UC Merced Lgbtq+ Initiatives

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Good morning everyone! We are proud to present a live viewing of Queers Live! this Friday! We are calling it Queers Live!:The live show! Join us if you can!

Please joins un on Trans Day of Remembrance to learn more about the positive impact the Trans community has on our society.

Please join us and share among our Bobcat community! #bobcatstrong #sayhernamebreonnataylor

Good morning everyone we are excited to announce that we will be having Lounge discussions and healing circle sessions. Everyone is welcome to come! Every Friday from 10:00-11:30 AM. Come by if you have the time we’re going to have a great time!

Black LGBTQ+ Icons: #BLACKLIVESMATTER Jarrett Hill is most notably known for breaking the Michelle Obama/Melania Trump RNC plagiarism story. Hill is a contribut...or with NBC News, The New York Times, and The Hollywood Reporter, and is currently a producer in residency at Buzzfeed, creating content with a focus on diversity and inclusion. Hill has provided perspective and analysis for CNN International, MSNBC, Access Hollywood Live, NBC Nightly News, and many others, and was named to the 2016 Ebony Power 100. Hill has also worked in radio, television and digital media for local, national, and international outlets for more than 16 years; including iHeart Radio, CNN, Sirius XM Satellite Radio, Fox, TBS, and the UK's ITN. Jarrett reported daily for the ABC affiliate in Tampa, FL, ABC Action News, presenting reports on diverse topics, from trending technology to social media and breaking news. Where would we be without Jarrett Hill?

Black LGBTQ+ Icons: #BLACKLIVESMATTER Former NFL player Wade Davis is a thought leader, writer, public speaker, and educator on gender, race, and sexual orienta...tion equality. Davis is dedicated to using his platforms and social currency to highlight issues that directly impact women and girls. In partnership with the Ms. Foundation and Ebony Magazine, Davis launched the #BlackMenAndFeminism campaign, focusing on conversations with Black men around their perceptions and understanding of feminism. Recently, Davis worked with Huffington Post Women to film content centered on men as feminists. Where would we be without Wade Davis II?

Black LGBTQ+ Icons: #BLACKLIVESMATTER In 2019, David became the first person of color to lead the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the... U.S., in the organization's nearly 40-year history. A graduate of the Temple University School of Law, David served as an attorney for Lambda Legal, working on LGBTQ cases around the country, and as the first openly gay counsel to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Where would we be without Alphonso David?

Black LGBTQ+ Icons: #BLACKLIVESMATTER Jenkins made history in November 2017 by becoming the first openly transgender black woman elected to public office in the... U.S., according to LGBTQ advocacy groups and researchers. Jenkins, a Democrat, was one of two openly trans people to win a seat on the Minneapolis City Council in 2017. She is also a published poet and an oral historian at the University of Minnesota. Where would we be without Andrea Jenkins?

Black LGBTQ+ Icons: #BLACKLIVESMATTER Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 November 17, 1992) was a writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, warrior, and civil rights... activist. Her writing, including poetry, essays, books, and social commentary that express anger and outrage at civil and social discrimination. She passionately wrote and spoke of the need to speak up against and bear witness to injustice: What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? In titling her New York State’s Poet Laureate, then-Governor Mario Cuomo said of Lorde, Her imagination is charged by a sharp sense of racial injustice and cruelty, of sexual prejudiceShe cries out against it as the voice of indignant humanity. Audre Lorde is the voice of the eloquent outsider who speaks in a language that can reach and touch people everywhere. Where would we be without Audre Lorde?

With the upcoming elections, the Radical Healing Series might be just the opportunity you need to connect with others, build community and have impactful dialogues!

Please join us and share among our Bobcat community! #bobcatstrong #sayhernamebreonnataylor

Good morning everyone we are excited to announce that we will be having Lounge discussions and healing circle sessions. Everyone is welcome to come! Every Friday from 10:00-11:30 AM. Come by if you have the time we’re going to have a great time!