SARAH SCHULMAN: GENTRIFICATION OF THE MIND

As part of Dixon Place's "thirtynothing" event series, lesbian writer and activist Sarah Schulman will read from her forthcoming book, "Gentrification of the Mind," about the effect of gentrification and AIDS on the NYC cultural landscape. The reading will be followed by a public conversation between Sarah and scholar Christina Hanhardt, whose work focuses on queer urban politics. This event series accompanies a four-week run of Dan Fishback's new multi-media solo performance, "thirtynothing." The show explores the lives and work of gay artists who have died of AIDS, in an attempt to gain a greater understanding of the queer past, and the place of younger generations in queer history. For more information about "thirtynothing" and related programs, go here: http://dixonplace.org/html/DanFishback_Oct11.html $5 suggested donation SARAH SCHULMAN Sarah Schulman is the author of fifteen books: the novels The Mere Future, The Child, Rat Bohemia, Shimmer, Empathy, After Delores, People In Trouble, Girls Visions and Everything, and The Sophie Horowitz Story, the nonfiction works The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness To a Lost Imagination, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America and My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years, and the plays Mercy and Carson McCullers. She is co-author with Cheryl Dunye of the movies The Owls and Mommy is Coming, and co-producer with Jim Hubbard of the feature United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. She is co-director of the ACT UP Oral History Project . Her awards include the 2009 Kessler Award for "Sustained Contribution to LGBT Studies" from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and two American Library Association Book Awards, and she was a Finalist for the Prix de Rome. She lives in New York, where she is Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York (College of Staten Island) and a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. CHRISTINA HANHARDT Christina B. Hanhardt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is also a core faculty member of the LGBT Studies Program. Her book manuscript, Safe Space: The Sexual and City Politics of Violence, is under contract with Duke University Press. Safe Space explores the relationship between LGBT activism against violence and the race- and class-stratified U.S. city since the 1960s. A piece of this research was published in Radical History Review (Winter 2008). Hanhardts research has been supported by sources that include the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University, the Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grant at Kroch Library of Cornell University, and the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council with funds provided by the Ford Foundation, among others. She has also produced radio and independent video documentaries.