Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
41-51 East 11th Street, 7th Floor, Gallery Space
Phone: 212-992-9650

Martin Manalansan, Anthropology, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Focusing on the multiple efforts of queers of color activists in immigration, gender (transgender rights) and anti-globalization movements, this talk argues for the idiom and practices of “love” as a collective political project that goes beyond issues of marriage and domesticity, sexual freedom and gender fluidity, to engage with the complexities of social transformation. Inspired by feminist of color writers—such as Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, and Chela Sandoval—Manalansan proposes that this political emotion can be mobilized in various settings as a way to escape the numbing and normalizing ethos of neoliberalism.

Sponsored by Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU; co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.