CU-Boulder Women & Gender Studies

Please Share: Join the Palestinian Feminist Collective tomorrow, Wednesday, October 18th at 5PM Pacific, 7PM Central, 8PM Eastern for an emergency virtual teach in on the genocide in Palestine.

Registration required at bit.ly/TeachInPFC

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition: A talk by Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe

Recent scholarship and activism paint a troubling picture of mass incarceration. But disability and madness and their histories of oppression and resistance are largely missing from this analysis. For example- the erasure of the most massive exodus of people from carceral spaces in the U.S., deinstitutionalization. In contrast, Dr. Ben-Moshe shows how disability/mad knowledges and histories should inform analysis of the abolition of prisons, jails, psychiatric hospitals and disability residential institutions for the liberation of us all.

(See flyer below for more information.)

Tuesday, April 18 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Center for British and Irish Studies, 5th floor Norlin Library

As CU Boulder's Women and Gender Studies Practicum, we're on a mission to raise awareness of s*xual violence both on and off campus. This event is geared toward creating a relaxing and respectful environment to build community and support healing among survivors and allies.

Food, drinks, art, music, and resources!

ALL IDENTITIES ARE WELCOME!

Wednesday, April 19 at 6:00pm to 8:30pm

Trident Booksellers and Cafe 940 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302

Conference: The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Harvard Radcliffe Institute will hold a major public conference to probe the complex and unpredictable ways that Roe v. Wade and its aftermath shaped the United States and the world beyond it for nearly half a century. The existential issue of abortion—and the galvanizing impact of Roe in particul...

Day With(out) Art 2022: BEING & BELONGING

December 1, 2022 – 5pm

Brakhage Center, Atlas 311

The Brakhage Center for Media Arts and LGBTQ Studies are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world.

The program features newly commissioned work by Camila Arce (Argentina), Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes (USA), Jaewon Kim (South Korea), Clifford Prince King (USA), Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas (Colombia), Mikiki (Canada), and Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry (México).

From navigating s*x and intimacy to confronting stigma and isolation, Being & Belonging centers the emotional realities of living with HIV today. How does living with HIV shift the ways that a person experiences, asks for, or provides love, support, and belonging? The seven videos are a call for belonging from those that have been stigmatized within their communities or left out of mainstream HIV/AIDS narratives.

Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 30TH

Q***R THEORIES GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Join us for a night of 4 presenters. This event will be held both over Zoom and in-person. The topics focus on Q***r themes. Snacks and drinks provided.

To register online: bit.ly/queertheoriesgrad

Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian writer and journalist. Her books include Sexographies, Nine Moons, Llamada perdida (Missed Call), Dicen de mí (What They Say about Me), and the book of poems Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu (Exercises for the Hardening of the Spirit). Her most recent book is Huaco Retrato (Huaco Portrait, 2021) about which she will be talking with us on November 8th.

Her work has appeared in national and international anthologies and has been translated into English, Portuguese, Polish, French, and Italian. She was editor-in-chief of Marie Claire in Spain and now regularly publishes opinion columns in Eldiario.es, VICE, and the New York Times en Español, as well as a video column for lamula.pe. She won Peru’s National Journalism Award for an investigative report on a case of gender violence. She is the creator of several performances that she has staged with her family. She recently wrote and starred in the play Qué locura enamorarme yo de ti (How Crazy to Fall in Love with You). She has lived in Spain since 2004.

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UPDATE!!!!!

Thursday, October 27 Online 10:10

“Whose Film is It? Translating Q***rness from Spanish to Quechua in the Film Retablo

A talk by Javier Muñoz-Díaz about Q***rness and the power dynamics between Spanish and Quechua

Register: https://RetabloTalk.eventbrite.com

Retablo’s director Álvaro Delgado Aparicio originally wrote the script in Spanish, but the dialogues were translated to Quechua by the actors in the leading roles with the support of professional translators. In this presentation, I discuss how specific terms regarding gender and s*xualities were translated from Spanish to Quechua and how such a translation contrast with the film’s point of view and haptic qualities. As a result, Retablo is a work that, while reproducing the limitations of traditional Indigenismo, showcases the power dynamics between Spanish and Quechua languages. This hierarchy problematizes the liberal discourse of tolerance towards homos*xuality/queerness, pointing out the impact of the colonial/modern gender system instead.

Javier Muñoz-Díaz (he/they) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at St. Lawrence University. His research focuses on the cultural history of the Andes and Amazon regions, Indigeneity, Q***r/Cuir Studies, and Environmental Humanities.





Thursday, November 3 Online 11:00
(INFO NOW CORRECT ON POSTER)

Mapuche Gendering Bending as Power in Southern Chile, a Talk by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, SUNY at Buffalo

Register: https://MapucheGenderingBending.eventbrite.com

Professor Bacigalupo shows how shamanic discourses and practices (as they interact with more-than-humans) can be superb tools for transforming colonial and neocolonial structures of power—and for producing new logics and decolonizing epistemologies, methodologies, and theories in academia—because they challenge Western assumptions about the nature and organization of the world in myriad ways. Shamanic practice troubles the distinction between life and non-life; past, present, and future; human and more-than-human; nature and culture; history and myth; matter and spirit; and man and woman, as well as capitalist divisions of species, landscapes, and peoples that discredit Indigenous practices which collapse these categories. Professor Bacigalupo argues that because shamans mediate within and between worlds and temporalities, they offer a particularly productive place from which to question power and envision new realities and futures. She traces the many forms of social critique wielded by Indigenous shamans—from gender and landscape constructions to history, memory, and politics. Professor Bacigalupo also studies their roles as public intellectuals who offer alternative visions that inform Indigenous political mobilization and shape the larger politics of knowledge throughout Chile, Peru, and the world.

Professor Bacigalupo is the author of Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Patagonia (University of Texas Press, 2016); Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among the Chilean Mapuche (University of Texas Press, 2007); The Voice of the Drum in Modernity: Tradition and Change in the Practice of Seven Mapuche Shamans (Universidad Católica de Chile press, 2001); Hybridity in Mapuche “Traditional” Healing Methods: The Practice of Contemporary Mapuche Shamans (PAESMI 1996). She also co-authored Modernization and Wisdom in Mapuche Land (San Pablo Press, 1995). Bacigalupo has also published over sixty peer reviewed articles and book chapters.

Don't miss WGST Professor Samira Mehta's panel on reproductive rights!

October 27, 2022: A Panel and Workshop on Fighting for Reproductive Rights and Justice
Virtual Panel of Community Organizers, Lawyers, Scholars, Activists
October 27th, 3:30 - 5pm,
Moderator: Samira Mehta (Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies and Women & Gender Studies-CU Boulder)
Participating Organizations, Scholars, and Community Members: Alexis Moncada (Outreach Coordinator of COLOR--Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights), Lauren Smith (Director of Policy and Advocacy, Soul2Soul Sisters), Arianna Morales (Policy Manager, New Era Colorado), Dr. Warren Hern (Boulder Abortion Clinic), Jennifer Hendricks (Professor of Law-CU Boulder), Chenthu Jayton (Executive Director of Equity Labs).
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlceqsqTMvG92RAUmhKREQuSCzg1ZcpgtW
Zoom will be Provided with Registration.