Shame on You?

Theorising shame, pride and community in contemporary culture

Image of man with rainbow bag on his head (photographer Christa Holka)

When: 09 Feb 2018, 10am to 7pm
Where: Banqueting Hall Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, SW1P 4JU
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With shame still being used as a means of excluding groups on the basis of sexual identities, this event will explore the experiences of those that are marginalized and the ways in which excluded groups are using shame as a way of carving out new positive identities. With a focus of issues of gender, class, and pan-sexuality.

Speakers

Rose Boyt - Novelist

Stephanie Bird - Professor of German Studies, UCL SELCS

Susie Orbach – British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst writer and social critic.

Matthew Todd – editor of Attitude Magazine and writer of ‘Straightjacket; How to grow up happy and gay’.

Dr Ford Hickson – The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases who researches patterns of sex between men, particularly in relation to HIV infection.

Dr Dominic Johnson – Reader in Performance and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University.

Victoria Sin – Artist and gender fluid advocate