WebinarsFor more information about webinars email the Membership Engagement Collective at [email protected] Upcoming WebinarsUpdates Coming Soon ...Previous WebinarsQT Resource Centers as the Blueprint: How Queer and Trans Resource Centers are Foundations for Radical Hope (October 2026)This year’s Center Awareness Day webinar, QT Resource Centers as the Blueprint: How Queer and Trans Resource Centers are Foundations for Radical Hope, honors the histories, legacies, and enduring impact of queer and trans resource centers. QT resource center work has always extended beyond the physical space of the center itself, shaping the work of faculty, staff, administrators, and students across higher education. Through this context, we view QT resource centers as a beacon of hope and a blueprint for higher education stakeholders to build more affirming, relational, and liberatory spaces. Inspired by our colleagues Kaity Prieto, Nick Daily, and Kristopher Oliveira’s latest book, Championing Queer and Trans Inclusion Beyond the Campus Resource Center, we invite participants to explore what it means to view QT resource centers as the blueprint for institutional transformation and student support. Together, we will reflect on how the knowledge, relationships, and practices developed within these spaces continue to inform campus climate and culture, build coalitions, and create conditions where queer and trans communities can thrive. As we continue to face QT center closures, restructuring, and renaming, we remain steadfast in our commitment to this work, recognizing that while the structures may evolve, our collective responsibility to each other remains.
Allyship at Work: Supporting and Supervising Your Trans Colleagues (September 2025)In an era marked by political backlash and institutional stagnation, the work of supervising and supporting transgender staff is deeply emotional, and too often, invisible. In this interactive session, we will continue to explore the theme of the past Virtual Drive-In, how love, anger, and grief show up in the supervision of trans colleagues and staff. Particularly in higher education environments shaped by white supremacy, cisnormativity, and administrative violence. Drawing on lived experience and collective wisdom, the session invites participants to reflect on their own emotional journeys, identify institutional practices that harm or uplift trans employees, and engage in strategies for moving from performative allyship to accountable accompliceship. Participants will leave with tangible tools to advocate for structural change, navigate moments of discomfort, and foster cultures of care grounded in love and justice. This session was led by Camden Doolittle (they/them)
Walking on Eggshells: The Realities of LGBTQIA+ Centers in the Current Climate (September 2025)In today’s landscape, LGBTQIA+ centers and in turn, their staff, are sites of political turmoil as they continue to navigate the complexity of institutional pressures, transphobia, systemic violence, and uncertainty about their future. This years’ Center Awareness Day Walking on Eggshells: The Realities of LGBTQIA+ Centers in the Current Climate highlights and honors the dissonance between the realities current staff and students face throughout this time. This panel discussion, framed through trauma-informed and queer theoretical lenses, explores the emotional and political labor of queer and trans resource professionals, the supervision and support (or lackthereof), and the uneven institutional responses that leave many walking on eggshells. Join us as we name the challenges, honor community resistance, and co-imagine centers, and futures, that love us back. LGBTQIA+ Centers are life-saving resources on campus, and we hope you can join us for this conversation!
Envisioning Our Collective Future: Centering Blackness In LGBTQ Resource Work (October 2020)(Video Link)Recent examples of racial injustice continue to increase our awareness that racism and anti-Blackness deeply impact our communities and reasserts calls for intentional change and positive action. As we begin the new academic year it is important for LGBTQ+ resource professionals to continue engage in conversations about the impact of anti-Blackness within colleges, universities, and our profession. Join Black colleagues and members of the Consortium Board for a conversation to deepen our understanding of experiences of Black colleagues; interrogating the culture of anti-Blackness and anti-racism within our profession; and moving towards creating more equitable, inclusive spaces for Black colleagues in LGBTQ+ resource work. Decentering Whiteness Webinar Series (Summer 2018)Based on conversations and feedback from our queer and trans colleagues of color and the 2017 Creating Change Consortium institute, a subcommittee of Consortium board members has been working collaboratively to develop a monthly webinar series on how we as white practitioners can truly ground our work in racial justice and decenter whiteness on our campuses, in our field, and in our lives. Our goals for these upcoming webinars are to:
Each webinar will be facilitated by a pair and will be on topics related to decentering whiteness and interrupting white supremacy in our lives and work. Queer and trans people of color are welcome to join and engage in or observe the space. However, we do want to provide a content warning that in these spaces we hope white folks will process our thoughts and behaviors in a learning environment so we can address them and discuss and tactics of decentering whiteness. Additionally, we will provide reference documents (articles, videos, etc.) selected in advance of each call that will be shared with membership so there is a common ground to work. For example, “White Supremacy Culture,” from Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun. |