1 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-15 2

Contents:

4. Letter from the Executive Director 5. Letter from the Board Chair 6­-8. Conferences 9. Rainbow Book Fair 10. Kessler Award 11. José Esteban Muñoz Award 12-13.­ Events 14-15.­ Fellowships 16. Edward Carpenter Collection 17. CLAGS Internship 18. Donors 19. Membership 20. The Board 21. Staff 30-31. Finance Report

List of contributors: Yana Calou, Jennifer Camper, Sarah Chinn, Kevin Nadal, Noam Parness, Jasmina Sinanovic, Shawnta Smith and Andrew Spieldenner. 4 Letter from the Executive Director Letter from the Board Chair 5

Dear CLAGS Family: Dear CLAGS Community,

For the past year, I’ve had the pleasure of serving as Executive Director of CLAGS, and I am so and Comics Thank you for an amazing year of events, programs and transitions! As the Chair of the Board of Directors, I have Conference. We also co-sponsored the third annual LGBT Health Workforce Conference, along with the LGBT been honored to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in LGBT activism, Studies, and sexuality Committee of the Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians Initiative and the Women and Gender research in the country. We have had an enormous year starting with Cathy Cohen’s brilliant Kessler Lecture and Studies Program at Hunter College. continuing with the launch of initiatives with national and international reach – particularly the LGBT Scholars of Color Network and the Queers & Comix Conference We have had some amazing speakers including our Kessler Award Winner Dr. Cathy Cohen; cartoonists Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse; model and advocate Geena Rocero; and our inaugural Jose Esteban Munoz Award recipient Janet Mock. stimulating conversation that pushed the boundaries of sex, family and community. Since then, I’ve attended eventsI first came sporadically, to a CLAGS whenever conference my in personal, the mid90s.­ professional As a young and HIV academic activist, I wasinterests thrilled aligned to be partwith of the an organization.intellectually We hosted weekly programs that focused on a spectrum of LGBTQ issues, ranging from experiences of LGBTQ I have seen the dynamic growth of CLAGS, supporting the growth of while providing space for key people with disabilities to an inside look of the Ballroom Scene. conversations about our histories, differences, communities, and institutions. Even when CLAGS programming

We also gave out 9 fellowships and awards to so many deserving scholars, students, and artists who are interested trains of thought. And I was happy to see it happen, knowing that CLAGS was inspiring someone to think deeper in promoting and studying LGBTQ people and experiences. ordid differently, not follow or my to particular know that interests, their experience I understood has value. that it reflected someone else in our community, some other

Among all of these accomplishments, I am most proud that CLAGS has continued to be “an academic home” for students, , researchers, and community members, who desire to be in spaces where we can talk, up our economic and institutional relationships with the leadership of new Executive Director Kevin Nadal. The discuss, and analyze everything and anything related to our sexual orientations and gender identities. CLAGS has diversityAs the Board of our Chair Board of CLAGS,of Directors I have now been mirrors part of the a difficultbroader transitionLGBTQ community, in the organization and I’m proud – successfully to be the Chairshoring of been a safe space for many – allowing folks to express and explore themselves in ways they might not been able a Board that has 100% participation in donation of personal funds and resources to support CLAGS. Together, we to before. CLAGS has also been a place for growth, particularly for allies and educators who want to learn about have challenged each other to new directions in Queer Studies, LGBTQ activism, and research in sex and sexuality. our communities and how to advocate for the rights of LGBTQ people and all marginalized communities.Next year, CLAGS is on its way to serving as a truly interdisciplinary research center on LGBTQ issues and Queer Studies. CLAGS will continue to be at the forefront of educating and championing for LGBTQ issues, providing programming In the coming year, the CLAGS Board of Directors will gain new leadership in David Rivera and Marta Esquillin – and opportunities for intellectual stimulation, the conceptualization of research, and potential collaborations for stimulating dialogues and ideas. However, given that 2016 marks the 25th Anniversary of CLAGS at the CUNY and community organizing. CLAGS will continue to thrive with the support of you, and I hope to see you at a CLAGS event.who will serve as CoChairs.­ Both are passionate leaders in their fields, and bring a wealth of experience in research theGraduate past. Center, as well as the 30th Anniversary of the original conceptions of CLAGS, next year will also be filled with opportunities for reflection, examining and archiving history, and building and rebuilding relationships of So with that, I hope you all will continue to support CLAGS in the future. Please come to any or all of our wonderful events, and please continue to advocate for the lives of all LGBTQ people everywhere.

With much love and pride,  Sincerely,

Kevin Nadal, Ph.D.Executive Director CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies

Andrew Spieldenner, Ph.D. Assistant Associate Professor, Psychology Department of Rhetoric City University of Hofstra University 6 LGBTQ Scholars of Color Network and Conference The Queers & Comics Conference, presented by CLAGS 7

(University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Tania Israel included “Queer Comics, Health and Dis/Ability,” “A LGBTQ (University of California- Santa Barbara), and The Queers Trans/Gender/Queer Roadtrip,” “Creating Queer Geena Rocero (supermodel and rights Characters of Color,” “Queer Comics on the Web,” Scholars of advocate). We also had many panels focusing on & Comics “Queers Working in Mainstream Comics” and “Wet everything from being a successful LGBTQ scholar and Sticky: Sexuality in Queer Comics.” Most of color to areas of research affecting LGBTQ conference events were videotaped and will be Color Network communities of color, and more. We also had Conference, archived for future viewing. breakout sessions, which included everything from and Conference the tenure process to working with community- presented Along with the two day conference at the Graduate based organizations. We had a speed mentoring Center, there were three days of additional events With the support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, session, which matched more senior mentors with by CLAGS at other venues, including a Drink & Draw Launch the Arcus Foundation, and the Andrus Family Fund, Party, “Queer Comix Live!”, a reading and slide show CLAGS was able to launch the LGBTQ Scholars of we had several networking receptions, where The Queers & Comics Conference, presented individualsearly career were professionals able to meet and otherstudents. colleagues And finally, and a post­conference cartoonists’ lunch. A group of a meeting on October 30, 2014, in which we invited socialize. cartoonists’ conference, and was a resounding cartoonistsby 30 cartoonists also attended at the School“Fun Home,” of Visual the Broadway Arts, and Color Network and Conference. We first began with bysuccess. CLAGS, On wasMay the7­8, 2015, first universityover 100­based international LGBTQ musical based on Alison Bechdel’s memoir, and had color, and as scholars or researchers. There were The conference was quite successful. We accepted LGBTQ cartoonists and scholars participated on 38 a private Q&A with Alison and the entire cast. aboutindividuals 70 individuals who identified in attendance. as LGBTQ, We as then people held of 200 participants and speakers for the conference panels and workshops to discuss their craft, and our inaugural LGBTQ Scholars of Color Conference, (We had over 400 people apply to participate). which was held from April 8-10, 2015. Participants represented various parts of the Comics. Keynote speakers Howard Cruse and Alison country, including the Northeast, West Coast, the Bechdelto document highlighted the history the evenings and significance with their of moving Queer South, and the Midwest. Our evaluations indicated slide show presentations. Special guest, Japanese that responses were very positive overall. Nearly master cartoonist Gengoroh Tagame, also presented all of the participants found the conference to be a his exciting work. During the conference, a digital valuable professional experience and would attend exhibit of attending cartoonists’ art was displayed, future conferences. Participants enjoyed the format as well as cartoon sculptures by Rica Takashima. of the plenary sessions, breakout sessions, and Over 400 cartoonists, comics fans, students, and keynote speakers. Many participants expressed scholars attended the conference. how supportive, encouraging, informative, and “Queer Pin Ups”, decks of playing cards, were created transformative the conference was. Many reported with art donated by 54 LGBTQ cartoonists and were that they valued the opportunity to be their authentic sold to help raise funds, along with tshirts bearing selves in an academic and professional environment the Q&C logo. Additional funding was raised through without someone treating them differently. grants and membership fees.

