Celebrate WordPress Accessibility Day – October 15, 2025 Every Click Should Be Accessible.

WordPress Accessibility Day is a 24-hour global event dedicated to promoting and learning best practices for creating accessible WordPress websites. Originally started in 2020 by the WordPress Core Accessibility Team, this independent, volunteer-led initiative brings together developers, designers, content creators, and users worldwide to ensure websites are usable for everyone, regardless of ability.

Why Accessibility Matters
An accessible website ensures that people with disabilities—and those using assistive technologies—can fully engage with online content. Accessibility also benefits broader audiences by improving readability, usability on mobile devices, translation accuracy, and overall user experience. Accessible websites truly benefit everyone.

Event Details

Learn more and register for WordPress Accessibility Day!

UMBC Commitment to Accessibility
At UMBC, the Office of Accessibility and Disability Services is committed to fostering digital accessibility in all online spaces. As you participate in WordPress Accessibility Day—or create content of your own—we encourage you to review our Six Essential Steps for Accessible Digital Content.

Together, let's make accessibility a shared responsibility and celebrate WordPress Accessibility Day by building content that works for everyone.

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Join the Office of Graduate Student Life (OGSL) and GEARS for Movie Night! 
We'll have pizza, popcorn, and a fun movie (to be announced soon).

Bike Giveaway!
Want to win a FREE bike? Here's how:

  • You must be following the OGSL myUMBC page

  • You must be present at Movie Night

The winner will be announced at the end of the movie — don't miss your chance!

 Details:

  • Friday, October 17

  • 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

  • Lecture Hall 1

Come for the food, enjoy the movie, and maybe leave with a bike!

SEE YA THERE!

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Unfortunately the Full Circle Market Coconut Waters that were distributed in The Essential Space today October 1st, 2025 were expired. There's an image below of the product in question. Please do not consume expired products, they should be discarded. We apologize for the inconvenience.  ]]> Hello! Unfortunately the Full Circle Market Coconut Waters that were distributed in The Essential Space today October 1st, 2025 were expired. There's an image below of the product in question.... 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Join us for the Fall CNMS Town Hall Meeting and share your thoughts, concerns, and ideas with leadership. This is your opportunity to make your voice count and help shape the future of our community. Come out to Meyerhoff 351 on Thursday, October 16 at 10AM! Free coffee & donuts will be provided! ]]> Join us for the Fall CNMS Town Hall Meeting and share your thoughts, concerns, and ideas with leadership. This is your opportunity to make your voice count and help shape the future of our... 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Come celebrate Halloween with faculty and students from Asian Studies, LLC, the Korean Students Association, the K-Pop Dance Club (with a special dance demo), and many others!

The K-Pop Dance Club will be teaching Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters as part of the mini demo. Join us Tuesday, October 28th, starting at 5:30pm in the Skylight Lounge!

To RSVP and see the original post, click here! 

This event is co-sponsored by Asian Studies Program; Language, Literacy, and Culture; Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication; Global Asias Initiative; Dresher Center for the Humanities; The Mosaic Center; Media and Communication Studies; Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies

The Mosaic Center and all events are open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.
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Have questions, ideas, or concerns about graduate student life at UMBC? Want to learn more about upcoming initiatives or share your feedback directly with GSA leadership?

Join the GSA President during weekly office hours! This is your opportunity to:

Your voice matters—stop by, even if it's just to say hello!

Commons 308
Every Wednesday, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

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Retriever Essentials will have delayed opening today until 1:00pm.

Please plan your trip accordingly, and we apologize for any inconveniences. 
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Hello everyone!

On Thursday, October 9th from 2-3:00pm, we will be partnering with the Hillel Student Organization again  with our Free Farmers Market!

Instead of being at the Apartment Community Center, we will be at The Commons Quad in between the tennis court, and the pool! We hope to see you all there and check out the Hillel Student Organization post for more information!
A decorative image of Retriever Essentials Free Farmers Market with the UMBC Hillel Group celebrating Sukkah
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the MLLI department presents, the Latinex Film Festival. 

Film Showing Schedule: 

SOND 113 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
September 29 - Critical Thinking (2020)
October 7 - Los Lobos (2019)
October 15 - Real Women Have Curves (2003)

Prof. Milvia Hernandez will introduce the film and guide a short discussion after. 
Come and enjoy an inspirational movie!
Free Admission for all showings. MLLI invites you to stay after each film to share and engage in dialogue. 
All films will be shown with English subtitles. 

To learn more, check out the MLLI website. 

This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy. 
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Language as personal and communal expression: an interactive zine-making workshop 

Dr. Joyhanna Jung Yoo and Shengxiao "Sole" Yu will lead participants through an exploration of their personal relationship to their heritage language(s). The workshop will ask participants to reflect on the relationship of language in their lives as it pertains to identity, family, thought, and more. The workshop aims to bring together students and broader community members to think about the connections between issues of language to broader community and social concerns.

Thursday, October 23, 2025
2-4pm
Location: CADVC Gallery, Fine Arts 105

Attendance is capped at 25 participants. Priority will be given to students.

About the speakers:

Joyhanna "Joy" Yoo (she/they) is a linguistic anthropologist whose work examines the circulation of Korean popular cultural genres with fieldwork based in Seoul, Mexico City, and Los Angeles. Their research examines the meanings generated by language as it pertains to race and gender when cultural genres circulate. Joy has also published on Asian American racialization and linguistic appropriation in mediatized contexts. Her newer work examines the relationship between language loss, grief, and Korean diasporic belonging. They are especially passionate about student-centered teaching, mentorship, and student advocacy.

Shengxiao Yu, known by her nickname Sole, is a speaker, facilitator, writer, and social justice educator. She is the creator of Nectar, a space where she provides political education for the community through giving keynote speeches, facilitating workshops, and providing thought leadership. In 2024, Sole served as the activist-in-residence at the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. In this capacity, Sole conducted research to more deeply understand the AAPI electoral landscape and the role of mis- and disinformation. Sole is a writer for the Xin Sheng Project, a platform combating misinformation in the Chinese diaspora community by publishing in-language, progressive articles that shift perspectives and build intergenerational power. As a generation 1.5 Asian American, Sole is also working to build community among her fellow Asian Americans in order to build socio-political power and to lift up her lineage. Sole is inspired by BIPOC activists, grassroots community leaders, and all the intersectional movement ancestors who have paved the way.

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This event is part of the Reframing Global Asias Conversation Series. For the conversation series this fall, the Global Asias Initiative is hosting guest speakers Shengxiao "Sole" Yu and Dr. Joyhanna Jung Yoo for a series of workshops & lectures.


Want to learn more about the upcoming Global Asias Conversation Series? Check out our website for more!

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