UPDATE: Due to current CCNY administrative guidelines, our final Gaymers Against Violence workshop on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 from 12:30PM to 2PM will be over Zoom. If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
Join NYC Gaymers and the Anti-Violence Project to play video games and learn anti-violence prevention best practices! This is a monthly interactive and community-led gaming space, where students will learn how to navigate, address, and prevent interpersonal violence within their relationships and communities. Open to all CCNY and CUNY!
Location: Zoom
Time: 12:30PM - 2PM
Dates and Topics:
- Tuesday, Sept. 26: LGBTQ+ 101 & Types of Attraction
- Tuesday, Oct. 31: Title IX & Intimate Partner Violence/Sexual Violence-Related Support On/Off Campus
- Tuesday, Nov. 21: Upstander/Bystander Intervention
- Tuesday, Jan. 30: “Plug & Play” BDSM & Consent
- Tuesday, Feb. 27: Boundaries & Healthy Relationships
- Tuesday, Mar. 26: Healthy Masculinity & Intersectionality (Special Guest: Eric McGriff from the Crime Victims Treatment Center)
- Tuesday, Apr. 9: Supporting Sexual Violence Survivors in LGBTQ+ Communities (Special guests from CCNY's Title IX Office)
- Tuesday, May 14: Resilience & Safety During Pride Month (Special guests from the Anti-Violence Project's Organizing Department)
Games Include:
- Super Smash Bros.
- Mario Kart
- Jackbox TV Games
- Uno
- Dominoes
- Playing Cards
- A Variety of Tabletop Games
About the CCNY LGBTQ+ Student Center
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Student Center (est. Fall 2021) is a collaborative resource dedicated to celebrating, empowering, and supporting LGBTQIA+ students, staff, and faculty at CCNY. We are committed to leading with a social justice lens, offering and connecting LGBTQ+ communities at CCNY with accessible support services, relevant programming, engaging events, paid internship/job opportunities, and general guidance navigating college, home life, and futures outside of higher education for those who identify as LGBTQ+ or questioning. The LGBTQ+ Student Center is also dedicated to increasing awareness about LGBTQ+ issues, gender, and sexuality at City College. The LGBTQ+ Student Center is a safe space for all LGBTQIA+ students and allies to meet and build community. You all are welcome here!
About NYC Gaymers
NYC Gaymers (est. 2012) began as a member-led community of LGBTQIA+ gamers, moving to uplift the voices of marginalized gamers, and sustain a space that shares a diversity and passion that is reflective of both New York City and Gaming culture. NYC Gaymers Inc. empowers gamers across the intersections of orientation, identity, expression, race, and ability, in order to uplift and center our most marginalized community members through education, advocacy, and the creation of safer spaces.
About The Anti-Violence Project
AVP (est. 1980) empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy. AVP envisions a world in which all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected people are safe, respected, and live free from violence.
This event is made possible through the generous support of LaGuardia Community College and the New York City Council LGBT and Queer Caucus.
This event will be archived at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives.
Co-sponsors: NYC Gaymers, The Anti-Violence Project, CCNY LGBTQ+ Open Alliance Club, CCNY Office of Student Life and Leadership Development, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the CCNY School of Education, The City College Initiative to Promote Academic Success in STEM (CiPASS), CCNY Gaming Pathways, CUNY Office of Student Inclusion Initiatives and the CUNY LGBTQI+ Council.
The City College of New York is a proud member of the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium.
QUESTIONS? email us at [email protected]
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