The first media/queered colloquia/symposium and collegiate pridefest is being held at University of Illinois Chicago. The pridefest is an investment in strategic collaboration to raise the bar on academic studies and organizing around LGBTQ issues. Dedicated to creating a safe learning environment for all people, Chicago Collegiate Pride Fest is a partnership between the City of Chicago and its institutions of higher education to open dialogue that combats miscommunication, misinformation, and misunderstanding about issues of gender and sexual identity. To this end, CCPF promotes collegiate activism and highlights the very best of Chicago’s creativity and diversity and includes speakers, performers, and exhibitors of multiple races, classes, abilities, genders, and sexual orientations in an afternoon and evening of entertainment, education, expression, and excellence.
Pop Out World: Popular Media & Queer Identity, Friday, March 12, 1-4 p.m. John Nguyet Erni, City University of Hong Kong, Amit Kama, Tel Aviv University, Vincent Doyle, Montreal, and Deirdre McCloskey, UIC Institute for the Humanities, 701 S. Morgan Street, Lower level, Stevenson Hall, U. of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Illinois 60607.
Symposium April 2. Media/Queered: Visibility and its Discontents, includes Studs Terkel. Call Linda Vavra (312) 996-6352, fax 312.996.2938, e-mail lvavra@uic.edu or visit www.uic.edu/~kgbcomm/mq.
Let’s Talk About Sex, Saturday, April 17, 2-10:30 p.m. Includes Poet Staceyann Chin; Breakout Sessions: Toying With Sex/Legal Sex/Club Drugs and Sex; Exhibitor Walk; National Discussion with syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage; Collegiate Pride Idol with Amy Armstrong and Freddy Allen and special guest judges.
For information, contact Patrick Finnessy at pkfinn@uic.edu or (312) 413-9862.