CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies

ANGELA Y. DAVIS to receive the José Esteban Muñoz Award from CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies on June 2, 2025

Reserve your in-person or online ticket below.

CLAGS is thrilled to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the José Esteban Muñoz Award by honoring legendary writer, scholar, and activist Angela Y. Davis.

Angela Y. Davis, professor emerita of history of consciousness and feminist studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, has been at the forefront of 20th- and 21st-century liberation movements, including the Civil Rights Movement, prison abolition, and gender, transgender, and s*xual equality. A prolific writer, scholar, teacher, and political activist, Davis is best known for leading the revolutionary and international struggle to dismantle interconnected structures of oppression for over five decades.

Given by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, the Muñoz Award honors an LGBTQ community leader or activist for their advocacy. It is named for the late José Esteban Muñoz, whose work grappled with issues of race, gender, and s*xuality.

Monday, June 2, 2025 at 6:30 pm
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Open to the public in-person and online

REGISTERATION: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/annual-jose-munoz-award-angela-y-davis

Presented with Public Programs at the Graduate Center, CUNY

A video of this event will be posted a few days later on our YouTube Channel.

Please contact Jimmy Cok at [email protected] in advance for CART services or any additional accessibility requests or concerns for in-person events.​ This event will be livestreamed, and closed captions will be provided

Annual José Muñoz Award: Angela Y. Davis Elebash Recital Hall

Applications now available for the Inaugural Amber Hollibaugh Seminar in the City. The theme will be "Q***r Economies of Care: Community, Desire, and the Politics of Necessity." Full details and application form available at https://www.gc.cuny.edu/clags-center-lgbtq-studies/amber-hollibaugh-seminars-city

THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THE WORD!

CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and the Bureau of General Services-Q***r Division are thrilled to announce the Inaugural Amber Hollibaugh Seminar in the city, a six-week program exploring the transformative legacy of Amber Hollibaugh—a radical le***an feminist, scholar, artist, and lifelong activist for q***r survival economies.

Facilitated by interdisciplinary artist and educator Gili Rappaport, this seminar invites participants to dive into themes of q***r survival, care, and community resilience in the face of economic hardship, criminalization, and marginalization. Participants will engage with foundational texts, recorded dialogues, and contributions from local artists and activists while contributing to a living archive honoring q***r histories and futures.

Dates: March 5 – April 9, 2025
Time: Wednesdays, 6–9 PM
Location: Bureau of General Services—Q***r Division (208 West 13th Street, NYC)
This is an in-person experience. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate remote participants at this time.

Amber Hollibaugh Seminars in the City The Inaugural Amber Hollibaugh SeminarQ***r Economies of Care: Community, Desire, and the Politics of Necessity, March 5 – April 9, 2025

📖 Join Yin Q (), Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou (), and Kassandra Sparks () as they discuss what Saketopoulou calls “exigent s@dism.” Exigent s@dism involves the s@dist’s ‘bending of their own will’ to risk an encounter not just with other’s/their bottom’s opacity, but also with their own. You may know what we mean: times when the s@dist goes so far that they feel the deep current of their own dangerous desires crashing into them, times that require that they, too, surrender.

🔺FREE IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL RSVP IN BIO LINK 🔺

📆 JAN 30, 2025 6:30-8p ET
📍 CUNY Graduate Center and Zoom. Room & link sent with RSVP

This series is part of POWER OF LEATHER: a yearlong series of dialogues, interactive performances, and art presented by , and organized by and , in collaboration with

🌟 Yin Q is a parent, writer, media producer, curator and core organizer with and founding member of . Currently working on a memoir about the powers of leather rituals, s3x wrk, and dim sum.

🌟 Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst and author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia

🌟 Kassandra Sparks is an NYC-based writer and artist who examines perversion, fetishization, and ritual as gestures of experimentation in B**M s*x economies and leather community

🎨 artwork by
📸 photos from , Julia Moses,

Q***r Politics of Solidarity is today at 4:30pm!

Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Dana M. Olwan, and Joseph M. Pierce will be in conversation with Debarati Biswas on the possibilities of transnational q***r solidarity politics between Palestine, Native America, and Hawai’i, and the intersections of q***rness, settler colonialism, and Indigeneity.

RSVP here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/46whw86

Next week you have a chance to meet our scholar in residence Fabiola Reyna and learn about Peruvian cinema! Don't miss it!!!

CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies signature event of the fall is almost here! On November 7 at 6:30pm (sharp!) help us celebrate the work of Heather K. Love, this year's winner of the David R. Kessler Award for work in LGBTQ studies. Cindy Patton, Kadji Amin, and David Kurnick will be on hand to reflect on Heather's indispensable contributions to the field. The event is free, and you can register here to attend in person or online: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/pefksjr

After the talk CLAGS will host a lovely reception where you can catch up with old friends, meet emerging q***r studies scholars, have a bite, and raise a glass to Heather.

We'll also kick off our fall fundraising drive at the Kessler, but you can always give early: https://clags.networkforgood.com/

CLAGS looks forward to seeing you at the 2024 Kessler Lecture!

