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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Queer Africa
the third in the series Globally Queer? — a talk with Desiree Lewis, Keguro Macharia, & Tavia Nyong’o
Tuesday, April 9 6 to 8 pm
Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
Desiree Lewis, Women and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa “Scripting Sexualities [...]
Killing Me Softly with Your Rights: Iranian Transgender Refugees and the Politics of Death
a talk by Sima Shakhsari
Thursday, February 28 12:30 to 2 pm
Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
Sima Shakhsari, Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Co-sponsored by the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near [...]
Religious Exemptions, Sexual Freedom, and the Biopolitics of U.S. Healthcare
an afternoon symposium
October 5, Friday 1 to 6 pm
Confirmed Participants: Khiara M. Bridges, Boston University Elizabeth A. Castelli, Barnard College Katherine Franke, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard Center for Research on Women, Barnard College [...]
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 [...]
From Irish Exile to Welsh Celebrity: The Queer Self-Fashioning of the Ladies of Llangollen: “In Your Own Persons, Where You Are” New York University, 5 October 2011
NYU’s Ireland House was the perfect setting for Fiona Brideoake’s talk, sponsored by the Irish Studies Program, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and [...]
Eli Claire, “Building Community/Resisting Shame”: Another side of living in Marked Bodies New York University, 4 October 2010
Activist, performer, and writer Eli Clare, a resident of Vermont, was slated to give his multimedia presentation titled, “Gawking, Gaping, Staring: Living in Marked Bodies,” about the “internal experiences of living in marked bodies and [...]
Hosted by the Stonewall Democrats NYC in honor of Women’s History Month
Wednesday, March 24 8pm to 9pm
LGBTQ Community Center 208 West 13th Street between 7th Avenue and Greenwich Avenue NYC
Guest Speaker:
City Councilmember Margaret Chin
Panelists:
City Councilmember Rosie Mendez
Cathy Marino-Thomas, President of Marriage Equality
Meghan Huppuch, Girls for Gender [...]
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