QUEER I AM

SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

MARCH 25 & 26, 2016

QUEER I AM CREATES A LIBERATING SPACE TO ENGAGE QUEER

INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR MANY COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR SENSE
OF BELONGING AND PRIDE IN QUEER CULTURE AND COMMUNITY.
WE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS PLACE WE GATHER AS HOME OF THE SQUAXIN ISLAND TRIBE.
WHILE WE REDEFINE HOW EDUCATION SHOULD LOOK WE HOPE TO DEEPEN OUR
COMMITMENT TO INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, RIGHTS, AND LIBERATION.
VALUES CENTRAL TO THE SUMMIT:
BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH LIBERATION & CELEBRATION OF QUEER CULTURE.
PROVIDING SPACES FOR SAFETY, HEALING AND GROWTH.
FOSTERING ACCESSIBILITY FOR DIVERSE NEEDS AND LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE.
CENTERING VOICES AND EXPERIENCES OF QUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR.
EMPHASIZING SOLIDARITY AMONGST OUR QUEER CULTURAL DIFFERENCES TO
DEVELOP COMMUNITY.

WE AIM TO USE THIS SPACE TO AMPLIFY THE VOICES AND

EXPERIENCES OF QUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE IN HIGHER
EDUCATION.

Thank you for joining us for our second year! We hope that you leave this summit with enriched perspectives, a
stronger broader community, and an expanded sense of place and knowledge within queerness. We also hope that
you take this experience and turn it into action. We hope to you that Queer I Am is a catalyst, a reminder of what
we can accomplish together. Be involved, proud, educated, and love queerness in deeper ways daily. Allies, we
hope you too learn to love queerness deeper and take action to support queer education, culture, and visibility at
your college.

MUCH LOVE FROM YOUR QUEER I AM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE DID YOU KNOW SECTION, AS IT CONTAINS INFORMATION ON
HOW TO GET YOUR TICKET TO DINNER SATURDAY.

SUMMIT AGENDA
FRIDAY, MARCH 25 2016
TH

4:00 - 5:00

REGISTRATION

5:00 - 6:00

WELCOME & ROLL CALL

6:00 - 7:00

DINNER

7:00 - 8:00

PERFORMANCE: CLIMBING POETREE

8:00 - 10:00

DANCE PARTY WITH DJ MISSTANGQ

SATURDAY, MARCH 26 2016

TH

9:00 - 9:15

OPENING AND WELCOME BY DR. TIM STOKES

9:15 - 10:15

IDENTITY PROJECT

10:15 - 11:30

WORKSHOP SESSION 1

11:45 - 12:15

LUNCH

12:15 - 1:15

KEYNOTE: LYDIA BROWN

1:30 - 2:45

WORKSHOP SESSION 2

3:00 - 4:15

WORKSHOP SESSION 3

4:30 - 5:15

TABLING & NETWORKING SESSION

5:15 - 6:00

DINNER

6:00 - 7:00

SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE: SCARLETT PEDERSON

7:00 8:00

OPEN MIC WITH SISTER GLO

YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IT..

QUEER I AM COMMUNITY EXPECTATIONS

BE YOURSELF
Take time to honor the past and present. Learn about who you are and where you come from. Do not lose your
identity in the identity of others. You do not have to be them to understand and empathize with what they have
gone through.

SELF-LOVE
Celebrate culture, beginning with your own. Self-love is most important. Everyone has a culture it is what makes
you who you are! One culture is not better than another remember that cultures have been used to target and
judge people wrongly. Trust your integrity within your surrounding community because it is the right thing to do.

DEMONSTRATE RESPECT
It is not easy to respect differences, attitudes, lifestyles, experiences, ideologies and languages. So dont expect it
to be without ups and downs. Dont be an idealist or a pessimist; be realistic. Show respect for yourself and others.

SUPPORT SYSTEM
Have a support system of friends, peers and loved ones who will: listen, engage in conversations with you,
challenge your biases, understand what you may be experiencing, encourage your learning and motivate you to
continue learning.

