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THE CENTER FOR LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES
T H E G R A D U AT E C E N T E R , T H E C I T Y U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K
Fall 2005/Vol. XV, No. 2
QUEER STUDIES IN ASIA
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News from CLAGS 2
P A I S L E Y
C U R R A H
Kessler Lecture
Staff Changes
ow does research about diverse sexualities and genders circulate through
Asia? How do linguistic barriers affect the flow of local and regionally
produced knowledges? Who calls the shots, defines the agenda, decides who
gets published? How can we create more venues for South-South dialogues?
These were some of the questions
raised at the Asia Regional Meeting of the
International Resource Network (IRN) in
Bangkok, Thailand, July 10-11. The IRN is
a project based at CLAGS and supported
by the Ford Foundation that aims to link
up people doing research in areas related
to diverse sexualities and genders.
Through hosting regional meetings and
the creation of a dynamic multi-language
website (irnweb.org), the IRN promotes
international communication and
Josephine Chuen-Juei Ho and Eufracio Abaya.
exchange through scholarship and fosters
comparative and collaborative projects
among researchers, among other things.
CLAGS brought together over 100 researchers and activists from 14 Asian
political jurisdictions, as well as the U.S, Brazil, and South Africa, to brainstorm
ideas for the development of the IRN’s Asian Regional Network. The meeting
followed the groundbreaking “First International Conference of Asian Queer
Studies: Sexualities, Genders, and Rights in Asia.”
During an intense two days of plenary sessions, country reports, and small
group breakout sessions, participants discussed the vigorous growth of
sexuality studies in the region, noted the serious challenges the field still faces,
and identified possible solutions.
Eufracio Abaya, from the University of the Philippines and an IRN Advisory
Board member, described his “celebratory” view of the development of LGBT
studies in the Philippines. “Early on, it was dominated by Western scholars.
But not now. Recently, we’ve seen a lot of positive changes, and that’s
indicated by the number of young Filipino scholars at the [Sexualities, Genders,
and Rights in Asia] conference.”
Perhaps the most common theme throughout the meeting was the
importance of overcoming the linguistic barriers to inter- and intra-regional
dialogues on queer studies.
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Alisa Solomon at Columbia
News from Beyond 3
CSGS
New Board Members 4
Fellowship Winners 5
CLAGSreports
Seminars in the City 6
Spring Colloquia 8
Queering Psychoanalysis 12
Trans Conference 13
Duberman Celebration 15
Fall Calendar 10
FYI
CLAGS Publications 4
Fellowships Guidelines 16
2005 Supporters 18
Interdisciplinary Concentration in
LG/Q Studies 19
Become a Member of CLAGS 23
E-Resources
GenderSexStudies 6
Queer Histories listserv 7
Transoc 9
IRN 14
QCUNY 16
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PAISLEY CURRAH
Executive Director
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Brooklyn College, CUNY
MARTIN DUBERMAN
Founder
Distinguished Professor of History,
Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
CLAGS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DEBORAH AMORY
Dean, Central New York Center,
Empire State College, SUNY
LISA BOWLEG
Assistant Professor of Psychology,
University of Rhode Island
MICHAEL BRONSKI
Journalist, Cultural Critic
LUIS E. CÁRCAMO-HUECHANTE
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages
and Literatures, Harvard University
KIMBERLY CHRISTENSEN
Associate Professor of Economics and
Women’s Studies, Purchase College, SUNY
RAFAEL DE LA DEHESA
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology,
and Social Work, College of Staten Island of the
City University of New York
CAROLYN DINSHAW
Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Professor of English, New York University
JACK DRESCHER, M.D.
Training and Supervising Analyst, Willam
Alanson White Institute
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric
Association
THOMAS GLAVE
Assistant Professor of English, SUNY Binghamton
BEVERLY GREENE
Professor of Psychology, St. John’s University
Certified Clinical Psychologist
YUKIKO HANAWA
Assistant Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies,
New York University
SONIA KATYAL
Associate Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
RICHARD KIM
Lecturer, Skidmore College
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Carole Vance to
Deliver the 2005
Kessler Lecture
nthropologist Carole S. Vance,
Ph.D., M.P.H will be the honoree
for the 14th Annual David R. Kessler
Lecture on Friday December 2, 2005
at 7pm. Vance is an anthropologist
whose work deals with sexuality,
policy, visual representation, rights,
and science. For the past eight years,
she has directed the Program for the
Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health,
and Human Rights, a Rockefeller
Foundation post-doctoral residency
program designed to integrate new
scholarship about sexuality into
ongoing advocacy and activism on
rights. She is the author of many
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articles about sexuality, as well as the
editor of Pleasure and Danger:
Exploring Female Sexuality. She is
currently editing a book about sex
trafficking, and has co-edited (with
Alice Miller) a special issue of Health
and Human Rights focusing on
Sexuality, Human Rights, and Health
(2004). Dr. Vance teaches at
Columbia University, in public health,
anthropology, and law.
She will be introduced with
testimonials from Douglas Crimp,
Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art
History and Acting Co-Director of the
Visual and Cultural Studies Program at
the University of Rochester, and Ann
Snitow, Founder and Chair of the
Network of East-West Women
(NEWW) and Professor at The New
School.
Established in 1992, the annual
David R. Kessler Lecture honors a
scholar who has made a lifetime
contribution to the field of LGBTQ
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KARIN KOHLMEIER
Ph.D. Candidate in English,
The City University of New York
DON KULICK
Anthropology, New York University
YOLANDA MARTÍNEZ-SAN MIGUEL
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures,University of Pennsylvania
LISA JEAN MOORE
Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and
Social Work, College of Staten Island of the
City University of New York
ANANYA MUKHERJEA
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s
Studies, College of Staten Island of the City University
of New York
COLIN ROBINSON
Executive Director, New York State Black Gay Network
JOE ROLLINS
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Queens College of the City University of New York
DAVID SERLIN
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communications,
University of California, San Diego
BEN. SIFUENTES-JÁUREGUI
Associate Professor of American Studies and
Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
DEAN SPADE
Founder, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
POLLY THISTLETHWAITE
Associate Professor and Associate Librarian,
Public Services at The Graduate Center of the
City University of New York
SAADIA TOOR
Department of Sociology, Anthropology,
and Social Work,
College of Staten Island of the City University of
New York
CARMEN VAZQUEZ
Deputy Executive Director, Empire State Pride Agenda
BRENDA VOLLMANN
Ph.D. Candidate in Criminal Justice,
John Jay College and The City University of New York
CLAGS STAFF
PRESTON BAUTISTA, CHUN-PING YEN, SARA
GANTER, MEGAN JENKINS, CLAUDIA PISANO,
LAVELLE PORTER
CLAGS Staff Changes
LAGS would like to recognize the departure of two outstanding staff
members. Jordan Schildcrout, a member of the CLAGS Staff for more
than six years, recently completed his Ph.D. in Theatre from the CUNY
Graduate Center. Carlos Decena, who served for two years as coordinator of
the International Resource Network at CLAGS, recently completed his Ph.D. in
American Studies at New York University and is now teaching at Rutgers
University. We wish Jordan and Carlos all the best in their future endeavors
and we thank them for their many contributions to CLAGS over the years.
We now welcome to the staff Megan Jenkins, a student in the Doctoral
Program in Musicology at the Graduate Center, who will be CLAGS’s Events
and Outreach
Coordinator. u
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CLAGS Staff at a going
away reception for Jordan
Schildcrout. Pictured l to
r; Lavelle Porter, Jordan
Schildcrout, Chun-Ping
Yen, Sara Ganter.
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Columbia hires former
CLAGS Director
lisa Solomon is moving to the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia
University to head the arts and culture concentration in their new MA program.
She was a Professor of English and Theater at the Graduate Center, and of
English/Journalism at Baruch College, and has written cultural and political journalism
for the Nation, Village Voice, New York Times and other publications. Alisa was the
Executive Director of CLAGS from 1999 to 2003.
Alisa also served as coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Studies concentration in
Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies at the Graduate Center. The new coordinator is CLAGS
board member Lisa Jean Moore, an associate professor in the Department of
Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at CUNY’s College of Staten Island and the
Graduate Center. u
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N E W S
F R O M
B E Y O N D
Changing of the
Guard at CSGS
LAGS board member Carolyn Dinshaw has
stepped down as Director of the Center for
the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) at
New York University. She will be replaced by
Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology at NYU,
who is also a member of the CLAGS Board. We
salute Carolyn for all her hard work and
dedication as the organization’s director.
Founded in the fall of 1999, the Center for the
Study of Gender and Sexuality describes its
mission as conducting “a broad interdisciplinary
investigation of gender and sexuality as keys to
understanding human experience.” CLAGS has
collaborated with CSGS on many events in the
past including the very successful series “Lesson
Plans: Pedagogy Workshop on Teaching Gender
and Sexuality.” With another CLAGS board
member at the helm, we look forward to
continuing the working relationship between
these two vital institutions. u
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Sexuality in the U.S.
NEW BOARD MEMBERS
Rafael de la Dehesa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology,
Anthropology, and Social Work at the College of Staten Island of the City University
of New York. His current research focuses on LGBT social movement activism in
Latin America and on how political parties in the region have taken up the debates
on sexuality.
