GenSex - formerly FemSex

Students and community members from all walks of life are invited to GenSex’s Birthwork Panel THIS Friday, March 15th, from 6-8pm. Come hear an alternative narrative about childbirth from the perspectives of doulas and midwives involved in the Bay Area birthwork movement. The hospital might seem like the “natural” place to give birth nowadays—but it doesn’t have to be!

Our last infosession for the semester is tonight in 475 Barrows at 7pm!

Are you looking for a place to explore identity, s*xuality, and empowerment? Are you in need of a 3 unit class with minimal work? Take the GenSex DeCal! We've changed our name, rewritten our curriculum, and we're so excited for classes to start! Check out our syllabus to learn more about our new units on mental health, trauma and healing, and gender identity/presentation!

There's still time to apply, so what are you waiting for? Fill out the application by February 1st at 11:59 pm!

Syllabus: http://tinyurl.com/gens*xsyllabus

Apply: http://tinyurl.com/gens*xapp

Facilitator Spotlight

This semester, our Monday/Wednesday 6-8 section will be facilitated by Jasmine and Frida! Jasmine is a fourth-year transfer majoring in Sociology and a minor in Journalism, while Frida is studying political economy and sociology. They’re passionate about spreading awareness for mental health, immigration policy, and s*xual and gender-based violence. Check out one of their infosessions to hang out with them and learn more about our updated curriculum!

Apply to GenSex by February 1st: https://goo.gl/forms/Ov1RykjFjwCR3eUe2

Infosession Times
January 30th: 7-8 p.m. in 228 Dwinelle
January 31st: 7-8 p.m. in 475 Barrows

Facilitator Spotlight

This semester, our Monday/Wednesday 5-7 section will be facilitated by Salma, and our Monday/Wednesday 7-9 section will be facilitated by Ella and Yasmeen! Salma and Yasmeen are from opposite ends of California, while Ella is a transplant from New York. Despite having drastically different majors (poli sci, social welfare, and physics), they’re passionate about making change and reforming the ways we think about mental health, intersectionality, and s*xuality. Stop by an infosession to meet them and learn more about the updated curriculum!

Infosession Times
January 28th: 6-7 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. in 104 Barrows
January 29th: 7-8 p.m. in 475 Barrows
January 30th: 7-8 p.m. in 228 Dwinelle
January 31st: 7-8 p.m. in 475 Barrows

Apply by February 1st: https://goo.gl/forms/Ov1RykjFjwCR3eUe2

Facilitator Spotlight!

This semester, our Tuesday/Thursday 6-8 section will be facilitated by Grace and Cristal! Grace is a junior pursuing an individual major in design, and Cristal is a second year Art History major. They’re both from LA, and although they miss the constant warmth, they’ve been able to find some in the GenSex community. Swing by one of their infosessions this week to say hi and learn more about our updated syllabus! P.S.: Ask Cristal about her dog, Osita 🐶💕

Infosession Times
January 28th: 6-7 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. in 104 Barrows
January 29th: 7-8 p.m. in 475 Barrows
January 30th: 7-8 p.m. in 228 Dwinelle
January 31st: 7-8 p.m. in 475 Barrows

Apply by February 1st: https://goo.gl/forms/Ov1RykjFjwCR3eUe2

We're so excited to meet you all at infosessions next week! Swing by to learn more about our updated curriculum and preview some of our class material!

Apply: https://goo.gl/forms/UAvKIeSsNuR0huga2

Infosession Times:

6-7 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. January 28th in 104 Barrows

7-8 p.m. January 29th in 475 Barrows

7-8 p.m. January 30th in 228 Dwinelle

7-8 p.m. January 31st in 475 Barrows

Are you as excited for the semester as we are? Apply to take GenSex today!

APPLY: https://goo.gl/forms/EGBGDVF64UlaoDkt2

SYLLABUS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JnT-PmeAr8Q0IrzGbw4_oUmlTGpmjMfNWdRriaMOIjA/edit?usp=sharing

GenSex (formerly FemSex) is back and better than ever! We've changed our name and rewritten all of our curriculum, and we're excited for the beginning of a new semester! Applications for Spring 2019 classes are now out online and will be due on Friday, February 1st! Enrollment is competitive, so be sure to apply early and attend an infosession to increase your chances of acceptance!

APPLY HERE: https://goo.gl/forms/S8fUnaPGwg7KC0a12

Presenting our Birthworker Panel for the Fall 2018 semester! Open to UC Berkeley students and the surrounding community.

It's now easier to email GenSex - formerly FemSex

Hey FemSexies! We are so excited for the upcoming semester. Make sure you attend our info sessions this week to get more information on the class and apply!

Attention all FemSexies! Our Fall 2018/Spring 2019 Facilitator and Coordinator applications are officially live! If you are interested in applying, here's the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sf6dsp3eYusNiF5SAyc7N-GdAJp6vtGwDSzp6ov30QU/edit?usp=sharing

Applications are due Friday, April 27th! We look forward to seeing you in interviews.

