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SUMMARY:Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Theory\, Sexuality\, and Subversion
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner again with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you:\n \nJudith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Theory\, Sexuality\, and Subversion\n \nInstructor: Paige Sweet\n \n1990 saw the publication of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity\, a text that has become required reading for anyone interested in feminist theory\, critical appraisals of gender\, and the burgeoning field of queer theory. Central to Butler’s theory is the concept of performativity as a way to describe how we become gendered subjects\, that is\, how we come to enact gender in recognizable ways. The text is also well known for its account of how certain kinds of performative (gendered) practices—like drag—might become subversive; or how\, as Butler says\, it might be possible “to open up the field of possibility for gender.” Gender Trouble has proved surprisingly controversial\, notably for its difficult prose\, but also for its treatment of the body as discursively produced\, as well as for its ambiguous “subversive” politics. How\, 30 years after publication\, does Gender Trouble complicate\, or help us make sense of\, contemporary problems of feminism\, identity\, queerness\, and politics?\n \nWhether one is a devotee of Gender Trouble or to some degree a skeptic\, it remains a text to be reckoned with. This course will take Gender Trouble as the primary text and keep both approaches in mind—one appraising\, one critical—as we pair it with select supplemental readings. We will consider its historical context and theoretical frameworks. In addition\, we’ll grapple with the insights and limitations of its core arguments about gender and sexuality. Finally\, we’ll consider how its politics resonate (or don’t) today. We will ask: Why was it written when it was? With what other texts and ideas was it in conversation? How does it understand the relation between language and categories of sex and sexuality? What polyvalent meanings of performativity\, whether reverential or revisionary\, did Gender Trouble originate and inspire? What is the legacy of Butler’s argument for shifting the subject of feminism away from “women” to “gender”—especially in view of Robin Weigman’s critique\, or in view of more recent studies of trans subjectivity? How might we evaluate the political potentials or failures of parody today? Although some might come to the course curious about enduring relevance of this seminal text\, the course also welcomes first-time readers of Butler’s work. \n  \nThe Bureau sells copies of Judith Butler‘s Gender Trouble\, among other titles by Butler. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us! Thank you! \n  \nCourse Schedule \nMarch 3\, 10\, 17\, and 24\, 2020\nTuesdays\, 6:30-9:30pm\n4 sessions\n\n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n  \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \n  \nImage: photograph by Elizabeth Ohlson Wallin\n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/judith-butlers-gender-trouble/
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Habana Eva
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. Our regular venue is the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \n  \nOn March 4th please join us for a viewing of Habana Eva (2010)\, directed by Fina Torres and starring Prakriti Maduro\, Yuliet Cruz\, and Juan Carlos García. \n  \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \n  \nSynopsis: Eva\, a factory seamstress living with her parents in Havana\, dreams of designing clothes and is frustrated by the rut her relationship with her boyfriend has fallen into\, when she meets a wealthy visitor from Venezuela. Running time: 1 hour 46 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:The New Feminine: Poetry Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION: \nA reading and discussion featuring Chocolate Waters\, Tantra-Zawadi\, Patricia Carragon\, and Iris N. Schwartz. Open mic for anyone who identifies as feminine or non-binary. \n  \n \nChocolate Waters has been writing and publishing poetry for over five decades. During the second wave of feminism\, she was one of the first openly lesbian poets to publish. Her latest collection\, Muddying the Holy Waters\, will be released by Eggplant Press in 2020. The Greatest Hits of Chocolate Waters\, a “Sapphic Classic” chosen by Sinister Wisdom will appear sometime in 2022. Poets Wear Prada published her poetry chapbook The Woman Who Wouldn’t Shake Hands in 2011. Like and follow her at https://www.facebook.com/ChocolateWatersPoet/ \n  \nTantra-Zawadi\, recording artist\, performance poet\, actress\, educator\, and mentor\, is author of 3 collections of poetry including her latest Bubbles: One Conscious Breath (Poets Wear Prada\, 2013). \n  \nPatricia Carragon’s recent publications include Bear Creek Haiku\, First Literary-East \, Jerry Jazz Musician\, Narrative Northeast Review\, and Stardust Haiku. Her latest books Meowku (2019) and The Cupcake Chronicles (2017) were both published by Poets Wear Prada. Her debut novel\, Angel Fire\, is forthcoming from Alien Buddha Press. Patricia hosts Brownstone Poets monthly reading series and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. \n  \nIris N. Schwartz is the author of more than sixty works of fiction. Her flash appears in dozens of publications\, including Blink-Ink\, Crack the Spine\, Fictive Dream\, Gravel\, Jellyfish Review\, and Literary Orphans. Her second short short story collection\, Shame (Poets Wear Prada\, 2019)\, contains Best Microfiction 2018 nominee “Dogs” and was shortlisted by North of Oxford for recommended summer 2019 reading. Ms. Schwartz has also written erotica\, most notably the story “Hedonics\,” anthologized in Stirring Up a Storm: Tales of the Sensual\, the Sexual\, and the Erotic (Running Dog Press). \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-new-feminine-poetry-reading-open-mic/