CLAGS hopes to continue to the LGBTQ Scholars of Color Network in the future, while also encouraging many raves from attendees and press reviews. This for the network to expand across the country. eventThe great generated success numerous of this event new was queer reflected cartooning in the projects and countless working relationships. Future Queers & Comics conferences are in the early planning stages.

The conference was created and organized by Cartoonist Jennifer Camper’s cartoonist Jennifer Camper, assisted greatly by books include “Rude Girls André Carrington, Prism Comics, many volunteers, and Dangerous Women” and and all the hard working CLAGS staff, especially “subGURLZ”, and she edited The goals of the meetings were to: (1) increase Jasmina Sinanovic and Yana Calou. two “Juicy Mother” comics exposure of advanced research careers; (2) anthologies. Her work appears increase exposure of research on underrepresented Queers & Comics highlighted the pioneers of queer in many publications, comic populations; (3) provide professional networking comics, including cartoonists creating openly queer books and anthologies, and has been exhibited and mentoring opportunities; and (4) provide work in the 1970s and early 1980s, and a “ internationally. She edited the “Queer Pin-Ups” underrepresented scholars access to community Comix” reunion of all the editors, the founding playing cards and is the creator/coordinator of the publisher, and many contributors to the 25 issues of Queers & Comics Conference, CLAGS, CUNY Grad research. The agenda for the conference included the groundbreaking­ comic book. Other panel topics Center, NYC, 2015. keynoteand a voice presentations in the academy by Dr.or prospectiveDavid Malebranche fields of 8 The 2015 LGBT Health Workforce Conference Rainbow Book Fair by Sarah Chinn 9

The 2015 Rainbow LGBT Health Book Fair by Workforce Sarah Chinn

Conference The New York Rainbow Book Fair is America’s oldest LGBTQ book fair and the largest LGBTQ book was the third annual conference of its kind andtook event in the country. It has grown every year since place from May 1­3, 2015 at Hunter College ­CUNY. its beginning in 2009. It brings together thoughtful, Cosponsored­ by CLAGS, the conference was led interesting people of all ages, from early teens by the LGBT Committee of the Building the Next to those in their 70s and 80s; from a spectrum Generation of Academic Physicians Initiative and the of countries, ethnicities, gender identities, and viewpoints. It attracts readers and writers of course, but also publishers, editors, agents, and media attetion—people who have never experienced queer culture, and others who have made it the focus of their lives.

Rainbow Book Fair is the most exciting LGBTQ book event in the U.S. The 7th Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair featured more than 100 publishers, writers, poets, editors, booksellers, and the over 1000 readers who love and buy their books. We sponsored panels on LGBT Memoir and Biography, Queer Black Writing in the 1980s, and Queer Jewish Writers. The Fair welcomed award­winning featured readers: novelists Dale Peck and Martha Shelley, biographer David Margolick, activist and memoirist Kelly Cogswell, and poets Mark Doty and Saeed Jones.

Our Poetry Salon, “See Hear,” was jam­packed Women and Program of Hunter as usual, as were the prose readings that lasted College. This conference provided an overview of throughout the day. up­todate­ practices (climate and educational) in preparing the health care workforce to address We are thrilled to announce that the 8th Annual the health concerns of , gay, bisexual, and Rainbow Book Fair will be at John Jay College on transgender (LGBT) communities and was designed April 9th, 2016. We look forward to seeing you there! for health professionals (M.D., D.O., P.A.­C., nurses, dentists, podiatrists, social workers, psychologists, Sarah Chinn teaches in the etc.), educators, and students (prehealth­ professions, English department at Hunter professional schools, and graduate). A summary College, where she’s also department chair. Her work in LGBT Health titled First Annual LGBT Health primarily explores questions Workforceof the first Conference: conference, heldEmpowering in 2013, isOur published Health of race, gender, sexuality, and Workforce to Better Serve LGBT Communities. national identity, particularly CLAGS Board Member Dr. JP Sanchez, a CLAGS Board in 19th century America. She member and Professor at Albert Einstein College of was executive director of Medicine and Jen Gaboury, a former CLAGS Board CLAGS from 2007 to 2011. Chair and Professor at Hunter College served as conference co­coordinators. 10 On Black Death & LGBTQ Politics: by Jessie Daniels 11

should understand the killing of young black people, On Black Death in particular young black men, and the less visible assaults on black women and the murder of black & LGBTQ Politics: trans people.” The second section, “Performing Solidarity: LGBT by Jessie Daniels Complicity = Black Death,” was a thorough recap In December, I attended the Kessler Award lecture Dean Spade and Michael Warner of the way that and ceremony in honor of Professor Cathy J. Cohen mainstreamof critiques made(read: bypredominantly Urvashi Vaid, white) Lisa Duggan, LGBT (University of Chicago) titled #Do Black Lives organizations have prioritized a neoliberal agenda Matter? From Michael Brown to CeCe McDonald: On with policies that emphasize marriage, access to the Black Death and LGBTQ Politics.” Cohen’s large body military and increased criminalization through hate of work at the intersection of race, class, gender, crime legislation. and sexuality includes the well­known 1997 GLQ article “Punks, Bulldaggers and Welfare Queens: The Continuing into “This is Not the Civil Rights Radical Potential of Queer Politics”.Cohen began by Movement: The Queering of Black Liberation,” screening devastating video of the murders of Eric Cohen addressed the possibility of transformational Garner, John Crawford III, Kaijeme Powell, Oscar politics. She showed video of Tory Russell from Grant, and Tamir Rice, to “re­center us and remind us Hands Up United, one of the grassroots groups what the movement is about.” organizing in Ferguson, Missouri responding to Cohen discussed the context surrounding the murder of Michael Brown as a ‘‘multicultural IGwen mean Ifill it’s (PBS) younger, about it’s what fresher. he sees: I think we’re more a “prioritizing of markets and a corresponding connected than most people think. I don’t, this is commitmentturn in neoliberalism,’ to the dismantling defining neoliberalism or devolution as not the civil rights movement, you can tell by how of social welfare.” Cohen argues that with the I got a hat on, I got my t-shirt, and how I rock my shoes. This is not the civil rights movement. This American president, neoliberalism has taken a is an oppressed peoples’ movement. So when you “multiculturalelection of Barack turn” that Obama requires as theus to first “complicate African see us, you gonna see some gay folk, you gonna see our understanding of state power and neoliberal some queer folk, you gonna see some poor black agendas.” About this, and as part of her critique of folk, you gonna see some brown folk, you gonna see Obama, she said: some white people and we all out here for the same reasons, we wanna be free. Colorblind racial ideology, by both decrying racism In many ways, Russell articulates Cohen’s vision for and designating anti­racism as probably one of the transformational politics and what she refers to as country’s newly found core values, actually works substantive, rather than performative, solidarity. to obscure the relationship between identity and Cohen, along with a growing chorus of voices, sees privilege. Thus, through colorblind ideology one can what is happening now as a movement, rather claim to be in solidarity with black people while at than simply a momentary response to aggressive the same time denigrating the condition of poor black policing. Cohen describes this movement, as Tory people, faulting them for their behaviors or lack of a Russell said, made up of some gays, some queer folk, work ethic and not their race. Moreover, one could some poor black people, some brown folks, some declare that ‘black lives matter’ while undermining white folks, ...all of them united in their position any state­sponsored programs that would address as oppressed people, aka politically queer, and all the special needs of poor black people. One could say, in fact, that I’m heartbroken with the death of criminalization, not access to the military, but for Trayvon Martin because if I had a son, he would look freedom.”fighting for freedom, not marriage, not increased like Trayvon, and recognize that that means nothing in terms of justice for black people. You can view read Jessie Daniels’ complete review

