The Leadership Development Newsletter
Q Center
Leadership Development Advising
The Q Center offers Leadership Development Advising and Coaching on a variety of support topics. Visit our website to learn more and schedule an appointment. This offering is available to students, faculty, staff, and community.
Located in HUSKY Union Building (HUB 315)
Programs with The Q
COLOR MODE
Facilitated by: Gab
Color Mode is a confidential advising session that centers queer, trans, bi, non-binary, and gender non-conforming POC experiences. This supportive space emphasizes community and connection as we process everything and anything race, sexuality, and gender-related. Ask questions, find support, and grow.
More Info
TRANS FEMMES OF COLOR COHORT (TFCC)
by: Akshara
Join us on the 15th and 30th of every month 7-8:30 PM PST
The trans femme of color cohort is a supportive and confidential space for trans women of color to join, engage, and support one another. This space values the experiences and stories of the trans
women of color in our community and is open to both students and non-students alike.
If you have any questions or concerns, reach out to Akshara Balakrishnan at
ab30@uw.edu or sign-up to meet with her at calendly.com/ab30!
Embodying Abolition
by: The Qrew
The Embodying Abolition Program at the Q Center aims to create a learning experience that gives students space and support to deconstruct and obliterate carceral, disposability and dispossession logics through exploring critical theories and somatic praxis. We recognize through our work that society superimposes white dominant and supremacist heteropatriarchy in our lives relentlessly. Due to the impact of capitalism and all of its byproducts, we rarely have time to recenter ourselves to understand and deconstruct what harms we are perpetuating, where our innovation lives, what oppression logic has seeped into our minds and bodies (and how to release this logic holistically), or what new realities exist. Embodying Abolition is a radical Queer effort to create this recentering space through a speaker series, somatic workshops, and a culminating retreat – all grounded in the theory and principles of abolition. Come join us, as we engage in this project that focuses on embodying the concept and principles of abolition, built on the foundation of queerness as a political ideology.
Engender
by: The Qrew
EnGender is an emerging program that aims to provide free and accessible gender affirming items to anyone who needs them. We are currently offering binders, gaffs, packers, and transtape, and we are working to expand our offerings. If you need gender affirming items, fill out our request form here: https://tinyurl.com/engenderuw and please feel free to reach out to us via email at engenderuw@gmail.com with any questions!
MENSTRUATION STATION
Facilitated by: Joie Waxler
Are you someone who menstruates? Do you need access to free reusable and sustainable menstrual products? Fill out this form at tinyurl.com/menstruationfrustration2 to request your menstrual products and we will send them to you for FREE! Reach out to Joie at jwaxler@uw.edu for more information!
*Note: We are currently only able to fill orders for a maximum of one menstrual cup and one pad product, or a maximum of three pad products. Please email jwaxler@uw.edu if you have questions or different needs.
GENDER DISCUSSION GROUP
Facilitated by: Lev
Join us Tuesdays 4-5 PM PST
Gender Discussion Group is a confidential, drop-in group that centers on trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming experiences. This supportive space emphasizes community and connection as we process everything and anything gender-related. Ask questions, find support, and grow. Learn more on our website.
LEADS
Facilitated by: Gab
The Leadership and Education Development series is an installment of interviews with positive leaders impacting their communities. New episodes are coming soon.
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Having a hard time putting food on your table, check out the UW food pantry!
