Workshops!!

We've got a lot of workshops & caucuses scheduled for the conference, some of which have a max number of attendees due to content or room size. Feel free to read through the descriptions beforehand. Some workshops/caucuses are closed to individuals of those identities and will be noted below.

Workshop Session 1

Southeast Asian Family Dynamics
Crossing the Bridge of Cross-Racial Hostility: Creating Unity Among People of Color
“Don’t Be a Dick”: Queer phobic Insults
Don’t burnout!!
Frida Kahlo: Queering Art [limit 45]
Politics of Guerrilla Media: An Interactive Lesson in Graffiti
The QPOC Unicorn: Where are all the Queer PUNKS of Color?
Racial Justice NOW! White Privilege Workshop [limit 40, closed space for white allies]
Rompiendo Cadenas: Reconstructing el Hombre y el Queer as one and many [limit 40]
Today’s Queer Asian Cinema
Caucus: Queer Womyn of Color [closed space for QWOC]
Caucus: Nonmonosexual [closed space for nonmonosexuals/bisexuals]

Workshop Session 2

Art as a liberatory act: shellac megazine
Asserting a New Vision for the Revolutionary Body
Building Community through Social Events for the LGBTQQ Population [limit 35]
Expanding Our Horizons from College to the Ghetto [closed space for QPOC]
For Faith, For Love, Forever: A screening of the upcoming documentary about the Black Church and Prop 8
How the queer subjectivity of Chavela Vargas seduced me
May I Kiss You?: Sexual Communication and Consent
Sexual (R)Evolution: Exploring the interconnectedness of race, sex, violence, and pleasure for queer women of color [limit 30, closed space for QWOC]
Teach
Up, Down, Across: the Effects of Racism and Horizontal Hostility on Community Building [limit 35]
BIPOC: Creating new images of our community
Reels of Resistance: Film IS Social Justice Activism for QPOC
Caucus: Immigration
Caucus: New activists/Queer Youth of Color
Caucus: Trans & Genderqueer [closed space for trans/genderqueer ppl]

Workshop Session 3

Church Potluck – A workshop for Queer Communities of Color [limit 25]
Dance for Memory [limit 20]
Envisioning a better QPOC world
Fight with Tools: Queering new media!
Homosexuality: The other side of the Indian story
QPOC Representations: Discovering our Image [limit 25]
Excluding Queers through languages
The Queer Community and Immigration
The Survivors Everywhere Project: QPOC Healing Circle
“That’s So Gay” [limit 65]
Theater Workshop: The Craft of Stage Art
Caucus: QPOC in the Working world & facing graduation
Caucus: Economic justice
Caucus: Allies [closed space for allies to queer people of color]

Workshop Session 1

Title: Racial Justice NOW! White Privilege Workshop

Presenter: Racial Justice NOW!

Description: This workshop will provide white allies with a space for discussion and tactics for challenging white privilege and racism in the queer community. As white allies, we seek to develop a better awareness of white privilege and its effects. Based on this understanding, white allies may better be able to actively effect change in their communities. From this understanding of systemic white privilege, this workshop also provides vital tools for challenging other privileged identities. Come and discuss what it means to have white privilege; brainstorm ways to actively challenge white privilege; and strategize on-the-ground tactics for being a white ally in the queer community. This workshop will cover issues such as appropriation, mutual accountability, strategies for being a mindful ally, and more! This workshop is a closed space. Location: Hart 1120

Title: Rompiendo Cadenas: Reconstructing el Hombre y el Queer as one and many

Presenter: Manuel A. Pérez and Alejandro Morales

Description: Chicano. Latino. Queer. Same-sex loving. Activo. Pasivo. Joto. Cholo. Vaquero. Our queer Raza is diverse. What role do we play in the construction of self through media? Do we perpetuate our stereotypes? Who creates them? This Spanglish-empowering workshop will explore socially-constructed queer identities for our Raza via discussion and interactive activities. As a comunidad, we will look at common archetypes of Latino gay men (LGM) as it pertains to club culture. The workshop will review iconic images of LGM in club texts to understand the impact they have on our community. We will also explore the influence of media in LGM’s mental health. Cultural (e.g., gender roles) and societal (e.g., acculturation, gay culture) phenomena put this group at a higher risk for psychological distress. The media influence the psyche of LGM and it is essential that we discuss the implications it has on nuestra comunidad. The idealization of the Greek-god body, focus on fashion, status, and sex roles (passive vs. active) play a part in identity development. Implications on how this media is often associated with higher incidents of body image issues, eating disorders, body dysphemism, and low self-concept among LGM will also be discussed. This workshop is an open space. Location: Wellman 7

