May 4, 1995 Contact: Barbara McKenna (408/459-2495)

SOCIOLOGIST TO PRESENT LECTURE EXAMINING RACIAL MESSAGES IN AIDS SEX EDUCATION MATERIALS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Sociologist Nancy Stoller will present a slide show and talk titled, "Racial Prescriptions and Sexual Permissions: When AIDS Educators Send Us to Bed" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, in the Performing Arts Concert Hall at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The talk is free and open to the public.

Stoller is a professor of community studies and director of UCSC's Women's Health Institute. Her talk, presented as part of the UCSC Inaugural Lecture series, will be based in part on a book she is working on titled, Lessons from the Damned: Queers, Whores, and Junkies Respond to AIDS. She will also discuss her research addressing different representations of race and sexual orientation in AIDS safe sex materials. Using slides of brochures and posters currently in use, she will demonstrate that racial representations differ in such materials depending on whether their focus is on heterosexual or gay and lesbian groups.

Inaugural Lectures are presented to celebrate a UCSC faculty member's promotion or appointment to the position of full professor. Faculty members are invited to present a talk for general audiences based on an area of current research or interest.

Stoller's work focuses on race and gender aspects of health, encompassing AIDS, breast cancer, the politics of women's health, gay and lesbian studies, and community organizing. She is founder and former director of women's programs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, a position she held from 1984-87. At UCSC, Stoller has served as acting provost of Kresge College and as chair of the Community Studies Board. She is the co-editor with Beth Schneider of the just-published book, Women Resisting AIDS: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995).

Inaugural Lectures are presented by UCSC Arts & Lectures and supported by the Offices of the Chancellor and Executive Vice Chancellor, the Council of Provosts, and University Affiliates. For more information, call (408) 459-2159 (voice or TDD).

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