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
About the Event: Join Vibrator Nation author Lynn Comella as she draws from her recently published book about the history of feminist and queer-run sex-toy stores to discuss the possibilities and pitfalls of queer capitalism, including the challenges of balancing profitability and social change in a rapidly expanding and increasingly competitive sexual marketplace. About the Book: In … Read more
As of Jan 31, this event has been canceled.
Early Evangelical cultures – the radical revivalists of the 18th century who sought to feel, sensibly, their new birth and warming of the heart – offer a surprising chapter in trans histories. While few of these religious radicals claimed explicit experiences that would fit any definition of contemporary “trans” identity, they nonetheless embraced a new … Read more
Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films—in this talk, Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple … Read more
This symposium brings together global scholars, activists, and media producers who address contemporary representations of LGBTQ people on television. How have queer images changed in the past ten years? What difference do new distribution channels — YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime — make to sexual diversity in shows? How does LGBTQ television content migrate around the … Read more
Introduction by David Halperin, W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, Professor of English Language and Literature, Women’s Studies, and Classical Studies Discussants: Clare Croft, Associate Professor of Dance Gayle Rubin, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies Join LGQRI in celebrating Esther Newton’s forthcoming memoir. During her difficult childhood, Esther Newton recalls … Read more
From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punishing Disease looks at how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigates the consequences of inflicting penalties … Read more
David Halperin, Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, English Language and Literature, Women’s Studies, and Classical Studies, University of Michigan Benjamin Kahan, Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, Louisiana State University Helmut Puff, Professor of History, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Women’s Studies, University of Michigan This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring … Read more
Ingrid Diran, Lecturer in English, DAAS, and PitE, University of Michigan Sarah Ensor, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature and Environment, University of Michigan Heather Love, Associate Professor of English, Universit of Pennsylvania Marcia Ochoa, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims … Read more
Marcia Ochoa, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public. 9:00 … Read more
The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has become a rallying point for political issues ranging from abortion to gay liberation to sex education. Yet this notion of privacy originated not only from legal arguments, nor solely from political … Read more