BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:176747@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260814T063439Z DTSTART:20260921T190000Z DTEND:20260921T210000Z SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: CHANGING GENDER DESCRIPTION:Join Susan Stryker and Jack Halberstam at the Bureau for the launch of Susan’\\;s provocative\\, genre-bending new book\\, CHANGI NG GENDER.\\nRSVP TO THIS EVENT\\nThat gender is a hotly contested topic becomes ever clearer as antigender ideology continues to be mobilized by the far right and transgender people’\\;s lives are increasingly tar geted. But what are we talking about when we talk about gender? Where did the concept itself come from\\, and where might it go?\\nIn Changing Ge nder\\, the leading trans scholar Susan Stryker invites readers to ride along on her lifelong quest to uncover what gender means and does. She t races the gender concept’\\;s roots in grammar and tells the story o f how it transformed into a battleground of the culture wars. From the or igins of “Yankee Doodle” to acid trips in Joshua Tree National Park\\ , from nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracy theorists\\, Stryker finds surprising places to tune in to the origins\\ , idiosyncrasies\\, and generative possibilities of the gender concept. A long the way\\, she weaves stories drawn from her lifetime as a pathbreak ing historian\\, filmmaker\\, activist\\, and founding figure of transgen der studies.\\nPoignant and deeply researched\\, lyrical and authoritativ e\\, Changing Gender is a book for our fraught time\\, exposing limitin g assumptions about gender across the political spectrum and imagining wh at life might look like if some of those limitations were lifted. Ultimat ely\\, Stryker argues\\, to change gender is to change what it means to b e human—and to change reality itself.\\nAfter the event there will be t ime for Susan (and Jack) to sign copies of their respective books\\, whic h will be available for purchase at the Bureau.\\n***\\nSusan Stryker’s historical research\\, theoretical writings\\, media-making\\, activism\ \, and academic field-building activities have helped shape the conversat ion on trans issues since the early 1990s. Stryker retired from the Unive rsity of Arizona in 2020 and currently holds a distinguished visiting app ointment at Stanford University’\\;s Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She is the author of many academic and general audience works\\, including Transgender History. She lives in San Francisco.\\nJ ack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Colum bia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Femal e Masculinity (Duke UP\\, 1998)\\, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP\\ , 2011)\\, and\\, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press) among others. Halbe rstam’s new book is Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto \\, which will be published by MIT Press in August 2026. Halberstam was r ecently the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pend leton. Halberstam was recently named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.\\nhttps:// www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/new-york/events/book-launch-chang ing-gender-2026-09-21 LOCATION:Bureau of General Services-Queer Division URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/new-york/events/book-launch-changing-gender-2026-09-21 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR