Have you ever felt your religious values and traditions put you at odds with the values of a liberal education and many people around you. Have you ever heard someone talk about diversity and inclusion in a way that goes against your faith beliefs. This program will explore the potential conflict between being faithful to the values of one’s faith tradition and accepting others whose values are different. We will explore how to exercise one’s faith in a way that is also supportive of others...

Author, activist and native New Yorker, SHERRY WOLF will provide an eyewitness account of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement to discuss how we are living through a period of profound social, political and economic transformation. OWS has become a touchstone for a vast array of grievances. As an active participant in the OWS movement with many years’ experience as an organized leftist, Wolf will challenge students to think through their own preconceived notions of how class society operates...

How do sex, gender, and sexuality relate to one another? Where do our understandings and practices of sex, gender, and sexuality come from? Join us to discuss the opportunities and inequalities as well as the pleasures and dangers created by our “sex/gender/sexuality system.”

Radical queer guest speaker Wick Thomas has received national awards for organizing around queer issues. Join us to discuss why being queer and radical is necessary at a time when the conservative movement is growing stronger and the progressive movement has become largely complacent.

Personal, philosophical, and prophetic, a no-holds-barred “sexual state of affairs” address on where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re headed sexually -- with the ultimate goal of helping everyone enjoy healthy sexual relationships.

Like snowflakes, no two people are exactly alike. How do we assign labels to our complicated and unique experiences? In this interactive program, we explore different experiences of identity and the complexity of attraction.

Learn skills for negotiating safer sex -- how to assert boundaries, respectfully approach someone, recognize abusive behavior and respond to dangerous situations.

Since the passage of Proposition 8, the pro-LGBT movement has begun to recognize some concrete ways in which we continue to lose important legislative, policy and organizing efforts along the intersection of race and faith. Like in the 60's at the height of the Civil Rights Movement when many churches were at the forefront of revolutionary change and many at the forefront of opposition, our present-day religious institutions are both the locus of liberation and of oppression. This...

This discussion will examine poverty issues in the LGBT community and the role that class issues play. As the LGBT movement assimilates into the mainstream, many LGBT poor and working class people are left behind by gay organizations that do not address poverty issues. The increasing corporatization of the LGBT movement requires examining the ways in which class privilege and corporate ties affect the work of community organizations as well as our community's cultural values.

There is no movement without organizing. Those who want change have to bring others together others who experience similar conditions and share their desires for a different world. Currently, many people depend on media instead of organizing and many mainstream justice movements think of organizing as only producing bodies for the immediate need such as Get Out the Vote. No base is built, no community power is increased. We will lead a conversation about examples of organizing we have...

This program is about the ways in which ableism and disability impact organizing and organizations. The first part of the discussion will focus on building our knowledge about disability, ableism and the medical industrial complex. During the second half, we will explore the connections between disability, reproductive justice, race, queerness and social justice movements.

The striking image of John Carlos raising his black-gloved fist on the platform at the 1968 Summer Olympics has become an iconic image. The image is well known, but his story is not. Dr. Carlos, winner of the bronze medal in the men’s 200-meter race, and renowned American sportswriter Dave Zirin will discuss how sports have helped both to stabilize and to disrupt the political status quo throughout history. They will also examine the history of rebel athletes who dared to fight for social...