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URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/spring-2025-sciame-le
 cture-series-jack-jen-gieseking/
SUMMARY:Spring 2025 Sciame Lecture Series: Jack Jen Gieseking
DESCRIPTION:This in-person lecture is part of the Spring 2025 Sciame Lectur
 e Series\, "Still Making Space for Gender."\n\nJack Jen Gieseking (they/he
 ) is a cultural geographer and environmental psychologist who writes about
  lesbian\, queer\, bisexual\, and trans spaces\, both physical and online.
  Their first monograph is A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians\, Dyke
 s\, and Queers (NYU Press\, 2020). He is working on their next book\, Wher
 e Shall We Meet to Plan the Revolution?: Dyke Bars* for the End Times\, an
 d analyzing the national survey of LBQT*S online dating app experiences at
  https://linktr.ee/lbqtsdating. They can be found at jgieseking.org.\n\n"L
 esbian Bars/Queer Parties: On How We Can Never Afford Them and Why We Need
  Them Anyway": When there were only 16 lesbian+ bars left in the United St
 ates in 2019 and only a handful spread throughout the rest of the world\, 
 the mainstream media began to amplify a lesbian bar extinction narrative. 
 But what the dyke bar* was and is—the unique and important role to lesbi
 an bars and queer parties to LBQT*S people and in US cultural geographies
 —remains to be written beyond a narrative that Mairead Sullivan calls "l
 esbian death." This talk is part of my larger book project\, Dyke Bars*: Q
 ueer Spaces for the Ends Times\, which asks: Why do we care that so few of
  these spaces exist now\, why does their physical design captive in past a
 nd present\, and why are dyke bars* still necessary in an ever-more digita
 l world? What can an analysis of lesbian bar death\, disappearance\, and r
 eappearance political economy reveal that these mainstream narratives obsc
 ure? And\, more so\, what of the lesbian and straight\, trans and cis obse
 ssions alike over such spaces?\n\nSuggested Reading: Gieseking\, Jack Jen.
  2020. A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians\, Dykes\, and Queers.\n\n
 "Still Making Space for Gender" centers women and LGBTQIA+ folk in the bu
 ilt environment. While the discourse framing gender morphs and gender iden
 tities broaden and become more intersectional\, the predicament remains th
 e same. Women and LGBTQIA+folk continue to struggle against exploitation a
 nd fight for equal rights and equity opportunities in the United States\, 
 with this situation troubling unrelenting claims of exceptionalism at home
  and abroad. Although gender politics are ever present\, achievements are 
 hard-won and sometimes rolled back in the face of misogyny\, homophobia\, 
 transphobia\, and other ingrained expressions of exclusion. Buildings\, ci
 ties\, and landscapes are not only where battles over gender unfurl\, but 
 these spaces also foster identities and incite change. In this lecture ser
 ies\, trailblazing women and LGBTQIA + design practitioners\, scholars\, a
 nd activists—working in architecture\, landscape architecture\, and urba
 n design—insist that gender must remain in sharp focus if we are to shap
 e equitable and just built environments.\n\nAll lectures are free\, open t
 o the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architec
 ture Sciame Auditorium. For live captioning\, ASL interpretation\, or acce
 ss requests\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu.\n\nThis lecture series
  is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous suppor
 t of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction.
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures
LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\
 , 10031\, United States
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