Fall 2018/Spring 2019 Facilitator/Coordinator Application FemSex Application Guidelines Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Thank you for expressing an interest in FemSex. Being a part of the program can be an amazing experience. However, it requires an incredible level of commitment: roughly 10-20 hrs per week for facilitators and 2-7 hrs per week for coordinators....

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😍 Thursday at 1pm!

Good morning students,
If you are free on March 15, 2018 at 1PM in Anthony Hall, please come join the American Indian Graduate Student Association and their guest Tommy "Teebs" Pico, who will be giving a reading. He is a poet from the Viejas Indian Reservation of the Kumeyaay Nation. He authored the books IRL, Nature Poem, and Junk & & He is a recipient of fellowships from the Lambda Literary foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. He won the 2017 Brooklyn Public Library's Literary award. Tommy is a co-curator of the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker, and he is also a co-host of the podcast Food4Thot. Hope to see you there. Go Bears!

Hey students,

On March 14, 2018 from 12-1:30PM in 554 Barrows Hall our newsletter lead intern Skye Fierro and graduate student Bayley Lopez Marquez are presenting their research that they had been working assiduously and exploring the racial discourses of industrial education. Please come support them and their hard work. There will also be free food at the event. Go Bears!

2018 Empowering Women of Color Conference Volunteer Sign Up Thank you for your interest in volunteering for EWOCC this year! Our event’s success is dependent on the hard work of our volunteers, who assist with food service, registration, set- and clean-up, and other tasks. Volunteers will receive free admission to the conference and an EWOCC t-shirt.

Self-care / Collective-care You can read the the original document by clicking on ‘suggesting’ on the top right and changing it to ‘viewing’. Self care is great. As an amazing organizer/healer says, anything you can do for self-care, you can do as collective-care. Invite a friend, your community, your block to do it wi...

Space Demand Letter for Disabled Students The community of disabled students is demanding a physical space on UC Berkeley's campus that acts as a cultural and informational center reserved for students with disabilities. The demand letter is directed to the campus's administration and can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...

LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOPS!

The 33rd Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference is seeking community members, activists, artists, and students to conduct workshops for our 2018 gathering, “Free Space, Our Space: Actualizing Freedom, Asserting Presence, Cultivating Power”.

DEADLINE: February 11th! Click link below to submit! We Look Forward to Hearing From You!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfOthCYUh1dpACvneUxKhJMYBEnRYChv4uj2khqKVUUw0r3Q/viewform

Today’s the first day of classes! The FemSex facs are excited to meet you~

MEET THE TEAM

Yasmeen is a third-year physics major at UC Berkeley who’s excited to be facilitating FemSex this semester. She’s passionate about nanotechnology, oversized sweaters, and expanding access to undergraduate research opportunities. When she’s not hanging out in the physics department with her friends, she’s doing condensed matter research (a.k.a. heating things up in an oven and setting things on fire) in the neighboring building. Yasmeen also works with Undergraduate Laboratory at Berkeley to help students design and carry out their own independent research projects on cool topics like black hole detection or superconductivity. Her goals include learning how to do a split and finally getting a septum piercing. In her free time, she runs a physics meme page and tries to maintain a poetry Instagram.

MEET THE TEAM

Madeleine is a freshman at U.C. Berkeley intending on majoring in Public Health and Anthropology. Her passion lies in reproductive justice, health equity, and social advocacy within her community. She never stops listening to music, adores new places and great people, and structures her days around consuming delicious food. Madeleine is from Sacramento, California but loves the Bay Area and is thrilled to be a part of the U.C. Berkeley and FemSex Community!

Come say hi at our fab events!

MEET THE TEAM

Jasmin is super excited to be facilitating FemSex this semester! As a third year Peace and Conflict Studies major, you can often find her listening to NPR (and low key freaking out!). When they aren’t nannying, Jas enjoys shopping on ASOS, having friends over for dinner (she’s an avid recipe pinterest-er!), long walks through Ikea, and running at the Clark Kerr track. When the weather is nice, you can find her strutting chrome bikinis (s/o ASOS) at Lake Anza, Baker Beach, or Capitola. On the weekends they don’t work, Jas enjoys taking mini road trips. Some of her favorites are Carmel, Mendocino, and Tahoe. Things Jas can’t live without: candles, Tequila, art, and Ben and Jerry’s.

Get to know her more in our MW section!

MEET THE TEAM

Teresa graduated from Cal for a minute now, but FemSex called her back. They are super excited to be contributing to and building a radical space with y’all. She had been working as a s*xual health educator at the Berkeley Public Health Clinic, where she had developed s*xual health curriculum for teenagers (nothing’s worse than going through puberty and trying to figure out s*x at the same time). She currently works as a college persistence advisor at East Bay College Fund, a super rad organization empowering Oakland youth to graduate from college and lead their best lives. In their free time, they enjoy hiking, cooking, touching nice things at Target, online window shopping for clogs, lifting, NPR-ing (shoutout to Code Switch), and listening to metal. She is dedicated to looking real cute and fierce all of the time.

Apply for her TuTh 6-8 section now!