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Still Here
In honor of World AIDS Day, the will be a screening of the Cannes award-winning documentary film Still Here by Alex Camilleri '10. This 20-minute filim profiles New York City native Randy Baron, who has been living with HIV for 30 years, and through a rare genetic mutation, has had the gift of continued health, making him an inadvertent witness to the AIDS epidemic.
A discussion with Messrs. Camilleri and Baron will follow
5:30 p.m.
December 1, 2010
The Rosenwald Theater
Volgelstein Center for Drama and Film
This event is free and open to the public
Sponsored by:
the Office of Health Education, Counseling Service, Heath Services, Pro-Health, the Department of Film, Alumnae/i Affairs and Development, and the Campus Life Office
Gay is the new Black?
Since the passage of Prop 8, the idea that Gay Is The New Black has become a new slogan used by same-sex marriage advocates. But has sexual orientation replaced race as the new barometer of social justice in America? Kenyon Farrow will trace the roots of this rhetoric and chart a new course for an LGBT agenda that includes racial and economic justice.
Kenyon is the Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice, an organization dedicated to organizing, research, and advocacy for and with low-income and working-class lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. Kenyon previously served as the National Public Education Director. He is the co-editor of “Letters From Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out” (Nation Books 2005) and the upcoming “A New Queer Agenda” and Stand Up! The Politics of Racial Uplift (South End Press).
This lecture is free and open to the public
Intersex at Intersection of Queer and Disability Theory
Emi Koyama is a multi-issue social justice activist and author synthesizing feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer, sex worker, intersex, genderqueer, and crip politics, as these factors, while not a complete descriptor of who she is, all impacted her life. Emi is currently the director of Intersex Initiative based in Portland, Oregon.
Bringing Out Tropic Spells
The English Department Lecture Committee Presents
Bringing Out Tropic Spells:
Performing Queer Encounters in the Asias
A Colloquium with Eng-Beng Lim
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Brown University
Friday, November 12 at Noon, Rockefeller Hall 200
Sponsored by Africana Studies, Asian Studies, and CampusLife LGBTQ Programs
Queer Soup
ACT OUT!, in collaboration with Idlewild, FWA and Campus Life LGBTQ Programs, is bringing Queer Soup to Vassar! Queer Soup is a queer theater organization and will be doing their show called "We All Will Be Received" as well as facilitating a discussion after the show.November 12th at 7:00pm
Students' Building, 2nd Floor
“In We All Will Be Received Queer Soup expertly weaves together three unique stories about coming to know and understand ones sex and gender as defiantly, differently, deliberately queer. The splendor of outrageously performed gender found at Graceland and Dollywood provides the perfect back drop for Malvis, Frankie Cocktail and Kathy to each explore, inhabit and perform gender. This important theater piece resonates with me and perhaps with so many of us because it tells the repeatedly omitted story of queerly gendered identities, and expressions there of, that are never easily come by. Bravo/a!!”
- Jessica Flaherty, Director of Programs, The Boston Alliance of GLBT Youth
“In We All Will Be Received Queer Soup expertly weaves together three unique stories about coming to know and understand ones sex and gender as defiantly, differently, deliberately queer. The splendor of outrageously performed gender found at Graceland and Dollywood provides the perfect back drop for Malvis, Frankie Cocktail and Kathy to each explore, inhabit and perform gender. This important theater piece resonates with me and perhaps with so many of us because it tells the repeatedly omitted story of queerly gendered identities, and expressions there of, that are never easily come by. Bravo/a!!”
- Jessica Flaherty, Director of Programs, The Boston Alliance of GLBT Youth
Meet Our New Student Staff
Please welcome our Fall2010 student staff. The student staff members are integral to the work of CampusLife LGBTQ Programs. In addition to assisting with program development, they hold open office hours in the LGBTQ Center (CC235) during the evenings and on weekends so that the center and its resources are available to the campus community when the administrative staff are not present. I encourage everyone to take advantage of the center during these extended hours.
STUDENT STAFF HOURS
Sunday, 6:00pm-11:00pm
Monday, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Tuesday, 6:00pm-10:00pm
Wednesday, 10:00am-1:00pm; 3:00pm-7:00pm
Thursday, 2:00pm-8:00pm; 10:00pm-12:00am
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