Conference Booklet - uclgbtia

This highly interactive workshop will allow participants to examine sexual orientation as a fluid concept that ismade up of several dimensions and which can change over time. Go beyond the Kinsey Scale and learn how theKlein Sexual Orientation Grid explores sexual attraction, sexual fantasies, emotional preference, socialpreference, lifestyle preference, and sexual identity. Participants of all sexual orientations will learn about a newway to view their own and others' sexual orientations.How to Take Over Your Student Government HMNSS 1406Holly Lim, Associated Students UCR President, hlim002@student.ucr.eduJocelyn Wong, ASUCR AlumNickel Lester, ASUCR AlumInterested in creating change on your campus? Run for student government! This step-by-step workshop willdiscuss the importance and advantages of representing your community’s voice on the student government, andwe'll get you started on an effective elections campaign plan.Icons of a Queer HMNSS 1403Michael Hoang, UC Irvine Undergraduate Student, mh0311@gmail.comThis program will explore the vast historical icons used to identify the queer community. Most people onlyrecognize the rainbow as a symbol of the gay community, However, that is only one of the many symbols thatrelate to the history of the gay community. Although not all symbols came from a positive movement of the gaycommunity, it is important to realize not only the positive, but also the struggle and the hardships that many gayshave endured to be able to embrace our sexuality.I'm Gonna POP!: Renegotiating Self-Inflicted Substance Abuse in the Queer Community ARTS 335Edgar Frias, UC Riverside Undergraduate Student, feds01@gmail.comQueer culture was once synonymous with the underground, the perverse, and the subversive. Gay/lesbian barswere breeding grounds for the "freaks," the social outcasts, the artistic and the sexually diverse. Commodification,capitalization, historicization (or lack thereof), homogenization, and forced assimilation has led to the fracturing ofqueer objectives and affiliations - leaving some wanting the creation of queer communities based around the ideaof process and exploration; while others wanting assimilation, gay marriage, skinny white bodies, and otherheteronormative anomalies. This performance-based video work explores issues of shame, isolation, substanceabuse, body-ism, racism, biphobia, transphobia, etc., brought about by the heteronormative capitalization of queercultures and offers consumption and excretion as an answer. Eat your fears, your hatred, your shame, and shitout love, inclusion, and exploration. Let's eat and talk.Immigration, Privacy and Transgender Rights HMNSS 1501Angie Cazares, UC Davis LGBT Resource Center, amcazares@ucdavis.eduToby Beauchamp, UC Davis LGBT Resource CenterWhat are the connections between U.S. immigration policies, rights to privacy and transgender identities? Howdoes increased surveillance of identity documents especially impact trans people of color and trans immigrants?This presentation will provide information on the relevance of current U.S. immigration reform to transgenderrights, and facilitate a discussion about how we can resist anti-trans and anti-immigrant sentiments andlegislation.Multiracial/Multiethnic Queer Caucus HMNSS 1400Raquel Bernaldo, UC Riverside Undergraduate Student, rbern002@student.ucr.eduAmanda Desmuke, UC Riverside Undergraduate StudentThis is a space for people who identify as queer AND multiracial/ multiethnic. By creating our own definition of"safe space" we will dialogue around our identities and experiences as a queer and multiracial community.Objectives, goals and discussion points include, but are not exclusivePage 16