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Tickets & Enquiries |
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Celebrating LGBT History Month
The University of York Library has a large collection of LGBTQ+ related material. Check out our collections webpage and celebrate with us the history, achievements and study of the LGBTQ+ community. Follow our twitter feed for highlights on this year’s theme Peace, Reconciliation and Activism, and the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. |
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NA | @UoYLibrary
Webpage: www.york.ac.uk/library/collections |
04/02/2019 |
Seditious Gender: Queering Nineteenth Century Female Reformers
Female reformers were active political agents in the Regency reform movement. These inspiring working class women fought for suffrage across Britain. Their story of resisting gendered understandings of femininity and subverting their gender still resonates as powerful activism. My own queer identity impacts my interpretation of the past. I view female reformers in terms of having a seditious gender and female masculinity. What happens when we queer the past history, and archaeology? |
18:00-19:30 |
D/L/116, Derwent L Block, University of York
| Tickets:
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
caitlin.kitchener@york.ac.uk yorklgbthistory.org.uk/19/kitchener |
18/02/2019 |
LGBTQ Level 2: Opening Event
LGBTQ Level 2 is our LGBTQ education campaign, which will run for two weeks. The opening event will involve an introduction from the network and an opening speaker. |
13:00-15:00 |
P/L/006, Physics and Electronic Engineering Building, University of York
| Tickets:
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
Gemma Card 07393 557184 gc986@york.ac.uk |
19/02/2019 |
LGBTQ Level 2: LGBTQ Intersectionality
The second event of LGBTQ Level 2 will focus on intersectionality, in collaboration with the BAME, Working Class and the Women’s Networks. It will involve a mixture of talks, discussions and presentations. A third year history student from York St John University will be giving a presentation on Millicent Price and her diary |
14:30-15:30 |
P/T/006, Physics and Electronic Engineering Building, University of York
| Tickets:
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
Gemma Card 07393 557184 gc986@york.ac.uk |
19/02/2019 |
Re-writing Connie Converse, Chapter and Verse: Queer Folk, Queer Quietude, and the 1950s Lesbian Bar Scene of Greenwich Village, New York
An exploratory paper recuperating the lost or undiscovered queer folk of songwriter, polymath, and peace academic-activist Connie Converse, who disappeared in her VW camper van in 1974 never to be heard from again. Part queer musicology, part performance, this event will offer a glimpse into Connie Converse’s acoustic music mapped out onto the lesbian bar scene of late 1950s and early 60s Greenwich Village, New York. With acoustic music by Izzy Isgate accompanied by Paul Sparks. |
18:00-20:30 |
Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York
| Tickets:
Free but must register atyorklgbthistory.org.uk/19/connie-converse
Enquiries:
Boriana Alexandrova boriana.alexandrova@york.ac.uk
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20/02/2019 |
Ten Reasons to Read Radclyffe Hall – a talk by Dr Hannah Roche
While some might disagree with her claim that Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928) is “quite possibly the worst novel ever written,” Terry Castle is right that legions of lesbian readers have felt ashamed and frustrated by The Well’s bleak outlook and apparently even bleaker author. Over 90 years since The Well was banned for obscenity, Dr Hannah Roche tells us why Hall was a wonderful writer, a progressive queer thinker, and a whole lot more besides. |
17:15-18:45 |
Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York
| Tickets:
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
Deborah Russell deborah.russell@york.ac.uk |
20/02/2019 |
Jewish/Queer Intersections: What Happens After Equality?
Discrimination against LGBT+ people in the UK has declined and we have received some equal rights over the last decade. Should we fully embrace our newfound rights/privileges? Is there a way for us to hold on to some of the lessons of discrimination? The Jewish community, who received equal rights in this country in the nineteenth century and have intermittently faced antisemitism ever since, have much experience with this question. Come hear a queer rabbi reflect on this question.
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18:30-19:30 |
D/L/116, Derwent L Block, University of York
| Tickets:
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
Emmett Stone
jewish@yusu.org
yorklgbthistory.org.uk/19/jewish-queer-intersections |
21/02/2019 |
LGBTQ Level 2: Bisexuality Q&A
A discussion about bisexuality, which will be open to questions. Topics will include history, misconceptions and bisexuality as an individual identity. |
17:00-19:00 |
P/L/005 Physics and Electronic Engineering Building, University of York
| Tickets:
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
Gemma Card 07393 557184 gc986@york.ac.uk |
25/02/2019 |
Normativity and the Discourse of ‘Normal’ in an LGBT Youth Group
In this talk, Lucy Jones will present data emerging from research carried out with an LGBT youth group in the north of England. She will use discourse analysis to show how this group of young people construct and make use of the notion of ‘being normal’ in their identity work. She will show that they draw on homonormative ideologies in their identity construction, but also that this happens in response to the homophobia and ‘othering’ they have experienced from those in their local community. She will also argue that their discourse must be understood via an intersectional framework; the ways that the young people talk about being LGBT reveal the relevance of their socioeconomic class, and they also draw on racist ideologies in their identity construction as LGBT people. |
16:00-17:30 |
C/B/101, Chemistry Buildings, University of York |
Tickets:
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
Eva Zehentner
eva.zehentner@york.ac.uk 01904 322661 |
26/02/2019 |
IGDC Research Seminar - Navigating Risks in LGBTIQ* Activism
LGBT History Month research seminar with talks from Dr Alan Msosa (IGDC) on 'The situation of homophobia in Africa' and Dr Alice Nah (Centre for Applied Human Rights) on 'Navigating risks of LGBTQI Activism'.
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15:00-16:30 |
D/N/056 - Politics Meeting Room, Derwent College
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Tickets:
*UoY staff and students only*
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
maria-eugenia.giraudo@york.ac.uk nicole.beardsworth@york.ac.uk |
| 26/02/2019 |
LGBTQ Level 2: Transgender Talk
A talk on the history of transgender and non-binary people, misconceptions, medical transition and being respectful. |
15:30-17:30 |
D/L/002, Derwent L Block, University of York |
Tickets:
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
Gemma Card 07393 557184 gc986@york.ac.uk |
| 28/02/2019 |
LGBTQ Level 2: Culture and Religion Panel Discussion
An open discussion about the experiences and difficulties of being LGBTQ in various cultural and religious backgrounds, past and present. |
15:30-16:30 |
LMB/044, Law and Management Building, University of York, Heslington East, Freboys Lane |
Tickets:
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
Gemma Card 07393 557184 gc986@york.ac.uk |
| 01/03/2019 |
LGBTQ Level 2: Closing Event
The LGBTQ Level 2 closing event will consist of a round up of the event series and hopefully a speaker from the university. |
17:00-19:00 |
D/L/036, Derwent L Block, University of York, |
Tickets:
Free, no need to book
Enquiries:
Gemma Card 07393 557184 gc986@york.ac.uk |
| 01/03/2019 |
LGBTQ Level 2: Queer Cabaret After Party
A queer themed open mic night with music until late to celebrate the end of the LGBTQ Level 2 campaign |
20:00- late |
The Lounge, James College, University of York |
Tickets:
Small donation on the door
Enquiries:
Gemma Card 07393 557184 gc986@york.ac.uk |
