Matthew Jeffries (GIESORC) will address what he believes is a mistaken belief that the LGBTQ+ community can only find happiness in the big city. Join Zoom: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/94393219321?pwd=aUlQWlNoeDdtZmpGU1FEWHJKb0h2QT09 Meeting ID: 943 9321 9321, Passcode 557398

This virtual Game Night for All will give attendees the opportunity to learn about Black History through a variety of short games. Hosted by Global Connections as part of its MLK programming. Registration link:  https://events.wsu.edu/event/game-night-for-all-2/   

In Care Work, a collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning and disability justice activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice by mapping access to radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community.  It […]

As automation takes a larger and more important role in the digital world, an increasing proportion of our interactions and experiences are mediated by opaque algorithms. This includes everything from social media feeds to credit scores, red light cameras, and even automated hiring practices, among many other examples. In this interactive seminar, Hall and Deford […]

Naomi Littlebear is a Chicana lesbian writer and musician, recognized since the 1980s as a groundbreaking figure of Chicana feminism. Her work is featured in the influential third-wave anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writers by Radical Women of Color, and her song “Can’t Kill the Spirit” has been adopted in protests internationally from England to […]

This semester students in SOE 110, “Environment, Human Life, and Sustainability,” have been tasked with projects to employ systems thinking to issues of environmental equity and justice. Come see their presentations as they present their understanding of environmental inequalities. Verification of attendance available

We close this year’s Common Reading series centered on Tales of Two Americas with the screening of a documentary that asks whether the “American Dream” of home ownership presents a false promise. While the U.S. government’s postwar housing policy created the world’s largest middle class, it also set America on two divergent paths—one of perceived wealth and […]

Inés Hernández-Avila is one of the six founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. A professor of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, her research focuses on the interrelationships between autonomy, the arts, spirit, and social justice. She is a poet, scholar, translator, visual artists, and a member of Luk’upsiimey/The North Star […]

Gather follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide. An indigenous chef embarks on an ambitious project to reclaim ancient food ways on the Apache reservation; in South Dakota a gifted Lakota high school student is proving her tribe’s native […]

The wetlands of the world are undervalued. One wetlands’ star most of us are familiar with is the cattail/bulrush. Sian Ritchie of WSU’s School of Biological Sciences will lead attendees on a hands-on activity will help us appreciate this plant, and see how she can provide us with as much, and more, than a trip […]