About the Program
Transgender Culture Series
Poet / Principal Samuel Ace reads from STEALTH
(with Maureen Seaton)
Monday, October 10, 2011
6:30 - 8:30 pm at the CAS Wesley Gallery
Samuel will offer a rare retrospective of his work as Linda Smukler and chronicle his creative journey as Samuel Ace, culminating in Stealth, a collaboration with poet Maureen Seaton (Creative Writing faculty, UM). New work will also be de-buted and a Q & A will follow.
Samuel Ace is the author of three collections of poetry: Normal Sex; Home in three days, don't wash; and, most recently, Stealth, a collaboration with Maureen Seaton. He is a two-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, winner of the Astraea Lesbian Writer's Fund Prize in Poetry, The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in poetry. He lives in Tucson, AZ and Truth or Consequences, NM.
In a series of miraculously suggestive poems, the authors problematize the human invisible, using the dreamscapes of Brigadoon, Fantasia, and the painter Agnes Martin to take us there. Stealth is a book of passing—passing for straight, passing for black or white, male or fe- male, passing unobserved, ignored, yet despised. It is a heartbreaking book, an angry one, and yet one that enchants and elevates with its manufactured 'jungle—somewhere safe to hide—frond by frond.'”
– Kevin Killian
Mother / LGBT Activist Sylvia Guerrero screens A GIRL LIKE ME: THE GWEN ARAUJO STORY and hosts a Q & A
Thursday, October 20, 2011
5:30 - 8:30 pm at the CAS Wesley Gallery
The feature film documents the real life of Gwen Araujo, born Edward Araujo, Jr., a transgender teenager who was murdered after it was dis- covered by acquaintances that she had male genitalia. Scenes depict- ing the murder trial are shown alternating with the story of Gwen's life.
Discussion with Gwen Araujo's mother, Sylvia Guerrero, immediately following the film showing.
Author / Transgender Rights Activist Jamison Green discusses BECOMING A VISIBLE MAN
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
7:00 - 8:30 pm at UC Flamingo Ballroom
Written by a leading activist in the Transgender Movement, Becoming A Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics and gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female –to –male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family to the development of an FTM community and the realities of surgical sex reassignment.
For more Information please contact : Dr. Steven Butterman, Director, Program in Women’s and Gender Studies at butterman@miami.edu or (305) 284-7221.
