QSWG: Spring 2010

Queer Studies Working Group: Spring 2010

–Thurs., Feb. 4, 3:00 pm in Glasscock 308: Discussion of Sam See’s “’Spectacles in Color’: The Primitive Drag of Langston Hughes” (PMLA, 124, no. 3 [2009]: 798-816).

–March 2-3: Eric Savoy’s visit to TAMU (co-sponsorship)

• Tues., March 2, 7:00 pm, Glasscock 311: Savoy presents a work-in-progress presentation from his forthcoming book, Conjugating Subject: Henry James and Queer Formalism.
• Wed., March 3, 12:00-1:30 pm, Glasscock 311: The QSWG will host a lunch with Savoy to discuss a work-in-progress that he will e-mail to us a few weeks before the meeting.

–Mid-March (date, time, & place TBD): Discussion of Dan Humphrey’s “Queer Dialectics and the Space Between: From Einstein to Wm. E. Jones”

–Mon., March 29, 3:00 p.m., Glasscock 311: QSWG joint meeting with Africana Studies Working Group and South Asian Working Group to discuss Gayatri Gopinath’s Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

–Wed., March 31, 11 am-1:30 pm, and 5-7 pm, Rudder 401: Queer of Color Critiques (Day 1 of “It’s Time…”)—co-sponsorship?

–Thurs., April 1, 9 am-4:30 pm, Koldus 110-111: 25 Years After: LGBT in Higher Education (Day 2 of “It’s Time…”)

–Fri., April 16, Harry Benschoff’s visit to TAMU (co-sponsorship)

• Noonish: Lunch off campus with interested QSWG members
• 3:30ish (time and place TBD): Meeting with QSWG members & Dan’s grad. student class to discuss the first two chapters of Benschoff’s Monsters in the Closet

**Other items to add?

–Discussion of Tim Dean’s Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking

Oscar Wilde Discovers America: Jan. 26, 2010

On Tuesday, January 26, Michele Mendelssohn, University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, will present “Oscar Wilde Discovers America: Mimics, Minstrels and the Performance of Race,” in the Glasscock Center Library (rm. 311), at 4:00 pm.

This lecture is sponsored by the Department of English, the New Modern British Studies Group, the American Studies Program, the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. For further information, contact David McWhirter at d-mcwhirter@tamu.edu. Download a flyer for this event here.

QSWG Meeting: February 4, 2010

The Queer Studies Working Group will meet on Thursday, February 4, 2010, 3-4 pm, in Glasscock 308, to discuss Sam See’s “‘Spectacles in Color’: The Primitive Drag of Langston Hughes” (PMLA 124, no. 3 [2009]: 798-816).

QSWG Meeting: December 10

The Queer Studies Working Group will meet on Thursday, December 10, 2009, 12-1 pm, in Glasscock rm. 311 to discuss events and meetings for next semester. Feel free to bring your lunch to the meeting, along with ideas about what we might read and discuss next semester (including your own works in progress).

Screening and Discussion: November 16

The Queer Studies Working Group is gathering on Monday, November 16, 2009, 1:00 pm, in 417D of the Evans Library Annex to watch and discuss Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others).  You may want to read Richard Dyer’s “Less and More than Women and Men: Lesbian and Gay Cinema in Weimar Germany” (New German Critique, no. 41, Autumn, 1990, pp. 5-60) before the meeting.

Hope to see you there!

Mangos with Chili: Friday, October 16

Mangos with Chili: Splendor & Grit: The Stunning South Tour 2009

**NOTE: The venue for this event has been changed to Blocker 102.

Mangos with Chili: The Floating Cabaret of Queer and Trans People of Color Bliss, Dreams, Sweat, Sweets, & Nightmares

“Splendor & Grit: The Stunning South Tour 2009.”

• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• Ms. Cherry Galette
• SKIM
• Aleksa Manila
• Ms. Vagina Jenkins
• Maceo Cabrera Estevez
• Amir Rabiyah

Friday, October 16th 2009

7 PM (Doors Open at 6:30).

Blocker 102. Free and open to the public.

Mangos with Chili is a multi-racial, multi-genre, and multi-gender performance group that uses theater, spoken word, drag, dance, and performance art to tell the stories of class, survival, desire, dreams, and migrations of queer and trans people of color. Mangos’ performance addresses identities from Sri Lanka, Aztlán, the Philippines, the Caribbean, Brooklyn, the Arab world, and migrant small towns.

Mangos with Chili creates community, builds bridges, and fosters cross-cultural dialogue by presenting breathtaking shows featuring queer and trans of color artists creating cutting-edge, high-caliber work to audiences and communities whose stories are not always represented onstage. By sharing much needed and little heard queer and trans of color stories, the Mangos bring queer and trans people of color out from isolation, helping QTPOC build networks of community, support, resources, and survival. This is This Bridge Called My Back for the 21st century.

