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Brooklyn College To Offer Minor In Lgbtq Studies, Jesse Bayker
Brooklyn College To Offer Minor In Lgbtq Studies, Jesse Bayker
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
Brooklyn College became the first CUNY school to offer undergraduates a minor in LGBTQ Studies when college faculty approved the proposal in December.
Reclamation: The Value Of Black Gay Writing Lgbtq Studies Panel, Lisa C. Moore
Reclamation: The Value Of Black Gay Writing Lgbtq Studies Panel, Lisa C. Moore
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
How gratifying to see a packed house on October 14, 2008 for a discussion of Reclamation: The Value of Black Gay Writing! Co-sponsored by CLAGS and Freedom Train Productions (www.freedomtrainproductions.org), the panel of scholars—Terry Rowden, Professor of African-American Literature, College of Staten Island (CUNY), Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies/American Studies, Yale University, La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Ph.D. student, African-American/American Studies, Yale University—and me, publisher Lisa C. Moore (Redbone Press) came to discuss the impact of black gay writers on the community and academia... and to bear witness, reclaim and critique the work within the first …
Ghost Dances: A Trans-Movement Manifesto, Susan Stryker
Ghost Dances: A Trans-Movement Manifesto, Susan Stryker
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
Several things coincided to shape the space from which this lecture emerged. The first was an email from a list I'm on, soliciting creative, artistic responses to climate change. The second was a call for proposals for a symposium on "subversive imaginaries." The third, an ongoing conversation with a dancer friend about critical embodiment practices. Fourth, the tangle of thoughts sorting themselves out into various bits of prose and syllabi then being demanded by editors and administrators. Fifth, the backdrop of an historical presidential election soliciting us all to dwell upon "the fierce urgency of now." And finally, the call …
Giard Fellowship Evokes Enthusiastic Response, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz
Giard Fellowship Evokes Enthusiastic Response, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
In his 1997 book, Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers, Robert Giard captures nearly 200 photographs of his contemporaries. Giard's compilation of these portraits of lesbian and gay writers, carefully accompanied with textual excerpts, led this coffee-table monograph to stand as a supreme example of what Giard himself describes as "the autobiography of one gay reader."
Director's Letter, Sarah Chinn
Director's Letter, Sarah Chinn
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
Dear Friends: We all have guilty pleasures, and one of mine is the end-of-year top ten list. I love the condensing of the past twelve months in digestible morsels of best, worst, most important, most outrageous; it's as though I can live the year about to expire all over again from the comfort of my own home and in record time. This past year, though, resists easy summing-up.