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For the 2023 fall semester, Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Studies are offering a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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In the Program in LGBT Studies, we envision and work collaboratively to create a world where every member of every LGBTQ+ community has the freedom to live their truth—with dignity, respect, and equal protection.
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In June 2022, what we feared would happen did in fact materialize: the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies immediately began to organize, forming a coalition with groups on campus to put on a series of events in fall 2022, under the rubric “Our Bodies, Their Laws.”
Remaining members of the Grateful Dead will return to play a benefit concert in Barton Hall on May 8 as part of the band’s final tour.
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On Thursday, March 16, join the Cornell community to make a difference for students on Cornell Giving Day.
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Alex Nik Pasqualini will share their story of hope in a talk as part of the Soup & Hope series on Feb. 23.
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A digital and print collection, co-edited by Karen Jaime, pays tribute to the late Miguel Algarín.
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Noah Tamarkin's book "Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa" (Duke University Press, 2020) has recently received two awards.
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Two years after changing its name, the Department of Literatures in English, formerly the Department of English, began its first semester with a newly revised undergraduate curriculum this fall.
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Throughout the month of November, FGSS/LGBT Studies will be hosting a number of events just for graduate students!
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For the 2023 spring semester, Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (FGSS) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender (LGBT) Studies are offering a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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On Tuesday, October 25, the feminist, gender and sexuality studies program hosted the third installment in their series “Our Bodies, Their Laws.” This portion consisted of a discussion surrounding the impact that the Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson has had on the LGBTQ+ community.
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FGSS INVITES YOU AT ATTEND A COMMUNITY-WIDE DISCUSSION ABOUT DATE-RAPE DRUGS AND SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON CAMPUS". THIS FRIDAY, NOV. 11, FROM 3:30 TO 5:30, Appel Common, Multipurpose Room, 303 ABC.
"Social media platforms and the internet have created a culture of forced transparency and often unearned and unwitting belonging," FGSS and LGBT Studies affiliated faculty member Naminata Diabate told NBC News, in response to fans accusing Taylor Swift of "queerbaiting."
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On Saturday, October 8th, 2022 FGSS and LGBT Studies affiliated assistant professor Karen Jaime (LSP/PMA) launched Memorias de Miguel: The Hard Work of Love (Hemi Press 2022), a print and digital anthology including both prose and poetry that aims to celebrate the life and legacy of Nuyorican Poets Cafe founder, Miguel Algarín.
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FGSS and LGBT Studies affiliated assistant professor Stephen Vider's book, "The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II", has been awarded the honorable mention for the 2022 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best book in American Studies published during 2021.
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On the heels of National Coming Out Day, a new documentary will premiere that celebrates the love and lives of those lost in the decades-long AIDS epidemic and demonstrates the power of a mother’s love.
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Dr. Kareem Khubchandani and Dr. Samantha Iwowo are the distinguished speakers for the Fall 2022 PMAPS Colloquium.
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“Once Upon a Time in A Place Called Now: An Interactive Storytelling Workshop for Artists, Activists, and Educators”
Thursday, October 20, 2022
5:00-6:30 pm
Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
This interactive discussion with presenters and audience focuses on the potential impacts of this legislation and Dobbs V. Jackson for LGBTQ+ people and communities, including the issues of gay marriage, queer kinships, and transgender healthcare and rights.
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Cornell faculty reflect on what will happen after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
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“These efforts recognize the critical questions Jewishness raises and its place as part of a shared heritage.”
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Professor Karen Jaime's book The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021) was awarded a Silver Medal in The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Book category at the 24th Annual International Latino Book Awards held on Aug 19-20 in Los Angeles.
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On Saturday, August 27, representatives from reproductive health and justice organizations across Cornell’s campus and beyond gathered on the Arts Quad for the kickoff of Our Bodies, Their Laws — an event series aiming to foster engagement and education on reproductive rights.
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Professor Karen Jaime's book The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021) was awarded a Silver Medal in The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Book category at the 24th Annual International Latino Book Awards
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Visiting Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in 2017 to see materials related to the history of HIV and AIDS, Michael Mamp was caught off guard by the contents of one box.
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As Cornellians react to the recent Supreme Court decision to strike down the right to an abortion, the University promises in a statement that it will continue to follow New York State law.
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If it ultimately strikes down Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court opinion Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a draft which leaked, could doubly impact LGBTQ+ individuals, says LGBT Studies Director Sara Warner and FGSS professor Katherine Sender in "Diverse Issues."