Thomas Glave is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories (City Lights), a
collection of essays, Words To Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (Minnesota), and
editor of an anthology of contemporary Caribbean lesbian and gay writing,
forthcoming from Duke University Press. A founding member of the Jamaica Forum
for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG), he is an assistant professor of English at
SUNY Binghamton.
Karin Kohlmeier is a student in the PhD program in English at CUNY and teaches
English at City College. She has been appointed by QUNY, the Graduate Center’s
queer student organization, to serve as a student representative on the CLAGS board.
Before coming to CUNY, Karin received her Masters in Humanities and Social
Thought from NYU. Along with GLBTQ studies, her research interests include autobiography, immigration narratives, and Victorian literature.
Ananya Mukherjea is an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology at
the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. Her main area of
research is the social politics of infectious disease pandemics, especially the global
history of HIV/AIDS. She’s also interested in urban public health, more generally, and
in feminist pedagogy. Ananya worked as an HIV/AIDS educator and advocate and as
an anti-prison proliferation activist for several years. She is currently involved with the
many folks working to keep CUNY free and vibrant and at the forefront of public
education.
Saadia Toor is in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at
the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York.
Brenda Vollman is a doctoral student in the Criminal Justice program housed at
John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has been elected by QUNY,
the Graduate Center’s queer student organization, to serve as a student representative on the CLAGS Board. u
Departing Board Members
T
he CLAGS Board bids a grateful farewell to several members who have come to the
end of their terms. We thank them for the enthusiastic contributions to CLAGS
and we look forward to their continued support as friends and colleagues: Mark
Blasius, Lisa Brundage, Yvette Christiansë, Marcia Gallo, Amber
Hollibaugh, Gregory Pflugfelder, Jasbir Puar and Eric Tribunella. u
FELLOWSHIP WINNERS 2005
MARTIN DUBERMAN FELLOWSHIP
E. Patrick Johnson is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies
and Director of Graduate Studies at Northwestern University. His research project, Sweet Tea: An
Oral History of Black Gay Men of the South, examines the oral histories of black gay men who were
born, raised, and continue to reside in the South. Gathering oral histories from black gay men
between the ages of 19 and 93 from states that were a part of the confederacy, Johnson tries to
fill a void in the historical accounts of racialized sexual minorities in the South. Ultimately,
Johnson hopes that this project will complicate gay histories that suggest that gay subcultures
flourished mostly in northern, urban, industrial cities, by theorizing the South as a “vital”
subculture and reconsidering this region as “backward” and “repressive” when clearly gay
community building and desire emerge simultaneously from within and against southern culture.
(Honorable Mention) Jim Hubbard received a Duberman Award honorable mention for
the “ACT UP Oral History Project,” an archive of interviews with ACT UP organizers. Interview
transcripts and video clips of the project can be seen at www.actuporalhistory.org.
JOAN HELLER-DIANE BERNARD FELLOWSHIP
Amy Steinbugler is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Temple University. Her dissertation,
entitled ‘Race Has Always Been More Than Just Race’: Gender, Sexuality and the Negotiation of
Race in Interracial Relationships, considers how queer and heterosexual black-white interracial
couples experience racial difference in their relationship. Situating her research at the
intersection of racial, gender and sexual identities, Steinbugler explores the empirical and
theoretical void created when scholars of race assume that interracial intimacy is heterosexual
and sexuality scholars assume that queer intimacy is monoracial. She seeks both to illuminate
queer interraciality as a productive site for analyzing intersecting identities and power
structures and to problematize the normative heterosexual framework through which
interracial sexuality has traditionally been examined.
Tim Retzloff is an undergraduate student of non-traditional age in the History Honors
Program at the University of Michigan, where he works full time as a supervisor at the Harlan
Hatcher Graduate Library. His research on various aspects of Michigan queer history has
appeared in GLQ, The Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America,
the anthology Creating a Place for Ourselves, and the newspaper Between The Lines, for which
he served as assistant editor in the mid-1990s. He is also the online curator of the web exhibit
Artifacts and Disclosures: Michigan’s LGBT Heritage. Retzloff’s project looks at suburbanization
and the growth of visible lesbian and gay communities in postwar Detroit, examining how the
urban/suburban divide in and around the Motor City served to partition sexuality as well as
race and class.
(Honorable Mention) Ellen Herman received a Heller-Bernard honorable mention for her
project “Toward a History of Gay Kinship in the United States: The Case of Child Adoption in
the Early Twentieth Century.” The project is a study of same-sex couples and gay individuals
in modern child adoption prior to the 1970s. Herman is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Oregon.
ith a large
number of
qualified and
impressive applications
to consider, deciding
on winners was, as
always, a difficult
process for the CLAGS
fellowship committee.
CLAGS is delighted to
recognize and support
some of the exciting
new work being done
in the field of queer
studies represented by
this year’s winners.
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Again we send out
special thanks to the
generous supporters
who helped make these
awards possible, particularly CLAGS founder
Martin Duberman,
Diane Bernard, Joe
Wittreich, and all the
individual contributors
to our fellowships
programs. For further
information about
2005-2006 fellowship
opportunities and
deadlines, see page 16.
PAU L M O N E T T E - RO G E R H O RW I T Z D I S S E R TAT I O N P R I Z E
Jordan Schildcrout was awarded the 2005 Monette-Horwitz prize for his dissertation, This
Thing of Darkness: Reclaiming the Queer Killer in Contemporary Drama. Schildcrout completed
his Ph.D. in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center in May 2005. His dissertation analyzes “the
queer killer” as a frequently recurring character type in dramatic narratives. The study
examines the homophobic paradigm that imagines sexual nonconformity as criminal,
destructive, and evil, but also aims to deepen and enrich our understanding of plays featuring
queer killers by interpreting them as complex works of imagination that trade on metaphor
and fantasy to entertain, provoke emotion and thought, and illuminate queer experience. u
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Documenting QUEER
COMMUNITY Histories:
WHOSE HISTORY IS IT?
B Y
J E S S I C A
S T E R N
A N D
N I C H O L A S
R A Y
hat does it mean to be a member of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or
queer (LGBTQ) community? When did LGBTQ community history begin?
Where do queer communities differ? How do we broach these questions to
document communities’ experiences? And significantly, why is it important to
document the histories of those who are defined as LGBTQ?
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These represent some of the questions raised during “Documenting Queer
Community Histories,” a free, four-part public education seminar CLAGS held this
summer. The seminar was taught by David Serlin, a member of the CLAGS Board of
Directors and a professor at the University of California at San Diego. Each session
was attended by upwards of fifty people. Some students were already well versed in
LGBTQ history and theory, while others came with little or no prior knowledge.
People utilized the class to inform books they were writing, films they were making,
research and advocacy they were undertaking, or to gain inspiration and guidance
for future projects. The controversial themes of time, identity, location, and method
in queer community documentation were woven throughout the readings and
discussions.
The seminar began with the theme of time. Professor Serlin problematized the
popular notion that the 1969 Stonewall riots represented the “birth” of the modern
U.S. LGBT movement. Rather, he encouraged the class to critically examine whether
Stonewall is the beginning of a movement, or one of many significant moments, or
a moment that has greater or lesser significance for different communities. In an
analysis of lesbian and gay African-Americans during the Harlem Renaissance, for
example, historian Eric Garber argued that understanding watershed moments and
significant time periods requires understanding historical context. Thus, while
Stonewall can be perceived as a turning point in LGBT history, it should be
understood in connection with other social and economic factors. John D’Emilio’s
important 1983 article “Capitalism and Gay Identity” complements Garber’s thesis
by considering a longer historical perspective for LGBTQ history; he argues that the
U.S.’s shift from an agricultural to a market economy created living conditions that
made possible the growth of modern queer identities. From this perspective, the
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development of capitalism, not Stonewall,
represents the birth of the LGBT movement. As
both the readings and discussions demonstrated,
queer community histories must be constructed
with recognition that definitions of time are
subjective and significantly impact how we
understand ourselves. Tracing the LGBT
community’s birth to a riot against repression
critically informs how we imagine our community
today, i.e. historically disempowered outsiders who
must fight for justice.
Throughout the seminar, participants returned to
perhaps an even more basic challenge to
documenting queer community histories: whose
history is told? Indeed, is talking about the history
of a “community” even possible? Shifting
definitions of sexuality, geography, identity and
behavior impact what narratives are included and underscore that history is always
dynamic, interpreted by contemporary concepts, local definitions, and those in a
privileged position to speak. For instance, as historian Peter Boag argued in his book
Same-Sex Affairs (2003), although transient and working-class men in urban northwest
cities like Seattle and Portland in the early twentieth century did not identify as gay,
they were regularly having sex with other men. There is a place for these men in a
community documentation project, yet we cannot easily project modern or
mainstream chronologies onto their regional and historic identities and behaviors. In a
similar vein, guest lecturer Carlos Decena, a professor at Rutgers University, critiqued
the dominant queer genealogy. Decena described his search for something deeper
than recognition of LGBTQ community diversity; in his work, he is attempting to focus
on an analysis of non-dominant narratives. His own research focuses on centering
queer men of color and de-centering the white, urban gay male subject. With these
issues, we see that normalizing notions of “community” are useful in some ways and
yet highly problematic in others.
