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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 [...]

Trans: Gender in Free Fall – November 18

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

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 [...]

Trans Out Loud Panel @ Judson Memorial

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: 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 [...]

Ah Kua Show: A Singapore Transsexual’s Journey to Womanhood

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 [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: Body of Work, Body of Art

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our Family film screening

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 [...]