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In Amerika They Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 70s — October 8-10 2010

Robert — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:10:05 +0000

In Amerika They Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 70s

Fall Festival
October 8th 2010 – October 10th 2010

The 1970s was a period of intense excitement, change, activism, and activity for lesbians. As lesbian feminism redefined what qualified as a “political issue” and challenged every assumption about gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and any other social category, lesbians of all kinds created cultural, social, political, economic, and regional organizations and networks.

Lesbians created businesses; lesbians made and marketed music; lesbians played on softball teams; lesbians engaged in struggles for racial, social, and economic justice; lesbians made films; lesbians created womyn’s land. Inspired by the massive social changes that were taking place, lesbians made new worlds for themselves and others.

In recognition of this momentous decade, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) announces a weekend-long event/conference/festival of lesbian history, culture, arts, scholarship, discussion, and performance from Friday, October 8 to Sunday, October 10th.

The event will call upon experience, memory, and scholarship to represent as fully as possible the broad and wide experience of lesbians during the 1970s.

Queers, Gringos, and Other Deviants: New Films from Mexico

Robert — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:58:06 +0000

Filmmaker Greg Berger, longtime resident of Mexico and professor at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, presents cutting edge new films from Mexico in Queers, Gringos, and Other Deviants.

September 14, Tuesday
6 PM

NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
NYC

The legalization of same-sex marriage in Mexico City paved the way for Transgresiones y Diversiones, a selection of shorts produced by students in the first undergraduate Queer Cinema class ever offered in Mexico.

In times of social upheaval, Greg Berger’s ongoing Revolutionary Tourist Project brings improvised comedy to the streets—Spring Breakers Sin Miedo and Jodido México 2010 are two of the latest shorts in this irreverent series.

Balancing the evening is The Right to Choose in Peace, a documentary short about the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City and U.S. pro-life groups’ influence in Mexico.

[All films are in Spanish with English Subtitles].

For more information, please contact the NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.

Affective Tendencies: Bodies, Pleasures, Sexualities conference

Robert — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:47:03 +0000

Affective Tendencies: Bodies, Pleasures, Sexualities

Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
October 7-9, 2010

Deadline for Registration: September 15, 2010

This conference addresses the question of how sexuality, pleasure and bodies constitute, at least in part, affective life. Affective tendencies, orientations, trajectories have regulated how we understand and experience bodies, pleasures, sexualities. How are we to understand affective life? How are our conceptions of the body altered and complicated through understanding affective forces? Joy and sadness, as much as passion and desire, expand or contract our worlds, while they link bodies in particular styles of living in the world. How are relations of power – those that constitute relations of oppression, whether in terms of gender, race, class, nationality, religion or sexuality – to be understood following the ‘affective turn’? How is sexuality to be understood affectively? How is affect to be understood sexually? Are pleasures sexual? Are they always forms of joy?

Keynote Speakers

Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago.
Leo Bersani (Professor Emeritus of French, University of California, Berkeley)
David Eng (Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)
Jasbir Puar (Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University)

Panels:

Race, Nation, Affect and Sexuality
A New Kind of Queerness?
Desiring Geographies
Sex and Violence / The Joys of Sex
Body Technologies

Speakers include:

Vigdis Broche-Due (University of Bergen, Norway)
Ed Cohen (Rutgers University)
Claire Colebrook (Penn State University)
Ulrika Dahl (Södertörn University College, Sweden)
Carlos Decena (Rutgers University)
Richard Dienst (Rutgers University)
Nicole Fleetwood (Rutgers University)
Jean Franco (Columbia University)
Marisa Fuentes (Rutgers University)
Mary Gossy (Rutgers University)
Allan Isaac (Rutgers University)
Ellen Mortensen (University of Bergen, Norway)
Kristin Sampson (University of Bergen, Norway)
Kyla Schuller (Rutgers University)
Jami Weinstein (Linköping University, Sweden)

Conference to be held in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University, 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick NJ 08901.

Registration for the conference is on a first-come first-serve basis.

Please register online before September 15th at: http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu or email Suzy Kiefer at mkiefer@rci.rutgers.edu.

For further details contact Elizabeth Grosz egrosz@rci.rutgers.edu or Suzy Kiefer at mkiefer@rci.rutgers.edu

Women & Power 2010: Our Time to Lead conference

Robert — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:41:17 +0000

Women & Power 2010: Our Time to Lead

September 24–26, 2010

Join hundreds of women for a weekend of celebration and conversation guaranteed to wake up your inner leader and leave you brimming with renewed purpose. Omega’s annual Women & Power conference is one of the most celebrated women’s gatherings in the world, unique in its rich diversity of speakers, performers, and participants.

Featuring Gail Collins, Ani DiFranco, Elizabeth Lesser, Sharon Salzberg, Jennifer Buffett, Mae Jemison, Zainab Salbi and more.

