Art & Censorship: Adventures of a Sexual Evolutionary

Join the Art Law Society for a discussion of art and the censorship power of obscenity law with Veronica Vera (Miss Vera), an artist, activist, and founder of Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls, and Marjorie Heins, a former civil rights attorney and founder of the ACLU’s Arts Censorship Project. The talk will center on Miss Vera’s life and work, and on a 1993 censorship battle at a conference on prostitution at the University of Michigan Law School, which Heins helped Miss Vera and the other censored artists win.

Dinner will be served! RSVP here. We’ve also attached an essay as recommended reading ahead of the event: Marjorie Heins, A Public University's Response to Students' Removal of an Art Exhibit.