The LGBT Studies Program at the University of Maryland is proud to announce two upcoming events in our seventh annual lecture series, 69/09: The Queer Afterlives of Stonewall.Susan Stryker - Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Thursday, April 2, 2009
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Hornbake 0302J
University of Maryland
Please join us for this film screening of Screaming Queens, a 2005 documentary, co-written and co-directed by Stryker, tells the story of a 1966 transgender riot in San Francisco. Stryker will lead a discussion after the screening.
Susan Stryker - "We Who Are Sexy: The Post-Colonial Transsexual Whiteness of Christine Jorgensen in the Philippines"
Friday, April 3, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Susquehanna 1120
University of Maryland
Susan Stryker is associate professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University and is a pioneer in the field of transgender studies. Her most recent book is Transgender History (2008).
We are grateful to the Office of Undergraduate Studies for its support of the series. Additional sponsors include the departments of American Studies, English, and Theatre, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies in the Department of History.
For further information, please contact the LGBT Studies Program.
301.405.5428
lgbts@umd.edu
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