here or: bit.ly/1EnyzYE and watch Cohen’s She began with this turn because “it is a reminder of lecture (at 25:50) and read the transcript here. the sustained attack on the basic humanity of poor black people that provides the context in which we 12 José Esteban Muñoz Award 13

José Esteban Muñoz Award

The inaugural José Esteban Muñoz Award was created to honor an LGBTQ community leader or activist for their advocacy and promotion of LGBTQ Studies. The winner will be invited to host a public program during June for LGBTQ Pride Month at the CUNY Graduate Center.

José Esteban Muñoz was a pioneer in LGBTQ studies. He was the author and editor of several books that grappled with issues of race, gender, and sexuality including Cruising Utopia: The Politics and Performance of Queer Futurity

Performance of Politics. He was also a professor and former Disidentifications: Chair of the Department Queers of of Color Performance and the Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He passed away in December 2013.

Janet Mock. Janet Mock is the New York Times The first person to receive the Muñoz award was she hosts the weekly culture show “So POPular!” on MSNBC’sbestselling Shift author network of Redefining and serves Realness. as Contributing Currently, Editor for Marie Claire. She is one of the most visible transgender women in the country and continues to advocate for the lives of transgender people, people of color, and all marginalized groups.

Ms. Mock received her award on June 22, 2015. at the Graduate Center, hearing her speak in a conversationalA packed audience dialogue filled thewith Elebash CLAGS Recital Executive Hall Director, Dr. Kevin Nadal. They talked about everything from the #BlackLivesMatter movement to to intersectionalities and more. The evening concluded with Ms. Mock receiving her award from the incoming CLAGS Board Co-Chairs Marta Esquilin and Dr. David Rivera. 14 Events Events 15

BOYS: An Anthology (Thought Catalog, 2013). in Detroit” by Dr. Marlon M. Bailey, professor Events Dr. Michael Kimmel, A Distinguished Professor of theorizing and organizing at the intersection of Gender and American Studies at Indiana of Sociology at SUNY­ Stony Brook moderated an ofWu queernessand reflected and upon disability. the past, present,Moderator and Akemifuture The series of CLAGS programming for the year of amazing panel that featured the anthology’s co­ Nishida (CUNY GC) facilitated participants in a lively ethnography and memoir of dance, dress, and 201515­ was called Q of Life ­a theme that explored editors Zach Stafford and Nico Lang, as well one discussion about how we can think about queerness vogueUniversity. ballroom Dr. Bailey’s competitions rich first inperson­ Detroit’s performance black and how LGBTQ identity challenges the concept of a contributor Noah Michelson, who is also Executive and disability in intersectional ways. Latino queer communities. By sharing his stories normative life cycle. These events proposed queered and experiences, Bailey demonstrated the ways models of what it means to live or possess a “quality” such cultural formations are spaces of resistance life. Recognizing that normative ideals are often OurEditor biennial of Gay seminarVoices on in The the Huffington series course Post. this year that disrupt dominant notions of gender, sexuality, heterosexist and transphobic, our programming was taught by Dr. Crystal Jackson of John Jay College and community, and create alternative kinship centered upon the lives of queers working within, of Criminal Justice, CUNY, who is also the author of structures. and against, various economies of marginalization. The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the New CLAGS events thus focused on alternatives to American Heartland (Routledge, 2010). Dr. Jackson Finally, we closed out the year with a packed what constitutes a “quality life” from different led the free, four- screening of new award­winning documentary perspectives ranging in age, race, gender, gender part livestreamed course on the socio­politics of “Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger”. This identity, , and economic status. In sexual labor and those in the sex trade in New York documentary joined the legendary performance addition to hosting three conferences, our artist and writer, who has been exploding binaries programming sought to explore the multitudes inform new ways of understanding class inequality, and deconstructing gender for decades, on her latest contained in queer lives. genderCity, specifically­based , focusing on howand LGBTQsexual rights. voices tour, bearing witness to Kate as a trailblazing artist­ The course paid particular attention to local sex theoristactivist­ who inhabits a space between male worker rights activist efforts, including the work of and female with wit, style and astonishing candor. organizations such as the Red Umbrella Project and Similarly, as the population of seniors in the U.S. We were honored to host a Q&A with Kate herself, the Sex Workers Project. steadily increases, discussions about quality of Our Queerness in Athleticism panelist featured life, disability, and care for seniors often assume athletes, coaches, researchers, and activists involved readily available familial networks and support Asalong a withmain the tenet film’s of director CLAGS’ Sam mission Feder. is to bring in the LGBTQ sports movement, who highlighted from children. This assumption fails to account for communities of scholars, activists, students, artists, socialization practices that exist within athleticism LGBTQ and other seniors with alternative forms of and researchers together, we also hosted a end of and how the culture of sports both helps and kinship systems, while LGBTQ political organizing semester social, as well as a end of year prepride­ hinders the development of LGBTQ identity. Using party at the historic Stonewall Inn. We look forward personal experiences as a starting point, panelists populations. to connecting with and growing CLAGS’ membership discussed how gender and/or allows rarely accounts for concerns specific to elderly in the years to come, and offer a heartfelt thank you for bonding and group formations that have helped This event staged an important dialogue between to all our members, speakers, and volunteers whose shape identity as well stimulate change for LGBTQ scholar­organizers Anna Muraco and Nancy Giunta, work makes our programming possible. culture as a whole. providing valuable insight into how centering LGBTQ seniors shifts the ways we think about The latest in our Performing Que(e)ries series aging and care CLAGS was also proud to host two featured legendary downtown performance artist international scholars this year. Belgrade based We opened the year with Amin Ghaziani, author of Peggy Shaw’s performance of selections from her solo There Goes the Gayborhood? (Princeton UP 2014) repertoire and work in the performance troupe Split of queer studies at the Centar za Kvir Studije at and Graduate Center visiting fellow Christina Britches, including her most recent internationally Belgrade’sactivist and Institute philosopher of Philosophy, Dušan Maljković, spoke founder about Hanhardt, author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood acclaimed performance piece, Ruff. In conversation the early links between Freudian psychoanalysis with former CLAGS staff member Benjamin Gillespie and ­ and why he thinks it still may be for a discussion on Gayborhoods and the Politics of (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Shaw will discussed possible to psychoanalysis to challenge mainstream SafeHistory Spaces, and thewhere Politics both of scholars Violence queried (Duke UPhow 2013) and why the city has been and remains a key site in the work, both solo and collaborative. identities. Swedish choreographer and performer organizing and imaginary of LGBT spaces as “safe how her past inflected her current performance Carlpolitics Olof of Berg fixed performed homo/hetero from oppositionshis work titled and spaces” for the community. The event was moderated Since the systems of oppression that coalesce around “The Andrology Showroom” put his own body at by CLAGS Board Member Christopher Adam Mitchell queerness and disability are intimately intertwined, play, creating ambiguity, humour, intimacy in an of Rutgers University. CLAGS hosted a panel on queerness and dis/ability to exploration of the performance, production, and foreground the interrelations between compulsory destabilization of masculinity and male privilege. In October, we partnered with The Center for the and compulsory able­bodiedness. Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook This roundtable featured current research from We were thrilled to also host “Butch Queens Up in University for a panel on the bestselling anthology scholars Cathy Hannabach, Robert McRuer, Cynthia Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture 16 Fellowships Fellowships 17

Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. His artists as they encounter postmodernist art and Fellowships research focuses on representations of queerness in the 1960s and 1970s. He regularly and marronage in Caribbean writing and cultural teaches history at John Jay College, Brooklyn College, discourse. and St. Francis College.

The Robert Giard Fellowship Award 2014 Jaun Carlos Zaldívar – Alterations ALTERATIONS follows J, a young trans person, as she sets out to reconnect with her estranged mother for The Martin Duberman Fellowship 2014 Mab Segrest – ST EOM, Jayne County, and the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies 2014 told his bi-polar mother, Mary Jane, that he was Georgia-to-NYC Rural Queer Avant-Garde Che Gossett - We Will Not Rest in Peace: AIDS goingthe first to timetransition as a woman. into a woman, Months hisprior, mother when hadJesus a Mab Segrest is Professor Emeriti of Gender and Activism, Black Radicalism, Queer and/or Trans heart attack. When Mary Jane came to, she did not Women’s Studies at Connecticut College. Segrest resistance Graduate Student Paper Award 2014 remember her identity and now believes that she is Che Gossett is a genderqueer writer and activist Mariana Romo-Carmona - The constitution of someone else. ALTERATIONS chronicles a magical and activist in a range of movements on queer who works to excavate queer of color AIDS activist weekend escapade where the two women meet as issues,has worked anti-racism, for thirty-five and social years and as economic a teacher, justice. writer and trans archives. They have received a research and Ena Lucía Portela their new selves. When they challenge each other Memoir of a Race Traitor (South End Press, 1994) grant from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Marianalesbian characters Romo-Carmona in the novelsis co-editor of Ibis Gómez-Vegaof Cuentos: to face their worst fears, a new friendship blossoms was Editor’s Choice in the Lambda Literary Awards, Study at Harvard University for their project on Stories By Latinas, author of the novel, Living that is independent from their blood ties. was named an Outstanding Book on legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian at Night, and Sobrevivir y otros complejos: Cuban-born, Zaldívar lives and works in the United in North America by the Gustavus Myers Center on struggle, have been selected as a Martin Duberman Poems in Englillano. Her Master’s thesis is on States. He completed both his BFA and a Masters Human Rights, and was nominated for Non-Fiction visiting scholar with the deterritorialization and suicide in the work of of Fine Arts at New York University’s Tisch School Book of the year by the Southern Regional Council. and have published work in Captive Genders: Trans surrealist Chilean poet, Carlos de Rokha, and begins of the Arts, where he has also taught as an adjunct She is currently living in Brooklyn and working Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex and her doctoral studies (Fall, 2014) in the Hispanic faculty. He has also taught as full-time faculty at on two books of social history on Georgia’s state volume two of theTransgender Studies Reader. & Luso-Brazilian Lits. and Langs. Program at The Miami International University’s Institute of Art mental hospital at Milledgeville, the largest such Graduate Center, CUNY. institution in the world during the 1940s and 1950s sound editor and designer, his work can be heard as culmination of her work on identity, culture and and Design. Zaldívar started his film career as a power in the U.S. South. “Sense and Sensibility;” “On the ropes” and on HBO’sin Academy America Nominated Undercover, films for suchwhich as he Ang garnered Lee’s an Emmy nomination.

festivals worldwide and broadcast on PBS, ABC, IFC, ShowtimeHis film and and video WE. art He works is the haverecipient screened of numerous at many grants and awards. His directing credits include “90 Miles” (PBS), “The Story of the Red Rose” (Showtime), “Palingenesis” and “Soldiers Pay” (IFC), Undergraduate Student Paper Award 2014 co-directed with David O. Russell (Three Kings, The Paul Monette-Roger Horwitz Dissertation Prize Liron Cohen - The Death of a Lesbian - Death in Fighter) and Tricia Regan (Autism, the musical). 2014 Lesbian Theatre Thomas W. Hafer - ‘The Last of the Great Bohemians’: Liron Cohen is an undergraduate CUNY BA festivals including the Sundance International Film Film Poetry, Myth, and Sexuality in Greenwich student at Hunter College. Her unique degree is in Festival.He has servedHe is a asSundance a Juror Film for several Institute mayor alumnus. film Journalism / US Media and Culture. She is also the He has recently co-founded the Miami Filmmakers CLAGS Fellowship 2014 Thomas W. Hafer completed his Ph.D. in History at college newspaper’s theatre critic. Liron started her Collective with a generous grant from the John S. and Ronald Cummings - Queer Marronage theVillage Graduate and the Center, Atlantic, CUNY 1930-1975 in 2014. His dissertation, academic career as an international student from James L. Knight Foundation Art Challenge grant and and Caribbean Writing ‘”The Last of the Great Bohemians”: Film Poetry, Israel. She has since then married her partner of a matching grant from the Dade County Department Ronald Cummings is currently Assistant Professor four years and is now a happy equal resident of the of Cultural Affairs. of Postcolonial Studies at Brock University. He was Atlantic, 1930-1975’, examines the modernist US, thanks to the Supreme Court’s overturning of the 2013-2014 postdoctoral research fellow in identity,Myth, and art, Sexuality and sexuality in Greenwich of a group Village of bohemian and the the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. 18 CLAGS Fellowships Edward Carpenter Collection 19

