QTPOC Conference features Jade Phoenix Martinez and her film HOW TO MAKE A RAINBOW

Jade Phoenix and Alaizah

The 15^th Queer Trans People of Color Conference, hosted by UC Riverside on February 28-29, 2020, will feature Jade Phoenix Martinez during Saturday’s events. Jade Phoenix will screen her film HOW TO MAKE A RAINBOW during the morning welcome, and engage in a Q&A about the film. The QTPOCC online Registration deadline is Friday, February 7, 2020 - click here for more information on registering.

Tender and bold, HOW TO MAKE A RAINBOW observes a young girl (Alaizah) and her mother (Jade) over two years as they journey through the realities of a parent in transition.The story centers around Alaizah and her process of figuring out what to call her ‘papa,’ who is in the beginning years of a gender transition.Together they navigate homelessness, Jade’s exploration of gender, as well as the daily joys and struggles of growing up. In its timely exploration of our perceived limits of love, gender expression, motherhood and childhood, this film invites us to let Alaizah be our guide as we learn and unlearn alongside her the limits and possibilities of identity and connection.

Jade Phoenix Martinez is a Queer, Trans, Femme, First-Generation Filipinx-American, Keynote Speaker, Performance Poet, Film Producer, Educator, Writer and Parent. Jade’s work is a poetic expression rooted in the multiple identities she holds and how they intersect with her day-to-day fight for collective liberation, while boldly creating art and cultural content in hopes of bringing queer and trans stories into today’s current social, political and cultural landscapes. Jade Phoenix is a fierce story and truth teller, a vulnerable and dynamic performance poet, an informative and engaging film producer and activist and has utilized her platform and art to shift and create much needed conversation and dialogue, specifically for trans women/femme and gender non conforming people of color in the arts, higher education, and film.

30 workshops presented at QTPOC Conference on Feb 29, 2020

The 15^th QTPOC Conference will include 30 programs and workshops on Saturday, February 29, 2020 at UC Riverside. Saturday’s events are open to people who register online by Friday, February 7, with many campuses covered by Group Registrations (no additional individual registration fee). This college conference opens with a free event the evening of February 28, 2020, and focuses on the lives of queer and trans people of color.

Below are some of the workshops, with full descriptions available on the Programs page.

• An Analysis of Black and Latinx Queer History
• Anti-Blackness 101: Reparations, Representation, and Respecting Black Existence
• Art & Empowerment: An Interactive Collaborative Workshop
• Brujeria and Conjure: An Exploration of How Your Ancestors Worshipped Before Colonization and the Enslavement
• Coming Out and Living as a Queer Asian Pacific Islander
• Central American Activist History and Contemporary Activism
• Decolonization, Indigenization, Self-Determination: Looking Beyond Land Acknowledgements
• Decolonizing "Coming Out"
• Decolonizing Our Desires
• Embracing Vulnerability & Finding Community: How to Lead Authentic Lives Filled w/ Support
• Encuentros Disidentes: Social Movements & Identities in Latin America
• Free HIV Testing with TruEvolution
• Harnessing Light and Darkness as Mirrored Fatality: How queer of color performance can be harnessed for collective healing
• I'm Here: Mindfulness Circle
• Intersectional Poetics
• Intersections of Oppression: Disability & Race
• Latinx Queer Punks
• LGBTQ+ and Study Abroad/Mini Fair
• On the Catwalk - The importance of Realness, Ovahness & Shade in Voguing & Runway
• Sex Ed 101/201
• Sex Ed 301
• Spilling the Chai
• Supporting Transgender Employees in the Workplace
• Trash Talk: Toxic Masculinity & Centering Femmes 101
• 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)

Registration & Call for Programs Now Open for 2020 QTPOC Conference at UCR

Online Registration and the Call for Programs are now open for the 15th Queer Trans People of Color Conference, hosted by UC Riverside on February 28-29, 2020.

Planned by the QTPOCC Committee, LGBT Resource Center, and Chicano Student Programs, QTPOCC is organized to focus on people of color who are part of the LGBTQ+ community. People of all sexualities and gender identities are welcome to attend. The conference is focused towards people on college campuses (students, staff and faculty). You must be 18+ years old to attend.

Many campuses have already arranged a Group Registration, so individuals from those campuses need not pay any additional registration fees. The individual registration rate is $20, with some scholarships available for those unable to afford the fee.

The updated deadline to submit a workshop proposal is December 20, 2019.

Please note that Friday evening events on February 28, 2020 will be open to all (no registration required to attend that day only).

Check out the History page for more on the origins of the QTPOC Conference, first launched by UC Berkeley in 2006.