Hello, all!
Staff Drop-In Hours
You're queer, we're here. You're not queer,
we're still here. Tam and Deb have a Monday
through Friday open door policy--still, we
are sometimes away from the center during
meetings or trainings. (So it's always a good idea to
call before you drop by!)
We're posting office hours here so you can see the
times when we're especially available to you. We
also have other center volunteers who are
here for you; we'd like you to meet them!
Volunteer Fr. James' Drop In Hours:
Mon, 10am-12pm. James is an alumnus
(Cowell College 1971, English and American
Literature) who volunteers most
Monday mornings to help with the Center's
library. This is pretty familiar territory
for him, since he has donated many of the
books in it. From the early '70's to the early
'80's, he was very active in lesbian and gay
student groups in Davis and Sacramento and
in gay journalism, being the founding editor
of two newspapers in Sacramento. He is also
a priest, and would be happy to talk about
being queer and Christian (especially Catholic) with
anyone
who wants to drop in while he's at the Center. Or
leave a message for him (459.4385) if you'd like to
set up another time to talk.
Intern Livia Peras' Drop In Hours:
Wed, 1-3pm. Livia is a graduate student at SJSU in
Educational Counseling interning at the Cantú
Queer Center Fall quarter. She is available
to talk about anything from career goals to
adjusting to life at UCSC. She can also be
reached via email at: lperas@hotmail.com
Program Coordinator Tam Welch's Drop In
Hours: Thurs, 12-4pm. Tam coordinates almost
everything here at the
Cantú Queer Center. Please come and talk to
her about anything from coming out, to queer
people of color topics, to ideas for working
together. She is always busy but never too
busy for you! Tam's phone: 459.2468 Tam's
email:queer@ucsc.edu
Director Deb Abbott's Drop In Hours: Fri, 12-4pm, You can talk with Deb Abbott most anything.
She's a licensed psychotherapist and while
her job at the center is not to provide ongoing
counseling, she is available to listen and provide
support and referrals. Deb's phone: 459.4385 Deb's
email: dabbott@ucsc.edu.
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Wednesday
10.10.07
Gay Men's Volleyball Every Wed. at 5:30pm, @ SC Main Beach. Newcomers of all skill
levels
are
welcome. Our focus is on fun, camaraderie
and sportsmanship. Info: Curt, 831.459.7506
or Mark, 831.429.6854.
FTM Trans
Group 7:30-9pm, @ the Diversity
Center (1117 Soquel
Avenue, Santa Cruz). This group is open to
anyone
who was labeled female at birth and no longer
feels
that is complete or accurate. Students and queer
youth are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Info: Teresa Antonia Broccoli,
831.425.4409 or
teresantonia@yahoo.co
m.
Out-n-About 8pm, @ Cowell Fireside
Lounge. Come to the first meeting of the new
Cowell/ Stevenson queer group!
Queer Coffee House
8-9 pm, @ the Cantú Queer
Center. Info: queer@ucsc.edu
The Network 9-10pm, @ the Cantú Queer Center. THE queer student org on campus! All
are welcome. Info: thenetwork.ucsc@gm
ail.com
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Thursday
10.11.07
TODAY IS NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY!!!
Nine/ Ten Coming Out! Noon-3pm.
Join us in front of the College Nine/ College
Ten Dining Hall between and celebrate
National Coming Out Day in style with a Photo
Booth, Button-Making, music, games, and other
fabulous
activities. Show your Pride! Info: Wendy
Baxter, 831.459.3142 or wbaxter@ucsc.edu.
National Coming Out
Day: Kara Keeling
4pm; Humanities 210. Kara
Keeling works on film, media, and popular
culture and across multiple disciplines.
Professor
Keeling's talk will focus on the films The
Aggressives
(dir. Wakefield Poole,
2005) and Brother to Brother (dir. Rodney Evans,
2004). Sponsored by the Black Cultural Studies
Research Cluster. Info: blackculturalstudies
@ucsc.edu.
HIV Testing for Women & Men 3-5pm;
Mobile Van, Laundromat at Barson and Bixby,
SC. Confidential testing. Info:
831.425.5422 or info@diversitycenter.org.
