Art Workshop: I am not a Mascot
Wednesday, April 8, 3-5 pm
Women’s Center Art Gallery, SRB
Reconstruct your personal history through photomontage, the process of joining together pieces of different pictures to create a unique composite. This workshop is inspired by visiting Native American artist, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, whose photomontage art will be displayed in the gallery during the workshop. Participants are encouraged to bring their own family photographs to juxtapose with the materials provided.
Women’s Chat
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Friday, April 10, 12 Noon
Amber Buggs, Sexual Harassment Intern, invites you to chat at the Women’s Center Conference Room every other Friday. Feel free to bring your own lunch or share in the snacks provided.
Sometimes it’s easier to see our flaws than our perfections. Why is that? Through self-reflections and discussion we will explore what we dislike and more importantly, what we love, about our bodies.
S.O.A.R.S (Story of a Rape Survivor)
Friday, April 10, 7 pm
MultiCultural Center Theater
SOARS is a performance about one woman’s journey to reclaim her body, sexuality, spirituality, and self-esteem after being sexually assaulted in college. Performed by a diverse cast of women, SOARS uses modern dance, spoken-word, and music to educate the public about sexual violence and to ease the shame, guilt, and self-blame that survivors too often feel with a story of hope and healing.
Co-sponsored by Students Stopping Rape, MultiCultural Center, A.S. Womyn’s Commission and A.S. Take Back the Night.
Patricia Hernández: Autonomous Education from Chiapas to Mexico City: Urban-Zapatista Links
Tuesday, April 14, 4 pm
MultiPurpose Room, SRB
Patricia Hernández, a sociologist specializing in education and gender, has worked since 2001 with indigenous communities to develop their primary and secondary schools, following a model of “autonomous education.” She will discuss popular education in Zapatista indigenous communities and the role of urban academics in constructing an autonomous education system.
Co-sponsored by A.S. Womyn’s Commission, Feminist Studies, The Hull Chair, Latin American Studies, The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy.
SPEAK OUT: Spring into Your Pride--Queer Art
Wednesday, April 15, 1 pm
RCSGD – 3rd Floor, SRB
Join Jess O’Keefe and Brittni Tanenbaum for this series of conversations and activities. Every other week beginning on April 15, we will meet at the RCSGD to discuss the following topics. Students, staff, and faculty are all welcome and pizza will be provided!
Come make some art for the RCSGD. You can take your piece home or leave it for display in the center. Supplies provided.
Caitríona Reed: Five Changes for a New Millennium
April 15, 3 pm Meditation, 5 pm Workshop
MultiPurpose Room, SRB
During these times of great global change, many of us wonder how to make a positive contribution to the world while taking care of ourselves and our many responsibilities. Do we focus our energies on academics or activism? Personal spiritual growth or professional advancement? Money or art? Caitríona Reed, meditation teacher and organizational consultant, will challenge these dichotomies and offer concrete tools for integrating the many aspects of your life purpose. Caitríona’s meditation will provide skills for expanded awareness and focus drawn from traditional Buddhist meditation and neuroscience. Her workshop will explore the five changes that can lead to individual and community transformation: 1) Personal development; 2) Non-dogmatic spiritual practices; 3) Social and environmental justice; 4) Real-world financial skills; and 5) Creativity.
Co-sponsored by UCSB Reads, RCSGD, and The XIV Dalai Lama Endowment
Jeans for Justice!
Wednesday, April 22, Rally 12-1 pm
Student Resource Building Patio
This campaign began in 1999 as part of an international protest of an Italian High Court decision to overturn a rape conviction because the victim/survivor was wearing jeans. The Court stated in its decision that “It is common knowledge...that jeans cannot even be partly removed without the effective help of the person wearing them...and it is impossible if the victim is struggling with all her might.” This unpopular verdict became an international symbol of societal injustices against sexual assault victims/survivors.
Wear your jeans on Wednesday, April 22 to raise awareness about sexual assault and to show your support for sexual assault survivors.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Equal Opportunity.
Women’s Chat
Women in the Sciences!
Friday, April 24, 12 Noon
Amber Buggs, Sexual Harassment Intern, invites you to chat at the Women’s Center Conference Room every other Friday. Feel free to bring your own lunch or share in the snacks provided.
