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QConnect!
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April 27th ~ May 3rd
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Cantu Queer Center
Student Orgs, Grmups & 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
"One thing I think we must know- that our traditional gender roles will not be a part of the future, as long as the future is not a second Stone Age."
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QHeadlines
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Performs Bodymap
Tue, 4/28, 7pm,
Namaste Lounge, C9/10
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.
Take Back the Night: I Speak my Truth
The Women's Center at UCSC presents Take Back the Night (TBTN) 2015: I Speak my Truth, an evening of speaking out against sexual violence in all forms-dating abuse, rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, and every other type of sexual violence. Events occurring on campus:
March/Rally with Speak-Out (TBTN)
Wed, 4/29, 5pm, Quarry Plaza
Remarks by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. The event will end at Oakes Learning center at 6:30pm TO EXPLAIN THE PURPOSE AND HISTORY Behind Take Back the Night. An open mic event.
Oakes College Principles of Community Event
Thu, 4/30, 12-1pm, Oakes Learning Center
Come discuss the principle of JUSTICE with your campus community.
Art as Healing (TBTN)
Thu, 4/30, 5-7pm
Mural Conference Room, Student Health Center
Come create art as a way to heal.
Santa Cruz Pride Garden Party
Thu, 4/30, 5:30pm, 121 Forest Ave
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
Student Recognition Ceremony 
Deadline: Fri, 5/1, 5pm, Nominate
Nominate a student, faculty member, student org, or even yourself who have provided exemplary service, on or off campus, at UCSC.
QACON15
5/1 - 5/3, UC Berkeley
info
This three day weekend, two queer people of color conferences will be happening for all students. If you did not sign up, it is still possible to attend the conferences!
5/1- 5/3, UC Santa Barbara
Email
Glitter Ball
5/1, 9pm- midnight,
Merrill Cultural Center
Come to the uphill funk to kick off the month May is so Gay. Dance the night away as the center turns into a huge dance club with the latest dance mixes and LGBT anthems.
 Oakes Senate Conference Sat, 5/2, 12-5pm Oakes Learning Center The conference's theme "The Power of You" is to strive to empower the individuality of one's character in the pursuit of social change by becoming more knowledgeable and aware of surrounding issues such as sexuality and gender. GLBT Alliance Sat, 5/2, 2-4pm, 740 Front St, SC Democratic Headquarters A free special audio presentation and panel discussion to analyze the Supreme Court's hearings on marriage equality.
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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.
Film Screening with Bamby Salcedo and filmmaker Dante Alencastre:
Transvisible: Bamby Salcedo's Story Reception after the film!
Fri, 5/8, 7 pm, 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 
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. Info here. More info
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QReview
The Invention of Heterosexuality
by Jonathan Ned Katz
This nonfictional work digs into the history of sexuality as an identity. 'Heterosexuality,' assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny, and this work challenges the notion that a distinction between sexualities surpasses time by looking into the
etymology of 'heterosexuality'.
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Your Queer Career
How LGBT Professionals Can Stand Out at Work
QAcademia
Deadline to apply: 6/16/15
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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What has the Cant� done for you?
Cantu interns have been way busy gearing up for the QPOC conference this weekend in UCSB. If by chance you missed joining the UCSC contingent and you have access to wheels, YOU, TOO, may attend! Details here.
Tam Welch and Cant� interns are also preparing for our big event on Friday, May 8th. We'll be bringing trans activist Bamby Salcedo to campus along with filmmaker Dante Alencastre to show his film of Bamby's life: Transvisible. We're still firming up the location for this screening and Q & A, but stay tuned! A bunch of queer student orgs will be hosting a reception for Bamby and Dante after the show!
Last Saturday we had a terrific time at the Cant� with our 17th annual Lavender Alumni Reception--in combination with an art reception for alumna artist Rubi Shandar. We had ~40 alumni join us. Lots of great stories about queer life on campus before there was a resource center and before any organized queer student orgs. Of the dozens of alumni events over the weekend, our local newspaper, the Sentinel, chose to feature Lavender Reception!
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Keep the Cant� Strong!
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