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X-WR-CALNAME:Queer Bodies: Gender and Power in Art and Society
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DESCRIPTION:Academics\, artists\, and authors will have a wide-ranging conv
 ersation exploring gender\, sexuality\, queerness\, and the body in art\, 
 culture\, fashion\, and society. Topics will include\, but not be limited 
 to\, an inside look at being a professional dominatrix\, queer performance
  art and theory\, and fabulousness as resistance.\n\nChris Belcher is a wr
 iter\, professor\, book coach\, and assistant professor of Gender and Sexu
 ality Studies and Writing at USC. Under her working name\, Natalie West\, 
 she edited the acclaimed anthology We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival
 . Her debut memoir\, Pretty Baby\, is a searing\, darkly funny account of 
 being a lesbian and professional dominatrix with male clients that upends 
 ideas about desire\, class\, and power.Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Profe
 ssor and Vice Dean of Faculty and Research at the USC Roski School of Art 
 & Design and curator and scholar of contemporary art\, performance\, and f
 eminist/sexuality studies. Jones’s most recent book\, Between Subjects: 
 A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance\, explores the history of perfor
 mance art and queer theory since the 1950s from a queer feminist point of 
 view.madison moore is an artist-scholar\, DJ\, and assistant professor of 
 Critical Studies at the USC Roski School of Art & Design who is broadly in
 vested in the aesthetic\, sonic\, and spatial strategies queer and trans p
 eople of color use to survive and thrive. madison’s first book\, Fabulou
 s: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric\, offers a cultural analysis of fab
 ulousness as a practice of resistance. madison has performed international
 ly at a range of nightclubs\, parties\, and art institutions.Moderator: Ka
 ren Tongson is Chair and professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies\, as we
 ll as professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC\, whe
 re she also directs the Mellon-funded Consortium for Gender\, Sexuality\, 
 Race and Public Culture. Her books include Why Karen Carpenter Matters and
  Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries.
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LOCATION:Wallis Annenberg Hall (ANN)
SUMMARY:Queer Bodies: Gender and Power in Art and Society
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