Are you a self-identified woman interested in math or science? Come chat with a panel of graduate students who are women in the sciences, math, engineering, and computer science.
SPEAK OUT: Spring into Your Pride—Queer After College
Wednesday, April 29, 1 pm
RCSGD – 3rd Floor, SRB
Join Jess O’Keefe and Brittni Tanenbaum for this series of conversations and activities. Every other week beginning on April 15, we will meet at the RCSGD to discuss the following topics. Students, staff, and faculty are all welcome and pizza will be provided!
Strategize ways to continue activism post-graduation and explore “gay for pay” options.
Dissertation Scholars • Series Vulnerable Subjecthood: The Risks and Benefits of Hate Crime Legislation and Identity-Based Anti-Violence Activism
Laurel Westbrook: Feminist Studies
Wednesday, April 29, 4 pm • Women’s Center Conference Room
How does identity-based anti-violence activism shape conceptions about what it means to be a member of an identity group? Westbrook explores transgender activists’ efforts to include “gender identity” in United States hate crime legislation. She argues that although scholars have focused on the positive consequences of hate crime legislation, the struggle for such laws can have negative symbolic consequences for identity groups, mainly the construction of a vulnerable subjecthood.
Mindfulness Meditation
Thursday, April 30 and May 28, 4 pm
Women’s Center Conference Room
Reduce your stress with Mindfulness meditation practice. Find inner peace and improve your physical and mental health. For more information, see Facebook group Meditation UCSB.
Queer Hip Hop
Thursday, April 30, 8 pm
MultiCultural Center Theater
The Queer Hip Hop scene in Los Angeles is becoming a thriving force. Last Offence and Julie Potter (JFP) are two emcees blazing paths in Los Angeles. Last Offence is a gay male rapper who has received significant critical acclaim since he hit the scene in early 2008. Julie Potter is the LA transplant who has been blessing the mic with her lyrical and comedic skills since 2004. After their performances, join Last and JFP for a conversation about the Homohop movement, their careers and the state of the Hip Hop generation, as part of the QSU Pride Celebration and the Hip Hop Summit.
Co-sponsored by the Queer Student Union, MultiCultural Center, Department of Sociology, Department of Feminist Studies, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Professor Nikki Jones, and Professor Mireille Miller-Young.
Dance Workshop: Meditations on a Groove
Tuesday, May 5, 3-5 pm
MultiPurpose Room, SRB
Led by Matthew Nelson, MFA—dancer, teacher, choreographer, frolicker, and movement therapist—this inclusive movement class explores the abilities we each have to move with awareness. From the simplicity of our breathing to dancing together with music, the purpose of this class is to be ourselves. All bodies are welcome.
Groovaloos: Groovenite
Thursday, May 7, 8:30-11 pm
UCen Hub
The award-winning performance troupe, The Groovaloos, will bring their mind-blowing displays of hip hop, funk, and freestyle dance to the UCSB Hip Hop Summit. Based out of Los Angeles, they represent today’s most visible dancers in the industry with individual resumes ranging from Madonna to Miley Cyrus.
Groovenite begins at 8:30 pm with an open dance jam including performances by Kapatirang Pilipino’s Urban, Black Reign Dance Team, Black Greek Steppers, UCSB Dance Team, and others. The Groovaloos take the stage at 10 pm to close the summit.
Co-sponsored by The Asian Resource Center, The African Diasporic Cultural Resource Center, and CYPHER.
Women’s Chat
Gender Inequalities: Our Parents, Ourselves
Friday, May 8, 12 Noon
Amber Buggs, Sexual Harassment Intern, invites you to chat at the Women’s Center Conference Room every other Friday. Feel free to bring your own lunch or share in the snacks provided.
Gender roles and expectations are different for every generation, or are they? Come share observations about the gender roles demonstrated by our parents and compare those observations to our own experiences.
SPEAK OUT: Spring into Your Pride—In the Media
Wednesday, May 13, 1 pm
RCSGD – 3rd Floor, SRB
Join Jess O’Keefe and Brittni Tanenbaum for this series of conversations and activities. Every other week beginning on April 15, we will meet at the RCSGD to discuss the following topics. Students, staff, and faculty are all welcome and pizza will be provided!
Discuss the different ways queer folks are represented in mainstream and independent queer media.
