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Poster Calendar

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Submitted by Sarah on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 8:09am.
Apr 21 2008 - 5:00pm
Apr 25 2008 - 9:00pm

Monday, April 21st

  • Queer Organization Potluck -5:00 to 8:00 PM - TESC Longhouse Come share yummy food while you mingle and smooze with queer organizations. Open to everyone.

Tuesday, April 22nd

  • Silvia Behrend - 5:00 PM - SEM II A2107 "Soul and Gender: The Dance Towards Wholeness"

Wednesday, April 23rd

  • Free HIV testing! - 12:00 to 6:00 PM - SEM II A2109 provided by UCAN
  • EQA meeting - 3:00 to 4:00 - SEM II C2107 - Discussion subject: PRIDE: what does it mean? Do we still need pride celebrations?
  • Lesbian Safer Sex Workshop - 5:30 PM - Lecture hall 2 by Planned Parenthood of Olympia

Thursday, April 24th

  • Speakers panel - 6:00 to 8:00 - CAB 3rd floor Solarium (Student Activities) "How to Queer Activism"

Friday, April 25th

  • Actor Slash Model - 2:00 PM - Lecture Hall 2 "Through both music and film Actor Slash Model addresses issues of gender identity, gender performance and politics, a sex positive ideal, and the art making process. As a filmmaking duo, Actor Slash Model is currently producing a documentary chronicling gender identity and performance as it surrounds musicianship." Co-sponsored with STAR
  • Film: Quinceanera - 7:00 -in the HCC - FREE MOVIE!!! "Magdalena is 14 and anxiously awaiting her 15th birthday where she'll celebrate her quinceanara. Her world starts to crumble when she discovers her pregnancy after not being able to fit in her gown for her quinceanara. Soon, she's kicked out of her home, abandoned by her family, and abandoned by her baby's father. Magdalena is then taken in by her great-granduncle, Tomas and her gay, often-in-trouble cousin, Carlos. There she finds a new family and life." Co-sponsored by Housing and the RA's

(via PFLAG Olympia)

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