Repost: We Believe You Spring Elections 2021-2022 Accepting applications to be on our e-board until May 24!

Reposting on behalf of We Believe You Student Org. They are looking for new leaders for the 2021-22 academic year! The original post can be found here.

 

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It's that time of year again to start the process for Elections 2021-2020!

The following positions are up for election:

President

Vice President

Treasurer

Secretary

Project Coordinator

Advertising Manager

 

If you wish to run for an admin position, check out our current positions and complete the following Google Form by 11:59pm est. on Monday, May 24, 2021. Descriptions for each of the executive positions are provided within the form. Once the May 24th deadline has passed, we will post the candidates' information and everyone will have a chance to vote during the official voting period which will be held May 25 - May 29, 2021.

 

Note: President, Vice President, and Treasurer are all mandatory positions for student organization renewal. If you are unsure at this time whether you are eligible for a position on the We Believe You Executive Board, we encourage you to still complete and submit an application. All applicants will have the opportunity to meet with a current executive board officer to discuss their application and/or answer any questions regarding the e-board positions and assigned duties/roles.

 

For this election, we will be following and closely adhering to the recommendations provided by the Virtual Elections Guidelines from 2020, as well as guidance provided during the Mandated Annual Round Table for student organization officers.


What’s New? For this spring election, we will be trying something new which will include connecting with each candidate via phone/video conference and conducting a short 20-25min interview. If this is something you are not comfortable with, please indicate that on the application and we will find another way to connect with you that is accommodating to your preferences.


We want to extend our deepest appreciation for your patience during this adjustment period and hope to secure the best accessible route for voting as possible during remote instruction. If you have any questions about the election application or further inquiries regarding We Believe You, please email us at webelieveyou.umbc@gmail.com.Note: Email response time is typically 12-48 hours.


We wish everyone a very safe and happy summer break! We hope to see you back on campus very soon. 

Take Care and Happy Elections!

We Believe You Team

 

About Us: We Believe You is a UMBC student activist and advocacy group for survivors of sexual violence, interpersonal/ relationship violence, and/or power-based violence. We welcome all survivors and allies so long as they respect survivors and their truths.

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If you missed out on our event, please click this link to view our recording! Translation for the portions in Spanish are attached to this post. Have any feedback about the event on how it can be improved in the future? Click here to be directed to our evaluation. 

If you are a graduating student (or already an alumni community member), we encourage you to stay connected with the CBLA community by following them on social media, as well as apply to be part of their chapter (free to all alumni community members!). Graduates who completed the social media form, should see their posts by the conclusion of May. 

Please note that all UMBC alumni are eligible to be members of CBLA, regardless of how they identify or their graduation date.

Finally, we encourage all of you to check out our 8th Annual Lavender Celebration, tomorrow, Tuesday, May 11th at 5:00p.m. EST via Webex! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email us at i3b@umbc.edu or cbla@umbc.edu.


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As a new department on campus, we have been working diligently to ground ourselves in the values that guide our work. We'd like to introduce the second of three umbrella values: social justice education & development. Social justice education & development often solely focuses on the accumulation of knowledge in a unidirectional manner. However, our desire and intention is that social justice education & development connects head & heart; that we connect embodied and experiential ways of knowing to intellectual study. We must make intentional connections between thinking and feeling in the ways we plan, organize, and work with one another.
Read through this post, engage in your own reflection, and join us in our journey to creating space for radical love and belonging on our campus and beyond. 

This post was written by Lisa Gray, Associate Director of Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging. She is a passionate and committed educator that loves chocolate, salsa & bachata dancing, and the entire Star Trek Universe.

 Social Justice Education & Development is about…
  • Joining our head with our heart - which requires intentional effort.  This effort first involves gaining knowledge through doing self work (ex. reading, seeking and researching trusted and verified sources for oneself). It involves actively listening to those with lived experiences that are different from our own. It means we must strive to be open to learning formally (ex. a classroom or lecture) and informally (ex. Casual dialogue and personal interaction). 
  • Actively pausing and slowing down to create moments to reconnect with our five senses. 
  • Cultivating a space for individual and community growth by being willing to say “I don’t know” and “seeking to understand as well as be understood”. 
  • Doing self-work while being open to growing with others. 
“We believe that social justice is both a process and a goal. The goal of social justice is full and equal participation of all groups in a society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs. Social justice includes a vision of society in which the distribution of resources is equitable and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure.” 
 -Theoretical Foundations for Social Justice Education, Lee Anne Bell, Co-Editor, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 2016

Educating and developing oneself with a social justice lens is challenging when one pursues it as an individual, solo endeavor without inviting the encouragement and support of others. Socially just education is challenging to pursue within environments that value and reward keeping the status quo to protect the comfort of a few rather than disrupting it for the common liberation of the many. 

