[IMC] Fwd: FW: GSLIS | You're Invited To: Gender Barred Colloquium

Thu Mar 22 13:27:51 UTC 2012

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*Are you interested in social change? Exploring connections between race,
gender, sexuality, and social justice? Imagining new ways to draw important
linkages between multiple, intersecting struggles for justice, equity, and
rights?  Want to learn more?* Next week, Monday-Wednesday as part of the
Gender Barred Colloquium, there will be a variety of programs on campus
examining these questions—linking together issues of incarceration, LGBTQ
rights, immigration, racial justice, and feminism. We are bringing three
wonderful activist-scholars to campus from San Francisco and Chicago, as
well as, featuring speakers working on projects within our local community
(Education Justice Project and the Juvenile Justice Project). ****

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*These events are not to be missed. *Read on for more information about the
Gender Barred Colloquium. ****

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Invite your friends on Facebook!:
http://www.facebook.com/events/119273931531740/****

Check out the online calendar!: go.illinois.edu/genderbarred ****

Send the attached flyer around to your friends! ****

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*Gender Barred* is a 3-day colloquium sponsored by the Women's Resources
Center in collaboration with a variety of campus units and community
organizations that challenges students to examine the relationships between
interlocking systems of oppression and the prison-industrial complex (PIC).
Featured speakers include Eric Stanley (UCSC), Chris Vargas, and Erica
Meiners (NEIU) whose work has each contributed to drawing critical linkages
between gender and justice. Their book, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment
and the Prison Industrial Complex, which will be available for purchase
this week, explores how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived
under the crushing weight of captivity.****

THE SCHEDULE:
*MONDAY (Mar. 26th)
*12pm Dish It Up Lunch + Lecture “Queer Aesthetics of the
Political” @ the Women’s Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. 2nd Floor,
CH.) featuring Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas
*Captive Genders will be available for purchase!*

7pm-9pm Hot Topics Double Screening: Homotopia and Criminal Queers | Two
films by Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas
@ English Building, RM 160
*Refreshments provided | Parking on 6th and John St.

*TUESDAY (Mar. 27th)*
12pm Lunch at La Casa | “Forced Out: Linking Mass
Incarceration and Immigration Policy” @ La Casa Cultural
Latina (1203 W. Nevada St. U.) *Lunch is provided.

5pm Teach-In | “Building Education Programs in Prisons”
@ The Women’s Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. 2nd Fl. CH.) Members of
the Education Justice Project and the
Juvenile Justice Project speak education and incarceration.

7pm-9pm Captive Genders: The Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial
Complex Readings and Talk-Back with Eric Stanley (UCSC), Chris Vargas, and
Erica Meiners (NIU) @ Allen Hall’s Main Lounge (1005 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61820 | *Free parking in garage across the street.
*INCLUDES BOOK SIGNING*

*WEDNESDAY (Mar. 28th)*
11:30am-1pm Captive Genders | Author’s Informal Discussion
@ GWS Seminiar Room (911 S. Sixth St. U. 61801) | Sponsored by the GWS
Queer Reading Group, REAP, and the Mix IT Up! Scholars

6pm Film Screening + Writer’s Workshop| Freedom Road (35min)
@ The Women’s Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. 2nd Fl. CH.)
A documentary of women prisoners gaining agency via authorship.

*Women’s Resources Center (WRC), in collaboration with:*
LGBT Resource Center (LGBTRC), La Casa Cultural Latina (LCCL), Bruce D.
Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (BNAACC), Education Justice
Project (EJP), Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS),
Juvenile Justice Project , Champaign Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice
(CUCPJ), Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), Radical Education for
Autonomous Persons (REAP), Radical Librarians of the Independent Media
Center , UP Center of Champaign County, Channing Murray Foundation, Social
Action Committee of the UU Congregation, National Organization for
Women-UIUC

*ABOUT THE BOOK | CAPTIVE GENDERS:*
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and
queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison
industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and
Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and
academics to offer new ways for understanding how race, gender, ability,
and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a
politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that
trans/queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From
rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation to
prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive
Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle.****

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*Rachel Lauren Storm, Program Coordinator
**Women’s Resources Center | Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations
*703 South Wright St. MC-302, 2nd floor, Champaign, Illinois 61820
t.  217.333.3137 |  e. rstorm2 at illinois.edu  | w. www.go.illinois.edu/wrc
*Give to the Women's Resources Center!**:* *http://bit.ly/i3fQK8*****

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