Join UCLA LGBTQ Studies Program at the 6TH Annual 2019 QScholars Undergraduate Research Symposium! “Our Existence is Resistance: [Art]iculating Our Lives, Identities, and Activism in the New Millennium” When: Friday, April 26, 2019, 8:30am- 4:00pm Location: Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL), 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90095 This year’s theme explores the…
Read MoreWe, the faculty, students, and staff members of the Interdisciplinary Program in LGBTQ Studies at UCLA, unequivocally condemn the discriminatory partisan action of the Supreme Court of the United States in failing to enjoin the current administration’s ban of transgender people from the military pending full consideration of the policy by the Court. The exclusion…
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Please join the LGBTQ Studies Program at The 2018 Queer Graduate Student Conference “Alter-Net Bodies: Fat/Crip/Queered Identities, Expressions, and Cyber Activism” QGrad Conference at UCLA explores the intersections of fatness, gender, race, queerness, ability status, and technology. Alter-net bodies transcend physical and virtual space but are still impacted by rhetoric that labels them as deviant,…
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Hosted by the UCLA LGBTQ Studies Program and the UCLA LGBT Resource Center; co-sponsored by the UCLA English Department. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Moderated by: Alicia Gaspar de Alba Claudia Rodríguez, Omar González, Richard Villegas Jr. and Alicia Billalobos Event Flyer
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Alter-net Bodies- Fat/Crip/Queered Identities, Expressions, and Cyber Activism: The Fall 2018 QGrad Conference at UCLA explores the intersections of fatness, gender, race, queerness, ability status, and technology. Alter-net bodies transcend physical and virtual space but are still impacted by rhetoric that labels them as deviant, ugly, and unruly. In what ways do Alter-net bodies exist more or less…
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The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature proudly presents the “Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics Symposium” which will be held May 25 @ 9:30 am – 6:30 pm in Royce Hall 314. This spring seminar will discuss how within queer studies, the geopolitical has posed a much-needed challenge to the spatial and temporal logics of the field (logics that…
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The UCLA LGBTQ Studies Program Presents the 5TH Annual 2018 QScholars Undergraduate Research Symposium! “The Power of Storytelling: Exploring Resilience, Resistance, and Struggle in Queer Narratives” This year we are honored to welcome the actor, writer, and comedian D’LO as our keynote speaker! When: Friday, May 18, 2018, 9-5pm Location: The Charles E. Young Research Library’s Main Conference Room…
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Call for Queer Artists! 2018 UCLA LGBTQ Studies Program 5TH Annual QScholars Undergraduate Research Symposium Date: Friday, May 18, 2018 Location: UCLA “The Power Of Storytelling: Exploring Resilience, Resistance And Struggle In Queer Narratives” As part of the 20th anniversary of UCLA’s LGBTQ Studies minor, the 2018 Q Scholars undergraduate research symposium will focus on the struggle, resistance,…
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“Poetry with a Purpose”—a social justice purpose, a poetry of protest, resistance & revolutionary love. *You can enroll through Chicana/o Studies or Gender Studies* Winter 2018 Tuesdays/Thursdays 2:00-3:50pm Bunche Hall 2156 Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba Writing sample required would include a poem, short story, or a memoir etc.
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In celebration of the 20th anniversary of LGBTQ Studies at UCLA, the 2017 QGrad Conference will focus on how LGBTQ Studies and trans and queer art and activism have transformed the world in the last 20 years. How have undocumented, Black and Brown, Indigenous, Afro-Latinx, Muslim, Fat, Disabled, incarcerated, Transgender and Gender Non-conforming communities/scholar- activists…
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