MSW students, consider joining ARWAG for a gathering and for community building. Commence forwarded message:

The School of Social Work’s Anti-Racist White Affinity Group (ARWAG) will be at Gas Works Brewing on Friday February 28, 4pm-6ish. No agenda other than hanging out and spending time together. All students welcome! Gas Works has outdoor seating, n/a options, food, and is kid-friendly. It’s about a mile from the school of social work. There is no direct bus, but the 32 will get you close. Email us with any concerns! 

What is ARWAG? The anti-racist white affinity group serves as a supportive space and resource for students, faculty and staff in the fight for racial justice. We strive to analyze and disrupt racism and white privilege in our communities. We currently meet every other Thursday at 6pm.

Questions? Access needs? Contact uwsswarwag@uw.edu. We hope to see you there! 

Join SSW Mixed/Multiracial for a virtual meet up on 2/20 from 5-6pm. This meeting’s theme will be-“In the Mood for Summer”. Let’s dream together about warmer weather & impactful social action!

Please welcome SWAPI (Social Work Asian and Pacific Islander) Affinity Group’s Grand Challenges Project on Healing from Racial Trauma in Asian Communities.

Are you a student who identifies as Asian at the SSW, has experienced racial trauma, would like to learn somatic based skills to support you and discuss this topic in community?  If so, please fill out the Group Interest Form by Friday, 2/21.

This group will hold four skills workshops and two processing groups geared to support students in the discussion around racial trauma.

Happy Winter Quarter,

We hope you had a restful winter break and enjoyed the holiday season with those you care about! 

BAC is excited to spend more time in community this quarter. Our first event was scheduled for Friday January 10th, but has been rescheduled for January 24th! It is our Kick-B.A.C Potluck and will be held at a private residence (address provided upon RSVP). Feel free to bring a dish or snack to share, but it is not required. After we gather RSVPs we will work on coordinating some carpools.

This event is for BIPOC adoptees only, thank you.

We hope to see you there! 

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/zoFq9Y2oQhCWEcY38 

MSW students, consider a coffee break with La Colectiva. See their message and flier below:

SWAPI is a UW School of Social Work AANHPI Affinity Group for MSW, BASW, and PhD students, staff, and faculty who identify as Asian, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander.

Join SWAPI for their annual Fall Quarter potluck! RSVP here: https://partiful.com/e/cysB7DinVjKAa3lxiNEk 

PLEASE JOIN US AND RSVP HERE: https://partiful.com/e/cysB7DinVjKAa3lxiNEk 

Please see the invitation and flyer below from the BIPOC Affinity Group’s leadership team.

Our first gathering will be held on Thursday, November 14^th at the SSW from 4:30-6PM in room 305B! Please RSVP so we can ensure we have enough paint supplies . Some snacks provided, shareables are welcomed but not required!

About us: This affinity group holds space for SSW students, staff, and faculty who self-identify as BIPOC, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Brown, Asian & Pacific Islander, Mixed & Multiracial folks. 

This is an informal, student-centered group, voluntarily supported by staff and faculty at the School of Social Work – if you’d like to learn more, join us! To stay connected sign up for our listserv today!

The UW BIPOC Adoptee Collective is hosted by the UW School of Social Work and is open to all adopted UW students, staff, and faculty who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or a person of color. 

The UW BIPOC Adoptee Collective and AIRE Roots are sponsoring a workshop by Dr. JaeRan Kim on the Adoptee Consciousness Model.

Please join us if you identify as a BIPOC Adoptee. This event is open to the public. This event is intentionally designed as a space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Adoptees. We appreciate your understanding and respect for maintaining this as a BIPOC Adoptee affinity space.

Please RSVP for this event.

The School of Social Work’s Anti-Racist White Affinity Group (ARWAG) is holding its first meeting of the school year on Tuesday, October 15th, from 6-7pm in Room 038 at the School of Social Work! We’d love to have you join us and help build out the group for the new school year.

If you have any questions or access needs, please email uwsswarwag@uw.edu or Aaron at agwheele@uw.edu. We’ll hold this first meeting in-person only but may have subsequent meetings hybrid or virtually. Let us know if you’d prefer this option in the future!

