Don’t let them clip your tiny little insect wings, Eric Anthony Berdis’ solo exhibition, celebrates LGBTQ+ people, reflects on the historical struggles of the community’s past, and encourages allyship.
Topic: Diversity
First-Generation Redbirds support peer students with positive affirmations
The cold fall weather did not stop members of First-Generation Redbirds (FGR) from spreading positivity on Schroeder Plaza.
Concert to feature West African drumming and dance, November 15
The ISU West African Drum and Dance Ensemble will perform with the BiaJo Community Dance Group at 7:30 p.m. Friday, November 15, in Illinois State University’s Kemp Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.
Voice of the community: Soledad O’Brien speaks at ISU’s Latino Cultural Dinner
Soledad O’Brien remembers walking out of her high school one day with her mother, when an administrator stopped an African American teenager in the hallway.
Carmen Giménez Smith to give reading from Be Recorder, October 30
Carmen Giménez Smith, award-winning poet, memoirist, editor, and educator, will discuss her publishing, writing, and academic roles followed by a public reading from her newest book Be Recorder.
Latinx: Queer Brown Voices, October 30
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz of American University will address how the term Latinx has become both a source of solidarity and contention.
Eric Anthony Berdis Artist Talk, October 28
Milner Library invites the campus community to a special event featuring artist Eric Anthony Berdis.
Latinx Heritage Month at Illinois State
A series of talks, performances, and lectures will help celebrate Latinx Heritage Month, highlighted with a keynote lecture on “Latinx: Queer Brown Voices” on October 30, and the Hispanic Heritage Fair on October 10.
ISU Pride offers encouragement, resources to students on National Coming Out Day
ISU Pride members tabled last Friday on the Quad to offer information and words of encouragement to students on National Coming Out Day.
Equity, activism, solidarity to highlight CRCC Conference, November 18-19
Registration is open for the 2019 Culturally Responsive Campus Community Fall Conference with the theme “Building Solidarity Across Movements.”