The Paul Monette–Roger Horwitz Dissertation CLAGS Prize - $1,000 Edward In addition to using Coutts as a platform, I am also This award, which honors the memories of Monette, anefficient LGBT process. Studies referee for Resources for College Fellowships a poet and author, and his partner, Horwitz, an Carpenter Libraries (RCL) a core bibliography of essential attorney, will be given for the best dissertation in resources for undergraduate library collections. Developed by the Association of College and Research CLAGS Fellowship Award - $2,000 Collection An award to be given annually for a graduate student, within the City University of New York system. Libraries (ACRL), I am given the opportunity to TheLGTBQ dissertation Studies, broadly should defined, have bybeen a PhD defended candidate in review over one thousand LGBT titles, and determine an academic, or an independent scholar for work on The Graduate Center is a leader at CUNY in titles the previous year. Adjudicated by the fellowships which form a core collection of LGBT studies. A part on gender, sexual orientation, queer theory, and committee of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. of the process for this work is to contribute to the book manuscript. The CLAGS Fellowship is open other LGBT interdisciplinary subjects and authors. development of a subject-appropriate taxonomy. a dissertation, a first book manuscript, or a second As LGBT Studies liaison at the Graduate Center The Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies Currently and Sexual Orientation are studies. Intended to give the scholar the most help Library, I am happy to unveil the curtain for - $1,000 subcategories of Personal Identity in the taxonomy possibleto intellectuals in furthering contributing their work, to the the fieldfellowship of LGBTQ will collection development in this area. Students of all be able to be used for research, travel, or writing This award, which honors the memory of Sylvia tree. There’s much to unpack and consider. support. Adjudicated by the CLAGS fellowships Rivera, a transgender activist, will be given for Work with the ACRL’s RCL coupled with the COUTTS the best book or article to appear in transgender search platform allows for a depth in choosing to committee. humanitiesfields utilize andLGBTQ social resources, sciences. making High selection production for studies during the year. Adjudicated by the CLAGS materials beneficial across all departments in the fellowships committee. implemented this year was the generation of lists The Martin Duberman Fellowship - $7,500 demand from students and researchers. Catering to fromcollect recent new CLAGStitles. A book-related final and most events. important Namely, step the An endowed fellowship named for CLAGS founder theof this demand broadening is possible field via is a coupled partnership with thewith high the Graduate Student Paper Award - $250 Queer Comics Conference, the LGBT Bookfair, and Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), making Each year, CLAGS sponsors a student paper the LGBT People of Color conference, each having fellowship is awarded to a senior scholar (tenured my job equipped for the challenge. universityand first executive professor director, or advanced Martin Duberman, independent this competition open to all graduate students enrolled robust take-a-ways with a ready list of authors in the CUNY system. A cash prize is awarded to and publishing companies. I happily read through scholar) from any country doing scholarly research To provide context on a collection development the best paper written in a CUNY graduate class on bios and co-sponsors, then generated a list from on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer partnership between a University Center and the any topic related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, or which recently published books were reviewed (LGBTQ) library, allow me one moment to quote myself in a transgender experiences. Papers should be between and selected. While the Graduate Center Library experience. 2014 Graduate Center Library blog post, A Queer 15 and 50 pages and of publishable quality. Library Collection: of courses taught at the Graduate Center, due to the The Robert Giard Fellowship - $7,500 Undergraduate Student Paper Award - $250 consistently ensures acquisitions that are reflective An annual award named for Robert Giard, a portrait, After receipt of a generous bequest by long time Each year, CLAGS sponsors a student paper to collect resources directly related to LGBT and CLAGS member Ivor Kraft in 2000, an Endowment competition open to all undergraduate students genderspecificity studies of the means demands to think of outside the Carpenter of the box. fund, often focused on LGBTQ lives and issues, this award is was created in the name of poet and labor activist enrolled in the CUNY or SUNY system. A cash prize is presentedlandscape, to and an emerging, figure photographer early or mid-career whose artist, work Edward Carpenter (1844-1929). Thanks to this awarded to the best paper written in a CUNY or SUNY English author, social reformer, and leader in from any country, working in photography, photo- Endowment, the Center for Lesbian and Gay undergraduate class on any topic related to gay, sexualEdward freedom, Carpenter enlightenment, (1844 – 1929) and was tolerance. an influential His based media, video, or moving image, including Studies administers the acquisition of materials and lesbian, bisexual, queer, or transgender experiences socialism advocated for a homosexual imprint in annually between artists working exclusively with and scholarship. Essays should be between 12 and conversations of social change and public education. 30 pages, well thought-out, and fully realized. The Mina Rees Library is committed to a collection stillshort-form images film (photography) or video. The and award those now working alternates with toresources be housed on books at the directly Graduate relevant Center’s to the Mina fields Rees of that represents the mission of the Carpenter Library.lesbian, gay, and gender studies, broadly defined, award will support a directed project, one that is Student Travel Award* - $250 Endowment. newmoving or continuing, images (video that addressesor film). In issues either of case,sexuality, this Each year, CLAGS sponsors two student travel awards open to all graduate students enrolled in LGBTQ book recommendations can be emailed to gender, or LGBTQ identity. were employed to spend the endowment of a little the CUNY system. A cash prize is awarded to a the LGBT Studies Liaison at [email protected]. overThis past$4000, 2014-2015 generated fiscal by the year, Carpenter a few new Fund. strategies Used student presenting subject matter that addresses The Kessler Award - $2,500 gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, or transgender issues The Kessler award is given to a scholar who has, over or electronic resources as in previous years, the a number of years, produced a substantive body of Graduateexclusively Center to collect library books, has asenlisted opposed into to Coutts films conferences held in the U.S. or abroad. OASIS Information Services, an ordering and Shawn(ta) Smith, MLS is an archivist *Awardin their was respective not given field. in Presentations 2014-2015, but can will be forbe at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and collection development tool from Ingram Content available again in 2015-2016. the Head of Reference Librarian at the chosenwork that by hasthe hadCLAGS a significant Board of influence on Group. OASIS (Online Acquisitions and Selection Graduate Center Library where she Directors,the field ofreceives GLBTQ a Studies. monetary The award awardee, and who gives is is also the LGBT Studies Liaison. She Information System), recently acquired by Proquest, worked as Memberships Fellowships CLAGS’ annual Kessler Lecture. For more information about these, and any additional fellowships and awards that we offer, please visit: is the broadest database in the industry of print and Coordinator at CLAGS and Web Ebook titles from large and small press publishers. Administrator for three years. She http://www.clags.org updates the LGBT Studies Subject Use of this collection development resource has guide and welcomes your feedback at [email protected].