EDUCATE OTHERS
Work to educate your surrounding community (friends, school, family, work, etc.) and expect support from other
allies. Utilize the people around you to advance your learning teachers, peers, elders, parents, mentors, etc. Do
not expect a particular group to have all the answers.

DEAL WITH DIVERSITY DAILY

Embrace diversity within your day-to-day life. Do not treat it as if you need to get done with it. You should bring
up topics and interact with people regularly not just once a year during history months, when something bad
happens, or when you have a particular person present.

EXPERIENCE FEAR
Acknowledge and articulate the role that fear has operated in your life fear of learning about injustices, fear of
cultural groups, or fear of the unknown. Racism, prejudice, bias and injustice are learned and can be unlearned.

GROWING PAINS
Ignorance is bliss. To go about our lives not knowing that injustices happen is blissful. Awareness and knowledge is
power. You will be a better person for going through this struggle. Be committed to your personal growth, despite
the probability of discomfort.

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

QUEER I AM COMMUNITY EXPECTATIONS

FEEL GUILT
Work from a place of understanding and responsibility for ones actions and empowerment, not from a place of
guilt. Acknowledge and articulate the role that guilt has in your developmental process. Feel guilty only if you have
done something to feel guilty about.

EDUCATE YOURSELF
Read books and magazines, see movies, and check out websites that dont have people like you in them. Utilize
opportunities within your community to interact with people from different backgrounds than your own.

ITS OKAY TO MAKE MISTAKES

Expect to make mistakes they are learning experiences but do not use them as an excuse for non-action or to
justify wrong doings.

DO THE RIGHT THING

Do not tell jokes or tolerate prejudiced humor. To initiate, perpetuate or participate is wrong. To say nothing to
someone is wrong. Silence gives license.

WORK WITHIN YOUR WORLD

The only way to eradicate -isms is for people to stand up and say, This is not right. You need to stand up for
those who cannot, but dont assume that because that someone doesnt address the issue they cant speak for
themselves.

BECOME ANGRY
Acknowledge and articulate the role anger plays in your learning process. You may become angry because youve
been lied to or uninformed. Accept it, embrace it, and use it to fuel your desire for social change.

EXPERIENCE ANXIETY
Information can be stressful and overwhelming. Take time to digest and process the information you receive, and
use your peers and mentors to help you.

FEEL EMPOWERED
Everyone has personal power: Embrace it. Use it to create social change.

Guidelines lovingly reproduced from MSSDC Students of Color Conference Increasing your diversity awareness and
cultural sensitivity guide.

KEYNOTES AND PERFORMERS

CLIMBING POETREE
Climbing PoeTree is the combined force of Alixa Garcia and
Naima Penniman. Over the last 11 years, Climbing PoeTree
has been at the forefront of social and environmental justice
movements by harnessing their art as a tool for popular
education, community organizing, and personal
transformation. Their award-winning performance is
composed of dual-voice spoken word poetry, hip hop, and
multimedia theatre that dissolves apathy with hope, exposes
injustice, and helps heal our inner trauma so that we may
begin to cope with the issues facing our communities.
LYDIA BROWN ::: DISABILITY JUSTICE AS IMPERATIVE FOR QUEER LIBERATION
Lydia X. Z. Brown (Autistic Hoya) is a gender/queer and
transracially/transnationally adopted east asian autistic activist, writer,
and speaker whose work has largely focused on violence against
multiply-marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization,
incarceration, and policing. They have worked to advance transformative
change through organizing in the streets, writing legislation, conducting
anti-ableism workshops, testifying at regulatory and policy hearings, and
disrupting institutional complacency everywhere from the academy to
state agencies and the nonprofit-industrial complex. At present, Lydia is
co-president of TASH New England, chairperson of the Massachusetts
Developmental Disabilities Council, and an executive board member of
the Autism Women's Network. In collaboration with Elesia Ashkenazy and Mornike Giwa-Onaiwu, Lydia is
the lead editor and visionary behind All the Weight of Our Dreams, a forthcoming anthology of writings and
artwork by autistic people of color. Previously, Lydia worked for the Autistic Self Advocacy Networks national
public policy team. Lydia has been honored by the White House, the Washington Peace Center, Pacific
Standard, and Mic. Lydias work has been featured in various anthologies, including Criptiques, Torture in
Healthcare Settings, and QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, and periodicals including Tikkun, Disability
Intersections, Black Girl Dangerous, hardboiled magazine, POOR Magazine, and the Washington Post.
SCARLETT PEDERSEN
Scarlett Pedersen is a multi-racial black poet from outer space
based in Olympia, Washington. She is a member of Old Growth
Poetry Collective, with whom she helps run Olympia People's
Mic, Olys only weekly poetry show. She was on the 2015
National Poetry Slam team from Olympia, and has performed
solo and with Old Growth Poetry Collective at various venues
and events from Pride TOO! in Eugene, OR, and Raining Man by
Cascadia Now. Her work has also been featured on KAOS radio
and Oddball Magazine, and her upcoming mini-chapbook Honey,
from MANGO publications.

