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Hello everyone! My name is Kenji, and I am currently the president for Chanoyu Club at UW. We are an RSO that studies Japanese tea ceremony, or Chanoyu, which is a traditional activity involving the preparation and presentation of matcha green tea. While serving and drinking tea sounds like an easy task, many tea devotees have devoted their lifetimes to perfect the art.

Japanese confectionery and matcha is served during each meeting.

If interested, please take a look at our website and Instagram account, or contact us at chanoyuclub@uw.edu with any questions. Thank you!

The Purpose of SWAG is as follows: “As a group, we strive to create intentional allyship for people of size, and people struggling with issues of weight, food, and body image.” All students at UW are welcome, as are UW faculty and staff. All bodies are welcome. Looking to restart the group, SWAG will ahve an “Interest” Meeting on Tuesday, October 5 at 5:00 PM (PST).

Time: Oct 5, 2021 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/6617733764?pwd=MXlVM1hGc25PNVpVc01Ba0dybFpTQT09

Meeting ID: 661 773 3764

Passcode: Healing

 

Please email Beckie Hill at rjhill71@uw.edu with any questions, concerns, or if you would like additional information if you are unable to meet via Zoom on 10/05/21.

Do you identify as multiracial/mixed race/multiethnic? Please plan to join us virtually Monday, September 20th at 5:30,  for a casual get together where we can meet and share space. We’re excited to welcome new and continuing members of our Social Work Community!

To accommodate as many students as possible, we’ll be meeting on the first Monday of the month at 5:30 during Fall quarter.

Please rsvp to mbagshaw@uw.edu.

Please register for this zoom meeting https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItd-ispz0jH9xWoWcb5o0-g0FdrmTPZB09

 

The BIPOC Affinity Group holds space for current students, staff, and faculty who identify as part of the BIPOC community: including Black, Brown, Indigenous, People of Color, Asian & Pacific Islander, mixed & multiracial folks.

 

If you identify as a Transracial Adoptee currently affiliated with any of the three UW campuses (Bothell, Tacoma, Seattle) please join!

Zoom Link: https://forms.gle/nc4he2PhUi6tb5wE9

UW SSW’s Transracial Adoptee Group (TAG) 

APRIL Meeting : TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021 from 5:00- 6:00pm PST (via zoom)

Transracial Adoptee Group (TAG)

The Transracial Adoptee Group is a student-led group offering affinity, support, and community building to transracial adoptees in the Social Work BASW, MSW and PhD programs. Along with providing transracial adoptees with an inclusive space to share stories, TAG is committed to increase efforts to amplify the voices of adoptees in the classroom and greater Social Work community. TAG has participation and solidarity from Faculty and Staff in the UW School of Social Work.

TAG is open to anyone (student, staff, faculty) within the School of Social Work community (UW Bothell and UW Seattle) who identifies as a transracial adoptee. Please join us!

Please RSVP to Saul Tran Cornwall (saultran@uw.edu) for Zoom link. 

FIUTS is looking for applicants to be a part of our Student Board for the 2021-2022 academic year! FIUTS strives to have a diverse Student Board each year comprised of U.S. and international, undergraduate, graduate, and IELP representatives.

Enhance your global leadership at the University of Washington: Apply for the FIUTS Student Board!

The FIUTS Student Board is a year-long learning and leadership experience that amplifies the organization’s mission of international understanding, supports programs, and represents the diversity of the UW. This is a great opportunity for UW students to develop leadership and teamwork skills, while fostering global community on campus. Members build professional networks and gain real-world experience working with the nonprofit sector. Election to the student leadership team is a competitive process and applications for the 2021-2022 academic year are currently being accepted.

• Advocate for FIUTS values of peace, community, diversity, dialogue, engagement, and service
• Improve your leadership, organizational, event-planning, and communication skills
• Learn about the nonprofit sector while serving on a nonprofit Board of Trustees
• Work closely with FIUTS staff in carrying out the organization’s programs and mission

All UW students welcome to apply!

International, U.S., Undergraduate, Graduate, and IELP

Application Deadline: 11:59 p.m. on April 9, 2021

Apply online: https://www.fiuts.org/apply-for-the-student-board

 

RSVP for more details about our guests.

 

Social Workers for Environmental Justice March Meeting. Please RSVP for Zoom link

“A Discussion on Environmental Justice and Seattle’s History of Redlining and Racism”

Thursday, March 11, 5:00 – 6:00pm

Register at https://bit.ly/EJmtgMar4  for Zoom link

Student Leads: Cha Cha Sawyer, Aki Chatterji

Faculty Leads: Jennifer Brower, Stan de Mello

March SWAPI “Talk Story” with Hoang Ngo: March 11, 2021, 4:00-5:00pm PST

SWAPI would like to invite all SSW students, staff, and faculty who identify as Asian/Asian American and Pacific Islander to our next SWAPI event on March 11, 2021 from 4:00-5:00pm PST. (The meeting will be recorded)

We are honored to announce that Hoang Ngo (PhD Program Assistant Director) will be presenting “Should I Put Fish Sauce in Everything? Cookbooks and New Narratives in the Vietnamese Diaspora.” Hoang will share about identity, diaspora, and possibilities through food and cookbooks.

For more information about Hoang:

• https://socialwork.uw.edu/ssw-news/hoang-ngo-appointed-new-phd-program-assistant-director
• http://ngohoang.byethost13.com

Please RSVP for the event by March 9, 2021. RSVP link: https://forms.gle/zSL1N2WHHDmgUD7o9

Join our Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/groups/212542818933292

This affinity group holds space for folks who self-identify as BIPOC, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Brown, Asian & Pacific Islander, Mixed & Multiracial. Our next meet-up will be on March 11^th from 5:30-6:30PM, followed by an open planning meeting for anyone who would like to join us.  Please RSVP – we are looking for folks who may want to lead a creative/relaxing/self-nurturing activity as well as seeking input on an upcoming job search focused group gathering, your ideas are welcomed!