Seminar leader David
Serlin with guest speaker
Jeanette Ingberman,
Director of the Exit Art
Center and co-curator of
the "Homomuseum"
exhibit.
CLAGS has created a
listserv for people
who participated in
this Seminar in the
City, or for those who
have a particular
interest in the topic.
The purpose is to
maintain a venue for
researchers, scholars
and activists—either
academically or
independently
affiliated—who are
creating or participating in projects
that collect and
document histories of
queer individuals and
queer communities.
To join, email
[email protected]
and let us know you
want to be part of
the “Documenting
Queer Community
Histories” listserv.
The final class in the seminar addressed one of the most complex questions for queer
community documentation: what, exactly, do we document? This discussion
crystallized through a conversation with another guest lecturer, Jeanette Ingberman,
the director of Exit Art in New York City and co-curator of its recent exhibition,
“Homomuseum.” For “Homomuseum,” Ingberman solicited work about a hero or
moment that has influenced LGBTQ culture. This project raised several questions.
When we move into the abstract realm of art, what constitutes queerness? Can
anything be interpreted as queer if it is created by, in this case, a queer artist? Or do
we need overtly queer imagery to have a “queer” subject? What would infuse an
event or object with meaning that would render it “queer”? What role does artistic
production or visual presentation play in the process of queering art?
The seminar ended on a high note as participants described their projects to each
other and exchanged contact information for keeping in touch. As the seminar series
ended, we didn’t have all the answers, but it was clear that striving for innovative and
ethical ways to document queer community histories was an important endeavor that
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Jessica Stern, MSc, LGBT Researcher for Human Rights Watch, was a consultant based at the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force while participating in this seminar. Nicholas Ray, MA, is a policy analyst at the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force. They loved this seminar – where else could you get a free, open-to-all resource like this
– and express their appreciation to CLAGS for providing it!
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Viviane Namaste, an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at the Simone
de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University in Montréal, kicked off the winter
colloquium series with a presentation based on her forthcoming book, “C’était du
spectacle!: An oral history of Montréal’s male to female transsexual and transvestite
artists, 1955-1985. Arguing against the tendency in LGBT studies to conflate histories
of transsexual women with those of gay men, Namaste situated her subjects outside
of gay and lesbian communities. “These women performed in predominantly
heterosexual bars, not gay bars,” she argued. Namaste framed her study not as a
battle over public space—the approach often taken by queer histories of bar
culture—but as a labor history of transsexual artists.
COLLOQUIUM
REPORT
Whose community?
Whose categories?
Whose history? Those
Gabriela Cano, Professor of History at Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico and winner of
the Martin Duberman Fellowship in 2004, talked about her
research, “Colonel Roble’s Intimate Joy: Transgender
Masculinity in the Mexican Revolution.” Colonel Amelio
Robles (previously known as Amelia Robles) was a
transgendered officer in the revolutionary army led by
Emiliano Zapata. Robles has long been claimed by feminists in
Mexico as an exemplary revolutionary woman. Cano, however,
views him as a transgender subject who used the cultural resources available to
him—dress, personal gestures, and, importantly, photography—to construct himself
throughout his adult life as male. In addition to her work on Robles, Cano is also
editing a collection, Gender in Postrevolutionary Mexico, and a multivolume history of
women in Spain and Latin America.
were the questions
animating the
CLAGS Colloquium
Series in LGTBQ
Studies last semester,
as the six speakers in
the series asked their
audiences to question
the analytic constructs
Although a fair number of female couples adopted
children in the early twentieth-century United States, the
dominance of “community” as an analytic category in gay
studies actually poses a barrier to understanding how
people formed GLBT families in the past, argued Ellen
Herman, an Associate Professor in the Department of
History at the University of Oregon, in her presentation, “A
History of Gay Kinship in the United States: The Case of
Child Adoption in the Early Twentieth Century.” “We have
too often assumed that leaving one’s family of origin was
the essential precondition for modern gay consciousness, that urban communities
functioned as wholesale replacements for families, that bright lines separated heterosexual and homosexual worlds.” Herman suggested that recovering kinship in all its
complexity will add texture and new stories to GLBT history.” Herman is currently
working on a book project, Kinship by Design, and has created and maintains a
website called “The Adoption History Project,” at http://uoregon.edu/~adoption.
that dominate queer
studies.
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Challenging the idea of gender as a binary and stable category is the “final
frontier” in Caribbean studies, suggested Rosamond S. King, an Assistant Professor
of English at Long Island University, in her talk, “Transgender Transgression/
Transgender Transcendence? Caribbean Contexts.” King argued that “the idea of
transvestism as a Caribbean cultural tradition will seem preposterous to many,
though that is precisely what I am proposing, since cross-dressing has been a part of
Caribbean carnivals for over 100 years.” Turning to literature, King noted that, “a
significant body of recent Caribbean literature includes narrators or characters with
nontraditional, indeterminate, or multiple genders. This gender mixing, disruption,
or trans/formation often serves as a frame within which trans characters are
portrayed as mythical or as fantasy. In other instances, the characters are portrayed
as more realistic people who accept their identities whether or not those around
them do.” In this literature, King said, “a shifting or nontraditional or mixed gender
is also a symbol of Caribbean creoleness or mestizaje.” Part of King’s talk was derived
from her current book project, Island Bodies: Caribbean Literary Sex and Sexualities.
TRANSOC-L
CLAGS has created a
new listserv for those
doing research on
transgender or intersex
subjects in the social
sciences. This list
provides a venue for
scholars (academic and
independent, including
advanced graduate
students) who are
engaged in, or have
completed, substantial
research projects on
transgender, intersex,
genderqueer identities,
practices, social
movements, etc. in the
social sciences. List
members help provide
ideas, resources, and
feedback in the
following areas, though
this list is not exclusive:
interacting ethically
with transgender and
intersex communities;
getting through human
subjects review; figuring
out questions of names,
nomenclature, identity,
practices, communities;
getting advice on
reaching out to trans
and intersex
communities; finding
out what type of
research is most needed
by advocates and
activists; and learning
how to make that
research available to
trans and intersex
communities. If you
are interested in joining
this list, send a message
to Paisley Currah
<pcurrah@ brooklyn.
cuny.edu> introducing
yourself and briefly
describing your research
project.u
Continuing the colloquium series’ theme of reframing the categories, Tony
De Moya, Profesor de Antropología Sociocultural de la Sexualidad Dominicana at
the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, suggested that “gender” and “sex”
are better described as a continuum than as a dichotomy. Moreover, De Moya
argued in his presentation, “Epistemology, Methodology and Ethics in the
Investigation of Dominican Sexuality,” “sexes, sexualities, and eroticisms are not
binary, they are as unique and unrepeatable as fingerprints.” Suggesting parameters
for future study, De Moya said sex research and
sexuality studies in the Dominican Republic should be
integrated better with Latino Studies. For example,
racisms structured around hair texture, he said, are
also gendered through partner selection. The
relations between eroticism, power and spirituality
also require more study, De Moya added, noting that
“the masissís calembés, the intersexed children of
gods and goddesses, are the continuation of the
‘two-spirit’ (berdache) tradition.” De Moya is
currently working a new project, “The Homoerotic
Constant in American History.”
The spring colloquium series concluded with another debate over categories.
In his talk, “The Ancient Amazons: Female Masculinity or Matriarchy?,” Walter
(Peter) Penrose, a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the CUNY Graduate Center,
questioned whether the Amazons should be understood to represent female
masculinity or matriarchy. His conclusion? “What we can safely say is that from a
Greek ethnic stereotype, their actions were masculine. From a Scythian or
Sauromatian viewpoint, we might see Amazons as representative of a matriarchal or
gender equal society. We are left with the understanding that female masculinity is
not only socially but also ethnically constructed.”
Penrose’s talk is part of his book project, “Bold with the
Bow and Arrow: Amazons and the Ethnic Gendering of
Martial Prowess in Ancient Greek and Asian Cultures.”
He also has an article, “Colliding Cultures: Masculinity
and Homoeroticism in Mughal and Colonial South
Asia,” forthcoming in Siting Queer Masculinities 15501800 (London: Palgrave 2005). u
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Fall 05
Friday, September 16, 4-6pm
RE-VISITING GLORIA ANZALDÚA’S
BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA
All events in the
Graduate Center are
wheelchair accessible.
Please contact the
Security office at the
Graduate Center at (212817-777) for further
details. X
CLAGS is committed to
accessibility for all participants at our events, so
we have a SCENT-FREE
policy. We are also able to
provide ASL interpretation if it is requested at
least 10 working days
prior to an event. Please
contact the CLAGS office
at [email protected] or,
with a relay operator, at
212-817-1955 to arrange
for ASL interpretation or
with any other questions
about accessibility.
All CLAGS
events are free and open
to the public.
