Snap!“The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.”
-Angela Davis
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Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride: Gay Marriage, Affective Labor, and the Filipina “Mail Order Bride”
a lunch talk with Gina Velasco
Friday, February 22 12:30 to 1:45 pm
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 741
Gina Velasco, Women’s & Gender Studies, Keene State College, and [...]
a talk by J. Jack Halberstam
December 11, Tuesday 6:30 to 8 pm
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
J. Jack Halberstam, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
In Gaga Feminism, Jack Halberstam locates Lady Gaga as less an icon than an avatar for new forms of [...]
a launch party for Scholar & Feminist Online
September 19, Wednesday 6 to 8 pm
Location: NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th floor
A New Queer Agenda, a special double issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online (issue 10.1-10.2, Fall 2011/Spring 2012 guest edited by Joseph N. DeFilippis, [...]
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 [...]
a roundtable on the new book With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories
Read a review of this talk!
November 4, Friday 4 to 6 pm
13-19 University Place (map) Lecture room 102 (please note room change) between 8th Street and Waverly Place
Panelists include:
contributing authors Orna Guralnik and Eyal Rozmarin
Ben Kafka, Media [...]
Sexual Politics, Sexual Violence, and the Communist Left: “Complexities and Contradictions” New York University, 19 September 2011
Bettina Aptheker’s engaging talk “Sexual Politics, Sexual Violence, and the Communist Left,” organized by NYU’s Department of Teaching and Learning and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), showcased both her incredible [...]
March 30 to April 1, 2012 in Washington, DC.
The phenomenal growth of online communication has given rise to an amazing amount of sharing, learning and experimenting with different expressions of sexuality, relationships and feminism. MOMENTUM provides a safe place to listen, discuss and learn about sexualities and gender without the fear of reprisal [...]
New Majorities II: A Cross-Country Duet on the State of Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Academy New York University, 29 April 2011
New Majorities II had a double task: First, the day-long forum continued an initiative launched at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW), and co-conceived by CSW director Kathleen [...]
The Feminist Wire!
Please check out, read, share, follow and contribute to The Feminist Wire, a new online journal co-founded by Hortense Spillers and Tamura Lomax.
http://www.thefeministwire.com/
The work and mission of The Feminist Wire is to provide a socio-political and cultural critique of anti-feminist opinions, practices, orientations, etc., that block or limit the [...]
Call for Papers and Panels
Activism and the Academy: A Barnard Center for Research on Women Anniversary Conference Celebrating 40 Years of Social Justice Work
September 23-24, 2011 Barnard College
Confirmed speakers: Sonia Alvarez, Lisa Duggan, Jacqueline Ebanks, Amber Hollibaugh, Ana Oliveira, Ann Pellegrini, and Ai-jen Poo.
Forty years ago, the Barnard Center for [...]
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