Dissertation Scholars Series • Anxious Pleasures: Race and the Sexual Economies of Transnational Tourism in Salvador, Brazil
Erica Lorraine Williams: Black Studies
Wednesday, May 13, 4 pm • Women’s Center Conference Room
Investigating how discourses of black hypersexuality have constructed Salvador, Brazil, as a "site of desire" in the global tourist imaginary, Williams explores the lived effects that these discourses have on the everyday lives of Afro-Brazilian women and men. Drawing upon data collected during 18 months of ethnographic field research, she highlights the dynamic between sex tourism and the commodification of Afro-Brazilian culture by examining how the state strategically appropriates an eroticized blackness and Afro-Brazilian culture to “sell” to foreign tourists.
Dissertation Scholars Series • Articulations of the State: Prison and Public Education
Damien M. Schnyder: Black Studies
Wednesday, May 20, 4 pm • Women’s Center Conference Room
Building upon the school-to-prison pipeline scholarship, Schnyder explores the micro-processes by which public education as a state structure facilitates the movement of black male bodies into the labyrinth of the prison system. However, departing from the body of literature, he details how the public education structure is an ideological and pragmatic extension of the organizational logic of prison.
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie: Native Children Defuse This Image
Thursday, May 21, 12:30 pm
MultiPurpose Room, SRB
As part of the Native American CultureWeek, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie will speak about strategies of deconstructing negative images of the Native American community and the construction of “Visual Sovereignty.” Tsinhnahjinnie was born into the Bear and Raccoon Clans of the Seminole and Muscogee Nations, born for the Tsinhnahjinnie Clan of the Diné nation and was adopted into the Killer Whale clan of Klukwan. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and the Director of the C.N. Gorman Museum at UC Davis.
Co-sponsored by the American Indian Student Association and the American Indian Graduate Student Association.
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie: I am not a Mascot
April 6- June 5 • Women’s Center Art Gallery
Artist Reception May 21, 4-6 pm
For the past 30 years, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie has been creating art for Native communities. Working with photography and video, she has utilized digital media to create thought-provoking images about Indigenous issues. For this exhibition Tsinhnahjinnie addresses the use of Native imagery as mascots. Well aware of the mascot issue at Carpinteria High School and Middle School, Tsinhnahjinne presents strategies to defuse negative imagery and to create visual sovereignty in her current exhibition.
Women’s Chat
Moments That Made Me STRONG
Friday, May 22, 12 Noon
Amber Buggs, Sexual Harassment Intern, invites you to chat at the Women’s Center Conference Room every other Friday. Feel free to bring your own lunch or share in the snacks provided.
We are all strong, insightful, beautiful beings! How many opportunities do you get to verbalize this? Share the empowering moments and life lessons that have been instrumental in making you who you are today.
SPEAK OUT: Spring into Your Pride—Coming Out Stories
Wednesday, May 27, 1 pm
RCSGD – 3rd Floor, SRB
Join Jess O’Keefe and Brittni Tanenbaum for this series of conversations and activities. Every other week beginning on April 15, we will meet at the RCSGD to discuss the following topics. Students, staff, and faculty are all welcome and pizza will be provided!
Share your coming out stories. We all come out in different ways in different situations. This is a space to share the good, the bad, and the funny ways that the queer community comes out.
Dissertation Scholars Series • Imagining Alliance: Queer Anti-Imperialism & Race in California, 1966-1989
Emily Hobson: Feminist Studies
Wednesday, May 27, 4 pm • Women’s Center Conference Room
Drawing on extensive research in queer activist archives, Hobson recaptures the central importance that anti-imperialist politics held in galvanizing gay liberation in the 1960s, the gay and lesbian left in the 1970s, and lesbian and gay international solidarity work in the 1980s. She argues that queer anti-imperialism was fraught with contradiction, yet remains crucial for retelling queer history from multi-racial, transnational perspectives.
Birthright:
Mothering Across Difference
Wednesday, May 27, 6 pm
MultiCultural Center Theater
Professor Celine Shimizu’s 2009 film Birthright explores how mothering transforms womanhood, friendship, family and home through 50 in-depth interviews with a wide diversity of mothers in Santa Barbara. Written, directed, and produced by Celine Shimizu, 75 minutes.
Co-sponsored by the MultiCultural Center.