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QConnect!
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January 26th ~ February 1st
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Queer Student Orgs, Groups & Programs
Meet at the Cantu unless otherwise noted.
MONDAYS
11:30-1pm ~ Your Queer Career Peer! starts Jan26 New!
3-4:30 pm ~ Let's Talk! Drop-in CAPS support. New!
5:30-7pm ~ Queer Men's Group
7-10pm ~ Queer Geeks
TUESDAYS
12-2pm ~ Queers Abroad Peer Advising New Time!
12:30-2pm ~ Queer Grad Student Lunch. 2nd Tuesday every month. Meets at Grad Commons.
4th Tuesday every month. New time!
5-6:30pm - Familia X Student Org
6:30-9:30pm ~ Queer Coffeehouse with Crafty Queers. New!
8-9:30pm ~ Head-to-Head Gaymes New!
WEDNESDAYS
1-2:30pm ~ QTPOC Group New time!
2:30-3:30 ~ A Way with Words Writing Group New!
3:30-4:30pm ~ Queer Book Club
5-6:30pm ~ Queer Women's Group
7-10pm ~ Queer Student Union
THURSDAYS
12-2pm ~ D x 3 = Director Deb Drop In New!
5-6 pm ~ Love Beyond the Binary: Bi/Pan Safe Space New time!
6:30-8pm ~ All Faiths, All People New!
8-9:30pm ~ LGBT STEM Meet Up New!
FRIDAYS
3:30-4:30pm ~ LOCA: Lesbians of Color Alliance
5:30-7:30pm ~ Blender Trans and questioning.
7:30-9pm - Ace of Clubs Asexual Safe Space. SATURDAYS
1-3pm ~ BLAQQ: Queer/Questioning African diaspora student group2/21 at the Cantu2/7 & 3/7 at the ERC Lounge
Queer Quote
''My thirds grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a LOVELY green and black dress.'' -Laverne Cox- -Unknown- |
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QHeadlines
Your Queer Career Peer! NEW! STARTS THIS WEEK!
Cantu Queer Center
Career Center peer advisor, Sam, will show you how to write a strong resum�, find out about queer jobs and resources. Don't wait till you graduate! info:
 Let's Talk!NEW!
Mondays, 3-4:30 pm
Cantu Queer Center
CAPS queer counselor Brent Alsaker has weekly drop-in Let's Talk time
at the Cantu! A FREE, confidential space to talk, receive support & referrals.
Test. Talk. Split. 
Tue, 1/27, 2-4pm
Cantu Queer Center
Anonymous free HIV testing the 4th Tuesday of every month! Peer educators will hand out supplies and answer your questions! Come even if you don't want to be tested!
 Crafty Queers NEW! Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 pmCantu Queer Center
Come knit and bull**it with us at Queer Coffeehouse! All levels welcome.
Trans Women Support Group 
Tue, 1/27, 7:30pm
Diversity Ctr, 1117 Soquel Ave, SC
Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday join a support group for trans women.
Queer in Israel! A Queer Coffeehouse Special Event
Tue, 2/27, 7-8:30 pm
Cantu Queer Center
The Cantu, Hillel, and Programs Abroad office are sponsoring an exciting evening with a guest speaker from A Wider Bridge, which builds connection to Israel among LGBT Jews and non-Jews in the U.S. Israeli fellow Alice will make Israel foods. Programs Abroad staff will discuss studying in Israel. We'll show a film about a gay Israeli and a Palestian who fall in love.
Head-to-Head Gaymes!NEW! 
Tuesdays, 8-9:30 pm Cantu Queer Center Do you love chess, backgammon, Go? Then GO to Queer Coffeehouse and play these two person gaymes!
 A Way With Words NEW! Wed, 1/28, 2:30-3:30pm Cantu Queer Center Come write and discuss compositions with a group of Slug peers. No writing background needed! Contact Chris for more info.
 Jandy Nelson & Annameekee Hesik Book Reading
Wed, 1/28, 7pm
Book Shop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, SC
Both will be reading from their new books. Annameekee is a local author of the exciting lesbian young adult book The You Know Who Girls. Don't miss this reading and signing!
 Angela Davis at MLK Jr. Convo-cation Wed, 1/28, 7pm, Free!
SC Civic Auditorium, 307 Church, SCProfessor emerita and activist Angela Davis is this year's keynote speaker.The topic of her talk will be "Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine." Love Beyond the Binary: Bi/Pan Safe Space  Thu, 1/29, 5-6 pm, Cantu NEW TIME! Join Jamie and MK for an exciting hour of exploring Beyond Binary issues! Living Writers Series: Maya Chinchilla  Thu, 1/29, 6 pm Humanities Lecture Hall 206 Maya Chinchilla, whom Identifies as a queer woman of color, will be reading from her book The Chacha Files. All Faiths, All People NEW! 