SISTER GLO EURO NWEI

Sister Glo is a Seattle-based queer health advocate, femme faerie, poet and nun.
She believes that the most radical and revolutionary act is learning to love our queer
selves. She is drawn to sparkly objects and seeks to embody the transformative
power of glitter and love in action. As a member of the Sisters of Perpetual
Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan, Sister Glo has been nunning her way through
Seattles queer nonprofit scene for way more than a decade, raising thousands of
dollars for charities, and spreading love, joy and smiles. Founded in 1996, The Abbey
of St. Joan is Seattles official order of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Our
mission reads: We are an order of 21st Century nuns dedicated to the promulgation
of universal joy and the expiation of stigmatic guilt. We work to raise money for
AIDS charities; fight for queer rights and visibility; do safer sex outreach; and strive diligently to maintain our
sense of humor, never taking ourselves so seriously that we forget to have fun. We gladly welcome all races,
creed, genders and sexual orientations.
MISSTANGQ
MissTANGQ is a multi-media synesthetic artist and first-generation mystic-nerd.
She is deeply inspired by the hyphenated experience and explores this through
visual art, installation, fashion and DJing to create cross-sensory and multidisciplinary work. She is a traveler in the margins and crossroads of both identity
and the terrestrial to astral experience. She believes in the fertile power of these
places to remix our perceptions of and connection to the world. She loves to sing
on her bike and plot what she's going to eat next. Dancing is one of her favorite
forms of space travel.

COMMUNITY SPACES
FRIDAY & SATURDAY :: QUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR SPACE
For people who identify as a queer or trans person of color we have a space to retreat to, network, practice
healing arts, find qtpoc resources, and meet other qtpoc folks attending the summit. QTPOC Olympia is
sponsoring the space so stop by and say heyyyy!

SATURDAY :: DECOMPRESSION AND PFLAG SPACE

Between workshops or at moments where a workshop or activity may have brought up a lot emotionally for
you we have reserved a space for all participants to take a break, paint, and speak with volunteers ready to
lend an ear and provide support. Lead through our partnerships with Parents and Friends of Lesbians and
Gays, (PFLAG) promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their
families and friends through: Support to cope with an adverse society,Education to enlighten an ill-informed
public, and advocacy to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights.

SATURDAY 11:30-2:00 :: PIZZA KLATCH TEEN ZONE

Pizza Klatch is a place where you are free to be yourself! We are partnering with Queer I Am to provide a
teen-zone at the conference for self care and support for high school attendees during breaks and meals.
We'll have pizza for lunch on Saturday and do check-ins so all the high schoolers can meet one another and
connect -- We hope to see you there!

