Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (New York City, 1970) Collection: Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, International Gay Information Center ephemera files - Organizations
Gender.Network Launch Party
Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 7 PM ET
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division 208 W 13th St, 2nd Floor, New York, New York (inside the LGBT Center building)
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Zoom Link will be emailed
To RSVP, click here.
A hybrid in-person/virtual launch party and conversation about the first installment of Gender.Network, an interactive digital exhibition of flyers, photos, artwork, cartoons, letters, poems, and other media created by trans, Two-spirit, non-binary, and gender liberation activists, organizers, and artists during the 1960s–1990s.
Gender.Network has grown out of ongoing conversations with elders, researchers, and activists, who suggested many of the materials, events, and people that are represented in the exhibition. Each person we spoke with helped connect us with others, who in turn suggested further materials to research and people to contact.
We hope that you will do the same! Please join us at this event to share your thoughts both about what is here and what is still missing, and help shape the future of this project.
In collecting and curating these materials, we honor the activists, organizers, and artists who continue to lead the way forward and remember those whose voices, images, and energy live on in these materials.
Curated by Sky Syzygy
Deep gratitude to Christian Camacho-Light, Roxana Fabius, and the membership of A.I.R. Gallery, who have provided a home base, administrative, fiscal, and moral support for this project.
Endless thanks and admiration to our advisory committee: Che Gossett, Finn Enke, Jeanne Vaccaro, Malcolm Shanks, and Susan Stryker.
Major thanks to Ritu Ghiya for her incredible web design.
This project would not exist without the many questions, insights, anecdotes, stories, and conversations that have helped guide and shape our research. Thank you to Aiden Bettine, Ariel Goldberg, AJ Lewis, Charley Burton, Chelsea Goodwin, Chris Vargas, Christina Linden, Cicely Haggerty, Daria Dorosh, Darla Bjork, Dee Dee Chamblee, Dee Farmer, Dena Muller, Donna Kessinger, Efrain John Gonzales, Frances Woods-Baugh, Gayle Rubin, Harmony Hammond, Harrison Apple, Ignacio Rivera, Jamison Green, Jaune Quick-to-see-Smith, Jessica Xavier, Joanna Rivera, Jolene Rickard, Jonathan Thunderword, Joshua Burford, Jude Patton, Judy Grahn, Judy Greenspan, Kai Pyle, Kaspar Saxena, Kat Griefen, Kay Turner, Kelly Wooten, Lauren Berke, Leah DeVun, Leo Valdes, Lou McCarthy, Madsen Minax, Marisa Richmond, Martha Wilson, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Muriel Miguel, Nancy Azara, Pat Califia, Reneé Imperato, Sandi Salas, Shannon O'Neill, Sharon Day, Simon Fisher, Suzanne Iacenza, Venus de Mars, Xiomara Niculescu, and so so many more for your time and energy and brilliance.
Gender.Network is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; with public funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC; and by The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.
