December 2024

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Mock Stonewall Award Workshop

Thursday, January 30, 2025
10am to 12pm
Virtual

Please join us on Thursday, January 30 at 10am for our annual Mock Stonewall! We’ve picked 8 great books that we hope you’ll enjoy talking about and at the end of the meeting we’ll decide which ones we think deserve the coveted Mock Stonewall Award. To register, please click the link in the attached pdf. CEUs will be given out after completing the program. Because this is virtual, snacks will not be provided, but feel free to bring your own coffee! Registrants will be sent a zoom link as we draw closer to the meeting date.

Thank you and hope you have a wonderful holiday and a happy new year!

Cheers,

Kaye

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: ARE THERE LIMITS? A LOOK AT TRANSGRESSIVE ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKS

January 8, 2025
1-2pm
via Zoom

Presented by the SCLA Intellectual Freedom Committee and the Long Island Library Resources Council

This presentation will explore the limits of freedom of expression by looking at the works of several

“transgressive” artists. Does their work have socially redeeming value or are these artists purposely

prurient, shocking, and socially subversive? Who gets to decide whether these artists are given a platform or are cancelled?

Presenter: William Burns is a professor of English at Suffolk County Community College. His research
interests include transgressive art, alternative cultural movements, and post-modernism.

Register here:

https://lilrc.org/event/FreedomofExpressionandTransgressiveSpeech