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PRIDE MONTH SPECIAL – University Professor and LGBTQ Youth Safe Space Initiative Founder at Stockton University by Dr. Laurie Greene

Austin Tang — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:43:23 +0000

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PRIDE MONTH SPECIAL Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World’s Playground.

by Laurie Greene

The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Miss’d America drag pageant.

Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, and how it has changed now that Rupaul’s Drag Race has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Miss’d America pageant with its glitzy cisgender big sister, anthropologist Laurie Greene discovers how the two pageants have influenced each other in unexpected ways.

Drag Queens and Beauty Queens deepens our understanding of how femininity is performed at pageants, exploring the various ways that both the Miss’d America and Miss America pageants have negotiated between embracing and critiquing traditional gender roles. Ultimately, it celebrates the rich tradition of drag performance and the community it engenders.
On your program, Laurie can answer questions like:

What are “camp sensibilities” in drag performance and gay culture?

The book explored the personalities of the pageants. Can you give us a flavor of them?

What is the importance of camp in missed America? Drag style, performance, and language.

Tell us about the queering of the miss America pageant? Did anybody work on both?

How do each of the four areas of competition differ on the page TA — swimsuit, evening gown, talent, and interview. There is an object and a subject section.

Who owns the pageants?

What is the Show Us Your Shoes Parade?

Do you see the talent on both sides sharing hard work, perseverance, and talent?

What are the different elements of pageantry and the meaning of individual expression when comparing beauty pageants and drag pageants? Does one try and fit in and one tries to be unique? One fits into boundaries and one tries to break boundaries.

You mentioned that drag is part of the gay community in AC but it has a male focus. Explain?

Talk about the conflicts you found between the gay community and the drag community.

“An unprecedented look at drag culture and its history in Atlantic City. A must-read for queens and their fans!”

— Sapphira Cristal ― Miss’d American 2020

“I have long wondered how the Miss America pageant maintains a conservative appeal while ignoring the known influence and involvement by the gay community. If you’ve ever known or loved Miss America, you need this history lesson.”

— Erin O’Flaherty ― Miss Missouri 2016, first openly lesbian Miss America contestant

“After 30 years in the drag business, I was surprised and elated to learn so much about drag/LGBTQ+ history in Atlantic City. The in-depth exploration of how Miss America and Miss’d America were connected and disconnected is fascinating.”

— Sherry Vine ― Drag Legend

“Through a highly entertaining, insightful, and informative combination of history, ethnography, and gender studies, Greene uncovers the long-standing influence that Atlantic City’s LGBTQ+ community has had on the Miss America Pageant.”

— Rusty Barrett ― author of From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures

“The subject matter is fascinating.”

― Gay & Lesbian Review

Publisher: Rutgers University Press (December 18, 2020)

Language: English

Paperback: 248 pages

ISBN-10: 1978813864

ISBN-13: 978-1978813861

LAURIE GREENE is an associate professor of anthropology at Stockton University in New Jersey, where she has taught since 1986. She is the founder and chair of the LGBTQ Youth Safe Space Initiative at Stockton University and an advocate for the local LGBTQ community. Connect with Laurie On FaceBook!

Publisher: Rutgers University Press (December 18, 2020)

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Jeffrey L. Gitterman, AAMS® Co-Founding Partner

Austin Tang — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:48:43 +0000

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Jeff Gitterman is a co-founding partner of Gitterman Wealth Management, LLC, and a thought leader in the field of Sustainable, Impact, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Investing.

He is the creator of his firm’s SMART (Sustainability Metrics Applied to Risk Tolerance)® Investing Services, which offer investment opportunities for individual clients, as well as research and investing services for other financial professionals in the Sustainable, ESG, and Impact arenas.
Noted as an “ESG expert” by Financial Advisor magazine, Jeff has also been featured in the past in Money Magazine, Barron’s, Morningstar Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Affluent Magazine, among many others. He also speaks frequently about Sustainable, Impact, and ESG Investing at conferences throughout the US, including Morningstar, Fidelity, Barron’s, Financial Advisor Magazine, Bloomberg, and many others. In 2018, he was named RIA “Thought Leader of the Year” by WealthManagement.com.
Gitterman Wealth Management will serve as the co-host of the 2019 Sustainable Investing Conference at the United Nations on December 10, 2019, and has previously co-hosted the 2018 Sustainable Investing Conference at the United Nations, as well as the 2016 and 2017 NYC Sustainable Investing Conferences.

