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Queering the Sciences: Let's Talk About Intersex

short film, LGBTQ, queer, intersex, biology, anthropology, Arisleyda Dilone, culture, sociology, humanities

Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and the LGBTQ Center present:
Queering the Sciences

Bringing cutting-edge scholarship in the humanities out of the classroom and into the public

Filmmaker Arisleyda Dilone will present on the varied cultural approaches to intersexuality in the United States versus the Dominican Republic, based on her research interviews with with endocrinologists, sociologists and anthropologists in both countries. Dilone addresses intersex issues through her personal journeys dealing with her body, her life and her family. The lecture will be preceded by a screening of her recent short film, Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito (Mom and Me and My Little Rooster).

The series is funded in part by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
Program partners include the Department of Anthropology, MSU ; the Department of Biology, MSU; and PFLAG of North Jersey.

For more information, please visit: https://queeringthesciences.wordpress.com/

LOCATION/DATE/TIME

St. John’s Episcopal Church 55 Montclair Ave, Montclair, New Jersey 07042

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Thursday February 11th, 7 pm-9 pm

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