Do you need HRT Supplies? More Info Here
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2-4pm PST (every 1st Tuesday)
QTBIPOC Co-Working Space with Alphabet Alliance of Color
Zoom link
Diverse Harmony Open Rehearsal
QTBIPOC Parent Survivor Healing Gathering: Grief & Pleasure w/ Ekua Adisa
Saturday January 21st, 10am-12pm PST:
Register here
Street Outreach More Info
LRP’s Peer-Led Advocacy Team More Info
Mad in America’s TEEN ARTS PROJECT
SRJ Resource Mobilizer Program
The 2023 Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices
Washington Directed Reading Program (WDRP)
SCHOLARSHIP/ FELLOWSHIP/ GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Pride Foundation scholarship More Info
AAUW Community Action Grants More Info
American Psychological Foundation Wayne F. Placek More Info
Anne D. Maloof
Beinecke
C.E. Boucher
Greater Seattle (WA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated
Walter H. Meyer – Garry L. White Memorial Scholarship
Name Aid Program
QTPiE Emerging Scholar Grant
AAUW Community Action Grants
AAUW International Fellowship
IES Abroad UW
Killam Fellowship
Point Foundation Scholarships
SIT
Boren Awards & Fellowship
Mary Gates Leadership
Mary Gates Reasearch
NASA Education Fellowship Opportunity
2022 Collective Power Fund
Microgrant Program
Resilience & Compassion Seed Grants
The Pedro Zamora Young Leaders Scholarship
GSBA Scholarship
STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITIES
German Studies Austria: Spring in Vienna
German Studies Berlin: City of the Past and Future – Film, Media and Diversity
University of Queensland Exchange
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
On-Campus
Fiscal Specialist 2 Req# 194047
Assistant Director for Student Recruitment & Outreach Req# 214214
Financial Analyst Req# 215113
Senior Program Manager Req# 205765
Program Manager Req# 215006
Program Operations Specialist (ECC) Req# 215642
Program Support Supervisor II Req# 215850
Software Engineer Req# 215516
Off-Campus
Assistant Director in our Center of International Education (Bothell) Req# 204823
Assistant Registrar (Bothell) Req# 205579
Multiple positions at UW Bothell check here
Non-UW
Project Manager
Middle School Athletics Coach/ Wednesday Workshop support
Technical Website Officer
UW FIG and Orientation Leader
UWFIG Training Student Coordinators
National Organizing Manager
Data Support Manager
Advisor on Graduation Equity
Communications Manager
Program Coordinator
Digital Coordinator
Communications Coordinator
Director of Donor Engagement
Operations Manager
Work-Study
Program Assistant
Education Program Assistant
Peer Study Abroad Advisor
Laboratory Student Assistant
Speech Pathology Assistant
Office Assistant
IAS Graders
Student Life Assistant
Not sure if you qualify for work-study, check here.
HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES
Dictionary Makes Trans-Friendly Updates to Words ‘Man’ & ‘Woman’
The Cambridge Dictionary recently updated its entries for “man” and “woman” to include transgender people — the latest dictionary to broaden its lexicon to reflect evolving language around gender.
A spokesperson for the Cambridge Dictionary told CNN that the updates went into effect in October.
– HARMEET KAUR
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Superstar Tenor Russell Thomas on Being a Black Queer Man in Opera
Blessed with a golden, honeyed voice that fills the halls of stages around the world, out and proud tenor Russell Thomas could be content with being one of the rising stars in opera. Instead, he uses his Black and queer identity to change what we see onstage and off.
Thomas’s voice has had great impact his entire life. “I was a child of very unfortunate circumstances,” he says.
– CHIEDU EGBUNIWE
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Why Chosen Family Is Even More Important During the Holidays
Jacob, who’s gay, never elaborates. But as I watched the scene, I thought about how lots of queer people feel a similar unease around Christmas. The holiday often centers conventional dynamics in the home and biological family: Good tidings we bring to you and your kin, goes part of the refrain of one classic yuletide carol. Yet for queer people who aren’t out to their biological families, or who are but have been rejected by them, Christmas can be fraught.
– BRANDON TENSLEY
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Brittney Griner Is Home, but the Work Isn’t Over
After nearly 10 months, WNBA star Brittney Griner has arrived home from her detainment and even broken her silence on social media. Now the questions on people’s minds are what it will take to get her ready for the journey ahead and how to keep the issues highlighted by her detainment — including pay equity in women’s sports and the continued imprisonment of Americans overseas — in the spotlight.
– KATHERINE GILYARD
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