"From Princesses to Pop Tarts: What the New Culture of Girlhood Means for Girls and Those who Raise Them"

Peggy Orenstein

NY Times Best-Selling Author of

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the new Girlie-Girl Culture

Tuesday, March 20, 2012. 7:00 p.m. in the Commons.
$5-$10 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds. Students are free.

The WGS Department cordially invites you to return to campus (bring some friends!) to hear the acclaimed author, Peggy Orenstein. Please join current faculty and WGS student, as well as WGS alumni for this wonderful opportunity to hear this engaging author as she reads from her new book and muses on the "new girlie girl" culture.  Make a night of it!  

Peggy Orenstein writes for the LA Times, NY Times, and is author of SchoolGirls: Youth Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap, Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids and Life in a Half-Changed World, Waiting for Daisy:A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Fertility Doctors, An Oscar, An Atomic Bomb, A Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother.  www.peggyorenstein.com

Co-sponsored by WGS Department, WGS Club, School of Social Sciences, Associated Student Productions, Counseling Department, and English Department. 

Queer Studies Lecture Series

Spring 2012

Tuesdays/Thursdays, 12:00-12:50; Stevenson 1002

ALL LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

1-19-2012
Positive Images ~ LGBTQ Youth Speak Out
Positive Images provides support and advocacy to Sonoma County’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersexed youth and young adults, and educates the greater community.  This panel will discuss what it means to be LGBTQ youth today.

1-26-2012
Dr. Michael Rosenfeld, ~ Same-Sex Couples in American Society
Michael Rosenfeld, social demographer and professor of sociology at Stanford University, studies the changing American family.  In this talk he looks at what we know about same-sex couples, their children, their relationships, and broader American attitudes about gays and lesbians, using a variety of recent data.

2-2-2012
Mildred Gerestant (DRED), aka LIGHT
LIGHT is a world renowned performance character actress, self-love educator, diversity consultant, LGBTQQIA supporter, and healer.  She says: "When you accept all of who you are that is when real healing begins." This Haitian-American actress is best known for her one-woman, thought provoking shows that feature female And male characters.  LIGHT’s noon lecture will be followed by an evening performance also open to the public.

Evening Performance 7pm Warren Theater SSU
I TRANSCEND-HER
Gender-bending, Haitian-American performance artist, LIGHT shares her personal journey through a mix of poetry, education, and humor.  This evening performance addresses the herstory/history of transgendered, cross-dressing, and gender bending ancestors: from two-spirited/multi-gendered people of African, Indian, and Native-American tribes to participants of Haitian ritualistic ceremonies.

2-16-2012
Kebo Drew, Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project ~ Reels of Resistance: Film IS Social Justice Activism for LGBTQ Communities of Color
Weaving galvanizing films with history, QWOCMAP illustrates the ways in which art has always been a source of cultural resistance and cultural renewal for communities of color, especially LGBTQ people of color.  Artists have documented, shaped, defined and informed movements for change, and queers artists on the cutting edge of the LGBTQ movement are one of the keys to liberation.  This presentation shows that art IS activism.

2-23-2012
Mattilda Bernsterin Sycamore ~ Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
Gay culture has become the ultimate nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into “straight-acting dudes hangin’out,” what are the possibilities for a defiant faggotry that challenges the assimilationist norms of a corporate-cozy lifestyle?

3-8-2012
Alma López, MFA ~
Born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa and raised in East Los Angeles, Alma López has exhibited her work in museums and community organizations all over California, the nation, and internationally.  Through her work, her activism, and her popular website, López is one of the most visible and cutting-edge Chicana feminist activist artists in the country.

3-22-2012
Juno Obedin-Maliver, M.D., M.P.H. ~
Dr. Obedin-Maliver, a resident physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology at UCSF, has a long-standing dedication to social justice issues in the United States and abroad. Her current work is focused on promoting health for women and LGBT people. Juno is proud to be a founding member of the Stanford Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Medical Education Research Group (LGBT MERG). 

4-5-2012
Rev. Jay Johnson, Ph.D. ~
Jay Johnson, a theologian and Episcopal priest, works for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry.  Jay has served as the co-chair of the Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion.  He has also served as a parish priest in the Episcopal Dioceses of Chicago and California and is currently a clergy associate at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Berkeley.

4-12-2012
Dr. Priya Kandaswamy ~ The Heterosexuality of Citizenship:  Race, Marriage and the Politics of State Recognition
Priya Kandaswamy is an Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Mills College.  Her talk will address how access to marriage recognition has emerged as the central arena of struggle for lesbian and gay rights in the U.S.  This talk recontextualizes this struggle by turning to the practices of the Freedmen’s Bureau in the aftermath of the Civil War.  The Bureau’s emphasis on marriage worked to define citizenship as a heterosexualizing institution that reinvented rather than challenged racial stratification.

4-19-2012
Meghan Murphy, MSW ~
Meghan Murphy is the Program Director of Face to Face a local non-profit agency that provides supportive services to persons with HIV/AIDS and prevention education to the community at large.  She will discuss how HIV/AIDS impacts the local queer community, prevention efforts targeted to the queer community, and the joy of working at a queer friendly agency.

4-26-2012
Mia Nakano ~ Visibility of and by the API Queer community: Using photography and film-making to create social change
The Visibility Project seeks to break down racial, sexual, gendered, and ethnic stereotypes by utilizing visual media to breakdown multifaceted barriers. Lead and founding artist Mia Nakano, a queer Japanese American photographer, discusses her story, the process of the project, and shares how it developed from photographing queer sex workers in Nepal, to working in the United States with people from all walks of life.

5-3-2012
 PFLAG-North Bay ~ Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
PFLAG is a national non-profit organization that celebrates diversity and envisions a society that embraces everyone, including those of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Only with respect, dignity and equality for all will we reach our full potential as human beings, individually and collectively. PFLAG welcomes the participation and support of all who share in, and hope to realize this vision.

Sponsored by the Women’s & Gender Studies Department with generous support from Instructionally Related Activities Funds.  Contact: Dr. Charlene Tung (tung@sonoma.edu) or 707.664.2086.