GSS Consortium at USC

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The Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Public Culture is a faculty-led initiative within USC's Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies.
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We invite you to attend our Spring 2026 Reception, a garden party with taquero service and aguas frescas. We look forward to see you there!
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18 days ago
Join us for the 2026 Barbra Streisand Lecture from the Consortium Scholar in Residence, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Wind is Our Teacher: Sea Grape Consciousness at the Edge of the World Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. She is/they are the author of several books, most recently Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde and the award-winning Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. She is/they are the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, an intergenerational experiential living library of Black LBGTQ brilliance.
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18 days ago
We invite you to a graduate workshop with Alexis Pauline Gumbs! For this workshop, graduate students / postdocs will be asked to read chapters 39, 41 and 42 of Survival is a Promise. Lunch is provided. SPACE IS LIMITED. RSVP to [email protected].
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19 days ago
International scholars, Sam Stiegler (University of Melbourne) and LJ Slovin (University of Victoria), co-authors of Embracing Queer and Trans Frameworks in Qualitative Educational Research: Showing Our Work (Routledge) will be in conversation with Kelso Becktol and Max Lubbers, Ph.D. graduate students who work in trans and queer studies in USC’s Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. Come join a conversation on queer and trans education and research!
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26 days ago
Come watch a screening of EDHI ALICE (에디 앨리스) where feminist media activist collective PINKS reimagine transgender transition as nonlinear, multidirectional, and continuously evolving. Followed by a moderated discussion led by Ray Kyooyung Ra (SCA) and Caitlyn Chung (EALC) featuring Ilrhan Kim (Director), Sona Jo (Producer), Ohyeon Kwon (Assistant Director/Associate Producer), Edhi (actor), Alice (actor), Yeong Ran Kim (PINKS). You won’t want to miss it! Event details and RSVP linked in bio, see you there!
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1 month ago
In our latest episode of The Art of Grief, we talk to Shawn Taylor, a coach, consultant, Senior Fellow with @popcollab and author of the recent book The Alphabet for New and Expecting Fathers. He joins us to talk about the vicissitudes of masculinity and grief. His new performance project-turned-short film, Speak and Carry, tackles how men-of-color grieve their lost friends and loved ones, while showing up for each others’ families and communities. In our closing FYC segment, Megan and Karen pay homage to their favorite meeting-place Taix in Echo Park, which closed on March 29 after 99 years.
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1 month ago
We are excited to be co-sponsoring The Power of Black Popular Culture: A Conversation with Aloe Blacc on April 15. in SAL 101. Hosted by the Black Studies Center, join us for a conversation between professors Oneka LaBennett, Edwin Hill, and Grammy-nominated Singer/Songwriter Aloe Blacc! RSVP link in our bio.
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1 month ago
Don't miss these exciting upcoming events from the Consortium and our friends at the Center for Feminist Research! March 24: A book talk with Mariam Rahmani, author of the recently published Liquid, in THH 420. March 26: An engaging conversation with Ivan Ramos, Summer Kim Lee, and Hentyle Yapp as they share insights from their latest publications in THH 420. We can’t wait to see you there!
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1 month ago
Take a look back at 🪩 The Night Shift 🪩 our symposium at USC on Queer Desire, Erotic Labor, & Radical Care After Dark. Full documentation here: https://bit.ly/nightshiftusc Huge thanks to our fabulous MC Tina Horn and to all our artists and presenters: Kim Ye, Keko Jackson, Lucas Hilderbrand, Kayla Tange, Stacy Macias, Summer Jade Leavitt, Jih-Fei Cheng, Zihan Loo, RJ Aguiar, Alisa Yang, Farrah, Kendall Ota, Maria Silk, and Laura Dudu 嘟嘟 with CAO Collective. This event was made possible by our partners: University of California Humanities Research Institute @uc_hri USC Department of American Studies & Ethnicity @aseusc USC Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies @usc_gss USC Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture @usc_consortium UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies @berkeleytdps BAD ASIANS @badasiansclub Organizing team: Lena Chen Aydin Quach Evan Sakuma [NAMI] Graphic design: @olivialuk Videography: @oddtresleches @yessi.dj
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2 months ago
Writer, multimedia journalist and a producer for @kcrwgoodfood , Elina Shatkin (@elinashatkin ), joins us for a candid, moving conversation about what it was like to lose her mother unexpectedly (while she was 7 months pregnant), right before caring for her newborn daughter. Elina and her mom immigrated from Ukraine (in the former USSR) in the late 1970s, and she was raised with a single mom’s “scrappy,” hard working sensibility. Now, nearly a decade after losing her mom Tatyana Melnick, Elina is emerging from her grief to talk about the stories she feels she can finally tell, and future pathways to honoring her mom’s memory in her creative practices. For our FYC segment, Megan brings the hit TV series Heated Rivalry to the table as an experience that helps viewers get beyond “catastrophizing.” #grief #parenting #moms #momssupportingmoms #heatedrivalry
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2 months ago
Join us for the inaugural event in a new USC Consortium series of intergenerational conversations between authors and USC graduate students with shared areas of expertise. Our first event on Monday, March 9 at 3:30pm (DML 121), features Joshua Gavier Guzmán (Associate Professor of Gender Studies, UCLA). Guzmán is the author of Dissatisfactions: Queer Chicano Style Politics (NYU Press, 2024), and editor-in-chief of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. He will be in conversation with Ethan Trejo, a Ph.D. candidate in English at USC whose dissertation examines the political dimensions of Latinx drag aesthetics and performances. Both specialize in queer, Latinx studies, specifically queer of color critique and performance studies.
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2 months ago
Join Professor Patrice D. Douglass for a conversation about her latest book Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence! RSVP with the link in our bio.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This event is hosted by USC’s Center for Feminist Research, the Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and Black Visual Cultures Collective (BVCC).
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3 months ago