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Applications are due by February 10, 2008.
The Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute is an annual, week-long, residential course that focuses on a conceptual study of sexuality. It examines the links between sexuality, rights, gender, and health and their interface with socio-cultural and legal issues. Participants will critically analyze policy, research and program interventions using a rights-based approach.
Sexuality is a complex
field of study that spans multiple disciplines and areas of work. Accordingly,
the course content of the Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute will focus on
a conceptual and theoretical study of sexuality drawing from different social
science disciplines and the intersections between them. Faculty members from the global South and the
q Sexuality, gender and rights
q Sexuality, gender and legal systems
q Sexual and reproductive health and rights
q Agency and victimhood
q Representation of sexuality
q Sexual diversities and rights
q Sexuality and disabilities
q Case studies of program interventions
Organizer
Founded in the year 2000
in
The first Sexuality,
Gender and Rights Institute was held from February 2 – 9, 2007 in New
Participants
Individuals working on issues of sexuality, rights, health or gender are eligible to apply. Twenty-four participants will be selected based on their application forms. Participants are required to stay for the duration of the course. (See attached application form)
Costs
All participants
are required to pay a Registration Fee of USD 150. The total cost per
participant for the course (inclusive of tuition, boarding and lodging) is USD
2750. Please note that this a subsidized cost for participation. All participants must cover their own travel
costs. A limited number of full and
partial scholarships are available on a need basis. Priority
will be given to individuals who are interested in working on issues of
sexuality and are working in small, community-based, domestic
Venue
The Sexuality, Gender and
Rights Institute will be held at Mohonk Mountain House in New
Participating Faculty
Amber Hollibaugh, Senior Strategist for the
National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce, is an activist, artist, public intellectual
and community organizer working on sexuality and gender issues. She previously
worked at SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders), Gay Men’s Health Crisis,
and the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Amber won awards for her book
My Dangerous Desires – A Queer Girl Dreaming Her
Way Home (2002) and documentary film on women’s sexuality and
HIV/AIDS, The Heart Of The Matter (1994).
Cynthia Rothschild is Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. A sexuality activist, trainer and former Board member of Amnesty International USA, she has worked with UNIFEM and various NGOs on gender and human rights. Cynthia authored Written Out: How Sexuality is Used to Attack Women’s Organizing and “Abstinence Goes Global: The United States, the Right Wing, and Human Rights;” and co-authored Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS and Amnesty International’s Crimes of Hate, Conspiracy of Silence: Torture and Ill-Treatment Based on Sexual Identity.
Geetanjali Misra
is a co-Founder and Executive Director of CREA and co-Director of the Sexuality
and Rights Institute in
Joo-Hyun Kang is a consultant, trainer and activist whose work has been primarily in the areas of racial/gender justice, anti-police/state violence, and LGBTST liberation. Her current political work is as a member of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities. She served as Director of Programs through 2007 at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Previously, she was Executive Director of The Audre Lorde Project, an organizing center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit and Transgender People of Color communities.
Lynn P. Freedman
is Director of the Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program and Professor
of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health
at
Meena Seshu is
the general secretary of SANGRAM, an organization that works on sex workers
rights and people living with HIV/AIDS. SANGRAM’s Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and
Marginalisation (CASAM) advocates for the reduction of stigma, violence
and harassment of marginalized communities, especially those who have
challenged dominant norms. In 2002, Meena was awarded the Human Rights Defender
Award from Human Rights Watch. She is on the faculty of the Sexuality and
Rights Institute in
Pardis
Mahdavi, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at
Radhika
Chandiramani is
Founder and Executive Director of TARSHI (Talking about Reproductive and
Sexual Health Issues), Director of the
South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality and co-Director of
the Sexuality and Rights Institute in
Shohini Ghosh,
Ph.D. is Dr. Zakir Hussain Professor at the
AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia (
Svati P. Shah, Ph.D. is a Visiting Assistant Professor in
Women’s Studies at
Contact Person: Sushma Luthra; E-mail: sluthra@creaworld.org; Website: www.creaworld.org
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