Sexuality and Socialism Study Group: First Session this Sunday @ 4 pm
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Ethan Boyles
Jan 21, 2010, 7:43:11 PM1/21/10
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We'd like to keep it informal, but focused, so come prepared with questions, passages you especially liked, and other thoughts.
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Sexuality and Socialism Study Group
Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization Seattle Branch
Sunday, January 24, 2010 (and ongoing)
4:00 to 5:00 pm
Suzallo Library café, University of Washington
(the café is located immediately to the right as you enter the library)
On October 11 2009, upwards of two hundred thousand LGBTQ activists and their allies converged on Washington, DC for the National Equality March, united around one demand: full equality in all matters governed by civil law in all fifty states. Full federal equality and civil rights can only come from the federal government. Besides, state-level victories are easily undone and will come to more conservative states much too far in the future.
How will we win full LGBT civil rights nationwide? Grassroots LGBTQ activists and allies must be at the center of figuring that out. Politics, history, and theory are essential for answering such questions as where does lgbt oppression come from, what strategies and tactics are effective in making social change, how did the lgbt movement start, what happened at Stonewall, and what role has the Democratic Party played in the lgbt movement?
Sexuality and Socialism is a remarkably accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
Inside are essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender identities, the history of the gay movement, and how to unite the oppressed and exploited to win sexual liberation for all. Sherry Wolf analyzes different theories about oppression—including those of Marxism, postmodernism, identity politics, and queer theory—and challenges myths about genes, gender, and sexuality.
For more info, contact us at in...@seattleiso.org , 206-612-6137 , www.seattleiso.org
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Get involved with the ISO: http://seattleiso.org
Read Socialist Worker: http://socialistworker.org
Seattle OUTProtest: http://seattleoutprotest.org
Just a reminder that our first study group will be this Sunday at 4 pm at the Suzallo Library Cafe (location explained below). We'll be chatting about the first chapter (if you don't have a copy, you can alternately read Sherry's essay on "The Roots of Gay Oppression" at http://www.isreview.org/issues/37/gay_oppression.shtml)
We'd like to keep it informal, but focused, so come prepared with questions, passages you especially liked, and other thoughts.
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Sexuality and Socialism Study Group
Sunday, January 24, 2010 (and ongoing)
4:00 to 5:00 pm
Suzallo Library café, University of Washington
(the café is located immediately to the right as you enter the library)
On October 11 2009, upwards of two hundred thousand LGBTQ activists and their allies converged on Washington, DC for the National Equality March, united around one demand: full equality in all matters governed by civil law in all fifty states. Full federal equality and civil rights can only come from the federal government. Besides, state-level victories are easily undone and will come to more conservative states much too far in the future.
How will we win full LGBT civil rights nationwide? Grassroots LGBTQ activists and allies must be at the center of figuring that out. Politics, history, and theory are essential for answering such questions as where does lgbt oppression come from, what strategies and tactics are effective in making social change, how did the lgbt movement start, what happened at Stonewall, and what role has the Democratic Party played in the lgbt movement?
Sexuality and Socialism is a remarkably accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
Inside are essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender identities, the history of the gay movement, and how to unite the oppressed and exploited to win sexual liberation for all. Sherry Wolf analyzes different theories about oppression—including those of Marxism, postmodernism, identity politics, and queer theory—and challenges myths about genes, gender, and sexuality.
For more info, contact us at in...@seattleiso.org , 206-612-6137 , www.seattleiso.org
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Get involved with the ISO: http://seattleiso.org
Read Socialist Worker: http://socialistworker.org
Seattle OUTProtest: http://seattleoutprotest.org
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