Title: Crossing the Bridge of Cross-Racial Hostility: Creating Unity Among People of Color

Presenter: Trinity Ordona

Description: As a beginning effort to build and promote unity among people of color, attendees will learn about cross-racial hostility among people of color that was historically co-created with racism (the system of white privilege/minority oppression) and its role in maintaining internalized racism and socio-economic conflict on the colored side of the color line. Workshop will be based on a seminal article on this topic by Virginia R. Harris and Trinity A. Ordona called "Developing Unity Among Women of Color: Crossing the Barriers of Internalized Racism and Cross Racial Hostility," in Haciendo Caras/Making Face, Making Soul: A Reader of Colored Feminists' Creative and Critical Perspectives, ed. Gloria Anzaldua (1990), 304-316. Location: Young 192

Title: “Today’s Queer Asian Cinema”

Presenter: Justin Louie Lock (APIQ Secretary and Political Organizer)

Description: With the westernization of eastern culture in place; the ability to recognize and accept queer/LGBT individuals begins to thrive over time. A decade ago, it would have been very difficult to find queer themed cinema in Asian countries. There were a few independent films; however, they were never publicly recognized or promoted. If they were, it was because of controversy rather than achievement. Today, queer themed Asian films have become much more prominent. It has become somewhat of a genre for the movie industry in Asia. Some of the Asian countries continue to be more conservative about queer content while some are quite the opposite. Initially we will discuss the reasons as to why there has been an emergence of queer films within Asia. Second we will screen clips from various queer themed movies that either have a queer them or a primary character of the queer identity. To end the session, we will discuss some of the trends, themes, stereotypes and ideas portrayed in these more recent movies. We will learn about and analyze an aspect of the queer identity within the Asian culture today. Location: Wellman 129

Title: Don’t burnout!!

Presenter: Hassan Naveed

Description: Do you think you are burning out or have burned out? Come and take a self-test to figure out where you stand on the burnout scale. There will be a discussion on how to avoid and recover from burning out. Many of us have to balance work, school, organizing, a social life and other things. As soon as we start stressing out, it is important to address our well being as soon as possible. Doing nothing is the one of the worst ways of dealing with burnout. Come learn creative prevention methods from burning out to keep your self healthy! Location: Hart 1106

Title: Southeast Asian Family Dynamics

Presenter: Minh Pham and Natacha Foo Kune

Description: Within the Southeast Asian communities a predominant fear is tied to the family such as family rejection or acceptance, as well as many more. These fears are often not address and linger in the minds of Southeast Asian Queer individuals, waiting for the chance to be address. There is no space for Southeast Asian Queers to express themselves, therefore this workshop will be a space to start a dialogue about these family concerns. Location: Wellman 1

Title: Politics of Guerrilla Media: An Interactive Lesson in Graffiti

Presenter: Johnathen Duran and Danielle Sales

Description: Politics of Guerrilla Media will explore the historical development of graffiti in a global context, its past and current uses. We will look at the appropriation of urban mediums by corporate America and how it is being used by mainstream media. Finally, we will look at methodologies for reclaiming the art form for progressive and conscious work and will participate in the creation and use of stencils for art purposes. Location: Wellman 115

Title: “Don’t Be a Dick”: Queer phobic Insults

Presenter: Sing Wang and Adam Yasukawa

Description: To allow individuals to realize and acknowledge about how language, especially insults, are typically sexually repressive, promote gender binary and queer phobic. This workshop is a closed space. Location: Wellman 127

Title: The QPOC Unicorn: Where are all the Queer PUNKS of Color?

