You are invited to attend: Lavender Graduation 2017 Tuesday, June 6, 2017 from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM Lavender Graduation 2017 Lavender Graduation 2017   Tuesday, June 6, 2017 from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM Lavender Graduation 2017   This year’s Lav Grad features Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a queer disabled non-binary femme of color writer and cultural worker of Burger/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. The author of Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dremaing Her Way Home (Publisher’s Triangle and Lambda Award 2016 finalist, American Library Association Stonewall Award winner 2016, Body Map (Audre Lorde Poetry Award Finalist, Publisher’s Triangle), Love Cake (Lambda Award winner 2012), and Consensual Genocide, she is the co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. Her work has been widely published, most recently in The Deaf Poets Society, Glitter and Grit and Octavia’s Brood, and including work in the anthologies Dear Sister, Undoing Border Imperialism, Stay Solid, Persistence: Still Butch and Femme, Yes Means Yes, Visible: A Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize This, We Don’t Need Another Wave, Bitchfest, Without a Net, Dangerous Families, Brazen Femme, Femme, and A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World. For more information find Leah at www.brownstargirl.org Graduate and celebrate all of you! Lavender Grad is open to any student eligible, at any level (undergrad or graduate/professional) for a graduation in the 2016-2017 (including fall 2017) academic year. The Q Center and QSC host Lavender Graduation as a time for the UW students of all genders and sexual orientations to come together and celebrate our multiple identities, our accomplishments, and sheer AWESOMENESS. You do not have to be graduating or be of a certain sexual or gender identity/orientation/expression to participate and/or attend the Lavender Graduation year-end celebration. Everyone is welcome and wanted!!! Here is what graduates say about Lavender Graduation: “I felt more embraced and supported by community than I had during the rest of my time as a PhD student. Lav Grad was awesome!” “Lav Grad was such a warm and welcoming ceremony that instilled such a sense of pride…I got to stand in front of my friends and family and have the feeling that all parts of my life got to come together for the first time.” The whens, wheres, whys and hows: When: TUESDAY, June 6th, from 6-8:30 p.m. Graduates please arrive by NO LATER than 5:00-5:15 p.m. Faculty participating  in the procession and confirmation of sheer awesomeness may also wish to arrive at 5 or 5:15 to get food and drink prior to gathering for the grand entrance. Where: “wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Intellectual House. Parking in all UW lots is $15 for special graduation day pass. The nearest parking areas are Padelford, Accessible Parking-Lot N22, N1, N5, and Central Garage. Parking for people with disabilities will be available in the UW Tower lot). How: IF YOU ARE GRADUATING;  please register here: https://tinyurl.com/UWLavGrad17 Dress: You can wear whatever you want! This is your graduation and as queer and trans* folks, we are often “required” by work, school, family, culture, etc., to dress in ways that do not necessarily fit our tastes. If you wish to wear the cap and gown, wear it. If you want to appear in drag, do it. All clothing has cultural significance, but sometimes we want to wear cultural regalia that honors our history, ourselves and the moment, please do so! If you want to dress up, or down, go for it. You want to be comfy, have at it. This is your night. All of your identities are celebrated as is the awesomeness that is you and our UW queer communities! “Lavender Graduation was one of the most joyous moments of my life so far. It was wonderful to be in a room with so many queer people and allies, celebrating making it through 4 years. The whole event was amazing and life affirming.” See you there!We’d like to thank our partner, the Queer Student Commission and the following sponsors: the HUB, The School of Social Work, VPOMA/D, Student Life, Services & Activities Committee and all the student commissions! For folks who are feeling confused about what it means to arrive fragrance free a couple of steps you can take in order to be fragrance free at the event include: • Washing the clothes you are planning on wearing the day of the event in baking soda and vinegar or washing them in laundry detergent that is specifically labeled fragrance free, unscented or free of perfumes and dyes. • Not wearing perfume, cologne or other scented personal care products like hair gel, scented deodorant, scented lotion. Some fragrance free alternatives are baking soda for deodorant/soap/shampoo, oil for a body moisturizer, sugar water for hairspray, pure unscented wax in place of hair gel. • If you are a smoker taking care to not smoke directly before the event and before entering the space washing your hands and mouth with baking soda. • If you have any specific questions around scent-free accessibility or are looking for suggestions of fragrance free alternative personal care products email uwqcenter@gmail.com or asuwqsc@uw.edu! Baking soda will be provided at the event but if you are wanting some beforehand to wash clothes, etc. contact qcenter@uw.edu and we can figure something out! For parking info contact: qcenter@uw.edu; Light rail comes to the UW from downtown and Columbia City/Rainier. It arrives near parking lot E19 near Husky Stadium. *Free Food & Alcohol will be served // Please refrain from wearing scents or fragrances // Children welcome!!!  *”wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Intellectual House is wheelchair accessible. *ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided upon request // For questions, comments, and concerns regarding accessibility please contact: qcenter@uw.edu “wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Intellectual House 4249 Whitman Court Seattle, WA 98195 Attend Event

