Some Upcoming Non-GWN Events:
1) Rainbow Riverfest: An All-Day Queer Music and Art Festival 11am-7pm Saturday 9/24/11 Holyoke, MA
2) Nailing the Immigrant Body: The Manicure as Embodied Labor and Resistance (A Talk By Professor Miliann Kang) 12-1:30pm Wednesday 9/28/11 Bartlett 316
Additional Details:
Rainbow Riverfest: An All-Day Queer Music and Art Festival
This Saturday, 11 a.m.- 7 p.m.
Holyoke Canoe Club (Route 5, Holyoke)
Co-sponsored by the Stonewall Center. Free to those 20 and under.
The Rainbow RiverFest combines music, performances, art, games, a youth tent, educational workshops, demonstrations and the Zen Zone, a healing place for body, mind and spirit. Pop diva Crystal Waters is the headline performer. Other performers include legendary women’s music icon Alix Dobkin, Comedian Amy Tee, MAOR, Sister Funk, M3cedes Diaz, Sara Grace, Loco Ninja, Who da Funk It, and more.
The festival also includes a Youth Tent, a safe and welcoming space for young people ages 12- 22, with workshops addressing their needs and interests, as well as activities like the Graffiti Wall Art Project. Many of the RiverFest performers will tell their personal coming out stories and answer questions candidly in the Youth Tent.
For more information or to purchase tickets, go to:
www.RainbowRiverFest.org <http://www.RainbowRiverFest.org> or call 413-588-1018.
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JOIN the faculty and affiliated faculty of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies for the first presentation of our
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS talk series
MILIANN KANG
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
12:00-1:30PM
Bartlett 316
Nailing the Immigrant Body: The Manicure as Embodied Labor and Resistance
In her book, The Managed Hand: Race, Gender and the Body in Beauty Service Work (University of California Press, 2010), Miliann Kang examined the dynamics of “body labor” in intimate bodily and emotional contact between women of different racial and immigrant statuses in Asian-owned nail salons. In this talk, Kang explores new theoretical dimensions of body labor, such as body rules (drawing on Arlie Hochschild’s concept of “feeling rules” in emotional labor), the manicuring of “docile bodies” (building on Foucault’s work on disciplinary technologies of the body) and dynamics of embodied assimilation and embodied resistance. She situates this work within the current drive to pathologize, denigrate and deport immigrant bodies, and discusses how greater attention to embodied processes can inform organizing campaigns to resist this anti-immigrant backlash.
Bio:
Miliann Kang is associate professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she is also affiliated faculty in Sociology and Asian/Asian American Studies. Her book, The Managed Hand: Race, Gender and the Body in Beauty Service Work (2010, University of California Press) won the Sara Whaley book prize from the National Women’s Studies Association, the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award (American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class), the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award(American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities), and the Distinguished Book Award (American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender). Kang is currently researching work-family issues and the racial politics of mothering for Asian American women. Her research has been supported by the American Association of University Women, the Ford Foundation, the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass Boston, the Labor Relations and Research Center at UMass Amherst and the Social Science Research Council.