BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:225843@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260904T094028Z DTSTART:20260921T190000Z DTEND:20260921T210000Z SUMMARY:Off Site at Church of the Village: Susan Stryker &\\; Jack Ha lberstam –\\; Changing Gender DESCRIPTION:***NEW LOCATION***\\nDue to the significant interest in this event\\, BGSQD\\, the hosting queer indie bookstore\\, is moving it to a larger venue. BGSQD will now host this conversation with Susan Stryker an d Jack Halberstam at Church of the Village (201 W 13th St\\, New York\\, NY 10011)\\, on the corner of 7th Avenue and 13th Street\\, across the st reet from the NYC LGBT Community Center. The date and time remain the sam e.\\nAs a result of this venue change\\, we’\\;ve updated the regist ration process. Please read all of the details below.\\nImportant Registr ation Information:\\nIf you already RSVP’\\;d for this event via Eve ntbrite\\, you’\\;re all set. You’\\;re on the list to get in.\ \nThis event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is requ ired. \\nRegister via Eventbrite. \\nIf you’\\;d like\\, you can p re-order a copy of Stryker’\\;s new book\\, Changing Gender\\, when you register for the event. \\nPre-ordered books will be available to pic k up at Church of the Village the evening of the event. \\nStryker and Ha lberstam will sign books after the talk.\\nThis venue costs $800. We̵ 7\\;re taking donations via Eventbrite and donations via GoFundMe to help us pay for this\\, so that we can keep the event free and open to the pu blic and not lose our shirts. More info below.\\n***A CALL TO THE COMMUNI TY***\\nIt’\\;s important to us that as many people as possible have access to this conversation. We are not requiring a ticket purchase to a ttend. Learning from each other\\, especially through trans and queer int ergenerational exchange\\, shouldn’\\;t be gate kept. We’\\;re keeping it free.\\nAs mentioned above\\, this venue will cost our queer i ndie bookstore $800 for the four hours we’\\;ll need for set up\\, d oors\\, show\\, book signing\\, and breakdown.\\nWe’\\;re taking don ations from attendees via the Eventbrite page to help us cover the cost o f the venue. Anything you chip in will make this event free for the entir e community. \\nIf you cannot attend the event\\, but would like to dona te to the venue cost\\, please make a donation through our GoFundMe page. (Do not donate through Eventbrite if you’\\;re not attending\\, bec ause you’\\;ll be taking a seat from someone.)\\nIt’d mean a lot i f we could share this cost so that all of us can share this experience. \ \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\nAbout This Event\\nJoin Susan Stryker and Jack Halberstam at the Bureau for the launch of Susan’\\;s provocat ive\\, genre-bending new book\\, CHANGING GENDER.\\nRSVP TO THIS EVENT\\n That gender is a hotly contested topic becomes ever clearer as antigender ideology continues to be mobilized by the far right and transgender peop le’\\;s lives are increasingly targeted. But what are we talking abo ut when we talk about gender? Where did the concept itself come from\\, a nd where might it go?\\nIn Changing Gender\\, the leading trans scholar Susan Stryker invites readers to ride along on her lifelong quest to un cover what gender means and does. She traces the gender concept’\\;s roots in grammar and tells the story of how it transformed into a battle ground of the culture wars. From the origins of “Yankee Doodle” to ac id trips in Joshua Tree National Park\\, from nineteenth-century phrenolo gy to present-day anti-trans conspiracy theorists\\, Stryker finds surpri sing places to tune in to the origins\\, idiosyncrasies\\, and generative possibilities of the gender concept. Along the way\\, she weaves stories drawn from her lifetime as a pathbreaking historian\\, filmmaker\\, acti vist\\, and founding figure of transgender studies.\\nPoignant and deeply researched\\, lyrical and authoritative\\, Changing Gender is a book f or our fraught time\\, exposing limiting assumptions about gender across the political spectrum and imagining what life might look like if some of those limitations were lifted. Ultimately\\, Stryker argues\\, to change gender is to change what it means to be human—and to change reality it self.\\nAfter the event there will be time for Susan (and Jack) to sign c opies of their respective books\\, which will be available for purchase a t the Bureau.\\n***\\nSusan Stryker’s historical research\\, theoretica l writings\\, media-making\\, activism\\, and academic field-building act ivities have helped shape the conversation on trans issues since the earl y 1990s. Stryker retired from the University of Arizona in 2020 and curre ntly holds a distinguished visiting appointment at Stanford University 217\\;s Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She is the author of many academic and general audience works\\, including Transgender Hi story. She lives in San Francisco.\\nJack Halberstam is the David Feins on Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Female Masculinity (Duke UP\\, 1998)\\ , The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP\\, 2011)\\, and\\, a short book tit led Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University o f California Press) among others. Halberstam’s new book is Anarchitect ure After Everything: A Trans Manifesto\\, which will be published by MIT Press in August 2026. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short fil m titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton. Halberstam was recently nam ed a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-s tates/new-york/events/off-site-at-church-of-the-village-susan-stryker-038 -jack-halberstam-8211-changing-gender-2026-09-21 LOCATION:Bureau of General Services-Queer Division URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/new-york/events/off-site-at-church-of-the-village-susan-stryker-038-jack-halberstam-8211-changing-gender-2026-09-21 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR