Join us for a special Pride edition of Writing Club, a collaboration between CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) and MoMA. This Writing Club is an opportunity to build community among people invested in queer and trans perspectives, art, methods, and liberation. The same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once online via Zoom.
Amber Jamilla Musser facilitates this special Pride Month edition of Writing Club, on the theme of queer intimacies, making connections with artworks by Kerry James Marshall and Nari Ward that are currently on view in the exhibition History into Being. Inspired by themes drawn from Musser’s most recent book, Between Shadows and Noise (2024), we’ll explore the queerness of submerged histories, sensory exploration, and intimacies. This workshop takes place in person at MoMA.
Registration
Register for CLAGS Pride Writing Club at MoMA on Queer Intimacies
This collaboration between CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) and MoMA is intended to open ways of building queer communities and celebrating Pride. The second session takes place on Tue, July 30 at 6:00 p.m. ET online via Zoom. If the online event is more accessible for you, please register for that session.
Amber Jamilla Musser is professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on queer studies, Black feminisms, and visual culture. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (2024). In addition to her academic writing, she has essays in various exhibition catalogues and writes art criticism for the Brooklyn Rail.
Founded in 1991 as the first university-based LGBTQIA+ research center in the United States, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies nurtures interdisciplinary, cutting-edge knowledge production in queer and trans studies. At CLAGS, we strive for an intersectional definition of “queer” and commit to merging issues of sexuality and gender with race, indigeneity, class, disability, nationality, colonialism, environmental justice, and globalization. CLAGS is dedicated to maintaining a broad program of public events and online projects for examining and affirming LGBTQIA+ lives through accessible public programming, fellowships, and initiatives that join academics, artists, activists, policy makers, and community members in dialogue and conversation. We are committed to radical visions of a queer past, present, and future—within and beyond CUNY and on the national/global level. CLAGS makes its home at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Writing Club, an ongoing program at MoMA, is part of the Museum’s Artful Practices for Well-Being initiative, which offers ideas for connectedness and healing through art. At each Writing Club, a guest writer introduces different works of art and offers a series of creative prompts. The intention is to offer a calm, supportive, and welcoming environment for anyone interested in generating new writing in the company of visual art and a fellowship of writers.
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