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Posted by Arlando on Feb. 28, 2012, 8:30 p.m.
We'd like to extend an enormous "Thank You" from the IvyQ Planning Team to our speakers, sponsors, community partners, and conference attendees. Each one of you brought unique perspectives and dimensions to the conference, contributing to and pushing discussions in ways that were provocative and productive. We cannot thank you enough.
Conference attendees: If you haven't filled out the post-conference survey, please do so now! The link is included below. The Planning Team takes participant feedback very seriously. If you can think of a way to make IvyQ 2013 better than its predecessors, please tell us!
http://tinyurl.com/ivyq2012feedback
Posted by Arlando on Feb. 8, 2012, 10:10 p.m.
From an organization called Rebuild Resources. We think they're pretty cool. Read below to learn more about them!
- Rebuild Resources is a non-profit social enterprise helping recovering men and women rebuild their lives through the most powerful social program of all: A job.
Founded in 1984 by a recovering alcoholic, we own and operate businesses in St. Paul, Minnesota. We provide meaningful, transitional employment for men and women who want to become sober, self-sufficient and of service.
As a nonprofit social enterprise, we carry out our mission by directly employing men and women in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, in our own businesses. Program participants work here long enough to build a job history and a work reference, and earn the fundamental skills required to become a valuable employee. While they are here, we give them assistance and training to help them secure a more permanent job in the community so that they may leave successfully and make room for the next candidate.
Our businesses also serve as the economic engines that sustain our work. We aim to fund eighty percent of our budget from business revenues, and twenty percent from the generosity of individuals, foundations, businesses, churches, and service organizations.
Our approach effectively interrupts the cycle of addiction, joblessness, poverty and incarceration. Over 1,000 recovering men and women have graduated from Rebuild, with a measured success rate of sixty-eight percent and a social return of nearly half a million dollars per successful graduate.
With your support - as customer, business partner, mentor or donor - we continue to deliver dramatic human and social results.
Posted by Arlando on Jan. 16, 2012, 6:36 p.m.
We've just uploaded some program descriptions, with more on the way! Check them out here: ivyq.org/events.
See you in a month!
IvyQ 2012 Planning Team
Posted by Arlando on Jan. 16, 2012, 1:32 p.m.
The online service we use for registration was temporarily undergoing system maintenance, resulting in a brief interruption in the ability of prospective attendees to register. The system is now back online!
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. We look forward to meeting you all at the conference!
-IvyQ 2012 Planning Team
Posted by Arlando on Jan. 14, 2012, 10:13 p.m.
Joining Kate Bornstein as a keynote at IvyQ 2012 is Juanita Diaz-Cotto: author, educator, and activist!
Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Ph.D., was born in Puerto Rico and raised between Puerto Rico and New York
City. Active in human rights struggles for over thirty years - including those of women, lesbians and
gays, prisoners, and people of color inside and outside the U.S. - she considers herself very much
both an activist and an academic.
Dr. Díaz-Cotto is author of: CHICANA LIVES AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Voices from El Barrio
(2006) (winner of an International Latino Book Award and a ForeWord Magazine Book Award);
GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND THE STATE: Latina and Latino Prison Politics (1996); and editor,
under the pseudonym of Juanita Ramos, of COMPAÑERAS: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology)/
Lesbianas latinoamericanas (3rd ed., 2004) and SINISTER WISDOM 74: Latina Lesbians
(2008).
Dr. Díaz-Cotto is a Professor of sociology, women's studies, and Latin American and Caribbean
Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is also Director of the Latin
American and Caribbean Area Studies Program. Dr. Díaz-Cotto has given lectures and
presentations in Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Dominican Republic, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, México, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, South Africa, and
over 40 cities in the United States.
Her lectures and presentations have covered a wide range of issues including: criminal justice/
prisons; Latinas/os and women of color in the U.S.; Latin American feminisms; race and ethnicity;
gender, sexuality, and heterosexism; class and income inequalities; oral history and ethnographic
research; and community organizing.
Posted by Arlando on Jan. 7, 2012, 2:49 p.m.
For Tier II Registration, all students (except for Princeton students) must register as "Other" at the following link:
https://payment.brown.edu/C20460_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=2&CATID=184&SINGLESTORE=true
You will be asked to identify your school in the page that follows. Register soon; space is limited!
Posted by Arlando on Jan. 7, 2012, 2:41 p.m.
Kate Bornstein is a performance artist and playwright who has authored several award-winning books in the field of Women and Gender Studies, including "Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and The Rest of Us," and "My Gender Workbook." Her 2006 book, "Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws" is an underground best seller, propelling Kate into an international position of advocacy for marginalized youth. She has earned two citations of honor from the New York City Council and garnered praise from civil rights groups around the globe. Kate lives in New York City with her girlfriend, three cats, two dogs, and one turtle, in whose company she wrote a new memoir, "A Queer and Pleasant Danger," due out on May 1st 2012.
Posted by Arlando on Dec. 28, 2011, 6:04 p.m.
Since IvyQ is a conference with emphasis on gender and sexual identities, we seek to explore and examine how these identities have shaped our individual experiences and constructed the world that we live in. As a result, IvyQ2012 invites you to anonymously submit your thoughts, feelings, and personal experiences surrounding gender and sexual identities. More information here: http://ivyq2012identities.tumblr.com/submit
Posted by Arlando on Nov. 28, 2011, 4:32 p.m.
Registration is now open! Register here at http://ivyq.org/register.
Posted by Arlando on Nov. 7, 2011, 3:52 p.m.
Check out the schedule page for a look at the tentative schedule.
Posted by Arlando on Nov. 6, 2011, 4 p.m.
Check out the notable speakers in the speakers section!
Posted by Arlando on Aug. 21, 2011, 10:30 a.m.
Welcome to the new IvyQ.org website. Check here for the latest news and updates regarding the conference.
It'll be awesome.
