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Justice in Transition: Serving the Transgender Community in Law and Practice

Justice in Transition: Serving the Transgender Community in Law and Practice Presented by NYU OUTLaw

November 4, Friday 9 am to 5:10 pm

This all-day event will focus on the legal and social challenges that face trans people, with a special focus on the intersection of trans identity with race, class, disability, and age.

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Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism

Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism Lysistrata International Law Event

Thursday, November 3 3:30 to 5:00 pm Woolworth Building, Room 217 15 Barclay Street NYC

RSVP to lysistrata.nyu(at)gmail.com

About the event:

Jayne Huckerby will highlight findings of a groundbreaking report published by NYU’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, “A Decade Lost: Locating Gender [...]

Excerpts from Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility

Excerpts from Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility

Presented by the Storytelling & Performance Series + NYU Pride Month October 27, Thursday 7 pm Rosenthal Pavilion Kimmel Center 10th Floor 60 Washington Square South

This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. See you there!

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CFP: Queering Religion, Religious Queers

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 [...]

Kessler Conversations: Esther Newton, Gayle Rubin and Carole Vance

Presented by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

Moderated by Rebecca Jordan-Young

Tuesday October 25 7 to 9 pm

Proshanksy Auditorium CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue NYC

American cultural anthropologists Esther Newton, Gayle Rubin and Carole Vance join together in a public conversation. The Kessler Conversations aim to bring together past [...]

Queer/Palestinian: Critical Strategies in Palestinian Queer and Women’s Filmmaking

Presented by the Center for Media, Culture and History and the Center for Religion and Media

Friday, October 21 4 to 6 pm

The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies Screening Room 50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street NYC

How does a queer/Palestinian alliance tie a struggle for gender [...]

Seminars in the City: Queer Bloomsbury/Buggersbury

Presented by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Facilitated by Dr. Andrea Freud Loewenstein

Seminars will run Thursday Evenings on the following dates:

October 20th and 27th and November 3rd and 10th 7 to 9 pm

CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue NYC

“How queer,” Virginia Woolf wrote, “to have so many selves.” [...]

REVIEW: From Irish Exile to Welsh Celebrity: The Queer Self-Fashioning of the Ladies of Llangollen: “In Your Own Persons, Where You Are”

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 [...]

Captive Genders at Bluestockings Bookstore in NYC

Come celebrate the release of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press) Wednesday, October 26 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center 172 Allen Street New York, NY

A night of reading, discussion, and conspiring!

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled [...]

PRIDE MONTH PRESENTS: Captive Genders at NYU

A panel on trans/queer folks, mass incarceration and the politics of abolition. Tuesday, October 25 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm NYU Kimmel Center, Rosenthal 10th Floor 60 Washington Square South

Free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press)

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming [...]