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SUMMARY:Touching the Art: MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE  IN CONVERSATION WITH  MCKENZIE WARK (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:A mixture of memoir\, biography\, criticism\, and social history\, Touching the Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore‘s interrogation of the possibilities of artistic striving\, the limits of the middle-class mindset\, the legacy of familial abandonment\, and what art can and cannot do. For this event\, she will be joined in conversation by McKenzie Wark. \nTaking the form of a self-directed research project\, Sycamore recounts the legacy of her fraught relationship with her late grandmother\, an abstract artist from Baltimore who encouraged Mattilda as a young artist\, then disparaged Mattilda’s work as “vulgar” and a “waste of talent” once it became unapologetically queer. \nAs she sorts through her grandmother Gladys’s paintings and handmade paperworks\, Sycamore examines the creative impulse itself. In fragments evoking the movements of memory\, she searches for Gladys’s place within the trajectories of midcentury modernism and Abstract Expressionism\, Jewish assimilation and white flight\, intergenerational trauma and class striving. \nSycamore writes\, “Art is never just art\, it is a history of feeling\, a gap between sensations\, a safety valve\, an escape hatch\, a sudden shift in the body\, a clipboard full of flowers\, a welcome mat flipped over and back\, over and back\, welcome.” \nRefusing easy answers in search of an embodied truth\, Sycamore upends propriety to touch the art and feel everything that comes through. \n\n\n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nPlease wear a mask to this event! \nWe will also have masks available at the Bureau.\nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \n\n  \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the award-winning author of The Freezer Door\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, one of Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books of 2020\, and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Winner of a Lambda Literary Award and an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book\, she’s the author of three novels and three nonfiction titles\, and the editor of six nonfiction anthologies\, most recently Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis. Sycamore lives in Seattle\, and her new book is Touching the Art\, out now from Soft Skull Press. \n  \nMcKenzie Wark is the author\, among other things\, of Love and Money\, Sex and Death (Verso)\, Raving (Duke) and Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte).
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SUMMARY:OUTspoken: The Publishing Triangle's Reading Series (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:The Publishing Triangle presents its monthly OUTspoken Reading Series as host Rob Byrnes welcomes Ann Aptaker\, Steve Berman\, Felice Cohen\, Gerard Cabrera\, Michael Thomas Ford\, and Joe Okonkwo. Join us as in-person or remotely to hear from some of queer literature’s most dynamic established and up-and-coming voices. \n  \n\n\nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/outspoken-january-2024/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America\, 1960 and After Author Lucas Hilderbrand in conversation with Nerve Macaspac (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join The Bars Are Ours author Lucas Hilderbrand and scholar Nerve Macaspac for a conversation about the legacies of gay bars and nightclubs in New York City and nationally. They will discuss bars’ historical role in shaping gay male cultures\, spaces\, politics\, and aesthetics. The New York Times described The Bars Are Ours as “sprawling\, playful and rigorous.” Library Journal named it one of the best books of 2023. \nCopies of The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America\, 1960 and After (Duke UP\, 2023\, paperback\, $32.95) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve a copy of The Bars Are Ours” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nLucas Hilderbrand (he/him) is the author of The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America\, 1960 and After; Paris Is Burning: A Queer Film Classic; and Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright. He is Professor and Chair of Film and Media Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. \n  \nNerve V. Macaspac (he/him) is a political geographer\, cartographer\, and filmmaker. His research focuses on the kinds of work required of marginalized communities in creating spaces of peace\, safety\, and security amid violence. He has published in Geopolitics\, International Peacekeeping\, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence\, Geography Compass\, and Human Rights Review. He is Assistant Professor of Information Studies at Queens College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Studies and Doctoral Faculty at the Earth and Environmental Sciences at The Graduate Center\, CUNY. \n 
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SUMMARY:Laughter in the Analytic Setting (registration required)
DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium Series of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis \nJanuary 26\, 2024 \nNuar Alsadir: “Laughter in the Analytic Setting” \nBeginning with a moment in one of Freud’s case studies in which he bursts out laughing\, this talk will explore the ways in which laughter can act as a form of unconscious communication. Because of the positive associations most people have to laughter\, its meaning often flies beneath the social—and\, often\, analytic—radar\, even as it has the potential to collapse the alliance between an analyst and an analysand. \nLearning Objectives: \n1. Participants will be able to identify different forms of laughter and how each communicates outside of language. \n2. Participants will learn to identify unconscious communication\, countertransference\, and enactments. \n3. Participants will learn how to use their understanding of laughter’s different modes of communication in the treatment. \n  \nCLICK HERE TO PAY AND REGISTER TO ATTEND IN PERSON \nFor in-person attendance you will receive an E-ticket through Eventbrite.   \n\nCLICK HERE TO PAY AND REGISTER TO ATTEND ONLINE \nFor online attendance you will receive a zoom link after you register.  \n\n$50 \n\nFree for MIP candidates (RSVP candidates only) \n\nContinuing Education Hours: 2\nThe Manhattan Institute is a NY State approved provider of continuing education hours for: LCSW\, LMSW\, LCAT\, LMHC and Licensed Psychologists.\n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/laughter-in-the-analytic-setting/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Scott Alexander Hess' A Season in Delhi in conversation with author Dana Burnell (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Scott Alexander Hess will be reading from his new fiction A Season in Delhi\, followed by a conversation with author Dana Burnell (The Tame Man). The novella was called “a queer poetic experience that is reminiscent of E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India\, but much more erotic! “- Andrew Rimby. \nCopies of A Season in Delhi (Rebel Satori Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $14) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve A Season in Delhi” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nScott Alexander Hess is the author of seven novels\, including Skyscraper\, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist\, and The Butcher’s Sons\, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015. His recent fiction The Root of Everything & Lightning is a #1 Amazon Bestseller and A Season in Delhi was released in 2023. \n  \nDana Burnell has written for the London Times Sunday Magazine\, The Guardian Weekend Magazine\, Time Out New York\, Show Business Weekly and others. A former contributing associate for Harvard Review\, co-founder of Firewater Films in NYC and arts editor for Inside New York\, Dana was awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant for Fiction from Columbia University. Dana lives in New York City\, and The Tame Man is her first novel. Her next novel\, Remember the Night\, about a woman obsessed with film noir star Barbara Stanwyck who finds herself living a noir\, will be published in 2025. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/scott-alexander-hess-a-season-in-delhi/
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SUMMARY:The World That Is Coming: A Do'ikayt Teach-in (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday January 31st\, 6-9 PM\, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\,  in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W 13th St\,  New York\, NY 10011 (doors close at 7 for a protected circle practice\, attendance capped at 35\, masks required and provided) \nThe conversation will NOT be recorded or shared publicly\, to allow people to share freely\, to be courageous\, to integrate the new. \nDo’ikayt is the yiddish word for “here-ness.” It describes a movement that came into being at the same time as\, and in conversation with\, the nascent zionist political project in the late 1800s\, and it is based on the idea that wherever we are\, that is our homeland; that our task as Jews is to build solidarity and fight for liberation in the places where we already live and work. \nIt’s difficult for many diasporic Jews to imagine a praxis that integrates all of the ancestral trauma that we carry with the drive for peace and justice for all peoples to which we are commanded. Do’ikayt offers as a possibility that tikkun olam (“repairing the world”) will come when ALL borders fall and ALL states dissolve. \nWe are in a climate of unbearable propaganda; we are being thrown bodily into the memories of generations of screaming ancestors who yearn for sanctuary. This is being crafted intentionally by agents of states who need us to be too dissociated\, too triggered\, and too terrified to connect across difference so that they can get on with their work of exploitation and domination. Our only job right now is to resist that\, to push through the dissociation and the fear and the trauma to reach out for each other\, to dismantle the borders and walls and protections that the