WORKSHOP SESSION 1
ART IS A HAMMER: RESHAPING REALITY THROUGH
CULTURAL ACTIVISM

10:15-11:30
27-119

CLIMBING POETREE : ALIXA & NAIMA

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
How can art be fashioned as a tool at the service of our vision for a more just and peaceful world? This interactive
workshop presentation combines performance, story-telling, slide-shows, and video to illuminate the powerful
symbiosis between art and activism. Art is Our Weapon, Our Medicine, Our Voice, and Our Vision: using their
motto as a guide, Alixa and Naima share tactics and strategies from their walks of life as cultural workers,
illuminating how poetry, media-making, creative interventions and collaborative public art can be used to
strengthen our movements for social justice. Participants will have the opportunity to share examples of arts
activism from their own experiences and communities, and should be prepared to get creative, imaginative, and
inspired!

WHITE RACIAL IDENTITY

26-104

MICAL DEGRAFF
This workshop is intended for white queer and trans people to talk about racism, privilege, and whiteness within
queer communities and identities. We will share stories, explore our own areas of growth, and gain skills in
advocacy and allyship.

VOGUE 101

22-180

ANGEL LANGLEY & JADE VOGELSANG

The presenter will begin with an icebreaker name game. This will segue into a warm up led by Jade and Angel.
After this, Angel will introduce runway techniques. Jade will demo European Runway, and Angel will demo
American runway. Participants will then take turns exploring runway across the floor. Around this time, Angel will
talk about Willie Ninja. Elements t such as duckwalk, handstyles, figure 8s, catwalk, dips and spins will also be
explored. Participants will enjoy a mini cypher which involves claiming ones space by slaying and working the
floor. YASS!

OLD LESBIAN ORAL HERSTORIES: SPEAKING OUT IN

EXPANDING CULTURAL REALMS

26-103

MARGARET PURCELL & KATHLEEN PREZBINDOWSKI

Puget Sound Old Lesbians expand resources and effective mechanisms of outreach to improve the lives of old
lesbians, especially those who are invisible and isolated. PS OLOC women play an integral part of the Old Lesbian
Oral Herstory Project by adding to the 450+ unique Herstories of lesbians born pre-1950; disseminating 100 OLOHP
Herstory anthologies to senior centers; by live dramatic readings, and production of an Oral Herstories DVD with
companion/discussion guide. The QIA Summit program will engage audience (intergenerational LGBTQ+ and allies)
to demonstrate a Project-- soon available to educate care providers and empower LGBTQs nation-wide contains
stories from women born as early as 1916, from all walks of life.

QUEER RESISTANCE: HISTORY AND ACTION

22-270

CHILAN TA, PAM RACANSKY & MICHELLE KLEISATH

Join this workshop to learn more about the queer histories of resistance and action in the last 60 - 100 years in the
U.S. Leave this workshop with more knowledge and with more skills to join successful non-violent movements or
lead your own non-violent direct actions. This will be a multimodal interactive workshop.

COPING IN A CISNORMATIVE WORLD

22-195

ALEX MARTIN & BEVYN ROWLAND

Cisnormativity is the assumption that everyone is, or should be, cisgender, i.e. someone whose gender and sex
assigned at birth match. This assumption is becoming increasingly more obvious within our healthcare and
educational systems as transgender visibility increases. In this interactive workshop, we will explore emerging
terms that are being used with the intention to create space for transgender and gender nonconforming folks. We
will leave this workshop having developed coping strategies to support ourselves and each other around these
terms and the impact they have on our lives. Open to all identities. No prior knowledge of queer terminology
required.

TRUE LIFE: IM IN A QUEER BASED SORORITY

26-101

MISSY DOMINGUEZ & KRYSTAL CORREA

Were Queer. Were Greek. Were proud of it. Two sorority siblings share their transformative experience starting
and joining an all-inclusive, trans-welcoming Greek-letter organization. Together lets explore queering up
historically oppressive and heteronormative Greek life culture, the value of student organizations, and the power
of community-building.

BUTCHES, FEMMES, DADDIES, BOIS, TOPS, BOTTOMS,

BULLDAGGERS, & LIPSTICK LESBIANS: QUEERING GENDER
& SEXUALITY. HISTORICAL & CONTEMPORY QUEERIES

22-105

TALCOTT BROADHEAD
Through lecture, media, and dialogue we will explore the historical and contemporary construction of gender and
sexual identities and how these experiences evolve and intersect. We will explore how survival impacts our choices
to situate ourselves in binaries. We will investigate our own identities and those of our ancestors and icons. We
will analyze how our language has migrated over time and through cultures.

