WGST Past Events
Fall/Spring 2015/2016
Spring 2016
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act,
A Screening
"FIXED: the Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
Discussion afterward led by Dr. Katrina Fulcher-Rood of the Communications Disorders and Sciences Department
November 18, Wednesday 6:00 - 7:30 PM McEwan 209
From bionic limbs and neural implants to prenatal screening, researchers around the world are hard at work developing a myriad of technologies to fix or enhance the human body. FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement takes a close look at the drive to be “better than human” and the radical technological innovations that may take us there.
*The film runs for 61 minutes
Fall Gathering Featuring Vivek Shraya
Readings from his book "She of the Mountains"
October 29, 3:30 - 5:00 PM Williams S204 ABC
Snacks provided at the event and a dinner to follow in the Horizon Room!
Two of Shraya's novels, "She of the Mountains" and "God Loves Hair," are both available for purchase at the Fredonia campus bookstore! Check out the display, and come to the event!
Vivek Shraya is a Toronto-based artist working in the media of literature, music, performance, and film. Vivek’s body of work includes ten albums, four short films and three books, which have been used as textbooks at several post-secondary institutions. His debut novel, She of the Mountains, was named one of The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2014. He has read and performed at shows, festivals and post-secondary institutions internationally, sharing the stage with Tegan & Sara and Dragonette, and has appeared at NXNE, Word on the Street, and Yale University.
Vivek is a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, the 2014 recipient of the Steinert & Ferreiro Award for leadership in Toronto’s LGBTQ community, the recipient of Anokhi Media’s inaugural Most Promising LGBTQ Community Crusader Award in 2015, a 2015 Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award finalist, and a 2015 recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize Honour of Distinction. Vivek’s first children’s picture book, The Boy & the Bindi, will be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in Fall 2016.
Fall Convocation Event
Screening of "The Mask You Live In"
October 15, 6:30 PM Jewett 101
We will screen the documentary film The Mask You Live In, which follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America's narrow definition of masculinity. The film not only explores how such definitions of masculinity harm men and boys, but also what we as a society can do to challenge those definitions.
Coordinators: william.boerner@fredonia.edu & jeffry.iovannone@fredonia.edu
Dragapalooza!
October 3, 7:00 Williams Center Multipurpose Room
Pictured Above: Anita Waistline of Buffalo hosts Dragapalooza Fall 2014
Every semester, Pride Alliance hosts Dragapalooza here at Fredonia. The drag show allows important opportunities for community building, as it brings together students, alumni, and community members to watch some talented and entertaining performers.
This semester’s show will be this Friday, October 2, at 7:00 pm in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room. Tickets are available at the ticket office ($3 for students, $4 general admission). Headliner Kimmi Moore will be joined by alumni performers Sinistra and He Shaggwell. Current students will compete for the titles of Mr. and Mrs. Queer Fredonia.
This event provides Fredonia students with an opportunity to express their identity and feel that however they appear, they will be welcome on the Fredonia campus. Graham Caulfield, Social Events Chair for Pride Alliance, observed that the drag show “gives students in the MOGII (Marginalized Orientations, Gender Identities, and Intersex) community a chance to express themselves in ways that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to do.” Caulfield also noted that a portion of the proceeds from the show will go to the Breaking Binaries Fund, which will help students that identify under the transgender umbrella to pay for transition-related costs. “The drag show gives back to the campus community in multiple ways,” Caulfield concluded.