Workshop schedule announced for QTPOC Conference on Feb 29, 2020

QTPOC Conference participants may attend workshops over three sessions on Saturday. Read the full workshop descriptions here.

11:30am to 5pm: Free HIV Testing with TruEvolution

SESSION 1

11:45am to 1:00pm

• Anti-Blackness 101: Reparations, Representation, and Respecting Black Existence
• Art & Empowerment: An Interactive Collaborative Workshop
• Central American Activist History and Contemporary Activism
• Coming Out and Living as a Queer Asian Pacific Islander
• Encuentros Disidentes: Social Movements & Identities in Latin America
• I'm Here: Mindfulness Circle
• Intersections of Oppression: Disability & Race
• LGBTQ+ & Study Abroad with Mini Fair
• Sex Ed 101/201
• Trash Talk: Toxic Masculinity & Centering Femmes 101

SESSION 2

2:30pm to 3:30pm

• Decolonizing "Coming Out"
• Intersectional Poetics
• On the Catwalk - The importance of Realness, Ovahness & Shade in Voguing & Runway
• Sex Ed 301
• Spilling the Chai
• Supporting Transgender Employees in the Workplace

SESSION 3

3:45pm to 4:45pm

• An Analysis of Black and Latinx Queer History
• Brujeria and Conjure: An Exploration of How Your Ancestors Worshipped Before Colonization and the Enslavement
• Decolonization, Indigenization, Self-Determination: Looking Beyond Land Acknowledgements
• Decolonizing Our Desires
• Embracing Vulnerability & Finding Community: How to Lead Authentic Lives Filled w/ Support
• Harnessing Light and Darkness as Mirrored Fatality: How queer of color performance can be harnessed for collective healing
• Latinx Queer Punks
• Why is Placing Happiness in the hands of LGBTQ Students Alone Not Enough? (A Qualitative Research on Why it is Crucial to Create A More Inclusive Campus Climate)