Past meeting
From the Margins: A Look at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
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Meeting Description
Who
- Anyone who is concerned about these Civil Rights Issues. All members of NYC Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Meetup.
Why
- Make a Difference on NYC on Civil Rights.
Organized by
- Timothy (Co-Organizer)
Details
From The Margins: A Look at the Intersection of Race, Gender and Sexuality
When:
Thursday, March 6, 2008, 7pm
Where:
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10037
(2 or 3 train to 135th Street and Lenox Avenue)
Who:
Bill Perkins, NYS Senator of Harlem
Marjorie Hill, PhD. - Chief Executive Officer, Gay Men?s Health Crisis
Kim Pearson ? Professor of Journalism & Interactive Media, The College of New Jersey
Bennett Singer - Producer/Director, Brother Outsider
Edgar Rivera Colón ? Fellow, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University
Moderator: Donna Lieberman - Executive Director, NYCLU
What:
Drawing from the life and work of individuals such as Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin and Huey P. Newton, the discussion will delve into the intersecting oppressions of race, gender and sexuality, looking through a critical lens of the where we have come from, the current state we are in and the struggle that continues into the future.
Co-Sponsors:
Bronx Community Pride Center, Bronx Defenders, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), Critical Resistance NYC, Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA), Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), GLSEN, LGBT Community Center, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Metropolitan Community Church, , Middle Church, Movement in Motion, SAGE
Submitted by: Erica Braudy
Field Organizer
New York Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10004
212.607.3361
ebraudy@nyclu.org
Timothy
Co-Organizer