TRANS ASIA PACIFIC: HISTORY AND MODERNITY OF ASAIN

AND PACIFIC ISLANDER TRANSGENDER EXPERIENCE

22-103

MASA KAWAMURA & AMIRA CALUYA

An interactive experience where attendees will create a timeline with the presenters to connect personal histories
and explore transgender Asian and Pacific Islander history together. This workshop requires a basic understanding
of gender and sexuality.

QUEERING UP FOSTER CARE

26-102

SHAMBRICIA SPENCER
This workshop will focus on the importance of having queer families that are trained and available to foster queer
youth. With more than 450,000 children in the foster care system the need for supportive and loving homes for
young people is greatly important. We will explore the disproportionate rate of LGBTQ young folks in foster care;
benefits of having LGBTQ foster parents available; barriers and challenges to LGBTQ foster children; barriers and
challenges to LGBTQ foster parents; and ways to strengthen and support LGBTQ foster families.

WORKSHOP SESSION 2
TEACHING OURSELVES TO READ

1:30-2:45
SYLVIA RIVERA ROOM

SCARLETT PEDERSON

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Exploring various definitions of reading from oral history, spoken word, to the written word, reading as a way for
Black Americans pre and post slavery to reclaim power, to the vogue/ballroom slang term, to reading in a spiritual,
psychic context. The presenter will guide participants through a grounding meditation and tarot card reading,
present writing prompts that encourage spiritual honesty, and invite everyone to read a brand new poem to an
audience.

MAKING YOUR SCHOOL QUEER INCLUSIVE

22-105

JILL BUSBY
The presenters will speak to the many challenges facing LGBTQ+ students as they strive to make their schools more
accepting and inclusive. A student must first determine what is presently working at their school, what needs
improvement, and how they can be the change they wish to see! The presenters and participants will brainstorm
practical --yet creative solutions to the problems students face when looking to shape their school environment
into a more welcoming one for all members of the spectrum.

SELF CARE FOR INTERSECTING IDENTITES

26-103

RASHIDA LOVE & EMILY PIEPER

When times get tough, how do we care for ourselves, our friends, and our community in ways that sustain us? In
this interactive workshop, we will gather tools to build our resiliency as awesome queer and trans leaders. We will
create pocket self-care kits that you can take with you, full of positive affirmations, other goodies and most
definitely some glitter.

BUTTSEX 101

26-104

JUSTIN TAYLOR & JACE DYLAN

This fun, sex-positive workshop is a must for anyone who enjoys the pleasures of anal sex or has ever been
interested in discovering the sensual gratification of butt play. This workshop will cover the basics of anal anatomy,
navigating hook-ups in the queer community, communication and consent, safety and how to make anal play more
pleasurable and fun! There will be time to ask questions in person or anonymously for follow-up answers from our
fantastic facilitator. Participation is encouraged but completely optional! Mpowerment Washington is a local nonprofit that prides itself in offering sex-positive educational opportunities for the LGBTQ community. Condoms and
lube will, of course, be available.

BEYOND BINARY: NON BINARY AND GENDERQUEER CAUCUS

22-195

ZANE RAPIAN
This is a space for folks who identify as non-binary, genderqueer and/or gender non-conforming to gather and
discuss topics relevant to their lived experiences. Inclusive of all gender presentation - POC and femme inclusive this workshop was designed in a framework of amplifying and uniting under-represented voices; sharing struggle
across difference, and creating community connections. This is an interactive workshop and discussion. Key topics
may include: safety, bathrooms, presentation, colonialism and racism, outside pressure, etc.