Presenter: Jeremy Alva, Marlene Melendez, and Jocelyn Wong

Description: In the early 1990s, a fierce new culture emerged from within the punk music scene in Pacific Northwest. The Riot Grrrl Movement, rejecting traditional means of instruction, distribution, and publicity within a patriarchal, consumerist culture, demanded a space for women in performance spaces. Homocore, a genre that would later be known as Queercore, concurrently gave rise to several all-queer punk bands, many of which created themselves on similar ideological premises. Is there an inclusive and powering space for QPOC in what remains of these avant-garde movements today? This workshop will feature a Q&A discussion with panelists, as well as a musical selection featuring QPOC rockers! Location: MU Moss

Title: Frida Kahlo: Queering Art

Presenter: Yik' al Kuyum- Jessica Alvarez and Maribel Gomez

Description: In recent years, the popularity of Frida Kahlo has grown. Her image can be seen throughout on t-shirts, posters, purses and so on, but what does her art work reveal about the real Frida? Who was she and what was the legacy she left behind? What made her so distinct from other womyn and painters of her time? Come learn about Frida Kahlo and how she was able to empower, resist, and queer art. You will also get the opportunity to create your own self-portrait in which you will represent your struggles as Frida did with hers. This workshop is an open space. Location: Wellman 119

Caucus: Queer Womyn of Color [closed space for QWOC] Location: Hart 1128

Caucus: Nonmonosexual [closed space for nonmonosexuals/bisexuals] Location: Hart 1116

Workshop Session 2

Title: Expanding Our Horizons from College to the Ghetto

Presenter: Mark Yanez

Description: We will be discussing issues related to Queer People of Color in marginalized, low-income, and urban communities. A discussion about using the resources and atmosphere of a college campus to create spaces and then learning how to take them back to any sort of community outside of the college environment. We will use the method of small discussion, brainstorming, and interactive group participation to convey our goals. Location: MU Moss

Title: May I Kiss You?: Sexual Communication and Consent

Presenter: Dulce Garcia

Description: We are not only activists but we are LOVERS! Come learn how to communicate with your partner(s) about what you like, how you like it, and where you like it! In this interactive workshop we will discuss and practice how to identify, ask for, and negotiate the kind of sex you want. Consent is Sexy, baby! Location: Wellman 1

Title: Sexual (R)Evolution: Exploring the interconnectedness of race, sex, violence, and pleasure for queer women of color

Presenters: Amy Saucier, Lanice Avery, and Mayra Mendoza

Abstract: In keeping with the purpose of the Queer People of Color conference's Art Action and Resistance theme we will be coming up with creative solutions to violence against lesbian women of color by working toward a conscious active community response to this type of violence. By refusing to tolerate or be complacent in our discussion or response to sexual violence and promoting sexual empowerment we are resisting the silence and perpetuation of unhealthy sexual communication. In this workshop we will encourage participants to engage in dialogues about sexuality in an effort to promote community response to sexual violence against lesbian women of color. We will help promote the sexual, physical, and emotional health of the people in our communities by empowering individuals to reflect on their personal experiences and assisting community members in developing the tools and skills needed to promote holistic sexual well being. This workshop is a closed space. Location: Wellman 115

Title: For Faith, For Love, Forever: A screening of the upcoming documentary about the Black Church and Prop 8

Presenter: Roland Stringfellow

Description: The discussion of love and marriage among African-American same-sex couples is explored in a humorous and entertaining way in the Logo/MTV Film - Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom. The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Pacific School of Religion is proud to sponsor the premiere of the documentary that features the cast of Noah’s Arc who share their thoughts on making the first black gay love story for the big screen and their perspectives on same-sex marriage in African-American communities who participated in a Town Hall Meeting in Oakland, CA at a church – which is right at the epicenter of where this discussion of same-sex marriage is the hottest. Despite media portrayals, African-American clergy are not uniformly opposed to same-sex marriage. This forum also features prominent African-American clergy in the Bay Area who deliver a power argument for the case for same-sex marriage as well as address many of the arguments that church folk use for their exclusion of LGBT people. This workshop is an open space. Location: Cross Cultural Center

Title: Teach

Presenter: H. Sebastian Cherng, Lorie Delizo

Description: Interested in nurturing the minds of young students of color so that they can excel academically and be future fighters for equal rights? Wondering how to turn championing social justice from a weekend activity to a full time vocation? Teach. Location: Hart 1128

Title: Reels of Resistance: Film IS Social Justice Activism for QPOC

Presenter: Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP from Oakland, CA)

Description: Weaving our QWOCMAP films with history, we will illustrate how art has always been a source of cultural resistance, renewal and inspiration for communities of color. We will explore film as social justice activism in our communities to deconstruct the myths that keep art divided from activism, and address the racist and homophobic devaluation of work created by, for and about queer people of color. We will also share our effective strategies in building coalitions with family, friends, allies, film, arts, community, and activist organizations. Location: Wellman 126

Title: Art as a liberatory act: shellac megazine
Presenter: Dolores Garay
Description: What is the nexus of art and liberation? Art spaces for queer people of color are often bound by notions of authenticity and narrow definitions of identity. Political art can serve as shorthand for bad art. How do we carve out a space that highlights the critical perspectives of people of color that challenges expectations pushes the boundaries of queer art? From 1998-2003, the shellac collective engaged artists of color to address questions like these by contributing to shellac megazine, which culminated in 2002’s RXD=erosXethnicity art exhibit and festival at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco.
Join us for a dynamic panel that includes Jason Luz, Jason Alley, Billy Chen, and Dolores Garay. All panelists are members and contributors to shellac. We will discuss working across communities, the cultural climate of fin de siglo[1] San Francisco, how the nonprofit sector played a critical role in supporting artist’s communities, and what it means to be a critical artist of color. We will have a multimedia presentation and end with a dialogue of what queer artist of color looks like to people who were in college the 1990’s and to people who were born in the 1990s. Location: Wellman 119

Title: Up, Down, Across: the Effects of Racism and Horizontal Hostility on Community Building

Presenter: Natalie J. Thoreson, M.Ed. ( inVision Consulting)

Description: This will be an advanced and interactive workshop where participants will have an opportunity to consider our socialization around race and racism in the U.S. and the impact of that socialization on our ability to build strong diverse communities. We will discuss horizontal hostility. We will specifically focus on the ways in which transgressing racial construction begins by considering our conscious and unconscious internalized beliefs and actions. Using a combination of interactive programming and activities as well as facilitated dialogue, I hope to engage folks in a space where they can work with and challenge one another to develop advanced thinking about race based systems of domination, subordination and collusion. Workshop participants should have a basic understanding of how racism works on an institutional, cultural and individual level. They should also have a working understanding of racial identities represented in the U.S. The workshop will challenge those in attendance to critically consider their role in colluding with racist systems and the ways in which they can deconstruct, challenge and change both thought and action. For more info on this topic go to www.invisionconsulting.org. This workshop is a closed space. Location: Wellman 129

Title: How the queer subjectivity of Chavela Vargas seduced me...

Presenter: Gibran Guido

Description: I will discuss the importance and intersection of culture and music by focusing attention on the Ranchera genre and allow for the reading of a queer representation. Although traditionally recognized, largely impacted, and dominated by men, Chavela Vargas set in place a queer connotative space within this traditionally dominant heterosexual genre. Chavela, while indebted to Lucha Reyes, a performer of the late 1920's who led the way for female Ranchera musicians, has broken ground as a self-identified lesbian, who challenges the boundaries of stereotypical conventional heterosexual roles portrayed in Ranchera music. Chavelas' identity, her stylistic performance and lyrical interpretation, makes her distinctively unique in the musical genre. Chavela began her career in the mid-1960's and since then has contributed a lifetime of musical achievement that has not been fully recognized, in large part, by academia. Since then, Chavela has recorded more than eighty albums and has barely begun to get the worldwide acclaim of musical enthusiasts and scholars that have excluded the expression of her queer intimate passion within a heterosexual context. Despite having a large impact in previous generations, Chavela still retains an accomplished and esteemed status as a mark of cultural identity to a younger and contemporary generation of Latinos that have revitalized her musical career. Since her debut, Chavela has performed and impacted a generation that has idolized her as a queer Latin icon and historical representative of queer subjectivity. Location: Wellman 127