Make a difference on issues that matter this summer with the Fund for the Public Interest!

What are you planning to do with your summer? Do you want to make a real difference, working to protect the environment or public health? Do you want to gain real-world experience and pick up valuable skills? Do you want to make good money?

Apply for a job with the Fund this summer, and you could get all of that and more. We’re a national, non-profit organization that builds the people power for America’s leading environmental and social change organizations.

We’re hiring in over 30 cities across the country this summer to raise money and get thousands of people to take action. You’ll make a real difference on important issues. You may be working to help stop global warming, fight fracking, get factory farms to stop overusing antibiotics or standing up for clean water, just to name a few.

You’ll gain real-world experience and learn valuable skills. Making change happen isn’t easy, but history has shown time and again that when we build enough people power we can win. But to do that we need people who have the skills and leadership ability to get things done. And that’s what you’ll learn with the Fund.

We have a great training program. Training starts the first day, and it continues throughout your time on staff.

You will have the opportunity to learn how to lead a team, run news conferences, all while developing your public speaking skills, raising money and motivating people to get involved and take action. Skills that will be valuable, no matter what kind of job you want in the future.

And, you’ll make good money.

Many people are faced with a tough choice for how to spend their summer. Do I earn money by waiting tables, painting houses or making lattes, or do I take that unpaid internship so I can get real-world experience, or work on something I care about. You don’t have to make that choice.

You can make $4,500-$6,500 this summer while doing something you actually believe in. All while gaining the skills and experience you need to help you succeed in the future.

This is not your typical summer job, but if you’re looking for a great experience where you can make a real difference, and work with some great people along the way, then apply for a summer job with The Fund.

We will be holding information sessions and interviews on campus on Wednesday, 4/5, and Thursday, 4/6.

Information session locations:

Wednesday 4/5

5:00 pm – Smith Hall, Room 311
6:30 pm – Smith Hall, Room 311  

Thursday 4/6

5:00 pm – Smith Hall, Room 311
6:30 pm – Smith Hall, Room 311  

To apply, please visit www.SummerJobsThatMatter.org or call 1-800-75-EARTH (753-2784). 

Where: The University of Washington, The HUB, Room 145
When: Tuesday, April 11th, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Contact us at (206) 462-9238 or lilly@wpsr.org
Food will be provided at the event.

The US still has nearly 7,000 nuclear weapons, and they’re all in the hands of an unpredictable and antagonistic president who has suggested we should use them today. For those of us who remember the devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we have a clear message: never again.

Join us for a unique opportunity to hear stories from people whose lives have been changed by the terrible destruction in Hiroshima.

This event will feature: Yukiyo Kawano, a third generation hibakusha (nuclear bomb survivor) and local artist; Fumi Groves, President of the local Hiroshima Club member, incarcerated at a Japanese internment camp, and whose family members died in Hiroshima; Jim Thomas, a life-long peace activist who has traveled to Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and interviews from Hiroshima survivors.

Come learn why anti-nuclear weapons activism is as important today as it was in 1945, and how you can make a difference on this critical issue. Yukiyo Kawano’s life-size soft sculpture of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Little Boy, will also be on display.

RSVP Here
Sponsored by the University of Washington Global Zero Chapter, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, From Hiroshima to Hope, and Earthcare not Warfare.

The Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy Group is in the process of choosing next year’s common book. We would like to invite you to submit a nomination for a book title that you see fit in this program.

Submissions can be entered into this catalyst survey before April 13^th: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/davidfer/326730.

