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QConnect!
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April 20th ~ April 26th
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Cantu Queer Center
Student Orgs, Groups & Programs
MONDAYS
11:30- 1:30pm ~ Your Queer Career Peer
3-5pm ~ Self-Love with Self-Portraits
5:30-7pm ~ Queer Men's Group
7-10pm ~ Queer Geeks
TUESDAYS
1-3pm ~ Let's Talk--Drop in Support
12:30-2pm ~ Queer Grad Student Lunch. 2nd Tuesday every month. Meets at Grad Commons
3-5pm ~ Safe Touch Time
5-6:30pm ~ Familia X Student Org
6:30-9:30pm ~ Queer Coffeehouse with Crafty Queers
8-9:30pm ~Head-to-Head Gaymes
WEDNESDAYS
1-3pm - QTPOC
2:30-3:30 ~ A Way with Words Writing Group
3:30-4:30pm ~ Queer Book Club
5-6:30pm ~ Queer Women's Group
7-10pm ~ Queer Student Union
THURSDAYS
4-5pm ~ Queers Abroad Advising
5-6pm ~ Love Beyond: Queer Relationships, Queer Sex
FRIDAYS
5:30-7:30pm ~ Blender Student Group Trans and questioning
7:30-9pm - Ace of Clubs Asexual Safe Space
SATURDAYS
BLAQQ! for African American, Black Queer & Questioning Students
LAST MEETING OF YEAR!
1-3 pm, 5/16, ERC Lounge
Queer Quote
"I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it."- Paula Gunn Allen |
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QHeadlines
Your Queer Career Peer
Every Mon, 11:30-1:30pm
Cant� Queer Center
Come speak to Anna Campos who is excited to support you in your career pursuits. Learn how to write resum�s and get info about job opportunities. Questions here.
Art for Self- Love 
Every Mon, 3-5pm
Cant� Queer Center
Rubi Shandar, the Cant�'s Artist and Healer in Residence, will hold a space for students to reflect and self-discover via artistic expression. Everyone welcome.
Queer Grad Lunch 
Tue,4/21, 12:30 - 2pm
Grad Student Commons
Join queer grad students and friends for a hearty lunch and good conversation.
 Safe Touch Time Every Tue, 3-5pm Cant� Queer Center Rubi will give safe, healthy, therapeutic touch via chair massage & will give self-care for self-defense tips. Coven  Every Tue, 4:30pm Women's Center Join for support in a social space for transgender women, CAMAB non-binary people, and anyone who is male-assigned but does not identify as one. Questioning folks are welcome. Questions here. QTPOC  Every Wed, 1-2:30pm Cant� Queer Center Join us to socialize, discuss the May QPOC conference, and more!
Kresge Pride Planning
Every Wed, 7pm
Kresge Student Lounge
Kresge Multicultural Education Committee (KMEC) is planning the 10th Kresge Pride Festival. All welcome. Info here.  Queers Abroad AdvisingEvery Thu, 4-5 pm, Cantu Queer Center
Drop by and explore queer-safe study abroad options with Queers Abroad adviser, Ryan.
Screening: Transparent 
Thu, 4/23, 4/30, 8-10pm
Graduate Student Commons
Join other grad students to watch Transparent, about an aging patriarch who decides to come out to her ex-wife and adult children as transgender. Beer and wine will be provided.
 Lavender Alumni Reception Sat, 4/25, 3-5pm Cant� Queer Center
We welcome all alumni to join the students and staff of the Cant� Queer Center at our annual Lavender Reception. This year we celebrate 25 years since queer student leaders were handed keys to the Merrill Rec Room and, with little funding but tremendous chutzpah, began to build a safe space and provide critical support for GLBTIQ students. Enjoy local wines, hearty hors d'oeuvres, and queer conviviality as you step into UCSC's beloved homo-away-from-home. Enjoy alumna Rubi Shandar's art reception, too. Drop by or
Register here. All Day Game Day!  Sat, 4/25, 6pm- Sun, 4/26, 6pm Cant� Queer Center Queer Geeks is hosting its quarterly all-day game day. Bring what you need to make yourself comfortable for the night. There will be both games and pizza (regular and vegan).
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Performs Bodymap 
Tue, 4/28, 7pm, Namaste Lounge
In Bodymap, Lambda Award winning writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme of colour love song filled with hard femme poetics of survival, joy and disability justice.
Oakes College Principles of Community Event
Thu, 4/30, 12-1pm, Oakes Learning Center
Come discuss the principle of JUSTICE with your campus community.
Santa Cruz Pride Garden Party 
Thu, 4/30, 5:30pm, 121 Forest Ave, SC
Join us to enjoy refreshments, wine, good company & fun conversation. A chance for you to learn about some exciting changes taking place with SC Pride this year. Funds raised will help Pride reach its budget & keep this event free for the public. Attendance at the party is just $25. Pay online, bring cash or check. RSVP
Lionel Cant� Memorial Award--May 6 Deadline! 
