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• Class and Educational Attainment
  This is an interactive workshop/discussion about society’s definition of class, how we see each other, stereotypes and privileges. Ignacio Rivera will discuss how class privilege can change with education and how this change affects different racial groups.
• Multi-issue Organizing
  In this talk Rivera discusses the downfall of single -issue organizing/ politics. He lectures on personal work experiences in his efforts to develop a multi-issue framework.
• Welfare Reform/ Charitable Choice: Why Welfare Reform and Economic Justice are LGBT/Queer issues
  In his discussion, Rivera shares his personal story of being a teenage, homeless, welfare mother. The presentation explores our country’s heterosexist/ homophobic welfare system. Rivera will give insight on the following---What does welfare have to do with the LGBT community? How have queer people been affected by recent welfare reform? In this lecture, Rivera will examine how common tactics have been used against both the LGBT community and poor people. He presents evidence about the concrete ways in which LGBT people have been hurt by recent welfare reform; including discussions about Charitable Choice programs, which is a provision of welfare reform.
• How to Develop a Truly Multi-racial, Multi-issue, Inclusive Student Organization
  In this interactive workshop/lecture Rivera discusses the first steps/ do’s and don’ts of group development. He also works with existing groups on how to re-vision their efforts to become more inclusive.
• LGB Family: The In’s and Out’s of Queer Parenting
  >> Examine concept of family?
  >> Homophobia as a family issue? (How homophobia affects our children)
  >> The ways in which queer people parent. (Do we model “straight” families?
• How to have your cake and eat it too!: A discussion about non- monogamy and polyamory
  Description: Does monogamy scare, bother or frustrate you?
  Do you find yourself cheating on partners but wish you could love/ sex more openly?
  Do you love the idea of being with more than one person?
  Do you wish people would accept you for who you are?
  Do you see non-monogamy as a white thing?
  Whether you identify as Polyamorous, non-monogamous or permanently single, this workshop is for you!
  Come join Ignacio Rivera in his discussion about poly life as a woman of color, his group in NY, Shades of Poly, and Play party tid-bits! Let's talk about sex baby!!!
• How to Use your Art as Activism
  This workshop will be an interactive, creative workshop. It will explore various forms of activism as well as various forms of art (specifically writing/ poetry). We will discuss the pros and cons to political action including why certain racial groups may or may not participate in specific political dissent. The workshop will give participants an opportunity to artistically create a political/educational piece to share with the group and there will be discussion.
• Class and the Queer Agenda: Who Sets the Gay Agenda?
  Who has access to power in LBGT organizing? How much class diversity is represented among queer decision-makers? How can the affluent, ivy-educated, middle-aged leadership overcome biases in their LGBT organizing? This discussion will examine the major issues at the forefront of the “gay agenda”. Rivera will discuss how each are steeped in class assumptions and biases. How do these assumptions and biases affect the dialogue within our communities and priorities of our organizations?
• Healing through Words
  This workshop will begin with a discussion of facilitator Ignacio Rivera’s personal journey with using poetry as a healing mechanism. Discussing his (more than) 20-year battle with healing form sexual abuse. He will discuss the process and real outcome of his therapeutic writing. He will discuss his one-person show: Lagrimas de Cocodrilo/ Crocodile Tears, which is his autobiographical story of trauma and healing, expressed through poetic monologues and story telling. The participants will have time to share and participate in writing exercises to express healing through art. (*Note: this workshop can follow the performance of “Lagrimas de Cocodrilo/ Crocodile Tears” or be conducted on its own)
• Other Topics:
  >> Youth Intimacy Dynamics: Discussing sex, sexuality and teen dating violence
  >> Queering Class: Class issues within the LGBT agenda?
  >> Domestic Violence 101
  >> Negotiation: Taking Control of Your Body, Sex and Intimacy!

(*note: this is just a small list of workshops and training that Ignacio Rivera provides.)