Happy Fall All from the School of Social Work BIPOC Affinity Group!

About us: This affinity group holds space for SSW students, staff, and faculty who self-identify as BIPOC, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Brown, Asian & Pacific Islander, Mixed & Multiracial folks. 

This is an informal, student-centered group, voluntarily supported by staff and faculty at the School of Social Work – if you’d like to learn more, join us at the SSW Fall Welcome Event next Thursday, Oct. 17 from 5-6:30PM and fill out our Fall Interest Survey – we are looking for new student leadership to help support the direction of this effort. Following the welcome, a group of folks will be headed to The Burke for the GSEE Getting Connected Reception (registration is required!).

SAVE THE DATE: Our first gathering will be held on Thursday, November 14^th at the SSW from 4:30-6PM in room 305B – more info to come!

To stay connected sign up for our listserv today!

UW BIPOC Adoptee Collective Affinity Group, previously known as TAG (Transracial Adoptee Group), is hosting its first gathering of the academic year on October 15, 2024, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. We hope to see you there!

The UW BIPOC Adoptee Collective is hosted by the UW School of Social Work and is open to all adoptee current UW (tri-campus) students, staff, and faculty who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or a person of color. 

When: October 15, 2024, 5:30 – 7:00 pm PT

Where: SSW Room 306AB

What: Come reconnect, meet other BIPOC adoptees, and enjoy some yummy food

Feel free to invite other UW BIPOC adoptees you know and please fill out this RSVP form by October 13th at 10:00pm PT. 

If you have any questions, please contact our student leads, Grace Schamber, at gscham@uw.edu and Phoebe Suva, at psuva@uw.edu. 

We hope to see you on October 15th! 

WELCOME BACK TO AUTUMN QUARTER 2024!

Please join us for some qualitea time at our SWAPI event on Thursday, October 3, 2024 from 5:30-7:00pm at Oasis Tea Zone (no-host, no purchase required to attend).

This will be our first event of AY24-25 for SWAPI members. Come socialize, reconnect, and meet new members of the SWAPI School of Social Work (SSW) community (international students who identify as API are welcome to attend).

You can meet us at Oasis Tea Zone or meet a SWAPI lead in front of the SSW (on 15th Ave NE) and walk together. Find more details below.

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The UW Interdisciplinary Graduate Aging Group is a graduate student research cluster that aims to foster a community of aging scholars from across the academy, who are interested in the cross-disciplinary significance of aging research. United by an interest in understanding aging as a multidimensional phenomenon, the group engages with an array of concepts, theories, and perspectives that enrich the narrative of aging and deepen our appreciation for its value and complexity.

Co-led by Nicolai Wohns (PhD student, Philosophy) and Sarah McKiddy (PhD student, Nursing), the group is primarily composed of graduate students from both the humanities and the sciences, but is open to post-docs and faculty as well. We will meet twice monthly starting in autumn quarter, alternating a journal club session with a guest faculty lecture from various fields. The first meeting will be at 5pm on September 26th in the The Hans Rosling Center, Room 101.

If interested, please fill out this form to indicate your interest and availability. You can also contact Nicolai at nwohns@uw.edu for more information.

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate is hosting another drag show on Friday, May 17th at 5:30 pm at the the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theatre (3930 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105).

Tickets are free — the show starts at 6:00 pm featuring Kylie Mooncakes, Sid Seedy, Clara Voyance, and Viper Fengz. Please bring your government-issued ID as this is a 21+ event. We will be serving alcohol from 5:30 pm to 6:00 pm. 

We have limited tickets (75 total) for this event — you will receive an email confirmation at least 3 days before the event, if not, you will be placed on a waitlist: https://forms.office.com/r/hUW449FB14

PLEASE ONLY SIGN UP IF YOU KNOW YOU CAN ATTEND.