PERFORMING THE QUEER NARRATIVE

22-180

IMANI SIMS & SHOLANDA HIGGINS

This workshop that focuses on performance and its connection to healing. We aim to highlight the individuals
narrative and encourage performance in spaces that holds our stories sacred. We aim to encourage the
performance of our narratives in venues that would otherwise consider our narratives other but teach attendees
to perform their stories anyway. We want to teach how to hold space for themselves, take up space, and thereby
expand the cannon. Presenters will begin by discussing their experiences in Queer and Non-queer spaces. Then we
will discuss how the stories in the room can expand their audiences and efforts to perform their stories. We hope
to generate new work, practice performance, and give participants best practices regarding performing their
stories.

ALLYSHIP ACROSS IDENTITIES

22-103

MICAL DEGRAAFF
Do you identify as an ally and want to gain advocacy skills? Do you want to be an ally but dont know how? Do you
want to be a better ally to your fellow queer and trans folks? This workshop is for you! You will learn about the Ally
Development Spectrum and the 4 Ds of Bystander Intervention. You will also have a chance to develop an Action
Plan to grow in your ally identity.

MIDWIFERY CARE FOR QUEER AND TRANS* PEOPLE

26-102

KRISTIN KALI & EMI YAMASAKI MCLAUGHLIN

These two queer, community-based midwives will present information you can use years before you are ready to
start a family. Understand more about queer family building, fertility, pregnancy and birth from an empowered,
queer/trans* positive perspective. What is a midwife? What is a queer midwife? Come to this workshop and find
out!

BISEXUAL INCLUSION: BEYOND MYTHBUSTING

26-101

MICHAELLA ROSNER & LEAH SHELTON

Bisexuality is frequently misunderstood, resulting in harm to bi people both in dominant straight society and in
LGBT communities. Stereotypes contribute to biphobic oppression, but simply denying stereotypes can further
marginalize bi people who, for example, are promiscuous. In this workshop, we will use small- and large-group
discussion to deconstruct biphobia in ways that are more inclusive and supportive of all bisexuals.

QUEERING THE MEDIA: VISIBIITY & INVISIBILITY

WITHIN QUEER AND TRANS* COMMUNITIES

22-270

LUZVIMINDA CARPENTER
This workshop will focus on the fear and pleasure of visibility and invisibility for marginalized queer and trans (QT)
people. QT people are invisible within mainstream media. Part of Media Justice is create platforms for visibility.
Presenter(s) will share the struggles and successes of creating a grassroots radio as queer and trans people of
color. They will share historical and current examples of how QTPOCs and other QTs have supported alternative
cultural spaces developing. At the same time visibility does not always mean liberation and there are ways that
social media and other media formats continue to support horizontal oppression. How can we utilize modern
technology and media to rethink and reimagine queer and trans* liberation? How can we continue to document
and make visible our collective and unique struggle?

WORKSHOP SESSION 3
DISMANTLING ABLEISM IN QUEER SPACES

3:00-4:15
SYLVIA RIVERA ROOM

LYDIA BROWN

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Our bodies are sick, disabled, mad, wobbly, flappy. We are everywhere, working, loving, playing, laboring for
liberation, yearning for community. But most representations of disabled people are relegated to little more than
inspirational stories of overcomers and supercrips. Most discussions of disability are limited to patronizing
awareness laced with pity and fearmongering campaigns to cure the "cripples" and "mentally challenged." Too
often, disability is thought of as someone else's private medical problem. In this workshop, we will critically
examine how ableism impacts disabled people and centers the bodies and minds of those who are more or less
considered "normal" as if the rest of us don't exist. Undoing ableism means examining our unspoken assumptions,
ease of access taken for granted, and public discourse about bodies labeled "other" and "less than." Disability
justice calls for us to move beyond blindness simulations, buddy programs, and superficial inclusion -- and toward
social justice

EXPLORING NATIVE AMERICAN LGBTQ/TWO SPIRIT HEALTH ISSUES

26-102

MATT IGNACIO (TOHONO OODHAM) & JESSICA ELM (ONEIDA STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE)

This introductory presentation will offer an overview of Native American/Alaska Native (Native) LGBTQ/Two-Spirit
health issues. The presenters will: 1) offer definitions of key concepts and terms; 2) describe potential cultural,
historical, and contemporary factors affecting Native LGBTQ/Two-Spirit people; 3) discuss resilience in the face of
inter-personal, community, and structural adversities; and 4) offer respectful engagement strategies when working
with this population.

