Over the years, QSH has hosted numerous events for the Middlebury community. One example of a recurring event held weekly by QSH was Ally Tea, a safe space for anyone who cared to discuss LGBTQ issues, studies, and related topics.
Below is a sampling of events from the 2010-2011 academic year hosted or sponsored by QSH! Click on any of the photos to read a full event description.
Trans/formative Justice:
Prison Abolition, Gender Self-Determination, and Education
Tuesday, April 19 // 4:30 P.M. // Axinn 229
In this workshop, Lark Mulligan ’11 and Viveka Ray-Mazumder ’11helped us unpack some of the complexities of fighting for liberation within violent and discriminatory institutions of authority. Specifically, we questioned the ways in which schools mirror the State by investigating punitive practices and the school-to-prison pipeline: how do both schools and the penal system function to police and control our bodies, our identities, and our imaginations as activists? The workshop concluded with a discussion of education and the school system as sites of radical resistances and creative transformation.
Wednesday, January 26 // 7:30 P.M. // Axinn 229
Kenyon Farrow, queer activist and former Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice, discussed how the more mainstream LGBT movement and even the queer left have failed to build an infrastructure to support people—whether they’re young and coming out or if they are seasoned activists.
Monday, March 21 // 7:00 P.M. // Hillcrest 103 (Orchard)
In this lecture, Owen Daniel-McCarter discussed the particular legal issues faced by transgender immigrants of color in the U.S., including an analysis of how current immigration policies disproportionately bar trans people of color from gaining citizenship, and how immigrant detainment practices uphold systems of misogynist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic violence. The lecture addressed why these struggles are of concern to the Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice movements, and concluded by outlining next steps that activists can take in dismantling interlocking systems of oppression. Owen-Daniel McCarter is the founding collective member and project attorney for the Transformative Justice Law Project (TJLP) in Chicago, which provides free, holistic legal services to poor transgender people of color targeted by the legal system throughout Illinois.
Friday, March 18 // 11:30 P.M.-2:00 A.M. // QSH
Blacklights, balloons, bubble wrap on the walls, and endless pop music. What could be better?!
Tuesday, January 18 // 8 P.M. // Hillcrest 103 (Orchard)
This hour-long documentary gave us insight into the past 80 years of the queer rights movement in China.
Tuesday, March 22 // 4:30 P.M. // Hillcrest 103 (Orchard)
In this workshop, Owen Daniel-McCarter and Baylie Roth ’9.5 led a discussion of how state-sponsored systems of control negatively effect and create divisions among oppressed communities, including people of color, folks with disabilities, immigrants, women, poor people, and transgender people. We questioned whether current national legal battles demanding things like hate crimes legislation, marriage recognition, and decriminalization of queer sex are harmful to our communities. The workshop concluded with collective dreaming about what lessons can be shared among activists organizing both on and off college campuses, and how we can transform justice, empower disempowered communities, and push for liberation from institutional systems of control over our bodies. Owen-Daniel McCarter is the founding collective member and project attorney for the Transformative Justice Law Project (TJLP) in Chicago, which provides free, holistic legal services to poor transgender people of color targeted by the legal system throughout Illinois.
Tuesday, October 26 // 4:30 P.M. // Axinn 219
In this discussion led by Tony Huỳnh ’13, we focused on the intersections of queerness and race. In keeping with (So) Over the Rainbow, we narrowed in on students’ personal accounts of how race shapes the construction of queer identities and affects the “coming out” narrative.
Monday, March 21 // 7:00 P.M. // Hillcrest 103 (Orchard)
In this lecture, Owen Daniel-McCarter discussed the particular legal issues faced by transgender immigrants of color in the U.S., including an analysis of how current immigration policies disproportionately bar trans people of color from gaining citizenship, and how immigrant detainment practices uphold systems of misogynist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic violence. The lecture addressed why these struggles are of concern to the Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice movements, and concluded by outlining next steps that activists can take in dismantling interlocking systems of oppression. Owen-Daniel McCarter is the founding collective member and project attorney for the Transformative Justice Law Project (TJLP) in Chicago, which provides free, holistic legal services to poor transgender people of color targeted by the legal system throughout Illinois.
Visit https://middleburycampus.com/12745/opinion/coming-out-sean-maye-11/ to read a Campus op-ed about this event or http://middoutday.webstarts.com/index.html to visit this event’s microsite!
