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