November 2024
Tabula Poetica: The Queer Subject: Voice, Identity, and Memory in Poetry and Pose
with poet Charles Jensen
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Charles Jensen wrote Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres, published in May 2024. His most recent collection of poetry is Instructions between
Takeoff and Landing.
The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu - Film Screening & Q&A
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Kapaemahu: A film celebrating Waikiki’s Mahu legends and healing traditions, directed
by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu. Features archival footage, animation, and a Q&A.
Global Feminisms Panel
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Featuring scholars with expertise on Africa, Asia, Latin America, this panel explores
historically and culturally specific forms of feminist praxis that people have employed
to engage, confront, reconfigure and enact social and political change. We reflect
on emerging hierarchies not only between the 'West" and "non-West," but also, relations
and hierarchies of power within the non-West. What are some of the ways non-Western
women re-imagine and build just and peaceful futures?
Gender, Race, and Masculinity: A Discussion
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Join Takeo Rivera, Playwright and Assistant Professor of English at Boston University,
and other panelists for a discussion about the intersectionality of gender, race,
and masculinity.
October 2024
Promoting LGBTQ+ Health Equity: Sex Positive Strategies with Dr. Ronald Rivera
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Dr. Ronald Rivera, UC Irvine Medical Center Physician & Director of DEI in Emergency
Medicine, will discuss LGBTQ+ health equity and sex positive approaches in addressing
disparities.
Maquilapolis: City of Factories Documentary Film Discussion
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Carmen Duran works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana’s 800 maquiladoras: she is
one of six million women around the world who labor for poverty wages in the factories
of transnational corporations. After making television components all night, Carmen
comes home to a dirt-floor shack she built out of cast-off garage doors from the U.S.,
in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity.
ETW: Ballroom with Icon MC Enyce Gorgeous Gucci Smith
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An evening of vogueing, duck walking, runway looks, and fierce competition at a Queer
Ballroom with legendary MC Enyce Gorgeous Gucci Smith. Within the ballroom scene Enyce
GG is known for his voguing, commentating, and his title as “King of the West Coast.”
He started walking balls in 2004 at 19 years old, and in 2016 he was deemed Legendary.
Vogue is his first love, but he’d rather commentate at balls today. Enyce loves ballroom
because it makes you feel like you are a part of something and that you’re wanted.
COVER-UP: A Discussion of the Censorship of Art about Gender and Sexuality with Prof.
Micol Hebron
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A lecture on the ways that art about gender and sexuality is censored in person and
online. Professor Hebron has been making art about the social constructs of gender
and sexuality for nearly 30 years. Her work has been censored, shadow-banned, and
even protested for nearly as long. Professor Hebron will talk about her own works
that have been censored and some historical cases of censorship in Art about gender
and sexuality.
Gender Matters: Comparative Approaches to Pregnancy, (Dis)ability, and the Movable
Self in Premodern Literature with Professor Alani Hicks-Bartlett
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Assessing late Medieval and Early Modern literature through a comparative lens drawing
from English, Italian, French, and Spanish literary traditions, this talk focuses
on the representation of gender, pregnancy, and the serious engagement with (dis)ability
that readers can find in the works of "seminal" premodern authors striving to assert
their authorial voices.
Bensussen Guest Lecture Series in Art with Photographer Catherine Opie
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Photographer Catherine Opie will discuss her work from the past six years, starting
with her critique of the utopian dream through the lens of an artist and arsonist.
She will then explore her journey through the swamps of the South, paired with stop-motion
animated political collages, and her road trip during COVID isolation in 2020, where
she examined the country's response to the climate of racism and politics.
The Feminist on CellBlock Y - Film Series & Q&A
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American documentary directed by Contessa Gayles and co-produced with Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
for CNN. The titular subject is Richie Reseda, an inmate at a prison in California
who studies and organizes around feminism and toxic masculinity with his fellow inmates.
September 2024
Roxane with One "N"... featuring author Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely
revered. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred
exploration of feminism and social criticism. With a deft eye on modern culture, she
brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity.
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