Tribe: Gay and Bi Men's Center HIV Testing
5-8pm; 113 Cooper St, SC. No needles;
results
in just 20 minutes! Info: 831.427.3900 or info@scapsite.org.
On Your Own Terms 6:30-8pm, @
Actors' Theater, 1001 Center Street, Santa
Cruz. Margaret Leonard will be presenting
on health care and end-of-life decisions
(including how to ensure yours are
respected). Info: Julie Boudreau,
831.430.3078 or jboudreau@hospicesantacruz.org.
"Come on Out" College Night 6:45pm, @ Cowell Dining Hall. Our speaker is local
performance
artist, Lauren Crux. Everyone in the campus
community is welcome to the program portion of
this event.
Queer Geeks 8-10pm, @ Cantú Queer
Center. Info:
Ian Sentelik, fireflys_cat@yahoo.com/
Zachary Gaidzik, jgaidzik@ucsc.edu.
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Upcoming...
Mon. Oct. 15 Make Graduate School
Part of Your Future! All Day. Info: fairs@ucsc.edu.
Tues. Oct. 16 (Intersex Awareness
Day) QMovies 8:30pm, @ Cantú Queer Center. All the fun of a movie
theater with no gum stuck under the seats!
Visit the
Center for popcorn, drinks, and a great movie. Info: queer@ucsc.edu.
Wed, Oct. 17 Building a Culture of
Collaboration 11-4pm, @ Bay Tree
Building Cervantes & Velasquez conference
room. The campus community is invited to
participate in a campus discussion that
highlights and accentuates the importance of
collaboration between campus units in order
to best serve our intersecting populations
and the campus goals of diversity. Info:
831.459.3207 or 831.459.5449.
Wed, Oct. 17 COLLOQUIUM SERIES -
LISA ROFEL: The
Traffic in Money Boys: Neoliberalism, Desire,
and
Normativity in China Noon-1:30pm;
Humanities 1, Room 210. Lisa Rofel is a
Professor of Cultural Anthropology at UCSC. Her
new book is Desiring China: Experiments in
Neoliberalism, Sexuality and Public Culture
(Duke,
2007). Sponsor: Center for Cultural Studies.
Web: http://humanities.ucsc.edu/CultStudies/EVENTS/
events.html
Info: (831)-459-4899, cult@ucsc.edu.
Wed. Oct. 17 Bluehouse 7:30pm, @ Don Quixote's International Music
Hall, 6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA 95018.
Bluehouse, the dynamic duo of Jacqueline
Walter and Bernadette Carroll, have created
their own unique style by writing
folk-flavored pop melodies meshed with
powerful, intricate harmonies. Hear them
perform next Wed. at Don Quixote's! Info:
http://www.bluehouse.net.
Thurs, Oct. 18 New Student Welcome
and Community Reception 4-6pm, @
College 9 & 10 Multipurpose Room. Make
important connections with student
organizations, faculty and staff, critical
resources, great people and good food!
Sophomores or returning transfer students who
did not attend the event last year are
encouraged to come this year! Open to all
community members!
Thurs, Oct. 18 David Eng--The Art
of Waiting: Queer
Diasporas and "The Book of Salt" 4-6pm, @ Humanities 1,
Room 210. David Eng will be speaking about
his new book, The Feeling of Kinship:
Queer Diasporas and the Racialization of
Intimacy, which examines the impact of
Asian diasporic and queer social movements on
conventional structures of family and kinship
in the U.S. Admission is free. Info:
Stephanie Casher, 831.459.4899 or cult@ucsc.edu
Thurs. Oct. 25 Asian American
Pacific Islander Community Reception
5:30-7:30pm, @ Bay Tree Building, Cervantes
and Velasquez Room D. Bring your friends for
food, fun and community. Info: 831.459.5349
Fri. Oct. 26 QGrad Mixer Details to
follow.
Sat. Oct. 27 The 5th Annual
PRACTICAL ACTIVISM Conference (Keynote
Speaker: Angela Davis) Practical Activism
is a student-led conference with workshops,
keynote speaker, tabling organizations, and
special sessions providing dynamic learning
opportunities and tools to create local and
global change. Info: http://
activism.ucsc.edu.
