Day Long Institutes • Thursday, January 21 Please check the grid schedule for room locations.
justice movements. We will discuss how we organize and advocate as LGBTQ AAPIs, practice engaging in media advocacy, and build skills around organization development through a trans* and gender justice lens. We will lift up the voices of Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander queer communities in the U.S. and the intersectional social justice movements that engage us. This Institute is intended only for Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander attendees.
Strategies for Engaging White People in Racial Justice: NEW THIS YEAR! Obama’s presidency and the continued economic recession have triggered a largely white racist backlash by the Tea Party, anti-immigrant organizations and conservative political commentators. More white people are needed to show up and speak out against racism. Presenters will share experiences for recruiting and engaging white people in racial justice efforts and working in alliance with organizations of color, and specifically the Movement for Black Lives. How can white LGBTQ people showing up strengthen our work for racial justice? Workshop attendees will learn concrete ways to engage white LGBTQ people in racial justice. Through storytelling and role plays based on real challenges on the ground, participants will leave understanding how to grow the base of white queers for racial justice in their LGBTQ organizing. SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. Over the past year SURJ has grown to over 75 chapters and is partnering with LGBTQ, faith, student, environmental and other communities to center racial justice in all of our work.
Facilitators: Brad St. Aubin (he/him/his); Koal Williams (ze/hir/hirs); Wren Warpula (they/them/theirs); Rah Bridwell (he/him/hir or they/them/theirs); Hannah Bech (she/her/hers); Dua Saleh (she/her/hers or they/them/ theirs)
LGBTQ Campus Resource Professionals Institute The Institute, sponsored by the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals (the Consortium), provides professional development, skills building, and networking for those who have professional roles supporting LGBTQ people on college and university campuses. The Institute, intersectional in nature, is grounded in anti-racism and social justice principles and focuses on access, inclusion, and equity for LGBTQ students and employees in higher education. This Day Long Institute is designed for those who engage in, or plan to engage in, LGBTQ work on college campuses. The Institute is for Consortium members with limited space for nonmembers who are interested. To learn more about the Consortium, please visit our website at www.lgbtcampus.org.
The Ally Institute
Embodied Leadership Institute
Want to practice how to respond to comments like “That’s SO gay” in the office? Want to learn about the importance and necessity of gender-neutral restrooms? Want to learn the difference between cultural competency and social justice?
Have you been wondering why the passion for social change plagues you with: exhaustion, fatigue, anxiety, depression, and chronic decision making that depletes you? Are you curious how you can shift your paradigm of relating to social change to be experienced as: joyful, easeful, dynamic and feeling fully alive? In this Embodied Leadership Institute, you will
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Designed for new and seasoned allies to and within Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) communities, the Ally Institute aims to create a brave space for all those interested in gaining knowledge about the relationship between sex, gender, orientation, and identity. Participants will consider how allies dedicated to the work of collective liberation movements can help create inclusive and accessible environments in the different positions where they live, work, and worship. Through a mix of facilitated activities, skill sharing, small group work, large group discussion and a few surprises, attendees will learn key concepts for understanding and supporting LGBTQIA+ communities within a social justice frame and will be given opportunities to develop new advocacy tools, helping them become more effective agents of change in all areas of their lives.
NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2016