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Diversity Week 2011 - Out Of Diversity We Speak, Multicultural Center Oct 2011

Diversity Week 2011 - Out Of Diversity We Speak, Multicultural Center

Multicultural Student Services Center

Out of Diversity: We Speak.

Dr. Jody Lisberger, Director, and Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies; Dr. Robert Carothers, Academic Affairs; Dr. Adam Roth, Communication Studies; Dr. Ian Reyes, Communication Studies; Dr. Mercedes Rivero Hudec, Chemical Engineering; Dr. Jeremiah Dyehouse, Writing & Rhetoric; and students who will be speaking about their lives, in relation to diversity. Students and faculty rarely find time to engage each other around the arts and share the value of their individual and collective lives. This reading of expressive writing from four culturally diverse faculty and four students will reveal the influences of our diverse ways of being …


Diversity Week 2011 - Raising Your Voice, Multicultural Center Oct 2011

Diversity Week 2011 - Raising Your Voice, Multicultural Center

Multicultural Student Services Center

Raise Your Voice: How Diverse Genres of HipHop, Spoken Word and Music Create a Culture of Nonviolence and Peace?

Dr. Paul de Mesquita, Professor, Psychology and Director Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies; and Performing Artists, Rudy Cabrera, Kaly the 5th Element, and Miss Lori. In contrast to a growing culture of violence so prevalent in all forms of mass media, this session will feature live performance artists presenting work in tribute to Gandhi and King, toward the goal of a peaceful inclusive multicultural "beloved community". Join us in interacting and dialoguing with the artists. Sponsored by the URI Center …


Law Formalizes Long Union, Liz Boardman Jul 2011

Law Formalizes Long Union, Liz Boardman

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

NARRAGANSETT — On Saturday, W. Lynn McKinney and Ronald Margolin of Narragansett met with a wedding planner.

The men have considered themselves married since 1979, but now, with the passage of the civil union law, they can legally tie the knot in Rhode Island.


Reflecting On Campus Pride 2011, Kevin Cruz Jul 2011

Reflecting On Campus Pride 2011, Kevin Cruz

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

Kevin Cruz shares his reflections and experiences from going to Campus Pride. Reflecting on Campus Pride; Kevin Cruz; Campus Pride for me was a brief glance into a wonderful community of respect and acceptance for one another; This lovely camp brought together many student leaders from colleges across the nation and from all different backgrounds; Not only were there student leaders but supportive faculty, inspiring speakers, and fabulous entertainers; Speakers such as Robyn Ochs who is a professional speaker and educator and lives close by in Boston; She was both a faculty member and a special speaker who presented a …


Lgbtq Coming Out Play To The Community As Part Of The Uri Glbtiqq Symposium 2011, Joseph A. Santiago Mar 2011

Lgbtq Coming Out Play To The Community As Part Of The Uri Glbtiqq Symposium 2011, Joseph A. Santiago

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

The Journey Out is a play, taken from the words and stories of older members of the LGBTQ community here in Rhode Island, as captured in a series of oral history interviews this past year. The play – set in a disco, a church and an AIDS support group – is a celebration of love, of faith, of courage – of women and men who fought and struggled for their right to live openly, to live without shame, to live authentically. This post contains the press release and photos as part of the URI GLBTIQQ Symposium.