Panel and Conversation with Cassils at NYU, “PISSED”

September 20, 2017

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Joel Sanders will participate in PISSED, a panel and conversation about art, architecture and legal action as tactics for promoting inclusivity. The event is co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Department of Performance Studies, and will take place on Tuesday, September 26, 2017.

The panel will feature Cassils (trans artist, Guggenheim Fellow), Chase Strangio (ACLU lawyer for Chelsea Manning, Gavin Grimm), and Titus Kaphar (painter, Artist as Activist Fellow). The event will be moderated by Jack Halberstam, Visiting Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. The panelists will discuss crossovers in their work and address alternative futures that refuse complicity in systems of oppression. Discussion topics will include Stalled!, JSA’s ongoing research initiative for promoting gender-inclusive restrooms and locker rooms.

For more information, click HERE.