Unity Center RIC

And we are on to 6 more days! Can you give 10 dollars? Our past fundraising has shown a little goes a long way!

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Unity Center is trying to raise money to support scholarships for students. We want to intentionally give scholarships to students in need and our social justice advocates, and we need your help! Donate at https://lnkd.in/dPA2E5jx We have collected 175, help us get to our goal!

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Unity Center is trying to raise money to support scholarships for students. We want to intentionally give scholarships to students in need, including our undocumented students, and we need your help! Donate at https://lnkd.in/dPA2E5jx

Donations can be given today ;) no need to wait!

Thank you to everyone who attended our Trans Day of Remembrance Memorial and especially to those who shared their stories! Thank you for being in community with us as we took a moment of silence to honor the deceased, and for appreciating the exhibition we held for Trans Awareness Week. We were proud and grateful to feature RIC students, alumni, and community members from a wide range of ages - our youngest artist to submit was 13 years old; thank you for sharing your work! Now more than ever, it is critical to show trans youth they are loved and supported.

Thank you to everyone who attended our Truthsgiving last week. Special thanks to Learning 4 Life for hosting and Sly Fox Den for the catering! We had a great time playing games and sharing what we're thankful for!

In honor of national coming out day the students joined on the quad to show our pride and 'come out' of our Pride-themed door! With food, music, games, trivia, affirmations, and a raffle to win gift cards!
All proceeds for our raffle are going to Pride Alliance 😁♥️

The Rhode Island College Art Club has partnered with the Unity Center here on campus to exhibit a selection of works by transgender artists and allies to the trans community promoting remembrance, resilience, community, and the acceptance of all people.

Work will be displayed on campus in the Alex and Ani Hall first floor lobby from November 13th to November 19th for Trans Awareness Week. On Monday, November 20th, Trans Day of Remembrance, the Unity Center will host a Memorial Service, honoring transgender people who have lost their lives to transphobia. Artwork will be moved to the quad on for the Unity Center Memorial Service, unless the weather prohibits such.

View important dates and submit your work here: bit.ly/tdorart. If you have any questions, please reach out to either Danii De La Rosa [email protected] or Mollee Daniels [email protected].

Our work is only possible by our student workers and the dedication of our programming team. This month, the team was hard at work creating a closet door for our students to be able to "Come out" of for years to come.

Stay tune to see some of our campus "Coming out" on National Coming Out Day pictures.

Happy birthday Lee!

The Unity Center with the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hosted our 2023 Latinx Summit at Rhode Island College.

Thank you to Jennifer Gaviria, MSW, LICSW, Pablo Rodriguez, MD, Tommy Ender, Ph.D. for such a great panel on health and mental health access. Thank you to Sabina Matos for giving such a great welcome and reminder to our students, "If you need help, ask for it." Thank you to Brandon Contreras for such a great Bachata Lesson. Thank you to Marta V. Martínez for your presentation on RI Latinx Oral History. Thank you to Marcela Betancur, David Morales, and Jonathan De Jesus for speaking about the political issues affecting Latinos. Lastly, thank you to AGONZA for the beautiful piece we now get to put in our space!

We will be posting the filmed recording of our keynote in the upcoming days.

The Unity Center closed off our beautiful Summit with a LIVE Free Comedy Show in Spanish. We had 104 people attend from the Rhode Island College and Rhode Island Community! We had people representing the Dominican Republic, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Spain, Peru, Guatemala and many more! Thank you to Saulo Garcia Comediante stand up for providing laughs and warm sentiments on a cold rainy Saturday evening.