Background:

Each year, the Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy Group selects a common book that engages students from across the health sciences schools in substantive, interprofessional dialogue about pressing topics related to health equity and social justice. Students, staff, and faculty who participate in this series will be able to:

• Develop awareness about how personal and institutionalized bias against marginalized communities manifests in health care and social work settings.
• Understand and contextualize present-day crises related to issues of marginalized communities, especially as a as result, and continuation of, a history of colonization and racism.
• Imagine what it would take to create systems and institutions that ensure all people have access to a place they comfortably call home.
• Cultivate consciousness and skill-building regarding the roles and responsibilities of (future) health professionals to challenge structural policies and systems that create unequal health outcomes on the basis of categories such as race, gender, class, veteran’s status, drug user and other social identifiers.

Criteria to consider:

• Interprofessional relevancy
• Cost of Author Visit and whether they are local
• Length of book
• Cost of book
• Connection to social justice and health equity
• Timeliness of topic (and would funding potentially come from other sources to bring author)
• Are there ties with local organizations, groups, history
• Genre
• Readability

Process for Book Selection

• Nominations accepted via Catalyst survey; survey disseminated across the health sciences
• Common Book Subcommittee meets and Yes/Maybe/Nos the list based upon the above criteria.
• Common Book Subcommittee revises and shortens list, fills in missing information.
• Health Sciences Service Learning group reviews list and narrows down to top 3-5.
• Common Book Subcommittee reconvenes and selects book.

Past Common Books:

• 2013-2014: In the Realm of Hungry Ghostsby Gabor Mate
• 2014-2015: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodiesby Seth Holmes
• 2015-2016: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• 2016-2017: Catching Homelessness by Josephine Ensign

Thank you,

Common Book Subcommittee

Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy”

We wanted to share a new(er) peer mentoring program, MOSSAIC, that is available for Seattle UW students who identify on the Autism Spectrum especially as you are meeting with new fall admits, prospective, or even current students in the coming weeks/months of Spring.

Since 2015 the University of Washington Speech and Hearing Sciences Department, in collaboration with Disability Resources for Students (DRS), has been developing a peer program where peer mentors work together with mentees to identify personal challenges and set goals related to the college experience, and then provide ongoing support to help mentees reach their goals (e.g., navigation to campus resources, assistance with time management strategies and tools, strategies for communication with professors or in group work).

Current and past students have shared how much they have enjoyed the relationships and connections that have come out of their MOSSAIC experiences. For more information or to contact the UW MOSSAIC program please email: mossaic@uw.edu or check out the UW MOSSAIC website: http://depts.washington.edu/uwdrs/mossaic/. You are also welcome to email this to any students or other staff you wish.

DRS will also have MOSSAIC staff join us for our extended drop in times for the upcoming Admitted Student Preview Days should anyone have specific questions about them:

• Friday, March 31        10:30am-12:30pm
• Monday, April 3          1-3pm
• Thursday, April 13       1-3pm
• Monday, April 17        1-3pm

DRS has daily drop in hours throughout the year Mon-Thur 2-3pm & Fri 11:30am-12:30pm. We extend them an hour for events like ASP Days, A&O and other events.

Are you concerned about the state of immigrant and refugee rights? Want to join others and gain tangible, concrete skills you can do today to make a difference? Attend a Community Organizing Workshop for Immigrant & Refugee Justice on Friday, April 7 from 6pm-8pm in Room 305 at the SSW. By attending this workshop, you’ll learn how to host house meetings, tell your story, and engage in constructive conversations so that you can promote awareness and action in your community. RSVP today and share with your networks! Although an RSVP is not required, dinner will be provided for those who do! This event is hosted by graduate students from the UW School of Social Work and is open to the public.

RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-organizing-workshop-immigrant-refugee-justice-tickets-33093689115

There is an opportunity at UW to be part of the hotspotting team. This is a program to provide support for patients who have trouble accessing healthcare in the community and have multiple recent inpatient visits. http://www.healthcarehotspotting.com/ There is an opportunity for interested students to connect with students from the other health sciences schools and plan to work on a team next year. Please let me know if you are interested.

Best,

Megan Moore

mm99@uw.edu

The 12th Annual Qolors Reception celebrates queer and trans people of color (QTPoC) communities and the intersections of all the identities we embody.

