Community Seder: Liberation & Hardship

Thursday | April 21 | 11-1pm  

Come to the Cross-Cultural Center and Hillel's Passover seder-style community lunch! Share your experiences and hear others' narratives about striving for liberation, both individual and communal. Lunch* is provided with intimate  table conversation and an open mic for stories, poems, and spoken word. The lunch will follow Jewish dietary laws for the holiday of Passover, also known as "kosher for Passover". 

Graduate School Workshop for  

Transfer Students

Friday | April 22 | 11-1pm  

Graduate School can be an intimidating thought. What's the right program for me? What steps should I take for a good application? How do I find funding? Find the answers to these questions and many more through this workshop that is designed to expand the knowledge you already have. Through an interactive group exercise, you will learn more about the prospects of pursuing an advanced degree, as well as tips and tricks to make yourself a strong and viable applicant. Free pizza will be provided after the workshop. Also, look for "UCSD CCC Transfer Students" on Facebook!

Contact Jeff at [email protected] or Chris at [email protected] for more information.

Roots in the Sand 

Jayasri Majumdar Hart's ROOTS IN THE SAND is a multi-generational portrait of pioneering Punjabi-Mexican families who settled, a century ago, in Southern California's Imperial Valley. Through the use of found footage, archival and family photographs, personal and public documents, Hart tells the touching and inspirational story of a community that grew out of a struggle for economic survival in the face of prejudice.

Ignite the Erotic: Mapping Queer Womyn of Color Counter-Narratives 

Ignite your erotic desires and join us for an evening of art, poetry, spoken word, and dialogue mapping the counter-narratives of queer womyn of color. Audre Lorde states that the erotic is a measure between our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. This night will shed light to the diverse voices of queer womyn of color by allowing them to share their untold stories through various forms of art and performance. Food and refreshments will be provided. Everyone is welcome! For more information contact Bree at [email protected]. 

CAMPUS COMMUNITY CENTERS

Transgender Film Fest

Tuesday | April 19 | 6-8pm  

These genre-blurring short films weave elements of documentary and narrative film to entertain and enlighten with sweet, seductive, and subversive visions from the queerest part of the LGBT spectrum. The screening includes works by established and emerging filmmakers including Iris prizewinner Lee Mi-Rang's The Bath, and Transproofed by Andrea James and Calpernia Addams, the real-life subject of the Emmy-winning Soldiers Girl. Zsa-Zsa Gershick's Door Prize won for Best Short at the 2010 Kansas City Gay and Lesbian Film Festival while award-winning Queerer Than Thou has screened at over 50 LGBT film festivals on four continents. These films will make your heart twinge, melt, race, and pound. Enjoy the ride!

This event is co-hosted by the Campus Community Centers and the Asian Pacific Islander Student Alliance.

Our Beautiful Bodies  

Wednesday | April 20 | 5-7pm  

Have you ever felt like your body wasn't good enough? It's not true! Our bodies are beautiful, no matter how they look! Come to this program to reclaim your beauty and find out the ways in which harmful conceptions of the perfect body have been created and perpetuated. We will look at the play between politics and capital investment that is directed towards the queer community, and reflect on how that affects us as people with many intersecting identities. In doing so we will expose the fundamental fallacies that the images create about the human body, how they invalidate people of color, and overall cause us a lot of unnecessary heartbreak! Video clips will be shown and together we will create a collage showcasing what we think about the perfect body! Questions? Contact [email protected]

Coming Together? Examining Cross-Cultural Attitudes of Sexuality and Gender   

Wednesday | April 27 | 5-7pm  

In an increasingly globalized world, how are attitudes regarding sexuality and gender undergoing change?Will an ever-increasing exchange of capital, ideas, and cultural practices result in greater policing of non-normative identities or greater freedom and liberation?Join in on a discussion which will frame and unpack questions like these, and learn about the diverse attitudes that exist regarding queerness.Light refreshments will be served.Questions?  Email Charlie Webster at [email protected]