GCWS Feminisms Unbound: The Time of the Border
October 3, 2018 • 6 PM – 8 PM • MIT Campus, Building E51 Room 095 Join GCWS for panel discussions with local, national and international scholars. Moderated by Faith Smith, Brandeis Panelists: Dina Siddiqi, New York University, Emilie Diouf, Brandeis University, Sony Coranez Bolton, Amherst College, Patricia Ybarra, Brown University
BU CGSA 10th Birthday Party
September 21, 2018 • 8 PM – 11 PM • GSU Basement (CGSA) Join the BU Center for Gender, Sexuality, & Activism (CGSA) to celebrate the 10th birthday. They will be marking the occasion with snacks and cake. All alumni (whether or not you were part of the Center during your time at BU) are welcome […]
Queer Scientist Autumn Social
September 12, 2018 • 5 PM – 7 PM • BU ERB 203 The BU oSTEM graduate student chapter is having an autumn social to ‘come out’ on campus and find new allies and members. oSTEM is for undergraduate and graduate LGBTQIA students in STEM fields: (https://www.ostem.org/).
BU Romance Studies Graduate Student Conference: POWER IN DYSTOPIA
How Social Movements Feel/ BU Sedgwick Lecture in Gender & Sexuality Studies
Dean Spade is an associate professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches Administrative Law, and Law and Social Movements. He is also founder of the legal collective Sylvia Rivera Law Project and author of […]
Pornography, Perversion, Play: Black Women and Radical Sex
Race, Politics, and Social Media: A Symposium
Given its complete saturation of our cultural and political landscape social media has quickly migrated from a utopian mode of communication and community building to a sign of the perverse marriage of capitalism, celebrity culture and narcissism; in other words, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. are now more likely to be described as problems than […]
Women’s Leadership in Sustainable Development: A Conversation with Indigenous Leaders and NGO Activists from the Brazilian Amazon
“Battle of the Sexes” Screening and Discussion with Directors
The 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs became the most watched televised sports event of all time. Trapped in the media glare, King and Riggs were on opposites sides of a binary argument, but off-court, each was fighting more personal and complex battles. Film screening followed by Q&A with the […]
“Whose Streets?” A film screening & conversation with Director Damon Davis
Whose Streets? A Film Screening and Conversation with Director Damon Davis will take place on Wednesday, November 8 at 6PM in Tsai Performance Center. A short reception will follow. NOTE: The event is free, but people must RSVP using Eventbrite