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Thank you for your interest in our recent web conference, Masculinity, Sex, and Hip-Hop with Shira Tarrant and Byron Hurt held on December 7, 2009. The following materials from that web conference are now available:
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Shira Tarrant, PhD Shira Tarrant is an expert in gender politics, feminism, pop culture, and masculinity. She is the author of the books Men and Feminism and When Sex Became Gender, and editor of the provocative anthology Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power. Her co-edited anthology, Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style, will be out next year (SUNY Press). She is currently at work on her next book, Pleasure and Peril: Questions About Sex in the Bed and Beyond. Shira Tarrant’s writing has appeared in Bitch, Ms. Magazine, off our backs, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Genre magazine, Huffington Post, and The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism. Shira Tarrant is the column editor for “The Man Files” at the popular blog Girl With Pen. She is a frequent invited speaker at college campuses and other public venues, and is quoted widely in print, television, radio and online media. She has a PhD in political science from UCLA and teaches in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach. |
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Byron Hurt Byron Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, a published writer, and an anti-sexist activist. His most recent documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. To date, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes has been selected to appear in more than 50 film festivals worldwide and The Chicago Tribune named it "one of the best documentary films in 2007." His first film, I AM A MAN: Black Masculinity in America, is a 60-minute award-winning documentary that captures the thoughts and feelings of African-American men and women from over fifteen cities across the country. His short documentary Barack and Curtis: Manhood, Power, and Respect is available on YouTube. He is currently working on his next documentary, Soul Food Junkies. As a writer, Byron has essays or interviews published in Michael Eric Dyson's Know What I Mean: Reflections on Hip-Hop with Intro by Jay-Z, Outro by Nas; in Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power, edited by Shira Tarrant; Sport in Society: Equal Opportunity or Business as Usual? by Richard Lapchick; Be a Father to Your Child: Real Talk from Black Men on Family, Love, and Fatherhood, edited by April R. Silver; and The Black Male Handbook, edited by Kevin Powell. Hurt has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Source Magazine, Vibe Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Mother Jones, Entertainment Weekly, Variety Magazine, allhiphop.com, and vibe.com. |
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