QGrad 2011

CONFERENCE 2011

UCLA Queer Studies
Conference 2011

OCTOBER 14-15, 2011

Royce Hall

Open to the Public

This year’s conference will explore and exploit issues of fashion, queerly construed. We have invited a wide range of questions and panels on subject topics as drag, female masculinities, male femininities, queer making and self-fashioning, cloning and styling, and, of course, the culture and politics of the fashion industry itself. Questions of class, economics, history, ethnicity, race, (im)migration, geography, exploitation, and sublimation are at the forefront of our query. We seek to know what might be a new analytic or interdisciplinary methodology through which to attend to multiple registers of fashion.

The conference is free and registration is not required.

Plenary Speakers:
Michael Bronski, Jack Halberstam, Monica Miller,
Mignon R. Moore, Karen Tongson, and Deborah R. Vargas

Closing Performance (free):
“QUEERTURE Fashion Show”
with artistic director Tania Hammidi

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/
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Conference Schedule:

<Friday, October 14th>

10:00 – 11:15 Royce 314
Against the Grain
Moderator:
Sue-Ellen Case, University of California – Los Angeles, School of Theater, Film, and Television

Speakers:
“Refashioning Queer Counter Culture: Liquid Sky’s Avant-Trash Aesthetics and the Detritus of the President”
Corella Di Fede, Visual Studies, University of California – Irvine

“Synthetic Spectacles, Excessive Embodiments: Nicki Minaj and Eccentric Black Performance”
Uri McMillan, African-American Studies, English, University of California – Los Angeles

“Lady Gaga’s Fashion: ‘The Monster’ as a new gender”
Rachel Jordan, English, California State University of Northridge

10:00 – 11:15 Royce 306
Latina/o Excess: from Synthetic nails to textual resistance
Moderator:
Gretel Vera Rosas, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Speakers:
“Chongalicious Style: The Queer Politics of Latina Girls’ Sexual-Aesthetic Excesses”
Jillian Hernandez, Women and Gender Studies, Rutgers University

“Dirty Girl, Clean Dress?: The Dressing of the Queer Latina Body in Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez’ Dirty Girls Social Club”
Gabriel Mayora, English Literature, University of Florida

“Camping the Self: Manuel Ramos Otero’s ‘Hollywood Memorabilia’ and the Aesthetics of Opaque Resistance”
Christina León, Comparative Literature, Emory University

11:30 – 12:45 Royce 314
Drag Race: Fashioning Queer Masculinities through Corporeal Drag
Moderator:
Uri McMillan, African-American Studies, English, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Manifest Faggotry: The Imperial Court System and the Queer Jingoism of the Western Metropole”
Katie Horowitz, Rhetoric, University of California – Berkeley

“The Gesture of Difference: ‘Bad’ Drag in the Neoliberal City”
Ivan Ramos, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California – Berkeley

“Dragging the Museum: Pussy-Cunt Realness and Voguing in the White Box”
Ariel Osterweis, Dance, Wayne State University

“Turn this Mother Out! Techniques for Black (Male) Re/Dress”
Naomi Bragin, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California – Berkeley

11:30 – 12:45 Royce 306
Women of Color Performing Gender as Public and Counter-Public Spectacle
Moderator:
Grace Hong, Asian American Studies and Women’s Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Jenny Shimizu’s Online Traces: An Empty Signifier Overwriting Normativity”
Vivian Chin, Ethnic Studies, Mills College

“Fashioning the (Mighty) Real”
Rebekah Edwards, English, Mills College

“’Sir, You Have just Done the Unthinkable’: Black Butch and Transmasculine Performance as Queer Gender Rebellion in the East Coast ‘Girl Ball’ Scene”
Ajuan Maria Mance, English, Mills College

3:00 – 4:15 Royce 314
The Williams Institute – Trans Black Identities in the United States
williamsinstitute@law.ucla.edu
Kylar W. Broadus, Business Law, Lincoln University

Speakers:
Kortney Ryan Ziegler, Ph.D., Award-winning filmmaker of “Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen”
C. Nicole Mason, Ph.D., Executive Director of The Women of Color Policy Network, NYU Wagner School of Public Service
Marisa Richmond, Ph.D., President, Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition

3:00 – 4:15 Royce 306
Techno-Queer Self Fashioning: Digital Theory by Digital Praxis
Moderator:
Michael Stambolis, Sociology, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“The Real and the Fake: Asian American Digitality, Drag Kings, & ‘All of Me’”
Margaret Rhee, Ethnic Studies, University of California – Berkeley

“Borrowed Time: Fan Video and Queer Temporality through a Cylon Digital Remix Machine”
Alexis Lothian, English, University of Southern California

“Please Select Gender: Video Games and Butch Expression”
Amanda Phillips, English, University of California – Santa Barbara

“Wearable Electronics as Femme Disturbance: Sex Positive Community Responses to Gendered Violence”
Micha Cárdenas, Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California
4:30 – 6:00 Royce 314
Plenary I
Moderator:
James A. Schultz, Germanic Languages, University of California – Los Angeles

Speakers:
“From Posing Straps to Strapping Poses: Making Masculinity Fashionable in the Post-War Era”
Michael Bronski, Women’s and Gender Studies, Dartmouth College

“Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal”
Jack Halberstam, English, American Studies, and Ethnicity and Gender Studies, University of Southern California

“Always True to You Darlin’ in My Fashion: Queer Musicality and Disciplinarity”
Karen Tongson, English and Gender Studies, University of Southern California

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<SATURDAY, October 15th>

10:00 – 11:15 Royce 164
The Runway of Life: Fashion Design, Performance, Transitional Logic
Moderator:
Kathleen McHugh, English, Cinema and Media Studies, Center for the Study of Women (director), University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Perform/Design”
Tania Hammidi, Diversity Studies, California College of Art

“Queer Fashion as Social Armor: Identity Formation, Self-Fashioning, and Everyday Life”
Parisa Parnian, Creative Director/Designer, Queer Fashion Label “RIGGED OUT/FITTERS”

“Swatch: The Dematerialization of a Wardrobe”
Aaron Valenzuela, M.F.A. candidate, University of California – Irvine

10:00 – 11:15 Royce 162
Fashioning Solidarity
Moderator:
Jacob Lau, Women’s Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Fashioning Trans Selves”
Elias Krell, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

“And the Walls Came Tumblr-ing Down? Internet Activism, Queer Identities, and Possibilities of Fashionable Resistance”
Catherine Connell, Sociology, Boston University

“Outfitting the Outcast: Writing Fishnet Femifestos from Our Dark, Queer Closets”
Shereen Inayatulla, English, York College CUNY

11:30 – 12:45 Royce 164
The Williams Institute – Making Up Working Women: Enforcing Workplace Gender Norms Through Appearance Codes
williamsinstitute@law.ucla.edu
Speakers:
Jennifer C. Pizer, Legal Director and Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law, Williams Institute
Jody Herman, Public Policy Fellow, Williams Institute
Peter J. Cooper, Public Policy Fellow, Williams Institute

11:30 – 12:45 Royce 162
Bodily Manifestations
Moderators:
Patrick Keilty, Information Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Retrofitting the Pubis: A Prospectus for Re-envisioning the Twenty-First Century Merkin”
Erin D. Coleman-Cruz, Art, Independent Artist
Finesse Coif
Bianca McGraw, Student Affairs, University at Buffalo
Lynnetta Coif

“Affective Fashion and Queer Becomings”
Stephen Seely, Women and Gender Studies, Rutgers University

“Anatomy’s a Drag: Leigh Bowery’s Birth Shows”
Kristen Galvin, Visual Studies, University of California – Irvine

2:15 – 3:30 Royce 164
Materializing Blackness
Moderator:
Gregory Davis, Law and Afro-American Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers
“Queer Assemblages and Irruptions of Blackness”
Rizvana Bradley, Literature, Duke University

“Mi(RED): Cotton, Black Self-fashioning, and the Gap (RED) Campaign”
Cecilio Stephanie Cooper, Performance Studies, University of California – Davis

“Queerly Clothed: The Queer Telepistemology of Clothing in Representations of Black Gay Men”
Alfred L. Martin Jr., Media Studies, University of Texas at Austin

2:15 – 3:30 Royce 162
Butch, Femme, and Beyond
Moderator:
Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Chicana/o Studies, English, Women’s Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Boots, belts and bling: fashion and female masculinities in Kampala, Uganda”
Melissa Minor Peters, Anthropology, Northwestern University

“Appearance Can Be Deceiving: Butch Styling and the Accuracy of Visual Cues in Postwar New York City”
Alix Genter, History, Rutgers University

2:15 – 3:30 Royce 160
Self Iconography
Moderator:
Paul Amar, Global & International Studies, University of California – Santa Barbara
Speakers:
“The Prisoners”
Nissim Gal, Art History, University of Haifa

“Make it Work: Tim Gunn, Celibacy, and the New Queer Dandy”
Karli June Cerankowski, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University

4:00 – 5:30 Royce 164
Plenary II
Moderator:
Arthur L. Little, Jr., English, LGBT Studies (Chair), University of California – Los Angeles

Speakers:
“Femmes, Gender-Blenders and Transgressives: Meanings and Significance of Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian Communities”
Mignon R. Moore, Sociology, University of California – Los Angeles

“Papi Time: Guayaberas and the Fashioning of Brown Butch Temporality”
Deborah R. Vargas, Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California – Irvine

“’The beauty without which we cannot seem to live’: Black/Queer Dandyism”
Monica Miller, English, Barnard College

6:00 – 7:30 Royce 314
QUEERTURE Fashion Show
with artistic director Tania Hammidi
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135188496578592

Our present and future programming depends on generous donations from foundations, departments, and individuals. Please make any donations payable to “U. C. Regents.”

The conference is organized by UCLA’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program

Sponsors

David Bohnett Foundation

UCLA Division of Humanities
UCLA Graduate Division
UCLA Office of Faculty Diversity and Development
UCLA Division of Social Sciences

Center for Jewish Studies
Center for Performance Studies
Chicana/o Studies Research Center
G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy

The departments of—
Anthropology
Art History
Asian American Studies
Chicana/o Studies
Cinema & Media Studies Program
Comparative Literature
English
Film, Television and Digital Media
French and Francophone Studies
Germanic Languages
History
Musicology
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Psychology
Sociology
Spanish and Portuguese
Theater, Film & Television
Women’s Studies
World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Writing Program