CANCELED -- Private Parts and Public Concerns: Erecting the Modern Japanese Penis
Submitted by heidiab on Thu, 01/04/2018 - 4:04pmAs of Jan 31, this event has been canceled.
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Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space
Submitted by heidiab on Wed, 12/13/2017 - 11:34amBook talk by Elizabeth Currans (EMU) on how today's women have redefined political and cultural protest
Trans Health Activism in Detroit: Moving Forward Together
Submitted by heidiab on Mon, 11/13/2017 - 9:55amThis panel will discuss the work being done as part of that movement at the Ruth Ellis Center, a youth social services agency that serves LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness and residential instability.
Trans Awareness Week Keynote Speech
Submitted by heidiab on Fri, 10/06/2017 - 10:03amTrans* Awareness Week keynote lecture by Dr. Z Nicolazzo, author of the book Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion.
Maize, Blue, and Lavender: Revisiting U-M's LGBTQ Past
Submitted by heidiab on Fri, 10/06/2017 - 9:44amTim Retzloff discusses LGBTQ history at U-M.
Meocupo/Eye Occupy: A Student Drag Cabaret with Mickey Negrón
Submitted by heidiab on Fri, 10/06/2017 - 9:28amPerformance showcase by students from the American Culture 103 First Year Seminar on “Drag in America” and visiting artist Mickey Negrón
Estrategias para descolonizar un extraño cuerpo isleño/Strategies for Decolonizing a Strange Island Body
Submitted by heidiab on Fri, 10/06/2017 - 9:25amIn 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.
"Punks" @ 20: Revisiting Cathy Cohen’s Queer Coalitional Vision
Submitted by heidiab on Wed, 08/02/2017 - 10:08amLGQRI symposium in tribute to and reconsideration of Cathy Cohen’s 1997 article “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens."
A Planet Yet Undiscovered: Nicki Minaj's Grotesque Aesthetics
Submitted by heidiab on Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:25amA book talk by Uri McMillan (UCLA) pondering the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment.
Negativity Rules (On the Antisocial Thesis in Queer Theory)
Submitted by heidiab on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 12:06pmLGQRI lecture by Robyn Wiegman, Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at Duke University.