Brooklyn College LGBTQ Studies

10/09/2025

At BMCC October 28th:

Confused about what's next? Join us for a screening of "Heightened Scrutiny" and find out what's happening now!

04/02/2024

Let's Build a World That Works for Everyone. Empowering All: Igniting Change.
Take a Women’s and Gender Studies Course.
Fall 2024 registration started.

03/04/2024

Abortion Beyond the Law
Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 1:00 to 2:00 PM
227 Ingersoll Hall Extension, Brooklyn College Women’s Center

Also online, Zoom pre-registration required:
https://brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcOitqTwsHtLtW0pStlfPAXJrzAMJ9VhQ

Free electronic access to the book:
https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/wolfe2023/newbooksbyfacultyspring24

Additional event Info
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JyYw2Afsbol4RwFBHK4l40096NHgv5tv?usp=sharing

Let’s get the word out! See you at the event!

Brooklyn College Library LibGuides Home: Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities 2023-24: New Books by BC Faculty Event Series - Spring '24

03/04/2024

Upcoming event
Black Designers Building Fashion Businesses
Tuesday, March 5 @ 12:30PM. Brooklyn College

10/11/2023

Congratulations to Women’s Center Director Sau-Fong Au and Associate Professor Yung-Yi Diana Pan, co founders of Brooklyn College's Asian American Faculty & Staff Association for securing a $1.97 million grant! Both will serve as principals for the grant from the U.S. Department of Education as part of its Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions Program. The grant will allow Brooklyn College to invest in mentoring, mental health, curriculum development, and other initiatives that support students of Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander ancestry.
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07/28/2022

Hey all, I (that is, Paisley Currah) am teaching POLS 1004, Introduction to Political Theory in the fall, MoWe 12:50PM - 2:05PM. Sounds boring, I know, but it's a great class--we look at the major justifications for colonization, dispossession, and the denial of rights to the majority of the world' population. And we look read revolutionary theories challenging these injustices.

06/21/2022

CUNY students, especially Brooklyn College students: If you are interested in doing an internship, for course credit, with the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund's Name Change Project, please email Paisley Currah at [email protected].

06/03/2021

Are you LGBTQ+ and interested working in NYC government? This panel discussion is for you: 6/11/21 at 3 pm. Register at http://bit.ly/0611CityTalkLGBT. The City has 1000+ positions listed at http://nyc.gov/jobs, including internships, fellowships, & various civil service jobs.

05/13/2021

LAVENDER GRADUATION:

Are you an LGBTQIA+ student graduating in Spring 2021 or Summer 2021? Or, did you graduate in Fall or Winter 2020? If so, we invite you to join us at Brooklyn College's second annual (virtual) Lavender Graduation ceremony!

Lavender Graduation is a ceremony conducted by universities to honor LGBTQIA+ students and acknowledge their accomplishments and contributions. Graduating students are welcome to invite family, friends, professors, etc. to the ceremony.

For more info and to attend, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/R81NqJZFEjyK7Hdk9

05/13/2021

WGST Senior Seminar Presentation
Register in advance for this meeting.
WGST Virtual Senior seminar, Tuesday 25, 2021 @ 3:00PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZcrdequrzkoGdHK9rD40bWsaTq4n..
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

05/03/2021

Zoom panel--Legislating against Gender?

Hear about the deluge of state bills targeting trans and nonbinary people, alliances between transphobic feminisms and the religious right in the US and the UK, the impact of “female erasure” rhetoric, links between masculinist anti-gender and anti-immigration movements, and more. With Alexander Chen, Sophie Lewis, Shannon Minter, Alyosxa Tudor and moderated by yours truly.
Friday, May 7th, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Free and open to the public
Women and Gender Studies Program, Brooklyn College
Via Zoom, email [email protected] to register

Speakers:
Alexander Chen is the Founding Director of the Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic. Alexander’s work focuses on expanding the rights of LGBTQ+ people through impact litigation, policy advocacy, and direct representation at both the national and local levels. Alex co-drafted AB 2119, a bill that made California the first state to guarantee access to transition-related health care for trans youth in foster care.

Dr. Sophie Lewis is a visiting scholar at The Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, S*xuality and Women, and a member of the teaching faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is the author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso, 2019) and many articles and essays including "How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans" (The New York Times).

Shannon Minter is the Legal Director of the National Center for Le***an Rights, one of the nation’s leading advocacy organizations for le***an, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In that job for 20 years, he has played a central role in transgender rights activism and litigation. Minter has represented hundreds of trans people in all kinds of cases from asylum to family law to prison issues.

Alyosxa Tudor is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. Their work connects trans and q***r feminist approaches with transnational feminism and postcolonial studies. Alyosxa’s main research interest lies in analyzing (knowledge productions on) migrations, diasporas and borders in relation to critiques of Eurocentrism and to processes of gendering and racialization.

Paisley Currah, (moderator), is the Internal Endowed Chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is a founding gender editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and his book, S*x is as S*x Does: Governing Transgender Identity, will be published by New York University Press in 2022.

04/12/2021

Join us for a Trans CUNY Student Town Hall on April 14th!

The NYC Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) and Nicholas Cevoli, Brooklyn College LGBTQ Community Intern are pleased to co-host the Trans CUNY Student Town Hall. It will be a discussion of student experiences, human rights law, and next steps for CUNY accountability to comply with NYC laws.

The event is co-sponsored by the NWSA and the Center for LGTBQ Studies (CLAGS).

Register here: http://bit.ly/2PlRFdy