"We envision a society in which individuals are both self-determining (able to develop their full capacities) and interdependent (capable of interacting democratically with others). Social justice involves social actors who have a sense of their own agency as well as a sense of social responsibility toward and with others, their society, and the broader world in which we live. These are conditions we wish not only for our own society but also for every society in our interdependent global community.” 
-Theoretical Foundations for Social Justice Education, Lee Anne Bell, Co-Editor, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 2016

Social Justice and Education in Practice
“There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.”
- Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
  • Reflect….Examine and assess the ways you learn and how that has impacted your view of other people and cultures.  How have you developed your awareness and knowledge about your own values, worldview and beliefs?  
  • Recognize… Pay attention to the awareness, knowledge and experiences of others, both direct and indirect.. Get comfortable with multi-directional learning - learning with as well as from oneself and others.   
  • Engage…. With cultural humility, seeking to understand from a place of openness and curiosity.  Honor one’s own and other people's stories and recognize the power of cultural storytelling as a tool to disrupt harmful narratives and build cross-cultural connections rooted in empathy.
  • Unlearn and Learn - Actively strive to unlearn and reject oppressive, colonized, supremacist practices and knowledge systems, taking an explicitly anti-supremacist stance. Learn and acknowledge systems of power, privilege and oppression and how they impact various campus communities.
  • Practice....Slow down and consider the intent and impact of your words and behaviors - on those in our personal networks and across our campus communities.  
  • Reflect - Recognize - Engage - Unlearn and Learn - Practice - Shift toward Justice for All.
“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.” 
– Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, British Columbia, Canada

"We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality." - Thich Nhat Hanh

In Reflection: 
  • How does social justice show up in your definition and pursuit of education? 
  • How do you create space in your life for your beliefs about inclusion and social justice? 
  • How do you connect your “head” with your “heart” everyday?
  • What would your relationship with yourself and others be like if you worked to better align what you say about social justice with what you do about it?  
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Throughout the month of May, UMBC, Maryland and the Country celebrate the history, resilience, and cultures of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) communities worldwide as a part of APIDA Heritage Month. 

APIDA Heritage Month started as a week-long celebration in 1977 and later was expanded to a full month. The Month of May carries significance as it commemorates the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the transcontinental railroad completion on May 10, 1869 - honoring the majority Chinese Immigrants who laid the tracks. 

APIDA Heritage Month is a celebration of Asians, Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. APIDA encompasses people from all of the Asian continent, India, and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island). 

Today, there are approximately 20 million Asian Americans that trace their roots to more than 20 countries, each with their own unique histories, cultures, languages, and norms. While this diverse group is often treated as a monolith, significant differences exist by income, education, religion, etc. 

Throughout U.S. history and over the past year, we know our APIDA community has been impacted by Asian American hate crimes and anti-Asian sentiment. But even as we navigate these ongoing pains, we must also find/create and center spaces for joy, intentional rest, and shared community. Honoring APIDA Heritage Month is more than ordering Chinese or Indian food, it’s about amplifying lived experiences, uncovering challenging histories and recommitting to shared action and justice. Resources for you to learn more can be found below:

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Thank you to everyone who registered to participate in CBLA and i3b’s online Black + Latine/x Graduation Celebration TODAY Tuesday, May 4 at 4:00 p.m. EST You are invited to login here, and you will also receive a calendar invite to the event. 

 

As a Webex Meeting, people will have the option to turn on their cameras during the event. This event will be recorded, so if you would not like to be recorded, please make note of your audio and video settings when you login. 


Let us know if you have any questions and we look forward to celebrating with you this evening!


