• Cantú Queer Center
  Academic Courses with Queer Content
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The Cantú Queer Center is Recruiting Winter Quarter Academic Interns now!

Are you interested in working at the campus queer center (Cantú Queer Center)? We are offering 2- or 5-unit internships for highly motivated students who are outgoing, self-directed, and committed to improving queer issues both on campus and in the community. This position might include:

* organizing events and programming for the GLBTI community
* developing posters and/or flyers for events
* reaching out to, educating, and/or training peers around GLBTI issues
* publicity and electronic announcements
* welcoming new and returning students to the Center

For more information, visit queer.ucsc.edu
Info: Tam Welch, 459-2468, queer@ucsc.edu

QHeadlines   A list of Winter Quarter courses with queer content has been posted to the website. Click here to see. November is American Indian Heritage Month! National American Indian Heritage Month is an opportunity to honor the many contributions of American Indians and Alaska Natives and to recognize the strong and living traditions of the first people to call our land home. Visit UCSC's American Indian Resource Center at http://www2.ucsc.edu/airc, and check out the website for the Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits at http://www.baaits.org.

QNews  Keeping you updated! Washington Insider to Lead Charge Against Military's Gay Ban Despite popular support for lifting "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," it may take a Washington insider to get the job done. See more here.

Monday  11.26.07 Sean-Michael Rau: A Solo Exhibition Ends Sat. Dec. 8 @ College Ten Cafe Revolucion. Sean-Michael Rau, a fourth year photography major, is creating a gallery space with images that deal with issues of socially constructed gender roles, binary categorization, and internalized phobias in the Queer Community and our society as a whole. Come check it out! DIY at the Cant�, Part One Noon - 4 p.m. @ the Cantú� Queer Center. Come make buttons, learn to crochet, or tie-dye t-shirts today! Info: Cant� Queer Center, queer@ucsc.edu. Queer & Questioning Women's Group 6:30 - 8 p.m. @ Cantú Queer Center. Good news! This very popular group will be continuing with Akhila Kolesar as facilitator next quarter. These are the last meetings with facilitator Livia Peras, so be sure to come both this week and next! Info: Livia Peras, lperas@hotmail.com.

Tuesday  11.27.07 DIY at the Cant�, Part Two Noon - 4 p.m. @ the Cantú� Queer Center. Come silk-screen yourself a shirt today! Info: Cant� Queer Center, queer@ucsc.edu. Women's Tuesday Evening Hike Begins 6 p.m. Info: Jamyrson, jamyrson@hotmail.com

Wednesday  11.28.07 Colloquium Series - Angela Davis: The Prison: A Sign of U.S. Democracy? 12 - 1:30 p.m. @ Humanities 1, Room 210. Having helped to popularize the notion of a "prison industrial complex," Angela Y. Davis here urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement. Info: Stephanie Casher, 831.459.4899 or http://humanities.ucsc.edu/ CultStudies/EVENTS/events.html. Queer Coffee House Every Wed, from 7 - 9 p.m. Come content yourself with coffee, comestibles, and good company every Wednesday at the Cantú� Queer Center. Info: queer@ucsc.edu. The Network Every Wed, 9 - 10:30 p.m. @ Cantú Queer Center. The Network is the voice of UCSC's queer student populace. Join us in organizing events; help us in our continual effort to restructure queer groups on campus. Get involved. Be a part of change. Info: thenetwork.ucsc@gmail.com.

Thursday  11.29.07 Queer Geeks Every Thurs, 8 - 9:30 p.m. @ Cantú Queer Center. Do you like board games? How about card games? Perhaps you enjoy video games? No? Do you read for fun? If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, come to Queer Geeks, where the play is noncompetitive and half the fun is in the sarcasm! Info: Ian Sentelik, fireflys_cat@yahoo.com/ Zachary Gaidzik, jgaidzik@ucsc.edu.

Friday  11.30.07 Movie Night 7:00 p.m. @ Diversity Center, 1117 Soquel Ave, SC. Come socialize and vegetate at the Diversity Center! Info: http://diversitycenter.org/movie/.

Saturday & Sunday  12.01.07 & 12.02.07 Every Sat. until Mar. 18 QTV--Santa Cruz Queer Television Collective 10 p.m. @ Santa Cruz (Channel 27), Watsonville/ Capitola (Channel 73). Local queer TV since 1995. Tune in! New, exciting local queer video wanted. Info: Hilary, scqtv@yahoo.com.