April 5, 2017

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

@ Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center Unity Room

Join us for a reception that will include free food, art and an amazing keynote from UW Alumnus Vega Subramaniam.

Vega Subramaniam is a coach and trainer with years of experience facilitating intentional life planning workshops for activists, nonprofit staff and leaders, and others. As a coach, her specialties include career transition, leadership, and intentional life planning. She is a long-time activist promoting gender, racial, LGBTQ, and economic justice.

Join and celebrate with us!

Brought to you by the Q Center and the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center of the University of Washington.

There is an exciting conference happening called Family 2.0– open to anyone and focused on the experiences of LGBTQIA+ folks in the API communities. Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander queers have few spaces to gather and share info, so I’m thrilled that the 2^nd Family Conference is taking place Sat May 20 at North Seattle College. Please share widely!

More info here: apifamilyevent.com

Student Board position available, includes paid professional development and travel.

The National Society of Social Work Leaders in Health Care is seeking a highly motivated social work Student Board Member who is passionate about topics surrounding the accessibility and effectiveness of health care; an individual who has a positive attitude and requires minimal direction.

For more details or to nominate, please complete the call for nominations form and email to SSWLHC.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT NOMINATION IS FRIDAY, APRIL 14TH

As a Student Board Member, you will have the opportunity to strengthen your leadership, networking, communication, and team work skills.

Student board members term last from July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018.

Benefits:

• Paid travel and lodging expense for the board meeting and annual conference (Baltimore in October 2017)
• Paid membership into the society for 1 year
• Develop leadership skills
• Networking with national and international social work experts
• Enhance your resume
• Ability to register at the student member rate for one year after board term expiration

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Working closely with the Board of Directors; assisting in planning and implementation of conferences and special events
• Serve on the Annual Meeting and Conference Committee; and attend the Annual Meeting and Conference
• Engage in opportunities to promote SSWLHC membership and engagement at your school of social work
• Participate in 1-3 school wide activities promoting SSWLHC
• Help formulate new and innovative ideas that will help engage future healthcare leaders, policy and community relations; and contribute to growth of the society

National Society for Social Work Leaders in Health Care website: www.sswlhc.org

BIS 403 Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar course (an early fall course) is now open for applicants from other campuses.

Students who have interests in human rights, public policy and law will definitely benefit from taking this course.

I would like to encourage any human rights minor students to apply to this course.

After two days of intensive seminar at UW Bothell (9/7-9/8), BIS 403 students will spend a week in Washington D.C. for a week (9/10 to 9/16) to meet with legislators and to visit federal agencies (including the Department of Defense), human rights NGOs, foreign embassies, and think tanks.

The detailed schedule and information for this early fall course is available here: http://www.uwb.edu/ias/undergraduate/experiential/dc-seminar

The application is due on Friday, April 14^th.

Students can find the application form on the web and they should send their application to Jung Lee (junglee5@uw.edu ).

I am also available to answer any questions for this program.

Queering Disability Studies

DIS ST 430/CHID 480

SPR 2017 – MW 1:30-3:20

Open to all majors

Instructor: Kai Kohlsdorf

Note: This course may be used as an out-of-dept MSW elective, but please email linm@uw.edu with your request after you register, if you’d like to do so.

 

This course aims to think through what it means to queer an interdisciplinary field of study, specifically disability studies. Despite a substantial lack of engagement with topics of queerness or sexuality within the field of DS, disability is intricately bound to and co-created alongside sex, gender, and sexuality as a socially constructed norm. We will utilize material from transgender studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, feminist studies, cultural studies, critical race theory, poverty studies, feminist care ethics, and more.

The Student Philanthropy Education Program (SPEP) has opened applications for its 10 leadership positions. SPEP’s mission is to educate students about the impact of philanthropy and to provide leadership opportunities for students. If you know of a student that would be a good fit, please encourage them to apply by March 26^th . I have provided some information below but please don’t hesitate to contact me.

 

Why apply for a SPEP leadership position?

• Because #RealDawgsGiveBack!
• FREE FOOD, always!
• Employers look for leadership experience
• Alumni networking opportunities and mentorship
• Volunteer/service experience
• Insider knowledge of UW Foundation/UW events
• Networking opportunities with UW Foundation board members and Advancement staff
• Non-profit work, marketing and event planning experience

The service period is September 2016- June 2017, with an offsite leadership retreat in Leavenworth WA, in mid-June.

