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Call for Papers: Trans*Studies Conference 2012

University of La Verne College of Law Ontario, California

March 2 – 4, 2012

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: Sunday, January 15 2012

Submit 300 word panel or paper abstracts to:

elijah.edelman(at)american.edu and dklein(at)laverne.edu

For submission and additional conference information please see http://agreaa.org/conference/

Current speakers include:

Dr. Trystan Cotton Hon. Phyllis Frye Dr. Sel Hwahng Hon. [...]

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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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 [...]

Rutgers University Presents: “Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories”

Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories

Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:00am-5:00pm Essex Room, 231/232 Paul Robeson Campus Center Rutgers-Newark

Rutgers-Newark has partnered with community leaders to present “Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories,” a free, full-day, oral history conference examining gay life in Newark. On November 12, 2011, three generations of gay, lesbian, bisexual, [...]

Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania

MELLON POSTDOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS In the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences 2012-2014

The School of Arts and Sciences invites applicants for four two-year postdoctoral teaching fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Fellows will teach one course per term. Eligibility is limited to applicants who will have received their Ph.D. within two years [...]

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place film screening

KE KULANA HE MAHU: REMEMBERING A SENSE OF PLACE

a film screening and discussion with producer Connie Florez

April 5, Tuesday 6 to 9 pm

a film by Brent Anbe and Kathryn Xian 67 minutes, 2001, USA

For more film information, please visit http://www.zangpictures.net/Projects/KeKulanaHeMahu.html

This documentary examines how colonialism has profoundly shifted [...]

Consortium: 5th Annual TRANSforming Gender Symposium, University of Colorado at Boulder – SAVE THE DATE!

SAVE THE DATE!

5th Annual TRANSforming Gender Symposium University of Colorado at Boulder April 1st – April 3rd, 2011 Free and open to the public!

ON-LINE REGISTRATION OPENS JANUARY 26TH.

Visit www.colorado.edu/glbtrc to register

About the TRANSforming Gender Symposium

The University of Colorado Boulder TRANSforming Gender Symposium is celebrating it is fifth year. Each [...]

Call for Transgender/Intersex/DSD/Cross-Dresser/Gender Queer-Identified Survey Participants

Survey on Successful Aging and Later Life Challenges

Hello, my name is Professor Tarynn M. Witten and I am looking for individuals who are willing to participate in an international research survey aimed at understanding how individuals with non-traditional gender identities (transgender, transsexual, cross-dresser, trans-queer, gender queer, intersex, DSD, and other gender identities) prepare [...]

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 [...]