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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…

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…

The 2018 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…

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,…

“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.  

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…

 The UCLA LGBTQ Minor Studies Program 4th Annual {Undergraduate} Symposium “Paint Yourself Whole: Navigating Intersectionality in a Divided World” This year’s theme explores the intersectionalities within the LGBTQ+ community and how we navigate, embrace, and negotiate our wholeness in a divided world. Topics Include (but not limited to): intersectionality in queerness and gender identity with…

On Dec. 3, 2015, the Germanic Languages Department and the LGBT Studies Program hosted a farewell party in honor of Professor Jim Schultz’s retirement. Jim served as Chair of LGBTS from its inception in 1997 through 2009 and again from 2012-2013. Under Jim’s watch, the program offered the first queer graduate student conference in the…