Join us for a special edition of Writing Club, a collaboration between CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies and MoMA. The same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once online via Zoom.
Julián Delgado Lopera facilitates a Writing Club with a focus on artworks in Gallery 419: Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers. Inspired by Delgado Lopera’s writing practice and his forthcoming novel Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You, we’ll experiment with writing as a means of drawing connections between intimacy, queerness, and gender through the lens of Sophie Calle’s photographic series. This session will take place in person at MoMA.
Register for Writing Club (in person at MoMA)
The second session in this series takes place online via Zoom. If the online event is more accessible for you, please register for that session.
Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of Fiebre Tropical, winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Fiction and finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Aspen Literary Prize, among other honors. His second novel, Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You, is forthcoming in May 2026. Born and raised in Colombia, Delgado Lopera is an assistant professor of creative writing at CUNY. He lives in Brooklyn.
CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, founded in 1986, is the first university-based LGBTQIA+ research center in the United States. The Center nurtures interdisciplinary, cutting-edge knowledge production in queer and trans studies. CLAGS makes its home at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
About Writing Club
Writing Club, an ongoing program at MoMA, is part of the Museum’s Artful Practices for Well-Being initiative, which offers ideas for connectedness and healing through art.
Accessibility
Seating options include gallery stools, chairs with backs, and gallery benches. Wheelchairs and rollators are available by request at all Museum entrances, on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Major funding is provided by the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.