Pride Month 2020: Coffee hours, Ted Talks, Movies & more

June marks Pride Month in the United States, an observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. The Lab’s Lambda Alliance Employee Activity Association and the Lambda Alliance Employee Resource Group has several events planned for the month to foster discussion and to have fun.

Lambda Alliance Coffee Hour – Tuesday, June 2, 2020
12:00 PM via Zoom

Movie Screening – Wednesday, June 10, 2020
To A More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor
11:30 AM via kosmi.io webapp
https://app.kosmi.io/room/8ttrb0
Please note:  This is a new platform for us.  While we have tested this several times, please be patient with us.  Bandwidth limitations on both stream and user sides can cause viewing issues.  The movie will start shortly after 11:30.  If you wish to participate in the chat with a non-generic name, please consider creating an account before the screening.

Lambda Alliance Happy Hour – Friday, June 12, 2020
5:00 PM via Zoom

Lambda Alliance Crafternoon – Monday, June 15
4:00 PM via Zoom
Grab your needlepoint, paint, beading, or whatever you have handy to work on and share in the creative enjoyment of others.

Pride Month Ted Talks w/discussion – Wednesday, June 17, 2020
11:30 AM via Zoom

Julia Serano Brown Bag Lunch – Wednesday, June 24, 2020
12 Noon via Zoom: https://lbnl.zoom.us/s/95050563609
Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, performer, biologist, and activist. She is best known for her 2007 book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, which readers of Ms. Magazine ranked #16 on their list of the “100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time.” Her other books include2013’s Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive (which was a finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction) and 2016’s Outspoken: a decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism (which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction). Julia’s other writings have appeared in over a dozen anthologies, and in media outlets such as The New YorkTimes, The Guardian, TIME, Salon, The Daily Beast, AlterNet, Out, and Ms. Julia’s life experiences as a trans woman, and her understanding of biology (she has a PhD in biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from Columbia University, and spent seventeen years as a researcher at UC Berkeley in the fields of genetics, evolution, and developmental biology), gives her a unique perspective on gender and sexuality, and her writings have been used as teaching materials in colleges across North America. Julia’s first foray into fiction, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel, was published in early 2020. Information about her various creative endeavors can be found atjuliaserano.com

Movie Screening – Frida – Friday, June 26, 2020
11:30 AM via kosmi.io webapp
https://app.kosmi.io/room/8ttrb0
Please note:  This is a new platform for us.  While we have tested this several times, please be patient with us.  Bandwidth limitations on both stream and user sides can cause viewing issues.  The movie will start shortly after 11:30.  If you wish to participate in the chat with a non-generic name, please consider creating an account before the screening.