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SUMMARY:Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Theory\, Sexuality\, and Subversion
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner again with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you:\n \nJudith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Theory\, Sexuality\, and Subversion\n \nInstructor: Paige Sweet\n \n1990 saw the publication of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity\, a text that has become required reading for anyone interested in feminist theory\, critical appraisals of gender\, and the burgeoning field of queer theory. Central to Butler’s theory is the concept of performativity as a way to describe how we become gendered subjects\, that is\, how we come to enact gender in recognizable ways. The text is also well known for its account of how certain kinds of performative (gendered) practices—like drag—might become subversive; or how\, as Butler says\, it might be possible “to open up the field of possibility for gender.” Gender Trouble has proved surprisingly controversial\, notably for its difficult prose\, but also for its treatment of the body as discursively produced\, as well as for its ambiguous “subversive” politics. How\, 30 years after publication\, does Gender Trouble complicate\, or help us make sense of\, contemporary problems of feminism\, identity\, queerness\, and politics?\n \nWhether one is a devotee of Gender Trouble or to some degree a skeptic\, it remains a text to be reckoned with. This course will take Gender Trouble as the primary text and keep both approaches in mind—one appraising\, one critical—as we pair it with select supplemental readings. We will consider its historical context and theoretical frameworks. In addition\, we’ll grapple with the insights and limitations of its core arguments about gender and sexuality. Finally\, we’ll consider how its politics resonate (or don’t) today. We will ask: Why was it written when it was? With what other texts and ideas was it in conversation? How does it understand the relation between language and categories of sex and sexuality? What polyvalent meanings of performativity\, whether reverential or revisionary\, did Gender Trouble originate and inspire? What is the legacy of Butler’s argument for shifting the subject of feminism away from “women” to “gender”—especially in view of Robin Weigman’s critique\, or in view of more recent studies of trans subjectivity? How might we evaluate the political potentials or failures of parody today? Although some might come to the course curious about enduring relevance of this seminal text\, the course also welcomes first-time readers of Butler’s work. \n  \nThe Bureau sells copies of Judith Butler‘s Gender Trouble\, among other titles by Butler. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us! Thank you! \n  \nCourse Schedule \nMarch 3\, 10\, 17\, and 24\, 2020\nTuesdays\, 6:30-9:30pm\n4 sessions\n\n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n  \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \n  \nImage: photograph by Elizabeth Ohlson Wallin\n \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Bureau closed indefinitely beginning on Friday\, March 13th
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn response to the coronavirus pandemic\, The LGBT Community Center will close at 6 pm on Friday\, March 13th\, and remain closed indefinitely (full statement here). As a result\, the Bureau will be closed beginning on Friday\, March 13th\, and all events scheduled for the remainder of March will either be rescheduled or canceled. \nWe will post updates as we receive them from The Center. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Postponed: Opening Reception for Paul Moreno / Problem Areas
