Community

Friday, September 11 to Sunday, September 13, this year’s event will be held on-line

Virtual Hot Times will showcase live performances, pre-recorded sets, and archival material.

• There will be listings for food and Street Fair vendors.

• Listen For The Jazz: KeyNotes in Columbus History will premiere the on-line version of this 220-page book.

• The Amplified Voices page will feature community speakers and workshops.

Thursday, September 10 and Thursday, September 24, 7-9pm, this Zoom event requires advance registration via Meetup

Life After Belief Groups meet for support, encouragement, and growth on the process of living life without supernatural belief. Our core concerns are Community, Charting a New Course, Compassion, and Coming Out. [Read more about these Core Passions below.]

Thursday, September 10 and Thursday, September 24, 7-9pm, this Zoom event requires advance registration via Meetup

Life After Belief Groups meet for support, encouragement, and growth on the process of living life without supernatural belief. Our core concerns are Community, Charting a New Course, Compassion, and Coming Out. [Read more about these Core Passions below.]

Thursday, September 10, 12noon-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

We will have a panel discussion with three incredible leaders of New Voices for Reproductive Justice, Black Queer and Intersectional Collective, and Black Abolitionist Collective of Ohio. Our moderator will be Charlie Stewart, outreach manager of Ohio Voice. We will review how they plan actions, how to be inclusive, what safety looks like, assessing risk, transparency and collective efforts with other organizations when planning actions, lessons learned, and successes!

Thursday, September 10, 6-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Ableism can be a serious obstacle to inclusivity in social justice movements.

Join us for a discussion about how to increase accessibility for all in the context of organizing.

Register for this event by using this link.

Hosted by Civil Liberties Defense Center.

Thursday, September 10, 2-3pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Please join us for a webinar on how to identify contemporary white Christian supremacy through its effects on religious minorities, and how to challenge its oppression of religious minorities of color.

Wednesday, September 9, 12noon-2pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Local, state, and federal governments make decisions that impact every day of our lives yet in the last presidential election year, only 64.20% of eligible voters in Ohio voted. In 2018, a non-presidential election year, only 50.90% of eligible Ohioans voted.

Wednesday, September 9, 6-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Do you have questions about legally changing your name and or gender marker in Ohio? RSVP to our Virtual Name and Gender Marker Change legal clinic today. You’ll be able to talk to a trained lawyer over the phone or through Zoom about the name and gender marker process.

Virtual Legal Clinic participation requires pre-registration at least 24 hours before the clinic. To participate in this clinic, please pre-register by 5:30pm on 9-8-2020.

Wednesday, September 9, 12noon-12:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Please join Equitas Health and Ohio Representative Emilia Strong Sykes, Minority Leader for the Ohio House of Representatives, to discuss the importance of public policy in the pursuit of equity.

This conversation will acknowledge and address disparities in Ohio along the intersections of race, sex, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation, and will be centered on pending and potential legislative remedies for existing disparities and action items for participants.

Tuesday, September 8, 8-9:30pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Join us for BQIC’s monthly fundraiser, “BQIC speak up! Spoken Word and Open Mic.” Come out and share your poems, songs, monologues, inner musings, and good encounters, bad days, good dates, etc. on the digital mic! LGBTQIA+ people of color take priority.