Vrijkaarten voor debat homofobie in Rode Hoed

Geplaatst op 26-1-2012 om 23:35.

Aanstaande dinsdag organiseert De Rode Hoed een debat over homofobie, en voor de UvA Pride-achterban zijn er 50 vrijkaarten beschikbaar! Zie onderaan dit bericht voor meer informatie.

Al decennia lang strijden homoseksuelen voor meer gelijkheid, een strijd die zich heeft vertaald in meer gelijkheid voor de wet. Daar tegenover staan veel berichten over homogeweld, -pesterijen en afnemende tolerantie. Met onder andere Laurens Buijs (socioloog Universiteit van Amsterdam), Vera Bergkamp (voorzitter COC Nederland) en Yassin Elforkani (jongerenimam) wordt er op dinsdag 31 januari in de Rode Hoed gediscussieerd over de status van homoacceptatie in Nederland. Is er sprake van vooruitgang, stabilisering of achteruitgang en welke rol speelt religie hier in? Is de maatschappij aan het vertrutten of is de emancipatie van homo’s te ver doorgeschoten?

Met:
- Laurens Buijs (socioloog Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Hanneke Felten (onderzoeker Movisie)
- Ellie Lust (voorzitter Roze in Blauw)
- Vera Bergkamp(voorzitter COC Nederland)
- Yassin Elforkani (jongerenimam)
- Anton Untiedt (voorlichter op Christelijke scholen en betrokken bij het theaterproject ‘Homo en God’)

Gespreksleiding: Frénk van der Linden (journalist)

Wat? Pesten, schelden en trappen – Het hedendaagse gezicht van homohaat
Wanneer? Dinsdag 31 januari 2012, aanvang 20.00 uur
Waar? Rode Hoed, Keizersgracht 102, Amsterdam
Kaarten: aanmelden via t.blonk@rodehoed.nl voor zondag 29 januari 24.00 uur;  de eerste 50 aanmelders mogen gratis naar binnen.
Informatie: www.rodehoed.nl en 020 638 56 06.

Facebook link!

BCG “LGBT Network”

Geplaatst op 26-1-2012 om 15:59.

The Boston Consulting Group is a worldwide leader in strategy consulting. BCG has an active LGBT-network that aims to provide an attractive and supportive work environment, to recruit top talent from the LGBT community, and to promote BCG values among the broader LGBT community.

If you are a bachelor or master student at a university, or working on your PhD, and interested to hear more about strategy consulting at BCG or the BCG LGBT-network, they would like to invite you to join their ‘borrel’ (drinks) on February 2nd in Eve, Reguliersdwarsstraat 44 Amsterdam. There will be a short presentation about BCG and its LGBT network. Besides it is a great opportunity to meet each other in an informal setting.

If you’re interested to join, please let us know before January 28 by sending an email to info(at)uvapride.nl and we will forward your message!

UvA Pride Friday February!

Geplaatst op 24-1-2012 om 15:33.

On Friday the 3rd we are having another UvA Pride Friday. Don’t miss out on this one as we are having a great lecture held by the UvA sexuality and gender scholar Gert Hekma on sex in the Netherlands. And of course we will have our well known UvA Pride borrel afterwards!

  • 4-5 PM: UvA Pride Lecture. :‘What goes wrong with sex in the Netherlands’ by sociologist Gert Hekma. The Dutch consider themselves to be the most liberated people in the world. But there are multiple problems with this positive self-characterization. Let me give some examples. Why are young queers so eager to embrace straight norms of homosexuality, why do they take so much time to come out and why have so many of them tried to commit suicide? Why do we presume that kids under the age of 16 years are innocent and have no sexuality? Why have so many adult gays and lesbians psychic problems? And why is there so much verbal and physical violence in streets, school yards and sport fields against homosexuality? Such sexual problems are not restrained to male and female homosexuals, some 20% of the straight people suffers from physical and another 20% from psychological troubles regarding sexuality according to Rutgers/WPF research – probably the tip of an iceberg as many simply stopped seeking sexual pleasures. The Dutch have been successful in the international promotion of the idea that their schools offer comprehensive sex education but the reality is much less bright than the image. Moral panics regarding pedophilia, bestiality or prostitution show another problematic side of Dutch liberalism. These data indicate according to Gert Hekma that something is deeply wrong with Dutch sexuality. He will outline what exactly the problem is according to him and where we could find the solution. Universiteitstheater room 3.01, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Facebook link!
  • 5 PM onwards: UvA Pride Borrel. Our borrel – always cozy and with cheap drink – is for all the students and employees of the UvA and their friends. There are always two board members of UvA Pride present to talk to! Don’t miss out on this gay phenomenon with brains. Atrium Café Binnengasthuis (UvA), Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237 Facebook link!

Help explore queer Amsterdam

Geplaatst op 23-1-2012 om 00:34.

CIEE is looking to introduce American student to Queer Culture in Amsterdam

CIEE is an organisation for American Exchange students in Amsterdam. Every semester we host 40 to 60 students who focus on social sciences at the university of Amsterdam. As an exchange student organisation we help students to get to know more about specific parts of Amsterdam, we organise small groups who for example work in a soup kitchen, teach English at a primary school, explore the founding of New York by the Dutch or explore the Queer Culture in Amsterdam. For the Queer Amsterdam Interest Group we are looking for a fun and enthusiastic interest group leader.

The American students who join the Queer interest Group have different reasons to do so. They are often curious about the different communities in Amsterdam, but find it hard to go to events or parties on their own. Some students might be gay or identify themselves as queer, and some students are just curious about different views on sexuality. The group consists of 3 to 10 students, typical activities would include; joining the UvA Pride borrel or other UvA pride activities, visit the gay film festival, attend a lecture, visit a theatre show or have dinner together. CIEE pays for all these activities and encourages the interest group leader to bring friends along to these activities (for whom CIEE will also pay). For the rest the interest group leader does not get paid a salary. The activities take place around every two weeks from January 30th to June 4th. At the end of the semester the group will go on a weekend excursion, the hostel and the activities for this excursion will also be paid by CIEE.

Interested? Please send a short email to athomas@ciee.org. For more information call Annabel Thomas at 020 620 2269.

NEW: AMC Pride Borrel!

Geplaatst op 18-1-2012 om 02:00.

Click here for English!

Officieel is het Amsterdams Medisch Centrum (AMC) een van de zeven faculteiten van de UvA, maar daar is in de praktijk niet altijd veel van te merken. Deze faculteit heeft zijn eigen logo, zijn eigen gebouwen in het verre Amsterdam Zuidoost, en, niet te vergeten, zijn eigen cultuur. “Je hebt de UvA en je hebt het AMC”, zo vindt de gemiddelde geneeskundestudent.

Om te voorzien in de behoefte van de witte jassen zal in januari daarom de allereerste roze AMC-borrel plaatsvinden! Deze borrel is het resultaat van een vruchtbare samenwerking tussen UvA Pride en enkele studenten en medewerkers van het AMC. De ambitie is om van deze borrel een maandelijks terugkerend evenement te maken waar LGBT-studenten en -medewerkers (en hun vrienden) gezellig wat kunnen bijpraten over vasculaire geneeskunde… of gewoon gezellig een drankje kunnen drinken!

Mis de lancering van het zusje van de populaire UvA Pride borrel op het AMC daarom niet!

Op donderdag 26 januari 2012 vanaf 17:00 is iedereen welkom in Cafe het Oude Gasthuis (‘de oranje keet’), naast station Holendrecht, Facebook link.

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