Description
As You Like It is thrilled to have Dr. Bernadette Marie Calafell in Eugene, OR for this new Kink Discussion Group!
Event Details
WHERE
As You Like It (Eugene)
1655 W. 11th Ave
Eugene, OR 97402
WHEN
Saturday October 18th, from 6pm-8pm
COST
$15.00/person
What Is This Discussion About?
We are so excited to bring monthly facilitated discussions of topics in Sexuality Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Kink and BDSM, all from an intersectional perspective that is attentive to how race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability come together to shape how we experience the world.
Please see this month’s topic below; however, future topics include problematizing the closet paradigm from a BIPOC perspective, race, power, and difference in dynamics (not race play), sissification and sissy play, and intersectional feminism and kink. But we also want to hear topics you would love to dialogue or converse about together.
October Topic: Fierce Femme-in-ities: Exploring the Politics, Possibility, and Power of Femme Identities
While femininity is often written off as frivolous or unserious in the popular U.S. imaginary, scholars such as Ulrika Dahl, Elizabeth Galewski, Jillian Hernandez, and Kathryn Hobson, have suggested femme identity is anything but frivolous and instead offers possibility not only for personal pleasure, but also societal critique and intervention through performances of excessive femininity in a patriarchal society.
Furthermore, writers like Jose Esteban Munoz and Bernadette Marie Calafell have pointed to the resistive, empowering, and revisioning possibilities of excess, as it connects to performances of race and femininity.
What does it mean to be femme? What are the politics of femmeidentities? How do Chicana, Black, Asian American, or Indigenous femmes negotiate their intersectional performances of gender and sexuality, particularly in relationship to racist and racial scripts about femininities of women of color? How can we understand femme-femme relationality and sociality? How can we have these conversations together across differences in ways that privilege self-reflexivity, vulnerability, and what bell hooks might term critical love? I invite you to explore the first of many exciting topics with me.
What Should Attendees Know?
• Partners are not required.
• Beginners welcome!
• Be aware that masking is optional for attendees. The presenter will not be masked when instructing.
• Capacity is limited to 15 participants - Get your tickets now to ensure your space in the class!
About the facilitator:
Bernadette Marie Calafell, Ph.D. is a kinky Dominant genderqueer pansexual Femme Chicana and Hip-Hop Feminist and Generation Xer. She is currently Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Since graduating with her doctorate in Performance and Cultural Studies she has held academic appointments at universities across the country and traveled extensively to speak about her research at universities, conferences, and symposiums nationally, internationally, and virtually. Dr. Calafell’s award winning and nationally recognized activism, teaching, and research in Critical Sexuality Studies and Latina/o/xe Studies include foci in LGBTQ Studies, the experiences of BIPOC folx, Chicana/o/x/e, Black, Chicana, and Hip-Hop Feminisms, kink, BDSM, and sex work.
She has been honored by the National Communication Association, including being named a Distinguished Scholar, a rare distinction bestowed upon scholars who have been active in the discipline of Communication Studies for more than twenty years and serve as exemplars. This distinction is particularly significant as a working-class Chicana who started her education at the local community college and ended up with a Ph.D. Dr. Calafell has partnered with organizations, such as the Mile High Horror Film Festival and the Washington State Department of Licensing, to offer her expertise. She is also an active member of her local kink community where she is able to find joy in bridging theory and practice.
Questions about this Workshop?
Call or text As You Like It at (541) 606-0553 or send us an email at staff@asyoulikeitshop.com!
REFUND POLICY
• Please note, all ticket sales are final.
• There are absolutely no returns for purchase of tickets to an event.
• No refunds, but Rainchecks are available up to two days before the event for a $3 fee per ticket.
Note for online ticket sales: In order to prevent ticket fraud, you will need to bring your ID and the credit card used to purchase your tickets to the event and show them to an AYLI employee as part of the check in process. Please arrive 15 minutes early so checking in does not eat into class time. Thanks so much!