Beyond Pink Or Blue: The Transgender Movement Yesterday, Today and the Future

Transgender movement leader Leslie Feinberg visits the campus at 7:30 p.m. on April 26 in the Cooperage. for a lecture called "Beyond Pink or Blue: The Transgender Movement, Yesturday, Today and the Future."

Feinberg is well-known as an activist who works to help forge a strong bond between the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. Currently, she is a national leader of the Workers World Party, and a managing editor and political journalist of the Workers World newspaper.The event is free to SSU students, faculty and staff, and $5 for general admission at the door. For more information, visit the website or e-mail ssuccgs@gmail.com or phone 4-2710.

Charmaz on Making Qualitative Research Fun

Kathy Charmaz of the Sociology Department offers a talk entitled "Making Qualitative Research Fun and Manageable: Grounded Theory Guidelines"at noon on Thursday, April 26 in Stevenson 2075. Charmaz is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Faculty Writing Program and has written or co-edited seven books including "Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time", which won awards from the Pacific Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Her book, "Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis," was published in 2006 by Sage Publications, London and her co-edited volume with Antony Bryant, Handbook of Grounded Theory, will appear this year, also with Sage, London.

Charmaz has served as the president of the Pacific Sociological Association, Vice-President for Alpha Kappa Delta, Vice-President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, editor of Symbolic Interaction, and chair of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. She received the 2001 Feminist Mentors Award and the 2006 George Herbert Mead award for lifetime achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. This lecture is sponsored by the Sociology Club. Contact James Dean for more information, james.dean@sonoma.edu.

2007 BFA Exhibition Opens in Two Parts

The University Art Gallery announces the opening of the annual Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition 2007, Part I on view now through Sunday, May 6. Due to the large number of BFA graduates, this year's BFA Exhibition is presented in two parts. Part II opens May 10. The exhibit features the work of Art Department students who be graduate this spring with their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, an advanced degree requiring an additional year of focused study in their chosen medium.

BFA Exhibition 2007, Part I features the work of Dina Janel Foster (painting), Ann Clarke Greenwood (sculpture), Veronica Morrisey (painting), Stephanie Sowers (painting), and Egil Thompson (painting). Gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday, 11-4 p.m. and weekends, noon-4 p.m. Closed Mondays and holidays. For more information, call 4-2295.

Last Poet Reading by Yosha Borgea

The Monday Three Guest Poets series ends with Yosha Borgea reading from 4-6:40 p.m. on Monday, April 30 in Shulz 3001. The event is free and open to the public and is made possible by Poets and Writers with a grant from the James Irvine Foundation. All are invited to come hear this award-winning homegrown poet close out the series. Additional donations are gladly received at the door. For more information, contact Elizabeth Carothers Herron at herronel@sonoma.edu

"The N Word" Subject of Lecture

This Friday, April 20 at 6 p.m. in the Cooperage, Black Scholars United invites the campus community to a free lecture by Munyiga Lumumba of UC Berkeley's Upward Bound Program. Lamumba lecture is entitled "The N Word" with discussion to follow. Lumumba has dedicated his life's worked to helping low-income and first-generation students.

Zaum, Volt Magazines Host Literary Party

Faculty and students are invited to join in the gala release party at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24 at The Villa on 390 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa for both SSU's award-winning student literary magazine ZAUM and the internationally acclaimed VOLT. Eleven poets featured in ZAUM will be reading along with Matthew Rohrer, a poet of national stature who currently resides in New York. VOLT's most recent issue focuses on war.