QTIPOC Pumpkin Painting

Tues 10/21 @ 4pm – 5pm, DJS Lounge

An opportunity to build community through meaningful conversations with and about the QTPOC community.  QTIPOC is an Initialism that stands for Queer & Transgender & Intersex, People of Color.

Faculty & Staff Queer Coffee

Wed 10/22 @ 9am – 10:30am

Queer Coffee is a space for 2SLGBTQIA+ staff & faculty to connect.

Sista Circle

Thurs 10/23 @ 6pm – 7:30pm, Center for DJS (AUC 150)

For Gender & Sexuality Week, artist Michelle Bellinger will lead us through painting and decorating handcrafted, wooden masks.  Registration Required

Masquerade of Identities: Drag Show

Fri 10/21 @ 7pm – 9pm, AUC CK

Step into the mystery and magic at our Masquerade Madness Drag Show part of Gender & Sexuality Week: Relationships Beyond Binaries!  Join us for a night of bold performances, dramatic reveals, and unapologetic self-expression as queens, kings, and nonbinary royalty take the stage. Starring the brilliant Tommie Darling, Cherri Bepsi, and Absinthe Father!!

DJS Lounge Check In (DJS Coalition – Community Connection)

Mon 10/20 @ 10:45am & 12:45pm

Tues 10/21 @ 10:30am & 12:45pm

At the G&S Week DJS Lounge Check in we will explore various binaries that we experience throughout various spaces in our lives and consider different viewpoints beyond this or that.

Beyond the Binary Speed Friending: Exploring the Art of Friendship

Mon 10/20 @ 4pm – 5:40pm, AUC Regency Room

Let’s make connections that go beyond the romantic, and celebrate family, friends, pets, and our environment with poetry and art by Kellie Richardson.

Beyond the Mask: A Mens+ Group

Tues @ 6:30pm – 7:30pm, WSR

“Beyond the Mask: A Men’s+ Group is an opportunity for folks who identify as masculine to get together and share ideas about how to present themselves among a sea of influence. By allowing masc-presenting folks to gather and talk about trends around toxic masculinity, social expectations, and relationships with others. (Hosted by WSR)

Brewed Theology: Gender, Sexuality, & Faith

Wed 10/22 @ 4pm – 5:30pm, 208 Garfield 

Monthly discussions (different topic each month) on faith and culture while enjoying a Happy Hour beverage on us! (Hosted by Campus Ministry)

Building Safer & More Joyful Connections

Fri 10/24 @ 10:45am-11:45am

Open to all PLU Staff & Faculty. Join us in exploring how to navigate the murky process of knowing what we want or need, and how we might proceed. In this conversation, we’ll discuss ways to honor our needs and desires in professional settings and beyond, with consideration of our values, positionality, power dynamics, and the reality that sometimes we do things we don’t want to do. This session is part of Gender & Sexuality Week: Relationships Beyond Binaries, part of the ABCs program, and part of the Fall Professional Development Series.

Lutes Open Doors & Identities: Pride Flag Making & Identity Exploration

Mon 10/20 @ 2pm – 4pm, Tingelstad Conference Room (140)

Create your own pride flag door decor while exploring and celebrating the diverse identities, both within and beyond the binary, that make up our Lute community. (Hosted by Campus Life)

Radical Self Love Writing Group

Tues 10/22 @ 6pm – 7pm, WSR

Theme: Passion – The main concepts of this week are to begin challenging writing styles, allowing the brain no time to overthink or edit before we write. We are also beginning to explore spectrums and work at understanding and identifying where we fall within our own. (Hosted by WSR)

Pride Bites

Wed 10/22 @ 1pm – 3pm, AUC Upper Grey

A fun and creative cookie decorating event! Come be in community to decorate, share stories, and celebrate all the identities that make us who we are! You can make your pride flag or anything that makes you happy. (Hosted by PRISM)

Art as Resistance

Fri 10/24 @ 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Stop by to create Joy + Resistance earrings.

Cartoons & Crafts: Beyond Binaries

Fri 10/24 @ 4:30pm – 6:30pm, The CAVE

Join us for a cozy and creative event celebrating queer representation and interconnectedness! We’ll be enjoying cartoon screenings that highlight stories beyond the binary, making bracelets with a variety of charms & accessories, and sipping on warm drinks together in a welcoming space. This is a chance to relax, create, and connect while reflecting on the beauty of identities and relationships that don’t fit into rigid boxes. Whether you come for the crafts, the cartoons, or just the community vibes, you’ll leave feeling recharged and inspired. (Hosted by the Commuter Advocates)

Celebrating Filipino LGBTQ+ Icons

Mon 10/20 @ 5:30-6:30, DJS Lounge (AUC 140)

For Gender & Sexuality Week we aim to honor Gender and Sexuality Week as well as Filipino American Heritage Month. In doing so, our meeting will consist of a brief background of Filipino American celebrities/public figures apart of the LGBTQ community, and highlighting their contributions to the community. Followed by an activity of “Guess the Item,” which will consist of our members being placed in groups and working together to guess the Filipino items that will be shown on the TV. (Hosted by APISA)

Nature vs Human Binary Battle

Wed 10/22 @ 3:30pm – 5:30pm, DJS Lounge (AUC 140)

Short video talking about how Nature is Queer and how human binaries and biases have affected scientific research in nature will be viewed to facilitate discussions and provide context for crafts and mini trivia moments that will take up the rest of the time needed for Lutes to finish their art projects! (Hosted by GREAN)

Pasifika Poetry

Thurs 10/23 @ 3:45pm – 5:15pm

An opportunity to discuss colonization and queerness as shared through the work of QT-PI poets.  Dejan Perez (PLU Alum) share a collection of poems (including her own) and facilitate a conversation to expand our perspectives on  the impacts of colonization on queerness.  (Hosted by NISA + NAIS)

Frankenstein: Pre-show Panel

Thurs 10/23 @ 6:45pm, Studio Theatre (Black Box)

In celebration of opening night and Gender & Sexuality Week, join us for a pre-show panel exploring the themes in the play with an eye to gender, queerness, and belonging and featuring PLU students and staff.

Panel theme: What’s Your Own Monstrous Identity?

What does your body (and its modifications) mean to you? How does it threaten others or empower you?

Show at 7pm, FREE to students with LuteCard