Screaming Queens
Posted on | February 27, 2006 |
As Margaret Cho remarked last year, it is Queensland after all, so if you’re in Brisbane tomorrow, come along to this. I’m about to go have dinner with the director, and I’m rather very extremely excited…
(Great too that this is being held at the Schonell, which is rumoured to be under some threat of closure with the glorious VSU revolution upon us.)
The Centre for the History of European Discourses is pleased to announce the first of its public events for 2006.
Susan Stryker, internationally recognised for her work in queer and transgender studies, will present an advance screening of her documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria.
This free screening will be held at 6pm on February 28, at the Schonell Cinema, University of Queensland. Please note: doors will open at 5.50, and the film itself will begin at 6pm. The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with the director. An online map of the venue is available at: http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/?menu=1&id=11
Members of the public are invited to attend this free public screening. Please RSVP to Elizabeth Stephens by email at e.stephens@uq.edu.au or by phone on (07) 3346 9493.
For further details, please scroll down or visit the CHED website:
http://ched.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=39003About the documentary
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria tells a forgotten San Francisco story of dramatic social change from the compelling perspective of firsthand participants. Taking place three years before the Stonewall riots in New York, the Compton’s Cafeteria riot, Stryker reveals, was a dramatic turning point in a decades-long process of transgender community formation and political mobilization in San Francisco, a process that involved dramatic changes in medical practices, urban politics, neighbourhood geography and public consciousness. The documentary demonstrates the connection between transgender activism and the larger social upheavals affecting the United States in the 1960s: the civil rights and sexual liberation movements, the youth counterculture, urban renewal, and Great Society antipoverty programs. Further, Screaming Queens explores the reverberations, both large and small, of the rise of transgender activism, a story in which the riot at Compton’s Cafeteria plays a pivotal role. The film shows how in just two short years transgender activism helped transform San Francisco culture in subtle and profound ways and presents reflective comments from the Compton’s Cafeteria subjects who bravely ushered in a controversial revolution that continues today.About the presenter
Susan Stryker recently returned to the United States after holding a Visiting Scholar appointment in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Between 1999 and 2004, Stryker served as executive director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. She earned a Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of California, Berkeley, and later held a postdoctoral fellowship in sexuality studies at Stanford University. A popular public speaker and prolific writer, Stryker is author of The Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge, forthcoming); Queer Pulp (Chronicle, 2001); the transgender studies special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke, 1998); Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle, 1996); and numerous articles. She was featured in Monika Treut’s film Gendernauts (1999) and was scenarist and scriptwriter for Brandon, Shu Lea Cheang’s online multimedia installation examining gender, embodiment, violence, and media at the SoHo Guggenheim (1998-1999).
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February 27th, 2006 @ 8:32 pm
i’m definitely going tomorrow night - how was dinner?
February 28th, 2006 @ 3:42 pm
it was at gerties. i knew i was in trouble when the cocktail list was longer than the menu! i was v disciplined and got a good night’s sleep before class, altho as alan noted, i won’t be much of an academic if i can’t handle a martini the night before a midday lecture. heh.
February 28th, 2006 @ 3:47 pm
meanwhile you were kindly changing my title image… thanks again jean!
February 28th, 2006 @ 4:04 pm
alan is absolutely right on that score