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Kand McQueen
LZ Granderson
Rose Troche |
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This lecture is included in registration or purchase a one-night Friday pass (begins at 7 p.m., includes Opening Remarks, Keynote 1 Kand McQueen and Queer Riot!) for $25 at the IU Box Office or Ticketmaster.
Kand holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Inquiry Methodology and currently teaches statistics in the College of Education at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Kand's research interests include assessing attitudes toward the atypically gendered and deconstructing the two-and-only-two sex/two gender paradigm . Kand has conducted presentations and workshops concerning gender identity and transgenderism at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) at Chicago, Illinois, Come Together Kentucky Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Conference at Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Translating Identity Conference at Burlington, Vermont, the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) at Pheasant Run, Illinois, the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia, for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in Indianapolis, Indiana, and at the Indiana University Incidents Team Retreat at Bloomington, Indiana. |
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This lecture is included in registration or purchase a one-night Saturday pass (begins at 6:15 p.m., includes Keynote 2 LZ Granderson and The Kinsey Sicks) for $25 at the IU Box Office or Ticketmaster.
LZ Granderson is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com, as well as a regular contributor for ESPN's Sports Center, Outside the Lines and First Take. Perhaps the most visible openly gay sports journalist in the nation, Mr. Granderson broke the Sheryl Swoopes coming out story in 2005 and has been at the fore of the gays in sports discussion for much of his 13-year career, ruffling the feathers of liberals and conservatives alike with his matter-of-fact approach to that and other subjects.
But Mr. Granderson did not grow to become one of the most popular columnists for ESPN by being a one trick pony. The one time Detroit gang member has tackled other pivotal topics such as race, gender and politics. While other sports columnists may focus on how the game is played, Mr. Granderson focuses on who is playing the game, and who is watching them. LZ has interviewed sports greats including Terrell Owens, Roger Federer, and David Beckham.
Prior to joining ESPN first as a magazine editor and later as a writer, Mr. Granderson was a sports columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Mr. Granderson also served on the board for the National Lesbian Gay Journalist Association and was a Columbia University Hechinger Institute Fellow. He won first place in the opinion writing category for the 2008 Excellence in Journalism awards given by the National Lesbian Gay Journalist Association for his article stemming out of his experiencing anti-gay slurs in New Orleans during NBA All-Star Weekend.
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This lecture is included in registration or purchase a Sunday morning pass (begins at 10 a.m., includes Keynote 3 Rose Troche and Closing Remarks) for $10 at the IU Box Office or Ticketmaster.
Rose Troche is an award winning writer, director, producer of both film and television. Her first feature, Go Fish (1994) was released to wide acclaim and has become a seminal film in the history of queer cinema. Bedrooms and Hallways (1998) followed, receiving the audience award at the prestigious London Film Festival. 2003 saw the release of Troche’s third feature, The Safety of Objects, which received stellar reviews and went on to open the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and win best feature and best actress (Patricia Clarkson) at the Deuville Film Festival. In 2004 Troche completed the pilot for Showtime’s The L Word and went on to direct, write and produce for the show’s six seasons. Troche also directed the pilot for the popular teen series, South of Nowhere and has gone on to direct several episodes. Most recently Troche completed an episode of the award winning series, Ugly Betty.
Currently Troche is casting her fourth feature, Potential, based on Ariel Schrag’s graphic novel, and has completed an original script for production in 2009/10 entitled, Maddy Tadeau Is In Love.
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