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The Announcements on this page are updated once a month. lbgt@mit coordinates a monthly e-mail newsletter through which these Announcements are distributed. To subscribe to the monthly e-mail, please submit a request to lbgt@mit.
Also Check Out the Online Web Calendar to Find Out What's Going on with LBGT@MIT! LBGT@MIT's online calendar is an excellent way to publicize and learn about activities taking place on campus. Check out the newly updated version today and frequently at web.mit.edu/lbgt/events. Relaunch of the "You are Welcome Here" Campaign All MIT faculty and staff will be receiving an invitation to join the "You are Welcome Here" Campaign and/or renew their commitment! A shiny new sign and new opportunities are included. The relaunch is in recognition of MIT's addition of gender identity to its nondiscrimination policy in December 2003. More information about this addition and gender identity is available at http://web.mit.edu/lbgt/genderid/. Only Weeks Left to Wait: Same-Sex Marriage Support As the debates still rage, Monday, May 17 is coming closer - the first day Massachusetts will issue same-sex marriage licenses! What do you need to know to get married? The Freedom to Marry Coalition has a comprehensive site. Please visit: http://www.ftmc.org/how_to_get_married.php. Fenway Community Health is offering a premarital clinic over the next few days (http://www.fenwayhealth.org/mclinic.htm). In addition, they are sponsoring the following workshop: Wednesday, May 5 Keep in mind that the debate and the work are not over. Please continue to stay in touch with this issue. We will work to keep up to date! Penthesilea*: kick-ass music by local WOMEN Come join QWiLLTS for FREE in celebrating the talents of 3 outstanding women performers and groups: Naomi Sommers 9p-1a, April 30th, 2004, Coffeehouse (3rd floor, Student Center) If you haven't heard these ladies do their thing, you don't know what you're missing. *Penthesilea is the legendary queen of the Amazons "Chris Pureka's gritty tunes are charged with charm, toe-tapping poetry and a sexy dose of wit. I am a huge fan of this girl and her guitar love affair."-Alix Olson This event is sponsored by QWiLLTS (Queer Women Looking for Life in Tech School), the Women's Studies Department of MIT, LBGT@MIT, Counseling and Support Services, and the Undergraduate Association. QWiLLTS is a social and support organization for lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, curious, and allied women. This event is open to all people of all genders and orientations. Please come, and bring a friend or five! LAVENDER GRADUATION Your attendance is requested at the social event of the year! The Lavender Graduation: An Exquisite Reception honoring MIT's LBGT graduates of the 2003-2004 Academic Year (December and June) will be held in the Emma Rogers Room (10-340) on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 from 6-7:30pm (immediately following the Awards Convocation). Please come be a part of celebrating the accomplishments of our LBGT Graduates. If you are an LBGT graduating undergraduate or graduate student (or know someone who is), please RSVP to lbgt@mit.edu with your name and contact information so that we will be able to honor you in a special recognition ceremony. The Lavender Graduation is hosted by LBGT@MIT and BGALA (MIT's alumin/ae organization). For more information, email lbgt@mit.edu or call 617.253.5440. AWARDS CONVOCATION MIT's Annual Awards Convocation will be held on Tuesday, May 4 at 4pm in Huntington Hall, 10-250. All are invited to attend! The time to recognize and celebrate the contributions of outstanding students, faculty, and staff, the Awards Convocation will also include the presentation of the Kellett Award, MIT's annual award to recognize a member of the MIT community for contributions to improving the quality of life for lbgt individuals. You will not want to miss the chance to celebrate with this year's honoree. For more information, check out the website at mit.edu/awards. Annual LBGT Student Retreat Where:
Provincetown MIT students are invited to attend the 2nd Annual Fall Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender (LBGT) Student Retreat to be held September 10-12, 2004 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. For graduates and undergraduates, current and future leaders, and for those who have been involved in the past and those who may be interested in getting more involved in the future, this retreat will offer something for everyone. Most importantly, it will be a great opportunity to get to know old friends even better and to make many new ones as well. You can count on having a great time! More information available at http://web.mit.edu/lbgt/retreat/. Please RSVP to lbgt@mit.edu. GaMIT meeting May 13, 2004, 6:30pm - 7:30pm Rainbow Lounge (50-306) Bi-weekly business meetings for GaMIT (Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transgenders, and Friends at MIT). Email gamit-admin for an agenda. For
more information, contact gamit-admin@mit.edu Beyond the Disease of Doubleness: The Bisexual as Mulatto in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel Wednesday, May 5th. MIT
Women's Studies Intellectual Forum Talk by Anthony Lioi, Writing and
