¡Quba! Film Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Kim Anno
lQuba! is a testament to the power of human connection in the face of deeply rooted
evangelical machismo. In 2022, the unthinkable unfolded-Cuba stepped into history as the fyst communist nation to enshrine LGBTQ rights in law through popular vote. This was no ordinary revolution. jQuba! has won multiple awards in Lima (Peru), PW1e (India), Los Angeles (California), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Portugal, and others.
Kim Anno is an internationally renowned painter, photographer, and film/video artist, whose
work explores social justice activism and the intersections of art and science, particularly the aesthetics of climate change and adaptation.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: THO 101. Accessibility Contact: sameerai@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, January 19, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Book Talk: 'Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang' with Nicholas de Villiers
In Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Nicholas de Villiers contends that we need to theorize both queer time and space to understand Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang's cinematic explorations of feeling melancholy, cruisy, and sleepy. Building on those arguments, this presentation starts with a reading of Tsai’s short film It’s a Dream (2007)—set in a movie theater in Malaysia—as a microcosm of Tsai’s themes and motifs of sleep/dreaming, cruising, nostalgia, and the space of the cinema. It then addresses Tsai’s “post-retirement” (after 2013) films and museum installations, including the queer Teddy award-winning digital feature film Days (Rizi, 2020) shot in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Thailand, and the short film The Night (2021) shot in Hong Kong in 2019. Both were featured in the solo exhibition Tsai Ming-liang’s Days at the Museum of National Taipei University of Education (MoNTUE) in 2023, experimenting with "expanded…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Online Meeting Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH9sgvKXH0A. Campus room: Thomson Hall 317 and online. Accessibility Contact: Taiwan Studies (taiwanst@uw.edu). At the Jackson School, opportunities and events are open to all eligible persons regardless of race, sex or other identity. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Register in web link below.
Thursday, January 22, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.ticketleap.events. GWSS Winter Colloquium: "The Trill of Progress," Presented by Ramon Johnson
Presenter: Ramon Johnson, GWSS PhD Candidate
Moderator: Keila Taylor, GWSS PhD Candidate
This presentation will explore the concept of “progress” within transgender and queer organizing as it is taken up by students and campus stakeholders at single-sex Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). It will interrogate how these institutions seek to embrace—or contain—such organizing within campus cultures shaped by neoliberalism, respectability politics, cis-heteronormativity, and anti-Blackness.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL B110 G. Accessibility Contact: GWSS, gwss@uw.edu, 206-593-6900. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Treasuring All the Knowledges: Writing Abundance in Academia
Please join us for a conversation- and creativity-centered gathering celebrating the book launch of Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South: Treasuring All the Knowledges. Date: February 11, 2026
Time: 3:30–5:00 PM (panel discussion followed by a reception)
Location: Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC)
Room: Unity Suite
This edited collection brings together the voices of 16 women and non-binary scholars who began their postgraduate journeys as non-elite international students and (un)documented migrants in countries positioned as economically more powerful than their places of origin. Inspired by the book’s creative and relational approach to knowledge, this event will also open a collective space for poetry and storytelling. Participants are invited to write and share short poetic or narrative reflections that speak to their own experiences of abundance, survival, care, and knowledge-making within academic spaces.
Panelists: Roxana Chiappa, Assistant Professor at…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC). Campus room: ECC Unity Suite. Accessibility Contact: GWSS, gwss@uw.edu, 206-593-6900. Event Types: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Presidents' Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, February 16, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Primary: Alma Thomas, Sisterhood and the Revolutionary Quality of Light with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Based on Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ forthcoming book of poetic indexes, this interactive poetic lecture explores the life, teaching, and artwork of color theorist Alma Thomas. Engaging themes of audience, intimacy, abstract expressionist art, and the dynamic relationship between Black women’s creativity and the process of being Earth, the lecture invites participants into a rhythmic dialogue of form, meaning, and presence.
About the Speaker:
Alexis Pauline Gumbs (author, poet) is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. She/they are the author of several transformative books, including Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde and the award-winning Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. As the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, she/they help steward an intergenerational, experiential living library celebrating Black LGBTQ brilliance.
Registration Open!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodations, contact the UW Disability Services Office at least 10 days in advance at 206-543-6450 (voice), 206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-7264 (fax), or dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Seattle Town Hall & Livestream.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Duke Feminist Theory Workshop
The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW) has, since its first gathering in 2007, promoted diverse dialogue among scholars of feminist theory and fostered a vibrant intellectual community. To that end, the workshop brings together internationally recognized keynote speakers and emerging young scholars to engage in lively and focused debate.
Following last year's hybrid structure, this year’s FTW will be held in person at Duke University on March 20 and 21, 2026. Remote participants will have the opportunity to watch keynote lectures, pose questions, and participate in remote breakout seminars. FTW is proud to continue offering this event with no registration fees, making it accessible to anyone who can attend. However, health, space, labor, and financial considerations require limiting both remote and in-person registration.
, The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW), which is in its nineteenth year, offers a unique opportunity for internationally recognized faculty and young scholars to engage in sustained dialogue…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: GSFS@duke.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Special Events.
Friday, March 20, 2026 – Saturday, March 21, 2026.
Duke University Penn Pavilion.
For more info visit readymag.website.