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Living Out Loud: Queer People of Color Creating HIV Awareness

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/223943357674891/

Thursday, December 1 6 to 8 pm Kimmel 802 60 Washington Square South

Celebrate AIDS Awareness Day with performances and spoken word by HIV positive (poz) queer people color who are well-known actors and community organizers.

Host & MC: Monroe France

Featuring: Aundaray Guess – PerformerMichelle Lopez – Treatment Educator [...]

The DSK Scandal: Transatlantic Reflections on Sex, Law, and Politics

Thursday & Friday, December 1 & 2

Cardozo School of Law (55 Fifth Avenue) Institute of French Studies, New York University, at La Maison Française of NYU (16 Washington Mews)

With the co-sponsorship of IRIS (CNRS/EHESS) & Faculty of Law, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, and the support of UMI Transitions (CNRS/NYU)

Co-organized by Éric [...]

Save the Date and Request for Proposals: A National Conference of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders

July 17 to 22, 2012 Washington, DC

Presence Power Progress

A National Conference of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders to network, organize, agitate, educate, and build capacity of the nation’s LGBT AAPI community.

For more information: http://www.nqapia.org/

Crystal Gateway Marriott 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, [...]

Engage 2012

Presented by the NYU Women of Color Policy Network: http://wagner.nyu.edu/wocpn/

December 8 to 9, 2011

Rosenthal Pavilion, Kimmel Center New York University

More information: http://wagner.nyu.edu/wocpn/news/ Register for the opening event: http://wagner.nyu.edu/events/wocpn-12-08-2011

Engage 2012 is a national summit of policy experts, practitioners, thought leaders, and key stakeholders working on issues related to immigration, racial justice [...]

Babies as Fetish Objects for a Traumatized Cultural Body

Presented by the Seminar in Gender and Sexuality with Katie Gentile

Thursday, December 1 12 to 2PM

Katie Gentile is the director of the Women’s Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City and a training psychoanalyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. Dr. Gentile’s focus is on eating problems [...]

Freedom Writers: An LGBTQ Youth Open Mic

Presented by Streetwise and Safe

Tuesday November 22 6 to 8 pm

Audre Lorde Project 147 W. 24th St., 3rd Floor NYC

Youth: FREE – adults: $5 – $50

Featuring poetry and spoken word by SAS members speaking out against injustice, criminalization and oppression. With guest performance by Arianne Benford (www.ariannebenford.com) and more! Followed [...]

Vulvanomics

Presented by the New View Campaign: http://newviewcampaign.org/default.asp

Since 2008, we in the New View Campaign have challenged the growth of a dangerous new industry, female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS), wherein amputations of parts of the vulva (“labiaplasty” “clitoral hood reduction”) are marketed as “enhancement” and “beautification” procedures. On their websites, many FGCS surgeons post [...]

Soft Power, Diplomacy, and Gender in the Middle East

Presented by Lysistrata

November 14, Monday 3:30 to 5:30pm

Woolworth Building Room 409

RSVP: lysistrata.nyu(at)gmail.com

About the Event:

What is the soft power of the Middle East; media, soccer, facebook, or diplomacy? Have the Obama slogans failed the ‘Arab Street’? What is the role of women in shaping the new Middle East? And what [...]

The Ethnography of Black/Queer/Diaspora: Tracing Circuits of Desire

Presented by the CUNY Graduate Center Department of Anthropology

November 11, Friday 4:15 to 6:15 pm

Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Department of Anthropology and African American Studies, Yale University

CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue Room C415A @ 34th Street NYC

For more info: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology/events.html

“When They Come Home That’s When the Real Challenge Begins”: Women’s Experiences of Men’s Release from Prison

Presented by the Crime, Law and Deviance Workshop

Megan Comfort, Senior Research Sociologist, RTI International

November 11, Friday 2 to 4 pm 295 Lafayette St, 4th Floor Conference Room

Megan Comfort is a Senior Research Sociologist in the Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Research Division at RTI International and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of [...]