Black Queer Studies and the State of Emergency
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Thurs April 25, 2019, 4:30 pm
Allen Library Petersen Room (UW Seattle Campus)
Northeast Seattle (Seattle)
Free
Two prominent academics, