Student Diversity Events

Join us for a conversation on solo status, stereotype threat, and colorism on the William and Mary campus. Students, faculty and staff are invited. {{https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SoloStatus100114, Please register.}}

At this week's meeting we will be focusing on Narendra Modi, India's new Prime Minister, and his initiatives for India's economic and social development including his five-point economic plan for India and his question "Where are your sons?" Come out!

How can technology increase intimacy in a relationship? What is the meaning of privacy when sending digital images? Throughout this presentation, HOPE members will facilitate an open dialogue centered on sexuality, privacy, and consent.

Donate to W&M BLSA's book drive to help create a library in a developing country. You can donate your books - any books - to the boxes in Zime (the Law School's caf) and in the Law School's main entrance next to the umbrellas.

Professor Angela Banks and the Immigration Law & Service Society present the second installment of the Immigration Roundtable at W&M on October 16th at 12:50 in Law School Room 133.

BLSA will show Fruitvale Station, an award winning film about the 2009 BART shooting. Afterwards, W&M faculty and students will discuss issues of race and police brutality. The event is on October 16, 5:30 to 9 pm in Small Hall 110. There will be food.

In this event, you can create your own fan with Japanese letters and paintings on it. We will use calligraphy brushes to create beautiful designs.

Come kick off homecoming weekend with the Center for Student Diversity and enjoy a spectacular performance!

The 2014 Boswell Lecture. Before the era of gay and lesbian liberation movements, these parents and their children were invisible in a culture that saw them as a categorical impossibility based on a definition of the family as always heterosexual.

Join WM Hillel for a delicious (and kosher!) dinner as we joyously welcome the coming of Shabbat. This event is limited to 70 guests. RSVP now to wmhillel@gmail.com to reserve your seat! Services begin at 6:00pm. Dinner will follow services at 6:30pm.

Please join our brownbag with Kara Thompson, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies. Her talk is entitled, "Indigenous L.A.: Queer Intimacy and the Politics of Disappearance." All are welcome! Light snacks and drinks available.

To raise awareness of the negative impact of youth incarceration we will be screening "Childhood Interrupted" on Tuesday, October 21 at 8pm in James Blair 201.

Expressions is a cultural show that showcases the different styles of dance from South Asia. Come and enjoy a catered dinner and a show full of dance and laughter!!

A weekend of events hosted by the African Cultural Society to celebrate Africa!

Please join us on Friday, October 24, 3 - 6 p.m @ Campus Center 166 for the opening of The Haven: A Center for Support, Advocacy & Empowerment. There will be light refreshments & tours of the space with information on what The Haven offers our community.

See what it's like to celebrate a Japanese Fall Festival! Traditional foods such as onigiri (rice ball), dango (sweet rice cake), yakitori (glazed chicken stick), and more will be served! Also, don't miss out on the tons of games, dancing, and pictures!