Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

Lesbian/Bisexual Support Group/Wednesdays/2:30 – 3:45 p.m./SSB Counseling and Mental Health Center

Lesbian or Bisexual?  Not sure?  Having difficulty navigating UT?  Wondering where to meet people like you? Difficulties with relationships? life? family? school? Join us for a supportive place to talk about any and all of the above.  We welcome you to join other women in an open and safe environment to explore. Call (512) 471-3515 for more information on how to sign-up.

The College Women’s Political Caucus (CWPC) is in its earliest stages, so now is your chance to help shape this national organization! CWPC will be a campus affiliate of the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC), which exists to help elect pro-choice women candidates to political office on the city, state, and national level.

The goals and possible projects of CWPC include, but are not limited to:
Volunteering on political campaigns for local women political candidates.
Putting on and participating in trainings on a variety of topics related to political leadership and political campaigns.
Mentoring under-served middle & high school girls to help develop their leadership abilities.
Working to get the ERA ratified.
Networking with women political leaders.
Finally, the president of NWPC also sees the CWPC as THE place to start identifying, and training future political leaders. If you see yourself as a future politician, press secretary, communications director, or campaign manager (or other West Wing character of your choice…), this is the place to start garnering experience, connections, and support!
If you are interested in being an officer in CWPC, please email Harmony Eichsteadt at harmonyeverafter@gmail.com.

FLAG wants to remind you that we meet the 2nd Tuesday of every month for parents dealing with someone who has come out to them or GLBTQ who are coming out to their families.  Everyone is welcome to attend out meetings. PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity. For more information about PLFAG please visit… http://www.pflag-austin.org/or Facebook: PFLAG Austin

I want to remind you of the meeting that is being held to organize Queer Youth and Young Adults through ALLGO.

ALLGO, a statewide people of color organization, seeks to identify LGBT people of color priorities and strategies as they relate to Reproductive Justice, Sexual Freedom, Anti-Violence and Immigrant and Refugee Rights. For more information on meeting times and locations, please contact http://allgo.org/allgo/

LGBT Catholics and straight allies…we do exist!  Nonjudgmental, safe, and accepting: 100% openhearted fellowship. Join us for weekly get-togethers followed by night prayer.  Mondays, 7pm, University Catholic Center, 2010 University Ave, 476-7351. For more information and/or to get on our listserve, email prism@longhorncatholic.org <http://us.mc1124.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=prism@longhorncatholic.org> or  www.utcatholic.org <http://www.utcatholic.org/> .

Delta Lambda Phi is the first fraternity for gay, bisexual, and progressive men at the University of Texas at Austin. For more info about the Colony at the University of Texas at Austin, please email President Armando Sanchez at armando_sanchez04@yahoo.com. To learn more about Delta Lambda Phi National Social Fraternity, please visit www.dlp.org

The Women’s Resource Agency (WRA) at the University of Texas at Austin is an agency of Student Government aimed to provide resources and programming for the UT campus and community-at-large regarding women and women’s interest issues. For more information, please contact texaswra@gmail.com <mailto:texaswra@gmail.com> .

For more information on QPOCA meeting times, please go to qpocaTexas@gmail.com.

LGBTQ Grad is a university-wide organization dedicated to fomenting a sense of community among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer graduate students and allies throughout the University of Texas at Austin.

If you are interested in joining our list serve, please visit
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GLBTgrad/ <file://localhost/x-msg/::59:>

Are you a student parent? Want to meet other parents just like you? Come join Longhorns with Little Horns, a new student led group on campus that’s working to improve the lives of student parents. For more information, contact anne@mail.utexas.edu .

Hello Beautiful People of the LGBTQGrad World… National Gay Men’s Health Awareness Day (NGMHAD) is just around the corner and we could use your help!! Gay/Queer men remain one of the highest at-risk communities for HIV and though not everyone may identify as Gay/Queer or Man for that matter, HIV in the Queer Community affects us all!

When: The Health panel will likely take place on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 and the Mixer most likely on Sept. 29 or 30.