made the demand to order LGBT specific books an 20 CLAGS Internship 21

Visiting Scholar Spring 2015 locally referred to as ‘sasoi’, in Accra, Ghana. She CLAGS Internship Visiting Scholar is particularly interested in concepts of LGBTI rights and identity, and how these link to the lived Spring 2015 experiences of Ghanaian sexual rights activists. My name is Nancy Amin, and for the Spring 2015 Her research interests include queer, feminist, and semester I worked as an intern at CLAGS. Currently, Ellie Gore: My visiting scholarship at CLAGS postcolonial theory, gender and sexualities in Africa, I attend John Jay and I am working towards a degree was a very enjoyable, informative, and inspiring and the anthropology of development. experience. At this critical point in my studies, it My internship allowed me to really understand the was a privilege to be working in an environment Liner Nunez: At CLAGS I had the opportunity of conceptsin Gender I Studies,was learning so CLAGS in the was classroom a great fit because for me. where I could discuss ideas with fellow scholars interning with an amazing team of individuals. They they were now being applied to real situations with were welcoming and understanding, two principal real people. It also gave me the opportunity to attend opportunity to ​get involved in CLAGS programmes qualities that are essential to an organization events where I gained a better understanding of and events,activists to within ​share andthe getsame field. ​It​ gave me the dedicated to the LGBTQ community. I recognized the concepts that I was being taught as I was interning staff’s genuine interest and passion in advocating helping me grasp them much easier. For my build networks and research links for the future. ​The for the LGBTQ community, with their ingenuity and internship, I primarily helped Yana, the Events and CLAGSfeedback team on ​earlywere findingsalso really from welcoming my research, and andmade to focus on expanding and developing through CLAGS’ me feel at home. I​ would thoroughly recommend events. CLAGS is not only a university­based research the Finance director. Both were really patient with the experience to other scholars! center, but a true community for LGBTQ individuals. meMarketing as I learned coordinator how to send as well mass as emails,Jasmina update Sinanović, web It was a pleasure to intern for CLAGS. pages, help organize volunteer lists, and complete paperwork. I attend a lot of community events, but I never had a chance to really get involved and see all the work and time that gets put in to it, or feel how rewarding it was when an event has ended and people leave discussing how much they enjoyed it. The work environment was so great and I’ve never worked with a better group of people (both staff and directors), and I look forward to volunteering/ interning with them the semesters to come.

Ellie Gore is completing her doctorate in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her thesis is based on a yearlong ethnographic study of political and community organising among queer men, 22 Donors Donors 23

Sarah Spieldenner Thomas Hafer Weston Milliken Donors Gerard Tate Christina Handhart Kara Olidge Honor Roll ‐ $100‐249 Randolph Trumbach James Holmes Everett Rowson Margot Weiss Michele Karlsberg John P. Sanchez RandiVanessa Anderson Agard‐Jones Robert Woodworth Ellyn Kaschak C. Riley Snorton Andrew Austin & Michael Sonberg Dean’s List ‐ $250‐499 Nia King Joseph Wittreich Jr. & Stuart Curran Jennifer Baquial Dolores Alic Elias Krell Institutional Support and Foundations Alison Bechdel Lisa Balthazar Lawrence La Fountain Andrus Family Fund Mark Black Rico Barbosa & Mark Blasius Burt Lazarin Annie E. Casey Foundation Rich Blint andré carrington Robert Lobou Arcus Foundation Kevin Bogart Chris Eng Kelsey Louie CUNY (diversity grant) Matthew Bolton Seth Grossman Jarron Magallanes GAPA Foundation Michael Bronski Karen Jaime Daniel Mallory Greater New York Independent Publishers Association Jeb Butler Beck Jordan‐Young Karin Martin Leslie‐Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Judith Butler Daniel Mercado C. Richard Mathews New York Council for the Humanities Rob Byrnes Gail T. Prado Mark McBeth The Graduate Center, CUNY Gerard Cabrera Polly Thislethwaite Robert McCullough Jr. The Robert Giard Foundation Jose Campon Christopher Packard NYCT (or Katherine Franke?) Linda Camarasana TarynnUrvashi Witten Vaid Pam A. Parker David Caron Robert Woodworth Raul Rubio Colin Chellman President’s Circle – $500 + Tom Saettel Lina Cherfas Rebecca Campon James Saslow & Steven Goldstein Muriel Dimen Sarah Chinn & Kris Franklin Arrona Salvador Clayton Drinko William Cohen Carol Scott George Edwards Jack Drescher Laurence Philip Senelick Katherine M. Franke & Janlori Goldman (OR NYCT?) John Silberman & Elliot Carlen LaurenJefferey Fisher Escoffier Stephanie Hsu Shante Smalls Miles Grier David Kessler Thomas Spear Arnold Grossman Rick Lee Andrew Spieldenner Steven Haeberle Rodolfo Mendoza 24 25

CLAGS Membership

Each year, CLAGS’s work is made possible by the generosity of our supporters. We receive support not only from our volunteer Board of Directors, but also from foundations, corporate supporters, and from individual members. While the Graduate

general operating costs still exist and are funded primarilyCenter, CUNY from providesindividual us donors with and office memberships. space, our Indeed CLAGS’s membership program is vital to our sustenance: it not only provides our organization with unrestricted funds that let us prioritize the most cutting edge and greatly needed programs, it is also used for the vital but less glamorous aspects of our work: stipends for our speakers, postage, student fellowships, staff support and even the paper and

smoothly. office supplies that we need to keep things running To become a member, you can make a secure donate online through our Network for Good page (https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1434026) 26 Board Board 27

Jen Jack Gieseking is a cultural geographer and Christopher Adam Mitchell is a member of the History C. Riley Snorton is an assistant professor at Cornell environmental psychologist whose work examines the Department at Rutgers UniversityNew­ Brunswick, where University. His research and teaching interests include everyday coproductions­ of space and identity that support he is writing a dissertation entitled, “Condensed to the Point rhetorical and cultural theory, queer diaspora, media Board or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice in urban and of Explosion”: Liber(aliz)ation, Structural Change, and the anthropology, Africana studies, performance studies, and digital environments, with a special focus on sexuality and Changing Market Culture of ’s Queer Sub­ popular culture. He is the director of the short documentary Cultures, 19661987.”­ He regularly teaches queer history at Men at Work: Transitioning on the Job, and has published Rich Blint Constellating Geographies of ’ and Queer Women’s both the New Brunswick and Newark campuses. articles in the International Journal of Communication, Outreach and Education in the School of the Arts at Columbia In/Justicegender. She in is New working York onCity, her 1983 first2008.­ book, Jack Queer is New New Media York: Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and Souls: A University iswhere Associate he also Director curates of thethe Officebuilt ofenvironments Community Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. He exhibition series at the university’s Medical Center Campus. the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative at Bowdoin has also contributed to numerous edited volumes, including A scholar of African American literature and culture, Rich College.and Data Her Visualization website is jgieseking.org. Specialist, Postdoctoral Fellow in The Comedy of Dave Chappelle: Critical Essays, , is coeditor­ (with Douglas Field) of a special issue of African andTrans(gender) Migrations. Snorton’s book Nobody American Review on James Baldwin forthcoming Winter Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low 2013). He earned a Ph.D. in the Program in American Studies Melinda Goodman is a poet who has been teaching at Angelique V. Nixon is a writer, scholar, teacher, community is currently under contract with the University of Minnesota Press. He has received several at New York University and has taught courses and guest CUNY’s Hunter College since Audre Lorde recommended worker, artist and poet – born and raised in The Bahamas. fellowships, including an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral fellowship at Pomona College and the Melinda as her replacement. She has been an adjunct for 30 She earned her Ph.D. in English specializing in Caribbean Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation fellowship at Harvard University. College. He currently serves on the the adjunct faculty for the years. Here are some words that Melinda has written about literature and culture at the University of Florida. She lectured at New York University, Hunter College, and Vassar Masters Program in African American Studies at Columbia. her experience as a poet and teacher: “...I believe anybody teaches and writes about Caribbean and postcolonial Andrew Spieldenner (Board Chair) earned his Ph.D. in studies, African diaspora literatures, feminist and Communication & Culture from Howard University with André M. Carrington, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of that people want to express themselves. Often they are postcolonial theories, and gender and sexuality studies. an emphasis on health. Dr. Spieldenner has held positions AfricanAmerican­ Literature at Drexel University. He is a ascan scared write whoas me wants and to. as I findbewildered it interesting and andhurt encouraging and angry. at the NYC Department of Health, Black AIDS Institute, the scholar of black American culture, history, and politics Sometimes they have as much courage as I have or less or titled Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality Latino Commission on AIDS and the National Association and he writes on racial identity in popular culture with a more. I like the group aspect of a workshop. Each workshop inShe Caribbean is in the process Literature of publishing and Culture, her firstforthcoming scholarly bookwith of People with AIDS. He is currently Assistant Professor in particular focus on issues of gender, sexuality, and genre. is as different as its members. I feel like we are all on that University of Mississippi Press. Her work as scholar, the Department of Speech Communication, Rhetoric and bus together for that journey. Each person is a universe and cultural critic, and poet has been published widely in Performance Studies at Hofstra University. Dr. Spieldenner it’s amazing we can even communicate at all. Each person is academic and literary journals, including Anthurium, Black Renaissance Noire, MaComere, ProudFlesh, small axe salon, and WomanSpeak. Angelique advocate with twenty years serving high­risk populations from everywhere. To me it’s amazing that we all ended up on this bus at the same time. Who is deeply invested in grassroots activism and is involved with a number of community­based includingis openly racial/ethnic living with HIVminorities, and a gay long men­time and community people would’veprecious. thoughtI find it tothat be the a spiritual little girl experience. sitting at the I find counter out ain lot the about sweltering myself. heat My ofstudents her parents’ come organizations, including the grassroots healing collective Ayiti Resurrect, Caribbean IRN, and Chinese takeout­ on 181st Street would grow up to write about taking breaks to step into the Critical Resistance, among others. She is coeditor­ of the online multi­media collection Theorizing and disclosure, intercultural communication, health tundra of the walk­in freezer? We are privileged to get to hear what that little girl’s experience Homophobias in the Caribbean: Complexities of Place, Desire and Belonging. And she is author communication, cultural studies andliving sexuality. with HIV/AIDS. His research focuses on HIV stigma was like. I tell my students that they are writing the literature of their generation. I tell them of the art and poetry collection Saltwater Healing – A Myth Memoir and Poems published by Jessie Daniels is a Professor at Hunter College­City to write about their neighborhoods and families while it’s fresh in their memories because Poinciana Paper Press. Angelique will be a Fulbright Scholar with the Institute for Gender and Kalle Westerling is a performance and theatre scholar, University of New York (CUNY) with appointments in Public everything is changing and they are the ones who were witnesses from the inside.” Development at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, for the currently working on two dissertations, one for Stockholm Health, Sociology and Psychology at The Graduate Center. upcoming academic year (201415).­ University in Sweden on the formation of the Swedish She holds a PhD in Sociology (University of TexasAustin)­ and Stephanie Hsu is an Assistant Professor in the English brand of drag show. His other dissertation project, for The is the author of two books White Lies (Routledge, 1997) and Department and in the Women’s & Gender Studies Nomvuyo Nolushungu is an adjunct lecturer at Hunter Department at Pace University. She is a founding member College, City University of New York in the Women and in 20th century New York City burlesque and boylesque. with race, gender/sexuality and various forms of media. Gender Studies program. Currently a PhD candidate Graduate Center, CUNY, concerns male­identified bodies SheCyber is Racismthe director (Rowman of JustPublics@365, & Littlefield, 2009), a project both dealingfunded trans/gender variant people of Asian/South York University in political science at the CUNY Graduate Center, her Swedish drag group After Dark. Currently, he co­directs by the Ford Foundation that brings together scholars, inof 2009Q­WAVE, and a hasgrassroots also taught organization at UC­Santa for Barbara queer women and CUNY and­ interests include transitional justice, human rights, and theIn 2006,Scholars he project published for the La DolceThe Humanities, Vita, his firstArts, bookScience, on journalists and activists around social justice issues. Among Hunter College. She teaches and has written articles on transnational sexuality and gender studies. She has worked and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC). He her many research interests, is a study that explores the ininternational organization research and programming at is on the board of Swedish Performance Studies­focused use of mobile technology among LGBTQ youth. Her work and Disability Studies. She is working on a book manuscript the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, the about race, gender, sexuality and new media has appeared entitledtopics in theTransgender fields of Asian AmericanTransnationalism: Studies, TransImmigrant Studies, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Security Council westerling.nu. in the journals New Media & Society, American Journal of Public Health, Gender & Society Genders and Sexualities in 20th­ and 21stCentury­ American Report. She has been an instructor at Hunter, John Jay and publishing house STUTS. His full CV is available at www. andWomen’s Studies Quarterly. Aside from her time as an academic, Daniels also worked in Literature. Baruch Colleges of the City University of New York. John Paul Sanchez, MD, MPH has focused his research the Internet industry. Since 2007, she has maintained an academic­activist blog (RacismReview. on the health needs of the LGBT community in the areas com) with Joe Feagin and was recently named one of “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter,” Dr. Karen Jaime is Post­Doctoral Research Associate at of medical education and health disparities, in particular Cornell University. She earned her Ph.D. in the Department Tei Okamoto is the founder of two oral history projects sexually transmitted infections and smoking cessation. of Performance Studies at New York University in May 2013. (CurrentTides.org): The AIDS Epidemic and House Music: He is a founding Board Member of Lesbian and by Forbes Magazine. You can find herSean there F Edgecomb@JessieNYC. is Assistant Professor of Theatre in the She is also an accomplished spoken word/performance Twenty Years of Children of Color at Church, explores how Gay Health Resource Consortium (currently the Bronx Department of Performing and Creative Arts at the College artist. She served as the host/curator of the Friday Night the house music scene provided an alternative space of Community Pride Center). He currently serves as the of Staten Island, City University of New York. His articles and Slam at the world­renowned Nuyorican Poets Cafe (2002­ community and healing for queers of color in the midst of the Chairperson of the Einstein LGBT Steering Committee of have appeared in journals such as Theatre Journal, Modern 2005) and has also performed in such spaces as The Public devastation of the AIDS epidemic in the early to mid 1990s. the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is charged Drama, Popular Entertainment Studies and The Gay and Theater and The Town Hall in New York City. A published with building a supportive institutional climate to support Lesbian Review Worldwide. His book on Charles Ludlam which documents the life histories of those who have lost a the personal and professional development of students. and queer legacy is forthcoming from the Triangulations parentLove and or Affection:primary caregiver Growing to Up AIDS. in a TeiLife is and also Time the founder of HIV, Series at University of Michigan Press. He is also an Anthologypoet, she isof featuredSpoken Word in both: and Poetry. The Best of Panic! En Vivo of p.i.s.s. :Public Intellectual SpaceS, which curates various Medical Center, Bronx, NY. active director, serving as most recently having presented From the East Village, and in Flicker and Flame: A Queer political/intellectual/activist queer events. Recent panels Clinically, he practices emergency medicine at Montefiore Machinal at The University of Queensland, Australia in 2013. include: Queer Gen(d)erations: How to Leave a Legacy in a Michael Yarborough is an assistant professor at John Jay Bianca Laureano is an award­winning LatiNegra sexologist BrokeAss­ Economy; Remembering Marlon Riggs; and Neon College of Criminal Justice. Yarbrough’s research focuses on Baby: Juan Extravaganza and Queer Latino Performance. In 2013, Tei joined the international how law shapes people’s ideas about marriage and family, background is in Black and Latinx sexualities, education, art collective, HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? Collective (howdoyousayyaminafrican.com). with a special focus on its consequences for hierarchies Chris A. Eng is a graduate student in the PhD program in mediawho has justice, been in and the USyouth sexology culture. field Shefor over resides 15 years. in New Her of race, class, gender, and sexuality. His current book English at TheGraduate Center, CUNY. He is interested in York City where she provides education, consultation, David Rivera is an Assistant Professor of psychology at manuscript explores these themes through comparative questions of knowledge, institutionality, and the body, training, and skillshares on various topics in the sexuality William Paterson University. A counseling psychologist by ethnographic research among two groups recently working particularly with Asian/American cultural training, he also practices in college counseling centers incorporated into South African marriage law: people living productions through theorizations of queer discourses and Communities from the University of Maryland, a MA in and consults with institutions on climate issues affecting in communities governed by indigenous or “customary” law; critical ethnic studies. Humanfield. Bianca Sexuality earned Education a BA from in Women’s NYU, and Healtha MA in &Women’s Latino marginalized groups. Dr. Rivera holds degrees from Teachers and people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or Studies from the University of Maryland. She is co-directing College, , Johns Hopkins University, and transgender. As the world’s only jurisdiction to have recently the University of Wyoming. His research focuses on issues extended its marriage laws to multiple social groups, South about the intersections of Black and kink communities. She impacting the well­being of marginalized people, focusing Africa makes possible a novel comparison Yarbrough uses to isa featurea foundinglength­ member documentary of WOCSHN film (Women titled BLACK of Color PERVERT, Sexual on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. re-theorize the institutional and cultural bases of contemporary marriages. His article on how Health Network) and founder of The LatiNegr@s Project and LatinoSexuality.com. Bianca is He is currently on the executive committee of the American these legal expansions came to be is forthcoming in Social Politics, and he has published other on the board of The Black Girl Project and Director of Education and Regional Programs at Psychological Association’s Division 44 and is a consulting work in Qualitative Sociology Review and the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism. In its dissertation Marta Elena Esquilin is a social justice educator, editor of the journal Psychology of Sexual Orientation and form, his current project was awarded a Fulbright­Hays fellowship. multicultural affairsadministrator, community builder, and Gender Diversity. http://www.clags.org/about­clags/board­of­directors/ diversity consultant. In addition to her consulting work with Scenarios USA. To find out more aboutRick Bianca H. Lee visit is the her Associate site BiancaLaureano.com. Director of the Tyler Clementi the Posse Foundation and various colleges and universities Center at RutgersUniversity. He regularly teaches courses Nick Salvato is Associate Professor in the Department of around the United States, she is currently the Director of Intercultural and Social Justice Programs within the Asian American cultural studies. At Rutgers, he serves on book, Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer theon AIDSexecutive literature committee and film, for gay the and Institute lesbian for literature, Research and on PerformancePerforming and (Yale Media University Arts at Press, Cornell 2010), University. is part His of firstthe holds a degree in Higher Education Administration from Women and is the Coordinator of Asian American Studies series Yale Studies in English. His articles have appeared TeachersOffice of Multiculturalcollege, Columbia Affairs University. at Columbia Marta’sUniversity. passion She Programming. He earned his PhD in literature in 2009 from in such journals as Camera Obscura, Journal of Dramatic and current work focuses on creating opportunities for the Graduate Program of Literatures in English at Rutgers Theory and Criticism, TDR: The Drama Review, Theatre University. He has published articles in Literature and Journal, Theatre Survey, and Modern Drama, where he inequity that create schisms between communities. She Medicine and torquere. His visual essay, “AIDS 2.0,” can be guest-edited a special issue on “Gossip” and where he is the isstudents particularly to have interested difficult in dialogues raising awareness about issues about of social how viewed on his website. He is working on a book project, The book review editor. His current book project, “Obstruction,” micro aggressions manifest to create hostile environments for marginalized identities within investigates the value to intellectual work of putatively work and school settings. Most recently, she has been developing trainings, assessment tools, Epidemic in Queer Culture, which examines cultural literacy impedimental experiential phenomena like embarrassment, and educational opportunities to address the impacts of micro aggressions within educational and generational transmission in theUnfinished aftermath History of AIDS. of In AIDS: May Reading2013, he and received Remembering an award thefor laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness. settings. Through her work, she is most committed to creating spaces for healing and liberation distinguished contributions to undergraduate education from the School of Arts and Sciences. for communities impacted by oppression, violence, and marginalization. 28 Staff 29

