Thursday, April 26 6 to 7:30 pm

Diane Winston, Knight Chair, Media and Religion, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California

Winston examines three newspapers, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the [...]]]>

The Lerner Workshop in Religion and Society at NYU, Inaugural Lecture by Diane Winston

Thursday, April 26
6 to 7:30 pm

Diane Winston, Knight Chair, Media and Religion, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California

Winston examines three newspapers, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Morning News, to consider the impact of AIDS coverage especially on reporting about religion and sexuality. What began in 1981 as a brief about an unusual cancer occurring among homosexual men, soon became more than a medical story as AIDS exposed social and cultural fault lines in the nation. Its initial outbreak in the homosexual community also made it a story about sexuality and religion since, in 1981, the majority of American Christians believed that the Bible forbade homosexuality. By 1983, an emergent medical/moral frame for the disease made religion an integral part of the story in three dominant tropes: AIDS as a punishment for immorality, as a pastoral challenge for denominations, and as a spiritual trial for the afflicted.

Jurow Hall
31 Washington Place, 1st Floor

For further information contact religious.studies(at)nyu.edu.

This event is free and open to the public.  Venue is wheelchair accessible.

Sponsored by Religious Studies, co-sponsored by Center for Religion and Media; Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Studies; and the Dean of the College of Arts and Science.

April 27, Friday 12:30 to 1:45 pm

Michael Anastario, CSGS Visiting Scholar

Military personnel worldwide are becoming increasingly regarded as a population that is at risk for HIV infection and other Sexually Transmitted Infections. Despite current public health programs, there is little understanding of how the [...]]]>

a lunch talk by Michael Anastario

April 27, Friday
12:30 to 1:45 pm

Michael Anastario, CSGS Visiting Scholar

Military personnel worldwide are becoming increasingly regarded as a population that is at risk for HIV infection and other Sexually Transmitted Infections. Despite current public health programs, there is little understanding of how the military occupation is itself implicated in the sexual risk behaviors of soldiers. A grounded theoretical framework can be used to better elucidate how the military occupation is linked with the sexual risk behavior of soldiers employed in it. It also reveals conflicting discourse(s) and the multiple stakes evident in the production of military sexuality. Conducting sexual risk research using a grounded theoretical framework has applied and theoretical value – it directly informs HIV prevention efforts, and it illustrates some of the social mechanisms by which individuals in a population make sense of their sexual behavior.

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
41-51 East 11th Street, 7th Floor, Room 741
between University Place and Broadway
wheelchair access at 85-87 University Place, between 11th & 12th Streets

Bring your lunch — we’ll provide beverages and dessert!

This event is free and open to the public.

Facebook event page here.

For more information, please contact CSGS at 212-992-9540 or csgs(at)nyu.edu.

April 19, Thursday 5:30 to 7:30 pm

Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence

in conversation with

Andrea Ritchie and Reina Gossett

Join us in a celebration of Dean Spade’s recently released book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law, in conversation with [...]]]> a talk by Dean Spade

April 19, Thursday
5:30 to 7:30 pm

Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence

in conversation with

Andrea Ritchie and Reina Gossett

Join us in a celebration of Dean Spade’s recently released book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law, in conversation with Andrea Ritchie, co-author of Queer (In)Justice: e Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, and Reina Gossett, contributing writer to Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment & the Prison Industrial Complex. The overlapping themes of these authors’ books and life-work should yield a deep discussion around LGBT policy, law, and justice issues in the US

NYU Law Furman Hall
245 Sullivan Street, Room 214

RSVP at wagner.nyu.edu/events

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Dean Spade is assistant professor at the Seattle University School of Law, teaching administrative law, poverty law, and law and social movements. In 2002 he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a nonprofit law collective that provides free legal help to intersex, trans, and gender nonconforming low-income people and people of color and works to build racial and economic justice-centered trans resistance. He is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (South End Press 2011).

Andrea Ritchie is a police misconduct attorney and organizer in New York City. She co-coordinates Streetwise and Safe (SAS) and is co-author, along with Joey L. Mogul and Kay Whitlock, of Queer(In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Beacon Press 2011).

Reina Gossett is an activist living in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Currently, Reina works at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project as Membership Director, formerly directed the Welfare Organizing Project at Queers for Economic Justice and was a Soros Justice Fellow on staff at Critical Resistance. She is a contributing writer for Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment & the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press 2011) and believes imagination and creativity are vital for creating strong social movements for self determination & liberation.

Co-sponsored by the NYU LGBTQ Student Center; the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; and Students for Criminal Justice Reform; and by OUTLaw.

April 10, Tuesday 6 to 8 pm

Women – whether wives, mothers, daughters, or female (under)paid home or hospital healthcare workers – are disproportionately responsible for caring for the infirm and elderly in US society. This burden of care involves both [...]]]> a panel discussion with Susan Gerbino, Amber Hollibaugh, Ann Neumann, and Ai-Jen Poo

April 10, Tuesday
6 to 8 pm

Women – whether wives, mothers, daughters, or female (under)paid home or hospital healthcare workers – are disproportionately responsible for caring for the infirm and elderly in US society. This burden of care involves both extraordinary physical and emotional labor; sometimes it is paid (usually poorly); sometimes it is not. So many other issues to do with race, class, and national origin are implicated in this gendered burden. Our four panelists are uniquely positioned to address these issues and to help us collectively to ask, how the organization, provision, and imagination of healthcare across a lifespan would have to shift — for patients and for healthcare workers who do the hard labor of care — if we as a society sought to provide improved conditions under which the process of dying unfolds.

Susan Gerbino, Social Work, New York University

Amber Hollibaugh, Co-Executive Director, Queers for Economic Justice

Ann Neumann, Editor, The Revealer and journalist

Ai-Jen Poo, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

moderator: Robert Campbell, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Performance Studies Studio
721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Room 612

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Susan Gerbino is Clinical Associate Professor at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work. She is currently the Coordinator of Silver’s Westchester Campus and is the Director of the Post-Masters Certificate Program in Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Dr. Gerbino has a private practice specializing in work with people with chronic or life-threatening illnesses and complicated bereavement.

Amber Hollibaugh is the co-executive director of Queers for Economic Justice and has a long and distinguished history of organizing around health care as a social justice issue. Among other things she is the past director of National Initiatives at SAGE — Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders.

Ann Neumann is a journalist, a hospice volunteer, and editor of The Revealer, a publication of NYU’s Center for Religion and Media. She has written about health care and end of life care for The Nation, AlterNet and other publications and is currently writing a book about how Americans die.

Ai-Jen Poo is the director and visionary leader of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, which has recently introduced a campaign, Caring Across Generations, which connects the pressing need for quality care for the elderly to labor issues affecting healthcare workers and the gender and racial politics of just who (that is, whose bodies) does the labor of home health care.

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This event is free and open to the public.  Venue is wheelchair accessible.

For more information, please call CSGS at 212-992-9540 or email csgs(at)nyu.edu.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Department of Performance Studies.

April 3, Tuesday 6 to 8 pm

Coming Out Muslim is a poignant performance piece that captures stories and experiences of being at the intersections of Islam and queerness and its relationship to family, lovers, one’s sense of self and relationship with our faith.

The stories range from tales [...]]]>

a performance piece

April 3, Tuesday
6 to 8 pm

Coming Out Muslim is a poignant performance piece that captures stories and experiences of being at the intersections of Islam and queerness and its relationship to family, lovers, one’s sense of self and relationship with our faith.

The stories range from tales about other people’s theories about where queerness comes from, the gifts of being queer and Muslim, the tension between one’s culture and religion, and love—romantic and spiritual.

Kimmel Center for University Life
60 Washington Square South
Shorin Performance Studio, Room 802

Bring an NYU or an official ID to get into the building.

Facebook event page here.

Co-sponsored by the NYU LGBTQ Student Services Office; Center for Spiritual Life; the Center for Multicultural Education and Program’s Multiple Identity Series; and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

April 4, Wednesday 6 to 7:30 pm

Kaye Mitchell, American Studies and English, University of Manchester

respondent: Heather Love, English, University of Pennsylvania

moderator: Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies and Religious Studies, New York University

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

This event is [...]]]> a lecture by Kaye Mitchell

April 4, Wednesday
6 to 7:30 pm

Kaye Mitchell, American Studies and English, University of Manchester

respondent: Heather Love, English, University of Pennsylvania

moderator: Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies and Religious Studies, New York University

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

This event is free and open to the public.  Venue is wheelchair accessible.

