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Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Conference Summary

The closing plenary at Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Conference featuring comments, critiques, and feedback from conference participants, moderated by Janet Jakobsen (Barnard Center for Research on Women) and Dorian Warren (Columbia University).

Recorded at Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues: Dilemmas of the Nonprofit Tradition in LGBT Politics, sponsored by the Engaging Tradition Project at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School and the Barnard Center for Research on Women, held at Columbia Law School.

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