LOVE, LEADERSHIP, AND LIBERATION

22-105

SISTER GLO

SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE, THE ABBEY OF ST. JOAN

The importance of the telling our stories, deep listening, using our values, and gratitude we use key tools in service
of queer liberation. Participants will practice those skills and can expect to interact, engage with themselves and
other participants. This work of liberation belongs to all of us, and all of us have our part to play. Participants will
walk away with a deeper appreciation of who they are and their importance to the movement.

COMBATTING TRANSPHOBIA

22-195

CYNTHIA DEVILLE
The presenter debunks myths conservatives use attempting to block transgender peoples access to public
restrooms and locker rooms. She presents a brief overview of transgender people and examines the facts about
their use of bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identity. She exposes the misinformation used to
spread fear that cis-women and children will be exposed to sexual predators taking advantage of protections
extended to transgender women by claiming that they feel female to gain access to womens rest rooms and
locker rooms. She provides the information to refute this misinformation, and reveals the Transgender Agenda.

REMEMBER TO CHECK OUT THE DROP IN SPACES IF YOURE FEELIN YOU NEED A BREAK

MUTUAL CONNECTION: USING DANCE TO CONNECT

TO OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER AS QUEER AND TRANS FOLX

22-180

LAURIE TORRES & NATHAN SLIPAKIT

The presenters will begin the workshop with a brief history introduction to partner dance for POC communities to
acknowledge how our communities have always used movement as a source of connection, resilience, healing and
resistance, despite its co-optations.

EXPLORING QUEER COMMUNITY, FINDING SOLIDARITY,

AND LEARNING HOW TO SELF CARE

26-103

VERONICA BELTRAN LAYVA & LILY PIRAYESH

Being a member of the queer community, or being perceived as one, can make you target of discrimination, fear,
and intimidation, even within communities where you expect to belong. How do these fears impact our everyday
lives? How do we define community? This workshop will provide a safe space for discussions about the insecurities
surrounding queer identity, explore the steps we can take to build a greater sense of community, and examine the
purpose and benefits of learning how to self care.

HEART CIRCLES: BRIGING CULTURES TO CREATE COMMUNITY

22-103

MICHAEL PENHELLAGON
How can we understand others different from ourselves? How can we overcome the danger of losing the
individual in our movements? The Radical Faeries, a counter-cultural queer community, since 1979 have focused
on looking at the individual story by recognizing the danger of the subject-object paradigm between people. Join
us to break the many ways that we objectify others. Using an active listening-focused talking circle, we will break
these tendencies to practice what the Faeries call "subject-SUBJECT consciousness." Please be prepared to listen
and speak from "your heart" in a safer space.

QUEER THEORY AND ACTIVISM: A LOOP FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

26-101

VERONICA BARRERAKOLB
How can queer theory inform activism? We often think of activism as a doing rather than something you think
about, but the actions of activists are always grounded in ideas. This interactive workshop will speak to some of
those ideas. Ideas that are at the ground of how we do social justice and how we struggle for a better world. We
will also explore how activism and social movements more broadly produce knowledge that then gets articulated
in queer theory created an intimate bond between theory and practice.

SAVING OUR YOUNGER SELVES: A ZINE WORKSHOP

22-270

HEATH DAVIS & CAITLIN JOHNSTON

Participants will be introduced to the zine format and asked the following question: "What would you have liked to
know/hear as a queer youth and what advice could you give to the coming generation of queer youth." We will
engage in a hands-on activity and begin creating a zine by using this format to reflect on this question. Participants
are encouraged to bring (flat) artifacts (personal writing, receipts, print outs of Internet content, and/or images) of
their own they might want to include in a zine. The pages of the zine will be digitized after the session and
assembled into a collaborative zine, which will be distributed to participants.

CAUSE THESE PEOPLE ARE AMAZING

WORKSHOP PRESENTER BIOS WHO DAT?

