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Feb 28: Killing Me Softly with Your Rights: Iranian Transgender Refugees and the Politics of Death

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 [...]

February 5: Justin Vivian Bond on the Good Life

Justin Vivian Bond on the Good Life

Tuesday, February 5 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Department of Performance Studies 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Room 621

Join us for the first Performance Studies Forum event of the semester: Justin Vivian Bond on the Good Life! Mx Bond will present on the the critical theme [...]

CANCELED: Killing Me Softly with Your Rights: Iranian Transgender Refugees and the Politics of Death

a talk by Sima Shakhsari

This talk scheduled for October 30th has been canceled due to inclement weather.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

Sima Shakhsari, Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College

For more information, please contact the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center at 212-998-8877.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Iranian Studies Initiative and the Center for [...]

Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

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 [...]

Race Does Gender: Braiding Cultural Theory & Clinical Psychoanalysis

RACE DOES GENDER: BRAIDING CULTURAL THEORY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS

a clinical case study presented by Avgi Saketopoulou with commentary by Tavia Nyong’o & Cleonie V. White

February 15, Tuesday 8 to 10 pm

Avgi Saketopoulou, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU

Discussants:

Tavia Nyong’o, Performance Studies, NYU

Cleonie V. White, William Alanson White [...]

Reading Lawrence King, Re-reading Rodney King: lecture by Gayle M. Salamon

READING LAWRENCE KING, RE-READING RODNEY KING

a lecture by Gayle M. Salamon

February 9, Wednesday 6:30 to 8 pm

Gayle M. Salamon, English, Princeton

This talk focuses on Lawrence King, the gender transgressive and gay 15-year-old who was shot to death by a classmate in his Oxnard, California middle school in 2008. Professor [...]

Queer Rican Performance: an evening with Ignacio Rivera & Awilda Rodriguez Lora

QUEER RICAN PERFORMANCE

an evening with Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez Lora

November 15, Monday 6 to 8 pm

NYU Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South Room 802

Presented by the NYU Office of LGBT Student Services’ Storytelling and Performance Series

For more information: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157347347637869

Join Puerto Rican performers Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez [...]

Gawking, Gaping, Staring: Living in Marked Bodies: Eli Clare @ NYU

GAWKING, GAPING, STARING: LIVING IN MARKED BODIES

A performance by Eli Clare

October 4, Monday 7 to 9 pm

READ THE REVIEW! Eli Clare, “Building Community/Resisting Shame”: Another side of living in Marked Bodies

For more information: please contact the NYU Office of LGBT Student Services at 212-998-4424.

Disabled people, trans people, fat [...]

Critical Trans Politics and the Shortcomings of Law Reform

A lecture by Dean Spade

April 7, Wednesday 6 to 8 PM

Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law; Founder, Sylvia Rivera Law Project

As critical trans politics continues to emerge and develop, there is an increasingly vocal demand for trans political formations to center racial and economic justice and respond to crises facing [...]