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Oct 17, 4:30 PM: Aphra Behn of Guerrilla Girls On Tour: PUSH/PUSHBACK - 9 Steps to make a ...

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Aphra Behn of Guerrilla Girls On Tour: PUSH/PUSHBACK - 9 Steps to make a difference with art and activism Aphra Behn shares her experiences as a feminist activist for almost 20 years as a member of Guerrilla Girls (1997-2001) and Guerrilla Girl On Tour (2001 – present). Revealing the inside workings of the grassroots groups she discusses the successes (protests; fax blitzes, speak outs and street theatre); the struggles (hate mail; death threats; backlash) and the downright defeats (sabotage; infighting). PUSH/PUSHBACK - 9 Steps to make a difference with art and activism challenges audiences to use the tactics of the Guerrilla Girls in their own lives to address social issues and to identify as “activists,” “artists,” and “feminists.” The talk is framed with readings from Aphra’s memoir, “UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour” (Skyhorse Publications). If you have ever wondered what it is like to be a feminist masked avenger check out PUSH/PUSHBACK - 9 Steps to make a difference with art and activism. Guerrilla Girls On Tour! are feminist/activists/artists dedicated to creating performance and visual work which addresses the current state of women in the arts and beyond. We prove feminists are funny by touring with world with work aimed to educate, entertain and ultimately transform our audiences into identifying as activist/artists themselves. In addition to making collaborative art, we lead workshops and master classes in using the arts to address local concerns. Aphra Behn is a leading feminist voice in the nation on how to combine activism and art. For the past 20 years she has led the touring activist troupe, Guerrilla Girls on Tour, around the world with talks focused on how to create plays, performances and visual works which address violence against women, pay equity, body image and reproductive rights. She has received the Venus Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award, Yoko Ono Courage Award for the Arts and the Skowhegan Medal. In 2016 her memoir, “UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour,” was published by Skyhorse. The book chronicles Kaz’s experience of surviving domestic violence at the hands of the Hollywood star, William Hurt, and how that led to her career as a feminist activist. Kaz speaks regularly at conferences, universities and festivals and addresses advocates on trauma transformation, social change via art, grassroots activism and the feminist art movement. She has written for and been featured by media outlets including Ms. Magazine, Bitch Media, Bust, Mother Jones, NPR, Alternet, Role Reboot, Trivia: Voices of Feminism, The Dramatist, Ful Art magazine, Girl Drive Blog, Lilith, The Sun, Gender Across Borders and Women in Hollywood.

Date: October 17, 2018
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/890945547766009/

Oct 10, 4:30 PM: Camp 5733: 2018-19 CSGS/CSRPC Open House

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Please join the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture for an open house to kick off the 2018-2019 school year. Stop in for a snack or drink, learn more about the work of both Centers, and get a sneak peek at this year's programming. All are welcome!

Date: October 10, 2018
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/280500635893195/

Nov 12, 5:30 PM: Enlighten: Transmasculine Support Group

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This weekly support group is for transmasculine and/or masculine of center UChicago students who are looking to explore their gender identities and build community. Please email lgbtq@uchicago.edu for registration information, in your email indicate if you require any accommodations to participate in this group. Group details including facilitator information and location will be sent upon successful registration. There is no group on Monday, October 15. This group is sponsored by the Office of LGBTQ Student Life in partnership with Student Counseling Services, the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, and Health Promotion & Wellness.

Date: November 12, 2018
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Nov 8, 5:00 PM: Karen Offen, "Debating the Woman Question in France: The First Six ...

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Karen Offen (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a historian and independent scholar affiliated as a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University in California. She publishes on the history of Modern Europe, especially France and its global influence; Western thought and politics with reference to family, gender, and the relative status of women; historiography; women's history; the national, regional and global histories of feminism; and comparative history. Karen's latest books are Globalizing Feminisms, 1789–1945 (Routledge, 2010), Les Feminisms en Europe, 1700–1950 (PUR, 2012), The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Date: November 8, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Nov 1, 5:00 PM: Chris E. Vargas: Introducing Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA)

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In this talk Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA) Executive Director, Chris E. Vargas will introduce the past and future plans and programs for this "forever under construction" institution. Vargas will also talk specifically about the museum's on-going exhibition and book project "Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects," which is a creative and critical exploration of transgender archives and collections. Vargas will be joined in conversation by writer and filmmaker Chase Joynt.

