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Presented By: Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI)

"Punks" @ 20: Revisiting Cathy Cohen’s Queer Coalitional Vision

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photo of protesters carrying rainbow banner with words "unite"
LGQRI presents a symposium in tribute to and reconsideration of Cathy Cohen’s generative article “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” Published in GLQ in 1997, Cohen’s piece articulated a queer of color critique that transformed the field.

(Full text available here: http://glq.dukejournals.org/content/3/4/437.full.pdf+html)

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:

2:10 - 4pm: Welcome and Introductions (Dean Hubbs, LGQRI Director)
Panel Presentations
- Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, English & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
- Jafari S. Allen, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami
Marlon M. Bailey, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University
- Christina Hanhardt, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, University of Maryland

4:00 pm: Roundtable Discussion featuring Guest of Honor, Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago
Moderated by David Hutchinson, History PhD Student

Presented by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initative (LGQRI). Cosponsored by the Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative (CRSI), Departments of English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Afroamerican and African Studies, Anthropology, American Culture, the Spectrum Center, and the Stamps School of Art & Design.

Light refreshments will be served.

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