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2015 Miranda Joseph Endowed...
Bodies are enfleshed, but not enclosed: they are open, radically so—biologically, environmentally, socially, politically, and affectively...more
International Conference:...
The University of Arizona Institute for LGBT Studies invites applications for small, one-time grants to support faculty and graduate...more
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Take your LGBT Studies on the road, and to the Bay! more
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April 2015
An Exploration of...
Bodies are enfleshed, but not enclosed: they are open, radically somore
April 2015
International...
anti-patriarchy grassroots collective- will talk about their capacity building efforts among men to...more
April 2015
DEEP DISH 04-09-2015 -...
Generations is a new NIH-funded study that will explore and test the usefulness...more
April 2015
DEEP DISH 04-02-2015 -...
March 2015
DEEP DISH 4-26-15: A...
GBTQ older adults are five times less likely to access senior services, and...more
March 2015
DEEP DISH 3-12-15 -...
While anarchists have addressed issues of non-normative sexuality and gender oppression since the...more
March 2015
Deep Dish 3-5-15 - (Re...
This exhibition explores ways to challenge expected interpretations of landscape genre art.more
February 2015
DEEP DISH 2-26-2015 -...
Will 'pre-exposure prophylaxis' (PrEP) promote condomless sex? Is PrEP tantamount to a 'party...more
February 2015
DEEP DISH 2-19-2015 -...
This talk will explore the archetype of the "Alpha Male" as a standard...more
February 2015
DEEP DISH 02-12-2015 -...
Looking at the artwork of Ellen Gallagher, this talk asks how race and...more
February 2015
DEEP DISH 02-05-2015 -...
Join us for a rare and inspired evening of poetic performance and literary...more
January 2015
TRANSLATING TRANSGENDER...
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the status of...more
November 2014
Deep Dish 11-13 - The...
Jewish transgender and intersex activists have turned to classical legal texts from the...more
November 2014
Deep Dish - November...
Poems are not for reading they are for making. more
October 2014
Deep Dish 10-30 - An...
Queer Migrations: Homeland Insecurities, Violence, and Belongingmore
October 2014
James J. Leos Symposium
I will engage Octavia Butler's 1983 short story "Speech Sounds". more
October 2014
Deep Dish 10-23 -...
Why Can’t You Just Be A Normal Lesbian?: Queer Coming Out Narratives and...more
October 2014
Deep Dish 10-30 -...
A close reading of Junot Diaz’s short story collection Drownmore
October 2014
Deep Dish 10-9 -...
Lisa Marie Cacho - Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the...more
October 2014
Co-Sponsored Event -...
Feminist critiques of marriage are well rehearsed, and in tension with advocating queer...more
October 2014
Deep Dish 10 -2 -...
Existing models of identity, such as the intersectional and assemblage models, are based...more
September 2014
Shifting Poetics:...
9/30/14 Please join Susan Stryker Director of the UA Institute for LGBT Studies,...more
September 2014
Queer Archives Project...
micha cárdenas is an artist, theorist, student, educator, mixed-race latina femmemore
September 2014
micha cárdenas:...
This presentation will “dish” about the work of the LGBT student professional group,...more
September 2014
Deep Dish 9-25 - The...
Graduate Student, Staff and Faculty Mixermore
September 2014
2014 Annual LGBTQ+...
Members of the LGBT community can be found in nearly every career field...more
September 2014
Deep Dish 9-18 - Out in...
This presentation offers a critical queer/post-colonial theory of advocacy...more
September 2014
Deep Dish 9-11 -...
Are law schools training new lawyers, judges, and politicians to think critically about...more
September 2014
Gaveling the “...
a conversation with Kim Coco Iwamoto about her path from ‘Transsexual Menace Street...more
September 2014
Talking Trans &...
There are great things happening at LGBT Studies! Please help us start our...more
August 2014
Annual Appeal Letter
On the Road, by the Bay!more
June 2014
Summer Institute AZ@SF
Performing the Phantasm, Playing for Love: Street Nightlife of the Waria in Indonesiamore
April 2014
Terje Toomistu to speak...
This presentation will dish about the shifting landscape of healthcare for LGBTQ identified...more
April 2014
LGBTQ Behavioral Health...
Monica Jones, a transgender woman of color sex workers' rights activist is coming...more
April 2014
Monica Jones Speaking...
Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complexmore
April 2014
Criminal Queers
Brooke Lober will share some of her initial research into the political interests...more
April 2014
The “Politics of...
Professor Saidiya Hartman of Columbia University on A Serial Biography of the Waywardmore
April 2014
2014 Miranda Joseph...
Please join organizers from the Rainbow Defense Fund for a presentation about their...more
March 2014
Rainbow Defense Fund:...
The Fly Away Zine Mobile has announced that it is awarding its collection...more
March 2014
Arizona Queer Archives...
Kelly Sharron on Trauma as a Point of Departure and Encounter: Grief, Affect...more
March 2014
deep dish 03-13-2014
FREE screening at Exploded View of Su Friedrich's documentary GUT RENOVATION (2013).more
March 2014
Lesbian Looks 2014
Alice Hovorka on "Feminism & Animals: Exploring Interspecies Relations in Botswana and Beyond"...more
March 2014
co-sponsored event
Stephen Russell on LGBTQ Youth Well-Being: The Role of Parents and Policymore
March 2014
deep dish 03-06-2014
Ryan Watson on Comparisons of the Sexual Minority Experience Across Norway and the...more
February 2014
deep dish 02-27-2014
Aren Aizura “Thailand as Transsexual ‘Mecca’: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment”more
February 2014
Transgender Studies...
cancelled: Lisa Jean Moore on The Intra-actions of Bees, Beekeepers and Feminist Sociologists...more
February 2014
queer connections
Fabian Alfie on "A Possible Reference to Lesbian Activity in a Medieval Italian...more
February 2014
deep dish 02-20-2014
Eva Hayward on TRANS* Parasite, Paratactic more
February 2014
Transgender Studies...
Margaret Randall reads from new workmore
February 2014
queer connections
Eric Plemons on “The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the...more
February 2014
Transgender Studies...
Dylan McCarthy Blackston on Racial Biopolitics and the Lively Trans- Bodymore
February 2014
deep dish 02-13-2014
REACHING FOR THE MOON (Bruno Barreto, Brazil, 2013)more
February 2014
Lesbian Looks 2014
Dino Dinco is a performance art curator and maker, filmmaker, theater director, TV...more
February 2014
queer connections
Howard Chiang on “Sex Changed China: Science, Medicine, and Visions of Transformation" more
February 2014
Transgender Studies...
Kai M. Green on “In the Presence of a Future Past: Black Los...more
February 2014
Transgender Studies...
Shannon Snapp on Narratives of the School-to-Prison Pipelinemore
February 2014
deep dish 02-06-2014
Pedro Di Pietro “Living Sideways: The Under-side of Queer Space in the Southern...more
February 2014
Transgender Studies...
Robert Gain Scholarships for LGBT Summer Study in San Franciscomore
February 2014
Robert Gain Scholarships
Molly McGarry on Geographies of Detentionmore
January 2014
queer connections
Max Strassfeld “Queering Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature: A Case Study in the History...more
January 2014
Transgender Studies...