Women's Studies. My talk will examine the way that novelists such as Alice Walker, Tom Spanbauer, and Hanif Kureishi have correlated bisexuality, as a sexual identity, with "mixed"-race identity, especially through the figure of the mulatto. This identification of racial and sexual mixture is remarkable, given the history of the mulatta as a symbol of illness and sterility in the biological realm and degeneracy and betrayal in the cultural realm. I will consider how each novel develops a narrative strategy to overcome what I call the disease of doubleness, and relate these strategies to the politics of sexual identity in the wake of the Sixties. The central texts for discussion will be POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY, THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MOON, and THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA, set against a background of larger debates about race and sexuality in twentieth-century literature, film, and popular culture. Please RSVP to emmh@mit.edu to join us for the lunch portion of the talk. Want Recognition? Student
Leader Awards Reception More information at http://web.mit.edu/slp/leader-awards/ Come celebrate the accomplishments of our students and student organizations! Awards this year include BEST Example of Teamwork, Best Planned Event and Leadership Awards. Student Support and Discussion Groups The last Support and Discussion Group of the year will be the 2nd Monday of May from 4-5:30 in 5-104. Emily Meghan Morrow Howe from Women's Studies and James Collins from Counseling and Support Services will facilitate. It is asked that individuals attending this group plan to stay for the full session, though it is understood that some may have to leave for a 5 PM commitment (such as athletic teams). For more information, please contact James Collins (staff in Counseling and Support Services) at jmcollin@mit.edu or x8-5482. The monthly topic-based discussion groups are complete for the year. Thanks to Emily for all her work in organizing them! Check out the http://web.mit.edu/lbgt/support/ for more information - and definitely check back towards the end of the summer for next year's schedule! Please don't hesitate to contact MIT Mental Health (http://web.mit.edu/medical/services/s-mentalhealth.html) or Counseling and Support Services (http://web.mit.edu/css/) if you need someone to talk to! Rainbow Lounge: Open Through Finals The Rainbow Lounge will be open during the following hours through finals period this semester: Tuesdays from 5-9pm After Friday, May 21, the Lounge will close for the summer, to reopen in September. Summer questions should be directed to the lbgt@mit staff in the main Student Life Programs Office (W20-549, 3-6777). Located on the 3rd floor of Walker Memorial (50-306), the Rainbow Lounge provides meeting and office space for all LBGT groups on MIT's campus and serves as the hub for MIT's LBGT campus life. More information available at http://web.mit.edu/lbgt/lounge/. Tech Week Reunions 2004: BGALA The Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Alumni of MIT cordially invite the graduating class of 2004, returning alumni, BGALA members, and their guests to attend the BGALA Tech Week Reception. Complementary hors d'ouvres and cocktails will be served. Optional dinner to follow. Location:
Library, Hotel@MIT You may visit the BGALA web site for more details or to RSVP (so that we may have an accurate count for food and beverages.) http://alumweb.mit.edu/groups/bgala/ BGALA Mission Harvard Graduate School of Education PRIDE film festival Students from HGSE invite you to attend their first annual lbgt film festival. The event will occur on the HGSE campus, 1 Appian Way; Cambridge, April 30- May 2. Special events include a presentation by Jade Ramirez, a transgender youth activist, and Eric Criswell, Executive Director of the CIRE Foundation. For a complete listing of events, check out the website at www.2004pridefilmfestival.net or email Thomas Howard, the event organizer, at howardth@gse.harvard.edu. Save the date for PRIDE!!!!! Likely the queerest events of the year, Boston PRIDE (June 4-12) and Massachusetts Youth Pride (May 15) are just around the corner. Be sure to place these events on your calendar today! For more information, check out the web at: http://www.bostonpride.org/ and Youth PRIDE http://www.massyouthpride.org/. Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Training The next planned course in the 2004 schedule for the Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) course will be begin on May 3rd from 5-7pm in Twenty Chimneys. This course provides basic information on personal safety, awareness, risk reduction and avoidance. RAD teaches practical defensive techniques that require no special skills. This is employed as women learn to be more aware of their surroundings. RAD also offers the opportunity tto test these learned skills on a real person during a simulated attack. For more information, contact ThePolice@MIT Community Policing Unit at 253-9755 or email crimbite@mit.edu. Volunteer Opportunities Planning for next fall? Want to help out your community? If you self identify as LGBT/Queer/Genderqueer, have 5 hours per month to spare, then check us out! The Peer Listening Line and GLBT Helpline of Fenway Community Health provide information, referral and support to queer, lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender and genderqueer callers through our toll-free nationwide lines. If you are interested in volunteering, contact the Program Coordinator, Lyssa Steponaitis at lsteponaitis@fenwayhealth.org or 617-927-6242 for a volunteer application. We are especially in need of women, bisexual, transgender and genderqueer volunteers. A new volunteer training will occur the weekend of October 1-3, 2004. Come be the voice that answers our community's call! Gay, Lesbian,
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