Chicago Platypus chapters at The School of the Art Institue of Chicago, University of Chicago, Loyola University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago Platypus
Are We Liberated Yet?

Are We Liberated? The struggles for sexual liberation and women’s rights of the past century leave us with an ambiguous legacy.

How do the failures and successes of these movements inform the present? Recent events such as the passing of Proposition 8 in California and the ongoing repression of women in the Middle East make us wonder, are we more sexually liberated today than 20 or 50 years ago? What does the term “sexual liberation” even mean today? This panel discussion seeks to raise these questions and other new possible considerations for the discourse on sexuality within the Left.

The event will take the form of a moderated panel discussion, followed by an audience Q&A.


Speakers:
Judith Wittner, Professor, Sociology, Loyola University Chicago
Barbara DeGenevieve, Professor, Photography, SAIC
Dr. Yasmin Nair, Gender JUST
Greg Gabrellas, Platypus

Tuesday, October 20
7:00pm
Loyola University Sullivan Center (Galvin Auditorium)
6339 N. Sheridan
Chicago, IL

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What is Platypus?
The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today.