Wednesday, October 4th

Ishi Court
4 - 6 pm

Gender Consortium Fall Reception
Welcome party for Gender Consortium participants

Come One! Come All!

Refreshments and collegialial gathering

GWS

Tuesday, October 24th

3401 Dwinelle Hall
5:30 pm

CSSC Reading Group
Reading group cancelled ... See Nov. 14 event

Next reading will be available on CSSC b-space website
cssc

Wednesday, October 25th

Meet at the Campinile - Tour of Campus
5:15pm (lasts about an hour)

Tour of Campus LGBT History with Bill Bennemann and Steve Finacom

Explore the LGBT history that has taken place at UC Berkeley! Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Doe Library, the Campanile and more! Also check out http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/gaybears/ for online LGBT campus history!


GENEQ

Thursday, November 2nd

Gender Equity Resource Center (202 Cesar Chavez)
Noon

Carla Trujillo
Director of the Graduate Diversity Program

Brown Bag Lunch: Bring your lunch and chat with Carla Trujillo about her experiences and perspectives. Part of Herizons:Cal Women Uniting, a project of GenEq created to foster a diverse, cross-cultural women's community, cultivate dialogue and promote women's leadership at Cal.


GENEQ

Wednesday, November 8th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
4 - 6 pm

Lexi Leban

"Girl Trouble" documentary screening and discussion


Co-sponsored with ISSC and Psychology

GWS

Wednesday, November 8th

Upper Sproul
Noon-1pm

Women of Color Festival - RECLAIM: Our Minds, Bodies, and Spirits
A public celebration of women of color through poetry, dance and more!


GENEQ

Wednesday, November 8th

Heller Multicultural Center
7-9pm

Women of Color Post-Festival - RECLAIM: Our Bodies, Minds, and Spirits
Food, speakers, performers, resources and opportunities to mingle with a diverse group of women of color from all over the Cal campus and the Bay Area.


GENEQ

Monday, November 13th

Queer Resource Center (305 Eshleman Hall)
8-10pm


Part of Transgender and Intersex Awareness Week, November 13-17, 2006. Lucas is an FTM neurobiology senior at Smith College; Gabbie is an MTF computer science sophomore at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Raci from the Philippines is an MTF pre-law student at California State University in Los Angeles; and TJ is an FTM political activist at Michigan State University. Capturing their struggles and triumphs, TRANSGENERATION dramatically unfolds as these four students balance the challenges of academia, campus life, and family with their commitment to gender reassignment. Affirmative action and gay and lesbian rights have historically made headlines on campuses across the country. Now, for the first time, thanks to a small group of individuals who are playing a key role in changing the way we define gender, transgender students are embracing their unique identities as undergraduates and pushing their universities to change the way they deal with gender, discrimination, and policy. In this world premiere of an eight-episode documentary series we are introduced to the four students who will be followed through the course of the academic year.


GENEQ

Tuesday, November 14th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
4 p.m.

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

Queering Black Atlantic and Blue Caribbean Waters: Re-imagining Seascapes and Theorizing Contemporary Queer Caribbean Literature

What would it mean for both queer and African diaspora studies to theorize that the Black Atlantic has always been a queer Atlantic? What new geography—or better, oceanography—of sexual, gendered, transnational, and racial identities might emerge through a queer reading of transoceanic dislocations between Africa and the Caribbean? This talk examines recently published creative texts that imagine queer relationships between African kidnapees in slave ships’ holds. These texts open space both to rethink submerged sexual, racial histories and comment on the intersections between African diaspora and queer experiences in a contemporary era of Haitian refugees, transnational Dominican laborers, and international West Indian “gay” activists. Texts I will consider include Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return (2001), Thomas Glave’s Words to Our Now (2005), and Ana Lara’s Erzulie’s Skirt (2006).

GWS

Tuesday, November 14th

Gender Equity Resource Center (202 Cesar Chavez)
5:00-6:30pm

Thea Hillman
Bay Area poet and activist THEA HILLAMN will engage Gen Eq’s theme of 2006 “Love Your Body” from an queer intersex activist perspective. Bring your insights and questions as it will be a dialogue. Don’t know what “intersex” means? Come find out! People of all understandings of intersex issues welcome!


GENEQ

Wednesday, November 15th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
4 to 6 p.m.


CANCELLED**SHAPE OF WATER**CANCELLED


BBRG

Friday, November 17th

Upper Sproul Plaza
Noon - 1pm

Transgender Day of Remembrance
Commemorating the lives lost due to transphobia. A mock funeral and tombstones alongside information on transgender issues stimulate awareness about transphobia and anti-transgender violence. Volunteers welcome.


GENEQ

Tuesday, November 28th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
4 p.m.

Fatima El-Tayeb

Queering Ethnicity. European Minority Activism and New Media Cultures


GWS

Wednesday, November 29th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
4 to 6 p.m.

Dr. Ashraf Zahedi and Qudsia Mirza
BBRG Visiting Scholars

Transnational Marriages & Gendered Citizenship in Iran/Re-imagining Gender Equality in Islam

Moderated by Dr. Minoo Moallem

BBRG

Thursday, November 30th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
4 p.m.

Juana Maria Rodriguez
Author of Queer Latinidad, Juana Maria Rodriguez received her PhD from UC Berkeley and since then has held academic appointments in English at Bryn Mawr College and currently in Women and Gender Studies at UC Davis. Her research and teaching interest are in Queer Theory and Ethnic Communities, Latina Literatures and Cultures, and feminist approaches to Ethnic Studies.

Rethinking Sovereign Bodies: Queer Utopian Longings, Anti-Colonial Activism


GWS