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HUE stands for Honoring, Urging and Empowering Queer People of Color. We are an identity group under Vision & our organization aims to provide a safe space that promote qpoc leadership, community building, learning and radical self-care.
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Why does there need to be a space for the qpoc community? (In your opinion) White Supremacy and Heterosexism are systemic and exist in an omnipresent way. Racism is imposed on people of color every day of their lives, and cis-sexism & heteronormativity invade QPOC lives; it is a constant battle to exist as a queer person of color in this society. If one is not actively creating a safe space with these oppressions in mind they are present and HUE works to create a safe space where we are naming what oppresses us so that we can work to dismantle that. We create a safe space to allow qpoc of color to fill it, with the entirety of themselves and to grow in and with their identities.
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Page 3-:HUE QPOC Interview with Facilitator Nadia Alzamami
What is HUE QPOC?
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HUE Interview With Nadia Alzamami
How could someone become a better Advocate or Ally to the QPOC Community?
Page 4-6: QPOC Spotlight
Listen! Rule one to becoming an advocate or ally is to listen to the lived experience and words of those you want to advocate for. Realize that you don’t understand - that your lived experience with your identities differ and allow yourself to learn from others. Learn, take the time to critically think and allow time for self-reflection. Educate yourself! Uplift the QPOC voices that aren’t present in the room! Allow yourself to be uncomfortable and be ready to make mistakes, it’s okay. Making mistakes is how we learn.
Page 7: Did You Know?
What other resources does HUE provide or want to provide in the future?
Page 8: LGBT Leadership Certificate
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Future goals include: off-campus bonding time/community building meetings, visibility projects campus wide, attending a QPOC conference (fingers crossed!), and exploring current events as they related to QPOC folks. What are some goals of HUE? HUE aims to gain a stable and active membership and to provide them with the space to be themselves authentically, to grow as leaders, and to motivate them to take leadership positions throughout campus and invade spaces riddled with white supremacy. Furthermore we want to uplift QPOC voices and bring visibility. HUE’s goal is to give QPOC the power to make the change they want and/or need, whether that’s for themselves or systemically.
QPOC Spotlight Desiree Akhavan is an American film director, screenwriter and actor, best known for her 2014 feature film debut Appropriate Behavior.[2] She plays a writing student in Season 4 of Girls.[2] Born and raised in upstate New York to Iranian immigrant parents who left the country following the Iranian Revolution,Akhavan studied film and theatre at Smith College and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and spent a year studying abroad at Queen Mary, University of London.[2]Prior to making Appropriate Behaviour, Akhavan wrote and directed the short film Nose Job, and wrote, directed and acted in the lesbian-themed web series The Slope.[2] Akhavan and Ingrid Jungermann, her creative partner on The Slope, were named to Filmmaker’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2012.[2] Chi Chia-Wei is a well-known gay rights and AIDS activist in Taiwan.[1] He has repeatedly tried to legally marry his partner since 1986 and is pressuring the Council of Grand Justices to review the country’s marriage laws. [1] He was first discriminated against when he attempted to register his marriage. The legislature claimed that “Homosexuals are a minority of perverse people...” Chi continued fighting despite the bleak and oppressive environment. [1]He currently runs a hotline and is a fundraiser for AIDS treatment and prevention. He not only has a goal of legal recognition, but also strives to achieve ideological goal of a society in which homosexuality is seen as normal human variation.[1]
information for the Qpoc Spotlight from [1] http://out.ucr.edu/SiteCollctionDocuments/queer_people_of_color_heroes_posters.pdf [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiree_Akhavan
Giti has worked socially and academically to open up Indian society to queer life.[1] Trained in Western history, she combats Indian homophobia and colonial impositions by revealing and articulating fluid perspectives of gender and sexuality from the Vedas- Hindu religious texts. [1]As a cutting-edge queer theorist, Giti has fought Hindu Right political party agendas, and co-founded the organization called Sakhi in 1990.[1] Sakhi serves as a place of lesbian activism and support. She travels throughout India and documents lesbian and thirdgendered ancient art. [1] Her current projects are on women artists and she recently published Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India.[1]