Thu, 1/29, 6:30-8 pm
Cantu Queer Center
For students of all genders, sexualities, faiths, spiritualities and beliefs to discuss their experiences. This is a safe space for you to express your faith and share in the pleasures and difficulties of being faithful while queer. Info/access: Liana
LGBT STEM NEW!
Thu, 1/29, 8-9:30pm
Cantu Queer CenterAre you a STEM major? Want to connect with other queer STEM peeps? Come discuss issues, study, and get assignment support. Snacks & coffee! Info: Pierre, email
 LOCA: Lesbians of Color Alliance
NEW! STARTS THIS WEEK! Fri, 1/30, 3:30-4:30pm Cantu Queer Center LOCA aims to create a fun,open, welcoming, interactive, free flowing, uncensored space for lesbian identified people of color who are attracted to women.
 Stand-up by Jenny Yang and D'Lo Dis/orient/ed Comedy
Fri, 1/30, 8pm, Colleges 9&10 MPR
Free Show/Limited Seating
D'Lo is a queer transgender Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, Advanced tix at
C 9/10 Activities Office (for C9&10 students) and Ethnic Resource Ctrs (for non-C9&10 students) starting Tues, 1/20. UCSC ID required.
 KKP Poetry Festival Fri, Sat, & Sun, 8:30pm UCSC Porter Dining Hall Featuring 3 days of professional and student poets celebrating the power of spoken word and solidarity among collective struggles. Featuring World Poetry Slam champion Porsha O.
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BLAQQ 
Sat, 2/7, 1-3pm, Ethnic Resource Center Lounge
Join queer & questioning African diaspora students!
There will be good food, company, and atmosphere! :D
We will also discuss a possible event in February, that will focus on the theme of Queer POC in the Civil Rights movement. Please RSVP so we have enough food! Info/RSVP: Shonte sfthomas@ucsc.edu or Deb dabbott@ucsc.edu
"PFLAG: Beautiful Love Stories Need To Be Told Twice"
Peace United Church, 900 High St, SC.
Nancy and Father Larry Forsberg share their love story of how Nancy needed to understand and make changes when Ann (Father Larry) began to transition.
Slug Love Training - train to be a SHOP Sexual Health Peer Educator
Sun 2/15, 11am-2pm
Student Health Center Mural Room
Slug Love is an interactive workshop facilitated by SHOP's highly trained Peer Educators. The workshop includes games and discussions on sexuality, gender, consent, communication, HIV/STI transmission and safer sex demonstrations! To register: Jamie
Apply by Tue, 2/17
A training program for transgender people and LGBT people of color who want to take their leadership potential to the next level. Apply here
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Your Queer Career
The Chancellor's Undergraduate Internship Program (CUIP) is now accepting student applicants for 2015-16. Deadline February 12 at 5pm
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Queer Conferences
Asterisk Trans* Conference
February 27-28, 2015 at UC Riverside.
BlaqOUT Conference
April 10-11, 2015
at UC Riverside.
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Volunteers Needed for
LGB Strengths Study
If you are 18 or older, identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB), and reside in the United States or a US territory, please participate in a national and anonymous on-line survey study on LGB strengths and positive aspects of being LGB. It will take about twenty minutes. Complete the survey, and be eligible to win from $10 to up to $50 in gift cards. If interested, please go here.
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What has the Cantu done for you?
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Starting TODAY our Your Queer Career Peer Sam is meeting at the Cantu to help students with resum�s and other job related information. DO take advantage of her knowledge about careers and Career Center resources!
Also new this week is LOCA: Lesbians of Color Alliance!
LOCA is the brainchild of Cantu interns Sh� and Vanessa and Cintia. DO join them in building a fun network of support for UCSC lesbians of color! (Note: LOCA was a lesbians of color group Join LOCA every Friday from 3:30-4:30pm at the Cant�!
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We are all ears, seeking your piercingly honest, constructive anonymous feedback, answering your probing questions, and soaking up your ringing praise about all things queer at UCSC at the Cantu.
Give your feedback
Want to give your feedback and share your ideas in person? Director Deb is ALWAYS open to meeting with you. Her motto: "Don't talk about me. Talk to me." Email her here
Or drop by
Deb's new talk space:
D x 3 =
Director Deb Drop-In
Thursdays, 12-2. At the Cantu, naturally.
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Tea: A NovelBy Stacey D'Erasmo
D'Erasmo unspools the life of Isable Gold in 3 distinct phases: a child of 8 who loses her troubled mother to suicide; a teen discovering she likes girls as much as pot and Joni Mitchell; and a 22-year-old scrambling to keep her bohemian dreams and her relationship with a cranky Greek girlfriend alive in Lower Manhattan.
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QReview provided by our own Queer Book Club facilitator, Adrian Diaz.
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Keep the Cant� Strong!
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