Posts Tagged ‘Community’
An Evening with Mercury Stardust ♥
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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…
Read MoreIn the Wake: Reflections on Our Shared Social Life ♥✚
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About 800 days have passed since the World Health Organization elevated the outbreak of the COVID-19 disease to a pandemic. What followed were profound disruptions in social, economic, and political…
Read MoreCommemorating George Floyd: Virtual Film Screening of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America ♥
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The anniversary of the death of George Floyd challenges UCI and the community to examine the broader issues of systemic racism. The Office of Inclusive Excellence invites its UCI students,…
Read MoreInternational Film Club: The Work (Jairus McCleary, Gethin Aldous, 2017) ♥✚
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International Film Club: The Work (Jairus McCleary, Gethin Aldous, 2017) Details This documentary takes us inside Folsom State Prison to attend prisoner run group therapy sessions that twice a year…
Read MoreCrossing Pride with LGBTQI+ Refugee Storytelling: “My Story Doesn’t End” ♥
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Details 2:30pm-3pm:Â 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…
Read MoreCrossing Pride with LGBTQI+ Refugees: Storytelling and Healing ♥
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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…
Read MoreA Reading and Conversation with Writer and Urbanist Nadia Owusu ♥★
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Please join us for an evening with Whiting Award-winning writer and urbanist NADIA OWUSU. Nadia will engage us with a reading, dialogue with professors, Q&A with audience members and a…
Read MoreConversation Kitchen featuring A People’s Guide to Orange County ♥
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Conversation Kitchen featuring A People’s Guide to Orange County  Details A People’s Guide to Orange County, published by the University of California Press, is an alternative tour guide that documents…
Read MoreIf They Build It They Will Come: Engaging African Americans in Research and Health Education ♥✚
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Dr. Karen D. Lincoln is a social worker and sociologist with expertise in societal and social determinants of health and well-being among Black Americans. As a social scientist, she focuses…
Read MoreConfronting White Supremacist Extremism and Online Disinformation: A Conversation with Joan Donovan ♥
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Joan Donovan is the research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Donovan leads the field in examining internet and technology…
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