Spring 2008 Newsletter

Recent Events at Williams

February 2008

Vagina Monologues
February 7 & 8
'62 CTD - Centerstage
Sponsored by the Women's Center

Carmen Winant: I Want to Be the Girl With the Most Cake
Conversation with the artist, February 15
Exhibit open February 15 - March 14
Hardy House

Carmen Winant's portraiture—both drawings and photographs—confront viewers with questions about contemporary gender politics, particularly about third wave feminism. As postmodernism sent notions of identity, liberation, and pleasure up for grabs, notions of female sexual autonomy were rearticulated. Compared to the past generation of feminists, the desire for sexual agency now cohabits openly, if uneasily, with a wide sense of humor about sex and a willing objectification of the sexual self - as long as girls/women are "in charge" and are sharing in "the gaze." Winant, a 24-year-old California-based artist, studied at UCLA, has worked as an art critic for the Philadelphia Weekly, and just completed a six-month stint at Aperture Foundation in New York.

Black Womyn: Conversations With Lesbians of African Descent
Film screening followed by Q&A with director
Saturday February 16
Images Cinema
http://www.blackwomynconversations.blogspot.com/
Sponsored by the MCC

March 2008

Pour Some Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Stories
with E. Patrick Johnson, chair of Performance Studies at Northwestern University
Sunday March 2
Paresky Theater
Sponsored by the Dively Committee

April 2008

Williams Alumni Stonewall Speaker Series: Rives Kistler
April 3

The Honorable Rives Kistler is an Oregon Supreme Court Justice. The Oregon Supreme Court is the only state supreme court with any openly queer justices — and there are two! (Read the full article here.)

Man Made, exhibit by Allison Golinkoff
April 4
Jenness and Hardy House, opening reception and conversation with the artist

Two photography exhibits exploring transgender experiences, one of a drag queen and one of a transsexual sex-worker
Sponsored by the MCC

Talkin' Trash in the Homo No Mo Halfway House, a lively lecture about life in the ex-gay movement
with Peterson Toscano, performance artist
April 8
Paresky Performance Space
Sponsored by the Dively Committee

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