QGRAD: Queer Graduate Conference 2020
2020-01-31 08:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Royce Hall, 10945 Dickson Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
UCLA’s QGrad: Queer Graduate Student Conference
Queering Love: Across Subjectivities, Temporalities, and Decolonial Imaginaries
See the Program for details. For guaranteed free meals, please RSVP until January 24, 2020.
QGrad is the oldest, interdisciplinary queer research conference in the United States. LGBTQ Studies and QGrad invites you to our annual Queer Graduate Conference! This year’s conference will take place on Friday, January 31st, 2020 from 8AM to 7PM in Royce Hall Rooms 314 & 306 at the UCLA Campus. It is a pleasure to announce that Philosophy Professor, Dr. Talia Mae Bettcher from Cal State LA and activist/actress Marianna Marroquín will be the keynote speakers.
This year’s conference theme explores how different variations of queer love transcend and are practiced. In an age of hate, this year’s theme highlights how LGBTQ+ individuals have and continue to use love to resist oppression against homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and capitalism. Shifting times and worlds have transformed what queer love looks and feels like. As a result, we seek to examine how distinct intersectional LGBTQ+ bodies and identities define and express queer love in their (and others) lives, societies, relationships, histories, literature, art, and spiritualities. What does it mean to queer love? How do marginalized individuals use queer love to defy and resist? How can queering love help us imagine and create different worlds? Where is queer love found in LGBTQ+ histories and narratives? How does love help us deconstruct and dismantle colonial frameworks? Paper/presentations include topics such as:

Intersections between race, class, gender, sexuality, and love
Love hermeneutics and other queer women of color Feminisms
The politics (and Biopolitics) of queer love
Pedagogies and epistemologies of care
Chosen and nontraditional families and rainbow kids
LGBTQ+ Sexual desires and longings
Philosophy of Queer Love
LGBTQ+ relationships in media
Self-love, identity, acceptance, and other forms of Radical Love
Spaces and times where love is absent but necessary
Music and art that queers love
Love, intimacy, and solidarity in activism and social movements
Queer loving and sex in biology and sociology

Queer Graduate Pedagogy Discussion Group
2020-02-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Haines Hall, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
This academic year (2019-2020), the program in LGBTQ Studies is sponsoring a Queer Graduate Pedagogy Discussion Group! If you are a graduate student or a postdoc at UCLA in any department, you are welcome to attend. The group takes up relevant issues including dealing with challenging course content, managing classroom dynamics, being a queer TA in a classroom, balancing issues of work and life, and any other pedagogical concerns participants find central to their work as teachers and mentors. Come find support for your work as an instructor and your life as a student. Join us for light refreshments and thoughtful conversation!
The group meets from 4-6pm on the 4th Tuesday of most months in the academic year, starting October 22nd, 2019 in the Lavender Ballroom (Haines A9).
Please contact Program Coordinator, Claudia Defaz at cdefaz@humnet.ucla.edu if you have any questions.

QueerCurrent Lecture Series: "Dancing #BlackDeathMatters" by Shanté Smalls
2020-02-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Royce Hall, 10945 Dickson Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Dancing #BlackDeathMatters: Transness, Femmness, and Public Protest
LGBTQ Studies cordially invites you to their lecture series QueerCurrent. This talk takes seriously the work that Black dance can do as both public protest against State violence and as an aesthetic performance of Black aliveness. It will also discuss how dance interrupts and revises possibilities for living under conditions of antiblackness in the US.
Shanté Paradigm Smalls (they/them/theirs) is an Assistant Professor of Black Literature & Culture at St. John’s University in NYC and a 2019-2020 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University in Atlanta. Their first scholarly book, Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City is forthcoming from NYU Press in late 2020. See more at shanteparadigm.com
Royce Hall, Room 314
Light refreshments
Please RSVP by February 21
Contact Claudia Defaz at cdefaz@humnet.ucla.edu for any questions.

(Event Cancelled due to Campus Closure ) QueerCurrent Lecture Series: "Documenting the Erotic Traces of Suicide and the Golden Gate Bridge" by Yetta Howard
2020-04-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Royce Hall, 10945 Dickson Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Event Cancelled due to Campus Closure
LGBTQ Studies cordially invites you to their next lecture series QueerCurrent event. This talk explores the Golden Gate Bridge as a queer memorial to the suicidal subjects who have jumped to their deaths from it. Drawing on archival, auditory, and visual documentation practices including Jenni Olson’s experimental documentary on the subject, Howard investigates the Bridge as a darkly erotic site of physical-ephemeral encounter.
Yetta Howard is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Co-director of the LGBTQ Research Consortium at San Diego State University. Howard is the author of Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground (University of Illinois Press, 2018) and the editor of Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan (forthcoming Fall 2020, The Ohio State University Press).
Royce Hall, Room 306
Light refreshments
Please RSVP by March 27