Future meetings: We plan to hold gatherings and planning meetings on the second Thursday of each month for the remainder of the academic year – please register for this recurring meeting invite now via zoom https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItd-ispz0jH9xWoWcb5o0-g0FdrmTPZB09 – you will be able to add this standing meeting directly to your calendar!

For UW School of Social Work Asian & Pacific Islander (SWAPI) group for MSW, BASW, PhD Students, Faculty and Staff

The next SWAPI Meeting will be Thursday, February 11, 2021, 3:00-4:00pm PST by zoom. The meetings will be every second Thursday of the month from 3:00-4:00pm PST this quarter.

RSVP for the zoom link: https://forms.gle/Bxheqh7NJAPw7xYU9

Q-munity is looking for LGBTQ+ students looking to socialize and connect with like-minded individuals on campus! We host a variety of social events and always welcome new members.

On Thursday, February 4th, the club is hosting Q-munity’s Price is Right recruitment event and anyone is welcome to join! We are still a small, up-and-coming RSO and we hope you will join us. Our meeting zoom link can be found at Instagram @uwqmunity in our bio. Feel free to reach out to us at uwqmunity@gmail.com with any questions!

Our next SWAPI Meeting will be Thursday, January 14, 3-4pm by zoom. Our meetings will be every second Thursday of the month from 3-4pm this quarter.

RSVP for the zoom link: https://forms.gle/3Gvo5oRgVs9TqgVH8

Student Leaders: Lizzy Chao and Daisy Wong

Faculty Leaders: Saul Tran Cornwall and Jennifer Brower

The FIUTS Discussion Series on Race & Racism in the U.S. is starting up again next week and registration is now open! This is a space for international and U.S. students, as well as others in the UW community, to learn from and with each other to make sense of current events and experiences in the U.S. The winter quarter series will run on Wednesday evenings from 4:30-6:00pm Seattle time January 13^th through February 10th. In order to create a safe learning space, participants are expected to be able to attend the entire 5-part series. Registration is open on the FIUTS website at www.fiuts.org/talk-about-race.

The Bioethics Student Association at UW is a newly formed RSO looking for members! We will be hosting meetings and discussions revolving around ethics and morals in current events in Public Health and Biology. Potential topics include the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine, disparities in access to healthcare, and associated costs. We intend for this to be a valuable space for conversation between all students, not just those studying pre-health.

As we are a relatively new organization, feedback and suggestions from members are strongly valued and will be used to guide the course of discussions and future meetings. We look forward to seeing you all starting Winter Quarter!

Our first meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 13th at 7:00 PM and is scheduled to run for 90 minutes. Members are welcome to continue discussions even after the meeting. Any and all topics are welcome.

Any questions can be directed to bsaatuw@uw.edu or our Huskylink page

WORLDS AIDS DAY

World AIDS Day is a time for our community to come together to remember all those we have lost to AIDS and to recommit to ending the stigma that still surrounds HIV. LGBTQ people in the United States and around the world continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS, especially Black and Latinx members of the community. To end the HIV epidemic, we must uplift the voices of those who have been affected and take action to fight stigma in all aspects of our lives. While HIV and AIDS is not an illness that solely affects LGBTQ+ people, a portion of queer history is marked with the negligence and intolerance of leadership during the AIDS Epidemic.

Understanding the FIGHT

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States. Gay and bisexual men made up an estimated 2% of the U.S. population in 2013 but 55% of all people living with HIV in the United States. If this continues, 1 in 6 gay and bisexual men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime. For Latino and Black men who have sex with men, the rates are in 1 in 4 and 1 in 2, respectively.

Transgender people have also been hit especially hard by the epidemic despite comprising a similarly small percentage of the U.S. population. One international analysis found that transgender women in certain communities have 49 times the odds of living with HIV than the general population.

Dealing with the potential consequences of bias and discrimination – job loss, homelessness, lack of healthcare insurance – often results in LGBTQ people engaging in behaviors that facilitate the spread of HIV. For example, in the face of persistent employment discrimination, many transgender women are left with few other options but to engage in survival sex work in order to meet their most basic needs. According to a 2015 survey of more than 27,000 transgender people, “The rate of HIV [diagnosis] was…five times higher among those who have participated in sex work at any point in their lifetime” than among those who have not
“HIV and the LGBTQ Community.” HRC, www.hrc.org/resources/hrc-issue-brief-hiv-aids-and-the-lgbt-community.

Continuing the FIGHT

Moving forward we can all do better to support the eradication of HIV/AIDS as well as supporting those afflicted. For Example:

· Urge Congress and the White House officials to mount the strongest possible response to the epidemic in the form of fully funded public health programs, as well as common sense policy solutions such as comprehensive sex education and syringe/needle exchange.

· Support and fund educational programs for LGBTQ people and allies about the current realities of HIV as well as the effects of stigma on the very communities that are most in need.

· Mobilize alongside LGBTQ people to take action in support of ending the dual epidemics of HIV and HIV-related stigma.

· Advocate for the dignity, rights, and well-being of people living with and affected by HIV in all aspects of life and at every level of society.

The CDC has put together a multitude of resources that include toolkits on preparing messaging, creating promotional material, sharing resources, and continuing the momentum.

Link: https://www.cdc.gov/worldaidsday/index.html

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