As part of The Evergreen State College’s Day of Absence & Day Presence event, The Tacoma campus S&A Board present Julia Serano, who will be speaking about Activism, Language, and Differences of Opinion & Putting the Feminine Back Into Feminism on April 14, 2017 at 7 pm. There will be an audience Q&A after the talk and she will sign books as well.

Presented by Iona McClellan, Multicultural Peer Advisor

This workshop is specifically for folks who are adoptees or have been fostered or raised by other family members. It will be a space held for reflecting, connecting, and sharing with other adopted community members.

Presented by Ev Guerra and Aly Siracusa, Multicultural Peer Advisors

Short talk and workshop about dancing as reclamation of the body.

Presented by KaLehua HaApana, Multicultural Peer Advisor

Come and learn about the history and culture of hula, a Native Hawaiian dance.

Presented by Daniela Alarcón, student at the Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Daniela will discuss her journey to medical school, her personal struggles and failures along the way, and how she learned from them to become a stronger candidate and a better future physician. She will discuss the important steps she took to gaining acceptance into medical school, how she used her minority status as a tool to achieve this, and how she determined what school would be best for her.

Presented by Isiah Montejano, Multicultural Peer Advisor

College life is stressful, and self-care methods can help us cope with the anxiety and depression that stress can cause. In this workshop, we’ll explore methods of self-care, and discuss ways to make self-care more accessible to students. Participants will have an opportunity to identify their own stressors and define where they are in their own self-care practice.

Presented by Thalia Flores, Multicultural Peer Advisor

In this workshop, we will discuss the importance of food and culture, access to healthy food through traditional dishes, and how food creates community.

Baratunde Thurston is a futurist comedian, writer, and cultural critic who helped re-launch The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, co-founded Cultivated Wit and the About Race podcast, and wrote the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black. Baratunde is a highly sought-after public speaker, television personality, and thought leader who has been part of noteworthy institutions such as Fast Company, TED, the MIT Media Lab, The Onion, and the gentrification of Brooklyn, New York.

Academy Award Winner for Best Picture of 2016, Moonlight is a coming-of-age drama that presents three stages in the life of a young black man as he grapples with questions about his identity.