BGSQDBureau of General Services—Queer Division
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A conversation with The New Republic journalist and author Nina Burleigh and podcast cohosts Anne-christine d’Adesky and Jay W. Walker of Stop The Coup 2025. Burleigh also has a new book out, They’ll discuss how Project 2025 may be implemented on “Day One” of the new Trump administration, what attacks are most likely, what Trump’s first Cabinet picks reflect, and how US progressives are mobilizing to resist Project 2025 radical Christian nationalist agenda. The conversation will also focus on US and global lessons in grassroots resistance and community survival.
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
Nina Burleigh is a US journalist, best-selling author, documentary producer, and publisher of a substack on politics called American Freakshow. A contributing editor at The New Republic and frequent contributor to the New York Times and New York Magazine, her journalism has been published widely including in translation in the Norwegian and Italian press. She’s also the author of eight books on an array of topics including archaeological forgery, scientists in 18th-century Egypt, James Smithson, Amanda Knox in Italy, and the Trump women, which were reviewed, excerpted or covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, New York Magazine, BBC, ABC, MSNBC, and other media outlets.
She was born and educated in the Midwest, has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, Norway, Paris and Italy, traveled and reported extensively in the Middle East. She is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute and Google Scholar says her work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles. She is a supporter of secular humanism and known for her support of women’s rights. Her latest book is Zero Visibility Possible (2024). She’s also written articles about Project 2025 for New York Magazine and The New Republic.