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Bastian Foundation Diversity Lectures
About the Lecture
This knowledgeable, charismatic, and well-studied trio of scholars will present, through the lens of queer and transitioned university student contexts, a wide-ranging intersectional conversation about LGBTQIA students that expands the connections and possibilities of identities, policies, and contexts of campus experience and work.
Dr. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Dr. Devika Dibya Choudhuri, and Dr. Jason L. Taylor will explore these topics to expand the discussion across race and ethnicity, (dis)ability, age, gender, and class, inviting us to join them in this necessary struggle to reimagine a world that is safe, livable, and nourishing for all.
About the Panelists
Drs. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Devika Dibya Choudhuri, and Jason L. Taylor are the co-editors of the 2019 text "Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Contexts: Culture, Policies, and Campus Climate."
Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, PhD
Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, PhD, is a professor in Higher Education and director of the Office of Community College Research and Management (OCCRL) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She also serves as the executive dire
Past Events
From left to right: Row 1: Bill Nye, Condoleezza Rice, John Legend, Kevin Briggs, Kevin Hines, Fred Haise, Ken Mattingly, Jim Lovell. Row 2: Bob Woodward, Steve Wozniak, Molly Rawn, Daymond John, Tony Hale, Laverne Cox, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Abby Wambach. Row 3: Scott Kelly, Mark Kelly, Gloria Steinem, Venus Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Angela Davis, Jill Bolte Taylor, John White. Row 4: John White, John White, David Axelrod, Jennette McCurdy, Tan France, Skip Rutherford, Olivia Trimble, Tyler James Williams, Nick Nichols. Row 5: Laura Bush, Brandon Stanton, Aly Raisman, John Green, Tarana Burke, Bob Goff, Ezra Klein.
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April 2, 2025 - Jerry Rice
Rice is widely recognized as the top wide receiver to ever play in the NFL. He played for the San Francisco 49ers for 15 years, winning three Super Bowls and one Super Bowl MVP. After his time with the 49ers, Rice spent three years with the Oakland Raiders and one year with the Seattle Seahawks before retiring in 2005. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010. A 13-time pro-bowler, Rice holds the record for the most NFL records, including most touchdowns scored, most yard
W. Kamau Bell on His New Netflix Special and Why There’s No Such Thing as Timeless Comedy
With a weekly dose of new Netflix specials coming to the platform, each comedian is looking for ways to stand out. Sometimes it’s a fresh venue, other times it’s an unconventional structure. One solution for W. Kamau Bell was to create sure whoever is watching has just as much opportunity to see the people he’s talking to.
“Some comics don’t ever yearn to see the audience in shots. I always want to see the audience and I fond of to see people’s reaction to different jokes,” Bell told IndieWire. “I appreciate people to see who’s in my audience, so you can see, ‘Oh, some of everybody’s there!'”
A conversational style works good for a lot of comedians, but Bell’s perfectly suited for doing a special in the spherical , as he does in “Private School Negro,” his fourth special and first for the streaming platform. A stage surrounded by an audience has been an occasional part of standup comedy stretching endorse at least four decades to “George Carlin: Again!” Bell took producer Michelle Caputo and director Sh
You may recognize W. Kamau Bell from his three-time Emmy Award-winning docuseries United Shades of America, or from his Substack Who’s With Me, or from his commercials for the ACLU. If you're a long-time ACLU supporter, you'll know Bell has worked with us for more than a decade as our Artist Ambassador for Racial Justice. We're ecstatic to have him as our interim host for our At Liberty podcast, where he will host conversations with leaders, legal experts, artists, and storytellers dedicated to the clash for civil rights and civil liberties.
In this episode, Kamau discusses how gender-affirming health care can spare lives with activist and Emmy-nominated actress Nava Mau and Dr. Susan Lacy, a board-certified gynecologist who has provided the concern at her Memphis clinic for decades. They become into how the gender nonconforming community accesses this health care, why it’s crucial to them, the misconceptions around it, and why — on the heels of a Supreme Court case that could threaten access — we all need to get committed. The case, U.S. v. Skrmetti, centers on when, where, and how the government can discriminate against transgender people and the health care they acquire . Mau and Dr.
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United We Stand
CNN's W. Kamau Bell on Mormonism, passing the microphone and existence a diversity surrogate.
By Kylee Ehmann
W. Kamau Bell is a comedian and host of the Emmy Award-winning CNN documentary series United Shades of America, where Bell explores the cultures and challenges facing different communities across America. In the upcoming episode "Out and Haughty in Salt Lake," airing June 2, Bell and his crew explore the often contentious connection between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and SLC's growing LGBTQ community.
Before you came to Utah for this upcoming episode, what was your understanding of Mormonism in general?
I assume I had a pretty thin comprehending of Mormonism. I did see
TheBook of Mormon, but I didn't predict that to be a primer in the religion. But, you know, I grew up during the era where you saw The Church of Latter-Day Saints commercials on TV when you were watching cartoons, but I actually didn't really perceive that was the same thing as the religion of Mormonism until later in life. So, I think I had a attractive thin understanding, but m