Ronald Trosper on Comparing Community Based Research with Indigenous or LGBTQ communitiesmore
January 2014
deep dish 01-30-2014
University of Arizona Transgender Studies job talks by the seven candidatesmore
January 2014
Transgender Studies Hire
Trans and Genderqueer Literature Course with TC Tolbertmore
January 2014
news and events
Dr. Paula Fan performance, Testament: The AIDS Quilt Songbook Revisitedmore
December 2013
co-sponsored events
Transdisciplinary and Community Literacies: a special, guest-edited issue of the Community Literacy Journal,...more
December 2013
news and events
Intersex: Medical, Cultural and Historical Contextsmore
December 2013
James J. Leos Symposium
Important Message for UA Faculty and Staff from the Institute for LGBT Studiesmore
December 2013
UA Cares Campaign 2013
Transgender Awareness Week 2013 Keynote Speaker Mara Keisling more
November 2013
queer connections
Joy Ladin on Gender Transition and the Syntax of Identitymore
November 2013
deep dish 11-17-2013
The LGBT Jewish Inclusion Project presents Joy Ladinmore
November 2013
co-sponsored event
Micaela Díaz-Sánchez on Theorizing Gender and Sexuality in Afro-Puerto Rican Bombamore
November 2013
queer connections
Ian Ellasante on Unstably-Housed LGBTQ Youth and the Impact of a Local Collaborationmore
November 2013
deep dish 11-07-2013
Workshops on Combating and Understanding Pinkwashingmore
November 2013
TeachOUT
Chris Crass on Anti-racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy more
November 2013
co-sponsored event
Abraham Weil on the connections between bodies, space, disaster, and revolutionary imaginariesmore
October 2013
deep dish 10-31-2013
Beverly Seckinger on Laramie Inside Out fifteen years after Matthew Shepard's murder.more
October 2013
deep dish 10-24-2013
Arizona Queer Archives; Building Our Histories Together presents a Community Conversationmore
October 2013
news and events
Improving Health Care for LGBT Patients with Shane Snowdonmore
October 2013
news and events
A Forum on Successful Aging: An LGBT Perspectivemore
October 2013
co-sponsored events
Marta Zarzycka on Love, and Shame: Affective Politics of Protest Photographs more
October 2013
CANCELLED
Queer Student Wellness in Higher Education: Campus Climate and Wellness at the UA...more
October 2013
deep dish 10-17-2013
EXPLODED VIEW Microcinema/Artspace presents JACK SMITH'S FLAMING CREATURESmore
October 2013
queer connections
Trans Advocates Welcome Gay Alliesmore
October 2013
news and events
POC Zine Project Race Riot Tour with Daniela Capistrano, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and...more
October 2013
queer connections
FEMINIST: STORIES FROM WOMEN'S LIBERATION 1963-1970 A film by Jennifer Leemore
October 2013
News and Events
Arizona Symphony Orchestra presents the Barber/Britten Festival Program more
October 2013
queer connections
Peter Boag on The Trans-Gender Westmore
October 2013
queer connections
Paula Fan performance, Before the Candelabra: The Martyrdom of Oscar Wildemore
October 2013
co-sponsored events
Zarzycka on current book project Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers: Gendered Tropes in War Photography.more
October 2013
deep dish 10-10-2013
UA LGBTQ Affairs Coming Out Week Key Note Speaker: Wade Davismore
October 2013
news and events
LGBTQ Affairs Full calendar for Coming Out Weekmore
October 2013
news and events
Roderick Ferguson on Socialism in Black Queer Time: The 1970s and the Erotic...more
October 2013
co-sponsored event
a conversation with filmmaker Allison de Frenmore
October 2013
deep dish 10-03-2013
A Seminar on LGBT Couples and Familiesmore
October 2013
co-sponsored events
FEARLESS; A series of portraits of 'out' LGBT athletes from 2003 to the...more
October 2013
co-sponsored events
Filmmaker Allison de Fren on “The Mechanical Bride” Takes on Images of the...more
October 2013
queer connections
UA Professor Adela Licona to speak at Georgia State University on Queer/ed Relational...more
October 2013
UA Professor Licona to...
