QM Latinx Society

Want to become part of the committee? It is an amazing opportunity to gain new skills, make friends and network A LOT, while of course having fun and enriching your CV! These are the available roles for the upcoming elections and the skills desired for each one. Feel like you’re the one? Start drafting your manifesto and submit to the QMSU website soon! The voting period starts on the 22nd of March. Good luck!

Posted • ✨ 25/10/2020: CONTRA VIENTO Y COVID; CHILE DECIDIÓ ACABAR CON EL LEGADO DEL DICTADOR ✨
78% of Chileans voted in support of rewriting Chile's constitution, a constitution that dates back to Pinochet's military dictatorship. Never has news come at a sweeter time, feeling so so proud 🎉 After decades of struggle for Chileans, and more recent mass protests against widespread inequalities here is finally a win. A win that couldn't have happened without womxn, afro-latinx, indigenous, q***r and other marginal voices at the frontline for so long. Piñera and all you other crusty fascists across the globe can suck it!! although la lucha continua as always, here's to celebrating the beginning of change. Feeling so grateful to be able to watch on from my bedroom despite the distance. A big thanks to for always bringing us the news and FACTS during this time! Swipe for some images and resources I have enjoyed including the completo of my dreams, gunna go cry 🌭
[Illustration reads: AGAINST ALL DIFFICULTIES AND COVID; CHILE DECIDED TO END THE DICTATOR'S LEGACY]

Join The Latinx Society, DSc Leonardo Mèrcher and MSc Uriã Fancelli for an analysis on Wednesday the 28th of October at 7pm until 8:15pm 🌎🔍💻 Where does the EU-Mercosur agreement stand? Incongruities between the ‘Green Deal’, deforestation in Brazil and regional cooperation 📍🧑‍💻

We are excited to announce our first webinar of the semester! No better way to start then to join Juany and Catherine in a conversation about their role in promoting education, women's empowerment, and social development in Peru with Otra Cosa Network.

They will talk about how they kept involved during the pandemic, skills you learn through volunteering that you can add to your CV, and about the wonderful work they have been doing in Peru for over a decade, all while exploring the country and its culture.

Join us on Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 7:30pm!!

• Juany Murphy

Juany is from Trujillo, Peru. She studied in the UK, holds a BA in Sociology, an MA in Education and Human Rights and an MSc in International Development from the University of Birmingham. She started OCN’s literacy programme with women in Yanasara in the highlands of Peru and the HELP Literacy: LitClubs programme for girls – and now boys – in Huanchaco. She has also participated in several development projects in the area, such as enabling shanty town residents to register for national identity cards.
Juany works as the Director of International Relations and has the lead role in building relationships with universities and other institutions, across the UK and Europe. She also shares responsibility for the growth and strategic direction of the organisation.

• Catherine Cibulskis

Catherine studies Spanish and English Literature at the University of Oxford, where she had poetry and articles published by ISIS magazine, Seven Voices blog and Cherwell. She has also contributed poetry to Oxford's LGBTQ society magazine and was a runner up for The Oxford Scientist's poetry competition. She currently works as the Assistant Liaison to International Manager at Otra Cosa Network. She is also a Spanish and English tutor, having co-ran a creative writing club to encourage younger students (ages 11-15) to pursue independent pieces. She started at Otra Cosa Network as a teaching assistant, teaching English to classes of 20 (ages 6-13) and helping to run a women’s literacy club in Huanchaco, Peru.

Come chat with us Wednesday via Microsoft Teams! You will be able to learn more about our society in this student initiative event that was organised to fill in the gap that freshers fair left. 🕺🏻💃🏽🤳✌️

students: check your mail boxes for more info! 💙

Hi everyone! This will be our first event of the academic year, so here is your to do list:
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1. Head to the link in our bio
2. Request to join us on Microsoft Teams
3. Add the event to your calendar (IMPORTANT! Don’t forget us 😉)
4. Wait patiently for the 24th of September, the Thursday of your first week of lectures.
5. Put on your best national outfit/costume 🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
5. Connect to the LatinX Microsoft Teams page at 7:29pm (because we all love punctuality, don’t we?)
6. Start meeting & greeting! 🎉😎🤳🏼💻

It’s World Arepa Day!
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Throughout its history, the arepa has stayed mainly unchanged from the arepas that pre-Columbian native peoples would have consumed, making the arepa one of the few pre-contact traditions that have remained popular in the years since colonisation.
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It is eaten daily and can be served with cuajada (fresh cheese), various meats, avocado, or diablito (deviled ham spread).