WORKSHOP
PRESENTERS
Queer I Am has been blessed
with an amazing group of
presenters! We want to give a
shout out to all of you. This
could not have happened
without your dedicated time,
your knowledge, your love and
your support of building this
space for education, culture,
and community.

Learn more about the stories,

experience, and passions of our
presenters online at
http://decspscc.weebly.com/pre
senter-bios.html

CAUSE THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE AMAZING

PARTNERSHIPS AND SPONSORSHIPS

THE WASHINGTON STATE BOARD FOR COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES (SBCTC)

Led by a nine-member governor-appointed board advocates, coordinates and directs Washington

states system of 34 public community and technical colleges.
COUNCIL OF UNION AND STUDENT PROGRAMS (CUSP)

The Council of Unions and Student Programs (CUSP) advances and supports professional development
for Washington state community and technical college student programs and student union
management staff to maximize student potential.
MULTICULTURAL STUDENT SERVICES DIRECTORS COUNCIL (MSSDC)

The Multicultural Student Services Directors' Council is comprised of Directors from the Washington
State Community and Technical Colleges. They advocate for greater institutional responsiveness to
further meet the needs of students of color, students from other historically marginalized groups and
professional needs of Council members.
SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Office of the President & Dr. Timothy Stokes; SPSCC Foundation, SPSCC Office of Student Engagement
SPSCC has supported Queer I Am with financial and staff support since its inception. Special Thanks to
our President, Dr. Timothy Stokes, for joining us at Queer I Am and for being a voice of encouragement
and advocacy for LGBTQ+ students.
::QUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR STONEWALL YOUTH OLYMPIA ::
:: PIZZA KLATCH ::
::PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF LESBIANS AND GAYS (PFLAG) OLYMPIA ::
:: SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE, THE ABBEY OF ST. JOAN ::

KA-RIS-SA SA-KWO TI-TA-KI MAHALO NUI LOA

Queer I Am Planning Committee

EILEEN YOSHINA
MAE STEPHENSON
CAMILA ALVAREZ
GEOMARC PANELO
NHAN HOANG

This summit would not be possible

KARAMA BLACKHORN
without the yearlong dedication of
NOORY KIM
our hard-working planning committee
MICAL DEGRAAFF
and the emotional, fiscal, and political
MIMI ALCANTAR

SPECIAL THANKS TO:: LILI WOLFE :: ALISSA MORALES ::

LAURA YANEZ :: FELIS PERALTA :: BRONSON PURCELL ::
SHAWNA HAWK :: DEANNA AINUU ::
AND ALL THE FOLKS WHO HELPED BLOW UP BALLONS, FLYER,
DESTRESS THE ORGANIZERS, PUMP UP SOCIAL MEDIA, ORGANIZE
ATTENDEES, AND THE HUNDREDS OF OTHER SMALL AND LARGE
TASKS YOU SO WONDERFULLY TOOK ON!

support of organizations throughout

the state.

~
Your power, energy, and belief in
building spaces for queer and trans
people has given life to a movement
towards visibility, justice, and
queering education.

HELP QUEER I AM AMPLIFY THE VOICES AND

EXPERIENCES OF QUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE IN
HIGHER EDUCATION.
Thanks to the work of a coalition of community college student leaders,
administrators, and faculty across Washington state our community
college system is now collecting demographic data about student's
sexual and gender identities. This means for the first time that our
schools not only know we exist but that we are a large, diverse, and
important group. This information will help our campuses develop
programs, curriculum, and support services to make our colleges more
welcoming, safe and inclusive of students who identify as LGBTQ+. Using our
collective power we can help make our schools better for ourselves and future
students, faculty, and staff.

During the final workshop you will receive a summit evaluation.

Please fill the final eval out: it's your ticket to dinner saturday!

Use the hashtag #queeriam on your favorite social

media and your posts will show up on the main stage
throughout the summit! The most creative, exciting,
powerful, and/or inspiring posters will be reviewed
the following week and soon after be contacted to
receive an awesomely queer prize! Youll also be able
to follow updates, find photos, and stay connected
with related community events, projects, and
programs that come up throughout the year.