Jeff deeply believes that the migration of investor capital towards more Sustainable, Impact, and ESG investments is one of, if not the most effective way to help realize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and he is committed to helping both investors and other financial professionals navigate the rapidly growing Sustainable, Impact, and ESG Investing landscape.

He is also the author of Beyond Success: Redefining the Meaning of Prosperity, and an Associate Producer of the feature documentary film, Planetary. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Child Health Institute of New Jersey at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical and dedicates much of his free time to raising funds and awareness for the autism community.

Please click here to visit our press page, which has several articles and interview of Jeff.
https://investor.gittermanwealth.com/wealth-management-professionals/jeff-gitterman/

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Al Zdenek – Master Your Cash Flow

admin — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:42:08 +0000

Bio:
Al Zdenek is the owner of New York City-based Traust Sollus Wealth Management. He has over thirty years of experience transforming lives through empowering people to make better financial choices and providing wealth management services to high-net worth individuals, senior executives, physicians, and business owners. He has been selected to appear in lists of the nation’s top financial advisors and is often quoted in the media about wealth building and wealth management topics. Al is often asked to present on wealth management and is a prominent speaker at conferences around the country. Al is the author of Master Your Cash Flow: The Key To Grow And Retain Wealth.. www.tswealth.com, or www.alzdenek.com
Al Zdenek, Jr. CPA/PFS is the president, chief executive officer, and founder of Traust Sollus Wealth Management LLC, a boutique wealth management firm serving high net-worth individuals and families. For over 30 years, the New York City-based certified public accountant (CPA) and personal financial specialist (PFS), has empowered people to transform their lives, guiding them to make the best financial choices so that they can achieve the way they wish to live, now and in the future.
His work with clients, which includes senior executives, physicians and business owners, consists of comprehensive personal financial planning, investment portfolio construction and management analysis of and ongoing strategic support for both personal and business-related cash-flow management, tax planning and preparation, retirement planning, trust and estate planning, planned giving and sophisticated life insurance strategies.
Prior to founding his company, he worked for Ernst & Young, in the tax department, and for Merck & Co. Inc. in the corporate tax department.
Al has been selected numerous times to appear on lists of the nation’s top financial advisors, and is often quoted in the media about wealth building and wealth management topics.
Al has presented on wealth management topics to many senior executive and professional association meetings across the country, including many corporate meetings such as with Pfizer, the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), many state societies of CPAs, the American Gastroenterological Association, The Healthcare Financial Management Association and many medical institutions.
He has served on the board of directors of Somerset Medical Center, in New Jersey. He also is a prominent speaker at conferences for wealth management industry professionals, leading teaching sessions on firm management topics such as mergers and acquisitions, firm vision, managing firm goals, and succession planning.
Al holds a B.A. from Rutgers College and an MBA from Rutgers Graduate School of Business.
His public service includes being elected for nine years to the Borough of Flemington Council in New Jersey. His duties included serving seven years as police commissioner of the borough. He also spends time supporting the Inner-City Scholarship Fund of NYC, Virtual Enterprises, Inc., and other charities. He resides in Manhattan and Paris. To learn more, please consult: www.TSWealth.com.
Books By Al Zdenek:
Master Your Cash Flow: The Key To Grow And Retain Wealth.
Websites:
• www.TSWealth.com

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Michele Baldwin is a multitalented American artist and producer…

admin — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:31:43 +0000

having performed in film, stage, TV and the internet mediums. In addition to her acting, she is grateful to be a creator of content and an overall inspirer to others. Presently she is working on an experimental play production in NYC, helping to produce the Image Nation Revolutionary Awards at the SVU Theater and is shooting a TV show pilot, while teaching acting at a Jersey City Community Center and studying for a certified Arts & Multimedia program at Rutgers University.

“LIVE your DREAMS… REACH your GOALS”
http://about.me/imichelebaldwin

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