Transatlantic Thursdays - Where We Stand: LGBTQI+ Rights
Channel: AmbasciataUSA
Date: 2021-05-20

Please join us for a conversation with

Chai Feldblum

Where We Stand: LGBTQI+ Rights

Chai Feldblum (she/ is a long time civil rights advocate and scholar, specializing in issues regarding LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities and women. She was a law professor at Georgetown Law in Washington DC for many years, helping non profit organizations advance their legislative social justice
goals through a Federal Legislation Clinic staffed by law students Chai was the lead drafter of the Americans with Disabilities Act and, as a Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, spearheaded coverage of LGBT people under sex discrimination law Chai is now a free lance civil rights advocate and advisor.

Vincenzo Bavaro (he/him) teaches American Literature at the University of
Naples “ and is a former Fulbright Scholar at Tulane University in New
Orleans His research interests include African American literature, LGBTQ history.
He has recently published a volume on sexual subcultures in New York in the
1970 s, was the co editor of a special issue of the journal Acoma on “Queer
Families”.

Alexander Schuster (he/him is Researcher in Law at the University of Innsbruck,
Austria As a practicing lawyer he argued the most relevant Italian cases concerning reproductive medicine and LGBTQI* rights the marriage equality case before the Constitutional Court in 2010 the recent surrogacy cases before the Supreme Court and the case leading to the Oliari v Italy judgment by the European Court of Human Rights.

Carmen Ferrara (they/them) is a queer activist from Naples, and part of Antinoo Arcigay Napoli board. They are PhD student in Mind, Gender and Language at University of Naples Federico II as well as a junior researcher in GenPol Gender Policy Insights Carmen's main interests are researching and advocacy for social justice.

the program will be in English/ il programma sarà tradotto in italiano sulla pagina YouTube dell’Ambasciata youtube.com/AmbasciataUSA