Webex Details

Black and Latine/x Graduation Celebration

Hosted by the Chapter of Black and Latino/e/x Alumni and Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion and Belonging (i3b) 


Meeting Login

Meeting number: 120 012 0281

Password: CBLAGrad

Join by video system

Dial 1200120281@umbc.webex.com

You can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number.

Join by phone

+1-202-860-2110 United States Toll (Washington D.C.)

Access code: 120 012 0281

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 4:00 pm | 1 hour 30 minutes | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)


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This is a repost on behalf of the Asian & Asian American Faculty & Staff Council. Original event post here.
 
Event Title: Uprooting and Seeding: Intergenerational Experiences of Living as Asians and Asian-Americans 
 
Join us for a discussion of Minari and Asian American representation!

Dear AAAFSC Members, Allies, and Students:

Please join us on May 3 from 4-5pm, for our final AAAFSC event of the semester; while we will be closing out the semester, we’ll also be celebrating the beginning of AAPI heritage month.

At this event, we’ll be discussing representations of Asian Americans in popular culture, with a particular focus on the recent, award-winning film, Minari. Minari is currently streaming on a variety of platforms. However, if you are unable to watch the film before the event, please consider joining us anyway. 

We are hoping to close out this semester by creating a space for an open, free-flowing discussion. We want this meeting to be a space that will allow us to reflect on our ethnic heritage and racial identity as a way to reclaim our strength and resilience and to resist systems of oppression and hate. We also hope to share with each other the complexities of Asian American lives and our day-to-day experiences.

While allies are warmly welcomed to this event, we ask that if you choose to attend, you are mindful of taking a step back and making space for our Asian and Asian American members to discuss and share their experiences first. 

We hope to see you there!

Many thanks,
The AAAFSC board: Tamara Bhalla (chair), Aditya Desai (member at large), Soonhee Lee (member at large), Shuyan Sun, (member at large),Christopher Tong (member at large), Fan Yang (secretary)

p.s. There is no required reading or even viewing for the event, but here are a few articles that might be helpful to situating our discussion:
 
‘Minari’ wins best foreign-language film, but not without controversy. The New York Times, Feb 28, 2021 by Maya Salam and Robert Ito

‘Minari’ is about immigrants who speak Korean. That doesn’t make it ‘foreign.’ Viet Thanh Nguyen, Dec 24, 2020

My “Minari”: On Asian American Immigrant Cinema, LA Review of Books, February 10, 2021 by Hanna Amaris Roh
 
 
ONLINE MEETING INFO:
Join us for a discussion of Minari and Asian American representation! Hosted by Tamara Bhalla https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m388f28dae1487b4b8ce67632b9cffbae Monday, May 3, 2021 4:00 pm | 1 hour | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Meeting number: 120 311 5132 Password: MpK6jZMgq22 Join by video system Dial 1203115132@umbc.webex.com You can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number. Join by phone +1-202-860-2110 United States Toll (Washington D.C.) Access code: 120 311 5132

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Over the past several weeks, I’ve been reading See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valerie Kaur. In the book, Kaur explores what brought her to a fight for social justice and the need for radical love, while offering insight into her lived experience as a Sikh American living in the United States. As she shares her story, she likens the darkness of the world to a “tomb” and a “womb.” In this likeness, she argues that if the world is in transition, and this darkness that we continue to experience is in fact the “darkness of the womb,” then the only way to move forward, is to “breathe and push.” We, as a community, are so connected to the pushing - pushing through, pushing up, pushing back… yet, we have not quite figured out how to first breathe. 

We know that so many in our community are overflowing with emotions and feelings connected to continuing isolation and hyper vigilance from COVID-19, accompanied by what feels like non-stop death, tragedy, racial injustice, and ongoing distrust of the criminal justice system. In the past, Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging (i3b) and our associated centers - Pride, Interfaith, and Mosaic, have often rushed to hold processing and healing spaces, with and for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and our broader campus community. As a staff team composed 100% by folks of color, we are feeling intricately impacted, and at the current moment, we have found that we simply do not have the emotional capacity to hold such a space in an authentic, productive way. Yesterday, today and for the remainder of this week, instead of pushing through our own pain, we have decided instead to pause and breathe. As we take the time to process our own rage, exhaustion, and sadness, we still want to be sure that you know that we see you and are in this with you. If you, like us, are navigating a range of emotions, we encourage you to spend this week honoring your needs, and creating space for self-care and reflection, while connecting deeply with loved ones as you engage in community care. 

