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SUMMARY:Author Event: Robin Maril’s A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin us for to celebrate the launch of Robin Maril’s book A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy. Robin hosts a podcast of the same name discussing the interconnection between our queer future and our democratic future with guests like Margaret Cho\, Dean Spade\, and Brian Sims. A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy the book situates the attacks on LGBTQ rights within a larger democratic crisis. Speaking directly to the queer and transgender people navigating the intensifying political and cultural fault lines\, the book argues that the current denigration of queer and transgender lives in the US is a symptom of the broader degradation of American democracy\, representing the newest threat of American fascism. Joined by the founding editorial director of NBC Out\, Brooke Sopelsa\, the two will discuss the potential of the queer perspective towards transformative social change.  \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and there will be a signing after the event.  \nRobin Maril is a writer and Constitutional Law professor based in Portland\, Oregon.  Her work engages questions of democratic integrity and the growing threat of fascism and authoritarian regimes within America.  She also hosts the podcast A Queer Guide to Saving Democracy. She is a widely recognized scholar on LGBTQ rights and policy\, Executive power\, and the law of democracy.  Before teaching\, Robin worked in the LGBTQ civil rights movement at the Human Rights Campaign for nearly a decade. Robin began her legal career as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  She and her wife have two sons\, two dogs\, and an unknown number of snails. She is a proud graduate of the University of Oklahoma and Temple University Beasley School of Law. \nBrooke Sopelsa is an NYC-based award-winning journalist who has been writing\, editing and producing for major national newsrooms for more than two decades. Most recently\, she served as the founding editorial director of NBC Out at NBC News Digital\, and she’s an alumna of HuffPost\, MSNBC and CNBC. Brooke has also co-produced three documentaries centered on the LGBTQ community: the 2007 independent film “QueerStreets\,” the 2019 NBC News docu-series “Stonewall 50” and the 2024 NBC News feature documentary “The Stonewall Revolution.” Brooke holds a B.A. in Economics from Bucknell University\, an M.A. in Journalism from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from NYU’s Stern School of Business. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Politics: Sex\, Difference\, and Domination (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research — BISR)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER FOR THE COURSE HERE \nWe’re happy to host the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research’s course on Lesbian Politics every Monday from 6:30-9:30pm from Oct. 19 through Nov. 9. This 4-week course draws on Monique Wittig’s work\, as well as that of other French thinkers\, including Simone de Beauvoir and Colette Guillaumin\, to explore what a lesbian political theory can mean and its liberatory potential within and against patriarchy and the heterosexual paradigm.  \nAll payments\, refunds\, and enrollments are through BISR. Please use the registration link on their website.  \n“Lesbians are not women\,” the feminist theorist Monique Wittig famously pronounced. But what did she mean? According to Wittig’s theory\, sexual difference is an ideology\, not an ontological given. The relationship of woman to man is one of domination\, determined as much by material and economic oppression as language and discourse. In other words\, “there is no sex. Only sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses.” By existing outside of heterosexuality\, lesbians refuse the category of “woman” and break its ontological illusion of timeless difference: what Wittig calls the “heterosexual contract.” How\, with Wittig\, can we understand the possibilities of a feminism that seeks to abolish sex? What is the political role of lesbians within a heterosexual system? Can heterosexuality itself exist without producing or participating in sexed oppression\, and if not\, what are the alternatives? What is the meaning—and what are the possibilities—of lesbian politics? \nFollowing the intellectual and political debates among Wittig and her contemporaries\, we will probe the limits and possibilities of lesbian theory as a basis for the abolition of the “sex-class system.” How did Wittig and her fellow materialist feminists differentiate themselves from “French Feminist” theorists like Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray? How did Wittig’s creative experiments with gender and storytelling lay the groundwork for the emergence of queer theory in the United States? What can a lesbian politics provide for non-lesbians\, both gay and straight? Authors will include Monique Wittig\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Christine Delphy\, Colette Guillaumin\, Françoise d’Eaubonne\, and Françoise Verges. \nHannah Leffingwell is a writer\, historian\, artist\, and educator specializing in queer and gender history\, feminist and queer theory\, lesbian culture(s)\, and contemporary LGBTQ+ and feminist social movements. In addition to her role as associate faculty at BISR\, she has taught at The New School as a member of the part-time faculty and at NYU as an assistant instructor. Her research chronicles transnational lesbian organizing in the 1970s-90s and has been featured on Outhistory.org\, Gender & History\, and is forthcoming in an edited collection for Bloomsbury Academic. She holds a PhD in History and French Studies from New York University\, where she defended her dissertation\, “Becoming Lesbian: The Making and Unmaking of the International Lesbian Movement\, 1972-1998\,” in 2024. Her writing has also appeared in Jacobin\, The Chronicle Review\, Public Seminar\, Political Junkie\, Eurozine\, Sinister Wisdom\, and the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. She is also active on Substack\, where she writes a newsletter called “The Dykegeist.” \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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