Nov. 9: Talk: Sexual sedition from espionage laws to the war on terror

Poster by Icky A.
from irishqueers.org

Nov. 9, 7 - 9pm

Talk: Sexual Sedition from Espionage Laws to the War on Terror.

CUNY Grad Center, Room C201,
5th Ave and 34th St.
(6 train to 33rd street. or B, D, F, N, Q, R, V, W to 34th-Herald Sq.; M2, M3, M4, M5, M16, M34 bus]

Molly McGarry’s project examines the inter-twining of gender, sexuality, and racialized citizenship in the case of Dr. Marie Equi, a birth control advocate, abortionist, I.W.W. organizer, and lesbian, convicted and imprisoned under the Alien and Sedition Acts.
This talk uses the case of Dr. Equi, who was imprisoned under the sedition laws as “an anarchist, an abortionist, and a degenerate,” to examine the links between sexual and political dissidence, “unnatural” identities and un-American acts.

CLAGS colloquium series in LGBTQ studies:
Molly McGarry, The Center for Religion and Media, New York University and Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Riverside