spring-series

Spring Recap

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:21:45 +0100

Black Lesbian Herstory in the 70s

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:01:02 +0100

Black Lesbian Herstory in the 70s:
An At Home Tour and Guide to the Black Lesbian Herstory of the Collection

Please join us at the Lesbian Herstory Archives where we will dig into select Black Lesbian artifacts from the Lesbian Herstory Archives collection, specific to the lives of Black Lesbians in the 1970s. A black-lesbian-specific reading of unpublished papers, slide show of images, short excerpts of documentary film, and guided tour specific to the black herstory of the collection, will allow for discussion and aid to the beginning of independent research. Free and open to the public. Black lesbians present in the 70s are encouraged to attend and bring items to donate to the collection.

Moderated by: Shawnta Smith
Your Lesbian Librarian & Archivette of the Lesbian Herstory Archives

For more information contact: www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org
(718) 768-DYKE

Lesbian Herstory Archives
484 14th St.
Brooklyn, NY
3-6 PM

F Train to 15th Street/Prospect Park

The Production of Lesbian Spaces in the 1970s

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:06:21 +0100

Friday, March 19
The Production of Lesbian Spaces in the 1970s

The panel will discuss the production of lesbian space and place in the 1970s, both urban and otherwise and within and without lesbian feminism, with a reception to follow from 8-10pm. We hope to touch on such topics as the roles of concepts of public and private, the politics, experiences, and uses of visibility and invisibility, and shifts in lesbian-feminist, butch-femme, and other dynamics throughout this period.

The event will be recorded and archived on the CLAGS site for future viewing, while the conversation itself will continue in an online mapping venue that those in New York City and beyond can contribute their own place markers with accompanying stories to record lesbian spaces over time throughout the world.

Moderator: Jen Gieseking

Panelists: Joan Gibbs, co-founder of Azalea and Dykes Against Racism Everywhere, Madeline Davis, co-author of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Stina Soderling, Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers, working on Lesbian Land, and Julie Enszer, Ph.D. candidate in Womens Studies, University of Maryland and the founder of the Lesbian Poetry Archive

Graduate Center
Room C197
6-8 PM

Reception to follow 8-10 PM

Hammer! Making it in Sex and Movies

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:06:01 +0100

Wednesday, March 17
Hammer! Making it in Sex and Movies

Talk and Reading with Barbara Hammer

Hammer! Making it in Sex and Movies is the first book by influential filmmaker

Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of nonmonogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, her search for meaning as she contemplates mortality in the past ten years -this event celebrates her life and work with clips of past work, a Q&A and a reading from her forthcoming book, Hammer! Making it in Sex and Movies

Hosted at NYU
7-9 PM

Co-sponsored with Feminist Press and Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory

March 11th -Performing Queer America

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:05:39 +0100

Thursday, March 11
Performing Queer America: The Politics of Lesbian Comedy

How do lesbian comics perform America? in other words, how is lesbian identity and civil rights negotiated through performance, particularly when faced with cultural and legal exclusion in one's own nation? Drawing from the comedic stylings of Robin Tyler and other 1970s lesbian comics, this panel will examine the socio-political issues explores by lesbian comics. Special attention will be given to the impact of early lesbian comedy on contemporary lesbian humor production, the strategies these women impart for combating queer exclusion in the national polity, and how we ought to begin negotiating the politics of national belonging (so we win).

Panelists:
Rebecca (Beck) Krefting, Ph.D. Candidate, Micia Mosely, Ph.D.

CUNY Graduate Center
Room C197
6-8 PM