We offer you the following as ways to engage:
If you are feeling directly impacted.
  • Breathe deeply. Taking long quiet breaths helps to ground you in moments of crisis.
  • Connect with loved ones you trust to process, cry, or just be together. There is no “right” way to process the ongoing trauma we are experiencing. 
  • Monitor your news and social media intake. To the degree that you are able, avoid (re)watching videos of death, or getting stuck in the traumatic news cycle.
  • Remember that we are in this together. As a function of White Supremacy, communities of Color can find themselves pitted against one another, getting caught in horizontal aggression and/or the Oppression Olympics. Instead of getting caught in that cycle, or “keeping score,” consider ways to coalition build and show up for one another across identities.
If you are an ally looking to support impacted communities.
  • Connect with your friends, family, peers, and colleagues by helping them to understand why ongoing racial violence is traumatic and overwhelming for communities of color.
  • Take the time to explore local organizations who are rooted in ending racial violence in MD, and more broadly across the United States.
  • Take the time to learn more about the impacts of racial trauma and the history of racial violence in this country. What we are experiencing today, is not new and has not necessarily ever stopped. Take the time to explore more deeply the historical context of white supremacy, racism and xenophobia in this country and the ways it continues to show up today.
  • Instead of getting caught up in hashtag wars, explore the lived realities of the victims of violence - learn their names and about their communities - remind yourself that they were living human beings, not just social media trends.
If you are confused by everyone’s anger.
  • Instead of thinking solely about what you might see as a singular current issue at hand, consider the number of BIPOC community members who have been accosted, murdered, etc. as connected to racism and xenophobia in the past two months alone. From spas in Atlanta to Fedex in Indianapolis to Minneapolis and California - there are far too many to name, but the patterns are present and clear.
  • Consider that we are not only talking about systemic issues, we are also talking about real people whose lives were taken - real living, breathing human beings whose lives were taken at the hands of someone else. Lean as much as you can into compassion, empathy, perspective taking, and radical love for humanity. As mentioned above, explore the lived realities of the victims of violence - learn their names and about their communities remind yourself that they were living human beings, not just social media trends.
  • Explore concepts like Racial Battle Fatigue and Race Based Traumatic Stress to support a more deep exploration of the impacts of racial trauma and the history of racial violence in this country. 
  • Take the time to explore more deeply the history of white supremacy, racism, and xenophobia in this country. As you explore this history be careful not to give in to defensiveness, shame, or guilt, instead sit with any discomfort you may be experiencing and explore why those feelings may be present for you. 
If you are overwhelmed and need to connect.
  • While our i3b staff team will not be hosting a healing or processing space this week, we are still offering times to connect with us personally. We offer this space for you to join us individually, or in small groups. You can join our office hours at the times listed below by joining using our individual Webex Personal Room links provided. Our staff will be holding office hours this week during the following times: 
  • Tuesday, April 20 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. with Jasmine Lee | https://umbc.webex.com/meet/jaslee | 640903142
  • Wednesday, April 21 from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. with Erin Waddles | https://umbc.webex.com/meet/waddles | 641819311
  • Thursday, April 22 from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. with Lucy Delgado https://umbc.webex.com/meet/ldelgado | 1208674009
  • Friday, April 23 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. with Carlos Turcios | https://umbc.webex.com/meet/carlos6 | 640105492
  • You can also join our Webex Chat space that serves as our virtual "lounge space" by going to our main myUMBC group page.

You may also want to connect with a confidential resource and/or clinician who is trained in dealing with issues of trauma. For such support, please connect with the Counseling Center. Find more information about connecting with a university counselor here: https://counseling.umbc.edu/

In closing, I offer this - “Revolutions do not happen only in grand moments in public view but also in small pockets of people coming together to inhabit a new way of being.” - Valerie Kaur

No matter who you are or where you are, we know that we are all navigating a lot and are all impacted by country-wide and international violence. We also know that ongoing racial violence and trauma uniquely impacts certain members of our UMBC community in ways that are pervasive, intergenerational, ongoing, and quite frankly, terrifying. Please create and protect the time you each need to care for yourself, and if you have the capacity, others. If you are feeling that you have the emotional ability and the privilege to detach from our current events, I invite you to invite others into community with you to explore new ways of being moving forward. 

