Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan
Submitted by heidiab on Tue, 10/22/2019 - 4:44pmGender: New Works, New Questions panel discussion
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Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination
Submitted by heidiab on Mon, 09/16/2019 - 10:59amGender: New Works, New Questions panel discussion with Professors Alexandra Stern, Gayle Rubin, and Lisa Nakamura.
The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
Submitted by heidiab on Mon, 09/16/2019 - 10:45amProf. Clayton Howard chronicles the rise of sexual privacy as a fulcrum of American cultural politics, focusing on the history of gay rights in the San Francisco Bay Area from World War II to the dawn of the culture wars in the 1970s and exploring how government policies shaped the cultural politics of the moderate suburbs.
Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
Submitted by heidiab on Thu, 08/08/2019 - 9:40amJoin us in honor of Latinx Heritage Month for a panel discussion on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years.
For Dear Life: Women's Decriminalization and Human Rights in Focus
Submitted by heidiab on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 9:20amThis conversation will focus a critical lens on an American criminal-legal regime that imparts racist, gendered, and classist modes of punishment to women lawbreakers.
Speaking on Sudanese Activism in D.C.
Submitted by heidiab on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 3:06pmProfessor Amal Hassan Fadlalla featured at Woodrow Wilson Center
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Submitted by heidiab on Wed, 12/12/2018 - 11:43amPhysician Jonathan Metzl reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences--even for the white voters they promise to help.
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
Submitted by heidiab on Wed, 12/12/2018 - 11:06amLGQRI lecture by Trevor Hoppe, exploring how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigating the consequences of inflicting penalties on people living with disease.
Gender: New Works, New Questions- The War on Sex
Submitted by glesteph on Mon, 11/19/2018 - 4:23pmThis state-of-the-art collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas, government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors document the history and operation of sex offender registries and the criminalization of HIV, as well as highly punitive measures against sex work that do more to harm women than to combat human trafficking.
Gender: New Works, New Questions- Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Global Citizenship by Amal Hassan Fadlalla
Submitted by glesteph on Mon, 11/19/2018 - 3:55pmThe Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory. Based on interviews with Sudanese social actors, activists, and their allies in the United States, the Sudan, and online, Branding Humanity (Stanford Press, 2018) by Amal Hassan Fadlalla traces the global story of violence and the remaking of Sudan identities.