CSI’s LGBTQ Resource Center invites the campus to celebrate our LGBTQ+ graduates on Tuesday, May 27 in the Campus Center (Building 1C) Green Dolphin Lounge at 4:00pm.
Anyone wishing to attend in support of our graduates can also register at the link above. Please help us spread the word to LGBTQ+ grads.
LGBTQ+ graduates receiving any degree or completing any program are invited to join.
Graduates and guests can register online.
The Keynote Speaker will be Jean Halley, Professor of Sociology.
Jean Halley teaches at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY). She earned her Doctorate in Sociology at The Graduate Center/CUNY and her Master’s degree in Theology at Harvard University. Her book about touching children, breastfeeding, children’s sleep, gender, and heteronormativity, Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy was published in 2007. She also assisted Patricia Ticineto Clough in editing The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (2007), and co-authored with Amy Eshleman and Ramya Vijaya, Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race (2011; second edition 2022). Her book, The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets, a combination of memoir and social history of cattle ranching in the United States, came out in 2012. She and Amy Eshleman published Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege on gender and heteronormativity in 2017. Halley’s book, Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses, came out with University of Georgia Press in 2019. Finally, she co-authored with Ron Nerio The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa’s Community of Migrants, which came out with Fordham University Press in 2022. Halley and her horse, Snipaway, grew up in the rural Rocky Mountains. She now lives in New York City with a couple of humans, one pitbull, and one bossy dachshund.
Congratulations to all of CSI’s amazing graduates.
If you have any questions, please contact Jeremiah Jurkiewicz at Jeremiah.Jurkiewicz@csi.cuny.edu.
By Jeremiah Jurkiewicz (he/him/his)
