Committee on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Studies Schedules Sex and Scholarship Symposium
<p><b>Event:</b> The 6th Annual (Ever Fabulous) Sex and Scholarship Symposium, "Collective Action: Working for Sexual, Racial and Economic Justice." The symposium is presented by the Committee on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Studies and made possible by grants from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance Fund of the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona and from the Gill Foundation, and co-sponsored by 35 UA departments, campus organizations and activist organizations in the Tucson area.<br /><br /><b>Dates/Times/Places:</b>Friday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the UA Modern Languages Auditorium<br />Saturday, March 10, 10 a.m. - 4:430 p.m., in Modern Languages Room 311<br /><br /><b>Cost:</b><br />Free and open to the public; childcare may be available if requested by March 2<br /><br />This symposium includes a Friday evening film screening ("Out at Work: Lesbians and Gay Men on the Job"), followed by discussion with Kipukai Kuali'i, president, Pride at Work (AFL-CIO), and filmmakers Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson, whose award-winning works include "Out at Work: America Undercover" (for HBO), "Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity," "Looking for a Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in Cuba," "Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: Labor Struggle in the Post Office," "Emily and Gitta," "Looking for Love: Teenage Mothers," "Another Brother" and the upcoming ITVS drama "Shift."<br /><br />The Saturday session includes a plenary panel featuring:<ul><br /><li>Kitty Krupat, co-editor of "Out Front: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance," and a doctoral candidate in American studies at New York University and member of the NYU Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW);<br /><li>Isabel Garcia, co-chair of Derechos Humanos, member of the Tucson Worker Rights Board, and director of the Pima County Legal Defender's Office;<br /><li>Michael Warner, professor of English, Rutgers University and author of "The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics and the Ethics of Queer Life";<br /><li>Andrea Smith, (Cherokee), co-founder of the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations, former Women of Color Caucus chair for the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault and a doctoral candidate in history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz;<br /></ul><br /><br />Noon-1 Lunch will be provided<br /><br />1-3p.m. Workshops (held in various rooms in the Modern Languages Building)<br /><ul><br /><li>How Money Shapes Our Movements<br /><li>Media Activism<br /><li>Dealing with the Mainstream Media<br /><li>State Violence and Domestic Violence: Prisons, Border Militarization and Violence Against Women<br /><li>Labor and the Academy: Sweatshops, Graduate Student Unions and the Labor Movement<br /><li>Sex and Freedom<br /></ul><br /><br />3-3:30 p.m. Break and Refreshments<br /><br />3:30-4:30 p.m. Wrap-Up and Report Back from Workshops, Modern Languages 311<br /><br />Co-sponsors for the event include:<ul><li>UA Department of Anthropology<li>UA Department of English<li>UA Department of Spanish and Portuguese<li>UA Department of Women's Studies<li>UA Program in American Indian Studies <li>UA Mexican American Studies and Research Center<li>The Udall Center for Public Policy<li>UA Commission on the Status of Women<li>Students Against Sweatshops at the University of Arizona<li>Coalicion de Derechos Humanos<li>ASUA Pride Alliance<li>Primavera Foundation<li>Salt of the Earth Labor College<li>ASUA Beyond Tolerance<li>Sonoran Activist Network News<li>Lesbian Avengers<li>Amazon Foundation<li>Pan Left Productions<li>OUTrage<li>SWARM: Southwest Alliance to Resist Militarization<li>Borderlands Theater<li>Jobs with Justice<li>UCOGS: University Coalition to Organize Graduate Students<li>QueerVoice: a Program of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, Pima County<li>Health Department and Wingspan<li>Women's International League for Peace and Freedom<li>SoundOff --Tucson Health, A Grassroots Advocacy Newsletter for HealthcareWorkers<li>OUTReach<li>Tucson Arts Brigade<li>Women Builders<li>Latino Men's Health Project/Salud es Poder<li>American Friends Service Committee, Arizona Area Program<li>SAAEJ: The Southern Arizona Alliance for Economic Justice</ul></p>





