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Art Exhibition
Love Will Heal Us: Runs Jan 31 to Apr 15, 2022
Miles Regis
MCC Lounge
Art Exhibit runs January 31 to April 15, 2022
Art Exhibit Opening Reception and Live Painting on April 14th at 6pm
Artist Miles Regis’ profound messages of love and unity provide inspiration in all aspects of life. Regis’ work seduces his audience to look deeper where one uncovers undoubtedly poignant messages in every piece. The simplicity of black and white structure, starkly juxtaposed with the complex dimensions of color, seamlessly reflect our struggle, strength and triumph. His art is a reflection of our truth.
Give Day is here: Support the MCC and JSJLS today!
MCC JSJLS
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Dear Community Members,
The Jackson Social Justice Legacy Scholarship (JSJLS) is happy to announce its participation in UCSB’s Give Day campaign! Our involvement in the Give Day campaign will allow you to learn more about our program and give back to create more opportunities for students at UCSB!
Our Give Day donation link is officially open and will end on April 8th at 12:00pm.
Our donation link can be widely shared! Follow the JS Instagram page for the latest updates and information about how you can contribute: @jacksonsjinterns.
The Jackson Scholarship is an internship-based opportunity that was founded, and eponymously named after, Taylor Jackson, and co-founder Emily Diaz, two students at UCSB who wanted to create a program focused on the education and implementation of social justice, love, and empowerment at UCSB.
This year, Petrona Garcia (They/She) and Emily Diaz (She/They) serve as the Jackson Scholarship Coordinators for the 2021-2022 Academic Year. Our current cohort comprises eight interns who have dedicated themselves to different projects for the UCSB and IV/Goleta community. This spring quarter, our interns will launch their community projects, and we hope you will tune in and support our interns during their community events! Our biggest event this year, thus far, was the 9th Annual Social Justice Conference, with over 80 community members in attendance.
We invite you to donate and share information about the Jackson Scholarship with your friends, family, peers, and respective communities. Your support allows our program to continue and provide resources and opportunities for students of different communities and identities to continue doing excellent work at UCSB!
Click to learn more on Give Day how you can make a difference.
In community,
Jackson Social Justice Legacy Scholarship
Wonderful/terrible: Being non-binary in a world still trying to figure out what that means
Dr. Lee Airton
MCC Theater; Book signing in the MCC Lounge
Gender is wonderful, and gender is terrible. It is a way of finding joy in one’s self as well as community and connection with others, and it is a way that people harm each other in small and large ways on a daily basis. This is true in transgender communities, among cisgender people, and in spaces where cis and trans people share space together. For Dr. Lee Airton, the question has always been: how can each of us make gender more joyful and less harmful, for ourselves and for everyone we interact with whether we know them or not?
After a lifetime of feeling their way through the maze of gender binary expectations within and outside of transgender communities, in 2011 Dr. Lee Airton founded They is My Pronoun, the first Q&A-based blog on gender-neutral pronouns. Ten years later in 2021, they archived the blog for good because every question coming in had already been answered. In this talk, Dr. Airton reflects on the decade (2011-2021) in which they came to know they were non-binary, and society came to realize that gender is more than most people had ever thought possible. Coming out as non-binary and finding their forever pronouns (they/them) happened while Dr. Airton was starting a career as a university professor, researcher and gender diversity educator who today supports dozens of public and private organizations in welcoming all the ways people live gender. They will reflect on that experience and make predictions for the future, sharing stories from their book Gender: Your Guide that bring to life how gender is – for everyone, whether cis or trans – wonderful and terrible, but also hilarious.
– Book signing to follow in the MCC Lounge
– Co-hosted with Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
– Co-sponsors: CITRAL, DEI, Women's Center, LGBTQ Studies Minor in the Department of Feminist Studies, Title IX
BIO:
Dr. Lee Airton is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In 2012, Dr. Airton founded They Is My Pronoun, the first Q+A-based blog about gender-neutral pronoun usage and user support with over 30,000 unique visitors in 2017 alone. In 2016, Dr. Airton founded the No Big Deal Campaign, a national social media initiative that helps people show support for transgender peoples' right to have their pronouns used. In 2021, Dr. Airton and their research team launched gegi.ca [pronounced gee gee dot c a], the first bilingual self-advocacy resource for K-12 students who are experiencing gender expression and gender identity discrimination at school. In recognition of their advocacy work, Dr. Airton received a 2017 Youth Role Model of the Year Award from the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity.
Dr. Airton's first book, Gender – Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say and What to Do in the New Gender Culture offers practical steps for welcoming gender diversity in everyday life, and has been adopted as a key professional development text in teacher education programs, school districts, public sector and private sector organizations. With Dr. Susan Woolley, they recently edited Teaching About Gender Diversity: Teacher-Tested Lesson Plans for K-12 Classrooms (Canadian Scholars Press), the first such anthology to be published.
Dr. Airton's SSHRC-funded research program on gender diversity, human rights, policy, law, teaching, and learning has received 10 merit-based research grants since 2018 alone. Their research explores how the Ontario K-12 education system is responding to the inclusion of gender identity and gender expression protections in human rights legislation, and how to make the collection of gender-based data in large studies more reflective of how gender is read and negotiated. Dr. Airton also leads an action research project in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University, collaborating with staff to remove barriers for transgender and/or gender non-conforming teacher candidates. Dr. Airton is a frequent speaker and media commentator, and has been interviewed over 60 times in nationally and internationally on topics related to gender diversity. Dr. Airton’s scholarly publications have appeared in top-tier research journals such as Teachers College Record, Gender and Education, and the Journal of Education Policy."
Body Autonomy & the Overturn of Roe v Wade: A Collective Processing Space
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Feeling angry and confused about the state of reproductive health and rights with the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade? Concerned about how this devastating decision will impact BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities?
Join the MCC, RCSGD, Women’s Center, Health & Wellness, Student Health, Office of Black Student Development, CAPS, Feminist Studies, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Asian American Studies, and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, for a community reflection and processing space.