For more information about this event, please contact the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at 212-992-9650 or click here.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

March 30, Friday 5 to 7 pm

March 31, Saturday 8:30 am to 8 pm

For more information, please email cmep(at)nyu.edu.

Registration for the conference must be completed by filling out this FORM.

For full schedule, click here.

Show and Prove 2012 (S&P 2012) provides an opportunity [...]]]>

a two-day conference

March 30, Friday
5 to 7 pm

March 31, Saturday
8:30 am to 8 pm

For more information, please email cmep(at)nyu.edu.

Registration for the conference must be completed by filling out this FORM.

For full schedule, click here.

Show and Prove 2012 (S&P 2012) provides an opportunity for a community of scholars, practitioners, and Hip Hop lovers to come together and address the challenges and possibilities of the field of Hip Hop Studies. We consider what is at stake as the academy’s increasing adoption of Hip Hop into its curriculum leads to a mutual adaptation. The conference takes seriously Hip Hop’s own creative, theoretical, and political imperatives, while bringing critical perspectives to the very cultures we seek to understand. This year’s focus is on intersectionality and methodology.

Several papers, panels, and performances are of particular interest to gender and sexuality studies, including papers on domestic violence and community accountability, the sexual politics of Hip Hop Studies, gender and sexuality in dance, masculinity, intersections of gender and nationality in Tongan Hip Hop, black female youth in Hip Hop, Latinas in the Cuban rap scene, and a women in Hip Hop festival at LaMama Experimental Theater. The conference will also include a one-woman show by Dr. Nicole Hodges-Persley and two films by women directors: Hip Hop Gurlz directed by Tamika Guishard, and Cuban Hip Hop: Desde El Principio (From the Beginning) by Vanessa Diaz.

various locations — see full schedule for details.

Co-Sponsored by the NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs; Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Department of Performance Studies; Hip-Hop Education Center; LGBTQ Student Center; Program in Africana Studies; Program in American Studies; Program in Asian/Pacific/American Studies; and Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies

April 5, Thursday (rescheduled from March 22) 4 to 6 pm

Lisa Lowe, Comparative Literature, UC San Diego

This lecture revisits Marx’s fetishism of commodities and nineteenth-century liberal policies of “free trade” in relation to products (like tea, sugar, cottons, and opium) that expressed the colonial and imperial [...]]]>

a lecture by Lisa Lowe

April 5, Thursday (rescheduled from March 22)
4 to 6 pm

Lisa Lowe, Comparative Literature, UC San Diego

This lecture revisits Marx’s fetishism of commodities and nineteenth-century liberal policies of “free trade” in relation to products (like tea, sugar, cottons, and opium) that expressed the colonial and imperial relations between Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.

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

For more information, please contact the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at 212-992-9650.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Program in Asian/Pacific/American Studies and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Saturdays, 11 am to 3 pm

March 3rd, March 21st, and May 5th

123 William Street (downtown Manhattan) New York, NY 10038

If you can attend, please RSVP to queeringthecurriculum(at)gmail.com as soon as possible.

This past summer, queer people and our allies cheered the [...]]]> Seminars in the City: Bringing Queer to the K-12 Classroom

Saturdays, 11 am to 3 pm

March 3rd, March 21st, and May 5th

123 William Street (downtown Manhattan)
New York, NY 10038

If you can attend, please RSVP to queeringthecurriculum(at)gmail.com as soon as possible.

This past summer, queer people and our allies cheered the California State Legislature’s requirement to include the long ignored contributions of LGBTQ people to history in social studies textbooks and in-class curriculum. In addition to addressing a major curricular oversight, this legislation will also promote a classroom culture in which teachers, students, and administrators can address the transphobia and homophobia that has finally captured the attention national media. While California’s legislation represents an unqualified first, teachers in New York City—including teachers at Harvey Milk High School—and across the country have already experimented with introducing queer pedagogies in primary, intermediate, and secondary school classrooms.