Carla completed a dissertation in Educational Psychology on the treatment of underrepresented students in college.[1]She is the author of several short stories about the intersections of identity, sexuality, and higher education.[1] She is the editor of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991) and won the LAMDA book award for best lesbian anthology.[1] She has made significant contributions to literature on gay/lesbian lifestyles.[1] She is the editor of Living Chicana Theory (1998) and is currently the Director of Diversity Programs in the College of Engineering at Berkeley.[1] She also lectures in Ethnic Studies at Berkeley and in Women’s Studies at San Francisco State University.[1] Cherrie Moraga describes herself as “La Guera,” which means “fair-skinned,” because she can pass as being White. [1] She has realized the advantages of having “white privilege,” but this has also had a negative affect on her ability to connect fully with her Chicana background. [1] Her works, especially those of the 1980’s, reflect her struggle her Chicana identity and effectively set the stage for younger generations of writers and activists.[1] Along with books, she has written plays, addressing feminism, ethnicity, sexuality, and other gender-related issues.[1] She co-edited This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color with her long time partner Gloria Anzaldua, and published the first openly lesbian Chicana book in 1983 called Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso Por Sus. [1]She is currently a member of the Theater Communications Group.[1] information for the Qpoc Spotlight from [1] http://out.ucr.edu/SiteCollctionDocuments/queer_people_of_color_heroes_posters.pdf [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiree_Akhavan
Born in 1894, Bessie developed her own act in Atlanta after working for the Moses Stokes company. Signed by Columbia Records, her biggest hit was “Down Hearted Blues.” She became the highest paid Black entertainer of her day.[1] She was married but very open about her bisexuality and affairs with women.[1] Smith was described as a “large masculine lady” by Langston Hughes and was acclaimed for her gender performances.[1] In 1937, doctors had to amputate her arm, following a car accident. She never regained consciousness and died the next morning.[1] Rumors claim that she was first taken to a White hospital and was refused treatment, which contributed to her death.[1]
Keith is a national political activist focused on issues of race and sexuality.[1] He worked in the Clinton administration as a liaison and spokesperson between the White House and the African American and gay media groups and activists.[1] He helped organize and took part in the nation’s first meeting between gay and lesbian leaders and the U.S. President.[1]Keith also served as the Executive Director of the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum to empower the Black LGBT community.[1] He has appeared on numerous media programs including Our Voices with Bev Smith and This is American with Dennis Wholey. [1]New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and others have quoted Keith in articles.[1] His most recent project, a book entitled, Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies & Denial in Black America (2005), looks at stereotypes on sexuality in the Black community and the spread of HIV/AIDS.[1] James was born in 1924.[1] He left home at the age of 17 and became an expatriate to the United States.[1] He spent a short time of his life as a preacher, which ultimately influenced his writing.[1] His novel Giovanni’s Room was a story about gay love.[1]It became a metaphor for the proverbial closet. [1] James urged American society to acknowledge and remove its myths, for he himself was not afraid to speak out on issues of oppression.[1]Baldwin played a crucial role in expanding literature into the realms of gay life in a racialized society.[1] Unlike other writers of his time, he portrayed the gay identity as one to be embraced and celebrated.[1] A gay bookstore in Philadelphia uses his name as their title.[1] Baldwin died in 1987 of stomach cancer.[1]
information for the Qpoc Spotlight from [1] http://out.ucr.edu/SiteCollctionDocuments/queer_people_of_color_heroes_posters.pdf [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiree_Akhavan
Did You Know? After sitting in for Larry King and guest hosting HuffPost Live and Pivot’s TakePart Live, Janet Mock landed her own show, called So POPular![3] on MSNBC’s new digital network Shift.[3] In her new weekly culture show So POPular! — a series she created to examine the cultural experiences that occupy our brains and time — Janet wields her encyclopedic knowledge (and LOVE!) of popular culture, her journalist curiosity and feminist and social justice lens.[3] The goal of So POPular! is to discuss the things you pretend you’re too smart to like, in an effort to expand the idea of what is considered political and worthy of analysis.[3] For more information on Janet Mock’s So POPular visit http://www.msnbc.com/so-popular
Information for this section is from [3]http://janetmock.com/tv/