The Office of Graduate Student Equity and Excellence (GSEE) invites you to celebrate with your fellow graduate students, your milestones, your achievements, and all the big things yet to come at GSEE’s Spring Soirée 2024! Our theme this year is Renaissance (GSEE’s Version): Looking Toward the Future. We are astonished by the GSEE graduates who have crossed boundaries, overcome adversity, and balanced the weighty and real things of life and academia. Yet here you are, chasing and accomplishing your dreams! We will have student speakers, an informal cording ceremony, a photobooth to capture all your memories, music by DJ Kewl WIP, catered cuisine, swag and treats!  

The event will be held at the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House. Doors will open at 5:00 pm and the program will begin at 5:30 pm. Closing remarks will be at 8:30 pm. Please be sure to RSVP here

Your Graduate & Professional Student Senate (GPSS) is holding a Diversity Resources Fair in Intellectual House on Saturday, April 27^th from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. This is an opportunity for students to help connect students with identity, cultural resources, and opportunities at UW and our surrounding community. 

The Mixed/Multiracial Student, Faculty, and Staff Affinity group is organizing a time to gather at the School of Social Work for folx who identify as Mixed and/or Multiracial. Bring your lunch and join us Friday, April 26th Noon – 1 pm @ SSW RM 116 (near the Gallery). We hope the time spent in shared community fills your cup with connection and belonging here at the School of Social Work. 

We look forward to seeing you soon!

SSW Mixed is a UW School of Social Work Mix/Multiracial Affinity Group for all students, faculty, and staff who identify as Mixed or Multiracial. 

Faculty Advisor: 

Shawnti Johnson  shawnti@uw.edu

UW School of Social Work Community – SWAPI Members (SWAPI is a UW School of Social Work AANHPI Affinity Group for MSW, BASW, and PhD students, staff, and faculty who identify as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander)

Please save the dates for the Spring Quarter SWAPI Events:

Thursday, 4/18, 5:30-7pm – SWAPI Dumpling Making Party, Room TBD in the SSW, RSVP by Monday, 4/15 so we can get food count for meat and vegetarian dumplings: https://forms.gle/86unwMVo7dXUgHnR7

Saturday, 4/20, 4:30-5:45pm Dinner, 6-8pm – Book Event ““Where I Belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity,” published by Tarcher Perigee discussion with Yellow Chairs co directors at Mam’s Bookstore in the CID (Chinatown International District). You can RSVP here and read more details here. SWAPI dinner before the event at 4:30pm in the CID. Dinner RSVP by emailing Saul (saultran@uw.edu) or Shannon McKinney (smckin@uw.edu).

Thursday, May 9, 5:30-7:30pm,– UW School of Social Work AANHPI “Telling Our Stories” – digital stories and other AANHPI student, faculty, and staff stories, poems, and art. School wide event (open to the whole school and those outside of SWAPI are welcome) – Location tbd within SSW location. RSVP to come out later. Food provided.

Thursday, May 23, 5:30-7:30pm, SWAPI Graduation party. Location and details to come out later.

Summer Quarter!

Saturday, June 29, 9-1pm, UW SSW and SWAPI – Walk for Rice at Seward Park, ACRS (Asian Counseling and Referral Service’s) fundraiser for their food bank. Open to everyone in the school! Join our team or donate! https://give.acrs.org/team/575717

Hope to see you all soon!

As you know, students are entitled to free, short-term counseling and group therapy while enrolled at UW (and one quarter post-enrollment!).  There is a new shared space for students, named the Between Cultures group- held Wednesdays from 3-4:30pm, with openings for spring quarter 2024. 

Interested students should email Lev Cunningham directly (zohlev@uw.edu) to schedule a brief intake, and be referred to the group facilitator, Saysha Clark (who is absolutely wonderful and an alum of our SSW school).

Group Description: “Between Cultures is an ongoing group for students who are connected to and identify with multiple cultures but may struggle with finding a full sense of belonging to these cultures. We will gather to support each other with our challenges, and also to celebrate our strengths.”

We’ll be meeting via Zoom on Thursday, May 18^th, at 6pm. All students, staff, faculty, and administrators of color are welcome to join.

You can access (using UW zoom credentials) the recording here.

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