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Stayin' Alive: The Many Afterlives of Disco Conference takes place July 5th and 6th!

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:48:06 +0000

Stayin' Alive: The Many Afterlives of Disco Conference takes place July 5th and 6th! Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/02/2024 - 09:48

Update 7/19: Visit the links below to view the session recordings from the conference!

Disco defies death. Over forty years after the so-called “death of disco,” disco music is everywhere. From Donna Summer to Beyoncé, disco is on the radio, in the clubs, and on the dance floor. This conference brings together scholars of disco/dance music, industry professionals, and dance activists to discuss disco’s history, present, and future. We are especially interested in exploring disco’s disruptive potential. How does disco confuse strict categorizations of gender, race, and sexuality? How does it blur the lines between high and low culture? How does its insistence on decadence both play into and disrupt the logics of capitalism? What were, and are the economics of disco in the music industry?

This conference will take place at the University of Exeter Penryn Campus in the UK. The conference will take place July 5–6. Parts of the conference will be available virtually.

Stayin’ Alive: The Many Afterlives of Disco
Virtual Conference July 5–6
www.discoconference.com
Sponsored by University of Exeter, British Association of American Studies, University of Colorado’s Department of Women & Gender Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Research & Innovation Office, and the University Libraries’ Rare & Distinctive Collections.

“DJs of 1970s New York”
Featuring DJ Luis Mario Orellana Rizzo and DJ Ronnie Soares
July 5, 7 a.m. MDT

"Disco's Afterlives: From the 1980s to Today"
Featuring DJ Frankie Elyse, co-founder of the Scotland-based Polka Dot Disco Club, a collective of women, trans, and nonbinary DJs
July 5, 8:45 a.m. MDT

“(This Ain’t) Nodisco: How a Changing Disco Sound Divided and United Queer Dance Scenes in the Late 1970s”
Dr. Louis Nieber, University of Nevada Reno, author of Menergy: San Francisco’s Gay Disco Sound
July 6, 8:45 a.m. MDT

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S.N. Nyeck Wins Prestigious Honor, Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship

Anonymous — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:16:05 +0000

S.N. Nyeck Wins Prestigious Honor, Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16

Dr. S.N. Nyeck, Ethnic Studies Professor and LGBTQ Studies Affiliate Faculty, has been awarded the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship. This program, funded by the Carnegie Corporation supports projects that allow African scholars in the U.S. to invest in Higher Education in Africa. Nyeck's job is to contribute to a womanist curriculum co-development that will strengthen the mission and vision of the Center for Women and Gender Studies (Mandela University, South Africa) and the SARCHI Chair in Sexualities, Gender, and Queer Studies (University of Fort Hare, South Africa).

In collaboration with the Universities of Fort Hare and Mandela, Nyeck will work to develop an online-based module (Master Class) on womanist methodologies; teach a seminar on Queer Ethics and Indigeneity (four weeks); give a public lecture on the theme of Engagement, Queerness, Post-Colonial State Violence; serve as an advisor for the Master of Arts in Gender Studies (Mandela University); visit and explore the Eastern Cape of South Africa (Makhanda/Alice/Ginsberg/Mthatha); and propose research collaboration and programmatic opportunities between CU �鶹ӰԺ/CAAAS and the University of Fort Hare and Mandela University in South Africa.

Congratulations Dr. Nyeck!

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LGBTQ Studies Intern, Nic Tamayo, Writes Article for History Colorado Newsletter

Anonymous — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:59:05 +0000

LGBTQ Studies Intern, Nic Tamayo, Writes Article for History Colorado Newsletter Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/15/2024 - 09:59

With the support of the Thomas Stephens Support Fund, CU �鶹ӰԺ student, Nic Tamayo has been completing the LGBTQ+ Collections Internship with History Colorado through the LGBTQ Studies Internship Program. Tamayo's work has delved into the incredible local history of drag artistry in Denver. Read more on the History Colorado Weekly Digest!

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Black Trans Feminist Writers Event Moderated by Dr. Moore

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Black Trans Feminist Writers Event Moderated by Dr. Moore Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/01/2024 - 00:00

Join the virtual roundtable on April 18th 5-6:15pm, moderated by Dr. Nathan Alexander Moore, will consist of four Black trans feminist writers who will each share their experiences on how they came to their writing practice, what projects they are working on, inspiration for their writing, and their goals for their literary offerings, followed by an audience Q&A session.

fatima jamal is black trans* study enfleshed finding breath where there is asphyxiation and dooming forces that heavies the air. what she does, with words and images, is prayer and hope towards freedom—on the shores of nonhumanness and fugitivity—from this dying world. she/spirit is writing to die and live (again).

K Anderson (she/they) is a writer-artist, porn archivist, and doctoral student in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Rutgers University. They are interested in the epistemological and physiological function of memory as a troubled mechanism of historicizing and remembering black sexual cultures, economies, and geographies.

