June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month. Join USC Libraries throughout June for various online events and activities to observe LGBTQIA+ Pride Month. Even though in-person PRIDE celebrations are on hold, we can still celebrate and build community in an online environment.

We celebrate June as Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall uprising led by trans and queer people of color in June 1969. We acknowledge that trans and queer people of color have all too often been obscured and minimized within the queer community. In this Pride Month, we recognize and celebrate our diversity. The Queer community stands in solidarity with Black and other communities of color against state-sanctioned violence, police brutality, and systemic racism to fight for true equity and inclusion. #BlackLivesMatter #FightOn

Check out our live events. Please note to ensure cyber security, only those using USC ID’s and logging in through Shibboleth will be able to attend. Any participant who does not login using their USC Zoom credentials will be unable to join.

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Open Forum: There can be no Pride if it is not Intersectional
Monday, June 15, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Meeting ID: 987 2284 6209 | Password Required. RSVP with your USC email to get the password.
We will discuss diversity and intersectionality within the queer community and ways the USC queer community can be in solidarity with Black and other people of color within and beyond the queer community. We’ll be using STONEWALL 50: WHOSE MOVEMENT IS IT ANYWAY, episode 5 of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s podcast Intersectionality Matters as the framework for our discussion. Please listen prior to the forum: Stonewall 50: Whose Movement Is It Anyway? - Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw. Recommended reading: Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s”; GLAAD Statement; Queer Eye's Karamo Brown Calls Out Racism in the LGBT Community; Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in 2020; It's Time Black and Brown People Be Included in the Pride Flag. (USC Libraries)

Safer at Home: Conversation with Brenda Zhang (Bz)
Monday, June 15, 3 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Please join for the third in a series of conversations with contemporary LGBTQ artists as part of the ONE Archives' ongoing online exhibition, Safer at Home. Curator Lexi Johnson will speak with artist Brenda Zhang (Bz) about their ongoing painting projects. Register HERE. (ONE Archives)

Student Civil Rights
Thursday, June 18, 2 p.m.–3 p.m.
Meeting ID: 957 7007 5510 | Password: 363579
USC is committed to being an inclusive and diverse community where all identities are celebrated.  Please join Kegan Allee-Moawad, the Associate Director of Title IX, for a conversation about how the university works to ensure that all students are treated equitably, and what students can do if they feel they have experienced any form of harassment.  Students who attend can expect to leave with a better understanding of their rights, learn more about campus resources, and know who they can contact if they have future questions or concerns. (Title IX Office)

Pride Open Mic
Wednesday, June 24, 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Meeting ID: 995 9640 3530 | Password Required. RSVP with your USC email to get the password and a chance to win a gift card.
Pride open mic is a chance for you to express the importance of Pride by sharing music, songs, poetry, spoken word, story-telling, art, photos, and other forms of expression. You can share original work as well the work of your favorite LGBTQIA+ and especially QPOC authors, artists, musicians, and activists. Each participant will have 3 minutes to share. For longer works, select a short excerpt. (USC Libraries)

Creative Outlets for Stress Management
Friday, June 26, 12 p.m.–1 p.m.
Meeting ID: 962 0702 3336
Join us in an active exploration of pride-themed stress management outlets that foster creativity and originality. (USC Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity)

Pride Zine Making
Friday, June 26, 1 p.m.–3 p.m.
Meeting ID: 278 581 4541
Celebrate Pride Month by creating your own zine.  We have a slate of interesting and inspirational zines by queer creators lined up to share during this event, and we will have a zine-making demonstration showing both mini zines made with a single sheet of paper and larger zines bound with needle and thread. RSVP for a chance to win a gift card. (USC Libraries Staff Council)