Series designed to help promote, advocate, and support the LGBTQ or “Two Spirit,”...more
September 2013
News and Events
David Gramling on Translating transgendermore
September 2013
deep dish 9-26-2013
Joseph Pugliese on Aboriginal Sovereigntymore
September 2013
queer connections
Three Day Queer Arts Festival in Tucsonmore
September 2013
co-sponsored events
Juan Ochoa on reading male gay Chicano/Latino Femmesmore
September 2013
deep dish 09--2013
Lesbian Looks co-presents film for Latin@ Pride Weekmore
September 2013
Lesbian Looks
Linda Van Leuven on Queering Awareness: An Introduction to Sexual Mindfulnessmore
September 2013
deep dish 09-12-2013
In preparation for Saidiya Hartman's visit in April (3-4), Speaking of Gender Reading...more
September 2013
Hartman reading group
“Death of DOMA: Implications for Arizona?” Panel on August 28more
August 2013
co-sponsored events
Somatechnics International Conference, Missing Links: The Somatechnics of Decolonisation more
June 2013
7th Annual...
drive: A Blog About the University of Arizona Institute for LGBT Studiesmore
June 2013
director's blog
Self/Community Care Trainings for Social Justice Grassroots Organizationsmore
May 2013
co-sponsored event
Trans and Genderqueer Poetry Symposiummore
May 2013
co-sponsored event
North African and Middle Eastern, & Media in Modern Europemore
April 2013
co-sponsored event
co-sponsored event with SAAF on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxismore
April 2013
teach OUT
Will Cordeiro on Sex, Capitalism, and Genre-Queering in The London Merchantmore
April 2013
deep dish 4-11-2013
Lesbian Looks Film Festival 2013 presents MY BEST DAY (Erin Greenwell, 2012)more
April 2013
film festival
Jack Balas the under-representation of the male image in contemporary artmore
April 2013
deep dish 4-4-2013
Fenton Johnson on Marriage: A Grand Illusion?more
March 2013
deep dish 3-28-2013
Lesbian Looks Film Festival 2013 presents MORIR DE PIE (Die Standing Up)more
March 2013
film festival
Iris Van Der Tuin on LGBT Futures in the Feminist Archivemore
March 2013
queer connections
Ana Ghoureishian on how the Iranian Media Bolsters Israeli Pinkwashingmore
March 2013
deep dish 3-21-2013
Chasing Sexual Orientation: A Comparison of Commonly Used Single-Indicator Measures of Sexual Orientationmore
March 2013
research cluster update
Monica Casper on Mediating Feminisms: Politics of Online Publishingmore
March 2013
deep dish 3-7-2013
Director's Q&A of Exotic World, followed by a burlesque showmore
March 2013
queer connections
2013 lesbian looks more
February 2013
film festival
GU Li on Sexual Orientation, Gender Nonconformity, and Psychological Well-Beingmore
February 2013
deep dish 2-28-2013
AIDS Treatment and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)more
February 2013
queer connections
Alain-Philippe Durand on Finishing Off Gendermore
February 2013
deep dish 2-21-2013
Susan Stryker is changing the conversation on transgender issues and more at UA...more
Susan Stryker at the Institute for the LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona.
February 2013
news and events
Welcome to the 20th ANNUAL LESBIAN LOOKS!more
February 2013
film festival
Jessica Shumake on Posthumous Sites of Articulationmore
February 2013
deep dish 2-14-2013
A Queer Multimedia Eventmore
February 2013
co-sponsored event
queer connections speakers seriesmore
February 2013
queer connections
Paisley Currah on Untangling paradoxes of classificationmore
February 2013
deep dish 2-7-2013
Karma Chávez, From DREAMers to "Undocuqueers" and Beyondmore
February 2013
co-sponsored event
Poetics & Politics of Hip-Hop Culturesmore
February 2013
co-sponsored event
Paisley Currah on Transgender Studies, Feb 7-8more
February 2013
queer connections
Award-winning Sun Dance Film "Gun Hill Road" more
February 2013
co-sponsored event
Susan Shaw on Accountability and the pharmaceutical regulation of the U.S. urban poormore
January 2013
deep dish 1-31-2013
Adela Licona on POC Zine Project Brings Punks of Color to the Academymore
January 2013
News and Events
Tucson's International LGBT Film Festival more
January 2013
co-sponsored event
Make 2013 the great register of reading Monique Wittigmore
January 2013
read monique wittig
Who Killed Ahmet Yıldız?more
November 2012
queer connections
Francisco J. Galarte, Ph.D on Dolor as Queer Affectmore
November 2012
Deep Dish 11-29-12
New Book on Zines Publishedmore
November 2012
Licona has published a...