Tues, Oct. 30 FALL MIXER for Queer
Faculty, Staff, and
Friends 5:30-7:30pm,
Enjoy the company of faculty, staff, and friends
along with hors d'oeuvres and bubbly
at the home of Dean of Undergraduate Education
Bill Ladusaw and Ken Christopher. Sponsored by
Friends of the Cantú GLBTI Center,
Feminist Studies, and the Sexuality Studies
Working Group. Info, location,
directions and RSVPs to: Deb Abbott,
831.459.4385
or dabbott@ucsc.edu.
Sat. Nov. 3 California Forum for
Diversity in Graduate Education @ UC
Davis (Transportation provided). Sign up in
Advance with the EOP Office at 121 ARCenter.
This all day Forum will acquaint students
from underrepresented groups with the career
opportunities and challenges associated with
advanced study within master's and doctoral
programs. Open to sophomores, juniors,
seniors and students in master's programs.
Info: Educational Opportunity Programs
office, 459.2296 or manwar@ucsc.edu.
Tues. Nov 20 (Transgender Awareness Day) QMovies 8:30pm, @ Cantú Queer Center.
All the fun of a movie theater with no gum stuck under
the seats! Visit the
Center for popcorn, drinks, and a great Trans themed movie. Info: queer@ucsc.edu
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QReview!
Descendants of Darkness, Volume Two
Author: Yoko Matsushita
Section: Manga (Japanese graphic
novels)
Genre: Fantasy fiction, drama, gay
Rating: 9.5
Plot Rundown: In the afterlife, the
Ministry of Hades judges the sins of the dead
and decides upon their destination: heaven,
hell, or reincarnation. Sometimes souls die
before their time, or do not die when their
time comes; the Summons Department exists to
sort out these mishaps. A boy who received a
cornea transplant begins playing the violin
as though possessed-and he is indeed being
possessed: by the demon Sagatanasu. Tsuzuki
and Hisoka are deployed to stop Sagatanasu,
but the demon has a devilish trick up his
nonexistent sleeve.
Review: Told through humorous dialogue
and breathtaking illustrations, this second
volume of Matsushita's Descendants of
Darkness series is as much of a must-read as
the first. Although the first volume need not
be read to enjoy this second, anyone who even
half-enjoyed the first will find this second
book a gripping read.
~Ian Sentelik
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QStudents!
Be active.
Queer & Questioning Women's Group Meets
Mondays, from Oct. 8 until Dec. 3, at 6:30-8pm.
An opportunity to meet other queer and
questioning
women and discuss issues, challenges, and life
in an
informal and comfortable atmosphere. We meet
in a
respected space, so all information and
identities are
kept confidential. Contact: Livia Peras, lperas@hotmail.com
Queer Coffee House Every Wed,
from 8-9pm, @ the Cantœ Queer
Center. Come content yourself with coffee,
comestibles, and good company every Wednesday
at the Cantu Center. Info: queer@ucsc.edu
The Network Every Wed, 9-10pm.
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 2nd & 4th Thurs, 8-9:30pm.
Interested in things considered "geeky"?
Queer Geeks
is a welcoming place for those who feel that
their
interests vary from "popular" culture. Info:
Ian Sentelik, fireflys_cat@yahoo.com/
Zachary Gaidzik, jgaidzik@ucsc.edu.
QMovies Tues. Oct. 16 (Intersex Awareness
Day)
and Tues. Nov 20 (Transgender Awareness Day); 8:30
pm,
@
the Cantú Queer Center. All the fun of a movie
theater with no gum stuck under the seats!
Visit the
Center for popcorn, drinks, and a great movie on
October 16th and Nov 20th. Contact: queer@ucsc.edu.
Lipz Tues. Oct. 23; 8-10pm, @ the
Cantú
Queer Center. The Lesbian and Allied Women's
Social Group will have its first meeting on
Oct. 23.
Whether you're queer, straight, or anything in
between, you are welcome to join us for
snacks and
socialization. Contact: Julia Schwab, jschwab@ucsc.edu.
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