Title: Building Community through Social Events for the LGBTQQ Population

Presenter: Dana Johnson, MSW

Description: This workshop will help community leaders with providing productive perspectives on how to build social events; outreach, coalitions, and networking opportunities for the LGBTQQ community. It will teach community leaders how to run a successful social event for either adult or youth populations. It will also provide perspectives on how to build community with other agencies and organizations. You will learn a step by step breakdown on how to prepare and provide social events for this population. It will also provide perspectives on how to build communities with other agencies and organizations. You will learn how to be supportive and build a support system for the LGBTQQ population. The workshop will provide effective ways with fundraising; and working with school districts and county officials. You will understand the importance of being a community leader and how to build and strengthen those unable to. Location: Wellman 7

Title: Asserting a New Vision for the Revolutionary Body
Presenter: Patricia Berne (Director, Sins Invalid)
Description: We all have some relationship to what is considered the "normal" or the "non-normative" body, and it's likely a relationship laced with assumptions, judgement, and unacknowledged power and privilege. In this session, we will look at the dominant political framing of disability, examine its relationship to gender based oppression and racial oppression, and explore a counter-narrative where all bodies and communities are valued. The goal of this workshop is to support social justice activists in their commitment to an intersectional political analysis which centralizes people of color and integrates disability oppression as a component of a liberation framework. Location: Young 192

Title: BIPOC: Creating new images of our community

Presenter: Bob Bhatti, Ana Fierro

Description: This workshop will look at the stereotypes already in place about bisexual (and other nonmonosexual identities like pan- or omnisexual) people of color and how these stereotypes affect individuals and the community. This workshop will end with a mural painting of what positive images and messages about the BIPOC community we would like to get out there! Location: Hart 1106

Caucus: Immigration location: Hart 1116

Caucus: New activists/Queer Youth of Color location: Hart 1120

Caucus: Trans & Genderqueer [closed space for trans/genderqueer ppl] location: Women's Resources and Research Center, North Hall

Workshop Session 3

Title: Dance for Memory

Presenter: Cuauhtémoc Peranda

Description: It is the artist’s responsibility to see activism in creation; to use the artistic expressions to build and improve society. The Artist must remember—the artist is the recorder, the scribe, documenting the history as it is, and how it has/will become. It is from memory, pain, joy, tradition, the sacred, families, and community that the artist draws strength and inspiration to create. Memory allows the artist to engage with the organic experience of creating art. And remembering, remembering the past, the forever linage of our people that produced what we are today IS the hardest thing to do. This workshop will focus on remembering through embodied knowledge; looking into our accumulated movements gain over a lifetime, and the lifetimes of ancestors. Through the actions of dance, the workshop hopes to teach and develop techniques to create art from the body’s center-core. The workshop will be primarily utilizing Anna Halprin’s Psychokinetic Visualization Process as we learn what it means to be a Queer Person, and People, of Color. We will share what we discover through the workshop, and hopefully create a family, of artist, of friends, improving the world, one moment, movement, and memory at a time. This workshop is a closed space. Location: Lower Freeborn Room 5

Title: Excluding Queers through languages
Presenter: Minh Pham
Description: The Queer identity is not talked about in many communities; Asian, Latino/a, and within many other communities. This workshop will introduce QPOCC participants to queer terms in different languages and allow them to learn the definition and usage of these terms. No matter what languages you speak, we can find that the Queer identity is not accepted in these communities because the terms used to define them are either derogatory or non-existent, excluding these individuals even within their community.
Location: Wellman 119

Title: QPOC Representations: Discovering our Image
Presenter: Patty Lopez (The House)

Description: This workshop will allow the community to explore the way our history has been represented through art. We seek to discover whether this past representation is accurate, whether it embodies the experiences of everyone in the QPOC community, and how we feel about the images that currently represent us. By looking at different art forms – visual art, music, literature – we will explore our own experiences, both as people of color and as members of the queer community, and how they can be embodied through expressive arts. Do we think what’s out there is representing everyone in the community? Can you identify with those representations? Is there selectivity in the popular media for what is acceptible art and what should be kept out of public display or attention? Through group discussion we will formulate responses and create our own interpretation of historical and contemporary art in order to show how we represent ourselves. This workshop is an open space. Location: Wellman 7

Title: The Queer Community and Immigration: Education and Awareness Now!

