This morning at 10:30 students, staff and faculty will have an opportunity to produce zines inspired by the Hampshire College Art Gallery’s current exhibition, Between Us, in which lithographs by the artist Marisol and selections from the gallery’s Zine Collection are in dialogue with one another to create statements on bodies and intimacy.

At 12 noon there will be affinity spaces over lunch for the Hampshire community to gather to discuss gender as a lived experience on the campus and to address ways to reduce intersectional gender-related harm. Centers/groups hosting: the Cultural Center: Men of Color Alliance (MOCA) will meet in the Cultural Center and SISTERS will meet in Cole 101; the QCAC; the Spiritual Life Center (open to all); and the World Lounge for International students. Check the website for locations/directions and contact info.

Following this, there will be afternoon tea and an opening showcase reception for the Queer Community Alliance Center's (QCAC) Local Queer Histories Exhibit and the Center For Feminism's (CFF) Trans & Lesbian Feminisms Exhibit. Join us in the QCAC and CFF to see the instalations and have a cup of tea (or coffee).

For a second year, the Eqbal Ahmad Lecture, which brings prominent politicians, artists, scholars, and activists to the campus, will be held on the same day as the CDL. This year’s lecturer is Representative Zooey Zephyr of Montana, whose lecture is entitled “They Say Get Back, We Say Fight Back!: Trans/gender Politics in the U.S. Streets and State Houses.” With a trenchant political analysis and vision that propelled her to the Montana state house, Zephyr will speak about her political trajectories, the traditions that she derives inspiration from, as well as her analysis of the current situation in the streets and state houses of the United States. There will be a reception after the talk, in the courtyard outside FPH.

After the reception join us in the Film and Photo building to view the exhibition for Authentic Selves, a photography project celebrating trans and nonbinary people and their families Angélica Castro (whose family is featured in the exhibit) will co-create a brave space with the HC community to build our capacity to work constructively by facilitating story telling and trust-building for students, staff and faculty.

- CEL credit hours for all CDL events