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		5pm Grads & Young Professionals Meet and Greet Grads & Young Professionals Meet and Greet Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM Storrs Campus Student Union 403 September 10 is the new rescheduled date! The Rainbow Center would like to invite all graduate students to our Rainbow Grads & Young Professionals Meet & Greet on Thursday, August 29th from 5-6pm in Student Union 403. Come meet other grad students on campus and learn about how to get involved with the Rainbow Center. There will be free pizza! Contact Information: Steven Feldman, 860-486-5821, stf18003work@uconn.edu More		12:30pm Lecture: Transgender Affirming Healthcare Lecture: Transgender Affirming Healthcare Thursday, September 12th, 2019 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM Storrs Campus Rainbow Center; Student Union 403 The Out to Lunch Gender, Sexuality, and Community is a weekly academic lecture and discussion series with guest scholars and community activists from various disciplines examining a variety of topics related to gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. Each semester offers a broad sampling of the areas. The Fall 2019 semester is co-sponsored by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (http://wgss.uconn.edu). Today's lecture is entitled, "Transgender Affirming Healthcare" and will be presented by Britta Shute (she/her/hers). Synopsis: This lecture will focus on Transgender Health and the disparities that exist within the community. It will have a historical perspective and include a timeline of transgender care, analysis of the current best practices within the field and progress for future improvements. Biography: Britta Shute, Family Nurse Practitioner, 10+ years of experience in primary care first at Fenway Health in Boston and 3 years ago joining UConn Health. She has special interests in HIV, LGBTQI+ health care and medical education, and sees patients of all ages for primary care as well as prescription of hormone therapy, STI screening and diagnosis and Pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent risk of HIV transmission. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunches Contact Information: rainbowcenter@uconn.edu More
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		4pm Human Rights Film Series: THREADS Human Rights Film Series: THREADS Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM Storrs Campus Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center THREADS screening & discussion Tuesday, September 17, 2019 4:00pm – 6:00pm Konover Auditorium Dodd Center A visionary leader in Bangladesh frees herself and hundreds of other women and families from poverty and social hardships by creating timeless works of art. Torn from her family, her paintings, and her beloved Calcutta after the partition of India, artist Surayia Rahman finds a new life in Bangladesh teaching impoverished mothers to embroider her story-telling designs. An inspirational example of the power of art and the impact of empowering women and girls around the world, THREADS takes us on an intimate journey into the heart of an artist and celebrates an unconventional path to dignity and independence. For more information, visit: https://thedoddcenter.uconn.edu/2019/08/08/sept-17-2019-human-rights-film-series-threads/ Contact Information: doddcenter@uconn.edu More
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				12:30pm NEW DATE! Lect: Understanding Suicide Risks Among LGBT Veterans in VA Care NEW DATE! Lect: Understanding Suicide Risks Among LGBT Veterans in VA Care Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM Storrs Campus Rainbow Center; Student Union 403 The Out to Lunch Gender, Sexuality, and Community is a weekly academic lecture and discussion series with guest scholars and community activists from various disciplines examining a variety of topics related to gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. Each semester offers a broad sampling of the areas. The Fall 2019 semester is co-sponsored by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (http://wgss.uconn.edu). This particular lecture is also included in the Suicide Prevention Week calendar of events, https://suicideprevention.uconn.edu Today's lecture is entitled, "Understanding Suicide Risks Among LGBT Veterans in VA Care" and will be presented by Joseph Goulet, PhD (he/him/his). Synopsis: Little research has examined LGBT Veterans risk for suicide. We hypothesize that LGBT status is a pre-disposing factor that increases risk due to minority status, the stress of prior and ongoing discrimination, including military sexual trauma, that may be increased due to proximal factors such as mental health and medical conditions, homelessness, a lack of engagement in care, system and providers lack of awareness of needs, among other factors. However, the engagement of LGBT Veterans in VA is difficult to estimate: sexual orientation and gender identity (SO/GI) data is not (yet) collected in a structured manner. We will use VA EHR data to identify LGBT Veterans to ascertain suicidal behavior(s) and assess risk and protective factors among LGBT Veterans in all gender, age, and racial and ethnic groups. Biography: Joseph Goulet, PhD, is an epidemiologist and statistician by training, currently the Director of the Methodology and Biostatistics core of the VA’s Pain Research, Informatics, Multi-morbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center, and an associate professor of medicine at Yale. My research focuses on the impact of mental health conditions on the course of care and outcomes for Veterans with comorbid medical conditions. He has been involved in the design and conduct of large cohort studies using VA EHR data sources supplemented by patient surveys on topics including HIV, women Veteran’s health, and musculoskeletal disorders. He serves as a Principle Investigator on the current study for which he is presenting today, and works closely with his co-PI Dr. Qing Zeng on the informatics Aims. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunches Contact Information: rainbowcenter@uconn.edu More

9/10Grads & Young Professionals Meet and Greet

Grads & Young Professionals Meet and Greet
Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Student Union 403

September 10 is the new rescheduled date!

The Rainbow Center would like to invite all graduate students to our Rainbow Grads & Young Professionals Meet & Greet on Thursday, August 29th from 5-6pm in Student Union 403. Come meet other grad students on campus and learn about how to get involved with the Rainbow Center. There will be free pizza!

Contact Information: Steven Feldman, 860-486-5821, stf18003work@uconn.edu More

9/12Lecture: Transgender Affirming Healthcare

Lecture: Transgender Affirming Healthcare
Thursday, September 12th, 2019
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM

Storrs Campus
Rainbow Center; Student Union 403

The Out to Lunch Gender, Sexuality, and Community is a weekly academic lecture and discussion series with guest scholars and community activists from various disciplines examining a variety of topics related to gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. Each semester offers a broad sampling of the areas.

The Fall 2019 semester is co-sponsored by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (http://wgss.uconn.edu).

Today's lecture is entitled, "Transgender Affirming Healthcare" and will be presented by Britta Shute (she/her/hers).

Synopsis: This lecture will focus on Transgender Health and the disparities that exist within the community. It will have a historical perspective and include a timeline of transgender care, analysis of the current best practices within the field and progress for future improvements.

Biography: Britta Shute, Family Nurse Practitioner, 10+ years of experience in primary care first at Fenway Health in Boston and 3 years ago joining UConn Health. She has special interests in HIV, LGBTQI+ health care and medical education, and sees patients of all ages for primary care as well as prescription of hormone therapy, STI screening and diagnosis and Pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent risk of HIV transmission.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunches

Contact Information: rainbowcenter@uconn.edu More

9/17Human Rights Film Series: THREADS

Human Rights Film Series: THREADS
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

THREADS
screening & discussion
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Konover Auditorium
Dodd Center

A visionary leader in Bangladesh frees herself and hundreds of other women and families from poverty and social hardships by creating timeless works of art.

Torn from her family, her paintings, and her beloved Calcutta after the partition of India, artist Surayia Rahman finds a new life in Bangladesh teaching impoverished mothers to embroider her story-telling designs. An inspirational example of the power of art and the impact of empowering women and girls around the world, THREADS takes us on an intimate journey into the heart of an artist and celebrates an unconventional path to dignity and independence.

For more information, visit:
https://thedoddcenter.uconn.edu/2019/08/08/sept-17-2019-human-rights-film-series-threads/

Contact Information: doddcenter@uconn.edu More