In solidarity and with radical love,
-Jasmine A. Lee, on behalf of the full Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging (i3b) team

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Do you always find yourself talking about social justice? Are you the friend in your group that’s always adding “nuance” to the conversation? Then we’re looking for you! IDEAL Interns, known as IDEALists, work for Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion, and Belonging (I3B) and are supervised by the Coordinators with Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion, and Belonging. 

The main role of the IDEAL Internship is to support our professional staff in cultivating a community built on a foundation of Inclusive Excellence and social justice through peer-led workshops  and facilitated dialogue. Interns have a variable/flexible schedule contingent upon facilitation needs.

The priority deadline for this application is Friday, April 30, 2021 at 11:59pm. Applications will officially close May 14th at 5pm. Candidates advancing in the process will be interviewed. 

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Thank you for your interest in applying for this position! Please read the following instructions in their entirety before proceeding with your application. This will ensure that we receive all of your application materials. Incomplete applications will not be considered for an interview.

1) Submit your UMBCworks application (Position ID: 9325624) with resume & references. Please include at least three professional or academic references. Include their full name, job title, email, and phone number. 
NO REFERENCE LETTER IS NEEDED but at least one reference should be a UMBC staff and/or faculty member.

2) Submit your supplemental application at http://bit.ly/idealists2021.

Applicants who apply by the priority deadline will receive an email no later than Tuesday, May 4th if they have been selected for an interview.

If you have any questions about the application or the process, please email i3b@umbc.edu. Thanks for applying.
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This is a repost on behalf of the Women’s Center. Original post can be found here.

The events, activism, discussions, support, and stories that stem from Sexual Assault Awareness Month are some of the Women’s Center’s most significant and special. Take Back the Night (TBTN) is one of the largest events the Women's Center hosts every year. To honor this special event that centers survivors stories and healing and invites our community to dismantle rape culture, we created a virtual TBTN experience.

We invite our community to visit this platform and engage in the visual and audio content. Spend time alone or with others sitting with the reflection questions and action items. Share your thoughts on social media using #UMBCtbtn.

Join the Women's Center on April 20th at 4pm to be in community as we experience virtual TBTN 2021 together!

Thank you to the student who shared their voices to make the experience a richer and deeper experience for the UMBC community. Special thanks to OIA staff, Bryan Barnes and Kevin McGuire, who took a glimmer of idea and turned it into a reality.

To learn more about UMBC's Sexual Assault Awareness Month programming and resources, visit our SAAM 2021 myUMBC post.

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Check out what's to come in April with i3b and our partnered events.

RSVP to any events HERE


An Open Processing Space on Anti-Asian Violence

A supportive brave space for students

Friday, April 2, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00 p.m. | Online via Google Meet

myUMBC Event Post: Link | Google Meet: Link


Workshop Wednesdays: Tools for Navigating Difficult Dialogues

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | 10am - 12p.m. | myUMBC Post: Link | Webex Session: Link


DreamZone Development Lunch & Learn Session

Help us develop one of our newest initiatives!

Friday, April 16, 2021 | 12pm - 1:15 p.m. | myUMBC Post: Link | Webex Session: Link


OCA Mocha Mondays with i3b: Interfaith Dialogues

Monday, April 19, 2021 | 6pm - 7:30 p.m. | myUMBC Post: Link | Webex Session: RSVP Required


Retriever Immigrants United: Equity for all? **

Advocating for our most underserved

Friday, April 23, 2021 | 12pm - 1:15 p.m. | myUMBC Post: Link | CANCELED


SistaCare: Equity for all? **

Advocating for our most underserved

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 | 1pm - 2p.m. | myUMBC Post: Link | Webex Session: Link


LGBTQ+ Networking Event

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 | 4pm - 5:30 p.m. | myUMBC Post: Link | Webex Session: Link



** These sessions are not recorded and will not be available in our Google Drive
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