Presenters: Carla Lopez (S.P.E.A.K.) and Angel Villadarez (S.P.E.A.K. and Delta Lambda Phi)

Description: What rights do undocumented people have? The goal of this workshop is to educate and bring awareness to immigration issues, especially within the LGBTQ community. We will discuss immigration issues as experienced by queer people of color and what we can be done for those affected. Location: Wellman 129

Title: “That’s So Gay”

Presenter: Jerome Atputhasingam, Ashley Woodbury, Kate Johnson, Nina Randhawa

Description: “That’s So Gay” is an on going workshop within the UC Davis campus that is designed to promote a sense of awareness of the relationality between hate speech, prejudice, and oppression. The program aims to analyze the roots of hate speech and the journey to reclaim battered words. By exposing the building blocks that lead to genocide, the “That’s So Gay” program strives to dissolve the hate, the bigotry, and the chauvinism that is clearly evident in the 21st century. Come and learn how you can be an agent for change and how we as a society can use the scars from our antiquity to motivate and to energize both ourselves and others. Let us use the stories of our past and present, the struggles of our community both yesterday and today, to unify and to rebuild our community through our words and actions. Join us to educate and to empower, to redefine and to revitalize the movement that is US. This workshop is an open space. Location: Hart 1106

Title: Church Potluck – A workshop for Queer Communities of Color

Presenter: Roland Stringfellow

Description:

Actual Church Sign:

DON'T LET WORRY KILL YOU. LET THE CHURCH HELP.

THURSDAY NIGHT: POTLUCK SUPPER.

Time for a Church Potluck –The above quote is humorous and speaks to the fact that the church is a place of togetherness, especially around food, and conversely be a place of conflict. Some of the “food” that church members provide can be toxic to the soul. How do we continue to strive for balance between our spiritual journey and our sexuality? We will take a look at the quality of the spiritual food that we have been provided during our church heritage and look for ways to claim what has been nourishing and dispose what has been spoiled rotten. This workshop is an open space. Location: MU Moss

Title: Envisioning a better QPOC world

Presenter: YQUE!

Description: Grounded in open dialogue, this interactive workshop will explore our creative and critical thinking abilities to envision a better world for QPOC members. Through this workshop, you will engage in stimulating conversation that will generate new perspectives about one's self and our collective world. Location: Hart 1116

Title: Theater Workshop

Presenter: Bindlestiff Studios

Description: Bindlestiff Studios aims to share the importance of theater in bringing awareness to social issues and its history in the Filipino/Filipino American community while also teaching basic skills of acting and stage performance. Through theater games that focus on energy-building, power dynamics, trust and creativity, we hope that you can bring out that inner artist. This is an extremely interactive workshop so please bring an open mind and plenty of energy! Special prizes will also be distributed to the lucky few. This workshop is an open space. Location: Wellman 1

Title: Fight with Tools: Queering new media!

Presenter: Adrien Salazar

Description: Are films, blogs, twitter, and texts the tools of our liberation? They just may be! In this workshop we will affirm the radical queer lives we live every day at the intersections of history, oppression, and liberation. We will then creatively explore how new media can and must be used as tools of resistance, education, and liberation to tell our stories and to create social change. We’ll pay particular attention to new online technologies like Web 2.0 technology, social networking sites, and online videos. Participants will have the opportunity to be a part of short videos to share their stories and spread revolutionary change! This workshop is a closed space. Location: Wellman 127

Title: Homosexuality: The other side of the Indian story

Presenter: Trikone

Description: Indian society is often viewed to be strongly hetero-normative. This presentation will challenge this exclusively hetero-normative view by showcasing a number of positive images, both old and recent, to provide a fuller picture of the queer culture in India. Location: Young 192

Title: The Survivors Everywhere Project: QPOC Healing Circle

Presenter: Chueh Jun-Fung (Outlet Program, Community Health Awareness Council)

Description: This is a healing space for survivors of childhood / sexual assault for storytelling, sharing healing process, and sharing healing tools. Allies are welcome if they agree to respect the space and confidentiality of those in the circle. Location: WRRC

Caucus: QPOC in the Working world & facing graduation location: Hart 1120

Caucus: Economic justice, location: Hart 1128

Caucus: Allies [closed space for allies to queer people of color] location: Cross Cultural Center