Lydia Ahlum Hanson, Director of Programs, Affirmations, Ferndale Miriam Zoila Pérez, writer, speaker, activist; author of The Radical Doula Guide, columnist at Colorlines Rayna N. Brown, Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health, University of Chicago Alexandra Minna Stern, moderator; U-M Obstetrics & Gynecology, History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies Reproductive Justice encompasses the … Read more
This lecture returns to the antisocial thesis in queer theory and the debate that marks it about the politics of race, reparativity, and utopian thought. Organized as an extended deliberation on Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman’s recent book, Sex, or the Unbearable, the lecture reads their collaboration in broader terms than they offer, linking the institutional, analytic, … Read more
This lecture is part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series, with support from the Institute for the Humanities, Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG), Department of Theatre & Drama 100th Anniversary, and the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI). Karen Finley is a New York-based performance artist, musician and poet, whose raw and transgressive work on sexuality … Read more
Uri McMillan zeroes in on Nicki Minaj’s canny manipulation of her voice in her zesty cameo on Kanye West’s single “Monster”; her thrilling scream in that song recalling antebellum circus exhibit Joice Heth’s earlier outburst, indexes their shared wielding of grotesque aesthetics. Building off of art historian Kobena Mercer’s scholarship, McMillan restages this term in … Read more
Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, English & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University Jafari S. Allen, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami Marlon M. Bailey, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Arizona … Read more
Tim Retzloff received his BA with highest honors in history from the University of Michigan in 2006 and earned his PhD in history from Yale in 2014. Prior to graduate school, he worked for seventeen years in various U-M libraries, first on the Flint campus, then in Ann Arbor. His engagement with U-M’s LGBTQ past … Read more
Students from the American Culture 103 First Year Seminar on “Drag in America” will perform with visiting Puerto Rican interdisciplinary performance artist Mickey Negrón. Free and open to the public. Pizza will be served. For more information contact Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (lawrlafo@umich.edu). Artist Bio: Mickey Negrón is a San Juan-based, interdisciplinary actor/creator, performance artist, dancer, … Read more
In this bilingual (English/Spanish) performative talk, Mickey Negrón will discuss his transition from theatre to performance, or how a queer fairy assumes scenic (performative) and politically empowering positions. He will focus on three of his performances, La Reinita (which translates as “little queen” but is also an endemic Puerto Rican bird known as Adelaide’s warbler), Ritual de Pluma … Read more
Join us in welcoming Z Nicolazzo (pronouns: ze/hir) to campus. Ze will join us for Transgender Awareness Week on Monday, November 13th. Ze is an assistant professor in the Adult and Higher Education program, and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, both at Northern Illinois University. Hir … Read more
Amara Marley Brandi Smith Satrise Tillman Lance Hicks, MSW Tyffanie Walton, EIS Moderator: Maureen D. Connolly, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Henry Ford Health System Detroit transgender and gender nonconforming communities are leading a movement to demand safety, opportunity, and access to health and wellness services. This panel will discuss the work being done as part … Read more
As of Jan 31, this event has been canceled.
From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations–whether about gender, sexuality, war, or other issues–share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and of themselves beyond their place in any broader movement. Elizabeth Currans blends feminist, … Read more