Five College Feminist Science and Technology Studies Initiative Events of Interest for Spring 2012
Rebecca Jordan Young
Author of Brainstorm
April 23, 2012
details TBD
Helen Longino
April 30, 2012
details TBD
JOIN the faculty and affiliated faculty of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies presentation of our
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS talk series
Dayo F. Gore
12:30-2:00 p.m., April 25, 2012
Herter 301
Join us for cake after her talk to say
Bon Voyage (she is leaving us for sunny California)!
"My Pattern of Life:" Gender, Sexuality, and the Left in Pauli Murray's Political Vision
Pauli Murray (1910-1985) had a long and distinguished career as a civil rights activist, feminist, lawyer, poet andEpiscopal priest. This paper explores how her political and professional path intersected whit her personal negotiations of her same-sex desires and gender identity. Murray embraced what I call an anti-Communist left liberalism, whichoffered for her the "nearest route" to changing society. Murray found within this framework an emphasis on democratic inclusion and transformation that proved a sustaining theme throughout her life. Indeed, these ideological investments andaffiliations were informed by and informed Murray's negotiations of her own gender identity and same-sex desires. Thus the paper examines how Murray's mobilized Socialist party influenced-left liberalism to carve out her own personal and political life path. In so doing, the paper highlight the ways, anti-Communist left liberalism created ideological and organizational spaces that were at times accepting of same-sex desire and gender non-conformity, even as such issues were never explicitly addressed.
Panel on How to Survive Graduate School:
Interdisciplinary and Feminist Tools
Panel with Angela Willey, Eve Ng, Sharla Alegria and Kanchuka Dharmasiri
Thursday, April 26 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Bartlett 207
Followed by a Reception for faculty, staff and students interested in the graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies