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Community Book Club—Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Are you looking to combine with others? Execute you love reading all kinds of books? If you answered yes, the Community Book Club is for you!
Join us and examine Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera. The book focuses on Juliet Milagros Palante, who is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn’t sure if her mom will ever pronounce to her again. But Juliet has a plan, sort of, one that’s going to facilitate her figure out this whole “Puerto Rican lesbian” thing. She’s interning with the author of her favorite book: Harlowe Brisbane, the ultimate authority on feminism, women’s bodies, and other gay-sounding stuff. Will Juliet be able to figure out her life over the course of one magical summer? Is that even possible? Or is she running away from all the problems that seem too big to handle? With more questions than answers, Juliet takes on Portland, Harlowe, and most importantly, herself.
The Collective Book Club meets every other Thursday evening, beginning October 7, via Zoom.
To register, dispatch an email to community@iit.edu, and you will receive the m
A City of Men? Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India
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In this talk I search the gendering of everyday urban spaces and the social production of gendered violence. Through ethnographic data collected by ‘hanging out’ with young Indian men in New Delhi, I reveal the ways in which their masculinities are constructed and performed, and how these in turn create hostility, fear and violence for women and girls accessing the same urban spaces. Through weaving together material from myriad urban sites like gyms, bars, trains, street corners, night clubs, lgbtq+ cruising parks as well as shopping malls, I travel how there is an attempt to make the metropolis a masculine room, with a hyper-sexualisation of women in the same spaces. However this process is not even or uniform, with several masculine anxieties and vulnerabilities also emerging in men’s claims on the city from gender non-conforming and non-masculine bodies. In this way, the urban room becomes an absorbing palimpsest to investigate the politics of gender, class, sexualities and violences on an everyday level.
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Dr Shannon Philip is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of East Anglia, UK a
IIT-Bombay gears up for second edition of one-day lgbtq+ festival on campus, Rangavali
Updated on: Mar 20, 2024 07:04 am IST
This year’s event will film a diverse range of activities, including poster-making, art kiosks, talent shows, fashion displays, and the assessing of films from the Kashish film festival, a queer film festival collective based in Mumbai, focusing on gay, lesbian, bisexual person, transgender and queer communities
Mumbai: The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) is gearing up for the second edition of its queer festival — Rangavali. The queer fest, aimed to break barriers and foster inclusivity, is scheduled for a one-day celebration this Saturday on the campus.
Organized by the Saathi Club, the LGBTQIA+ resource group at the institute, Rangavali was introduced last year as an inclusive platform to consent people express their self and talents without the fear of being judged.
This year’s event will feature a diverse range of activities, including poster-making, art kiosks, talent shows, fashion displays, and the screening of films from the Kashish film festival, a queer film festival collective based in Mumbai, focusing on gay, woman-loving woman,
Brave on Campus LGBTQ+ Program
The purpose of a Protected Space program at Chicago-Kent is to provide a space where people who have questions about gender and sexuality, whether in their own lives, in the lives of family and friends, or in the wider culture, can go to discuss those issues. Faculty and staff who choose to participate in the Brave on Campus program participate in a two-hour workshop where they are provided with resources to assist those who approach them with LGBTQ+ related concerns. Those who attend the workshop are identified by a “Brave on Campus” sticker hung on the door to their office or inside their office. In addition, those who participate are listed below. Participants in the program are considered “allies” and accomplish not necessarily self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, but they are prepared to listen and respond to those with questions about related issues.
Members of the Chicago-Kent Lambdas, the LGBTQ+ student organization, have indicated that they believe that Chicago-Kent is already a very supportive environment for LGBTQ+ students. We have a number of “out” faculty at Chicago-Kent, a course on sexual orientation and the law, same-sex partners