Please submit any news for the weekly QA newsletter to Sam Klugman at news@queer.brown.edu by 11:59pm each Saturday.
Tuesday night, 7:00pm @ in the Sarah Doyle Women's Center Lounge
(On Brown's Campus, on the corner of George and Brown)
You don't HAVE to be queer, you don't HAVE to be vegan, (you don't HAVE to bring food, but it would be nice...), you really don't have to be a woman to be welcome at the SDWC, and the building IS pretty accessible.
One of our largest priorities right now is working on continuing access to gender neutral housing for incoming students (and all students), as well as increasing the availability of gender neutral bathrooms on campus. We are hoping to look at queer organizing, and queer politics...finding ways we are interested in engaging, and as things come up on campus it will be interesting to think about how more broad based issues are also on the agenda for queer folks, both related to and separate from a queer identity/experience of life....
Email Michelle Moon Lee (Michelle_Lee@brown.edu) or Sarah Bowman (Sarah_Bowman_1@brown.edu) with questions.
Girls' Night Out is basically a rad social get-together for queer women. It meets every other week, on Tuesday nights, and each week we will be doing something different. Stop by, even if only for a second, and come talk, laugh, vent, bond, eat, relax, and whatever else you want with other queer women. There will be free food too.
note: trans people and gender queers welcome.
Tuesday, 9 pm, LGBTQ Resource Center (3rd floor of Faunce)
Next Tuesday, October 4, is The First Tuesday of The Month. And the month is October -- Coming Out Month.
Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Greater Providence Chapter, will hold its regular meeting. Here is where parents are helped to understand and accept their glbt children, and those children are helped to understand and come out into loving relationships with their families. We do it by sharing friendship and support. It works.
All are welcome, including adult gays who wish they had harmonious relationships with their families.
We meet at 520 Hope Street in Providence, The Providence Center, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
For more information and directions -- or for on-line support -- visit www.PFLAGProvidence.org. Or call 751-7571.
Because of community interest, the Queer Alliance will be sponsoring SexPowerGod after all. (For those of you who were excited about the prospect of having a bake sale, it’s certainly not out of the realm of possibilities for the future... and you can be sure that I would welcome your baking sample recipes for me any day!)
SexPowerGod will be held November 12, and that means we’ve got a lot of work to do! Interested in being a part of the QA’s most notorious committee? Come to the first meeting of the dance committee, Wednesday at 9PM in the LGBTQ Resource Center (323 Faunce). Know anything about party planning, graphic design, music, promotions? Don’t know much about anything? Either way, we want you!
**If you have any interest in being one of the dance coordinators/head party managers, please email dance@queer.brown.edu as soon as possible. No experience necessary—fresh meat welcome! Questions/concerns should also be sent to that address.
Wednesday, October 5th 10:30pm-Midnight
Memorial Room, 2nd floor of Faunce (by the Chaplain's Office)
Hi-T is a study break for Queer and Allied students. The last Hi-T was great! Come out again and take a break from studying, chat with your friends and make new ones! There will be plenty of snacks, drinks, and great music and fun! All are welcome!
Questions? Interested in Helping out? Email queer@brown.edu
The Queer Alliance’s October General Body Meeting will take place this Thursday at 9PM in Petteruti Lounge. The National Coming Out Week (NCOW) Committee will be unveiling this year’s NCOW events and will be presenting the NCOW Banner to the QA General Body; a banner signing will follow, so you definitely don’t want to miss out! We will also be updating the community on the status of several recent hate crimes and bias incidents. There will be time for open discussion to consider appropriate courses of action and to address concerns.
This impacts all of us. Please come and be heard.
Possible Projects:
There has been A LOT going on with regard to Queer Politics in Rhode Island.
All of the groups in RI met on Thursday and had an indepth discussion on what to do next.
Things to talk about are:
Hope to cya there ;)
The National Coming Out Week (NCOW) Committee is placing a full page ad in the BDH during National Coming Out Week (next week). The ad will be comprised of a list of out and allied members of our community.
Undergrads, grads, faculty, staff, and all the other amazing people who make up our community are all encouraged to submit their names for publication. To be counted, either sign up at this Thursday’s General Body Meeting, or send an email to becounted@queer.brown.edu Please include your name in the body of the email.
Please also encourage allies and community members who may not be on this email list to send submissions to becounted@queer.brown.edu. We want everyone to be counted!
October 11-14th marks National Coming Out Week, and we'd like to extend our representation into the pages of the Brown Daily Herald. If you're interested in writing a column about your coming out experience, being out at Brown, being out at home, or just being out at all, PLEASE WRITE IT! Simply email your the first draft of your 700-word column to opinions@browndailyherald.com by Wednesday, October 5th. NCOW is going to be truly fantastic this year, so stay tuned for events announcements in the next couple of weeks.
The RISD Sex Club and the RISD Christian Body are teaming up this year to plan an event for World AIDS Day. The idea behind World AIDS Day is to raise awareness about the AIDS epidemic all over the world and stress the importance of protecting yourself and your partners from STIs. World AIDS Day is on December 1st but we don't want to half-ass it so we're meeting as soon as possible to come up with ideas. If you are interested in helping out, please contact sexclub@risd.edu with your name, a couple ways to reach you, and when you're available to meet.
If you're looking for more information about World AIDS Day, please visit this link: http://www.worldaidsday.org/
Have you ever wondered if banking and consulting companies are good places to work for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people?
What about how comfortable you'd feel being open about your sexual orientation and/or gender identity in a corporate environment?
Have you worried being GLBT could hurt your candidacy or career advancement?
For answers to these questions and a chance to meet other GLBT students and professionals in banking and consulting, join us in New York on October 7 & 8 at the second annual Out for Undergraduate Business Conference.
Current corporate sponsors include: Bain, BCG, Citigroup, CSFB, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, McKinsey & Company, Merrill Lynch, and Monitor Group
Full conference details, including registration, can be found at http://www.outforbusiness.com