Pride Alliance Center

🌊 Hey, Hawkeyes!

We want to highlight these opportunities to help pay for your Spring 2022 tuition!

Four recipients of the Dockendorff Scholarship will receive $5,000, and one recipient of the Rainbow Scholarship will receive $2,500. Eligibility requirements are unique to both, so check them out.

All materials are due by 11:59pm on Monday, March 28, 2022. For full information and to apply, visit tinyurl.com/UILGBTQScholarships

If you have any questions, please email Emma Welch, Coordinator of the Pride Alliance Center, at [email protected].

🏠 October 29, 2006🎉

To our LGBTQ+ Hawkeye community,

Thanks to student and staff advocacy, we opened in 2006 as the LGBT Resource Center, and serve in 2021 as the Pride Alliance Center. Today, we celebrate and honor 15 years at the house with the red door.

15 years of advocating.
15 years of learning and growing.
15 years with our chosen family. With you.

& we are excited that YOU are here to continue building our history. Thank you for being a friend. 🥰

With love,
The PAC 💜

💻Virtual event💻

Join us Thursday 10/28 from 7-9pm CST for an evening with Krysta Venora (they/them), an Afro-Indigenous, trans, Non-Binary Queer, psychic witch, and medicine person to discuss both the history of queer witches and their own experiences. They will touch on the purpose and value of queer witches today as well as what it means to be a queer witch. They will touch on indigenous perspectives, historical mistreatment and erasure, as well as the inherent magic of queer people at large. Their presentation will end with speaking on how to find your individual power as a queer person within and without the label "witch." The rest of the event will be lead by student programming assistants who will discuss the general history of queer witches and witchcraft.
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Emma Welch at [email protected].

To register: https://tinyurl.com/QueerWitchHistory

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It’s October, which means we are officially into spooky season AND we are starting LGBTQ+ History Month! Please join us throughout the month in celebration and solidarity. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🖤🤎

📫 No, we aren’t time travelers… we just wanted to share the news early so you were aware: The Pride Alliance Center will be closed on Monday for Labor Day and will resume standard operations (Monday-Thursday, 12:00-8:00pm) on Tuesday, September 7, 2021.

Have a great long weekend, Hawkeyes! We hope to see you tomorrow at Black & Goal’d Remix Tailgates! 🌯🖤🏈💛🎶

🎟QUEERnival: We came for the food and prizes, but stayed for the cool people. Did you join an org last night? 🎡

If you were unable to attend QUEERnival and you have questions about student organizations, let us know in the comments or DM us!

Sweet dreams. 😴

Feeling stressed and a bit overwhelmed with midterm season? Come wind down with us on Friday at the 2021 Self-Care Potluck! There are several fun and relaxing sessions planned for this year’s event, all centering self-care. 🌻

🙋To register: tinyurl.com/2021SelfcarePotluck

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Emma Welch at [email protected].

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10:00am-11:00am: Henna (This event is being held at the Rape Victim Advocacy Program; the rest are virtual)
2:00-3:00pm: Book Discussion, “We Will Not Cancel Us” by adrienne maree brown
3:00-4:00pm: Sugar Scrub
4:00-5:00pm: Henna
5:00-6:00pm: Baking Demo

To register: tinyurl.com/2021SelfcarePotluck

The list of sponsors are shown on the bottom: Rape Victim Advocacy Program, Women’s Resource and Action Center, Monsoon, NISAA African Family Services, Domestic Violence Intervention Program, and Multicultural and International Student Support and Engagement.]

🌈🎓 It’s that time of year again; we are excited to announce Rainbow Graduation 2021! There will be opportunities to get involved both in person and in virtual spaces.

🗓 Graduating LGBTQ+ students and advocates, please register for Rainbow Graduation 2021 at tinyurl.com/RainbowGraduation2021 by 11:59pm CT on Friday, April 30, 2021.

⛓ Visit the Rainbow Graduation website (https://multicultural.uiowa.edu/culturalcenters/priehouse/rainbow-graduation/) for more details.

Rainbow Graduation 2021 is in partnership with the Pride Alliance Center, Multicultural and International Student Support and Engagement, Vice President for Student Life, Division of Student Life, Office of the Dean of Students, and Center for Advancement.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored programs. If you are someone with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participation in this celebration, email Emma Welch in advance at [email protected]

Student leaders have been working hard to put together a wonderful and supportive initiative, the QT Closet! The QT Closet will be a free gender-affirming clothing closet. We will host the first pop-up during the week of April 12-16, 2021, in the Pride House. We will function on an appointment basis.

Iowa family, we could use your help!

🧥 Do you have any clothing (including binders) that you no longer want, taking up space in your closet? QT Closet could be the solution! A clothing drive will be held next week from April 5-9, 2021.

Drop off locations include:

1️⃣ The Vice President of Student Life Office, IMU 249, from 8:00am-5:00pm.

2️⃣ Burge, Peterson, Catlett, and Mayflower main desks during operating hours.

We appreciate any consideration in donating to this closet, as you are able. We are also excited to welcome our shoppers! Sign up link on flyer.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a resonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Alyssa Rae Plano in advance at [email protected].

Happy Pride Week! Join us in discord to learn more and talk to our amazing team!
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✨2021 KEYNOTE SPOTLIGHT✨

Sarah Brynn Holliday (they/them) is a sexuality writer, speaker, and sex toy company consultant based in Salem, Massachusetts. Sarah is the Femme-in-Chief at formidablefemme.com, where they write about trauma and sexuality, navigating the world as a non-binary queer femme, and the sex toy industry. Sarah was featured on MTV News in 2019 and has spoken at numerous colleges across the United States.

Sarah will be leading the workshop, Healing, Pleasure, and Sex After Trauma on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 7:00-9:00pm CT. Visit our Pride Week website for full event details and to register! - https://multicultural.uiowa.edu/celebrations/pride-week/

We are grateful to the Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP) for their support in this event. There will be a confidential resource present in the case that anyone should want 1:1 support.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are someone with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation in order to participate, please email Emma Welch at [email protected].

As part of Pride Week, we are excited to promote an engaging experience, "I'm Writing to You Today," created by Ann Kreitman, an MFA Directing Candidate.

"I'm Writing to You Today is an environmental audio experience that will lead you through campus in the footsteps of our queer ancestors. Listeners will be able to go alone or in pairs to reimagine campus as the backdrop for historical queer love letters. This outdoor experience will begin at the University of Iowa Theatre Building (200 N. Riverside Drive, Iowa City, Iowa) and will last approximately one hour. Available for digital download on Spotify and Apple Podcasts beginning April 1.

I'm Writing to You Today is a gift to the LGBTQ+ community of Iowa, celebrating the fact that we always have and always will find our path to love.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Ann Kreitman in advance at [email protected]."