Details are forthcoming. How can I help, you ask? Currently volunteers are needed to help with the health panel and mixer. Health Panel Help: If you or someone you know share a particular interest in HIV issues and are willing to give a presentation/organize a panel, feel free to grace us with your knowledge(s). Mixer Help: 15-20 volunteers are needed to ally the mixer. Planning Meetings and Contact

For those who are seriously interested in helping with this event, feel free to email Timothy at: elijahscome@yahoo.com <mailto:elijahscome%40yahoo.com>  and he can assist you with further details such as location. Also, if you need some help generating some ideas or if you have any questions and Tim’s hands are full, please feel free to contact me at: youngt1982@gmail.com <mailto:youngt1982%40gmail.com> .

The Generic Ensemble Company Presents:
Una Corda (A Ritual)

Written and Performed by kt shorb
Directed by Yvan Greenberg

Four Performances Only, September 10–12
The Blue Theatre

kt shorb will perform the world premiere of Una Corda on Friday September 10 at 8pm, Saturday September 11 at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday September 12 at 2pm. All shows will take place at The Blue Theatre (916 Springdale Road, Austin, TX 78702), presented by The Generic Ensemble Company.

Una Corda is a ritual meditation on the spiritual and emotional effects of cancer and the experience of witnessing the destruction and loss caused by the disease. This solo show is an original rite, using rigorous physicality and stream-of-consciousness text based on shorb’s experience nursing three women undergoing cancer treatment. Blurring the line between ceremony, happening, and autobiography, Una Corda asks the question: How do we not lose sight of ourselves when surrounded by loss itself?

Created by performer/writer kt shorb in collaboration with director Yvan Greenberg, Una Corda uses Greenberg’s signature layering of choreography, text, imitation and indeterminacy alongside shorb’s explorations of intimacy, failure, and frenetic action to create visceral movements, objects, and atmospheres. Drawing influences from Noh theatre, Bugaku, and Japanese Buddhist ceremonies, the ritual takes place in the liminal spaces between life and death, presence and oblivion, redemption and loss.

The piece also includes scenic design by Sarah Sage, costuming by Irene Roderick and poetry by Kimberly Alidio.

To reserve tickets, visit: http://genericensemblecompany.blogspot.com/2010/08/genenco-presents-una-corda-ritual.html

23rd Film Festival Sept 7-12

Join us at the Alamo Drafthouse S. Lamar for the 23rd Annual Austin Gay & Lesbian
International Film Festival

Because tickets are limited, we encourage you to Purchase an All-Access Festival Badge.

We’re HOWLing with excitement over here at aGLIFF and we know you will be, too! The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival was founded in 1987 and became a 501(c)3 in 1995.

The festival has grown tremendously in size and scope from a short four-day run of four films primarily focused on coming out and AIDS to a multimedia event with over 150 films depicting myriad issues across cultures, race, immigration status, class, gender identity and expression, age, and region.

The festival has expanded in purpose to combine entertainment with community outreach and education and is implementing year-round programming and community projects.

For more information: http://www.agliff.org/

The QSA Welcome Carnival will be on Friday, September 3 at 5:00 pm in the Recreational Sports Facility on San Jacinto. This Carnival is a great way to meet lots of different people and get as much information on the different student groups and UT departments.

The fifth annual Queer Texas Conference will be held October 15 and 16, 2010 at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Social Work. This conference will bring together high school and college students, as well as community members, from across the state to network, learn and build community.

If you have ideas, interests, concerns, etc. that you’d like to see addressed at this conference PLEASE tell us. You can contact the QSA directly at texasqsa@gmail.com.

For this conference, we’ve developed three tracks (themes that the workshops and presentations will be centered around). The three tracks for this year are:
1.  The Possibility Track – this track of workshops and panels will be geared toward students who are just exploring their sexual orientation or building their community. Potential workshop topics include: Coming Out workshops, Safer Sex workshops, Resources for LGBT Students at UT, etc.
2.  The Influence Track – this track will focus on queer studies. Papers and presentations on various facets of queers studies will be presented here.
3.  The Impact Track – this track will focus on activism within and for the LGBT community. These workshops/panels will frame queer liberation work in a social justice/anti-oppression context.

If you are interested in presenting a workshop, please fill out the attached interest form and email it to texasqsa@gmail.com with the subject: QTC Workshops.  Or, go to http://qpocatexas.com/qsa/proposal.html and fill out form online. Due date: 9/3/10. We hope to have announcements about which proposals have been accepted by 9/20/2010.