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Katherine Sender recently sat down with "The Takeaway" to discuss the commercialization of Pride.
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More than 175 students attended the prom, which was hosted by Haven, Cornell's LGBTQ+ student union.
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The film projects for the introductory class, which draws students from all of Cornell’s schools and colleges, celebrate the 30th anniversary of Cornell’s LGBT Studies Program.
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Cornell faculty and their community partners will tell the stories of local migrant farmworkers, use documentary film to better understand climate change and dispossession, learn how migratory birds are affected by drug trafficking and more.
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From April 27 to 28, the “Radical Desire” symposium brings pioneering lesbian feminist scholars, publishers, and photographers to speak at Cornell, in celebration of library exhibits that highlight the archives of lesbian erotic magazine “On Our Backs” and to mark the 30th and 50th anniversaries of Cornell’s LGBT Studies and Feminist, Gender, and...
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The “Radical Desire” symposium April 27 to 28 brings pioneering lesbian feminist scholars, publishers, and photographers to speak at Cornell.
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With the theme “Futurities, Uncertain," the fifth Cornell art biennial will feature artworks, installations, and performances.
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Situating Lesbian Desire is a live staged reading of C.A. Johnson’s The Climb and Audrey Cefaly’s The Gulf, two plays that investigate gender, sexuality, and place. The Climb synopsis: Marge is a photographer, and her wife, Tiffany, has been her sole photographic subject for seven years. When Tiffany goes on a month-long hiking trip to get...
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Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City, A Lecture by Samantha RosenthalQueer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans...
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Issued by the Provost’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity and the Cornell LGBT Resource Center, the LGBTQ+ Resource Guide for Faculty and Staff offers best practices, including using gender-inclusive greetings in meetings and classrooms, integrating LGBTQ issues into curricula and hiring and more.
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March 31st is Transgender Day of Visibility. The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity and the LGBT Resource Center are excited to share with you the Cornell University LGBTQ+ Faculty and Staff Resource Guide. This guide is designed to support Cornell employees in creating an inclusive campus for all students, faculty, and staff. They...
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Learn more about FGSS/LGBT Studies Fall 2022 coursesThere is a Virtual Pre-enroll Open House with Professor Jane Juffer, Tuesday, April 19, 4:30-5:30pm. Pop-in and ask questions about FGSS and courses offered in the fall.For the 2022 fall semester, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender (LGBT...
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On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Raise your Pride flags in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Cornell’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. The university boasts a long and storied history of LGBT activism and advocacy, dating to the 1960s. Cornell established the nation’s second student homophile league (after Columbia U) in May 1968. Our alumni...
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The 2021-22 season at the Cherry Arts highlights questions of racism, dispossession, and migration, while engaging the community.Learn more about the ongoing season of plays from Nick Salvato (PMA professor of Performing and Media Arts, LGBT and FGSS field faculty), Aoise Stratford (PMA lecturer), and Sam Buggeln, supported by the Migrations...
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Immerse yourself in the liveliest of the arts in spirited NYCJoin us for CAU's annual springtime trip to New York City to view three of the season's newest shows, with Cornell's Sara Warner, a theater and performance studies expert, providing historical and thematic contexts and critiques.In 2022's "Staging America," we'll use pre- and post-show...
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A Book Launch and Celebration! - The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida by Dr. Karen Jaime this Thu. Feb 24. 6 PM (EST)Join us for a book launch and celebration on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6 pm to honor Karen Jaime’s pathbreaking scholarship and reflect on the history of the New York institution that is the...
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The first decade of On Our Backs, the women-run erotic magazine (1984-2006) is highlighted by “Radical Desire: Making On Our Backs Magazine” in the Carl A. Kroch Library,
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Cornell will celebrate the birthday of alumna and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison MA ’55 from 3-5 p.m. Feb. 18 with a screening of the film “The Foreigner’s Home” (2017), followed by a roundtable discussion.
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Timothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and literatures in English, has been elected chair of the board of directors of Humanities New York (HNY), a nonprofit humanities council founded in 1975 that supports and advocates for public humanities across the state.
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On February 3rd, faculty, alumni, and current students discussed refuge through a feminist and queer lense. We explored how gender and sexuality shape refuge, asylum, and detention; how feminist and queer standpoints illuminate the structures that produce and sustain global apartheid; and how refugees and their allies resist these forces. The...
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