Transgender Student Wellness Initiative

Trunch Spring 2026 dates below 😎 Free food and good vibes, just RSVP ahead of time! https://bit.ly/TrunchSpring26 Monday, February 23rd (1-3pm) (GenEq - 202 Student Center) Friday, March 6th (12-2pm) (GenEq - 202 Student Center) Thursday, March 19th (12pm-2pm) (GenEq - 202 Student Center) Monday, March 30th (1pm-3pm) (GenEq - 202 Student Center) Friday, April 17th (1pm-3pm) (GenEq - 202 Student Center) Thursday, April 30th (11am-1pm) QARC @ Hearst Field Annex  Tuesday, May 5th (11am-1pm) (GenEq - 202 Student Center) This event is open to all UC Berkeley community members, regardless of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or any other protected class status. UC Berkeley is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that welcomes participants from all backgrounds. If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Joanna Villegas at (510) 230-3254 or joannavillegas @berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

Jules Gill-Peterson's recent lecture, The Constitutional Right to Transition: Reconstruction and the Political History of Transphobia, drew a packed room at UC Berkeley! Thank you to everyone who joined us for this important, timely talk exploring how the right to transition is rooted in the history and tradition of the Fourteenth Amendment, and why the Supreme Court's current perspective on this issue is fundamentally misguided. Co-sponsors: ISSI's Center for the Study of Sexual Culture @otheringandbelonging @ucberkeleygraduate @tswiberkeley @ucbgeneq @officialmccberkeley @ucbqarc Photo credit: @4everkiku

Looking for a place to study and get free food during RRR week? Come visit GenEq for lunch, self-care/destressing items, blue books & scantrons, and community! ☕️📖 This event will place Monday-Wednesday of RRR Week 5/5 (10am-3pm), 5/6 (10am-6pm), & 5/7 (10am-6pm) 🫶💫 Lunch provided at noon each day. Location: 202 Student Center Please RSVP at tinyurl.com/geneqeventsrsvp ‌ Image Description: The background is a green work mat with white gridlines. Text reads “Spring 2026” on a piece of tape with the header “STUDY JAMS” in all caps in clay in varying colors directly below it. There is random tape scattered around the background as well as varying clay graphics in flowers, a heart dialogue bubble, and a black cat. There is also a ruler, scissors, a pen, and a marker in the background. The top left corner has the GenEq, Big C, and TSWI logos on a piece of tape. On the left side of the page is a yellow cream sticky note with details about the event that reads “FREE LUNCH!! (Everyday at noon) Wellness Supplies! Self Care items! Exam Supplies! COMMUNITY!!!!!!” In the middle right side of the flyer is an orange clay dialogue bubble with the dates and location of the event: 5/5 (10AM 3PM), 5/6 (10AM-6PM), 5/7 (10AM-6PM) @‌GenEq (202 student center) In the bottom middle it reads “RSVP!” written on tape with a qr code below it on ripped paper.

Still don’t have an outfit for QT Ball 2026: Sugar Fantasy? 🍭🍬 Here’s some inspo to guide your choices! Think anything pastels, midnight summeresque, and anything that fulfills your SUGAR FANTASY 🧁 Come in your best sweet outfit that shows off what makes you, YOU!🍫 If you haven’t already RSVP’d for QT Ball, make sure to sign up using the link in our bio! It’s FREE 🤑

Tiny paws 🐾, big heart. ❤️The best workout ever! RSF is always loud and crowded. So WHY NOT JUST DO YOGA WITH US AND DOGGIES?🧘‍♀️ Join us in community for a free 45-minute yoga class with furry friends running around. The doggies (provided by our friends from PAWS) will stick around after class for more cuddles and loving. Yoga mats will be provided, and participants are welcome to take them home afterwards. 🫶There will be light refreshments provided, and other workout equipment will be given away during the event (blocks, water bottles, gym bags). 🌈 This is a collaboration with QARC, Exercise for Medicine, PAWS for Mental Health, and TSWI Image Description: A pink flyer textured with flowers, swirls, and glitter presents QT Doggie Yoga hosted by QARC, Paws for Mental Health, Exercise is Medicine, and TSWII. Surrounding a large beige yoga mat as the center piece are various graphics of pugs in different “yoga” poses and pink and green workout elements including: blocks, weights, a water bottle, and a gym bag. Text on top of the yoga mat reads “12pm @ HFA A15” and “Join us for a free 45-minute yoga class with the cutest furry friends !” In text small lace textured circles on the upper right and bottom left corners is text that reads “take home FREE yoga mats, blocks, water bottles & gym bags” and “Mats, Drinks & equipment provided!”