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004), one of the bestknown Chicana cultural critics and creative writers,
has become an icon for many for students,
researchers, artists, and community members
interested in Chicano/Latino American and LGBT
issues. Her book Borderlands/La Frontera (1987) is
classic reading in many universities, and is quoted
as a foundational text in the creation of a queer
Chicana identity. This session is a tribute to Gloria
Anzaldúa that proposes a critical reassessment of
her contributions in literary, cultural and ethnic
studies, and sexuality.
Panelists will include: María Isabel
Belausteguigoitia, Programa Universitario
Estudios del Género, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México; Frances NegrónMuntaner, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and
Race, English Department, Columbia University; Bill
Johnson González, English Department, Wesleyan
University; with moderator and respondent, Ben.
Sifuentes-Jáuregui, American Studies &
Comparative Literature, Rutgers-The State University
of New Jersey.
GRADUATE CENTER, SKYLIGHT ROOM, 9TH FLOOR
CO-SPONSORED BY THE BARNARD CENTER FOR
RESEARCH ON WOMEN AND THE CUNY CENTER
FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND SOCIETY u
Thursday, September 22, 7-9pm
CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies
A QUEER STORY ABOUT OPERA:
DIVA-WORSHIP AND
HOMOEROTICISM IN BERIO’S
RECITAL I (FOR CATHY)
Megan Jenkins, Doctoral Student in
Musicology, CUNY Graduate Center.
Ostensibly, the narrative of Recital I (for Cathy)
(1972) traces the descent into madness of an opera
diva who is perhaps slightly past her prime. Jenkins
suggests, however, that there is a complex network
of subjectivities in Recital—a network that allows for
any number of readings, including a story of
homoeroticism in the opera house.
GRADUATE CENTER, ROOM C203 u
Tuesday, October 11, 7-9pm
Lesson Plans: Pedagogy Workshop on Teaching
Gender and Sexuality
TEACHING TRANSGENDER
SUBJECTS, LIVES, AND THEORIES
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A roundtable discussion with Paisley Currah,
Executive Director, CLAGS and Associate Professor,
Political Science, Brooklyn College; Don Kulick,
Director, Center for the Study of Gender and
Sexuality, New York University; T. Benjamin
Singer, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English,
Rutgers University and Adjunct Assistant Professor of
Women’s Studies at Barnard; Dean Spade, Adjunct
Instructor, Columbia Law School and Harvard Law
School; Sel J. Wahng, National Development and
Research Institutes, Inc./Medical and Health
Research Association of NYC and Center for the
Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University;
Jillian T. Weiss, Assistant Professor of Law and
Society, Ramapo College, New Jersey.
Lesson Plans is presented jointly by CLAGS and
CSGS each semester to discuss issues raised when
teaching gender and sexuality in the classroom. The
workshop is free and open to educators at all levels.
Reservations are encouraged. To reserve space:
[email protected] or 212-817-1955.
GRADUATE CENTER, ROOM 9204/9205
CO-SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY
OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY AT NEW YORK
UNIVERSITY AND PRESENTED WITH THE
GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE ESTATE OF JOAN R.
HELLER u
Thursday, October 13, 7-9pm
CLAGS Colloquium in LGBTQ Studies
TACIT SUBJECTS: A CRITIQUE OF
COMPULSORY DISCLOSURE
Carlos Ulises Decena, Assistant Professor,
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and
Department of Puerto Rican & Hispanic Caribbean
Studies, Rutgers University
Privileging the disclosure of a homosexual
identity—”coming out”—blinds investigators to
negotiations of the closet that do not resort to the
confession, especially among sexual minorities of
color. Drawing from Spanish grammar and from
ethnographic research among Dominican immigrant
homosexual men living in New York City, this
presentation proposes the concept of the “sujeto
tácito” to suggest that “coming out” may
sometimes be redundant, a statement of the
obvious. The concept of the “tacit subject”
underlines that what is already obvious is neither
secret nor silent.
GRADUATE CENTER, ROOM 9204 u
Friday, October 28, 1-4pm
LOOKING AT LESBIAN FEMINISM
1970-2005: CONVERSATIONS
ACROSS GENERATIONS
What has become of lesbian feminism?
Activists, scholars, and writers on race, class and
sexuality will convene for cross-generational
discussions that ask several questions: How does
the 21st century lesbian community differ from the
first ‘organized’ lesbian groups in the US? Do
young lesbians today feel any connection to the
feminist movement - and vice versa? How are
lesbian and feminist issues today similar or at odds
with each other? And, ultimately, does lesbian
feminism still exist?
With Kelly Anderson, oral historian and
researcher, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College;
Blanche Wiesen Cook, Distinguished Professor of
History, John Jay College and CUNY Graduate
Center and author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volumes
One and Two; Surina Khan, Senior Program
Officer, California Women’s Foundation; former
Executive Director, International Gay and Lesbian
Human Rights Commission; Carmen Vazquez,
Deputy Executive Director, Empire State Pride
Agenda; E. Frances White, Vice-Provost,
New York University; author of Dark Continent
of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of
Respectability
Event coordinators: Marcia M. Gallo and
Polly Thistlethwaite. Additional participants will be announced. For more
information and to RSVP, please contact the
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at
[email protected] or 212-817-1955.
This event is made possible, in part, by a
grant from the New York Council for the
Humanities, a state affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities. Any views,
findings, conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this program do not necessarily
represent those of the National Endowment for
the Humanities.
GRADUATE CENTER, ROOM 9204/9205
CO-SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR THE
HUMANITIES, THE AFRICANA STUDIES
GROUP, AND THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY
OF WOMEN AND SOCIETY u
Thursday, November 3, 7-9pm
CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies
LESBIANS, GAYS AND THEIR
PARENTS: DISCOVERY, STIGMA,
ADJUSTMENT, AND
CONNECTION
Michael C. LaSala, Ph.D., LCSW,
Associate Professor, School of Social Work,
Rutgers University and Psychotherapist,
Institute for Personal Growth, Highland Park,
New Jersey
Dr. LaSala will present findings based on
in-depth research interviews with 65 families
of white, African American, and Latino gay
and lesbian youth. Factors that help and
hinder parental adjustment to the coming out
process will be discussed along with
implications for gay and lesbian mental
health and HIV prevention for young gay
males. Similarities and differences among
families of different ethnicities will also be
described.
GRADUATE CENTER, ROOM 9204 u
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 7-9pm
CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies
SEXUAL SEDITION: FROM THE
ESPIONAGE LAWS TO THE WAR
ON TERROR
Molly McGarry, The Center for Religion
and Media, New York University and Assistant
Professor, Department of History, University of
California, Riverside.
McGarry’s project examines the intertwining of gender, sexuality, and racialized
citizenship in the case of Dr. Marie Equi, a birth
control advocate, abortionist, I.W.W. organizer,
and lesbian, convicted and imprisoned under
the Espionage and Sedition Acts. This talk
uses the case of Dr. Equi, who was imprisoned
under the sedition laws as “an anarchist, an
abortionist, and a degenerate,” to examine the
links between sexual and political dissidence,
“unnatural” identities and un-American acts.
GRADUATE CENTER, ROOM C201 u
Monday, Nov. 14, 7:30 – 9:30 pm
PLAY READING: “THE FRAGRANT
COMPANION”
Written about 1648 by Li Yu, this classical
Chinese comedy-drama is unabashedly about
a romance between two women—and
includes a same-sex wedding! Professional
actors will perform a reading of this delightful
(but little-known) play, which has never been
translated into any Western language. The
English version is by Bru Dye and is based on
a co-translation with Dongshin Chang.
Li Yu (1611-1680) wrote plays, poetry,
essays, short stories, and an erotic novel, and
critic William Dolby has called him “one of
the eternally shining stars of Chinese
literature.” Bru Dye has written original plays,
translations, and stage adaptations, which
have been performed in New York and
California. Dongshin Chang has a Ph.D. in
Performance Studies from NYU, where he is
now an adjunct instructor of drama.
GRADUATE CENTER, SEGAL THEATRE
CO-SPONSORED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR
TONGZHI STUDIES u
Friday December 2, 7pm
14TH ANNUAL DAVID R.
KESSLER LECTURE IN LESBIAN
AND GAY STUDIES
This year’s Kessler Lecture will honor
Carole S. Vance, Ph.D., M.P.H. Dr. Vance is
an anthropologist whose work deals with
sexuality - particularly policy, visual representation, rights, and science. She is the author
of many articles about sexuality, as well as the
editor of Pleasure and Danger: Exploring
Female Sexuality. She is currently editing a
book about sex trafficking, and has co-edited
(with Alice Miller) a special issue of Health and
Human Rights focusing on Sexuality, Human
Rights, and Health (2004). Dr. Vance teaches
at Columbia University, in public health,
anthropology, and law. She will be
introduced with testimonials from Douglas
Crimp and Ann Snitow.
GRADUATE CENTER,
PROSHANSKY AUDITORIUM u
Wednesday, December 7, 7-9pm
CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies
“MY LOVE IS LIKE A RED, RED
ROSE...”: THE POLITICAL
ECONOMY OF ROMANCE AND
THE GLOBAL FLORICULTURE
INDUSTRY
Saadia Toor, Department of Sociology,
Anthropology, and Social Work at the College
of Staten Island of the City University of New
York.
