With New York Fashion Week just around the corner, the Great Neck Library is inviting community members to take a look at fashion and gender identity throughout history with presenter Roger Rosen.
Rosen will be leading a lecture titled “GENDER REVEAL: Exploring Connections Between Gender and Fashion.”
Clothes are the most highly public, yet intimate declarations of our identities. Perhaps most profoundly, clothes tell the story of our gender.
This program will explore how our culture worships hyperfemininity, as in celebrities like Kim Kardashian, and hypermasculinity, like The Rock, while beginning to embrace non-binary identities and expressions, like celebrities Janelle Monáe and Sam Smith.
Exploring how clothes uphold or transgress gender boundaries, we’ll look through history and across cultures to examine the impact of laws, trade, marketing, and other factors on fashion and our perception of gender.
Roger Rosen is a teacher, artist, performer, writer, activist, and husband.
He began studying Queer Theory on the playground in the third grade, when he was more drawn to skipping rope than to chasing a soccer ball.
He currently teaches Queer Theory and Critical Thinking, as well as facilitates DEI workshops, PD trainings, and master classes (which explore Musical Theater through a Queer Theory lens).
Prior to teaching, Roger was a performer, a career which took him through Europe, most of the United States, and to Broadway, where he swung and dance captained the 2004 revival of Fiddler on the Roof.
Roger holds a BFA in acting from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts with a Concentration in Performance Creation from Goddard College.
This lecture will be held at the Great Neck Library at 159 Bayview Avenue in Great Neck on Aug. 16 at 1 pm. No registration is required and it is first come, first seated.
For more information, please contact Great Neck Library at (516) 466-8055 or email adultprogramming@greatnecklibrary.org.
