Workshops

Below are workshops that have been selected for this year’s conference. Thank you to all who submitted. For any questions please contact Doug and Lajaunda: wr2011.programs@gmail.com.

Session 1

• Writing Erotic Shorts
• Defining “relationships”
• Gay and Greek: Finding Queer-friendly spaces within the Greek Communities
• Gay Rights Activism on a Global Level
• Looking past the excess weight
• Proud Of What?
• Producing Kushner’s Angels in America at a Catholic College
• Mobilizing QPOC: Finding the Movement
• What you know about Gender, and how to raise a gender neutral child.
• Bringing Queerness to the Big Screen: a workshop about getting into the entertainment industry
• Creative Journeys: Writing Through our Experiences
• Masculinities Caucus

Session 2

• So, What Are You?
• Asexuals: Who are they, and why should you care?
• Latino Gay Stereotypes
• Art, Activism, and Decolonial Queer Power
• Comparative Fluidity: Spectrums in Sexuality and Ethnicity
• Patriarchal Structures of Animal Oppression
• Femme Caucus
• Balancing sexuality and Christianity:  Queers, religion, and spirituality
• Allyship Within the Queer Community
• How Drag Still Makes Sense When Gender’s Only a Blur
• Shame, Survival and Strengths: LGBT Youth in the NYC Kiki Ballroom Scene
• Gender Bending Drag
• I Like That Dirty Talk: Your Sexual Self as Poetry

Session 3

• Humor and Diversity
• Livin’ to the T, Struggles, Issues, and Triumphs as Young Transpersons
• Gays in Space!!!: A Discussion on LGBTQIA Characters in Sci-Fi and Fantasy.
• An LGBTQ Prospective on Transitioning from Academia to the Workplace
• Make Your Own Damn Sex Toys
• Where YOU at!?! LGBTIQ Folks Gettin Down with Multiple Movements
• The Holy Queer:  Shaman, Healers, Warriors, Dancers, and Ritualists Ancient and Modern
• Black Lesbians Matter
• The History of LGBTetc. Symbology – Empowerment Through Flags, Colors, and Signs
• The Friends of Dorothy
• Understanding the experiences of LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers
• Are Cripples Screwed?
• DTF: An Exploration of Online Hook-ups, Homonormativity, and the Decolonial Desire
• Hidden History of UC Berkeley

Session 4

• Understanding the Crisis: Visual Culture and Media as Oppressive and Empowering
• Introducing Multiple Identities and Queering Passing
• Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Homonationalism, and the Pinkwashing of Western Imperialism
• BDSM – Kink Isn’t So Scary
• Queer Anarchy
• Intersexuality: Complicating the Binary
• “But I Want a Box!”: the invisibility of the American transgender population
• Be, Bi, And. For the Rest of Us
• Who Makes It Better?
• Marriage Equality and Beyond: From Prop 8 to Full Equality
• Equality Talks: Using everyday conversations and teachable moments to advance LGBT equality
• Y(our) Story: Queer People of Color Art and Creativity as Tools of De-Colonial Activism, Self-Expression, and Resistance

Session 5

• Butches and Fems: An Evaluation of Lesbian Bar Culture in the 1950s
• Straight Talk: Unchecking the “Privileged” Box
• F(eminism) to M(isogyny): Debunking Myths of the FTM Transgender Community
• Creating The Promised Land
• Pleasure? Yes!
• Bye Bye Binary!
• Bullying and Teen Suicide: How to help and heal
• Community Messaging: Discussing Same-Sex Marriage with the South Asian Community
• Edgeplay: When Floggers Are Not Enough
• Self-Description: How the LGBTQIA Community Describes Itself
• Interactive Theater LGBT Topic of Choice
• F**K THE MEDIA: I LOVE MY QUEER BODY!
• HIV/AIDS 101