This project examines the nexus between
patriarchy and capitalism in the current
period of cultural and economic globalization.
Using a materialist feminist framework, it
focuses on the relationship between an
increasingly globalized and commodified
culture of romance - as an important element
of the institution of heterosexuality - and the
burgeoning world trade in cut-flowers, in
order to deconstruct the political economy of
romance in the late-capitalist world system.
GRADUATE CENTER, ROOM 9204 u
CLAGS CO-SPONSORED EVENTS
Tuesday, October 18, 7pm
18TH CENTURY POPULAR
CULTURE AND THE MAKING
OF MODERN SEXUALITY
Sally O’Driscoll, Associate Professor
of English, Fairfield University
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art
History, CUNY Graduate Center
GRADUATE CENTER, ROOM TBA u
Fri. and Sat., Oct. 21-22
HUMAN RIGHTS AND
HUMANITIES CONFERENCE
Co-Chaired by Judith Butler and
Domna Stanton.
Further information will be available
on the MLA web site at www.mla.org
and on the French Ph.D. Program web
site at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/
French/events/
GRADUATE CENTER,
ROOMS AND SCHEDULE TBA u
Friday, October 28, 6-8pm
BLACK FEMINISMS IN THE
DIASPORA
Participants: Victoria ChevalierBrooks, English, Furman University
(Europe); Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol
Banoun, Black Studies, Lehman College
(Africa); Sophie Saint-Just, Latin
American and Puerto Rican Studies,
Lehman College (Caribbean). Discussant:
Lise Esdaile, English and Black Studies,
Lehman College.
Presented by the Africana Studies
Group and The Women’s Studies
Certificate Program. Co-sponsored by
The Institute for Research on the African
Diaspora in the Americas and the
Caribbean (IRADAC).
THE GRADUATE CENTER, ROOM 9206 u
Friday, November 4, 8-10pm
HUNGOCHANI: DISSIDENT
SEXUALITIES IN SOUTHERN
AFRICA
Marc Epprecht, Assistant Professor of
History, Queens University, Kingston,
Ontario
Sponsored by the International Gay
and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
Co-sponsored by Gay Men of African
Descent.
LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER
(208 WEST 13TH ST, NYC, ROOM TBA) u
Friday, November 11, 4:15pm
THE FALL AND THE RISE OF
GENOMANIA: SEX AND RACE
IN SCIENCE TODAY
Roger N. Lancaster, Department of
Anthropology, Director of Cultural
Studies, George Mason University
Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program
in Anthropology and the Center for the
Humanities.
GRADUATE CENTER, ROOM C198
The event is followed by a reception in
the Brockway Room (Room 6402) u
QUEERING
PSYCHOANALYSIS:
THE
RELATIONAL
TURN
BY JACK
DRESCHER, MD
From left to right, Jack
Drescher, Ann D'Ercole,
David Schwartz, and Eric
Sherman
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n Thursday, March 25, CLAGS hosted a panel entitled “Queering Psychoanalysis:
The Relational Turn.” The program, part of an ongoing CLAGS effort, introduced
academics and scholars more familiar with Freud and Lacan to contemporary, relational
psychoanalytic theories and practices.
CLAGS Board member, Jack Drescher, M.D., moderated the panel. The first speaker
was David Schwartz, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst on the editorial boards of The Journal of Gay
and Lesbian Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Schwartz presented a
paper entitled, “Reparative Therapy for a Pathological History, or How Psychoanalysis
Might Keep You Queer, Even If You Have Inner Conflict.” Schwartz traced the origins of
relational psychoanalytic theories to Freud’s close associate, Sándor Ferenczi, sometimes
known as “the mother of psychoanalysis.” Schwartz touched upon the heterosexist and
antihomosexual underpinnings of traditional drive theory (referred to by relational
analysts as one-person psychology) and contrasted them with the mutuality of what
relational analysts refer to as two-person theories.
The next speaker was Ann D’Ercole, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor of
Psychology, and a Supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. D’Ercole presented a paper on “Feminist and Queer
Contributions to Relational Psychoanalysis.” D’Ercole chronicled the influence of
feminist thinkers on psychoanalysis. The feminist critique from the second wave of
feminism to the 1980s led to a reformulation of many cherished psychoanalytic
concepts. Feminist cultural criticism provided early formulations of sexual fluidity,
mutuality and influence, and the importance of early infant attachments on gender
performance. These feminist influences would eventually incorporated in developing
relational psychoanalytic modes that are more democratic, more mutual and queerer.
Eric Sherman, L.C.S.W., then presented “A Clinical Vignette: Big Boys Don’t Cry.”
Sherman is a psychoanalyst and author of the recently released Notes from the Margins:
The Gay Analyst’s Subjectivity in the Treatment Setting. He presented a case from his
book of his treatment of an effeminate gay man whose self presentation Sherman found
annoying. Sherman demonstrated how contemporary analysts work within the countertransference by illustrating how he came to understand that part of the reason he felt
annoyed with the patient was that he unconsciously identified with the man’s sense of
shame. Sherman’s understanding, and his sharing some of it with his patient, allowed
the treatment to move forward in unexpected ways.
The discussant was Catherine Silver, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn
College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a psychoanalyst trained at National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). In
response to Schwartz, Silver noted that Freud’s ideas about fluidity of libido, multiple
objects of attachments, bisexuality in infants and the role of trauma create a sense of
mourning in both gays and heterosexuals regarding the
loss of part of their sexuality. Referring to D’Ercole’s
presentation, she agreed that the postwar history of
feminist thought about gender points to greater
emphasis on interpersonal and intersubjective concerns
and a clearer distinction between sex, gender and
sexuality. Finally, she underscored how analysis of
transferences and countertransferences allowed
Sherman to gradually identify with his patient, despite
early attempts at emotional distancing. This allowed a deep expressive connection to
develop between them without denying the Other’s difference. u
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Jack Drescher, MD is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at State University of New York – Downstate, and a
Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute.
n May 6 and 7, 2005, Trans Politics, Social Change, and Justice brought over four
hundred trans people and allies into a single building. A feeling of electricity was
everywhere. Not because this was the first trans conference – it was not. Nor was it
the largest. What participants felt came from the fact that the real lives of trans people
were being addressed by trans people. For a time, the ground had shifted; the
complex webs of institutions and politics that surround the lives of people everywhere
were being addressed primarily from the perspective of transgender peoples and their
communities.
Across two days and 48 panels, workshops and plenary sessions, participants at
Trans Politics explored not just the national, but also the international situations of
trans people. Speaking to a packed room in Policing and the Transgender Community:
A Global Perspective, Paty Betancourt from Mexico, Maria Belen Correa from
Argentina, and Marina Talero Monroy from Colombia discussed the violence faced by
trans people. It is a repressive violence at once deliberately targeting gender
“deviance,” but also part of broader machineries of social control. Similar patterns can
be seen in the US.
What alternatives exist? Current human rights mechanisms may offer one avenue
of change. However, their reach remains limited, and the ways in which they conceive
of gender can, at times, work against trans people, as UN rapporteur and Argentine
activist Mauro Cabral and others noted the following day. Social and cultural changes
within a nation, Cabral suggested in the final plenary session, rests heavily on changes
within the nation itself. It might well be that, as panelists on Trans Activisms Across
Borders suggested, a powerful avenue of social and cultural change rests with the
connections created by activists with ties across nations and regions. The agency and
actions of trans people and their allies might well be the fulcrum for change.
Across the US, activist energies have been poured into transforming
all areas of life. Some arrived at Trans Politics with projects focusing on
schools, workplaces, homeless shelters, and prisons. Others spoke of
their experiences shaping public policy and legislation, changing health
care provision, conducting research, and running for office. Represented
alongside organizations seeking civil rights for trans people were
advocates for youth, for training activists, for engaging in outreach
across lines of race, class and country, and for creating radical economic
transformations. National organizations— the ACLU, NGLTF, HRC, and
NCLR, to name a few— stood next to regional organizations, such as
the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, the Center for Gay and Lesbian
Civil Rights in Philadelphia, the Massachusetts Transgender Political
Coalition, and Equality California. Long-established organizations such
as the Audre Lorde Project were present alongside newer organizations
such as the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the Transgender Law Center, and the National
Center for Transgender Equality. A complete list of groups and activisms represented
by the conference would take up bulk of this newsletter. Put simply, by sheer breadth
and numbers, Trans Politics participants shattered the myth that the trans movement
reflects the narrow interests of a minority-within-a-minority.
What was absent was uniformity, not just of identities, but of political strategies.
Many spoke of the lifeblood of transgender activism as laying in a radical expansion of
the scope of our political work; our goal could well be a mass movement with our
eyes on economic justice. For many others, it is vital that we defend rights that many
have taken for granted in the past, such as privacy, against increased state
encroachment and surveillance. At the same time, we need to continue expanding
the purview of traditional civil rights law. The tools at hand range from organizing sex
workers, to organizing youth, to changing institutions, whether they be homeless
shelters, universities, or multinational corporations, and to lobbying Congress. In the
present climate of conservative resentment and backlash, none of these directions and
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continued on page 20
Trans
Politics,
Social
Change,
and
Justice
B Y
R I C H A R D
M . J U A N G
Yasmeen Persad (left) and
Monica Forrester (right)
from the 519 Church
Street Community Center
in Toronto discuss trans
community solidarity with
trans sex workers.
