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September at the LGBTQ Center: Bi Visibility and Pride Parade
Highlights this month include Bisexual and Visibility, the Pride: Durham Parade, an LGBTQ Speaker Series event on Socioeconomic Status and Chronic Stress, and the first QTPOC + QGAPS social of the year.
TUESDAY 9/03
Trans Talk Tuesday
6:15pm - 7:15pm at Caribou Coffee, 1408 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Trans Talk Tuesday is a peer support/discussion group for people who identify as transgender, gender non-conforming, or who are questioning their gender. This space is
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Aluminate Volume 7: 2018-2019
Aluminate Volume 7 looks back at a successful 2018-2019 academic year featuring collaboration with student organizations, University departments, dedicated volunteers, and alums* like you.
Contents
- Pride Week at Carolina 2019
- Safe Zone Programming Milestones
- Graduate and Professional Student Programming
- LGBTQ Center Advancement Council
- Lavender Graduation 2019 with keynote Joy Messinger
- Carolina Pride Alumni Network
- Thank You to Our Partners
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August 2019 at the LGBTQ Center
Tue 8/06 & 20: Trans Talk Tuesday
6:15pm - 7:15pm at Caribou Coffee, 1408 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Trans Talk Tuesday is a peer support/discussion group for people who identify as transgender, gender non-conforming, or who are questioning their gender. This space is meant to provide community and connection among folks on the basis of gender identity.
The group is open to campus and community members that identify as transgender (in any respect), genderqueer, or who are questioning
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Pride Month in the Triangle
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village. The Stonewall uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. (Source:
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Announcing 2019 Lavender Graduation Keynote Speaker: Joy Messinger (UNC 2010)
We are honored that Joy Messinger has accepted our invitation to address over thirty graduating LGBTIQA+ or allied students, their affirming loved ones, and friends of the LGBTQ Center next Sunday at Carolina's 13th annual Lavender Graduation.
Joy Messinger, MSW, MPH is a Chicago-based reproductive, birth, and social justice advocate who earned her MPH in Health Behavior and Health Education from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from the UNC School of Social Work in 2010.
She currently serves as Program
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Employee Forum Resolution 19-03 Concerning State Health Plan Coverage
At the April 3, 2019 meeting of the UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Forum, members approved Resolution 19-03 Concerning State Health Plan Coverage. Read the resolution in full below. (Source: https://employeeforum.unc.edu/resolutions/resolution-19-03-v2/)
Resolution Text
RESOLUTION OF THE EMPLOYEE FORUM
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
April 3, 2019
WHEREAS the Mission of the Employee Forum is to address constructively the concerns of
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Pride Week 2019: April 8 - 12
Pride Week is a partnership between the LGBTQ Center, student organizations and University departments across campus that focus on inclusivity and/or advocacy related to gender and sexual diversity. Together we put on social and educational events to build community for LGBTIQA+ and allied campus communities.
On Monday, events kick-off with T-shirt Tie Dying in SASB Courtyard (SASB Upendo rain location) from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Afterwards, jon
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LGBTQ Center Hosting Transgender Pride and Visibility 2019
We celebrate Trans Pride and Visibility at the end of March in observance of International Transgender Day of Visibility, held annually on March 31st. "TDOV is a day to show your support for the trans community. It aims to bring attention to the accomplishments of trans people around the globe while fighting cissexism and transphobia by spreading knowledge of the trans community. Unlike Transgender Day of Remembrance, this is not a day for mourning: this is a day of empowerment and getting the recognition deserve!"
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Gender Week 2019
Gender Week is March 18 - 22, 2019.
The Carolina Women’s Center and the LGBTQ Center organize Gender Week to encourage the campus and greater communities to better understand and map the intersections of identity and examine the ways that gender, race, class, etc. influence our daily lives.
The intersectional focus of Gender Week will challenge us to reexamine the assumptions and actions that make up our habits, while we have in-depth discussions of context and history to illuminate many truths about our identities and experiences that are often ignored.
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