In the spirit of California’s legislation and these courageous educators, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies is proud to present our spring Seminar in the City: Queering the Curriculum. Joining forces with Darnell Moore and Sam Stiegler at the Hetrick-Martin Institute, New York City teachers Jesse Chanin and Kevin Connell, Pop-Up Museum of Queer History Founder Hugh Ryan, Professor Rachel Mattson at SUNY-New Paltz, Professor Robbie Cohen at NYU, Education Associate Christine Hou of the Dia Art Foundation, as well as CLAGS board members Christopher Mitchell and Daniel Hurewitz from our newly formed Pedagogies Committee, Queering the Curriculum will offer four workshops to discuss how teachers might already be queering the present curriculum and to address ideas for including queer resources and pedagogies into the existing curriculum. This spring’s Seminar in the City will also address how to foster a queer affirming classroom culture and steps to institutionalize queer pedagogies in local and state social studies and other curricula across the greater New York City region.

In addition to including historical figures as varied as Bayard Rustin, an architect of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and Sylvia Rivera, a long-time activist for transgender rights and economic justice, these workshops also offer primary, intermediate, and secondary educators the opportunity to investigate the queer past before the invention of the term “homosexuality” from The Epic of Gilgamesh to the bedroom of Abraham Lincoln. Furthermore, queering the curriculum means calling into question the meaning of “civil rights” by investigating the historical experiences of queer people, as well as other taken-for-granted assumptions such as how gendered categories or ideas of “normal” are socially determined. The seminars will also explore how the history of sexuality complicates the study of race, ethnicity, and gender in the existing curriculum.

Queering the Curriculum will take place over four Saturdays spaced out over the spring 2012 semester. The first session, on February 4, will introduce the major concepts and ideas of queer pedagogies in the classroom as well as possible institutional and other hurdles that primary, intermediate, and secondary teachers might face. The next session, on March 3, will explore the existing civil rights curriculum and strategies for including the history of queer activism in the broader histories of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, Women’s Liberation, and other political movements that sought to expand and redefine civil liberties in the United States and abroad. The third session, held on March 31, will introduce teachers to primary and secondary resources in the development of lesson plans, curriculum design, and school-wide programming. The final session, on May 5, will explore the institutional resources available to teachers and administrators, classroom and school advocacy for both queer students and queer curriculum, and solutions for moving forward in local and state school boards. We hope that in addition to new ideas and inspiration, teachers can walk away from these sessions with ready-made lesson plans and resources in hand.

Like all Seminar in the City programming, Queering the Curriculum is a series and we encourage participants to come to as many sessions as possible. Educators from all disciplines, fields, and age groups should feel welcome to attend. Teachers and teaching assistants are especially invited, but we also welcome counselors, principals and other administrators, school volunteers, and parents to join us for these exciting workshops. We also wish to welcome participants from across the region, including Long Island, Upstate New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

March 7, Wednesday 6 to 8 pm

Kandice Chuh, English, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Lisa Duggan, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies and Religious Studies, New York University

Sarita Echavez [...]]]> a panel discussion with Kandice Chuh, Lisa Duggan, Ann Pellegrini, Sarita Echavez See, & Alexandra Vazquez

March 7, Wednesday
6 to 8 pm

Kandice Chuh, English, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Lisa Duggan, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies and Religious Studies, New York University

Sarita Echavez See, Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis

Alexandra Vazquez, African American Studies and English, Princeton

Back by popular demand, this evening forum addresses the dilemmas and possibilities of women’s and gender studies in the contemporary corporate university, with an eye to intellectual and institutional alliances with other disciplines devoted to the study of intersectionality, such as queer studies, ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies. What are the challenges currently facing the fields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies?

You can see a video of the conversation held last fall at Barnard Center for Research on Women here.

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

This event is free and open to the public.  Venue is wheelchair accessible.

For more information, contact CSGS at 212-992-9540 or email csgs(at)nyu.edu.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Department of Social and Cultural Analysis; and by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and the Revolutionizing American Studies Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center