[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] QueerCurrent Lecture Series: "The Gay Second Generation: How Sexuality Shapes the Trajectories of Queer Sons of Immigrants" by Anthony Ocampo
2020-04-30 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure]
LGBTQ Studies cordially invites you to their next lecture series QueerCurrent event. Over the past two decades, researchers have produced thousands of studies on Latinx and Asian American children of immigrants, better known as the immigrant second generation. These studies have highlighted how structural, neighborhood, race, and cultural factors have facilitated divergent mobility trajectories for the contemporary second generation. Notably absent from these studies are the experiences of LGBTQ children of immigrants. Drawing on interviews with 63 Filipino and Latino queer men in Los Angeles, I examine how sexuality shapes the academic trajectories for the gay second generation. With this talk, I demonstrate how centering LGBTQ children of immigrants has the potential to advance theoretical frameworks on the immigrant second generation.
Anthony Ocampo is Associate Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona and a Ford Foundation Fellow. He is the author of The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race (Stanford University Press), and co-editor of Contemporary Asian America (NYU Press). His research has appeared in education, sociology, and ethnic studies journals, including Ethnic and Racial Studies; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Education; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Latino Studies; and the Journal of Asian American Studies. Dr. Ocampo’s research and commentaries on immigration, race, and education have been featured on NPR, Public Radio International, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is currently finishing his new book Brown and Gay in LA: Queer Sons of Immigrants Coming of Age, under contract with NYU Press.
Location TBD
Light refreshments
Please RSVP by April 24

[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] QueerCurrent Lecture Series: "Facsimile: Gaysian Intimacy in the Art Work of Tommy Kha" by Hoang Tan Nugyen
2020-05-28 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure]
LGBTQ Studies cordially invites you to their next lecture series QueerCurrent event.
Nguyen Tan Hoang is a videomaker and film​ and ​media scholar. His short experimental videos include Forever Bottom!, ​PIRATED!, K.I.P, ​and ​I Remember Dancing. His videos have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty in Los Angeles, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. He is the author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (Duke UP, 2014) and articles on porn pedagogy and Southeast Asian queer cinema. He teaches film and cultural studies at UC San Diego and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Location TBD
Light refreshments
Please RSVP by May 22

PRIDE at the Fowler Digital Events
2020-06-13 12:00 - 2020-06-23 17:30 | CA
PRIDE AT THE FOWLER
Every June, people across the globe pay respect to those involved in the Stonewall Uprising of June 28th, 1969. On that morning, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in Greenwich Village—an event that ignited protests in the city and around the world, catalyzing the gay rights movement. This June, the Fowler honors Pride Month with robust programs that celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender artists.
RSVPs are required for our 3 digital programs featuring LGBTQ+ leaders in art and activism.
A Prayer for the Runner
Live Performance by Patrisse Cullors, followed by a talk-back with Melina Abdullah
Saturday, June 13, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | RSVP
Introduction to AfrikFusion/VogueAfrik
with Omari Wiles of The House of Nina Oricci and Les Ballet Afrik
Saturday, June 20, 12:00 – 1:15 pm | RSVP
Queer Latinx Arts in LA
with Alma López Gaspar de Alba and Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Tuesday, June 23, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | RSVP

Fall 2020 Welcome Week Open House!
2020-09-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Please join the UCLA LGBTQ Studies Program for our Fall 2020 Welcome Week Open House! This event will take place via Zoom on Wednesday, September 30th at 3:00 p.m. (right after the Humanities Welcome). The Open House will be a great opportunity to meet both new and continuing students, ask questions of our department faculty (including Program Chair, Mitchell Morris), and learn what it means to be a part of the LGBTQ Studies minor program community at UCLA! If interested in attending, please RSVP at the link below and you will be sent the Zoom meeting ID/password prior to the event. We look forward to meeting you!
RSVP for the LGBTQ Studies Program Welcome Week Open House

Film Screening & Panel Discussion: "Welcome to Chechnya"
2021-11-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Fowler Museum, 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Join the Gay Sexuality and Social Policy Initiative (GSSPI) on November 17, 2021 from 6:00-9:00 PM at the UCLA Fowler Museum for a screening of the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated documentary film Welcome to Chechnya.
This searing and intimate documentary follows the work activists in the Russian republic of Chechnya risking their lives to combat the deadly anti-LGBTQ torture campaign that has escalated in the country. After the screening, GSSPI Co-Directors Dr. Ian Holloway and Mr. Alex Garner will hold a panel discussion with LGBTQ researchers on issues of criminalization of same sex sexual behavior in Europe and around the globe, and how that ties into the groundbreaking work GSSPI is doing on gay sex and sexuality.
This event is proudly co-sponsored by LGBTQ Studies.
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Q-Scholars 2022 | "Queering Everything"
2022-05-24 09:00 - 14:30 | CA
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For full conference information, please visit our website. Questions may be directed to q-scholars@humnet.ucla.edu.

Q-Grad 2022 | "Queer Temporalities: Resisting straight~forwards"
2022-05-27 09:00 - 17:00 | Royce Hall, 10945 Dickson Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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For full conference information, please visit our website. Interested in volunteering at the conference? Contact Haley Roeser at q-grad@humnet.ucla.edu.

Q-Grad 2024: NONSENSE
2024-09-27 08:15 - 20:00 | Hershey Hall, 801 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
UCLA’s 27th Annual Q-Grad Conference presented by LGBTQ Studies and Q-Grad Students

Please visit the Q-Grad page for additional event information
