Book Launch: Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer presents "By the Power Vested in Me," w/ Rahne Alexander

Book Launch: Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer presents "By the Power Vested in Me" in conversation w/ Rahne Alexander

Through the story of the fight over gay rights, Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer reveals how and why certain experts—but not others—obtain the authority to shape public opinion and policy. At a time of soaring public distrust in experts, this book offers new ways to understand the contested political role of expertise and its consequences.

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer is a sociologist and associate professor of American studies at the University of Toulouse–Jean Jaurès and junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Rahne Alexander is an intermedia artist and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2021 graduate of the Intermedia+Digital Arts MFA at UMBC, and a 2021 Baker Artist Prize Awardee. Her works in video, performance, music, and painting have been exhibited across the U.S. and around the world, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, and MIX NYC. She performs music as 50 Foot Woman and as the front woman of the rock band Santa Librada. She is a regular contributor to BmoreArt and UMBC Magazine, and her writing has been anthologized in OnCurating #42, Love, You (Urban Ivy, 2020), and the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology TAKE ME THERE: TRANS AND GENDERQUEER EROTICA (Cleis, 2011). Her OutWrite-award-winning chapbook of collected essays HERETIC TO HOUSEWIFE was published by Neon Hemlock in 2019.

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