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Weekly Update July 20, 2007 1. SCHOLARSHIPS
AVAILABLE FOR LGBT YOUTH: DEADLINE JULY 30 1. SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR LGBT YOUTH: DEADLINE JULY 30
Scholarships are available to LGBT students attending an institution of higher education in Santa Barbara County. Deadline to apply is July 30, 2007. These are made available by the generous philanthropy of the Santa Barbara Gay & Lesbian Business Association (GLBA). The GLBA is comprised of business people in the Santa Barbara area who work to strengthen the economic influence and cultural vitality of the local gay and lesbian community. GLBA invests in future LGBT leadership by providing a scholarship program to help advance the educational goals of gay and lesbian students in Santa Barbara County. GLBA is the ONLY source of scholarships for gay and lesbian students in the County. While some national organizations have told our gay youth they are unwelcome, asserting that gay youth do not meet their leadership or membership standards, these grants are our way of telling our youth they EXCEED those standards and we are proud of them. We believe a little friendly support and encouragement goes a long way for students who often face personal hardship and rejection due to their sexual orientation. GLBA currently maintains four scholarship endowment funds:
For more information, and to apply for a scholarship, please visit the GLBA website: http://www.glbasb.com/scholarships.htm 2. FAREWELL PARTY FOR KYLE RICHARDS - THURSDAY, JULY 26 Greetings, The staff of the Women’s Center and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity invite you to join us as we celebrate the five years of service that KYLE RICHARDS has dedicated to the RCSGD. For those of you who may not know, Kyle has accepted a new position at Academic Senate. So, he is not leaving the community, and will still be around on campus. Although his last day in our department will be this Friday, Kyle has agreed to come back next week for a celebration. We will have an informal open house at the Women’s Center Thursday, July 26, 2007, from 11 am – 2:00 pm. Please feel free to drop in at any time during those hours to wish Kyle well in his new endeavors. If you would like to contribute a favorite dish to share, please feel free to bring it along. We will provide some finger foods, beverages, and some of our staff members’ specialties. We will plan to make our formal remarks at 12:30 pm. If you would like to speak, please contact me by e mail so I can add you to the list. (Sharon.hoshida@sa.ucsb.edu, or call me directly at x2920). My apologies for the short notice, this whole situation has been a bit of a whirlwind, but we all have to eat, so plan to join us for the celebration on THURSDAY, JULY 26, at the Women’s Center in the Student Resource Building at the West End. If you don’t know where we are, just give us a call and we’ll give you directions, 893-3778. We hope to see you then, (Kyle can now be reached at his new email address in the UCSB Academic Senate: kyle.richards@senate.ucsb.edu) 3. HIRING PROCESS FOR NEW DIRECTOR OF LGBT RESOURCES The Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity is in the process of hiring a new Director. While the position is currently vacant, the center continues to operate and is open its summer hours (Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm). The position vacancy will soon be posted on the UCSB Human Resource jobs website: http://jobs.ucsb.edu. The deadline to apply will be in a few weeks, at which point a committee of faculty, staff, and students will review the applications and conduct the search process. It is hoped that a new director will be hired and start by the beginning of fall quarter. If you have any questions about the search for a new Director, or the hiring process, please contact Sharon Hoshida, Acting Director of the Women's Center. 4. TRANS/ GENDER VARIANT & INTERSEX JUSTICE PROJECT Dear Friends, I write you today to ask for your financial support of an innovative media program taking place this summer to train some of society's most vulnerable people to tell their own stories. I send this on behalf of the Trans/Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project, TGIJP. TGIJP is the only organization in the country fully dedicated to providing legal assistance and community organizing support to people whose genders go unrecognized by the prison system. One person we are assisting is Alexis Giraldo, a male-to-female transgender woman, who is suing the California state prison system for ignoring her requests – made repeatedly throughout three months – for help after her cellmate threatened to rape her. Her cellmate followed through on his threats, and brutally raped her over several days. Only after two weeks had passed did prison staff provide health care for her.1 This is just one of the many stories of rape, isolation, and brutal beatings of gender variant people happening behind prison walls. Unfortunately, the frequency of attacks on transgender people merely reflects the ways that societal fear, poverty, and abuse create cycles of imprisonment and underemployment.2 To address this, TGIJP has initiated a digital media program – one that provides former transgender prisoners of color with the means of telling their own stories to a wide, even international, audience. Eight to ten completed short films will be made available on the internet as well as potentially shown at various LGBT film festivals. This project also provides the opportunity to transgender women of color (transitioning from male to female) to recover from some of their traumatic experiences. Through storytelling, one can change one's perspective from being an object of others to being a self-reflective subject. This is key aspect of personal development and therefore also necessary in the process of social and community development. You can see why this project would have a critical impact not only on the types of conversations taking place around the effect of the prison system on transgender public health, but also the direct impact it would have on the lives of the project participants. YOU can help us. While TGIJP has already obtained the majority of necessary funding, we are still short $4000. Trainers at Third World Majority (cultureisaweapon.org) will be working with participants at the end of July. Expenses affiliated with the training constitute the majority of the shortfall. Your tax-deductible contribution of $50 - $250 would be of crucial help to us at this time. Please see below for further instructions. I appreciate your time. Should you know of a potential supporter, please forward this e-mail to that person. You can reach me at (415) 730-2944 if you have any questions. Sincerely, Sottolin
Weng Please make checks out to: TGIJP c/o Justice Now 5. OUT FOR UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS CONFERENCE 4th Annual Out for Undergraduate Business Conference The fourth annual Out for Undergraduate Business Conference in New York will help GLBT undergraduate students learn how other "out" professionals have dealt with these same issues. Panelists will share insider knowledge about if, when, and how to come out in different professional situations, as well as strategies they've used to investigate companies GLBT policies before joining a new organization. The conference will also serve as a high-impact recruiting pipeline into investment banking and management consulting. The program will help participants:
Please register early to be considered for a limited number of scholarships that may cover travel and accommodation. For more information, and to register, visit their website: http://www.outforbusiness.com/ If you're an LGBT MBA student/professional or interested in pursuing an MBA, please check out the Reaching Out MBA Conference being held in the San Francisco on October 11 - 14, 2007. The exciting details are available at www.reachingoutmba.org.
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