fear and trauma spring up around us\, to remember that we are not each other’s enemy. \nWhen we tear down the walls around our hearts\, we are making ourselves into channels through which olam haba’a (“the world to come“) can be born\, and when we tear down the walls in the world\, letting the sacred peace of Shabbat rush in like undammed water\, letting the artificial mechanisms of the state be washed away by a river of solidarity\, we are bringing it to pass. \nIf you want to open yourself to the possibility of do’ikayt as medicine\, and want to do it in community\, please join us to explore the history\, tradition\, and possibility of a way of being Jewish that does not accept the violence that we are being asked to tolerate in the name of our own safety. \n************************************************************ \nDo’ikayt Teach-In: Community Agreements \nPlease read and agree to these before entering the space. \n\nWe are here to keep each other safe\, and to let ourselves be uncomfortable.\n\n“what does safety mean” is one of the things we’ll be exploring\, but one of our responsibilities is to learn the difference between discomfort and danger. When we trust ourselves and each other enough to tolerate discomfort and open to the new\, it opens up space for us to be brave together. Call for a time-out if you need to\, and then try to dare to step back in. By choosing to enter this space\, you’re agreeing to do your best to be brave. \n\nLet yourself be guided.\n\nIf you are being overtly disruptive of the connections and conversations\, a facilitator will ask you to stop. If you’re not able to stop when you’re asked to stop\, you’ll be asked to step out or away. By choosing to enter this space\, you’re agreeing that you’ll do your best to trust the facilitators and each other\, stop when you’re asked to stop\, and step out or away if you’re asked to. \n\nWe are not each other’s enemy.\n\nYou might be feeling angry\, afraid\, triggered\, dissociated\, or any of a million other things\, and those feelings might make it hard for you to be kind. Whatever you’re feeling is welcome here\, but no matter how hard it is\, you have to do your best to be kind anyway. By choosing to enter this space\, you’re agreeing that you’ll do your best to act with compassion towards the other people in this space no matter how you’re feeling. \n\nFocus on here and now.\n\nAs Jews\, our ancestral trauma is being intentionally triggered by propaganda machines that need us afraid and dissociated. We can only build a better world if we can distinguish between those triggers and the here-and-now\, and we do that by coming back to the body. By choosing to enter this space\, you’re agreeing that you’ll do your best to honor your ancestors and your living family by noticing those triggers\, honoring them\, and then returning to the here-and-now and to the body. \n\nAnother world is possible.\n\nIt’s okay if this feels distant\, maybe even like fantasy. But by choosing to enter this space\, you’re agreeing that you’ll do your best to at least be curious about if it’s true. \n   \nPsalm 27 ends with the following words: chazak veya’ametz libecha.  \nBe strong\, and strengthen your heart.  \n  \n*** \n\n\nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\n\n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd \n*** \n\n\n  \n\n\nBiography of the event organizer and facilitator: \nAndy is a Spinozan pantheist weirdo Jew\, a time traveling transsexual\, and an attorney\, mediator\, and facilitator of transformative justice processes with fifteen years of experience in protest support and radical lawyering with the National Lawyers Guild. Andy is on the board of their renewal synagogue\, Kol Hai\, and they live on a tranarchist intentional community in the Hudson Valley. Andy’s work explores the interplay between mystical diasporism\, gender antinomianism\, sadomasochism\, and ancestor veneration with an eye towards the triumph of the forces of faggotry over the state. \n  \nAndy recommends the following titles if you want to learn more about the history and practice of radical Judaism and diasporism. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com if you’d like to purchase any of these at this event or at any other time and we’ll confirm that we have them in stock. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThe No State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto\, Daniel Boyarin (Yale University Press\, 2023\, hardcover\, $30) \nRevolutionary Yiddishland\, Alain Brossat and Sylvie Klingberg (Verso\, 2017\, paperback\, $19.95) \nThere Is Nothing So Whole As A Broken Heart\, Cindy Milstein\, ed. (AK Press\, 2021\, paperback $23). \nDays of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness In Solidarity With Palestinians\, Atalia Omer (University of Chicago Press\, 2019\, paperback $38) \nThe Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism\, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (Indiana University Press\, 2007\, paperback\, $24.95) \nTo The Ghosts Who Are Still Living\, Ami Weintraub (Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness\, 2023\, paperback\, $20)
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