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    S. Bear Bergman: How Expanding Understanding Of Gender Is Destabilizing Sexual Orientation

    S. Bear Bergman: How Expanding Understanding Of Gender Is Destabilizing Sexual Orientation

    Presented by Vanderbilt University - Office of LGBTQI Life at Vanderbilt University - Commons Center

    April 15, 2009

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    This lecture - which has been presented at dozens of colleges and universities - is a guided tour through the (short) history of the concept of "sexual orientation" and exposes many of its shortcomings. Though sensitive to the labels to which people have become attached, S. Bear Bergman makes clear how much our current concept of sexual orientation has relied on the gender binary, and then delves into how to express sexuality without it.

    S. Bear Bergman is a writer, a theater artist, an instigator, a gender-jammer. Bear is also the author of Butch Is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006) and three award-winning solo performances, as well as a frequent lecturer at colleges and universities regarding issues relating to gender and sexuality. Ze has advised the staff of numerous institutions on their policies regarding transgendered and transsexual students. An observant Jew, Bear also speaks extensively about how hir religious and cultural lives have shaped one another, and the intersection of identities, especially as it relates to being both Jewish and queer. Read more at http://www.sbearbergman.com. For more information, please contact the Office of LGBTQI Life at (615) 322-3330.


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        Vanderbilt University - Commons Center

        230 Appleton Place
        Nashville, TN 37203

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        April 15, 2009

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        Wednesday 8:00pm-9:30pm

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