Early Bird

Events roundup

Check out events from the Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership, the Department of Theatre and Dance, the Center for Multicultural Engagement and Inclusion and more.

By Lindsey Coulter

October 12, 2020

A Conversation With Chuck Rocha

Today

Noon-1 p.m.

Tune in via Teams.

Chuck Rocha, senior advisor and Latinx outreach coordinator for the 2020 Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign, will discuss his new book “Tio Bernie” as well as primary politics, Latinx outreach and more, giving participants an insider’s view of a primary campaign. Rocha will also participate in a Q&A session. The event is sponsored by the Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership and the Department of Political Science.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Today-Tuesday

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This digitally presented production and contemporary adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” puts new, interesting spins on the characters we’ve come to expect from William Shakespeare’s classic comedy. Viewing will be available 24/7 through Tuesday at 11 p.m.

MSU Denver Indigenous Peoples Day

Today

5-6:30 p.m.

Register in advance to join this virtual event.

Please join Sky Roosevelt Morris, Professor Glenn Morris, the Center for Multicultural Engagement and Inclusion and the MSU Denver Native Indigenous Student Alliance as they share the history of combating Columbus Day in Denver. Join us as we recollect days of unrest and ambiguity before Denver recognized the beauty in celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day. 

The Power of Boihood: A Film Screening and Poetry Reading

Tuesday

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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Join the CMEI, the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy, the LGBTQ Student Resource Center, the Phoenix Center, the University of Colorado Denver’s Women and Gender Center and the UCD Center for Identity and Inclusion in hosting “The Boi Doc.” Me&MyBois is a collective of masculine-of-center people creating media outlets for LGBTQ people of color. With the increase in suicide attempts, particularly among young LGBTQ people of color, along with the increase in violence toward trans women and men of color, it is the goal of Me&MyBois to provide visibility and resources for this community to combat the negative stereotypes perpetuated in households, workplaces, classrooms, public restrooms and mainstream media. “The Boi Doc” utilizes dialogue to break the silence created by racism, sexism, gender-expression insensitivity, heterosexism, homophobia and transphobia.

1 Book/1 Project/2 Transform

Wednesday

Author keynote at 11 a.m.

Join fellow MSU Denver students, faculty and staff in welcoming author and alum Kali Fajardo-Anstine for a virtual, live presentation with Q&A to follow. Fajardo-Anstine is an MSU Denver alumna who majored in English and minored in Chicana/o Studies before graduating in 2009. She went on to earn her MFA from the University of Wyoming. Her fiction has appeared in the American Scholar, Boston Review, Bellevue Literary Review, the Idaho Review, Southwestern American Literature and elsewhere.

International Pronouns Day

Oct. 21

International Pronouns Day is observed on the third Wednesday of October each year to “make respecting, sharing and educating about personal pronouns commonplace.” This year, CMEI is offering resources and video materials to promote wider awareness of gender pronouns and to encourage conversation about how to share your own pronouns and invite others to share their pronouns with you. 

Celebratory Book Reading With Dr. Anahi Russo Garrido and the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy

Oct. 21

5-7 p.m.

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Join GITA for a celebration with author Anahi Russo Garrido, Ph.D., in honor of the release of “Tortilleras: Love, Friendship and Sex in Queer Mexico City.” “Tortilleras” is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women’s sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three generations of women in queer spaces in contemporary Mexico City as their sexual citizenship changes. Limited copies of the book are available on request for MSU Denver students. To receive a free copy of the book, please contact Eneri Rodriguez at erodri31@msudenver.edu.