Date: November 1, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/1656585951153436/

Oct 11, 12:15 PM: National Coming Out Day Study Break // Before Stonewall: the Making of a Gay ...

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Join the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and LGBTQ Student Life for a National Coming Out Day study break: Screening of Before Stonewall: the Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community (Director, Greta Schiller, co-director, Robert Rosenberg; 1984) Thursday, October 11 12:15 – 2 pm Arrive at 12:15 for lunch, provided. The film will start at 12:30. In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. Before Stonewall pries open the closet door--setting free the dramatic story of the sometimes horrifying public and private existences experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the 1920s. Revealing and often humorous, this widely acclaimed film relives the emotionally-charged sparking of today's gay rights movement, from the events that led to the fevered 1969 riots to many other milestones in the brave fight for acceptance. Experience the fascinating and unforgettable, decade-by-decade history of homosexuality in America through eye-opening historical footage and amazing interviews with those who lived through an often brutal closeted history.

Date: October 11, 2018
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/242948693241054/

Nov 8, 4:30 AM: Melissa Potter on Equal Pay for Equal Work: Women’s Labor as Resistance ...

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Professor Melissa Potter (Associate Professor, Columbia College Chicago, visiting professor 2018, University of Chicago) will give a talk on social practice and arts activism, entitled Equal Pay for Equal Work: Women’s Labor as Resistance through the Lens of Silvia Federici’s Wages for Housework Theory. This event is free and open to the public. Students, faculty, and staff who are interested in gender studies and feminist practice are encouraged to attend. Nov 8, 2018 | 4:30pm | Place TBD

Date: November 8, 2018
Time: 4:30 AM - 6:30 AM

Oct 23, 5:00 PM: Feminist/Queer Praxis: Race, Gender, and Mass Incarceration

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The Feminist/Queer Praxis series, aimed at undergraduate audiences, brings artists, activists, scholars, and professionals to CSGS to talk about their work in the world as people committed to queer and feminist values and action. Our first Feminist/Queer Praxis event of the year is on Race, Gender and Mass Incarceration. We are excited to welcome our speakers: Sharlyn Grace, Co-Executive Director, and Lavette Mayes, Advocate, Chicago Community Bond Fund The Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF) pays bond for people charged with crimes in Cook County, Illinois. Through a revolving fund, CCBF supports individuals whose communities cannot afford to pay the bonds themselves and who have been impacted by structural violence. Inability to pay bond results in higher rates of conviction, longer sentences, loss of housing and jobs, separation of families, and lost custody of children. By paying bond, CCBF restores the presumption of innocence before trial and enables recipients to remain free while fighting their cases. Carolyn Wald, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Illinois Carolyn will discuss Monroe v Rauner, a lawsuit pending against the Illinois Dept. of Corrections for its lack of appropriate medical care for transgender inmates.

Date: October 23, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/271140086855801/

Oct 16, 4:30 PM: Gender and Sexuality Studies Info Session

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Are you interested in learning more about majoring or minoring in GNSE? Please join us for an info session this coming Tuesday from 4:30-5:30 in the CSGS (5733 S. University). There will be chai and samosas that go very well with all of the great information you'll get from Professors Kristen Schilt (the Director of the Center) and Jennifer Wild (the Director of Studies for the major). We'll also have some of the people teaching upcoming courses come talk about their Winter/Spring courses. See you there! Artwork: "Chai Samosa" (2016) by Kumudini Bhaskaran

Date: October 16, 2018
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/547712302354654/

Nov 6, 4:30 PM: CSGS Arts Collective information session

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Are you an undergraduate who likes to make art as an expression of questions about gender and/or sexuality? Or you just need to find a space to work on an art project? The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality will be hosting an Arts Collective to support undergraduate students across disciplines in developing and creating art projects of any kind. Projects may be (but are not limited to): visual arts, written arts, poetry, theatrical pieces, creative fiction and nonfiction, manga and graphic novels, zines, music, film, games, and new media. The Collective will be supported by film maker and postdoctoral scholar Chase Joynt and doctoral candidate Katie Hendricks. Come to the information session to hear our plans and to let us know what would be helpful to you as an artist!

