February 2023 Newsletter

Hi qtPhDs,

Happy February! 

After work and coffee events

Next week is our coffee hour on Monday Feb 6th at 2pm at the Rainbow Lounge in MIT. We have migrated back to the Rainbow Lounge (50-250) for the winter– if you’ve never been, here is an explanation of how to get there. Come join for a nice afternoon break! 

Please sign up here by Monday morning at 10am so we have an estimate for coffee and treats: RSVP.

Save the date for our February after-work event on Thursday, Feb. 23rd. Keep an eye out for an RSVP form and location later this month!

Other events:

Margaret Cheney Room Open House

Tuesday, February 7th, 4:00 - 5:00pm, 3-308, Margaret Cheney Room

Join Women and Gender Services (WXGS) in celebrating the re-opening of the newly renovated Margaret Cheney Room.  There will be music, light refreshments, and mingling.  Open to everyone in the MIT community. https://studentlife.mit.edu/womenmit

QStaff presents: Love Bracket Gay Times

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Virtual

Calling all film buffs! Come one, come all to the annual LBGTQ+ Valentine's Day virtual lunch. This year, participate in our movie bracket! More info and registration here. 

Artist Talk with Sophie Labelle

Rainbow Lounge 50-250, Monday, Feb 13th, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:30pm

Activist, artist, and author of the spectacular webcomic Assigned Male and Serious Trans Vibes Sophie Labelle stops at MIT on her tour! Learn about comic making, community building, and empowerment through art. Lunch will be served.

RSVP

Queer Body Image Workshop  

Feb 23rd, 2023, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Rainbow Lounge 50-250

Explore the concepts of body positivity, body neutrality, health at every size, disability, race, the nuance of passing as a binary gender, and being nonbinary without being androgynous.

Check out more events at the Rainbow Lounge here!

As always, we are happy to hear from you at qtphds-owner@mit.edu (or at our personal emails!).

Stay warm tomorrow!

Warmly, 

Senén and Rachel

*Each month we will be featuring a different pride flag in our logo! Our flag of the month is the Aro or aromantic flag, which was created by cameronwhimsy in 2014. The green and light green stripes represent the aromantic spectrum as a whole; white represents the importance of platonic and non-romantic relationships, such as friendships, familial and queerplatonic relationships; and gray and black represent the sexuality spectrum, from aro-aces to aro-allosexuals. (Read more on aromanticism.org).