Making Spaces: Lesbians Imagining and Building Community in Chicago
March 26, 2024
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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As LGBT communities in the U.S. shift and change in how they organize for political and social visibility, there has been a less visible but no less pertinent conversation about the decline in spaces intended to foster community among lesbians and queer women. What can we learn from how different groups of women in Chicago have organized around identities and material circumstances in the recent past? In the contemporary moment? For whom are such communities still meaningful or fraught with questions about belonging? Where are we now, and where do we go from here?
This panel explores what happens when lesbians in Chicago decide to come together to build something - a team, an organization, a movement, an intervention - the joys and the challenges in sustaining them, and the ways lesbians have helped us develop tools for constructing a more livable city and world.
Register at https://wlrc.uic.edu/events/making-spaces/.
For more information, contact Natalie Bennett, ndab1@uic.edu
Date posted
Mar 22, 2024
Date updated
Mar 22, 2024