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Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies GSFS

Queer Critiques of Anarchism

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Do you ever wish that you could enjoy a speech about Queer Critiques of Anarchism by a fellow student at Middlebury? It’s your lucky day! This Thursday at 8PM in Chellis House, one student will analyze Queer Critiques of Anarchism. You will experience a powerful display of rhetoric and you WILL be entertained.
Open to the Public

QED Reception

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Professors Kevin Moss, William Poulin-Deltour, Sujata Moorti and Laurie Essig read from their recent work in the journal QED.

(Private)

Open to the Public

Politics of Reproduction 5K run

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
10.30am Registration, Run 11am McCullough Lawn, Middlebury College Come run, walk, or even skip your way through 5km and inform yourself about reproductive health and justice issues along the way! go/stepstowardsrj/ This 5k is organized by a group of Middlebury students in GSFS 329: The Politics of Reproduction. As part of a course project that seeks to move our course content beyond the classroom, we are organizing a 5k called “Steps Towards Reproductive Justice.” The event is FREE and open to all—Middlebury students, faculty, staff, and community members.

McCullough Crest Room

Free
Open to the Public

Pleasure as resistance: Can orgasms defeat Trump?

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
O.School is a shame-free platform for female and gender diverse pleasure education. Our mission is to help the billions of people who struggle with body and religious shame, heal from sexual trauma, develop skill sets to communicate what they want and don’t want, discover new sexual desires in a LGBTQ-friendly and judgment-free space, and most of all — own their desires.

Join Andrea Barrica, the founder of O.School and alumni Kristina Hilarydotter to talk about sex technology, orgasms, and women in tech start ups.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

NUDES: A Poetry Reading with Melian Radu ’13

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Melian Radu ’13 is a recent MFA graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work focuses on the intimate overlaps of sex & surveillance and has appeared in Vetch, the first journal of trans-authored poetry. She is originally from Cleveland, OH, and is busy crafting her debut manuscript at her new home in LA.

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public

Movement Lab for faculty/staff with guest artist Michael J. Morris

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Michael J. Morris will facilitate a movement experience for Faculty/Staff as a guest in the weekly Movement Lab. All faculty and staff welcome, no prior experience necessary. http://sites.middlebury.edu/movementmatters/projects/landingshifting-2/… Sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Movement Matters and the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and Chellis House with support from Environmental Studies and the Writing Program.

Mahaney Arts Center 232

Closed to the Public

Lunch with guest artist Michael J. Morris as part of Landing/Shifting: Bodies, Gender, and Ecosexuality Residency

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Join Movement Matters guest artist Michael J. Morris for a lunch hosted by Chellis House. Choreographer, performer, scholar, and educator, Michael J. Morris, will collaborate with Movement Matters through a five-day residency at Middlebury College in April 2016. During their stay, they will offer guest lectures, facilitate a Butoh class, and conduct rehearsals. Morris works across and between dance studies, performance studies, and sexuality studies.

(Private)

Open to the Public