Counterpublic

Counterpublic Proud participant in the consciousness-raising revolution. Get into it. Feel free to post content of relevance to q***r lives (events, job opportunities, etc.)

Counterpublic NYC provides peer education and community resources to its members of q***r identities without cost. on our google group ([email protected]) and utilize our page to discuss q***r perspectives on current events, social trends and academia with other members. Counterpublic Code:

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is, t

o change it.” - Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach

"It is essential to destroy the widespread prejudice that philosophy is a strange and difficult thing just because it is the specific intellectual activity of a particular category of specialists or of professional and systematic philosophers." - Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks

"We can turn to the etymology of the word 'q***r,' which comes from the Indo-European word 'twist.' Q***r is, after all, a spatial term, which then gets translated into a sexual term, a term for a twisted sexuality that does not follow a 'straight line,' a sexuality that is bent and crooked." - Sara Ahmed, Q***r Phenomenology

"Recognizing the limits of current conceptions of q***r identities and q***r politics, I am interested in examining the concept of 'q***r' in order to think about how we might construct a new political identity that is truly liberating, transformative, and inclusive of all those who stand on the outside of the dominant constructed norm of state-sanctioned white middle- and upper-class heterosexuality." - Cathy Cohen, Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Q***r Politics? "By q***r culture we mean a world-making project, where world, like public, differs from community or group because it necessarily include more people than can be identified, more space than can be mapped beyond a few reference points, modes of feeling that can be learned rather than experienced as birthright. The q***r world is a space of entrances, exits, unsystematized lines of acquaintance, projected horizons, typifying examples, alternate routes, blockages, incommensurate geographies." - Michael Warner and Lauren Berlant, S*x in Public

"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together." - Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970's Counterpublic NYC is a virtual workgroup of global q***r communities that exists in a potential space. Counterpublic actualizes one night each month with the exception of summer when it gathers weekly for nine consecutive sessions for its annual summer intensive, currently in NYC. Our workgroups act as a forum to re-imagine the production of knowledge into an emergence of social agency; we accomplish this task by exploring academic works in the context of current social problems and those organizations that strive to create change. Please contact us for support on how you can actualize Counterpublic in your hometown.

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New York, NY
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[email protected]

Products

Winter 2009
-1st Annual Coat/Clothing Drive for Homeless LGBTQI Youth to Benefit the Ali Forney Center

Spring 2010
- Best Clinical Practices and Policies for S*x Worker Populations
- Bias Crimes and Police Violence: Clinical and Community Responses for LGBTQ People of Color

Summer 2010
-Q***r Theory/Q***r of Color Critique Summer Intensive Workgroup

Fall 2010
-Film Screening: Starrbooty
-Love and Unhappiness (Or: How I Learned to Love the Q***r and Kill the Shame)
- OUT in the Social Work Profession
-Happy Object Relations
-Feast of the Misfits, Orphans, and Q***rs

Winter 2010
-2nd Annual Coat/Clothing Drive for Homeless LGBTQI Youth to Benefit MCCNY's Sylvia's Place
-Subaltern Subjects Seeking Imperialist Protection
-Co-sponsor of 2010 International Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers
-Spreading Christmas Q***r

Spring 2011
-Crossing the Line: S*xual Violence in Q***r Communities
-Biopower and Birth Control: Q***ring the Racialization of Reproductive Rights
-Co-sponsor of the 2011 Safe Neighborhood Summit
-Pink Dollar Monsters: Why Q***rs Are Gaggin' at GaGa and Glee
-How to Facilitate a Consciousness-Raising Workshop
-Co-sponsor of The World We Want is the World We Need

Summer 2011
-Q***r Social Theory Summer Intensive Workgroup
-They Say Austerity, We Say Solidarity! 33rd Annual Intro to Marx Intensive
-Endorser for the 1st Annual Bed-Stuy Pride 2011
-Know Your City: Redrawing District Lines in Communities of Color

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