Lectures and Conferences
Past Lectures and Conferences
Beyond Survival: Eco-Feminist Imaginings in Precarious Times
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About the event: The Alice Paul Center’s year-long programming theme Environmental Feminisms concerns the overlapping projects of environmental justice, feminist activism, indigenous epistemologies, and artistic performance as feminist method. Amidst ever more urgent calls to…
A conversation with writer and poet Jenny Zhang
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Jenny Zhang is a write based in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing is an exploration of the transition from Chinese immigrant girlhood to Chinese american womanhood, and by broader extension, Asian American identities in the U.S. Her latest collection of poetry, My Baby First…
"Communist Christine Jorgensen and the MILFs" with Jules Gill-Peterson
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This talk works in modes auto-theoretical, historical, and speculative, through several fault lines in contemporary trans politics and culture of gender, sexuality, and race. Considering broadly what it could mean to sometimes turn away from trans gender and back towards the…
Workshop and Reading with Fariha Róisín
YouTube Livestream. Please RSVP for the workshop and you will receive instructions with a zoom link prior to the event.
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FARIHA RÓISÍN is an Australian-Canadian writer, editor and podcaster based in Brooklyn. With an interest in her Muslim identity, race, pop culture and film (as well as queerness and how that intersects with being a femme of color navigating a white world) she has written for Al…
(CANCELED) Pinko with Abrams Artist-in-Residence Ricardo Bracho
LGBT Center
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(POSTPONED) Circa: a staged reading of a new play by Abrams Artist-in-Residence Ricardo Bracho
Slought | 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
6:00-7:00PM: Reception7:00-9:00PM: Staged Reading Circa: About, approximate, near, a time both close to and far from now. Setting: East Hollywood: Thai Town, Little Armenia as it borders Los Feliz, where the hood meets the hills. Time: The recent past, the near future. Urban…
(POSTPONED) Jules Gill-Peterson, University of Pittsburgh, Sexuality/Gender/Queer Studies talk
Annenberg School of Communication3620 Walnut Street, ANNS 110
A Vernacular Science of Gender: Trans History After Transsexuality This talk explores how transgender studies has come to presume an idealized separation between medical-scientific discourse and the social field of lived experience in its objects of study. Observing that this…
(POSTPONED) Beans Velocci, Yale University, Sexuality/Gender/Queer Studies talk
Annenberg School of Communication3620 Walnut Street, ANNS 111
Apparent Exceptions Occur: Trans Methods for the History of Sex Classification Trans histories have primarily focused on trans people, but what happens if you make trans history a method, not a subject? This talk proposes that examining the history of sex classification through a…
Black Spatial Relics: Artist Talks with Julia B. Johnson and muthi reed
Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 South 36th Street
Join Black Spatial Relics Artists-in-Residence, Julie B. Johnson and muthi reed in converation with Alice Paul Center Visiting Artist and Black Spatial Relics Director, Arielle Julia Brown. Black Spatial Relics is a new performance residency about slavery, justice and freedom. At…
They/She/He/Who’s Gotta Have It? Art across Genders, Nations and Forms
Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S 36th Street
This panel discussion and poetry art presentation will look at visual and textual works which trouble the divisions of states, languages, cultures and genders. The focus will be on contemporary queer artistry in the forms of photography, performance, poetry, anime/manga in queer…
