Oct. 28, 2016: Lavender Lunch featuring Martha Amore

UAA SafeZone is pleased to announce a Lavender Lunch featuring Martha Amore this Friday, Oct. 28, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Gorsuch Commons, Room 106.

Martha (she/her/hers) teaches in the Department of English at UAA, achieved her Master of Fine Arts from UAA in 2009, has published stories in a number of journals and magazines, and is a featured author in the anthology Weathered Edge: Three Alaskan Novellas. In 2015, she won a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award to complete her collection of short stories, which she hopes to have out in 2018.  Her new book, published by the University of Alaska Press and co-edited by Lucian Childs, is an anthology titled Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry. She is currently working on an interdisciplinary Ph.D. through the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Bring your own lunch or stop by the Creekside Eatery for something hot and fresh, and join us for an informal discussion as Martha shares information about her most recent anthology. UAA SafeZone is an inclusive organization-just as you are all welcome, so are your questions and conversation!  We hope you'll join us!

UAA's SafeZone is a campus-wide program designed to increase the overall campus community's understanding and awareness of issues faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, allies (GLBTQA+) and other marginalized persons on the gender and sexual identity spectrums. We offer a visible message of inclusion, support and advocacy through two-hour Ally trainings, taking participants through a variety of activities aimed at expanding horizons and cultivating thoughts. Ally trainings help participants examine their thoughts and views while prepping them to become better allies for the GLBTQA+ community.

UAA SafeZone also offers eight-hour train-the-trainer courses. In addition, UAA SafeZone hold meetings open to all to encourage awareness, discussion and participation for those who wish to become more involved. In addition to regular programming, UAA SafeZone presents LGBT+ History Month programming each October and the UAA SafeZone Celebration Week each April.

All UAA SafeZone events are open to UAA students, staff, faculty and the surrounding communities.

SafeZone was a part of the UAA community in the 1990s, and returned to UAA in November 2010 thanks to the efforts of former Residence Life and Dean of Students office employees Maria Bonifacio-Sample, Anna Hinman and Jamie Vance, and thanks to funding from the Diversity Action Council. UAA SafeZone now has more than 100 trained allies and nearly 50 trainers, comprised of current and former students, staff and faculty as well as members of the Anchorage, Fairbanks, Valdez and Soldotna communities.

For more information about UAA SafeZone, visit us on Facebook at facebook.com/UAAsafezone or email safezone@uaa.alaska.edu.

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