"We Are Here!": Cultivating Belonging for Our Queer Students of Color at Illinois

Dementro Powell (University of Illinois Police Department, Community Development and Engagement) and Carlton Cummings (UIUC Counseling Center) described the first "We Are Here" block party on Nevada Street, organized with the campus cultural houses, the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, the UP Center, a regional AIDS project and the local public health department, and assessed the shortage of spaces for queer students of color on campus and in Champaign-Urbana after COVID. An audience Q&A followed. Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe.