Join us for a conversation with Amber Hollibaugh, Dean Spade, and Urvashi Vaid on the histories and current state of queer/trans activism in and outside New York City. We’ll explore intersections of activism and queer/trans scholarship and CLAGS, and the pressing issues facing us today and into the future. Moderated by CLAGS Board member, Shanté Paradigm Smalls.

This event will have embedded CART captioning.This event will also be live-streamed on Facebook and will be recorded for future viewing. Please check this page and CLAGS on Facebook for updates on how to watch.

Sponsored by CLAGS and cosponsored by The Feminist Futures initiative at UC Santa Barbara

Amber L. Hollibaugh is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organizer, public speaker, and journalist. My Dangerous Desires presents over twenty years of Hollibaugh’s writing, an introduction written especially for this book, and five new essays including “A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home,” “My Dangerous Desires,” and “Sexuality, Labor, and the New Trade Unionism.”

Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!,” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), was published by Verso Press in October 2020.

Urvashi Vaid is an attorney and organizer who is President of The Vaid Group LLC, a mission driven consulting and social innovation firm working for racial, gender and economic equity. Vaid has worked as: Executive Director of the Arcus Foundation; Deputy Director of the Governance and Civil Society Unit at the Ford Foundation; Director of the Engaging Tradition Project, at the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School; Senior Fellow at CUNY Graduate Center Department of Sociology; Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force; and Staff Attorney at the National Prison Project, ACLU.

Queer Then and Now: CLAGS Kessler Award Winners Reflect on Queer/Trans Activism and Scholarship

In honor of CLAGS's 30/35th anniversary, we are hosting two featured conversations with distinguished scholars and activists, all CLAGS Kessler Award winners, on the history and current state of queer/trans activism and scholarship.

The second roundtable, on March 25th, features Jasbir Puar, Roderick Ferguson, and Susan Stryker for a discussion focused on histories of queer and trans studies.

Please join us to hear these activists, scholars, and scholar-activists reflect on 30+ years of CLAGS and queer/trans studies and scholarship then and now!

CLAGS offers free programming and to continue doing so we depend on donations of those who are able to support us. Please visit clags.org to learn about our other programs, sign up for our email list and/or donate as little or as much as you can.

Support CLAGS

CLAGS offers free programming and to continue doing so we depend on donations from those who are able to support us. Please visit clags.org to learn about our other programs, sign up for our email list, and/or donate as little or as much as you can.