EXPERIENCED LEATHERFOLK, CREATIVE DEVIANTS, AND ROUSING THINKERS SEEK WILLING MINDS. IS THAT YOU?

🔺FREE IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL RSVP IN BIO LINK 🔺

POWER OF LEATHER is a yearlong series of in-person dialogues, interactive performances, and community events exploring leathers*x, sad*mas*chism, and leather culture. Each event joins leather community members, academics and artists, opening up space for embodied, erotic and object-oriented knowledge. The series ends with KINK OUT: INCARNATE, an art activation and party from that will invite you to embody what you’ve learned along the way.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
KING COBRA , Ariane Cruz, Mama Vi Johnson , Yin Q , Ze R. .royale, Ignacio Rivera , Avgi Saketopoulou , Kassandra Sparks , Susan Stryker, Laura Westengard , Empress Wu

WHEN & WHERE:
The first four events will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC and on Zoom from Oct 2024 to March 2025. More details about each event in the series and the Kink Out party to come soon.

POWER OF LEATHER is presented by , organized by and in collaboration with .

🎨 artwork by
📸 photos from , Julia Moses,

Join CLAGS for "Unsettling Q***r Anthropology."

Tuesday, Oct. 8th from 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Online only
RSVP required: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/jz3a2ef

Brian Horton, Scott Morgensen, Anne Spice, and Margot Weiss will be in conversation about new directions in q***r of color and decolonizing q***r anthropology.

"Q***r Globalizations" revisits the 1998 CLAGS conference "Q***r Globalizations/Local Homos*xualities: Citizenship, Sexuality and the Afterlife of Colonialism" to explore global, transnational, and postcolonial q***r and trans studies today.

This series is co-sponsored by UCSB, Wesleyan University and the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium.

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TODAY!!

Join CLAGS on September 18th for “Rethinking Q***r Globalizations,” a roundtable with Gayatri Gopinath, Martin Manalansan, and Maya Mikdashi, in conversation with Margot Weiss.

This event will be in person (GC Skylight Room) and live streamed on Zoom.

Zoom registration link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w3Y-DBP3RiSaViTOMJphJA #/registration

“Rethinking Q***r Globalizations,” is the launch event of CLAGS’ 2024-25 Q***R GLOBALIZATIONS speaker series. The series revisits the 1998 CLAGS conference, “Q***r Globalization/Local Homos*xualities: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Afterlife of Colonialism,” to explore global, transnational, and postcolonial q***r and trans studies today.

Q***r Globalizations is co-sponsored by UCSB and Wesleyan University.

Join CLAGS in honoring Dr. Heather K. Love on November 7th as our 2024 David R. Kessler Award recipient.

Registration link: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/pefksjr
This event will be in-person and on Zoom.

The Kessler is given annually to a scholar who has produced a substantive body of work that has had a significant influence on the field of LGBTQ Studies. Love’s engagements with comparative social stigma, compulsory happiness, transgender fiction, spinster aesthetics, and reading methods in literary studies, as well as her current work on the q***r real, exemplify a range and depth of scholarship that CLAGS is proud to honor.

CLAGS is proud to bring you the 2024-25 speaker series Q***R GLOBALIZATIONS. The series revisits the groundbreaking 1998 CLAGS conference, “Q***r Globalization/Local Homos*xualities: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Afterlife of Colonialism” to explore global, transnational, and postcolonial q***r and trans studies today.

The launch event for the series, “Rethinking Q***r Globalizations,” will be on September 18 (in person and livestream). Zoom link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w3Y-DBP3RiSaViTOMJphJA #/registration

Q***r Globalizations is co-sponsored by UCSB and Wesleyan University.

Join CLAGS on September 18th for “Rethinking Q***r Globalizations,” a roundtable with Gayatri Gopinath, Martin Manalansan, and Maya Mikdashi, in conversation with Margot Weiss.

This event will be in person (GC Skylight Room) and live streamed on Zoom.

Zoom registration link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w3Y-DBP3RiSaViTOMJphJA #/registration

“Rethinking Q***r Globalizations,” is the launch event of CLAGS’ 2024-25 Q***R GLOBALIZATIONS speaker series. The series revisits the 1998 CLAGS conference, “Q***r Globalization/Local Homos*xualities: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Afterlife of Colonialism,” to explore global, transnational, and postcolonial q***r and trans studies today.

Q***r Globalizations is co-sponsored by UCSB and Wesleyan University.

Join CLAGS for our first event of the year: “I Published a Book, Now What?” with Jenny Rossberg from NYU Press.

This is a fully-online Zoom book promotion workshop for academics of all experience levels.

Thursday, Sept. 12th from 6:00-7:30 pm.

RSVP link in bio.

Jenny Rossberg will discuss how to promote your new book in LGBTQ Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Politics and Social Sciences. This workshop will go over practical steps authors can take to communicate effectively with their publisher, and get their book in the hands of readers. Whether this is your first time publishing a book, or your first time publicizing your work to a wider audience, academics of all experience levels will find value in this workshop.