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<\/a><\/p>\nThe A.S. Queer Commission \u00a0serves as an educational and advocacy forum for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT), Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI) student\u2019s rights, with a commitment to representing and improving the status of LGBTQI students on campus and in the community. The A.S. Queer Commission is working toward becoming a diverse group of members that increases awareness, educates, elicits appreciation, offers insights, towards the LGBTQI community at UCSB and also the Tri-County area. The Commission also works together with other campus and community groups to overcome problems such as homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, biphobia, hate incidents\/crimes and other forms of oppression.<\/p>\n
JANET MOCK AT MULTICULTURAL CENTER (MCC)<\/h2>\n
Queer Commission provided significant funding to bring author Janet Mock<\/a> to the MCC during winter quarter for a reading, Q&A, and book signing. The event was hosted by the\u00a0UCSB Resource Center For Sexual & Gender Diversity\u00a0.<\/p>\n As stated on\u00a0her website, “JANET MOCK is a writer, an advocate and the New York Times bestselling author of Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, released by Atria Books\/Simon & Schuster.<\/p>\n After publicly proclaiming her identity as a trans woman in a 2011 profile in Marie Claire magazine, Janet focused her efforts on speaking about the struggles, triumphs and portrayals of girls and women like herself. In 2012, she launched #GirlsLikeUs, a movement that encourages trans women to live visibly. She currently writes and speaks about her experience of living at the intersections of identities.”<\/p>\n Queer Com tabled at the AS recruitment fair held in the Arbor to give students an overview of ways to get involved through AS.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAS RECRUITMENT FAIR<\/h2>\n