Fragrance Free Event: In order to ensure the space is accessible to the whole community, please refrain from wearing perfume, cologne, aftershave, or other scented products.

Co-Sponsored by: The Department of English, The Department of Performance Studies, Africana Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Office of Undergraduate Programs and Academic Services, Creative Writing, Office of Graduate Studies, the Queer Studies Working Group, the GLBT Resource Center, the South Asian Studies Working Group, Multicultural Services, Educational Psychology, TAMU Hip Hop Society, Dr. Victor Willson, and more TBA.

For more information, contact Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill (qdriskill@neo.tamu.edu) or Dr. Mikko Tuhkanen (mikko.tuhkanen@tamu.edu).

Download PDF flyer.

Joint Meeting with the Indigenous Studies Working Group

Dear all:

Angela Pulley-Hudson, co-director of the Indigenous Studies Working Group, would like to invite members of the Queer Studies Working Group to discuss Brian Joseph Gilley’s Becoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country (9780803271265) on Thursday, October 22 from 12:00PM-1:30PM in the Glasscock Center Library. The Indigenous Studies Working Group will be reading and discussing the book at this time and thought QSWG members might be interested in joining the lunch meeting (they plan to order from Blue Baker). This sounds like an exciting opportunity and I hope a number of you can make it. If you do plan to attend, please contact Angela Pulley Hudson (aphudson@tamu.edu).

Evans has a copy of the book but it is also available via ILL and, of course, on-line booksellers.

Best, Rebecca

Meeting with Africana Studies Working Group: October 8

The Queer Studies Working Group will be meeting with the Africana Studies Working Group on Thursday, October 8, 3:00 pm, in Glasscock rm. 311, to discuss E. Patrick Johnson’s Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South.  E. Patrick Johnson will be visiting Texas A&M on October 12, 7 pm, in the Fallout Theatre in Blocker.

In “Going Home Ain’t Always Easy: Ethnography and the Politics of Black Respectability” (Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World, edited by Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap, Wiley-Blackwell 2009, pp. 54-70), Johnson discusses his experiences working on Sweet Tea.

Duane Boutte: October 5 and 6

To download a poster (PDF) for this event, click here.

Actor Duane Boutte will be visiting TAMU on Monday, October 5, and Tuesday, October 6. Here is the schedule:

Monday, October 5, 2009 (All events on Monday are in Evans Library 410, and are free and open to the general public.)

• 2:00 p.m.: Screening of “Stonewall” (99 min.), introduced by Duane Boutte.
• 7:00 p.m.: Lecture by Duane Boutte– “Performing Contested Lives: Duane Boutte on Black and Gay Historical Representations”
• 8:00 p.m.: Screening of “Brother to Brother (94 min.), introduced by Duane Boutte and followed by a Q&A.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009: Glasscock 311 (Please RSVP for the lunch, see below.)

• 12:00 p.m.–Queer Studies Working Group lunch with Duane Boutte. Please RSVP to Krista to make sure we order enough food.

Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the Film Studies Program, the Office of the Dean of Faculties, the Department of English, the Africana Studies Program, the GLBT Resource Center, the Department of Multicultural Services, and the Queer Studies Working Group.

Fall 2009 Events

The Queer Studies Working Group is co-sponsoring several events this semester.

• Monday, September 14, 7:30 pm: Out All Night and Lost My Shoes–Performance artist Terry Galloway will be in the Rudder Forum Theatre. The QSWG is co-sponsoring this performance. This is free and open to the public.
• Tuesday, October 6, 12:00 pm, Glasscock rm. 311: QSWG lunch with Duane Boutte, actor who has appeared in Brother to Brother and Stonewall. The QSWG is co-sponsoring Boutte’s visit.
• Thursday, October 8, 3:00 pm, Glasscock rm. 311: Joint meeting with the Africana Studies Working Group to discuss Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson. This meeting coincides with E. Patrick Johnson’s visit to Texas A&M: October 12, 7p m, Blocker, Fallout Theatre.
• Friday, October 15: Mangos with Chili performance at TAMU in the Blocker 102. Start time is 7 pm with doors opening at 6:30. Free and open to the public. Mangos with Chili is North America’s only Queer and Trans people of color touring cabaret. The QSWG is co-sponsoring this performance.
• Tuesday, October 20, 7-8:30 pm, at Friends Congregational Church, and Wednesday, October 21, 7-8:30 pm, Rudder Theatre Complex: Screening and discussion of Switch. Filmmaker Brooks Nelson will be at both screenings for a discussion. Switch is a documentary about a progressive, multicultural community and the response of the community to a member’s changing gender expression. The basic premise of this film is that it is not the individual that transitions, but the community. The QSWG is co-sponsoring this event.