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Gender Affirming Clothing Swap

This event provides Oxy students with a supportive, inclusive space to explore gender expression through clothing. Bring gently used clothes and accessories to donate, or just come browse and find pieces that help you feel most like yourself. All sizes, styles, and genders are welcome, and no donation is required to participate.

Kuleana as Cultural Praxis: Indigenous Methodologies and Community Engaged Research for Decolonial Possibilities

The Center for Community Based Learning invites you to the inaugural event of the CCBL’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, “Kuleana as Cultural Praxis: Indigenous Methodologies and Community Engaged Research for Decolonial Possibilities,” a lunchtime guest lecture by Kanaka ‘Ōiwi scholar and Oxy alumna Dr. Kēhaulani Vaughn ‘02.

SASA's Holi

Holi is the festival of color, celebrated widely throughout South Asia to commemorate the triumph of good over evil and the arrival of spring. The South Asian Students Association celebrates this day each year by throwing colorful powder as a group on the quad, spraying water from water guns, and snacking on South Asian delicacies. Grab a "Holi 2026" shirt from SASA in the weeks beforehand and join our celebration! This event is open to the entire Oxy community.

Queering Pleasure: BDSM & Revolutionary Eroticism

Drawing inspiration from Audre Lorde’s seminal essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” participants will unpack how erotic power challenges systems of domination, reclaiming desire as a source of knowledge, resistance, and collective transformation.

Through discussion, guided reflection, and small-group activities, this session will connect queer pleasure politics with practices of consent, boundaries, and healing, using the lens of BDSM as both metaphor and praxis for radical autonomy and relational care.

Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Moore Lab

Tucked within a liberal arts college in Northeast Los Angeles is a hidden research gem for bird scientists. Moore Laboratory of Zoology of Occidental College houses over 65,000 museum specimens, with majority of those being bird study skins from Mexico.

Take a tour and discover native bird species, a painstakingly-collected hummingbird collection that represents 88% of all hummingbird species of the Americas, rare extinct birds, and see specimens up-close that represent Mexico's bird diversity prior to major habitat change.

 

Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Moore Lab

Tucked within a liberal arts college in Northeast Los Angeles is a hidden research gem for bird scientists. Moore Laboratory of Zoology of Occidental College houses over 65,000 museum specimens, with majority of those being bird study skins from Mexico.

Take a tour and discover native bird species, a painstakingly-collected hummingbird collection that represents 88% of all hummingbird species of the Americas, rare extinct birds, and see specimens up-close that represent Mexico's bird diversity prior to major habitat change.