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Hey Friends!

I wanted to get you all posted on the volunteer hours for Rainbow Families with Rainbow Rumpus as soon as possible. We have two options, both are approximately 3 hours in length: You can work at the Resource Fair (giving prizes to children/kids/teens) or in Programming with me (more direct contact with children [ages 5-10]).

Resource Fair Hours
10:30am-1:30pm __________, ___________ (Two open spots) *Also receive lunch!
1:00pm-4:00pm __________, ___________ (Two open spots) **don't receive lunch

Programming Hours (w/Tim)
1:00pm-4:15pm ________, _________ (Two open spots)

If you REALLY need hours, you might be able to work a double shift (6 hours!!!) at the Resource Fair. Otherwise these are about 3 hours shifts.

The event is located in the gymnasium at:
Anwatin/Bryn Mawr Schools
256 Upton Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55405

Please reply on here, email me at davi1346@umn.edu, or call me (414) 732-8207

If you guys have not heard, the Social Sciences building has been taken over! A group of students upset about what has been going on at the U has been having a sit in of sorts. There are links at the bottom of this message if you would like to learn more or get in contact with them. There is also a list of what is going on as of 8:30 this morning, so it may change. But I think you folks should check it out! They are really nice, and there is usually food of some sort (yesterday there was pizza from Mesa) and I think we can all support what they are doing. I have just been going there and doing my homework and hanging out when I have down time, but maybe more of you will want to get involved. So spread the word!!!!!

hi folks,
Here's our schedule of events for today so far. Lots more organizing is happening on the ground, so we need your help! Please come to down to the space as soon as you can to plug in!

General meeting - 1 pm - (come down to learn what's going on, discuss our goals, and help out with our working groups! -- and enjoy free food and coffee!)

Transgender 101 workshop - 4 pm

Dinner - 6:30

more to come in a bit!
in solidarity,
Eli

for more updates, see:
http://umnsolidarity.wordpress.com
http://twitter.com/umnsolidarity
http://on.fb.me/umnsolidarity

Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Past, Present and Future of Twin Cities LGBTQ Activism
Thurs, March 3, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Appleby Hall 41

Join us for this panel discussion about the past, present and future of Twin Cities LGBTQ activism -- featuring Beth Zemsky, former Co-Chair of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Jason Jackson from Twin Cities Black Pride, Lauren Beach from the Bisexual Organizing Project, and Katie Burgess from the Trans Youth Support Network. Moderated by Scottie Bradford. Free and open to the public. Free food and beverages available. First in a series of Spring 2011 Steven J. Schochet Endowment Colloquia events. For more information, contact schochet@umn.edu.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/24/obama_abandons_defense_of_marriage_act

Friday, February 25 · 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Walter Library Room 101, University of Minnesota
This lecture is open to the public. A reception will follow.

Siobhan B. Somerville is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also affiliated with the Department of African American Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. She is the author of "Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture" (Duke UP, 2000) and editor of a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on "Queer Fictions of Race." Her work has appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, American Literature, and GLQ.

This event is organized by the Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies (GIGSS) at the University of Minnesota. For more information about GIGSS, please email gigss at umn dot edu

Facebook website here!

FIERCE LOVE: Stories from Black Gay Life

Sat, Feb 26, 7:00 PM
Rarig Hall, Thrust Theater
330 21st Ave, Mpls

For one night only! Tongues Untied: GLBTQ People of Color Discussion Group (see below for more detail) presents Fierce Love. Local director Harry Waters Jr. takes on the courageous task of reviving and adapting the forgotten piece with various gay black men from the Twin Cities. Fierce Love presents a human side to the lives of black gay men, which the mainstream media misrepresents.

Sponsored by the GLBTA Programs Office, Queer Student Cultural Center, Black Student Union, and Coca-Cola. Present your student ID and pay what you can. $7 without a student ID. Proceeds go to Twin Cities Black Pride and the African American Aids Task Force. For more info, contact Jason Jackson, Twin Cities Black Pride officer and GLBTA Programs Office intern, at jacks973@umn.edu.
facebook page for FIERCE LOVE

Tongues Untied: GLBTQ People of Color Discussions
Monthly on 1st & 3rd Thursdays (new day)
from 4:00-6:00 PM
Appleby Hall 41

Queer People of Color (QPOC) is back on campus, under a new name: Tongues Untied! Join us for bi-monthly discussions with other GLBTQ Students of Color and FREE FOOD! With the growing population of GLBTQ students, staff & faculty of color on predominately white and heteronormative college campuses, we see the need to create a space we can call our own to discuss issues that affect us, and have respectful open discussions concerning the intersections of race, gender and sexual identity. Undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty, community members -- all are welcome! Meetings will be held every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month in Appleby Hall 41. Now open to white allies, though QPOC voices will be prioritized. For more info, contact Jason Jackson atjacks973@umn.edu. Check us out on our Facebook page!

Volunteer Work Parties
Third Saturday of Each Month, 2-4pm

There will be a "work party" at the Library on the afternoon of the third Saturday of each month, open to Quatrefoil members and their friends. This will be a time for all those tasks that need the help of many hands: newsletter mailings, processing new books, sorting recent donations, etc.- as well as meeting other volunteers.

The next party will be Saturday, February 19, 2:00-4:00 pm.

http://www.quatrefoillibrary.org/

So many rad events, so little time! And this one is both political and naughty - with a cabaret and dancing!!! OMG!

This event supports TYSN (Trans Youth Support Network) whose Katie Burgess visited us last week as one of our service learning organizations...
And it's also supporting FIERCE! a youth-based organization for lgbtq people of color in nyc (http://www.fiercenyc.org/)

Their mission is to push the boundaries of queer artists/performers & people in the non-mainstream side of sexuality & art.

Art opening starts at 9pm with music by DJ Jam E-Z!
Cabaret starts at 10pm, Hosted by Gogopimp Tif
Dance party kicks off at midnight, after the show - w/DJ Blowtorch

More info at: Dirty Queer Show III

9 pm, Saturday Night, Hell's Kitchen in Downtown Minneapolis

The largest LGBT college conference is at the end of the month in Michigan. It's a treck, but I bet some folks from the GLBT Programs Office and student organizations are going and you might be able to connect with their plans.

Find out more info and register for the conference: http://www.mblgtacc2011.org

Check out our blog for info on speakers, entertainment, and more! : http://blog.mblgtacc2011.org/

Turning a "Queer Eye" on the Criminal Justice System with Author and Activist, Joey Mogul

This sounds like a perfect match for our class this semester!!
On February 4th, the Human Rights Program is proud to host Joey Mogul, co-author of groundbreaking book, Queer (In)Justice. Ms. Mogul will be discussing the upcoming book which turns a "queer eye" on the criminal legal system in the United States.

Drawing on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences--as criminal defendants, prisoners, and survivors of violent crimes. Mogul and co-authors Andrea Ritchie and Kay Whitlock unpack queer criminal archetypes--like "gleeful gay killers," "lethal lesbians," and "disease spreaders"--to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. Tracing stories from the judicial bench to the streets and behind prison bars, the authors prove the policing of sex and gender both bolsters and reinforces racial and gender inequalities. Find out more on this book project here: Queer Injustice.org

February 4th from 3:00PM to 5:00PM in Room 609 Social Sciences, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. The event is free and open to the public.