In Honor of Veda Jethani, TSWI is hosting a Make Up As Resistance event where students can make their own make up kits (eye shadow, nail polish, eye liner etc) and grab a boxed dinner. This event is a celebration of resistance through self expression in honor of Veda’s legacy! When: Thursday, May 7th 4pm-6pm Where: GenEq 202 Student Center (in the conference room) This event is open to all UC Berkeley community members, regardless of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or any other protected class status. UC Berkeley is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that welcomes participants from all backgrounds. If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Joanna Villegas at (510) 230-3254 or joannavillegas @berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event. [image description: This is a flier for the makeup as resistance event with information in it being hosted at GenEq conference room on Thursday, May 7th from 4pm-6pm. On the flier there are make up pieces such as a make up brush and eye shadow palette and there are hands that have nail polish on them]

QT Ball 2026: Sugar Fantasy🧁 is THIS WEEK! Make sure to snatch your FREE tickets thru the link in bio🍭🎉 Don’t miss out on a night of ballroom, queer celebration, and FREE food/goodies! 💗🍭 This will be our biggest QT Ball yet 🍬 and a night you WONT want to miss! 🍫 See yall there! 💗 QT Ball 2026: Sugar Fantasy🍭 April 24, 5p-9p RSVP Link in bio🍪

Join us on Wednesday, April 29 at 4:30 PM for a book talk on "So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color" with the author, @caro_derobertis . Caro is an award-winning novelist who will present a first-of-its-kind oral history of queer and trans elders of color. Register! bit.ly/CaroStars Sponsors: @ucbgeneq Night Out / Night Off Center for the Study of Sexual Culture @tswiberkeley @townsendcenter @officialmccberkeley #berkeleyevents #booktalk #trans

Have you been needing a hair touch up? Well, good news because Petals & Plaits is BACK this year to provide hair services to our lovely Black queer and trans community! Join Zawadi, AASD, TSWI, and MCC Garden & Wellness in this collaborative event for free hair braiding and barber services. All materials and food is provided and more information can be found in the form! Fill it out asap to ensure we are able to supply your request! Form: forms.gle/Ci8UEJ7RHiT62WPN6 What: Petals & Plaits aka Black Hair Event When: Saturday April 25th 10am-4pm Where: Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center (Hearst Field Annex, D3) ***this event is open to all but centers Black Queer & Trans identifying folks***

Hi TSWI community! Are YOU a student at UC Berkeley? Do YOU make art? If that sounds like you then this art call of for you!! We are looking for local UC Berkeley student artists who have made art around the trans experience! Please fill out the form if you’re interested! Each chosen artist will be given $300 compensation if chosen! The form will close on May 1st at 11:59pm so get those art pieces submitted! We’re looking forward to seeing all your artwork!!

Hi community 🌱! Interested in learning from your EJCE Interns and TSWI Research Grantees about their research and enjoying a nice meal while you’re at it? 👀 Then join us for our MCC Research Symposium 🤓! This event will be broken into 3 different, hour-long, intervals with each hour being dedicated to research presentations and panel discussions! When: Wednesday April 15th Time: 11 am to 3 pm 11-12pm: Tracing the Margins: Education and Sex Work 12-1pm: Lunch Break 1-2pm: Ecologies of Care 2-3pm: Trans Labor, Trans Life We hope to see you there! 👩‍🔬👩‍🔬👩‍🔬👩‍🔬

Hello everybody and Happy Spring! 🌸🌼🌸 Now more than ever our community needs to stay informed and supported. Join us on April 22nd 6-8PM at @ucbgeneq for our second panel of the Trans Healthcare series focused on gender affirming surgeries! Including voices from the Tang Center, outside gender affirming clinics, and your fellow peers 🩺 Please RSVP through the QR code in the flyer or visit /SPRNPANL26 See you there! :D [Brought to you by the Big C]