SPRING! Newsletter Week 7 – posted 5/14

Welcome to Week 7! <3 

QTBIPOC Artist Spotlight of the Week: 
AYIRANI BALACHANTHIRAN

NYC based visual artist.

ASUW QSC 17th Annual DRAG SHOW
(Thursday, May 16, 2019) 7:30 PM – 10 PM @ HUB Lyceum

The ASUW Queer Student Commission is proud to present this year’s ASUW QSC Drag Show! This historic event is a showcase of student and local drag performers from the UW and Seattle community.

featuring a queer student art market! if you are interested in vending art, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7opdkIGeiGSOXGTaBeUi1o3M94H6NqYqSG1eIDKWsIp4MkA/viewform?usp=sf_link

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

• We are in the process of securing CART captioning for the event.
• The HUB front entrance is wheelchair accessible.
• The HUB Lyceum is located on the first floor, to the right of the entrance. It is a reception space, with overhead and natural lighting. There are large windows on the right side wall of the Lyceum.
• All gender restrooms will be available on the first floor of the HUB on the night of the event. There is also an all gender restroom on the third floor of the HUB.
• The HUB is not kept scent-free but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the HUB in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity. We will have baking soda and scent free soap available if folks are asked to wash off scents.
• For more information about MCS and being fragrance-free:
• http://billierain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Myths-and-Facts-About-Chemical-Sensitivity.pdf
• To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail dso@uw.edu.
• If you have questions, concerns or accessibility details that were not addressed here email asuwqsc@uw.edu!
• All updates concerning the event and its accessibility will be posted here.

Directions
– The HUB is near landmarks such as Mary Gates Hall and Drumheller Fountain. For a map, search HUB on the campus maps:http://www.washington.edu/maps/

– University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

– Driving directions can be found at: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Husky+Union+Building/@47.655762,-122.3076257,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x5490148d64534c71:0xc91793fd02335246

– The Central Plaza Parking Garage is the largest parking lot to the close to the HUB. Accessible parking is available in the lot located next to the HUB. Additional information can be found at:
https://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/park

– There is also potential street parking surrounding the campus, on 15th Ave, University Way, and Brooklyn Ave.

 

The Queer & Trans People of Color Alliance (QTPOCA) will be meeting this Friday, location TBD!

LAVISH QTPOC Art Showcase
(Tuesday, May 21, 2019) 6:30 PM – 9 PM @ Ethnic Cultural Theater
3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

• Lavish is a multi-arts showcase opportunity centering Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPoC). We will provide a platform for UW students to receive mentorship (by way of building a sustained relationship with a teaching artist) and community building among QTPoCs and artists on campus and in the greater Seattle community.
• There are many ways to participate in the showcase. Opportunities include (but are not limited to): emcees/MC, deejays/DJ, performance artists, fine artists, spoken word, poetry, musicians, dramaturge, stage managers, community organizers, and more.
• The showcase is student-driven and its final form will be created organically among the participating artists. Lavish centers artists who identify as QTPoC. White allies/accomplices are also welcome to participate. Artists of any experience level are enthusiastically invited to participate in this low stakes/high support experience.

Please consider filling out the following form if you are interested in participating at Lavish: https://forms.gle/dq7TMqV8YQAfvtu2A

We will host an Informational Session on May 3, 2019, 3:00PM at the Q Center (HUB 315). Note: Prospective performers may submit their application using this form or in person at the informational session.

Questions? Please contact Juan Franco or Jaimée Marsh @ the Q Center: qcenter@uw.edu or 206-897-1430.

Accessibility Information:

• The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theatre is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall
• For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/map
• The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building
• There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.
• The ECT is not kept scent-free, but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

 

#whoisboeingbombing INFO SESSION

(Thursday, May 10, 2019) 6 – 9 PM @ Washington State Labor Council
321 16th Ave S., Seattle, Washington 98144

• Boeing is currently profiting from mass deportation, imperialist war manufacturing, worker exploitation, and environmental devastation. It is long overdue that we hold them accountable for their anti-people actions across the earth as well as here in Seattle especially given the massive tax subsidies they are given by our local government.
• We are excited to present the critical information we have discovered regarding the manufacturing of Boeing war machines in the Pacific Northwest and their deployment abroad. We want to hear from you: why does this campaign matter to you? What ideas do you have for strategies and tactics which could garner mass support and actually stop war production, deportation, etc?