a conversation about the politics of Palestine and Israelmore
November 2012
co-sponsored event
Israel-Palestine Relations from a Queer, Feminist Perspectivemore
November 2012
co-sponsored event
Providing Wrap-Around Care for LGBTQA Youthmore
November 2012
Deep Dish 11-15-12
an open forum regarding Chick-fil-Amore
November 2012
teach OUT
Mija Sanders on Necropolitics and LGBTT Activismmore
November 2012
Deep Dish 11-1-12
Miranda Joseph, Ph.D. on Gender, Entrepreneurial Subjectivity, And Pathologies Of Personal Financemore
October 2012
Deep Dish 10-25-12
Gen Silent: A Documentarymore
October 2012
co-sponsored event
National Conference on Decolonization, University of New Mexicomore
October 2012
co-sponsored event
Hai Ren, Ph.D. on Sexuality & Mass Mediamore
October 2012
Deep Dish 10-18-12
Jamie Lee on Queer Imaginings of the Archivemore
October 2012
Deep Dish 10-11-12
Susan Stryker on Cross-Dressing For Empiremore
October 2012
Deep Dish 9-20-12
Banned Books Week: Liberating Literature more
October 2012
co-sponsored event
John-Michael Warner on multiple boundaries in Arizona and Sonora border artmore
October 2012
Deep Dish 10-04-12
Joseph Pugliese on the topology of state violencemore
October 2012
co-sponsored event
Wingspan Dinner 2012 with keynote address by Susan Stryker, Ph.D.more
September 2012
co-sponsored event
Doran George on queer contemporary dancemore
September 2012
Deep Dish 9-27-12
Miranda Joseph Endowed Lecture Campaign reaches 3-year goal in two years.more
September 2012
endowment campaign...
TC Tolbert on poetry and activismmore
September 2012
Deep Dish 9-13-12
Feminist Formations Symposium y Pachangamore
September 2012
co-sponsored event
2011-12 Academic Year Focus on Queer Indigenous Studies Eventsmore
August 2012
Queer Indigenous Studies
BayCats LGBT alumni event in San Franciscomore
June 2012
News and Events
José Muñoz, "The Brown Commons"more
April 2012
Joseph Lecture 2012
masochism, pleasure, and spectatorship more
March 2012
Deep Dish 3-08-12
Shannon Randall on the queer afterlives of trans* peoplemore
March 2012
Deep Dish 3-01-12
changing sexual systems in 1930s USmore
February 2012
Deep Dish 2-23-12
Stephen Russel on LGBT Youth and Suicidemore
February 2012
Deep Dish 2-16-12
Susan Stryker on Christine in the Cutting Roommore
February 2012
Deep Dish 2-09-12
Sally Stevens on Substance Abuse Treatment for LBT Womenmore
February 2012
Deep Dish 2-02-12
Afterlives of the Critically Queermore
January 2012
Deep Dish 1-26-12
The film is presented in a collaboration with: Institute for LGBT Studies, Lesbian...more
November 2011
Film Screening:...
Recent theoretical work in academic circles investigate the relationship between borders, biometrics, security,...more
November 2011
Virtual Divides:...
Lesbian Looks launches its 2011-12 season with an exclusive Tucson screening of Ghosted,...more
October 2011
Screening of Ghosted...
Please join Kim Klausner, Industry Documents Digital Libraries Manager at the University of...more
October 2011
The Legacy Tobacco...
Harvard University professor Afsaneh Najmabadi will present the first talk in Miranda Joseph...more
March 2011
Teaching Workshop (...
This speakers series supports public lectures at UA.more
queer connections
Bodies are enfleshed, but not enclosed: they are open, radically so—biologically, environmentally, socially,...more
April 2015
International...