Please ask students to send Elaine Carpenter the following before March 26^th at 11:59 pm to secure their interview spot. Times are first come first serve:

• Which position(s) they are interested in
• Available interview times (March 30, 31 and April 3,4 between 9AM and 4PM)
• Resume
• (Unofficial) Transcript

Thank you for your support!

UW Day with the Sounders FC vs. Portland Timbers FC

Sat. May 27, 2017 | 12 p.m. | CenturyLink Field

Seattle Sounders FC players Cristian Roldan and Henry Wingo face off against former Husky teammate Andy Thoma and the rest of the Portland Timbers in this intense rivalry match at CenturyLink Field. Enjoy a day of world-class soccer with your fellow UW alumni and friends, and don’t forget to stop by the UWAA table in the North Plaza to enter our drawing — we’re giving away a scarf signed by Cristian Roldan! Tickets are just $25 (regular $29), and a portion of all sales goes to support student scholarships. Tickets are sure to go fast — don’t miss out!

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UWAA members: Show your membership card at the UWAA table to pick up an exclusive Husky fan scarf. Giveaways begin at 10:30 a.m., and supplies are limited. Not a member? Join today!

COM 597 A: Special Topics: Relational Communication, Mondays 3:30-7:20pm, 5 credits

This graduate seminar examines the process by which relational communication is enacted in personal relationships. Students will be exposed to theories and methods used to investigate relational communication in various contexts. Relational communication will be investigated as it facilitates the development, maintenance, and dissolution of personal relationships as well as its influence on individual and relational health and well-being.

 

For more information or an add code, please contact Dr. John Crowley at jpcrow@uw.edu.

 

 

From Patients to Populations: The Promise, Practice, and Politics of Community Medicine

Bodemer Lecture, Department of Bioethics & Humanities THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2017 Sejal Patel, PhD

Community-level approaches to health and disease have gained attention among health policy makers, planners, administrators and providers.  With payment models increasingly rewarding health outcomes, healthcare providers have had to grapple with the social determinants that impact the health of their clinical populations.  What remains unclear is how providers should incorporate the social determinants into medical practice to make this shift from patients to populations.  Drawing on her book, “The Fat and Happy Town! The Roseto Study and the Promise, Practice, and Politics of Community Medicine,” Sejal Patel describes the emergence of the “risk factor” approach and the challenges of implementing a more community-level orientation to health and disease that resulted from it.  In particular, she explores the changing political economy of federally funded research, of academic medical centers, of medical specialization, and of communities themselves and how they impact the viability and success of community-level approaches to health and disease today.

 

As part of the Q Center’s Qolors celebration we​ are hosting a day long Intentional Life Planning Retreat for students: https://intentionallifeplanningstudentsuccess2017.eventbrite.com/. This is a great opportunity for marginalized students to get grounded personally and professionally in your​ own inner compasses, to find clarity in your​ direction, and build achievable goals that speak to your​ values.

The Q Center is offering their space and is sponsoring up to 8 students. We are inviting other departments and campus entities to help spread the word to students by encouraging similar fiscal sponsorship.

​If you are a student interested in taking advantage of this fantastic opportunity, please email Jen at jms13@uw.edu

*You must be able to dedicate all day to the workshop

*This is a highly sought-after retreat with two fantastic QTPOC facilitators who offer this workshop professionally across the country…do not miss out!

Q Center

 

http://www.washington.edu/youth/about/summer-2017-employment-fair/

Youth program summer job fair @ UW 

March 29th, 2-6pm

HUB room 344

Bring an updated resume to take advantage of pre-screening opportunities!

Participating employers are hiring for over 350 positions in diverse youth settings!

Questions? e-mail cshelton@uw.edu

At this event you will find:

• Full and part-time paid positions
• Volunteer positions
• Opportunities to work with pre-school, elementary, middle or high school aged youth
• Positions located on UW campus as well as in the greater Seattle and King County region
• A wide variety of program settings to choose from

Desired qualifications for employment in youth settings:

• A passion for supporting positive child and youth development
• Experience working with children
• Ability to pass criminal background screening (REQUIRED)

 

 

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