FROM THE DAILY BRUIN BY MADDIE OSTERGAARD Posted: May 20, 2018 UCLA’s LGBTQ Studies Program celebrated the 20th anniversary of the LGBTQ studies minor Friday. The program held a research symposium in which a panel of QScholars – undergraduate students pursuing LGBTQ-based research – and visiting speakers discussed their research and personal experience with sexuality by telling…
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Inspired by the acclaimed autobiographical solo show, ¡Gaytino!Ò written and performed by Dan Guerrero, this unique course will explore the intersection of gay and Chicano/Latino identity politics in performance art, written and spoken word and media. Everyone has a story. Discover and develop yours and find the power within through 6 weekly performance workshops that…
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Summer Session A 10 Weeks (June 25-August 31) 4 Units Tuesdays 10:00am-12:50pm HAINES A74 Instructor: Michael Fleming **LGBTQS Minors please note this service learning course cannot be substituted for required course LGBTQS 180SL* ENROLL HERE NOW!!! LGBTQS 165SL, Queer Activism & Engagement, benefits students pursuing a minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies,…
Read MoreThe Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA is excited to present Professor Pete Sigal’s upcoming public lecture and graduate student workshop. The lecture is titled “Thinking with Trash: Nahua Knowledge and Queer Being.” Prof. Sigal, Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Duke University, discusses how the Nahuas of central Mexico help us to see how…
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Please join the LGBTQ Studies Program, The Chicanx/Latinx floor of Sproul Hall, and The Gender, Sexuality, and Society Living Learning Communities to screen an important documentary about 4 Chicana lesbians from San Antonio, Texas who get accused of gang-raping the two nieces of one of the women. They are imprisoned for 20 years for something…
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*On Behalf of our Chair, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Given the situation with the fires and classes being cancelled today (12/7) we will be postponing the community alter for Doran George until early Winter quarter. More details to follow. Best, Alicia On Behalf of our Chair, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Dear…
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A mural depicting the 1967 LGBTQ rights protests outside the Black Cat Tavern in Silver Lake was installed in the LGBTQ Studies offices in A9 Haines Hall in 2014. For two decades, the field of queer studies has been thriving and evolving within the Humanities Division of the UCLA College. Now Alicia Gaspar de Alba,…
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BY MEGAN DALEY Posted: May 7, 2017 10:38 pm Josh Feldman stood in front of students in the Charles E. Young Grand Salon in Kerckhoff Hall and shared his journey to self-acceptance, through American Sign Language. “I’m a writer, I’m gay, I’m Jewish, I’m a Libra, I used to be a vegetarian, but that’s not…
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Academic Year 2015-2016 is behind us now, but it brought with it some important changes to the LGBT Studies program. First and foremost, the name of the program has been officially changed to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender , and Queer Studies, or, LGBTQS.
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SPRING 2017 Instructor: Louise Brown Louise Brown is a graduate student in The Department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA teaching our upper-division, undergraduate course, under the supervision of our Chair, Alicia Gaspar de Alba. ~~NEW DAYS/TIME~~ Spring 2017 Tuesdays/Thursdays 9:00-10:50AM Rolfe 3134
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