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OUT/LOUD Queer and Trans Performance Fest

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Friday, May 26 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Global Scholars Hall, Great Room
1710 E. 15th Avenue Eugene, OR

Please join the UO Women’s Center to celebrate our 23rd annual OUT/LOUD Queer and Trans Performance Fest Friday, May 26th from 6-8pm in the GSU Great Room! OUT/LOUD will feature a performance by amazing queer comedian Mx. Dahlia Belle, She has been published in Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, The Stranger, and Portland Mercury, and been a repeat guest on NPR, CBC, and XRAY FM.

The Women’s Center will end our last major event of the academic school year by centering LGBTQIA2S+ Laughter and Radical Joy! Come party with us!

Students Highly Encouraged to Participate in Drag Show! Free Food & Admission; Fragrance Free Event; Masks not required but highly encouraged; Raffle Prizes! First Come, First Serve.

This is a SAFE SPACE for the LGBTQIA2S+ Community. Harmful behavior will *NOT* be tolerated. Space is Limited. For more information contact Heather at LGBTQWC@gmail.com or Fatima at fpervaiz@uoregon.edu. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

OUT/LOUD QUEER AND TRANS WOMXN’S PERFORMANCE FEST!

A Queer and Trans Comedy Fest featuring Comedians Mx. Dahlia Belle and Kile Atwater!

Wednesday, June 2nd on YouTube via tinyurl.com/OUTLOUD2021 beginning at 6pm!

FREE and limited OUT/LOUD Snack Packs available at the Black Cultural Center Patio from 2-5pm!

Art by Kei Kort. Video Editing by Ali Beaulieu.

#LGBTQIALaughter #RadicalJoy #PrideMonth2021

OUT/LOUD 2020: Experimental Music Production Featuring Guayaba

The Women’s Center has been proud to hold our most celebratory event of the year at the end of Spring Term: OUT/LOUD Queer and Trans Womxn’s Performance Fest. We lovingly refer to it as the Queer and Trans Beach Party of our Dreams, complete with electric palm trees, photobooths, music, poetry and most importantly – Radical Queer and Trans Joy in Community.

Unfortunately, the landscape is significantly different this year under the COVID-19 pandemic and we have had to transform the event entirely. However, because we are committed to amplifying the voices, honoring the resiliency and COMPENSATING the labor of Queer and Trans People of Color, this year OUT/LOUD became an essential, real, raw, honest conversation between our LGBTQIA+ Coordinator, KW, and the Tacoma, Washington-based Indie Musician and Performer Guayaba.

Join us for the educational webinar “OUT/LOUD 2020: Experimental Music Production Featuring Guayaba” about creatively, emotionally and financially surviving during a crisis as KW and Guayaba discuss mental health, sex work, content creation, capitalism, community, healing, organizing virtually, the gig industry, cyberpunk, FOMO and self-care in the time of COVID.

And please know that the University of Oregon Women’s Center firmly supports members of the LGBTQIA+ Community and will continue to fight for the rights and dignity of all people, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identities/expressions and intersections of identity. We celebrate YOU.

With Love and Solidarity, The Women’s Center <3

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/OUTLOUD2020-Webinar

#OUTLOUD2020 #Guayaba #LGBTQIA #QTPOC #IndieArtists #COVID #RadicalJoy #Healing #Community

Art by Kiva Hanson/Design by KW Lau

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The Line Up:

Taína Asili is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and bandleader combining powerful vocals with an energetic fusion of Afro-Latin, reggae and rock. Residing in Albany, NY, Taína Asili performs her social justice songs as a solo artist, and also with her a six-piece band, Taína Asili y la Banda Rebelde, bringing love, resistance, and ancestral remembrance to venues, festivals, conferences and political events across the globe. During Taína Asili’s 20-year career of creating music for social change she has toured the country many times, toured Europe from Ireland to Germany, and has performed in Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Taína Asili has performed at many well-known festivals and venues, sharing the stage with renowned artists such as Talib Kweli, Ursula Rucker, Sonia Sanchez, Paula Cole, Pamela Means, and The Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars. Taína Asili’s voice exudes strength of Spirit, filling its listeners with the fervor for freedom and inspiring audiences to dance to the rhythm of rebellion.

http://tainaasili.com/

taina y la banda

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Evan Greer is a trans/genderqueer activist singer/songwriter, parent, and organizer based in Boston. She writes and performs high-energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance! Evan tours internationally as a musician and speaker, and facilitates interactive workshops to support movements for justice and liberation. Wielding an arsenal of fiercely radical songs that vary in style from pop-punk poetry to foot-stompin’ bluegrass singalongs. She’s currently the campaign director for Fight for the Future, the viral digital rights nonprofit. Evan writes regularly for The Guardian and Huffington Post, has been a guest on All Things Considered, and has been interviewed about her activism by the New York Times, Rolling Stone, TIME Magazine, NBC, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Democracy Now!, The Atlantic, CNN, Mother Jones, and even Fox News.

http://evangreer.org/index/

Evan Greer

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When Nikole Potulsky starts to sing, the audience quiets into a focused attention that she deftly holds until she leaves the stage. With sincerity and ease, Nikole will take you to visit people you’ve never met and places you’ve never been. Strippers, fortune tellers, rural queer folks and fierce southern women. Strike lines, kitchen tables, house fires and deathbeds. Sometimes you can hear her Alabama drawl or her Great Lakes vowel shift. After a few tunes, you start to feel like you have been where she has been and you recognize yourself in her songs. Somehow by the end of the show, you feel like old friends. Nikole has performed on over 100 stages across the United States and is currently producing her debut album in Portland, Oregon.

http://www.nikolepotulsky.com/

potulski

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The Mischief Mistress Jane is a 23 year old musician from Eugene, OR. Queer & trans feminist, dirty punk, dedicated basement producer. Jane does it all, she does not need your help, only your ears!

http://mischiefmistressjane.bandcamp.com/

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Saffron is a Eugene based rock and grunge band. Formed in 2014 when Australian guitarist/singer Alex Jackson moved permanently to Oregon. Featuring Graham Thirkil on the bass and backing vocals and Matt Kaplowitz on drums. They have played frequent shows around the Eugene area and love to entertain with original compositions and solid grooves.

https://saffronband.bandcamp.com/releases

About OUT/Loud:

OUT/LOUD is Eugene’s queer and trans women’s music festival, celebrating the music, culture, and art of queer women, transwomen, non-binary folks, femme identifying people, and AFAB individuals. This year we will be celebrating our 16th anniversary of the festival on May 20th with a musically diverse crew of locals and out of town artists on the Queer and Trans spectrum and from many cultures and backgrounds. This event is important to the University of Oregon’s vibrant LGBTQ scene as a space where we are not only validating the work of some of some of the most underrepresented groups, but also engaging in liberating play and enjoying community. In the wake of political unrest around Mississippi’s and North Carolina’s homophobic and transphobic policies, and concerning the reality of female queer and transwomen artists being paid historically less than their cisgender and/or male/masculine counterparts, supporting events like OUT/LOUD is fundamental to helping queer and trans women safely express their personhood. While we must honor the struggles of queer and transwomen of all races, ethnicities, abilities, and ages, OUT/LOUD offers us the opportunity to also celebrate this resilient group.