* Educational presentation
* Performances
* Panel – why this campaign matters for various struggles
* Break out discussions on campaign next steps

This campaign launch event will be action oriented. We hope to gain the commitment of campaign partners who will work with us in the capacity they are able to make this successful! There will be much hard work in confronting a giant such as Boeing, but history has shown us that with sufficient dedication and creativity, regular people can win against multinational corporations.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

• WA State Labor Council has wheelchair accessible ramp into main building and wide doors for entry, building may have some scents from cleaning supplies but we advise participants to come scent free. children and families are welcome. Please let us know if you have particular access needs that we can accommodate.

 

Artist Lecture: Ariella Tai
(Friday, May 17, 2019) 7-8 PM @ Wa Na Wari
911 24th ave, Seattle, Washington 98122

Artist Lecture: Ariella Tai

Tai will be discussing their three videos currently screening at Wa Na Wari– “hold me,” “adore” and “i just.” They will be talking about their research and video work exploring possibilities of black agency, interiority, pleasure and refusal and exploring the cinematic as space where alternative social arrangements of blackness can be revealed.

Bio: Ariella Tai is a video artist, film scholar, and independent programmer from Queens, New York. They work with appropriated and re-purposed images from film, television and popular media to explore how black gesture, gaze and corporeality work to interrupt, subvert and defy the diegetic cohesiveness of narrative.
Excerpt of “I’m yours.”
https://vimeo.com/287777532

 

Transgender & Gender Diverse Support & Social Group @ U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle
205 E. Meeker St. Kent, Washington 98032

• [trans] ACTION is a support/social group for sex workers that is held every first Wednesday of every month. It is an opportunity that provides sex workers a safe space to engage in topical discussions relating to their life and/or work. This gathering is open to transgender and gender diverse sex workers with current or past experience in the sex trade.

Discussions include topics such as:

• *Safety and self- care
• *Decriminalization and Destigmatization of sex work
• *Know your rights training
• *Legal assistance
• *Employment & housing
• [trans] ACTION promotes and values confidentiality regarding interactions within the group.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

• The undisclosed location has ample parking, all-gender and ADA-accessible restroom. Come and build community with us! For more information please email Ara-lei at ara@utopiaseattle.org 

Upcoming Dates :

• Wed June 12 (6-8pm)

 

Seattle Launch: Tongue-Breaker
(Tuesday, May 14, 2019) 7 PM – 9 PM @ Third Place Books Seward Park
5041 Wilson Ave S, Seattle, Washington 98118

Seattle family, please come celebrate the New York launch of writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s latest book of poetry, Tonguebreaker.

• Tonguebreaker is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through your beloved’s neighbourhood in Queens. Building on LLPS’ groundbreaking work in Bodymap, Tonguebreaker is an unmitigated force of disabled queer-of-colour nature, narrating disabled femme-of-colour moments on the pulloff of the 80 in West Oakland, the street, and the bed. Tonguebreaker dreams unafraid femme futures where we live — a ritual for our collective continued survival.

about the weirdo who wrote the poems:
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a queer disabled femme writer, cultural worker and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. They are the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (short-listed for the Lambda and Publishing Triangle Awards, ALA Above the Rainbow List), Bodymap (short listed for the Publishing Triangle Award) ,Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner), and Consensual Genocide, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. Their next book, Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies From the Transformative Justice Movement (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon) is forthcoming in 2020. A lead artist with Sins Invalid, her writing has been widely published, with recent work in PBS Newshour, Poets.org‘s Poetry and the Body folio, The Deaf Poets Society, Bitch, Self, TruthOut and The Body is Not an Apology. She is a VONA Fellow and holds an MFA from Mills College. She is also a rust belt poet, a Sri Lankan with a white mom, a femme over 40, a grassroots intellectual, a survivor who is hard to kill.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: wheelchair accessible including bathrooms, armless chairs available, coffee tea and snacks for sale, please come fragrance-free. Free. Bring your kids.

 

 

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