Snap!“She thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."
-Jane Austen
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Intersecting Contradiction? Queering Religion, Religious Queers Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon (eds)
CALL FOR CHAPTERS Deadline for Abstracts: 06 January, 2012
This collection will consider how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity (Stein, 2001; Yip, 2005; Taylor, 2009). It asks how these intersections [...]
Please register at http://tinyurl.com/3tpqrsh. Please know that individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations including, but not limited to sign, language interpretation, Braille or large print materials, and a campus map of accessible features. Address these requests to the Office of Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities at (212) 678-3689, [...]
Response and Resistance: Multiple Strategies Addressing State Violence against LGBTQ Youth
Panelists:
Andrea Ritchie from The Urban Justice Center Jared Ringer from The Anti-Violence Project Karina Claudio from Make the Road’s Globe Program Chelsea Johnson-Long from The Audre Lorde Project’s Safe Outside the System Program
Moderator:
Professor Joanne Rees, Adjunct Professor of [...]
PRA (Political Research Associates) is thrilled to host a three-city speaking tour for Frank Mugisha, a leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) from March 20-March 31. He’s coming to New York!
Frank will be joined by our own Kapya Kaoma, author of the groundbreaking PRA report, Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches, [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
A roundtable presented by the South Asia Association
Co-sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian International and Public Affairs Association; and the South Asia Institute.
A panel disussion with Myna Mukherjee, Vivek Divan, Dr. Viraj Patel and Prashant Iyengar on the recent ruling on Indian Penal Code 377 that decriminalized homosexuality.
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October 23, 2009 8:30 AM to 6 PM
Teleconference Room 4th floor of Alexander Library 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Until recently we’ve thought of the modern sex/gender system and homosexual identity as socio-intellectual developments of the later nineteenth century. But over the past three decades, evidence and arguments have accumulated [...]
Judith Jack Halberstam
October 19 6 –8 pm
NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
In Sasha Baron Cohen’s most recent camp spoof, Brüno, the very gay and very swish Austrian fashionista compares himself several times to Hitler and jokes that he is “the second most misunderstood Austrian [...]
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