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Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies GSFS

The Deaf do not Beg

Sponsored by:
Language Schools, History, American Studies, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, Linguistics, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
This public presentation explores the anti-peddling campaigns undertaken by a group of elite American deaf people during the late nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century. As historian Octavian Robinson demonstrates, whiteness, class, masculinity, disability and nondisability converged with language politics in this campaign to influence American public policy governing the presence of disabled bodies in public spaces.

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public

Chellis Fest

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Please join the Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies Program and Chellis House in celebrating the nominees for Feminist of the Year. We will also celebrate Professors Julia Alvarez and Peggy Nelson and their long-standing dedication to the program.

(Private)

Open to the Public

Butoh class with guest artist Michael J. Morris

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Butoh is a postmodern approach to movement that originated primarily in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno in Japan in the 1950s. Synthesized in the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, butoh—also known as Ankoku Butoh or “the dance of utter darkness”—is now practiced around the globe and has developed through many strategies for generating movement. My approach to butoh cultivates shifting experiences of embodiment as a mode of becoming.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

brASS - Brown RadicalAss Burlesque

Sponsored by:
Feminist Action at Middlebury, Womxn of Color (WOC), and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque is a multi-disciplinary performance troupe from NYC that uses our unique perspectives as women of color as a lens to the myriad of issues we are faced with in society. Through celebrations of our politicized bodies, we are making politics sexy and empowering audiences to value their own stories and use their creativity towards collective action. We encourage a disruption of passive consumption of art and wish to focus our performance as an instrument to re-imagine our society.

Hepburn Zoo

Anderson Freeman Center Grand Opening/MLK Keynote Speaker: Kimberlé Crenshaw

Sponsored by:
Palana Social House, Distinguished Men of Color, Sociology/Anthropology, American Studies, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, Womxn of Color (WOC), and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, racism and the law. Her groundbreaking work on “Intersectionality” has traveled globally and was influential in the drafting of the equality clause in the South African Constitution.

Middlebury Chapel

Free
Open to the Public

Alison Fraker Prize Award Ceremony

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Fraker Prize Awards Established in 1990 by Drue Cortell Gensler ’57, Middlebury College trustee, this award honors the memory of Alison Gwen Fraker ’89, a much-beloved, vocally feminist student, on International Women’s Day. The prize is awarded to a student whose essay on a topic specifically related to gender, sexuality, and feminist studies is judged the best.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Open to the Public