Staff Noam Parness ReGenerate 2014 Memberships and Fellowships Director Noam Parness is a Kevin Nadal, Ph.D. Executive Director gender­queer art lover and intellectually curious human. In addition to his work at CLAGS, They received their B.A. in Kevin Nadal is an Associate Philosophy and Jewish Studies Professor of Psychology at both from CUNY Queens College. John Jay College of Criminal Most of Noam’s interests lie Justice and the Graduate Center ­ within the intersections of CUNY. He is the president of the queer history, art, and activism. Asian American Psychological In addition to their work at CLAGS, Noam works Association, as well as national at the LeslieLohman­ Museum of Gay and Lesbian trustee of the Filipino American Art as a Curatorial Administrative Assistant. They National Historical Society. He has written over 60 have also volunteered with a number of queer arts journal articles and 5 books, including That’s So Gay: organizations, such as MIX NYC and the PopUp­ Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Museum of Queer History. and Transgender Community. He is married to RJ MendozaNadal,­ the Civil Rights Community Relations Specialist of the Kings County Yana Calou ­ Events & Programs Manager with their 8 year old, 8 pound chihuahua. Yana Calou is a genderqueer District Attorney’s Office, and they live in Brazilian­American writer, artist, and media activist on Jasmina Sinanović ­Director of Finance and economic, racial and gender Administration justice issues. Yana is Lambda

has performed at the Popup­ thinks and performs. Originally Museumand VONA of VoicesQueer fellow,History, andLa fromJasmina former Sinanović Yugoslavia, teaches,Jasmina MaMa, Dixon Place, and BAX. They study queer theory and literature at the CUNY in exile and a member of Balkan Graduate Center, and have led communications and diaspora.identifies as an artist and thinker programming for the Retail Action Project, Queer New York City is and has been Survival Economies, the Utah Pride Center, GLAAD, for over a decade Jasmina’s Planned Parenthood, and the Women’s Media Center. intellectual home and sanctuary. Jasmina teaches at the Women Studies Department at City College and the Department of Communication, Arts and Sciences at the Bronx Community College. Jasmina holds an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from Stony Brook University and M.A. in Theatre from CUNY. As an active member of WOW Café Theater, a woman

Jasmina has created and produced several works there.and trans* As peoplea performing theater collectiveartist Jasmina in East touched Village audiences across the US and internationally. Jasmina is a founding member of Balkan Queer Initiative. 30 Finance Report 31 32