Programs

Workshops & Presentations - 5th ¡Presente! Conference

 

Creating Inclusive Animation

Nova Gutierrez [she/her], UC Riverside

Everybody has been influenced by the cartoons they watched growing up, but there has been a severe lack of diversity in the animation industry. This program is an animation workshop that will explore the lack of inclusivity while understanding the creative process to creating animated content.

 

Dance like no one is watching with JIGGLE

Melba [she/they], JIGGLE

JIGGLE is a fat LGBTQ+ BIPOC digital dance party that started in the midst of the pandemic. JIGGLE invites you to dance IRL like no one is looking in a space that welcomes all bodies to move in a way that centers joy instead of punishment. Release some stress, listen to some tunes and move your body in whatever way feels good to you. Come ready to learn about fat art and community while you center your body.

How to Host the ¡Presente! Conference and Create Community

Arlene Cano-Matute [she/her/ella], Chicano Student Programs

Nancy Jean Tubbs [she/her], LGBT Resource Center
Student organizers, La Familia de UCR

UC Riverside

La Familia de UCR, Chicano Student Programs, and the LGBT Resource Center of UC Riverside launched the inaugural ¡Presente! Conference in 2017 as a way to create “Un Espacio for our QT Community.” Our vision for ¡Presente! Is that the event continues with other California college campuses hosting the in-person conference in the future. Learn more about ¡Presente! traditions, logistics of hosting an in-person college conference, and the collaboration over the years.

 

Navigating the Intersection: Being Queer and POC

Izabella Manigault [she/her/he/him]

Lauryn Jarvis [she/her]

CSU Fullerton LGBTQ+ Resource Center

This discussion-based program aims to provide community healing through the intersectionality of POC and queer identities. We open the conversation for individuals to share their experiences and highlight the struggles and pride of being a queer person of color. We hope this provides a safe space for queer individuals that doesn't center whiteness and, alternatively, a POC space that doesn't focus on cis-heteronormativity. Join us as we navigate the intersection and celebrate the uniqueness that is our identity.This is a closed space for queer people of color.

 

No Me Cuido Solx, Estamos Bien: Community Care as Self-Care

Dr. Connie Marmolejo [she/her]

Daniel Lopez Salas [he/him]

The Well, UC Riverside

Have you thought about the evolution of self-care in BIPOC communities? Self-care is for everyone, yet self-care and wellness spaces have long felt exclusionary for BIPOC communities. Learn about how communities of color have utilized community care as a form of self-care where community, tradition, and spirituality are synonymous with wellness, especially during COVID-19.

Pop Poetry!

Efren Castro [they/them], UC Riverside

For this presentation, I would like to discuss “Pop Poetry” to queer students of color that would like to get into the written world. Pop poetry is a genre that is written with language accessible to any age and education level. It doesn’t require complex metaphors, nor does it have to make any obscure literary references, the work is really straightforward with the intention of sparking an intense emotion or relatability. The term derives from “pop music” in that it is meant to be consumed by the general population. Accessible poetry is important to pop poet because it allows their work to be shared at a wider scale helping preserve and archive a writer’s story. Some modern-day poets that fall under this category are Yesika Salgado, Rudy Francisco, and Rupi Kaur. In the presentation, I delve into what makes a pop poet; from their writing style, to the marketing behind a pop poet, down to the design of their books. We then continue by handing out a short, curated collection of pop poets.

 

QTBIPOC Experiences at UCLA, a Peer Led Assessment

Taylor Vassar [she/her]

Monica Campbell [she/they]

Bri Damacio [they/them]

UCLA

Historically, there has been a lack of research that focuses on the unique experiences of LGBTQ college students of color. Our presentation hopes to inspire undergraduate QTBIPOC scholar-researchers to capture our rich stories and experiences to improve conditions on our college campuses. We will be sharing our experience interviewing, analyzing data, and some of our preliminary findings on the current QTBIPOC students' experiences at UCLA. This is a closed space for QTPOC people.

 

Queer Xicana Leadership: Tools for Empowerment and Action

Maribel Gomez [she/her], UC San Diego

This workshop looks to empower participants to reframe language around cultural and communal practices as beneficial leadership skills and strength needed to take action and create social change. Participants will engage in journaling and mind-mapping to explore how gender, sexuality, and culture intersect for women and nonbinary leaders in order to create empowerment and action to better our communities. Tu tambien hechale crema a tus tacos, everyone else is already doing it! This is a closed space for women and nonbinary people.

 

Transvestism in the Southern Cone: Emancipatory processes from the ‘suspicious race’ of Hija de Perra

Antonio Rivera-Montoya [he/him], Ph.D Student

UC Riverside

Daughter of Perra (Víctor Hugo ‘Wally’ Pérez Peñaloza) was a performer, transvestite, and feminist and sexual minority activist in Chile in the 1990s and early 2000s. She not only stood out for her overloaded and hypersexualized aesthetics, but also for a comical, ironic and critical speech to a Chilean society that moved in a neoliberal system installed during the Pinochet dictatorship. The purpose of this presentation is to read the transvestism of Hija de Perra proposing that it, by interacting with the society of the Southern Cone, projects a sexual praxis that allows redefining identity frames based on the conception of the subject as a product of a system but that it also has the ability to transform structures. This session will be presented in Spanish.

Travestismo en el Cono Sur: Procesos emancipatorios desde la 'raza sospechosa' de Hija de Perra

Hija de Perra (Víctor Hugo ‘Wally’ Pérez Peñaloza) fue una performer, travesti y activista feminista y por las minorías sexuales del Chile de los años 90 y comienzos de los 2000. No solo se destacó por su estética recargada e hipersexualizada, sino que también por un discurso cómico, irónico y crítico a una sociedad que se movía en un sistema neoliberal instalado durante la dictadura de Pinochet. El propósito de esta presentación es leer el travestismo de Hija de Perra proponiendo que éste, al interactuar con la sociedad del Cono Sur, proyecta una praxis sexual que permite redefinir marcos de identidad con base en la concepción del sujeto como un producto de un sistema pero que también tiene la capacidad de transformar las estructuras.

UndocuQueer Circle

Eladio Gonzalez Cabrera [he/him]

UC Riverside

This workshop is a healing circle and safe space where Undocumented and Queer students at UCR can come together to talk about issues that affect us. Furthermore, this workshop asks participants to reflect on their intersecting identities and how that has affected their academic journey in college. This is a closed space for people who are both queer and undocumented.