The Chicano Latino Research Center is currently accepting applications for the Lionel Cant� Memorial Award for graduate students working in Latino sociology, migration studies, transnational/cross-border studies, gender and sexuality studies, and the study of gay men and masculinity. UCSC graduate students in good academic standing in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences are eligible to apply.
GLBT Alliance
Sat, 5/2, 2-4pm, 740 Front St, SC, Democratic Headquarters
A special audio presentation and panel discussion to analyze the Supreme Court's hearing on marriage equality. Free.
Film Screening with Bamby Salcedo and filmmaker Dante Alencastre:
Transvisible: Bamby Salcedo's Story
Fri, 5/8, Time & location TBA
Bamby Salcedo is a proud Trans-Latina woman who is renowned, nationwide, for her advocacy work for trans related issues. She is the founder and president of the Trans-Latin@ Coalition in addition to creating the first trans youth calendar called Angels of Change. Watch this amazing documentary and meet Salcedo and Alencastre at the Q & A.
Queer Youth Leadership Award Ceremony 
Sat, 5/9, 5:30-9 pm
San Lorenzo Valley High School, 7105 Highway 9, Felton
An evening of awards and entertainment by local queer youth and their allies. Do not miss it! Volunteers are needed Info here.
Queer Hemisphere: A Workshop/Taller 
5/13 - 5/15, UCSC
Queer Hemisphere is a project to reorient queer studies and queer theory in the Am�ricas along a hemispheric axis. We aim to create a conversation about queerness and other forms of sexual alterity and diversidad sexual that includes advanced graduate students, faculty, scholars, intellectuals and cultural workers from across the Am�ricas. Info here.
Queer Fashion Show
Fri & Sat, 5/15 - 5/16, 8pm, Porter Dining Hall
Join us for a night of performance, art, and expression as we explore the history and ideas of 'queer' and 'freak'. Through the circus, QFS will spotlight systems of oppression and share untold stories. Together, we will show the world that we will not be tamed!
National Queer Art Festival 
Sat, 6/4 - 6/27
SOMArts Cultural Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA
This year's exhibition will feature all forms of art and art practice that reflect queer visual culture, the ways queers have invented or subverted social structures, and the ever changing ways queer artists and activists represent an evolving community and identity.
 Rainbow Grad Thu, 6/11, 2-4pm, Cowell Provost House Mark your calendars to celebrate UCSC's queer graduates! More details and registration links coming soon.
Summer LGBTQ Program 
6/13 - 7/3
For all LGBTQ people interested in the real situation of LGBTQ life in Mexico. Learn about the LGBTQ community in Mexico and participate in Mexico City's Pride parade. More info
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GALA Gallery
Cantu's Artist and Healer in Residence:
Self-Love for Self-Defense
Renuka Rubi
"Rubi's art explores the intricacies of self-identity. Her series of self-portraits expands beyond the black and white and enters a realm of inter- sectionalities and color."
Rubi, a proud UCSC alumna, will be in residence at the Cant� throughout Spring quarter. She will be offering safe-touch chair massage (Tues, 3-5pm), self-care, healing practices, expressive art sessions (Mon, 3-5pm).
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Queer Conferences
Queer People of Color Conference
May 1st-3rd, 2015
at UCSB. Email.
QACON15: Queer and Asian Conference
May, 1-3, 2015
at UC Berkeley
Queer and Comics Conference
May 7th- 8th, 2015
CUNY, NYC, NY
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Library Survey
Tell us directly how you use the library's resources, services and spaces. Share your perceptions of how the library contributes to your success as a student.
You have a chance to win a $5 or a $25 gift card. Survey.
Transgender Reproductive Health
We are studying trans* masculine individuals' experiences with reproductive health and family planning. Take the survey.
This research is intended to determine barriers to group psychotherapy with college students who identify as LGB and to understand the relationships between coping styles, sexual stigma, identity disclosure, and expectations of group psychotherapy.
Survey here.
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What has the Cant� done for you?
Spring is here . . . and it's oh so queer! We are gearing up for welcoming our alumni back to the campus and center this Saturday. We've held our Lavender Reception for 17 years now and it's always so exciting to see who will walk through the door to tell their post-graduation stories. There will be lots of reminiscing and plenty of animated conversations between current and former students. Alumna artist Rubi Shandar will be present to talk about her self-portrait show in our GALA Gallery. We welcome all of you to join us this Saturday, 3-5 pm, at the Cant�. We will offer a delectable spread of appetizers and plenty of bubbly.
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Your Queer Career
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Queer Academia
The Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) Foundation Scholarship seeks to provide financial assistance to LGBTQ Asian and Pacific Islanders who are currently in high school or postsecondary school.
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Keep the Cant� Strong!
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