Pride Week Art Show
Help us celebrate Pride Week through a showcase of different mediums of art created by University of Utah students, staff, faculty, and surrounding community.
Help us celebrate Pride Week through a showcase of different mediums of art created by University of Utah students, staff, faculty, and surrounding community.
Join the Pride Week Scavenger Hunt! Throughout the week, daily clues will be posted about hidden Pride Block U’s around campus. Those who are the fastest and find the most Block U's will have the chance to win a prize!
The University of Utah is honored to host Raquel Willis as the Pride Week 2022 keynote speaker. Willis will discuss how solidarity has shaped her own work and the expansive projects she has lead, as well as asking us to consider what an LGBTQIA+ movement that works for the liberation of all people looks like.
University of Utah students are welcome to register for a special lunch with our 2022 Pride Week keynote speaker, Raquel Willis! Raquel Willis is a Black transgender activist, award-winning writer, and media strategist dedicated to elevating the dignity of marginalized people, particularly Black transgender people. She has held ground-breaking posts throughout her career including director of communications for the Ms. Foundation, executive editor of Out magazine, and national organizer for Transgender Law Center (TLC). This lunch will be a space for student to ask Willis questions in a relaxed setting and to learn more about her inspirational career and important work. Lunch will be provided.
Queer Prom is a dance party and celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community in partnership with the David Eccles School of Business and Out for Business. The event will feature a photo booth, DJ, snacks, and a sensory-friendly space with games and crafts.
Join for an open and meaningful conversation with activists and religious leaders in the local, national, and international communities to discuss handling nuanced intersectionality and trying to find healing with religion and spirituality. Whether you currently practice a religion, no longer identify with a faith, or are somewhere in the middle - all are welcome.
Friday Forums is a commitment to the state and region in elevating national conversations and showcasing models of disrupting complicit racism. Each session welcomes national thought leaders to lead discussions and provide opportunities for participants to share ideas on actionable items towards a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus.
Join us for a public talk from Alastair Lee Bitsóí, our Spring '22 Practitioner-in-Residence, a Diné journalist reporting on issues impacting Indigenous communities across Utah and the greater Southwest. He will discuss his recent reporting on boarding schools and forced assimilation of Indigenous people, as well as the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People.
Reframing the Conversation brings together experts from across campus and the community to spark important conversations around racism, othering, and safety.
Calling all Black Students CESB and the BCC want to chill with you on a Friday! We have an entire evening for you to engage with us.
This public event highlights American Indian women students’ traditional and contemporary talents, willingness to lead, and ambitions for being a student ambassador at the University of Utah. Please join us as we get ready to crown a new Native American ambassador!
Join us this Spring semester as we engage with campus and community partners in a series of three conversations based on the "Decolonizing Gender: A Curriculum" zine by khari jackson and Malcom Shanks. These conversations will explore the roles colonialism and white supremacy play in the modern day gender binary, what it means to "decolonize" something like gender, and what a future free of the binary could look like.
Come on to the Black Cultural Center and showcase your talent. Rather it be comedy, poetry, music etc.. We are here for the culture!!!! Don't miss out!! We have special guest Jamera NaQuai a published poet.
Survivors passed their legacy on to their own children, empowering future generations to speak up and fight to call out injustices. Please join us as we invite Dian Hartz Warsoff to share the stories of her family and speak about the lives of those who survived the Holocaust and to explore the dangers of allowing their memory of the horror to be erased.
This Roundtable will bring together scholars and teachers from across Utah to discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "Maus" from interdisciplinary perspectives. The participants will address "Maus’" unique ability to reach a broad audience and its centrality to Holocaust education today.
Join for a screening of "Dreams of Hope" and a panel of Black and Jewish members of our Utah community to discuss their personal stories of overcoming atrocities.
Join the United Jewish Federation of Utah for this annual commemoration on Holocaust Remembrance Day featuring speaker Howard Unger.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in collaboration with the Dream Center is hosting the first “Latinx Tardeada Celebration” for the graduating Class of 2022. This is a celebratory environment where loved ones, friends, family, mentors, and educators are invited to participate. If you identify as a part of the Latinx/e/o/a, Chicanx, or Hispanic community this is a safe space for you!