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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:Book Launch: How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nIn How to Win a Culture War\, sociologist Lisa M. Stulberg explores how LGBTQ+ artists\, athletes\, and entertainment leaders have helped reshape American culture through visibility\, advocacy\, and storytelling. Using examples from television\, film\, music\, sports\, and politics—including the cultural impact of late-2025 breakout series Heated Rivalry—Stulberg shows how today’s progress was built on decades of creative risk-taking and activism. \nDrawing on 14 years of interviews with 170 culture workers\, including Eric McCormack\, Lea DeLaria\, and Greg Louganis\, the book reveals six key strategies used to advance LGBTQ+ social change—from becoming visible to “staying queer.” Rich with behind-the-scenes insight\, How to Win a Culture War offers a timely playbook for changing hearts\, minds\, and culture in the face of ongoing political backlash. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and there will be time for a signing after the event.  \nLisa M. Stulberg is associate professor of sociology of education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture\, Education\, and Human Development and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Sociology at NYU. Her research focuses on the politics of race and education\, affirmative action in higher education\, school choice policy and politics\, and LGBTQ+ social change. She is the author of a forthcoming book on the connection between pop culture and LGBTQ+ social change\, entitled How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture\, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in October of 2026. She is also the author of Race\, Schools\, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown (Teachers College Press\, 2008) and LGBTQ Social Movements (Polity\, 2018).  \nBrian Sims is a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate who spent a decade in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to the state’s General Assembly. Before his time in state office\, he was co-captain of the Bloomsburg University football team\, becoming the first openly gay college football captain on record. He currently serves as a Lecturer in Culture\, Advocacy and Leadership at Vanderbilt University New York City. He also has lectured at more than 150 colleges and universities and has spoken at more than 25 Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies and has served in a number of non-profit leadership positions. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s 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:Disturb + Enrapture: An ASSARACUS launch reading
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin Sibling Rivalry Press and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for a celebration of Issue 30 of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry\, with readings by Assaracus contributors Cheryl Boyce-Taylor\, JP Howard\, Dylan Richmond\, Ethan Richmond\, Steven Riel\, D. A. Schorr\, Robert Siek\, and Isaiah Vianese. \nFounded in 2011 by Sibling Rivalry Press\, Assaracus is a journal devoted to publishing gay and queer poets and documenting the breadth of queer experience. After publishing 25 issues during its original run\, Assaracus returned in 2025 with a renewed commitment to creating space for queer voices across generations\, geographies\, identities\, and aesthetics. Issue 30 marks another milestone in that continuing history\, and additionally includes work by Guillermo Filice Castro\, Brody Parrish Craig\, Randi M. Romo\, Daniel Nathan Terry\, and Emanuel Xavier\, plus features from The Library of Homosexual Congress\, Jerry Wheeler\, Gavin Dillard\, and Ian Young. \nSibling Rivalry Press is an independent publishing house founded in 2010 and based in Little Rock\, Arkansas. For more than fifteen years\, SRP has championed poetry\, fiction\, memoir\, and other work that amplifies LGBTQ+ voices and builds literary community across boundaries. Its mission is to publish work that disturbs and enraptures.   \nCome celebrate the poets\, the journal\, and\, above all\, the queer literary community. \nAdmission is free. \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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