Queer Airwaves: From the Radio Station to You
From UC Santa Cruz’s on-campus radio station to your ears, here are a couple of queer-centered programs available throughout Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, courtesy of KZSC. “Queer Ear” This quarter, two best friends created a project that transcends distance, thanks to the hosts’ high-energy…
Queering A Doll’s House
The magic of theater is transplanting a seat in a barn into a television studio, into a telenovela, into a home, into a room, into a relationship, into the protagonist’s mind. Xóchitl Rios-Ellis’s adaptation of “A Doll’s House” took place against the backdrop of a…
‘Mar y Tierra’
Every First Friday, Santa Cruz print shop and artist workspace Little Giant Collective hosts an exhibit featuring one or more of its members. Nov. 1 marked the opening of “Mar y Tierra,” spotlighting the works of two members of the collective. Enrique López Enrique López…
Connecting Struggles at Home and Abroad
After a long day at UC Santa Cruz’s Practical Activism Conference, 34 ralliers organized in support of Anakbayan and marched to the quad steps at College Ten, chanting a uniformed call-and-response. Anakbayan is a national youth and student political organization that supports democratic and human…
‘And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?’
He saw a dead fetus when he was 10 years old. He performed his first dissection of a corpse when he was 14 years old. During his 22 hour hospital shifts, he walked around with 40 pound weights around his ankles. This was the bizarre…
Celebrating the Dead
A cool breeze filled the Evergreen Cemetery with the fresh smell of eucalyptus trees and copal, two scents invoking divine contemplation. Bright orange cempasuchil petals adorned the rows of graves, guiding the spirits toward their altars. Community members enjoyed warm pozole and champurrado, while the…
Celebrando a los muertos
Una brisa fresca llenó el aire del cementerio Evergreen con las aromas de eucalipto y copal, dos olores que invocan contemplación divina. Los pétalos de cempasúchil de color anaranjado fosforescente adornaban los pasillos de las tumbas, guiando a los espíritus hacia sus altares. Lxs devotxs…
Bayanihan Hosts Fall Reception
“Ube or mango?” shouted Mikki Lim, interrupting the buzz of about a hundred students orbiting the ground floor of Porter College’s Dining Hall. With co-chairs Deanne Presas and Louisa Ou, Lim organizes Bayanihan’s Pilipino Cultural Celebration (PCC). Together, they called on the sea of attendees…
Riyaaz Qawwali Takes the Stage
From the moment the recital hall doors opened, a crowd of people flooded in, eager to listen to Qawwali music — a 700-year-old, popular South Asian music genre. Riyaaz Qawwali, a South Asian sufi music group based in Austin, Texas, performed at UC Santa Cruz’s…
Illustrating Injustice
Film. Illustration. Journalism. UC Santa Cruz art professor Dee Hibbert-Jones received the $75,000 Enterprise Documentary Fund from the International Documentary Association (IDA) to fund her latest animated documentary, “Run With It,” on Oct. 11. Hibbert-Jones and co-director and producer Nomi Talisman will use the renowned…