FALL 2000

 

September 14, 2000

Fall Welcome Reception
co-sponsored by OUTReach

Annual Fall reception to welcome new members to campus. There will be free Hors d'oeuvres' and no admission charge. The reception is sponsored by OUTReach and The Committee for LGB Studies. UofA LGBT resource organizations will be introduced during the reception.

The Presidio Grill
3352 East Speedway Blvd
7-9 p.m.

 

September 15, 2000

Carol Leigh (aka The Scarlot Harlot) -- "In Person and On Video!"

Carol Leigh, a.k.a. the Scarlot Harlot, has been working as a prostitute, activist, and artist for the past fifteen years. Leigh was a founding member of ACT UP in San Francisco and is currently seated on the San Francisco Board of Supervisor's Task Force on Prostitution. A recipient of numerous awards for her video documentaries on women's and lesbian and gay issues, Leigh's videos include the award-winning Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California and Scarlet Harlot's Interstate Solicitation Tour.

Art Museum, Room 312
2-4 p.m. Refreshments provided.

 

September 29, 2000

Q & A with Urvashi Vaid

Urvashi Vaid is a long-time leader of the Lesbian and Gay movement. Former Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) and current Executive Director of the NGLTF Policy Institute, she is also the author of _Virtual Equality_. Throughout her career she has stood out as one of the few national leaders to articulate a progressive agenda for the Gay/Lesbian movement. She is a recipient of numerous awards including a Rockefeller Fellowship.

Student Union Tucson Room
3-5 p.m. Refreshments provided.

 

October 20-21, 2000
The Future of Women's Studies: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics

Sponsored by the UA Department of Women's Studies.

 

 

SPRING 2001

 

February 2001

The Lesbian Looks Film and Video Series

Join us for another year of this exciting film and video series. This event is free and open to the public.

 

March 9-10, 2001

6th Annual Sex and Scholarship Symposium
Collective Action: Working for Sexual, Racial and Economic Justice

 

March 23-24, 2001

Labor in the Americas Conference

Confirmed speakers include: Art Silvers, Melissa Wright, Anne Browning, Ken Roberts, Hector Delgado, Ruth Milkman, Vermonja Alston, David Fairris and a representative from the Agua Prieta Maquila Organizing Project. Panel topics are: Wage Inequality in Mexico, Identity and Conflict in the U.S., Immigration and Labor Conflict, and Unions and Politics in the Americas.

 

April 7, 2001

"En Toda Familia... En Todo Movimiento...Siempre Hemos Estado"
An Evening of Performance with Monica Palacios and Luis Alfaro

Social Sciences 108
7 p.m.
Free to the public

This event is part of the conference of the National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies taking place on the UA campus April 4-8. This performance event is sponsored by the Joto and Lesbiana caucuses of NACCS. For more information on the conference visit www.naccs.org