This year, the conference is a call-out to women of all ages and backgrounds to become the leaders we have been waiting for. Whether you are a professional, activist, volunteer, student, artist, mother, spiritual seeker, or social visionary, it is time to dig deep, retrieve your authentic voice and values, and lead with courage and heart—at home, work, and in the world.

Hope to see you there. Thank you for forwarding to your networks.

Omega is located at 150 Lake Drive, Rhinebeck, NY 12572-3252.

Framing the Vulva: Genital Cosmetic Surgery & Genital Diversity conference in Las Vegas

Robert — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:38:40 +0000

THE NEW VIEW CAMPAIGN announces its THIRD Conference, to be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Sunday, September 26, 2010.

FRAMING THE VULVA: GENITAL COSMETIC SURGERY AND GENITAL DIVERSITY

While the vulva surgeons are holding a conference on the Las Vegas strip, the New View, in collaboration with the UNLV Women’s Studies Department and Petals, will hold a counter-symposium to examine the personal and political complexities of the new female genital cosmetic surgeries.

Our one-day conference will include a morning plenary session on the emerging issues in genital scholarship, activism, and art, and an afternoon of experiential and discussion workshops for participants to share strategies and build connections. The event will conclude with an evening reception, photography and craft exhibition, and film showing at the Erotic Heritage Museum.

Areas covered will include:

• Cosmetogynecology and the new genital perfectability industries
• The rhetoric vs. the realities of Western genital surgeries vs. “FGM”
• Collaborative models of activism
• The revival of “cunt art” in craft, film, photography and painting
• Sex education and the challenges of body anxiety
• The latest body modification trends, from Vajazzling to Vatooing
• Disease-mongering, marketing, and body surveillance
• Critical health studies perspectives on cosmetic genital surgery

Confirmed plenary speakers include:

• Virginia Braun, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Leonore Tiefer, NYU Medical School, NYC
• Vanessa Schick, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Lynn Comella, UNLV, Las Vegas
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Leonore Tiefer, PhD
ltiefer@mindspring.com
212-533-2774

Ah Kua Show: A Singapore Transsexual’s Journey to Womanhood

Robert — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:53:48 +0000

The Ah Kua Show, a stage adapation of Leona Lo’s autobiography, From Leonard to Leona, A Singapore Transsexual’s Journey to Womanhood, was first staged in Singapore in August 2009. This year, the play will open at the New York International Fringe Festival at 4.30 pm on Saturday, 21 Aug 2010.

Working Sex: Power, Practice, and Politics: 4th Desiree Alliance Conference

Robert — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:49:56 +0000

July 25-30, 2010
Las Vegas, NV

www.desireealliance.org/conference.htm

Conference to Unify and Educate in the areas of:

Academics & Policy
Activism
Arts, Entertainment & Media
Business Development
Harm Reduction
Outreach!

REGISTRATION CLOSES ON JULY 15th!!

Just when you thought the Desiree Alliance Conference couldn’t get better… we secured a LIMITED number of hotel rooms at a daily rate of $25.

BUT…THIS RATE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL FRIDAY, JUNE 25!
REALLY? YES…YOU READ THAT CORRECTLY.
SO…NOW WHAT?

1. REGISTER IMMEDIATELY;
2. RECEIVE YOUR CONFIRMATION EMAIL CONTAINING HOTEL DETAILS;
3. RESERVE YOUR $25 PER DAY HOTEL ROOM AT A LUXURY RESORT

Who is Desiree Alliance?
The Desiree Alliance is a diverse, volunteer-based, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities and individuals across the US working in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy and health services for sex workers.

How do I fit in?
Desiree Alliance is a forum for people who have experience of sex work (this could mean working as an escort, sex worker, prostitute, street worker, massage worker, exotic dancer, hustler, living with the support of a sugar-daddy or a sugar-mama, having sex for housing / food / clothing, drugs, or having sex to get the money needed to survive) and allies of sex workers. Desiree Alliance is committed to support for representation and inclusiveness of people from varied backgrounds including different cultural, racial, economic, age, size/figure, sexual orientation and gender identities.

How do I sign up?
You are required to send an introductory email to desiree2010@desireealliance.org with “Introduction for Registration” as the subject. Please include the following:

* Name, email address and contact phone number (including best time to call);
*You may use any name or pronoun that you identify with when applying for the conference and while attending.How you found out about the conference;
* Why you would like to come;
* If you are a student (you will be required to provide 2009-2010 student ID)

General Inquiries: info@desireealliance.org or Toll-free: 866-525-7967

“No bad women. Just bad laws.”

Out in the Himalayas: Lesbians of Yunnan: Same Sex Relations in Minority China

Robert — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:55:24 +0000

Presented by the RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART
in association with
OUT magazine and IN THE LIFE

Wednesday night events in Gay Pride Month focusing on gay, lesbian and transgender issues in the Himalayan region.

