Welcome back!
The Lionel Cantú GLBTI Resource Center would
like to welcome new and old students back for
another wonderful year! Please swing by and
visit!
Our Fall Mixer is this Thursday, at 7:30.
There will be food, games, and lots and lots
of people!
If you've never visited us, the Cantú Queer
Center is
located behind Crown College. Take the Night
Core
Shuttle to the Crown Circle; it's all
downhill from
there.
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The Cantú Queer Center is Recruiting Fall
Academic Interns now!
Email us at queer@ucsc.edu
if you are interested in:
- 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
Students can obtain 2-5 units of
academic credit for their internships.
There are opportunities to do outreach to the
queer student community, to curate art shows
in the center's GALA Art Gallery, and to
document events with photos and films.
Interns also
plan and implement programs that deal with
student
transition, support, and academic advancement.
They focus on issues central to queer
identity and
community.
Queer Community Internship
Are you interested in
working at the campus queer center (Cantú Queer
Center) and the community queer center
(Diversity
Center) this year? We are offering a 3-quarter internship for a highly motivated student who is
outgoing, self-directed, and knowledgeable about
queer issues to bridge the Santa Cruz queer
community. Stipend included.
For more information, visit queer.ucsc.edu
Academic credit
possible. Info: Deb
Abbott, dabbott@ucsc.edu,831.459.4385 or
Tam
Welch, 459-2468, queer@ucsc.edu.
QConnect Under New Management
Ian Sentelik has taken over construction of
QConnect
from Ray
Tsay. If you have any
announcements for
QConnect, or any feedback about its format,
please
email me at qconnect.ucsc@gmail.com,
or message me on Facebook. Noon of
Friday is the deadline to ensure that your
information
will be in the coming week's QConnect.
Thank you very much! I hope you enjoy QConnect!
October is GLBTI History Month!!!
These 31
Icons, selected by leaders of
national and international GLBTI
organizations, are people who achieved
success within their respective fields of
endeavor, were national heroes, or managed to
advance GLBTI civil rights.
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Upcoming...
Mondays, from Oct. 8 until Dec. 3
Queer & Questioning Women's Group 6:30-8pm, Cantú Queer
Center. An opportunity to meet other queer and
questioning
women, 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. Info: Livia Peras, lperas@hotmail.com
every Wed Queer Coffee House
8-9pm, Cantú Queer
Center. Come content yourself with coffee,
comestibles, and good company every Wednesday
at the Cantu Center. Info: queer@ucsc.edu
2nd Wed of every month 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.
Thurs, Oct. 11 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.
Sat, Oct. 13 So Many Genders, So
Little Time!
Psychotherapy with Transgender and
Transsexual Clients 9am-4pm, Kaiser Oakland. $135
admission charge. This day-long training will
provide an overview of working with
transgender clients, as well as a deeper
exploration of complex clinical issues with
this population. The workshop will combine
didactic lecture, clinical case examples,
video clips, and group discussion. Info:
Kim Hraca, 510.601.1859 or kim.ma.mft@lmi.net
Tues. Oct. 16 (Intersex Awareness
Day)
and Sat. 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 movie on
October 16th and 20th. Info: queer@ucsc.edu.
Wed, Oct. 17 COLLOQUIUM SERIES -
LISA ROFEL: The
Traffic in Money Boys: Neoliberalism, Desire,
and
Normativity in China 12-1:30pm, Humanities 1, Room 210. Lisa Rofel is
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
Fri, 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
Fri, Oct. 19 David
Eng--Transnational Adoption, Racial
Melancholia, and Racial Reparation 10am-Noon, Humanities 1,
Room 210. A seminar in which David Eng will
explore the contemporary practice of
transnational adoption and how it traces out
a psychic and social arc from racial
melancholia to racial reparation. Admission
is free. Info: Stephanie Casher,
831.459.4899 or cult@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 Cantœ 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
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QReview!
A word from our Library Maven.
To all our loyal readers,
Ah, another year at UCSC! To all our new
readers,
welcome. To all our old readers, welcome back.
What more is there to say? Enjoy the book review!
*Please remember to return any books you
may borrow from the
Lionel Cantœ Library!*
Descendants of Darkness, Volume One
Author: Yoko Matsushita
Section: Manga (Japanese graphic
novels)
Genre: Fantasy fiction, drama, gay
Rating: 9.0
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. When people begin
turning up drained of blood in Kyushu as
though by a vampire, the Summons Department
sends their best (albeit wacky) agent, Asato
Tsuzuki, to find the culprit. Partnered with
the surly Hisoka Kurosaki, Tsuzuki searches
for the vampire...and finds instead a hapless
victim, a diabolical doctor, and maybe-dare I
say it?-love.
Review: Told through humorous dialogue
and breathtaking illustrations, Matsushita's
Descendants of Darkness series is a must-read
for any fantasy lover. Artfully weaving
together loveable heroes, outrageous fantasy,
gritty reality, and twisted mystery-to say
nothing of a deliciously hateful villain in
Doctor Muraki-Matsushita has created a manga
masterpiece. When you reach the last page,
you'll be screaming for more.
~Ian Sentelik
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QStudents!
Be active.
Queer & Questioning Women's Group Meets
Mondays, from Oct. 8 until Dec. 3, 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 7-9pm @ the Cantú 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, 9-10:30pm.
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@gm
ail.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 Sat. 20 (Transgender Awareness Day); 8:30
p.m.
@
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 queer themed movie on
October 16th and 20th. Contact: queer@ucsc.edu.
Lipz Tues. Oct. 23; 8-10 p.m. @ the
Cantú
Queer Center. The Lesbian and Allied Women's
Social Group will have its first meeting.
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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