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IRN-l: International
Resource Network
Listserv
CLAGS is pleased to
announce the creation of
our very own International
Resource Network email
listserv. This email list is
intended to foster LGTBQ
networks around the world
by creating a space for
scholars and researchers to
post messages for
upcoming conferences and
events, notify other list
members of available job
opportunities in the field,
discuss current news items
for local and global
LGTBQ communities,
and more. To subscribe,
please send a blank email
to [email protected].
cuny.edu. You will receive
a response email requesting
you to confirm your IRN-l
listserv subscription, which
will be followed with
instructions on posting
messages and
unsubscribing. u
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“If you want to know about another country in the region, you have to read
about it in English,” said Dédé Oetmono, from the University of Surabaya, Indonesia.
“We need to look at each others’ work more, but people are limited by their linguistic
spheres.”
Antonia Chao, a professor of sociology at Tunghai University in Taiwan, remarked
that scholars in Taiwan have been doing volunteer archiving work for the last two
decades. “But the majority of these scholars don’t speak English, so their work is
marginalized. We need to get this work translated.”
Hui Jiang, the webmaster of GayChinese.net, has, with his colleagues, been hard
at work at disseminating information. Since 1999, when the website was founded,
they have published over 10,000 articles. (GayChinese.net has recently created a
separate organization, the Information Clearinghouse for Chinese Gays and Lesbians,
for its translation and archive projects.) Some of these pieces are translations of
articles from English, French, and Russian. “But we’re also collecting, editing, and
archiving articles on China, producing an indigenous corpus of writing,” he said.
Popho E.S. Bark-Yi, who is currently working to establish the Asia LBTQ Women’s
Research Consortium out of Korea, talked about the need for the kind of research that
advocacy organizations can use in their work. “We need action-oriented research.
We’re trying to link up researchers working on particular issues related to our lives,”
she said.
Denilson Lopes Silva, a professor of Communication from the University of Brasilia
and a member of the IRN Advisory Board, noted that national queer networks already
exist in many countries. “But we need to stimulate more transnational research,
especially more South-South dialogues.”
During the final day of the meeting, participants generated concrete plans for
overcoming these obstacles and identified priorities for moving forward with the
development of the IRN, including: creating venues for more collaboration through
mini-conferences and internet-based research groups, developing ethical guidelines
for researchers, identifying resources for much-needed translation projects, linking up
with already-existing archives and networks, providing
a space for visual and textual archival material, and
creating an Asian Regional Editorial Board.
When the IRN website is unveiled in the late fall of
2005, its architecture will support directories,
bibliographies, chatrooms, listservs, links, customcreated content, and, what will be the largest aspect
of the site, a dynamic archive of research materials.
The site will invite individuals to add their own
materials—including descriptions of research interests,
syllabi, articles, archival documents, opinion pieces—
(Left to right): Bin Xu, Alisa Solomon,
to the site. Regional editors will create specific
Hui Jang, Dan Zhou and Khartini
content.
Slamah.
The Bangkok IRN meeting was the third such
regional gathering CLAGS has hosted. The first was in
New York City in November 2002 and the second in Mexico City in August of 2003.
The next regional meeting will take place in Africa in the fall of 2006. For more
information about the IRN, or for a complete copy of the IRN Asian Regional Meeting
Report, email [email protected]. For more information on the “Sexualities,
Genders, and Rights in Asia” conference, visit their web page at
http://bangkok2005.anu.edu.au/. u
Alan Van Capelle, Executive Director of the Empire State Pride Agenda, delivered the
keynote address at Queer CUNY VI, held April 30, 2005 on the City College of New
York campus. Van Capelle, a native of Long Island, is himself a CUNY graduate, having
received a B.S. in Public Policy from Queens College in 1997. Plans are underway for
next year’s Queer CUNY VII conference which will be hosted by Brooklyn College. u
CLAGS Founder Martin Duberman
Celebrates 75 Years
early fifteen years ago, activist historian and
writer Martin Duberman was immersed in
establishing the Center for Lesbian and Gay
Studies within the largest urban educational
system in the nation. Now, in 2005,
CLAGS’s founder turns 75, and in
commemoration of this milestone
birthday—and in recognition of
Marty’s pioneering contributions to
racial justice, sex and gender
equality, economic justice and human rights—our organization hosted ‘The Marty Party’ on June 15, 2005.
Held in a Soho, New York City loft, the celebration
helped to honor Marty’s birthday—which coincided this year
with his retirement from teaching after 48 years in the
classroom—by raising funds that will support CLAGS’s
Emiko Otsubo,
Martin
Ra Findlay and
Duberman
Julia Smith
Fellowship. This
annual award
offered by CLAGS is bestowed
upon a senior scholar (tenured
university professor or advanced
independent scholar) from any
country doing scholarly research
on the lesbian/gay/
bisexual/transgender/queer
(LGBTQ) experience. Since its
‘Marty Party’ hosts (l-r) Penny Coleman and inception, the Duberman
Elana Michelson talk with Jonathan D. Katz Fellowship has been a major
cornerstone of LGTBQ work,
offering recipients the financial support that allows them to see a project
through, or to take time off for writing or research. Furthermore, the award
provides the institutional support that scholars have come to rely upon in a
field that is often still marginalized and underfunded.
CLAGS is grateful to the many people who made a contribution to the
‘Marty Party’ in honor of Marty’s birthday and lifetime of work. We also
want to give a special thank you to event organizers Eli Zal and Marcia
Gallo, invitation designer Ann Cammett, and party hosts Elana Michaelson
(who is Chair of the Masters of Liberal Studies Program at Empire State
College, and currently working on developing LGTBQ Studies courses) and
Penny Coleman (who compiled the photodocumentary book Village Elders
and is currently shooting a book on trans communities).
CLAGS is grateful to the many people who made a contribution to the
‘Marty Party’ in honor of Marty’s birthday and lifetime of work. We also
want to give a special thank you to event organizers Eli Zal and Marcia
Gallo, invitation designer Ann
Cammett, and party hosts Elana
Michelson (who is Chair of the Masters
of Liberal Studies Program at Empire
State College, and currently developing
an online program in Queer Studies at
both undergraduate and graduate
levels) and Penny Coleman (who is
currently working on a photodocumentary book on now-elderly
transpeople that will be a companion
text to her Village Elders). u
Jeffrey Escoffier and Judith Stacey
N
Honorary Hosts
Adrienne Rich
Howard Zinn
Dean’s List
Beth Blumenthal and
Ron Corwin
John D'Emilio
James C. Hormel
David R Kessler
Larry Kramer Initiative for
Lesbian and Gay Studies at
Yale University, Jonathan
D. Katz, Director
Larry Kramer and
David Webster
Eli Zal
Class Presidents
Deb Amory and Lorraine
Herbst
David P Becker
Ann D'Ercole
Joseph W. Dauben
Alvia Golden
Rosalyn and Terence Higgins
Kevin Ray
Teacher’s Pets
L. Diane Bernard
Charlotte Bunch
Blanche Wiesen Cook and
Clare Coss
Ken Corbett and Michael
Cunningham
Paisley Currah
Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf
Jack Drescher, M.D.
Fred Eychaner
Chris Ford and Jo Wright
Marcia Gallo and
Ann Cammett
Frances Goldin
Arnold H
Grossman, Ph.D.
Patrick Hennessey, M.D.