Date: November 6, 2018
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/507273929753863/

Oct 30, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Ann Heffernan, “'They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business’: ...

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Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop October 30th: “'They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business’: Disability as Industrial Asset” Ann Heffernan, CSGS Dissertation Fellow/PhD Candidate in Political Science Discussant: Prof. C. Riley Snorton, English and Gender & Sexuality Studies ** PLEASE NOTE THE UNUSUAL DATE** Papers are made available in advance via our email list. If you are interested in joining the email list, go to http://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/sexuality-gender-wkshp. Additional workshop information, including past schedules, can be found at http://voices.uchicago.edu/genderandsexuality/. If you have any questions or accommodation requests, please don't hesitate to contact the workshop coordinator at gssworkshop@gmail.com.

Date: October 30, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

See:http://voices.uchicago.edu/genderandsexuality/

Oct 23, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Ebenezer Concepción, "The Willful Sexual Invert in Alfonso ...

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Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop October 23rd: "The Willful Sexual Invert in Alfonso Hernández-Catá’s El ángel de Sodoma" Ebenezer Concepción, CSGS Dissertation Fellow/PhD Candidate in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies Discussant: Prof. Alison James, Romance Languages and Literatures Papers are made available in advance via our email list. If you are interested in joining the email list, go to http://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/sexuality-gender-wkshp. Additional workshop information, including past schedules, can be found at http://voices.uchicago.edu/genderandsexuality/. If you have any questions or accommodation requests, please don't hesitate to contact the workshop coordinator at gssworkshop@gmail.com.

Date: October 23, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

See:http://voices.uchicago.edu/genderandsexuality/

Nov 8, 5:00 PM: Karen Offen, "Debating the Woman Question in France: The First Six ...

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Karen Offen (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a historian and independent scholar affiliated as a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University in California. She publishes on the history of Modern Europe, especially France and its global influence; Western thought and politics with reference to family, gender, and the relative status of women; historiography; women's history; the national, regional and global histories of feminism; and comparative history. Karen's latest books are Globalizing Feminisms, 1789–1945 (Routledge, 2010), Les Feminisms en Europe, 1700–1950 (PUR, 2012), The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Date: November 8, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/585034925249207/

Oct 30, 6:30 PM: Trans in the Era of Trump

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Join CSGS students, faculty and staff for a community resource sharing meeting in response to recent Trump Administration news which threatens the livelihood of trans and gender non-conforming communities. Together, we will share support and brainstorm histories, responses, and calls to future action. A light dinner and drinks will be provided. Earlier the same day the CSGS will host a lunchtime screening of Screaming Queens, historian Susan Stryker’s documentary about transgender women and drag queens who fought police harassment at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin in 1966, three years before the famous riot at Stonewall Inn bar in NYC. Lunch will be provided, beginning at 12:15 pm, with the film screened from 12:30-1:30 pm.

Date: October 30, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/322759315190687/

Oct 30, 12:15 PM: Lunchtime screening: Screaming Queens

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Join us for a lunchtime screening of Screaming Queens, historian Susan Stryker’s documentary about transgender women and drag queens who fought police harassment at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin in 1966, three years before the famous riot at Stonewall Inn bar in NYC. Lunch will be provided, beginning at 12:15 pm, with the film screened from 12:30-1:30 pm. At 6:30pm, please join CSGS students, faculty and staff for a community resource sharing meeting--Trans in the Era of Trump--in response to recent Trump Administration news which threatens the livelihood of trans and gender non-conforming communities. Together, we will share support and brainstorm histories, responses, and calls to future action. A light dinner and drinks will be provided.