Dr. LaVelle Ridley is a queer black transsexual writer and mentor whose interests emerge from the intersection of transgender studies, black feminist theory, and life writing studies. Dr. Ridley’s research focuses on the radical cultural politics of black transgender women in the U.S. and advances an anti-capitalist, prison abolitionist agenda.

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Join us for the 2nd Annual Queer Theories Graduate Symposium

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Join us for the 2nd Annual Queer Theories Graduate Symposium Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 11/15/2023 - 00:00

Join the LGBTQ Studies and WGST department at this year’s Queer Theories Graduate Symposium featuring presentations on original student works. Following presentations of original work by Queer Theories graduate students, keynote speaker Zein Murib will present. Murib's research and teaching interests are informed by feminist and queer theory and located at the intersection of scholarship on gender and sexuality, interest groups and social movements, and marginalized political identities in U.S. politics.

Friday December 1st
11am-2pm - Graduate Student Presentations
in the Gates Woodruff Cottage

2:30-3:20pm - Dr. Zein Murib Presents on their book, Terms of Exclusion
in Hale 270

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Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick, November 30th, 5pm!

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:44:04 +0000

Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick, November 30th, 5pm! Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/24/2023 - 13:44

Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick

Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 5pm
Brakhage Center, Atlas 311

CU �鶹ӰԺ is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.

The program features newly commissioned work by Dorothy Cheung (Hong Kong), Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento (Brazil), Beau Gomez (Canada/Philippines), Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria (USA), and Kurt Weston (USA).

Inspired by a statement from Cyrée Jarelle Johnson in the book Black Futures, Everyone I Know Is Sick examines how our society excludes disabled and sick people by upholding a false dichotomy of health and sickness. Inviting us to understand disability as a common experience rather than an exception to the norm, the program highlights a range of experiences spanning HIV, COVID, mental health, and aging. The commissioned artists foreground the knowledge and expertise of disabled and sick people in a world still grappling with multiple ongoing pandemics.

Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

This event is co-sponsored by LGBTQ Studies and the Brakhage Center.

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LGBTQ Studies Co-Director Kristie Soares Releases New Book, Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0000

LGBTQ Studies Co-Director Kristie Soares Releases New Book, Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/13/2023 - 00:00

Dr. Kristie Soares celebrates the release of her new book "Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media" with conversation, appetizers and dancing!

�鶹ӰԺ the book...

Pleasure-based politics in Puerto Rican and Cuban pop culture
University of Illinois Press, 2023

Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge norms of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Kristie Soares focuses on the diasporic media of Puerto Rico and Cuba to examine how music, public activist demonstrations, social media, sitcoms, and other areas of culture resist the dominant stories told about Latinx joy. As she shows, Latinx creators compose versions of joy central to social and political struggle and at odds with colonialist and imperialist narratives that equate joy with political docility and a lack of intelligence. Soares builds her analysis

around chapters that delve into gozando in salsa music, precise joy among the New Young Lords Party, choteo in the comedy ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?, azúcar in the life and death of Celia Cruz, dale as Pitbull’s signature affect, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of silliness to take political violence seriously.

Daring and original, Playful Protest examines how Latinx creators resist the idea that joy only exists outside politics and activist struggle.

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Day With(out) Art 2022: BEING & BELONGING, December 1, 5pm!

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:37:18 +0000

Day With(out) Art 2022: BEING & BELONGING, December 1, 5pm! Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/17/2022 - 15:37

Day With(out) Art 2022: BEING & BELONGING

December 1, 2022 – 5pm

Brakhage Center, Atlas 311

The Brakhage Center for Media Arts and LGBTQ Studies are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world.

The program features newly commissioned work by Camila Arce (Argentina), Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes (USA), Jaewon Kim (South Korea), Clifford Prince King (USA), Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas (Colombia), Mikiki (Canada), and Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry (México).

From navigating sex and intimacy to confronting stigma and isolation, Being & Belonging centers the emotional realities of living with HIV today. How does living with HIV shift the ways that a person experiences, asks for, or provides love, support, and belonging? The seven videos are a call for belonging from those that have been stigmatized within their communities or left out of mainstream HIV/AIDS narratives.

Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

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Queer Theories Graduate Symposium--November 30th, 1-5pm!

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:32:58 +0000

Queer Theories Graduate Symposium--November 30th, 1-5pm! Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/17/2022 - 15:32

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Nathan Alexander Moore's Novel Longlisted for Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:35:14 +0000

Nathan Alexander Moore's Novel Longlisted for Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 09/27/2022 - 14:35

Nathan Alexander Moore's novel Lifted has been longlisted for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award.

You can read about Professor Moore's work here.

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Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 5pm Brakhage Center, Atlas 311

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Nathan Alexander Moore's Novel Longlisted for Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award

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Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 5pm
Brakhage Center, Atlas 311