safe Zone? Safe Zone: Practice of Allyship is a series of three workshops for any of the UCI community to join. While attending all is not mandatory, we highly encourage folks to do so in order to help create their practice of allyship for the LGBTQ+ Community and to gather all educational material…

Safe Zone Summer 2022: Isms, Phobias, and Microaggressions ♥

Zoom

What is Safe Zone? Safe Zone: Practice of Allyship is a series of three workshops for any of the UCI community to join. While attending all is not mandatory, we highly encourage folks to do so in order to help create their practice of allyship for the LGBTQ+ Community and to gather all educational material…