Queer Interventions: Queer O'Clock (submissions closed)

Join the Q Collective’s Camp Qmunity (CampQ), for a summer intensive program on LGBTIA+/Queer Studies. Throughout the month of July, we will meet synchronously and asynchronously to talk about queer time and the making of queer space. 

CampQ will explore ideas of queer time in order to harness collectively ways of thriving. We will discuss queer time in nature, grief, archives, and performance. During the month of July, we will be visited by artists and cultural workers who will lead us in workshops on local ecology, queer archives, breath work, and gay liberation. We will dive into a different topic via discussion, workshops, readings, viewings from artists and thinkers from VCU and beyond. Through our time together, we will interrogate our own relationship to VCU, strengthen and enliven our autonomy within an institution, and expand our ability to world-build.  Our time will culminate in designing an event sharing student work in a public, local space in Richmond, VA.

Camp Qmunity 2024 will be co-directed by HH Hiaasen (they/them), interdisciplinary artist and VCU Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and J Molina-Garcia (she/her), Assistant Professor in Photography and Film, with support from Kevin Allison (he/him), interim co-chair of the Q Collective and professor of Psychology. 

Responsibilities of the participants include:

1. Completion of pre-work requirements (readings, videos, written assignments)
2. Attending/viewing all workshops over the four-week period
3. Attending project work sessions once a week (in addition to workshops). Some of these sessions will be in-person, with dates/times to be determined collectively by the co-directors and participants.
4. Completing any individual assignments throughout the four week period
5. Complete creating a collective sticker set that could “cover” the VCU campus and website.

This competitive opportunity is open to all students with at least one more semester of full-time undergraduate coursework. Pell eligible, first-generation, and students who hold multiple marginalized identities are particularly encouraged to apply.

Students will receive a stipend of $500 for program participation. 

Please direct any questions to Kevin Allison at kallison@vcu.edu

Camp Qmunity 2023 (submissions closed)

The Q Collective is excited to announce Camp Qmunity 2023: A Queer Studies Summer Intensive.  This competitive, funded initiative will offer students a scholarly and praxis-based opportunity to engage with queer as an identity, a theory, a field of study, and a guiding set of principles. 

Throughout the month of July, we will meet synchronously and asynchronously to talk about nomadic home, and the making queer space. 

CampQ will explore, mine and pine our abilities to find/make queer homes within ourselves.  Each week of July, we will dive into a different topic via discussion, workshops, readings, viewings from artists and thinkers from VCU and beyond. In these weeks, topics will include our voices (breath work), clothing, intergenerational love through archives and ecosexuality/the nature around us.  Through our time together, we will interrogate our own relationship to VCU, strengthen and enliven our autonomy within an institution, and expand our ability to make home anywhere

The summer intensive is open to all students with at least one more semester of full-time undergraduate coursework. We are particularly encouraging pell eligible, first-generation, and students who hold multiple marginalized identities to apply.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Kevin Allison (kallison@vcu.edu) or HH Hiaasen (hiaasenh@vcu.edu).