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SUMMARY:Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (online)
DESCRIPTION:Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects\, those entitled to rights—usually white\, adult\, heteronormative\, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups\, such as Black people\, children\, LGBTQ people\, and slum dwellers. In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha\, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, Moisés Lino e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty. He calls such marginalized visions of freedom “minoritarian liberalism\,” a concept that stands in for overlapping\, alternative modes of freedom—be they queer\, favela\, or peasant. \nLino e Silva introduces readers to a broad collective of favela residents\, most intimately accompanying Natasha Kellem\, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in Latin America to indicate a specific form of female gender construction opposite to the sex assigned at birth). While many of those the author meets consider themselves “queer\,” others are treated as “abnormal” simply because they live in favelas. Through these interconnected experiences\, Lino e Silva not only pushes at the boundaries of anthropological inquiry\, but also offers ethnographic evidence of non-normative routes to freedom for those seeking liberties against the backdrop of capitalist exploitation\, transphobia\, racism\, and other patterns of domination. \nIn her endorsement of the publication\, Wendy Brown (political theorist) states: “Lino e Silva’s remarkable book fulfills its ambition to decolonize the freedom at liberalism’s heart. Equal parts erudite political theory and delicate anthropology\, it roams a favela in Rio for stories and imaginaries across Blackness\, queerness\, gender and class\, where it discovers everywhere the bubbling of minoritarian desires and practices of freedom. This beautifully written work does nothing less than bring liberalism–as theory and practices– into the 21st century.” \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the page on Eventbrite and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n  \nPurchase Moisés Lino e Silva‘s Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (University of Chicago Press\, 2022\, paperback\, $27.50) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nMoises Lino e Silva is tenured faculty at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)\, which is located in Brazil. His field of focus is that of political anthropology\, with a specialty in the ethnographic study of liberty and authority. This is examined in relation to issues such as poverty\, sexuality\, race\, and religion. His initial in-field research considered the aspects and issues of freedom as experienced and perceived by slum dwellers in Rio de Janeiro. More recent work has studied the cultivation of Afro-Brazilian power and the nature of freedom and partial freedom after formal slavery\, using ethnographic research to understand the current power dynamics between Latin America and West Africa. He is also the editor\, with Huon Wardle\, of Freedom in Practice: Governance Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday (Routledge 2017). Lino e Silva was appointed a World Social Science Fellow by the International Social Science Council. \n  \nJack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP\, 1995)\, Female Masculinity (Duke UP\, 1998)\, In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press\, 2005)\, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP\, 2011)\, Gaga Feminism: Sex\, Gender\, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press\, 2012) and\, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book\, out in 2020\, from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender\, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: The Wild Beyond: Music\, Architecture and Anarchy.
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SUMMARY:Affirmative Laughter (in person only!)
DESCRIPTION:🚨🚨AWWWWWSHEEEEIT!!!🚨🚨 \nAffirmative Laughter is back and better than ever! Back from a 4 yr hiatus\, host Elsa Eli Waithe is ready to shake the cobwebs off and bring the funny. Come join us at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division as we celebrate our return with a killer line up: \nJoanna Briley \nCarolyn Castiglia \nDara Jemmott \nVeronica Garza \nand presenting GOLD Comedy alum Chrissy Carroll! \n  \nDoors at 6pm\, Show at 7pm and as always $5 suggested donation to benefit the Bureau and the performers! \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nSafety protocol \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nAll attendees required to wear masks.
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