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SUMMARY:Celebrating Chosen Family: Book Giveaway
DESCRIPTION:Who would we be without our chosen family? This afternoon we’re celebrating the people in our lives who started as friends and lovers and became vital members of our chosen family.  \nWe’re giving away copies of a new novel that explores this uniquely queer topic: Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray. Stop by the Bureau for a free copy of the book (while supplies last). We’ll have a table set up where you can write postcards of love and appreciation for your chosen family members. Leave them with us and we’ll put them in the mail for you!  \nBring members of your chosen family with you and everyone will receive a 15% discount off any purchase in the bookstore.  \nAbout Chosen Family \nAn exuberant and irreverently funny novel about one gorgeously messy friendship-feud-unrequited-love-affair set in Sydney across eighteen years. Chosen Family is a queer modern classic that reminds us that sometimes the most fulfilling and life-saving relationships are the ones that are the hardest to define. \nNell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant\, odd\, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls’ high school during their first year there\, both their lives are changed forever. From school\, to university\, to careers\, Nell and Eve’s relationship is a life raft that is also a Medusan stare\, frozen in time. \nWhen the passion\, guilt\, shame\, and joy that perpetually twists and turns between them finally implodes\, Nell abruptly walks away\, leaving Eve alone at the helm of the gloriously unorthodox family they’ve built with their seven-year-old daughter\, Lake. Eve finds herself left wondering: Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what’s going on in someone else’s head? And what’s love got to do\, got to do with it? \nAbout Madeleine Gray \nMadeleine Gray is the author of the novel Green Dot. She has written for the Times Literary Supplement\, the Guardian\, the BBC\, Electric Literature\, and Sydney Review of Books\, among other publications. She lives in Sydney\, Australia.
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SUMMARY:IN CONVERSATION: Terrell J. A. Winder & Theo Greene
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on the value of Black Queer Placemaking in shaping belonging and community in an era of shifting gay geographies. \nRSVP HERE \n\n\n\n\nJoin Terrell J. A. Winder (Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA) and Theo Greene (Not in My Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen) for a conversation on Blackness\, Queerness\, visibility\, and their intersections. \n— \nTerrell J. A. Winder received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2017. An urban ethnographer\, Dr. Winder’s research areas include race & ethnicity\, sexuality & sexual health\, qualitative & quantitative research methods\, and education. His current research examines stigma response processes among stigmatized populations negotiating more than one stigma simultaneously. His research has been published in Qualitative Sociology\, AIDS Patient Care & STDs\, the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities\, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. His work on mobile applications as a health intervention has also been covered in the Los Angeles Times. His book\, Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA\, is a multi-method examination of anti-gay stigma response among young Black gay men in Los Angeles. \nTheo Greene is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at Bowdoin College. His research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of sexuality\, urbanism\, and culture. Greene’s research broadly explores how sexual communities help us understand how urban redevelopment shapes and redefines how individuals think about\, identify with\, and participate in local communities. His book\, Not in MY Gayborhood! Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen recently received the 2026 Outstanding Book Award in Community and Urban Sociology from the American Sociological Association. In addition to his ongoing work on gay neighborhoods and queer placemaking in Maine\, Theo is currently Chair-Elect of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and serves on several boards that support LGBTQ communities in Portland\, Maine\, including the Frannie Peabody Center and the Equality Community Center.
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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