POCIG-Sponsored Events at ACSP
FWIG, GPEIG, POCIG Session: Mentoring from the Margins: Cultivating a Culture of Inclusion for Faculty and Students of Color, Women, LGBTQIA, and the Global South in the Planning
Thursday, October 24, 2019
9:45 AM 11:15 AM
Having a mentor can make a tremendous difference in one's academic success and beyond. This is especially true for faculty and students of color, women, LGBTQIA and the Global South who need mentors who can help them reflect on their goals, listen to issues that matter to them, help them navigate the ins and outs of the academy, and pursue their dreams. The proposed panel co-sponsored by GPEIG, POCIG and FWIG will focus on mentoring needs of groups that are marginalized and underrepresented in academia. It will address the following questions: (1) What kind of mentoring do underrepresented communities require? (2) Does one need to be from a similar background to be able to mentor underrepresented groups? (3) What are the similarities and differences of the mentorship needs of faculty and students of color, women, LGBTQIA and the Global South? (4) What are some innovative programs planning departments can pursue to create better mentorship cultures and environments for underrepresented groups?
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Location: Teal Ballroom
POCIG Roundtable ‘Go the Way Your Blood Beats': Research, Scholarship, Thinking and Activism from the LGBTQ+ POC Community
Saturday, October 26, 2019
9:45 AM 11:15 AM
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In 1984 as part of a special section titled 'The Future of Gay Life' assembled to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, the Village Voice interviewed celebrated novelist, urbanist, and civil rights leader James Baldwin. In the interview, Baldwin highlights the importance, danger and responsibility of love generally, and the intersection between race and sexuality specifically. “A [B]lack gay person who is a sexual conundrum to society is already, long before the question of sexuality comes into it menaced and marked because he’s [B]lack or she’s [B]lack.…I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, into a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.” Baldwin also notes that, “The discovery of one’s sexual preference doesn’t have to be a trauma. It’s a trauma because it’s such a traumatized society.” Ending with what he describes as the best advice he ever received, he notes “…to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.” This POCIG roundtable will be a moment to acknowledge the lack of attention to and representation of the needs, desires, love and lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) peoples within mainstreamed planning scholarship and practice. Thirty-five years after Baldwin's reflections, and fifty years after Stonewall, we will engage with the intersectional experience of LGBTQ people of color, thinking about race and sexuality alongside poor and working class LGBTQ peoples, and LGBTQ peoples who are also members of Indigenous, disability and immigrant communities. The roundtable will highlight and celebrate research, scholarship, thinking and activism emerging from within LGBTQ communities of color. This roundtable will also be an opportunity to discuss and commit to the types of change and healing needed to affirm LGBTQ people of color life–in community, in practice and in academia–unapologetically and with love.
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Location: Teal Ballroom
POCIG Annual Business Meeting
Thursday, October 24, 2019 ; 2:00 PM 3:15 PM ; Location: Gardenia
POCIG Reception to Honor the Ed Blakeley Award Winner, co-sponsored by Clemson University
Saturday, October 26, 2019
5:00 PM 7:00 PM
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The POCIG reception is held to recognize the 2019 Edward Blakely and student travel award winners. It is also an opportunity to network with other POCIG members over light refreshments provided by local POC-owned businesses. Stop by to celebrate the wonderful achievements made by Planners of Color. This year's reception is co-sponsored by Clemson University's College of Architecture, Arts, & Humanities and Experience Clemson. Directions from Hyatt Regency: Exit Hyatt onto N Main St. Head south on N Main St toward E North St. for 2 blocks. Destination will be on the right.
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Location: Experience Clemson, 1 North Main Street, First Floor, Greenville