John Howard
Suzanne Iasenza
Richard Isay and
Gordon Harrell
John Kander
Michael Kimmel,
Amy Aronson and
Zachary Kimmel
Terence Kissack
Mitchell A Kline
Arthur S Leonard
Harris M Lirtzman
Harry Lutrin
C. Richard Mathews
Terrence McNally
Roberta Meyers
Framji Minwalla and Evan
Zelermyer
Ann Pellegrini
Shepherd Raimi
David Roman and
Richard Meyer
Francesca Sautman
Alisa Solomon and Marilyn
Kleinberg Neimark
Marc Stein and Jorge Olivares
Catharine R Stimpson and
Elizabeth Wood
Steven Watson
Joseph Wittreich
James Zebroski
William J Zwart and David
Berchenbriter
Honor Roll
Fred Berg
Alison Bernstein
Mark Blechner and Chris
Warnk
Richard Blum
Terry Boggis
Terry Collins and Esther Katz
Arnaldo Cruz-Malave
Will Fisher
Ann Fitzgerald and Paul
Lauter
Alan Gartner and Dorothy
Kerzner Lipsky
Julie Gedro
Margaret Himley
Charles P Isola and Daniel J
Clancy
Dee Ito and Marshall Arisman
Mark Kalish and Stephen
Frommer
Jonathan Ned Katz
Malcolm Lazin
Kenneth Lewes
Andrew London and Alan E
Curle
Elena Martinez
Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel
Joanne Meyerowitz
Tara Montgomery
Lisa Jean Moore and Robyn
Mierzwa
Vivien Ng
Marc Poirier
Adrienne Rich
Daniel Schaffer
Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui and
Mark Trautman
Ann Snitow
Joanne Spina and Susan
Skoorka
Lester Strong
Michael K Swirsky
Rachel Tiven and Frederic
Wile
Carole S Vance
John Weis and Larry Iannotti
Helen Whitley
Chris Williams and Rebekah
Carter
John Willoughby
Howard Zinn
Merit Scholars
Bonnie Anderson
Thomas Burton
Paul Cain
Robert Coffman and
Williamson L. Henderson
Sandi Cooper and
John Cammett
Tom Dolan and
Fred Wile
Shelly Eversley
Rudolf Gaudio
Eric Gordon
Nadine Gorelick
Doris Grumbach
Andrew Hacker
Meghan Horvath
Donna Jenson and
Chug Holmes
Louis Kampf
Bea Kreloff and Edith
Isaac-Rose
Jesse Lemisch and
Naomi Weisstein
Doug Mao
Larry Mass and
Arnie Kantrowitz
George Mayer
Gerald Meyer and Luis
Romero
Elana Michelson and Penny
Coleman
Oscar Montero
Sarah Murdoch
Nachum Niv
Kent Paul
Davis Platt
Kelly Ready
Eugene Rice
Aoibheann Sweeney
Don Weise
Judy Wenning
Belle and Jay Zal
FELLOWSHIP GUIDELINES
Q-CUNY List
Q-CUNY is an electronic
mailing list that
developed from CLAGS’s
first Queer CUNY
Conference, held in May
2000. It was created to
foster communication
among faculty, students,
administrators and staff at
the City University of
New York who are
involved with—or
interested in—lesbian,
gay, transgender, bisexual,
or queer life and/or
studies at CUNY. So far,
the list has been an
important point of
exchange for a number of
issues including
discussions of the Queer
CUNY Conferences,
notification of job
openings, sharing
information about
LGTBQ course offerings
throughout the CUNY
campuses, and organizing
discussion groups around
specific topics. To
subscribe, send a blank
email message to
join-qcuny-l@
listserv.gc.cuny.edu.
THE MARTIN DUBERMAN FELLOWSHIP
An endowed fellowship named for CLAGS founder and first executive director, Martin Duberman, this
fellowship is awarded to a senior scholar (tenured university professor or advanced independent
scholar) from any country doing scholarly research on the lesbian/gay/ bisexual/transgender/queer
(LGBTQ) experience. University affiliation is not necessary. All applicants must be able to show a
prior contribution to the field of LGBTQ studies. The award is adjudicated by the fellowships
committee of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. The winner of the fellowship may be asked to
participate in CLAGS’s Colloquium Series the following academic year to present his/her research
project.
Award: $7,500
Deadline: November 15
THE JOAN HELLER-DIANE BERNARD FELLOWSHIP
This fellowship supports research by a junior scholar (graduate student, untenured university professor
or independent researcher) or senior scholar (tenured university professor or advanced independent
scholar) into the impact of lesbians and/or gay men on U.S.society and culture. It is open to
researchers both inside and outside the academy and is adjudicated by the Joan Heller- Diane Bernard
Fellowship committee in conjunction with CLAGS. The winner may be asked to participate in CLAGS’s
colloquium series the following academic year to present her/his research project. Scholars conducting
research on lesbians are especially encouraged to apply.
Awards: Two awards of $5,000 each.
Deadline: November 15
PAUL MONETTE-ROGER HORWITZ DISSERTATION PRIZE
This award, which honors the memories of Monette, a poet and author, and his partner, Horwitz, an
attorney, will be given for the best dissertation in LGTBQ Studies, broadly defined, by a PhD candidate
within the City University of New York system. Adjudicated by CLAGS’s Fellowships Committee.
Award: $1000
Deadline: May 15
SYLVIA RIVERA AWARD IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES
This award, which honors the memory of Rivera, a transgender activist, will be given for the best book
or article to appear in transgender studies this year (from May 2005 to June 2006). Adjudicated by
CLAGS’s Fellowships Committee.
Award: $1000
Deadline: June 1
STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
The student travel award is open to all graduate students enrolled in the CUNY system. A cash prize
will be awarded to a student presenting subject matter that addresses gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, or
transgender issues in their respective field. Presentations can be for conferences held in the U.S. or
abroad.
Award: $250
Deadline: November 1 and May 1, 2006
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
This award is open to all undergraduate students enrolled in the CUNY or SUNY system. A cash
prize will be awarded to the best paper written in a CUNY or SUNY undergraduate class on any topic
related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, or transgender experiences. Essays should be between 12 and
30 pages, well thought-out, and fully realized.
Award: $250
Deadline: June 1, 2006
GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
This award is open to all graduate students enrolled in the CUNY system and is given for the best
paper written in a CUNY graduate class on any topic related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, or
transgender experiences. Papers should be between 15 and 50 pages and of publishable quality.
Award: $250
Deadline: June 1
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Please check the CLAGS website, www.clags.org for updates to fellowship guidelines, procedures and
requirements, or contact the CLAGS office ([email protected] or 212-817-1955). u
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CLAGS 2005
Supporters
So many organizations
and individuals make
vital contributions to the
Center for Lesbian and
Gay Studies. It is
through their generosity
that CLAGS is able to
fulfill its mission of
improving the
understanding of lesbian,
gay, transgender,
bisexual, and queer lives.
We'd like to take this
opportunity to thank our
major donors and institutional members.
CLAGSnews is published
twice a year by the
Center for Lesbian and
Gay Studies at the
CUNY Graduate Center.
All submissions related
to the study of gay,
lesbian, transgender,
and bisexual
experiences are
welcome. Please address
all inquiries to
CLAGSnews, The
Graduate Center, The
City University of New
York, Room 7.115, New
York, NY 10016.
Phone: 212.817.1955
[email protected]
CLAGS NEWS
Lavelle Porter
Paisley Currah
editors
Claudia Pisano
assistant editor
Preston Bautista
designer
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Dean’s List
L. Diane Bernard
Bill Cohen
Ron Corwin and Beth
Blumenthal
John D’Emilio
Jack Drescher
Martin Duberman and Eli
Zal
Fred Eychaner
Katherine Franke
Elaine Freedgood and
Debra Roth
James C. Hormel
David R. Kessler
Ivor Kraft
Larry Kramer and
David Webster
John Silberman and Elliot
Carlen
E. Frances White
Joseph A. Wittreich, Jr.
Honor Roll
Henry Abelove
Steven Albanese
Mariette Pathy Allen
Bill and Joan Amory
Deborah Amory and
Lorraine Herbst
AndrewAustin and Michael
Sonberg
Juan Battle
David Becker
Edith Benkov and Holly
Ransom
Fred Berg
Alison R. Bernstein
Mark Blasius
Mark Blechner
Richard Blum
Terry Boggis
Lisa Bowleg
Michael Bronski
Charlotte Bunch and
Roxanna Carrilo
Selma Burkom
Ann Burlein
Peter Cameron
Francesca Canadé Sautman
Luis Cárcamo-Huechante
Alex Chiveta
Ken Corbett and Michael
Cunningham
Blanche Wiesen Cook and
Clare Coss
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé
Paisley Currah
Ann D’Ercole
Joseph Dauben
Ann Dresh
Michael Dively
Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf
Susan Donnelly and
Jennifer Levi
Lisa Duggan
Jeffrey Edwards
Jesse Ehrensaft-Hawley
David Eng
Anne Enke
William Fisher
Ann Fitzgerald and Paul
Lauter
David Fletcher
Chris Ford
Arthur Fox and Frederico
Farina
Martin Stephen Frommer
and Mark Kalish
Marcia Gallo
Julie Gedro
Thomas Glave
Alvia Golden and Carol
Smith-Rosenberg
Frances Goldin
Deborah Gould
Arnold Grossman
Bert Hansen
Patrick Hennessey
Rosalyn and Terrence
Higgins
Margaret Himley
James Holmes
John Howard
Nan Hunter
Suzanne Iasenza
Jorge Irizarry
Richard Isay and Gordon
Harrell
Charles Isola and Dan
Clancey
Dee Ito and Marshall
Arisman
Drew Jones
Ellen and Lawrence Joseph
Miranda Joseph
John Kander
Esther Katz and Terry
Collins
Jonathan Ned Katz
Karen Kerner
Dorothy Kerzner-Lipskey
Michael Kimmel and Amy
Aronson
Terence Kissack
Mitchell Kline
Steven Kruger and Glenn
Burger
Regina Kunzel
Lawrence La FountainStokes
Careufel de Lamière
Burt Lazarin
Malcolm Lazin
Arthur Leonard
Kenneth Lewes
Every person who attends a CLAGS event,
participates in a CLAGS reading group, or
applies for one of CLAGS’s fellowships has a
unique experience with our organization,
and takes something very different away
from that interaction. In an effort to
highlight the diversity of our members’
experiences, CLAGSnews has instituted our
new Donor Profile section that will share
thoughts from members themselves about
their involvement with CLAGS and why
they feel it is important to be a member of
our organization.
Harris M. Lirtzman
Andrew London and Alan
E. Curle
Elmer Lokkins and Gustavo
Archilla
Harry Lutrin
Elena Martinez
Yolanda Martínez-San
Miguel
C. Richard Mathews
Robert McCullough, Jr.