June 9, 2010
7:00 PM

$15/$13.50 for members

$7 Student Discount w/ Valid Student Identification

Includes pre-event tour Transgender Transformation – transgender represented in Himalayan art at 6 p.m.

Himalayan Happy Hour: 5 – 7 p.m.

Rutgers anthropologist Louisa Schein illustrates the topic of ‘Same Sex Relations in Minority China’ with a film-in-progress Ma and Yi by visual anthropologist Liu Yi.

The lush province of Yunnan boasts a startling biodiversity as well as having the highest concentration of ethnic and cultural groups in all of China. Ma and Yi are lovers. Yi is of the Yi–an ethnic group once predominantly animist. Her girlfriend Ma is Hui and a Muslim. Ma and Yi’s college friends are now all getting married and the two young women long for a wedding ceremony of their own. The film documents their reaction to and reception at the weddings of their Muslim friends. Liu Yi’s film looks at the relationship of these two young women in a country whose official stance on same-sex relationships seems to be “no approval, no disapproval, and no promotion.”

Louisa Schein is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, NJ. She is the author of Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space, co-edited with Tim Oakes, 2006; Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics, 2000; and the forthcoming Media, Erotics and Transnational Asia, co-edited with Purnima Mankekar.

The visual anthropologist and filmmaker Liu Yi has lived, studied and worked extensively inChina,Switzerland,Scotland,Germany and Liberia during the last decade. She is now based at the East Asian Institute of Visual Anthropology at Yunnan University with particular focus on minority populations in Yunnan, notably a Chinese Thai village and young Chinese Muslims.

Presented with the support of the Arcus Foundation

RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART
150 WEST 17TH STREET
NEW YORK CITY
212.620.5000 x344
www.rmanyc.org/out

Strategic Imperatives for Ending Violence against Women: Linkages to Education, Economic Security, and Health

Robert — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:17:10 +0000

ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE

When: June 11 and 12, 2010

Where: Hunter College, West Wing, East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City

What: A conference to build collaborations to understand the intersections between violence against women and key social investments: the economy, health and education. Convening leaders from business, academia, philanthropy, advocacy, nonprofit and policy communities, the conference provides participants with a better understanding of UNIFEM programs and funded projects, breaking research within the NCRW member center network, and advocacy and policy initiatives. Speakers will highlight a comprehensive approach to end gender-based violence through specific actions, building communities and leadership.

Who should attend: Researchers, Activists, Academics, Business Leaders, Donors and Philanthropists, Policy Makers, Non-Profit Staff and Volunteers, and Students.

Who are the partners: The National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) is a network of 120 leading research, policy and advocacy centers committed to improving the lives of women and girls. Harnessing the power of more than 2,000 experts in the United States and among its international affiliates, the NCRW provides the latest research and information to stimulate fully informed debates, effective policies and inclusive practices. With a Corporate Circle of major companies and a Presidents Circle of leaders in higher education, the Council works in partnership with business, academic, non-profit and philanthropic organizations, to generate transformative change, both nationally and globally.

The U.S. National Committee for UNIFEM (UNIFEM-USNC) is one of 18 national committees that support the mission of UNIFEM. Chartered in 1983, the US National Committee expands support and raises funds within the United States for UNIFEM. Through the help of the Board of Directors, Advisory Council, local chapters and members, UNIFEM-USNC proudly supports UNIFEM’s projects in over 100 countries around the globe. Local chapters promote advocacy and education through planned events focused on gaining a broader understanding of issues facing women on a global scale, providing advocacy in the US for issues facing women, and raising funds to support UNIFEM and USNC. UNIFEM (the United Nations Development Fund for Women) provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programs and strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women’s human rights at the center of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities in four strategic areas: (1) reducing feminized poverty, (2) ending violence against women, (3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and (4) achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war.

Who is the host: The Women and Gender Study Program, Hunter College, CUNY (City University of New York) hosts this year’s conference, providing facilities and support for this important event.

About the Hunter College Location: Part of the main campus, the West Wing can be found on the southwest corner of the intersection of East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. The campus is situated within walking distance of Central Park, as well as many of New York’s most prestigious cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Asia Society Museum, and the Frick Collection. Additionally, it has its own No. 6 subway line stop at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue.

Politically Queer: Social In[queer]y and the University

Robert — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:10:51 +0000

2010 Department of Politics Graduate Student Conference

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=323299477808&ref=nf

The New School for Social Research

Saturday May 1, 2010
10 am – 6 pm

Wollman Hall – 65 West 11th St. 5th floor

free and open to all

Featured speakers:

Lisa Duggan
Jasbir Puar
Jonathan Ned Katz
Jose E. Munoz

Contact info:

Web: www.politicallyqueer.tumblr.com

Email: queerconfnssr@gmail.com