Queer Stories of New York
Panelists Callen Zimmerman, Kel R. Karpinski, Colette Denali Montoya-Sloan and Kwame Ocran discuss varying queer stories and history of New York from art and culture to archiving and collecting.
Callen Zimmerman explores intricacies of material culture and queer experience, as a fashion obsessive, educator and maker. Callen teaches Fashion Studies & Art History at City Tech + York College and is currently in the Individualized Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is always working on the intersections of radical pedagogy and artistic practices.
Colette Denali Montoya-Sloan has a demonstrated and ongoing commitment to the preservation of Native American Storytelling and history. A librarian working at Adelphi University’s Manhattan Center and CUNY’s Guttman Community College, she is also a fellow at the Indigenous Digital Archive, a project of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Colette's recent article, “Visual Representations, Liminal Identities, and Archival Homes: Giulia Nazzaro & Colette Montoya-Sloan in Conversation,” appeared in Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas. She is a coordinator of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, where she manages the Spoken Word Project. Colette is a member of the Pueblo of Isleta tribe of American Indians and a descendant of the San Felipe Pueblo. She is a recent member of the Indigenous Womxn’s Collective NYC.
Kel R. Karpinski is a librarian and assistant professor at the NYC College of Technology. They do research in Queer Studies focusing on queer films and novels from WWII to early Gay Liberation in the 1970s, especially as it relates to sailors and hustlers in Times Square and how these texts map queer desire in the city. Kel makes zines on queer sailors, Times Square and films, which you can see here: Hello There Sailor. They are co-organizing the 2019 NY Queer Zine Fair. You can find them on Twitter @kel_karpinski.
Kwame K. Ocran is a young scholar on the rise with burgeoning interests in performance, queer culture, and popular music. A graduate with honors from CUNY Macaulay Honors College, Kwame continued his graduate studies as part of the CUNY Graduate Center's Master's of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS), pursuing research thus far in queer cultural histories, teacherages in urban schooling, and critical university studies. Kwame is a Point Foundation alum, and has recently joined Guttman Community College as a Graduate Coordinator, where he will instruct and mentor first-year students. His obsessions include Judge Judy and Mariah Carey.
Panelists Callen Zimmerman, Kel R. Karpinski, Colette Denali Montoya-Sloan and Kwame Ocran discuss varying queer stories and history of New York from art and culture to archiving and collecting.
Callen Zimmerman explores intricacies of material culture and queer experience, as a fashion obsessive, educator and maker. Callen teaches Fashion Studies & Art History at City Tech + York College and is currently in the Individualized Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is always working on the intersections of radical pedagogy and artistic practices.
Colette Denali Montoya-Sloan has a demonstrated and ongoing commitment to the preservation of Native American Storytelling and history. A librarian working at Adelphi University’s Manhattan Center and CUNY’s Guttman Community College, she is also a fellow at the Indigenous Digital Archive, a project of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Colette's recent article, “Visual Representations, Liminal Identities, and Archival Homes: Giulia Nazzaro & Colette Montoya-Sloan in Conversation,” appeared in Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas. She is a coordinator of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, where she manages the Spoken Word Project. Colette is a member of the Pueblo of Isleta tribe of American Indians and a descendant of the San Felipe Pueblo. She is a recent member of the Indigenous Womxn’s Collective NYC.
Kel R. Karpinski is a librarian and assistant professor at the NYC College of Technology. They do research in Queer Studies focusing on queer films and novels from WWII to early Gay Liberation in the 1970s, especially as it relates to sailors and hustlers in Times Square and how these texts map queer desire in the city. Kel makes zines on queer sailors, Times Square and films, which you can see here: Hello There Sailor. They are co-organizing the 2019 NY Queer Zine Fair. You can find them on Twitter @kel_karpinski.
Kwame K. Ocran is a young scholar on the rise with burgeoning interests in performance, queer culture, and popular music. A graduate with honors from CUNY Macaulay Honors College, Kwame continued his graduate studies as part of the CUNY Graduate Center's Master's of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS), pursuing research thus far in queer cultural histories, teacherages in urban schooling, and critical university studies. Kwame is a Point Foundation alum, and has recently joined Guttman Community College as a Graduate Coordinator, where he will instruct and mentor first-year students. His obsessions include Judge Judy and Mariah Carey.
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