Today's Events | Dana Arts Center, Picker Art Gallery, 2nd Floor
Hundreds of bills targeting trans* individuals are currently making their way through state legislative bodies. These range from bathroom bans to expulsion from sports teams to the denial of healthcare. Amid the increasingly hostile rhetoric and attempts to erase trans* and queer lives, the artists in this exhibition use a variety of media to tell powerful counternarratives about perseverance, vulnerability, and kinship among trans* and queer communities.The exhibition opens with a new live performance connecting art and athletics by Nicki Duval (they/them) and Robbie Trocchia (he/they), featuring figure skater Milk. Films exploring themes of transgender identity, visibility, bodies, and politics by multidisciplinary artist Cassils (he/they) are joined by an installation of exquisite cut-paper portraits by Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them). The works by these leading contemporary artists are complemented by a selection from the Picker collection that underlines the past, present, and future existence and vitality of trans* and queer artists.

Today's Events | Center for Women's Studies
Join us for a Center for Women's Studies Brown Bag Discussion on Post-Katrina Geographies and the African American Novel with Dana Cypress. Cypress is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Colgate University. She completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.In August 2005 Hurricane Katrina landed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, devastating vulnerable communities in Louisiana and Mississippi. Since then, this historic ecological disaster has become an important scene shaping an emerging canon of Black post-Katrina fiction. Contemporary novels by Jesmyn Ward, Kiese Laymon, and T. Geronimo Johnson establish New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a Black critical geography that maps the coming-of-age of millennial protagonists managing an onslaught of interrelated crises that are exacerbated by the hurricane and its aftermath.

Today's Events | Palace Theater
This presentation will examine Dixon's portrayal of the Shakers and the Oneida Community in his books New America and Spiritual Wives. OC leader John Humphrey Noyes took umbrage at Dixon's portrayal, resulting in a lengthy public war of words. For better or worse, Dixon gave each community global exposure, offering Victorians a vicarious opportunity to engage with counter-cultural religious traditions.Presenter: Christian Goodwillie is Director and Curator of Special Collections at the Burke Library of Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. He was Curator of Collections at Hancock Shaker Village from 2001-2009 and has authored, co-authored, or edited twelve books and numerous articles on the Shakers, Freemasonry, and other topics.