Joseph O'Malley (they/she)

Through documentary photography and narrative filmmaking, Joseph O'Malley (MFA 2024 Photography, Video, and Related Media) unravels ideas of gender, intimacy, and performance. Expanding on their practice, O'Malley argues for a more nuanced representation of gender transition in the talk “Too Late/Too Soon” and advocates for a distance from portrayals of a discrete start/end and instead engaging with the fluid, lifelong negotiation of the space between experience and expression.

Laura Valenza (she/her)

Visual Arts Press content writer and editor Laura Valenza has written about film and media for publications like The Los Angeles Review of Books and Literary Hub and is co-film editor at the Brooklyn Rail. In her talk “Rated R for Revolutionary Women in the Movies,” Valenza examines how film criticism can reveal gender bias with a special analysis of the 1999 film But I’m a Cheerleader.

TEDx SVA Women: The Intersection of Art and Gender is presented by the SVA Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion thanks to director Andrew “Dru” Alvez Sr., and Coordinator Brenda Fortune. The talks will be live-streamed on Monday, March 10, 6:00 – 8:30pm. Access the live stream link on the event page here.

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SVA’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion presents a series of six talks in recognition of Women’s History Month.