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Saturday, July 27, 2024

Aggie Daily Calendar

TODAY

Résumé Basics Workshop

12:10 p.m.

229 South Hall

Learn how to build a résumé for an internship or job.

Queer Critique, LGBT Activism and Public Education

1 to 2 p.m.

LGBT Resource Center

This event will invite discussions about the place of queer critique in the public university. Explore how queer theory and activism can come together in response to the lack of funding toward public education.

Careers with the CIA and FBI Info Session

1 to 2:30 p.m.

Garrison Room, Memorial Union

Representatives from the CIA and FBI will be on hand to answer questions about careers and internships.

Being an Ally: Where Faith, Friendship and Fairness Intersect

4 to 5 p.m.

Fielder Room, Memorial Union

This panel discussion will explore how straight-identified people become allies to their LGBT friends and relatives.

Autism Awareness Association Meeting

7 to 8 p.m.

106 Olson

Speaker Dr. Martinez will talk about autism in general and her work on stem cells in people with autism.

Pride Week Keynote Speaker: Kenyon Farrow

7 to 9 p.m.

King Lounge, Memorial Union

Kenyon Farrow currently serves on the executive committees of Connect 2 Protect New York and the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies. He works as an organizer and writer on issues at the intersection of HIV/AIDS, prisons and homophobia.

WEDNESDAY

Rise Up Discussion Series

Noon to 1 p.m.

LGBT Resource Center

Check out the LGBT Resource Center and join in casual discussions related to the queer community. In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month there will be a discussion about sexual assault and domestic violence in the queer community.

Author Event: Elizabeth Freeman’s Time Binds

Noon to 1 p.m.

UC Davis Bookstore

UC Davis English professor Elizabeth Freeman will discuss her new book Time Binds, an argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A period and book signing.

Poetry in the Arboretum

Noon to 1 p.m.

Wyatt Deck, UC Davis Arboretum

Burmese poet and artist Aung Aung Taik will share his work, which has been published in The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and Poetry USA. Refreshments will be served.

Find a Job or Internship Workshop

3:10 p.m.

229 South

Learn about tools and tricks to help find a position.

White Privilege Workshop

5 to 6:30 p.m.

LGBT Resource Center

Engage in group brainstorming and dialogue about how white privilege functions in and affects the queer community. Share ideas about how to cultivate tools for doing anti-racist work in the queer community.

Queerly Kin Panel Discussion

7 to 9 p.m.

King Lounge, Memorial Union

Panelists will discuss how monogamy, polygamy, surrogacy, racial identity, bisexuality and more affect kinship ties in the queer community.

Sahaya International Movie Night

7:30 to 9 p.m.

194 Chemistry

After a short description about the club, stay for a showing of award-winning documentary Born Into Brothels. Light refreshments will be provided.

To receive placement in the AGGIE DAILY CALENDAR, e-mail dailycal@theaggie.org or stop by 25 Lower Freeborn by noon the day prior to your event. Due to space constraints, all event descriptions are subject to editing, and priority will be given to events that are free of charge and geared toward the campus community.

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