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“Our bodies are also occupied territories. Perhaps the ultimate goal of performance, especially if you are a woman, gay or a person ‘of color,’ is to decolonize our bodies and make these decolonizing mechanisms apparent to our audience in the hope that they will get inspired to do the same with their own.” -Guillermo Gómez-Peña

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Call for Submissions: 21 Peaceful Genders

21 Peaceful Genders – No Boxes, No Bars, No Apologies

Edited by Doris J. Popovich and Jacqueline H. Boyd

Gender identity is an experience, not an assignment. If you are living this truth and can write about it, we want to hear from you. Together we can dispel myths, give hope to young people, [...]

Bridging Struggles, Transforming Resistance: Gender Violence and Prison Industrial Complex Mini-Conference

In 2001, INCITE! & Critical Resistance called on social justice movements to “develop strategies and analyses that address both state AND interpersonal violence, particularly violence against women.” Join us for a mini-conference in which we commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the statement and explore the new ways of thinking about safety, policing and prisons, [...]

Beyond Belief? Religious Conservatives and Sex Education in the Czech Republic

Presented by the New York University Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Network of East-West Women

Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop

Friday, December 2 4:30 to 6 pm

Katerina Liskova, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Program, Masaryk University

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies New York University 285 Mercer Street, 7th [...]

Revanchist Masculinity and the Framing of Identity: How Pimps View Women, Domination, and Themselves

The Crime, Law and Deviance Workshop of the NYU Sociology Department and the Institute for Law and Society

Friday, December 2

2 to 4 pm 295 Lafayette Street 4th Floor Conference Room

To discuss a draft paper by Max Besbris, a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department. The title of his paper is Revanchist [...]

Visions Coinciding: An Elizabeth Bishop Centennial Conference

Thursday and Friday, December 1 and 2

Co-organized by the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Poetry Society of America, with the support of the NYU Humanities Initiative.

Free and open to the public

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Place

Thursday, 12/1

6-6:45 pm: Seeing Elizabeth Bishop, [...]

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 [...]