October 29: AFTER THE PARTY: A MANIFESTO OF QUEER OF COLOR LIFE

a Decolonizing Vision Series talk with Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson October 29, Monday, 6:30 to 8 pm CSGS, 285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, Performance Studies, Northwestern University Presenting material from the new book After the Party: A Manifesto of Queer of Color Life, Chambers-Letson presents a eulogy and a manifesto that stakes out …

October 23: QUEER TROUBLE IN CARIBBEAN ART & ACTIVISM

a conversation with Rosamond S. King & Angelique V. Nixon October 23, Tuesday, 6 to 8 pm CSGS, 285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor Rosamond S. King, English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Angelique V. Nixon, Institute for Gender & Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad Two award winning artist-scholars …

October 19: ON YOUR MARX: luciana achugar: BRUJX

a dance by luciana achugar October 19, Friday, 7:30 pm NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place luciana achugar, choreographer Brujx, a world premiere, ritualizes the labor of the dancers, exposing and transcending it to unearth the powerful and primal magic brujx within them. As in all of luciana achugar’s work it proposes DANCE as the necessary …

October 11: SEXUAL POLITICS IN A TRANSNATIONAL FRAME

a roundtable with Sa’ed Atshan, Sara Mourad, Jyoti Puri, & Evren Savci October 11, Thursday, 6 to 8 pm CSGS, 285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor Sa’ed Atshan, Peace & Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College Sara Mourad, Media Studies, American University in Beirut Jyoti Puri, Sociology, Simmons College Evren Savci, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University Taxonomies …

October 3 +: QUEER MIGRATIONS & DIASPORIC INTIMACIES FILM SERIES

October 3, Monday: The Lulu Sessions (S. Casper Wong, USA, 2011) with director S. Casper Wong and New School professor Lana Lin November 7, Wednesday: Experimental films by Aykan Safoğlu & Sylvia Schedelbauer November 27, Tuesday: Lesbian Factory (Susan Chen, Taiwan, 2010) November 28, Wednesday: Rainbow Popcorn (Susan Chen, Taiwan, 2013) Click HERE for full …

October 1: AESTHETICS THROUGH THE PENAL HOLE

a Decolonizing Vision Series lecture by Nicole R. Fleetwood October 1, Monday, 6:30 to 8 pm CSGS, 285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor Nicole R. Fleetwood, American Studies, Rutgers University The talk will focus on art making and aesthetic practices of incarcerated people held in solitary confinement and other types of isolation units. To make art …