CLAGS x MOMA Writing Club
Mon, June 10, 6:00 p.m. in-person at MoMA
Tue, June 11, 6:00 p.m. ET Online via Zoom
Join us for a special Pride Month edition of Writing Club, a collaboration between CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) and MoMA. This Writing Club is an opportunity to build community among people invested in queer and trans perspectives, art, methods, and liberation. The same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once online via Zoom.
Amber Jamilla Musser facilitates this special Pride Month edition of Writing Club, on the theme of queer intimacies, making connections with artworks by Kerry James Marshall and Nari Ward that are currently on view in the exhibition History into Being. Inspired by themes drawn from Musser’s most recent book, Between Shadows and Noise (2024), we’ll explore the queerness of submerged histories, sensory exploration, and intimacies.
Registration
Register here for Pride Writing Club at MoMA on Monday, June 10, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. ET (in-person at MoMA)
Register here for Pride Writing Club at Home on Tuesday, June 11, from 6:00-7:15 p.m. ET (online via Zoom)
This collaboration between CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) and MoMA is intended to open ways of building queer communities and celebrating Pride Month. Please register for the session that is most accessible to you.
Amber Jamilla Musser is professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on queer studies, Black feminisms, and visual culture. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (2024). In addition to her academic writing, she has essays in various exhibition catalogues and writes art criticism for the Brooklyn Rail.
Accessibility: American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and CART captioning are available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact adultprograms@moma.org to make a request for these accommodations.
With gratitude,
CLAGS x MoMA Writing Club Team
Questions? Email us at adultprograms@moma.org.
Kerry James Marshall. Study for Blue Water, Silver Moon. 1991. Conté crayon and acrylic on paper. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased with General Acquisitions Funds and funds provided by The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art. © 2024 Kerry James Marshall
