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Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies GSFS

Scheherazade's Sisters: A Conversation with Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat

Sponsored by:
History, Academic Affairs, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
This event brings together two important and internationally recognized contemporary female voices to talk about a variety of issues ranging from the art and power of story telling, human ‘w/righting’ cross culturally and trans-nationally, feminism, their friendship and dialogue, and their collaboration in organizations such as Border of Lights.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Ecosexuality in Performance with guest artist Michael J. Morris

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
In this talk, Michael J. Morris, PhD candidate in the Department of Dance at the Ohio State University, will introduce ecosexuality as a framework for considering the entanglements of human sexuality with the nonhuman world, and in turn, for analyzing the ways in which performances figure possible perspectives of such entanglements.

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public

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