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Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:02 PM
Subject: [gender-studies] Mar 22: "You Gotta Serve Somebody:
Rethinking Race, Queer Politics, and Practice"
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Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)

CUNY Graduate Center

www.CLAGS.org



You Gotta Serve Somebody: Rethinking Race, Queer Politics, and Practice

 A Critical Dialogue with Dean Spade, Urvashi Vaid, and Rosamond S. King



03/22/13

6-8pm (Reception to Follow)

Please note Room Change: Elebash Recital Hall, 1st Floor

CUNY Graduate Center

rsvp at clags.org



This is an extraordinary moment for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender (LGBT) movement. Electoral gains, a pending Supreme Court
argument, a friendly national Administration, a community that seems
to be more out, and gains in public opinion all attest to significant
change in the status queer.



Yet, a critical look at the movement's goals, practices, institutions,
leaders, and arguments suggests the narrative of triumph is
incomplete. Two of the leading critical thinkers and activists in the
LGBT movement -- Dean Spade and Urvashi Vaid -- meet in a provocative
conversation moderated by academic, performance artist, and activist
Rosamond S. King to ask and answer key questions about today's queer
practice.



Does a politics pursuing equal rights produce freedom or an
accommodation to neoliberal economic and political norms? Why does the
LGBT movement ignore structural racism? Has queerness bound itself to
nationalism and anti-feminism in order to be normalized? How can the
structure of the civil rights organization form itself be
democratized? Where are the new practices of organizing, cultural
expression, and resistance?



Three veteran queer activists and scholars tackle these critical
questions as they explore how the movement could be transformed to
serve the interests of all parts of the queer communities. Join this
lively conversation. This event is co-sponsored by the Africana
Studies program at the CUNY Graduate Center.



Urvashi Vaid is Director of the Engaging Tradition Project at the
Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School. She is the
author of Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the
Assumptions of LGBT Politics (Magnus Books, 2012), and Virtual
Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (1995). Vaid
was Executive Director of the Arcus Foundation, Deputy Director of
Governance and Civil Society at the Ford Foundation, and former
Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. She
blogs at http://www.urvashivaid.net.



Dean Spade is an Associate Professor of Law at Seattle University
School of Law and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School's Center
for Gender and Sexuality Law from 2012-2014. In 2002, Spade founded
the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a nonprofit law collective that
provides free legal services to transgender, intersex, and gender
non-conforming low income people and people of color. Spade is the
author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans
Politics and the Limits of Law (South End Press, 2011).



Rosamond S. King is a critical and creative writer and artist teaching
in the English Department at Brooklyn College. Her scholarly work
focuses on Caribbean and African literature, sexuality, and
performance, and has been published in numerous academic collections.
King's community and professional service has included being a board
member of the Audre Lorde Project and the Center for Lesbian and Gay
Studies. She is also a poet, artist and performer whose poetry has
appeared in more than a dozen journals and anthologies, and who has
performed around the world. She is currently organizing Yari Yari
Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue - An International Conference on
Literature by Women of African Ancestry (Ghana, May 2013).



**ALL CLAGS Events are Free and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to
rsvp at clags.org.**




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