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SUMMARY:TELL\, a queer storytelling show
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nHosted and curated by Drae Campbell\, join us at The Bureau for an evening of queer storytelling. This month’s theme is “Ghosts”. Joined by artist and activist Lyssette Horne\, actor and musician Han Van Sciver\, and storyteller Rawya El Chab\, come hear the chaos and the comedy that unites us in our queerness. We’ve all got those stories. Let’s tell them.  \nLyssette Horne is a black\, queer\, artist and activist\, skin cancer survivor and breast cancer previvor. Inspired by the works of Audre Lorde\, Lyssette created Black Queer Roar: A Guide to Self-care in the Face of Trauma\, an online blog sharing the realities and barriers BIPOC Queer and Trans people face accessing health equity. Lyssette’s activism has led to many creative endeavors including an Emmy nominated short documentary about the myths and causes related to youth homelessness. They were also named one of the ‘Top Forty Under 40’ by The Advocate magazine and their work was featured on the cover of Gay City News. \nHan Van Sciver is a Brooklyn-based actor and musician. Theatre: At The Wedding (Lincoln Center)\, An Oxford Man (Manhattan Theatre Club\, Ted Snowden Series)\, and Galatea (New Georges). Film: Regulars; upcoming: The Fell. TV: Elsbeth\, The Walking Dead. Percussion: Joe’s Pub. MFA: Brown/Trinity Rep. \nRawya El Chab is a New York City–based storyteller. Her work digs through archives\, family histories\, and collective memory to explore where personal stories collide with political history. Working across storytelling\, puppetry\, poetry\, and audiovisual media\, she has presented work at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club\, The Brick\, Rattlestick Theater\, and the Exponential Festival. Her recent works include Lula 19/85 & the Pearl of Bekaa and Crossing the Water\, the first two installments of an ongoing trilogy exploring memory\, political inheritance\, and the rise and collapse of the Lebanese left. \nDrae Campbell (she/they) is an actor\, comedian and storyteller who has performed in every medium. Drae was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for her work in The Nosebleed at Lincoln Center Theater. Drae’s first performance was at age 5 in a nightclub as the opening act for a punk band. Her career in theater and in gender joy started when she was cast as John Henry in The Member Of The Wedding in a local San Francisco production at age 9. Drae has a BFA in Theater from The University of the Arts. Drae has been hosting and curating a queer storytelling show for 12 years called TELL\, which has been made into a SILVER Signal Award winning podcast. @draebiz @tellqueerz \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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SUMMARY:Fatspo Podcast Book Club
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nDiscussing writing by fat liberation scholars and fat icons\, making new friends with similar values\, and browsing the Bureau’s shelves: Welcome to Fatspo Pod’s NYC book club!\n\nRSVP to help us plan the best experience possible. You’ll also be added to our WhatsApp group where we discuss the book of the month\, anything else we’re reading\, and future NYC fat liberation events. \nKat Lyon is the co-host of Fatspo Podcast and the host of the NYC Fatspo Pod Book Club. Fatspo Podcast dives into the untold histories of fat icons and fat liberation scholars to inform how we embody our fullest selves and support each other\, as media and culture increasingly devalues our very existence. \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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