Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

As part of the backlash against trans rights, conservative lawmakers in eight states have passed more than a dozen bills attempting to criminalize or restrict drag performances. Despite this marked increase in hateful rhetoric in the public sphere, drag performers across the country continue to make art, celebrate community, and find joy in the spaces they occupy. This joint talk and drag performance will consider what it looks like to counter hate with art, perform in the face of fear, and infuse unrestrained joy into activist projects.

Daleelah Saleh ’23 will read from the edited volume “Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World”, to which she contributed.

Treasure Brooks will discuss how her work creating the feminist media company “The Meteor” was a pursuit of creative resistance. Drawing upon the scholarship of activists such as adrienne maree brown (Pleasure Activism) and Tricia Hearsay (Rest as Resistance), Brooks will also discuss her theory of communal play as a viable strategy for feminist coalition building. Her talk will examine the adverse effects of premature adulthood in communities of color and offer historical examples of playful resistance within Black diasporic and indigenous traditions.

Featuring 40 members from the community in an evening of poetry, performance, book-signing, pop-up events — and free cannoli!  This book of poems by Trish Dougherty will come to life on stage through by director, Michole Biancosino (Assistant Professor of Theatre) at Town Hall Theater.

In honor of International Women’s Day, Karin Gottshall (English Department) will read new poetry. Karin Gottshall is the author of “The River Won’t Hold You” (Ohio State University Press, 2014), “Almanac for the Sleepless” (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), and “Crocus” (Fordham University Press, 2007).

FOR FACULTY: This three-day symposium will kick off a new series called Writing in the Changing Academy, inviting our campus community to talk about writing both within and beyond traditional academic norms.

Going with the flow every month? How’s that working out for you? Come and share your story! Red velvet cookies and crimson cool-aid provided.

This presentation centers around comparative analysis of scholarly discussions on self-care in feminist and queer studies and perspectives shared by meditation practitioners of color. While some scholars of care tend to frame meditation and mindfulness as a neoliberal technique of governance with the only goal of personal happiness and self-improvement, people of color who use contemplative practices in their recently published teachings, instead present a complicated picture of the relationship of self- to collective care.

November 5th is the final deadline for submissions for the It Happens Here fall event. The event taking place on November 10th at 8:30 is a forum for survivors to anonymously share their experiences with sexual violence. go/share ihhmidd.org