Terrence McNally
Kimberley McNelis
Gail Mellow
Patricia Meoño-Picado
Joanne Meyerowitz
Roberta Meyers
Weston Milliken
Shannon Minter
Framji Minwalla
Lisa Jean Moore
King Mott
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Sylvia Molloy
Tara Montgomery
Lisa Moore and Madge
Darlington
Fred Moten and Laura
Harris
Patrick Muller
National Center for
Lesbian Rights
Esther Newton
Vivien Ng
Carla Odiaga
Cori Parrish
Sarah Pearlman
Ann Pellegrini
Marc Poirier
Johnnie Pratt
Nancy Rabinowitz and
Peter Rabinowitz
Shepherd Raimi
Kevin Ray
Adrienne Rich
Becky Richardson
Eugene R. Rice, Jr.
Colin Robinson
Joe Rollins
David Roman and Richard
Meyer
Debra Roth
Everett Rowson
Ariel Ruiz
Theo Sandfort
Daniel Schaffer
Claudia Schippert
David Serlin and Brian
Selznick
Pamela Sheingorn
Michael Shernoff
Ben. Sifuentes Jáuregui and
Mark Trautman
Ann Snitow
Alisa Solomon and Marilyn
Kleinberg Neimark
Thomas Spear
Arthur Spears
Joanne Spina and Sue
Skoorka
Barbara Starrett
Marc Stein and Jorge
Olivares
Catharine R. Stimpson
Lester Strong
Michael Swirsky
Marina Talero
Eddie Tawil
Polly Thistlethwaite
Kendall Thomas
Rachel Tiven
Carole Vance
Dottie and Nick Wahl
Steven Watson
John Weis and Larry
Iannotti
Wells College Women’s
Studies Program
Helen Whitney
Stephen Whittle
Robyn Wiegman
Chris Williams
John Willoughby
Sharon Worosilo, M.D. and
Michele Mauzerall
Hiro Yoshikawa
Rebecca Young
Jim Zebroski
Howard Zinn
Lucinda Zoe
William Zwart and David
Berchenbriter
Foundation and
Institutional Supporters
The City University of New
York
The Office of New York
State Senator Tom
Duane
The Ford Foundation
The Office of New York
State Assemblymember
Deborah Glick
The Gill Foundation
The New York Council for
the Humanities
The Office of New York
City Councilmember
Christine Quinn
The Open Society Institute
The Paul Rapoport
Foundation
United Way of New York
Winslow Street Fund
DONOR PROFILE
CLAGS has shown us that it is truly possible to
maintain a continuing LGBT enterprise,
despite so many disparate views and agendas
in the rainbow that blesses us all. The very
existence of CLAGS re-assures us that YES, we
can work together, YES we can help each
other, and YES, we all share a common bond.
-Bill Cohen, CLAGS member and President and Publisher,
The Haworth Press, Inc.
Interdisciplinary Concentration
in Lesbian and Gay/Queer Studies
he Graduate Center offers an Interdisciplinary
Concentration in Lesbian and Gay/Queer Studies, a
rapidly growing, multidisciplinary enterprise whose
goal is the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender people and their histories and cultures, as
well as the study of sexuality and its role in the
deployment of cultural and social power. Lesbian and
Gay Studies is a system of inquiry that examines the roles
of same-sex desire across and among cultures and
histories. Queer Studies views sexuality not as a stable
category of identification or as merely a series of physical
acts, but sees desire itself as a cultural construction that
is central to the institutionalization and normalization of
certain practices and discourses that organize social
relations and hierarchies. Together, the two constitute a
field whose best work often weaves together both types
of analysis.
Interdisciplinary Concentrations were instituted to
recognize that the development of knowledge crosses
traditional departmental boundaries and that interdisciplinary study constitutes a sound and stimulating
approach to scholarship. Students fulfilling one of the
existing doctoral programs can fashion a specialization in
LG/Q Studies with the guidance of the Interdisciplinary
Studies Committee and under the supervision of
specialists within these areas.
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Requirements: Students are required to be matriculated in
one of the Graduate Center’s established doctoral
programs and must take the core class, Introduction to
Lesbian and Gay/Queer Studies, as well as three electives
within the Concentration’s course lists.
Further inquiries about the Concentration in Lesbian
and Gay/Queer Studies should be directed to 212-8171955. u
I am interested in completing the IDS Concentration in
Lesbian and Gay/Queer Studies
I have already completed coursework towards the
Concentration, including (please list courses, instructors,
and the term and year you took them):
Fall 05 Course List
IDS Concentration in Lesbian and
Gay/Queer Studies, Prof. Lisa Jean Moore,
Coordinator (212- 817-1955)
ART. 79000 - History of Photography: 19th Century Photography
GC: T, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Geoffrey Batchen, [92081]
C L. 80900 - Early Modern Cultural Translations
GC: M 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 4 credits, Prof. Martin Elsky, [92254] Cross listed
with RSCP 72100
ENGL. 70500 - The Canterbury Tales
GC: T, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 2/4 credits, Prof. Glenn Burger, [92255]
ENGL. 75600 - Wright, Ellison & Baldwin
GC: W, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 2/4 credits, Prof. Robert Reid-Pharr, [92271]
ENGL. 80100 - Theory Colloquium
GC: R, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Rm. TBA, 2/4 credits, Prof. Ammiel Alcalay, [92272]
ENGL. 86400 - The Lyric Essay IV
GC: T, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Rm. TBA, 2/4 credits, Prof. Wayne Koestenbaum, [92269]
ENGL. 87100 - Proust I
GC: T, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 2/4 credits, Prof. Eve Sedgwick, [92265]
ENGL. 88100 - Humiliation
GC: W, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Rm. TBA, 2/4 credits, Prof. Wayne Koestenbaum, [92268]
FREN. 71000 - Romance of the Rose
GC: M, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Kathryn Talarico, [92659] Course
taught in English.
FREN. 87400 - Autobiography & Autofiction
GC: W, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Thomas Spear, [92199] Course
taught in French
HIST. 70320 - The Greek Speaking World/Death of Socrates to the Roman
Conquest
GC: M, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Jennifer Roberts, [92662] Cross
listed with CLAS
HIST. 70400 - Saints and Society in the Medieval West 300-1200
GC: T, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Thomas Head, [92049] Cross listed
with MSCP
HIST. 75400 - Visual Culture in U.S. History 1776-1976
GC: M, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Joshua Brown, [92031]
MSCP. 80500 - Antiquities & Modernities: Political & Poetic Space in
Medieval Studies
GC: R, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Ammiel Alcalay, [92349] Cross
listed with ENGL
PSYC. 77100 - Ethical/Legal Issues for Psychologists
Bar: R, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Joel Lefkowitz, [92500]
PSC. 70200 - Modern Political Thought
GC: W, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Marshall Berman, [92011]
name
PSC. 71901 - American Politics
GC: M, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Charles Tien, [92679]
email
address
PSC. 72300 - Constitutional Law
GC: T, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Thomas Halper, [92006]
city
state
zip
PSC. 80602 - Political Thought of Michel Foucault
GC: M, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 4 credits, Prof. Mark Blasius, [92677]
phone
PSC. 82601 - Social Movements in America
GC: W, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 4 credits, Prof. Frances Fox-Piven, [92010]
program
SOC. 85403 - Black Homosexuality
GC: M, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Juan Battle, [92682]
year enrolled
SOC. 85000 - Youth/Marginalization/Resistance
GC: W, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. David Brotherton, [92394]
Please mail this information to the Center for Lesbian and
Gay Studies (CLAGS) Office, or drop it off at CLAGS, The
Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7115, New York,
NY 10016, (212) 817-1955.
THEA. 80200 - Critical Perspectives on American Musical Theatre
GC: M, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. David Savran, [92684]
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and activities seemed mutually exclusive to conference
participants; indeed, perhaps the most vivid theme
across the two days was the urgency and importance of
all the strategies on the table.
The trans movement is a child of the traditional civil
rights movement. No longer in its infancy, it is growing
rapidly, following in many of the same footsteps and
facing many of the same stresses. Rooms and halls were
packed full to every corner, and one common activist
context was visible: against a reality of razor-thin budgets
for most organizations and a reliance almost entirely on
volunteer labor, the movement survives and grows. It
does so out of a deep sense of justice and raw willpower.
In turn, the excitement of the conference lay, not only in
the chance to create networks and to share resources,
but in the recognition that we will survive and that we
have a future. u
Richard M. Juang is Co-Chair on the Advisory Board of the National
Center for Transgender Equality.
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CLAGS is committed to fostering and disseminating LGTBQ
research and scholarship both in the United States and
abroad. We are now expanding our online presence to include
CLAGS’s Online Directory of LGTBQ Studies, a searchable
collection of scholars -- within universities, non-governmental
organizations, and other places -- and their locations, what
tracks of study are available nationwide for students and
intellectuals wishing to pursue the field of LGTBQ Studies,
and more. If you are doing LGTBQ work and would like to be
included in this growing internet resource, please complete
the online survey by going to
web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/directory.htm.