Healthy or Hype? Tabling Event
Come join the UIS Diversity and Women's Centers for a tabling event on which health myths are healthy or hype! Win prizes and learn about how to care for your health.
Healthy or Hype? Tabling Event
Come join the UIS Diversity and Women's Centers for a tabling event on which health myths are healthy or hype! Win prizes and learn about how to care for your health.
Cookie Decorating!
Take a break from studying and join GSSS and the Women’s Center to get into the holiday mood with gingerbread cookie decorating and hot chocolate while learning about gender, sex, and identity!
Taking place Tuesday, December 2nd 2025, in the Student Leadership Center (SLC) in the Student Union from 1-3pm.
Open to all UIS Students, faculty, and staff. For questions or accommodations, contact gss@uis.edu or 217-206-8316.
Pop-Up: Let's Taco 'Bout It
Time for a climate check with the Diversity Centers Graduate Assistants! This includes the Women's Center, Gender & Sexuality Student Services, H/L Outreach Initiative, and the Diversity Center. Talk about how the semester is going, your friends, family, and more! Take the time to share how we can help and what events you'd like to see next semster while enjoying some walking tacos!
Opent to all UIS Students!
Meal & Heal
Bring your dinner to the Diversity Center Lounge (Student Life Building, suite 22) to be in community with others while we center joy, unity, and healing.
Sponsored by the UIS Diversity Center, Women’s Center, and GSSS
Monday, November 17th, 2025 | 4pm-6pm | You bring your dinner & we’ll bring the vibes!
Open to all UIS students, faculty, and staff!
LGBTea: Building Connections
Join us for a night of coming together as one! We will be making bridges in teams and seeing who’s is the strongest! Will yours hold up? Come put your skills to the test! LGBTea social gatherings at GSSS in the Diversity Center (SLB 22 - Legacy Campus) on Thursdays from 4PM-6PM for Fall 2025.
Shades
Join us for our weekly Shades event from 4 pm to 5:30 pm in the Diversity Center (SLB 22), located on the legacy side of campus, on most Wednesdays for Fall 2025. Shades is a discussion-based event series for all UIS students, faculty, and staff. The goal of this series is to create a safe and affirming space through which we can explore topics of identity and bring together QTPOC (Queer & Trans* People of Color) students and allies on campus. Light snacks and refreshments are provided and all attendees are entered into a prize raffle!
Feminist Fall Friday
Join us for our recurring event series, Feminist Friday! This series will have a variety of themes and activities, all of which are connected to past or present topics on advancing gender equity. These are open to ALL UIS students, faculty, and staff. This event will take place in the Women's Center Lounge in the Student Life Building Suite 15 (the legacy side of campus). We will have light snacks and refreshments, as well as a raffle! Feminist Fridays for Fall 2025 will be hosted from 3pm-5pm on October 3rd, October 17th, October 31st, and November 14th.
Shades: Wellness and Watercolor
Join us for self-care and wellness activities along with the Women's Center from 4 pm to 5:30 pm in the Diversity Center (SLB 22), located on the legacy side of campus, on most Wednesdays for Fall 2025. Shades is a discussion-based event series for all UIS students, faculty, and staff. The goal of this series is to create a safe and affirming space through which we can explore topics of identity and bring together QTPOC (Queer & Trans* People of Color) students and allies on campus. Light snacks and refreshments are provided and all attendees are entered into a prize raffle!
LGBTea Social
Join us for our weekly LGBTea social gatherings at GSSS in the Diversity Center (SLB 22 - Legacy Campus) on Thursdays from 4PM-6PM for Fall 2025. This week we will be making "Let It Go" plates and SMASHING them! LGBTea offers a comfortable, accepting, and non-judgmental social atmosphere for students with marginalized gender and/or sexual identities and allied peers. Students hang out, watch movies, listen to music, make plans for the weekend, and play games (Just to name a few!).