LGBTQIA+ Events
LGBTQIA+ Equity strives to bring cultural, social, and educational events that highlights and uplifts the diverse and valuable work of folks in the LGBTQIA+ community, from local leaders to prominent activists. At our events, we want to ensure that you enjoy yourself and your learnings while finding the tools to help you advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community. The goal of our programming is to center the community by highlighting the work, experience, and contributions of the LGBTQIA+ community.
If you have event ideas you’d like to share, or are interested in participating in the event planning process, email us at lgbtqia@miracosta.edu.
Spring 2022 Event Calendar
[Spring event calendar coming soon]
Justice and Queer liberation through the lens of Joy with Jordan Daniels
Monday, February 14th | 12:00 - 1:30 pm PST | tinyurl.com/QueerLibJoy
Queer Ecology with miles Lewis
Wednesday, March 9th | 11:30 - 1 pm PST | tinyurl.com/QueerEcology
A meditative workshop where we envision how our bodies, societies, and natural environment can coexist in peace, pleasure, and sustainability. Participants of all genders, sexualities, and beliefs are welcome.
Miles Lewis is a painter, art and environmental educator, and community organizer in the San
Fernando Valley.
As an educator, his aim is to help students develop skills for making their perception
more holistic, practical, and inventive. This applies just as much to drawing, painting,
and composition, as it does to bodies, nature, and the material economy. His interest
in queer ecology comes from the conviction that the successes of gay rights and sexual
liberation suggest real pathways for a kinder and greener world.
Zine Workshop with heather c. lou of voices for racial justice
Monday, March 29th | 3:00 - 4:00 pm PST | tinyurl.com/Zinehclou
Learn how to make your zine together with a queer artist Heather C. Lou (she/her/hers) in an afternoon of creating cute queer vibes! All you need is a pair of scissors, one sheet of 8.5x11 paper with at least one blank side, writing utensils, and coloring tools.
Heather is joining our community virtually from Minnesota, where she serves as the Director of Training for the Voices for Racial Justice, a movement organization to committed to building power through collective cultural & healing strategies for racial justice across Minnesota using organizing, leadership training, community policy & research.
Heather is a multiracial, Asian, queer, cisgender, disabled, & survivor/surviving womxn of color artist and educator. Her art is a form of healing, transformation, and liberation, rooted in womxnism and gender equity through a racialized borderland lens.
Fire & Flood Film Screening with queer ecojustice Project
Tuesday, April 5th | 10:30 - 12 pm PST | link coming soon
Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change tells the story of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the fires in Santa Rosa, California, two-near simultaneous climate-related disasters in the fall of 2017, through the voices of LGBTQ people who lived through them and were part of the community response. The film explores the vulnerability of LGBTQ communities to climate disasters and also lifts up queer and trans strategies for resilience, transition, and survival. The film was created by Queer Ecojustice Project.
Queer Ecojustice Project organizes at the intersection of ecological justice and queer liberation. We are storytellers weaving together the threads of a complex, multidimensional story of queer survival and collective ecological futures through collaborative projects that aim to catalyze culture, consciousness, and community.
Lavender celebration
Friday, May 6th | 11:00 - 1:30 pm PST | tinyurl.com/LavCeleb2022
Join us as we end the academic year with this annual celebratory event! We will honor the achievements of MCC graduates, recognize those who have completed the Pride Inclusion Training, give awards students and staff for their extraordinary services, and recap the 2021-2022 year.