Date: October 30, 2018
Time: 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/281710129136645/

Nov 14, 4:30 PM: Mysteries with a Mission: Michael Nava talks about his Henry Rios mystery novels

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Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of seven crime novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. The Rios novels won six Lambda Literary awards and Nava was called by the New York Times, “one of our best.” In 2001, he was awarded the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in LGBT literature. A native Californian and the grandson of Mexican immigrants, he divides his time between San Francisco and Palm Springs. In 2018, he announced the formation of his own press, Persigo Press, through which he intends to relaunch the Rios series with a new novel, Carved in Bone, tentatively scheduled for spring, 2019. He will also republish the existing Rios novels. Additionally, as part of the relaunch, he is producing a podcast that adapts Lay Your Sleeping Head into a 17-episode series inspired by classic radio theater. The podcast will launch in January, 2019. Nava has also had a distinguished legal career, having earned his law degree from Stanford University. Free and open to the public. Part of the LGBTQ Speaker Series.

Date: November 14, 2018
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/1043605482489144/

Nov 13, 12:30 PM: Podcast Info Session

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We are looking to revive our semi-dormant podcast, The Radius, and we need your help! We hope that the podcast will be a venue for students to create, produce, and share unique and compelling content on sexuality and gender issues. If you have an interest in gender and sexuality and/or an itch to get into the world of podcasting and radio, come to this informational meeting to see how you can become involved. We'll go over episode ideas, production details, and our tentative timelines, as well as answering any questions you may have. We'll bring the lunch; you bring your questions and ideas. If you're interested but are unable to attend the meeting, email tbrazas@uchicago.edu for more info. Hope to see you there!

Date: November 13, 2018
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/495988287583216/

Nov 12, 5:00 PM: Feminist/Queer Praxis: Meet new University Staff!

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The Feminist/Queer Praxis series, aimed at undergraduate audiences, brings artists, activists, scholars, and professionals to CSGS to talk about their work in the world as people committed to queer and feminist values and action. At our second Feminist/Queer Praxis event of the year, come meet some recent University staff hires whose work includes gender and sexuality on campus and beyond. You’ll hear about their career paths and how they incorporate gender and sexuality in to their current work. Speakers will be: Raja Bhattar. Assistant Vice Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Identity + Inclusion Alice Kim, Director of Human Rights Practice, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Kendra Malone, Director of LGBTQ Student Life Cheryl Richardson, Associate Director for Inclusive Teaching Initiatives, Center for Teaching and Learning

Date: November 12, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/184362125829053/

Nov 26, 4:30 PM: Julietta Singh, "No Archive Will Restore You"

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Julietta Singh Associate Professor of English & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Richmond "No Archive Will Restore You" At once memoir, theory, poetic prose, and fragment, No Archive Will Restore You is a feverish meditation on the body. Departing from Antonio Gramsci’s summons to compile an inventory of the historical traces left in each of us, Singh engages with both the impossibility and urgent necessity of crafting an archive of the body. Through reveries on the enduring legacies of pain, desire, sexuality, race, and identity, she asks us to sense and feel what we have been trained to disavow, to re-member the body as more than itself. Julietta Singh is Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond, and a writer and academic who works at the intersections of postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2018), and No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018). Her academic writing has been published in leading cultural theory journals including South Atlantic Quarterly, Cultural Critique, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Symploke, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Her creative work has appeared in venues such as American Poetry Review, Animal Shelter, Prairie Fire, Social Text, and Women & Performance. Part of the LGBTQ Speaker Series.

Date: November 26, 2018
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/349006659202235/

Dec 4, 5:30 PM: Summer 2019 Undergraduate Internship Info Session

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Come learn about the CSGS Summer 2019 Undergraduate Internship application The CSGS offers funding for up to 4 unpaid internships at gender/sexuality related organizations each summer. Come learn about the opportunity, including the application process, from students who received the internship last year. They’ll talk about how they found their internships and what their work was like.

Date: December 4, 2018
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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