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!
Halloween Party
Calling all ghouls and goblins! Join us for our annual Halloween Party on Thursday, October 30th, 2025 from 4pm-6pm in the Diversity Center, Women’s Center, and GSSS lounges in the Student Life Building on the legacy side of campus.
There will be snacks, games, a photo booth, a costume contest, and MORE for ALL students to enjoy!
*Only open to 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!
Queer Joy and Sexual Health - Tabling Event
GSSS and the Women's Center are hosting this tabling event to provide sexual health resources, and to educate about sexual health topics. We are putting an emphasis on Queer joy and sexual health to go with our Queertober theme of "Queer Joy is Resistance". We will have contraception, emergency contraception, informational pamphlets, an anonymous question box for future events, and games! Come visit our table at the Student Union to learn more about what Gender and Sexuality Student Services and the Women's Center offer. Open to all UIS students.
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: Rooted in Worth
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!).
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 Friday: Feminist Icons From The Grave
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.