Upcoming...   Dec. 1 Santa Cruz AIDS Project: World AIDS Day In honor of those who we have lost and of those who continue to be infected and affected by this deadly virus. Info: http://www.scapsite.org/html/events/events_worldaids.html. Sat. Jan. 19 Jennie McNulty--Back By Popular Demand 7:00 p.m. @ Don Quixote's International Music Hall, Felton, CA. Jennie McNulty has traveled the world doing comedy--in addition to headlining in comedy clubs all over the US and Canada, she has entertained the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. She's also done comedy in more peaceful settings as one of the favorites of Olivia Cruises and Resorts. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Info: 831.603.2294, or www.jenniemcnulty.com. Tues. Jan. 29 Lipz The next meeting of this wonderful women's group is sneaking into view! Info: Julia Schwab, at jschwab@ucsc.edu. February AIDS Dance Information forthcoming.

QReview!   Gay Fairy and Folk Tales Author: Peter Cashorali Section: Fiction Genre: Gay Rating: Variable per story Plot Rundown: Peter Cashorali has collected a series of different fairy and folk tales and rewritten them ever so slightly queerly. Here, and only here, you will find the tale of the Golden Goose; the recounting of the Queer Garment; and the story of Jack and the Penis, among many others. Review: The first few stories of this book are a solid 10. Cashorali has a light, humorous touch and a pure genius for the queerifying of the tales. However, the later stories begin to lose the joy and fun that runs through the first several stories as their lifeblood, and the decline is sad to see. Regardless, you MUST check out this book at least once, just to read The Golden Goose. If you don't laugh at least once during the telling of The Golden Goose, you are gloomier than Cheerless Prince Charlie. Looking for reviewers! Read a book you adored or one you despised from our library lately? Test your critic skills by writing a review on it! Please follow the QReview format carefully and send it to fireflys_cat@yahoo.com. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions! ~Ian Sentelik

QStudents!  Be active. Queer & Questioning Women's Group Meets Mons; last meeting is Dec. 3, 6:30 - 8 p.m. The last meeting of the quarter will be next Monday; it will be filled with snacks, videos, socializing, and the introduction of the new group facilitator: Akhila Kolesar. Newcomers welcome! Contact: Livia Peras, lperas@hotmail.com Lipz The next meeting of this wonderful women's group is set for Tuesday, January 29! Be prepared! Info: Julia Schwab, jschwab@ucsc.edu. Queer Coffee House Every Wed, from 7 - 9 p.m. Come content yourself with coffee, comestibles, and good company every Wednesday at the Cant� Queer Center. Info: queer@ucsc.edu. The Network Every Wed, 9 - 10:30 p.m. The Network is the voice of UCSC's queer student populace. Join us in organizing events; help us in our continual effort to restructure queer groups on campus. Get involved. Be a part of change. Info: thenetwork.ucsc@gmail.com. Queer Geeks Every Thurs, 8 - 9:30 p.m. Do you like board games? How about card games? Perhaps you enjoy video games? No? Do you read for fun? If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, come to Queer Geeks, where the play is noncompetitive and half the fun is in the sarcasm! Info: Ian Sentelik, fireflys_cat@yahoo.com/ Zachary Gaidzik, jgaidzik@ucsc.edu.

QPost  Get connected. 2008 GLAAD Media Fellowships Announced GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, has announced 11 Media Fellowships for 2008. Fellows will be based in either GLAAD's New York or Los Angeles office, work nearly full time from Jan. 7 - Dec. 31, 2008, and receive a monthly stipend of $1,600. This is a unique opportunity for students or recent graduates to develop media activism experience and leadership skills in the movement for LGBT equality. Deadline to apply is Nov. 30, 2007. Info: http://www.glaad.org/about/fellowship_opps.php Calling Filmmakers, Videographers, Artists and Performers for Submissions to the 14th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival The Santa Cruz Women of Color Film and Video Festival is now accepting submissions for its 14th annual festival, to be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, March 14-15, 2008. Submissions must be postmarked by January 4th, 2008. Info: M�nica Enr�quez (mpenriqu@ucsc.edu,) Miki Foster (mefoster@ucsc.edu,) or Cindy Bello (cbello@ucsc.edu). Social Justice Training Institute May 20 - 25, 2008 (Deadline: March 3, 2008). Cost: $450.00. Interested in getting some training in the realms of social justice? Apply soon--there are only 60 spots in this advanced program! Info: http://sjti.org/home_student.html. LGBTI Survey Are you between the ages of 13 and 21? Do you use LGBTIQQ-oriented forums, chatrooms, mailing lists, blog rings, networking/ dating sites, or other LGBTIQQ-oriented online communities for youth, including on Facebook and/ or MySpace? Help to provide information about the needs of LGBTIQQ youth by taking the following quick, anonymous and secure survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=cqB_2bsqIvVpwBnIQf_2bUzT4A_3d_3d. Info: lgbtiqq.youth.online@gmail.com.