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Gertrude Stein’s male subjectivity, androgyny in Navaho culture, Jean Genet’s interaction with the Black Panther Party, and gay telephone party lines will be some of the topics at today’s Gender (does not equal) Sexuality: A Symposium on Other Sexualities and the Arts at Northwestern University. Sponsored by Northwestern’s Committee for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, the symposium will feature lectures, video and slide shows, and live performances by academic theorists and performance artists. It’s scheduled for 10 AM to 10 PM at Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan in Evanston; admission is free. Call 743-1669.
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The effect of the Jewish vote in the recent elections has been much discussed, but former Fifth Ward alderman Leon M. Despres’ talk Jews in Chicago Politics, 1920- promises insights into issues overlooked by run-of-the-mill commentators. A practicing Chicago attorney since 1929, Despres was Mayor Richard J. Daley’s principal (and sometimes sole) critic. The lecture, sponsored by the Chicago Jewish Historical Society, is free and begins at 2 at Congregation B’nai Zion, 6759 N. Greenview. For more information call 263-0005.
In Woman on the Edge of Time and her other novels and poetry collections, Marge Piercy combines a feminist social viewpoint with an emotionally charged dramatic sense that separates her writing from that of many other feminists. She will speak tonight as part of “The Engaged Artist: The Arts and Social Change,” a lecture series sponsored by DePaul University. Her free talk begins at 7 at the Schmitt Academic Center, 2323 N. Seminary. Call 341-8246.
Poet, playwright, and short-story writer Angela Jackson was born in Mississippi but grew up on the south side. She draws on both in her work, about which she’ll talk at 12:15 in the theater of the Public Library Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington. The free event is part of the library’s “Writers in Conversation” series. More information is available at 269-2880.