DESCRIPTION:Due to the coronavirus pandemic\, The Center will be closed indefinitely beginning Friday\, March 13th\, at 6 pm. The Bureau will reschedule an opening reception as soon as we can. But for now the Bureau will be closed starting Friday\, March 13th\, and will remain closed until further notice. \nWe will post updates as we receive them. \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present Paul Moreno / Problem Areas. This will be Paul’s first solo exhibition and will include a selection of paintings and drawings from 2016 through 2020. \nPaul is a self-taught artist who grew up in Sparks\, Nevada. Paul studied Literature and Critical Thought at University of San Francisco and NYU. \nAbout the title\, Problem Areas\, Paul states “I took the title from the old adage that art-making is largely a process of problem solving. However\, the title is also meaningful in that when I choose subjects for my work\, I try to look at something that I have complex or unresolved feelings about. By spending time with the subject\, against the background of parsing it into formal elements that serve\nthe picture\, I find spiritual resolution can also present itself. In this way\, the problem\, as it were\, is not a negative\, but an opportunity to expose the beauty in the subject to myself and hopefully the viewer.” \n  \nPaul Moreno / Problem Areas will be on view from March 13 – May 3\, 2020. \nOpening reception will be Friday\, March 13\, 2020\, from 6-8 PM \nPlease join us for a conversation with Paul Moreno and contemporary art advisor\, curator and critic\, Bill Arning on Saturday\, May 2\, 2020\, 2 PM \nDownload a pdf of the press release for Paul Moreno / Problem Areas. \nImage: Paul Moreno. Ignatius (for a friend). 2020. 18″ x 23”. Mixed media on wood. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Postponed: Legible: A Queer Per-Zine Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Due to The Center’s cancellation of all groups\, meetings\, and events from March 16 through March 31 (full statement here)\, we will reschedule this workshop. Please check back for updates. \n  \nIn this 4-session workshop we will read and analyze zines by queer and trans and queer writers to learn ways in which these authors explore their bodies\, gender\, and self-image through the creation of personal zines. These zines will help give us inspiration and directions for thinking about our own writing in the zine format. This workshop is an opportunity to build community with trans and queer writers and poets while also building a better understanding of one’s self through the creation of your own per-zine. \nOver our four sessions we will create our own per-zines and share these zines with a reading at the end of our last session. The workshop will meet at the Bureau on: \nSaturday\, March 14\, 11 AM to 1 PM \nSaturday\, March 21\, 11 AM to 1 PM \nSaturday\, March 28\, 11 AM to 1 PM \nSaturday\, April 4\, 11 AM to 1 PM \nThis workshop is entirely free. You’re welcome to bring your own materials but materials will be provided as well as copies of zines for that will be used in our discussions. \nTo sign-up email the organizer Robin Gow at robinfgow@gmail.com\n(This workshop is on a first-come first-serve basis) \nAbout the organizer:\nRobin Gow grew up in rural Pennsylvania and now lives in New York where they are an adjunct professor and MFA candidate at Adelphi University. They also run the trans & queer reading series Gender Reveal Party. \nRobin Gow is the author of the chapbook HONEYSUCKLE by Finishing Line Press and their first full-length poetry collection (OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL DEGENERACY) is forthcoming with Tolsun Books. \nCurrently\, they are a managing editor The Nasiona and Editor at Large of Village of Crickets. They served for four years as the production editor of the Lantern literary magazine and are Social Media Coordinator for Oyster River Pages. They has also worked to help produce several zines. \nThey are an out and proud bisexual genderqueer man passionate about LGBTQIA+ issues. They are also a proud neurodiverse person. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Postponed: 3 (Trans) Lives
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed due to the coronavirus epidemic. We will reschedule the event\, so please check back for updates. \n  \nHow can the writing of trans lives move beyond the confessional memoir? Three different writers with three different trans lives and three different styles read selections from current or forthcoming works that push the boundaries of what trans writing can become. Featuring Jamie Hood\, Jeanne Thornton\, and McKenzie Wark. \n  \nCopies of McKenzie Wark‘s recently published Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotext(e)) will be available for purchase. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n• Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm) is a poet\, bartender\, chronic over-sharer\, and dog mom in Brooklyn. Her most recent work has been published by Peach Mag\, Rumpus and New Inquiry. She’s finishing a book of poems\, lyric memoir\, and other miscellany on sexual assault and rape culture\, called RAPE GIRL. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n• Jeanne Thornton (@manwhohatesfun) is the author of The Black Emerald (Instar 2017)\, The Dream of Doctor Bantam (O/R Books 2012) and co-editor of We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology (Stacked Deck\, 2018)\, all Lambda Literary Award finalists. She is the co-publisher of Instar Books. Her next novel\, Summer Fun\, is forthcoming from Soho Press. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n• McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) is the author of some books\, including Capital is Dead (Verso 2019) and most recently\, Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte 2020). She teaches at Eugene Lang College\, The New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \n 
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