Brooklyn College LGBTQ Studies

WGST Senior Seminar Presentation Register in advance for this meeting. WGST Virtual Senior seminar, Tuesday 25, 2021 @ 3:00PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZcrdequrzkoGdHK9rD40bWsaTq4n ...... After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. See more

Zoom panel--Legislating against Gender? Hear about the deluge of state bills targeting trans and nonbinary people, alliances between transphobic feminisms and the religious right in the US and the UK, the impact of female erasure rhetoric, links between masculinist anti-gender and anti-immigration movements, and more. With Alexander Chen, Sophie Lewis, Shannon Minter, Alyosxa Tudor and moderated by yours truly. Friday, May 7th, 12:00 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time... Free and open to the public Women and Gender Studies Program, Brooklyn College Via Zoom, email [email protected] to register Speakers: Alexander Chen is the Founding Director of the Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic. Alexander’s work focuses on expanding the rights of LGBTQ+ people through impact litigation, policy advocacy, and direct representation at both the national and local levels. Alex co-drafted AB 2119, a bill that made California the first state to guarantee access to transition-related health care for trans youth in foster care. Dr. Sophie Lewis is a visiting scholar at The Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women, and a member of the teaching faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is the author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso, 2019) and many articles and essays including "How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans" (The New York Times). Shannon Minter is the Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, one of the nation’s leading advocacy organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In that job for 20 years, he has played a central role in transgender rights activism and litigation. Minter has represented hundreds of trans people in all kinds of cases from asylum to family law to prison issues. Alyosxa Tudor is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. Their work connects trans and queer feminist approaches with transnational feminism and postcolonial studies. Alyosxa’s main research interest lies in analyzing (knowledge productions on) migrations, diasporas and borders in relation to critiques of Eurocentrism and to processes of gendering and racialization. Paisley Currah, (moderator), is the Internal Endowed Chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is a founding gender editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and his book, Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, will be published by New York University Press in 2022.

Join us for a Trans CUNY Student Town Hall on April 14th! The NYC Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) and Nicholas Cevoli, Brooklyn College LGBTQ Community Intern... are pleased to co-host the Trans CUNY Student Town Hall. It will be a discussion of student experiences, human rights law, and next steps for CUNY accountability to comply with NYC laws. The event is co-sponsored by the NWSA and the Center for LGTBQ Studies (CLAGS). Register here: http://bit.ly/2PlRFdy

Class announcement!

In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance, we'll be holding our annual vigil to read the names of those who have passed away due to transphobic violence. Join us on Zoom on Friday, November 20th at 12:30pm. Register on Zoom: https://brooklyncollege.zoom.us//tJEscOiurzIrEtQXEBO3sY2H0

Questions about internships? Join us tomorrow for an info session! Register at: https://bit.ly/2TrSzUs

Hi everyone, I'm teaching a new "special topics" course in the spring, Identity Politics and its Critics. I'm very excited to be teaching it, and figuring out the future of identity politics with the students who take it! Here are the details: POLS 3501 / WGST 3550 Course number--60800 Professor Paisley Currah... Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:00 - 12:15 Identity politics, an approach to organizing and social change based on a group’s shared experiences of inequality, has been celebrated in the United States as a much-needed response to the political mistreatment and marginalization of oppressed peoples. It has also been reviled as marking the demise of liberalism. In this course, students will examine the recent history of identity politics, including the Civil Rights Movement, the American Indian Movement, the women's movement, Hispanic/Latinx political formations, the disability rights movement, and movements for LGBTQ rights and justice, among others. After considering the recent history of identity politics, the course will consider: What is the future of identity politics? How did voting patterns in the 2020 election challenge the idea that specific groups share the same politics? Which important politics issues are issues are occluded by a focus on identity?

Join us with the LGBT Resource Center for Transgender Day of Remembrance. In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance, we'll be holding our annual vigil to read the names of those who have passed away due to anti-transgender violence. Join us on Zoom on Friday, November 20th at 12:30pm. Register on Zoom: https://brooklyncollege.zoom.us/.../tJEscOiurzIrEtQXEBO3s...... November 20, 2020 12:30 PM 1:30 PM https://brooklyncollege.zoom.us/.../tJEscOiurzIrEtQXEBO3s...

Questions about internships? Join us on November 19 for an info session! Register at: https://bit.ly/2TrSzUs