4156 - Stonewall At/After 50

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

We have just witnessed the 50th anniversary of the “Stonewall” riots in NYC. This was an important moment in resisting the police brutality and other institutions that operated against people who we now call gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. For many in the U.S. and abroad, “Stonewall” – the fighting back in the summer of 1969 by gender non-conforming racial minorities – evokes a before and after of visibility, recognition, and the achievement of rights. This panel, comprised of activists, artists, and academics, will offer insights to the moment in time we have reached, speaking to both some of the most critical accomplishments and the losses in the past 50 years for sure, but charting a way of thinking about the next waves of work and organizing that take into account not just sexual orientation and gender identity and expression, but other axes of power.

Sub Unit

• Presidential Panel

Session Organizer

• Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University

Presider

• Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Panelists

• Angela Jones, State University of New York-Farmingdale

• Lillian Rivera, Hetrick-Martin Institute: New Jersey

• Nadia Awad, NYC Artist/Activist

• Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University