Snap!“In effect, we live in a legal, social, and institutional world where the only relations possible are extremely few, extremely simplified, and extremely poor. There is, of course, the relation of marriage, and the relations of family, but how many other relations should exist…!”
-Michel Foucault
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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 [...]
SCIENTIFIC MEETING Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 8:00 PM
TRANS: GENDER IN FREE FALL
Trans genders may be uncommon, but gender variance itself is not rare. Indeed, whatever conditions create gender as an either/or binary, also create its many complications and multipliers. By understanding the psychic action of trans, the exception, we can uncover [...]
Postposttranssexual: Transgender Studies and Feminism April 7-10, 2011 Indiana University-Bloomington
This multi-day event focuses on the past, present, and future of transgender studies by celebrating the 20thanniversary of the influential essay that arguably launched the field: Sandy Stone’s “The Empire Strikes Back: A ‘Posttranssexual’ Manifesto,” first published in 1991. It will serve as an [...]
The Callen-Lorde Trans Community Advisory Board is hosting a conversation about trans identity and we’d love for you to come!
Welcoming folks who are: Transgender, genderqueer, gender-non-conforming, transsexual, bi-gendered, gender fluid, non-op, post-op, pre-op, low-ho, no-ho, mft, ftm, xtx, etc. Also, allies, lovers, partners, friends and providers are all invited!
When: Monday, October 18 [...]
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 [...]
The Ah Kua Show, a stage adapation of Leona Lo’s autobiography, From Leonard to Leona, A Singapore Transsexual’s Journey to Womanhood, was first staged in Singapore in August 2009. This year, the play will open at the New York International Fringe Festival at 4.30 pm on Saturday, 21 Aug [...]
Transgendered Canadian performance artist Nina Arsenault has been characterized as cyborg, intellectual, and artist. After sixty plastic surgeries to feminize and beautify her originally male body, Arsenault has become an icon for a new queer generation. Her stage plays, electronic presence through videos disseminated online, website, blog, social networking presentation sites, her print media [...]
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 [...]
Directed by K. P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro
October 20, Tuesday 7 to 9 PM
CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9204-05 between 34th and 35th Streets
2007, 56 min., India Tamil with English Subtitles
Set in Tamilnadu, India, Our Family weaves together excerpts from Nirvanam, a solo theatrical performance by Pritham [...]
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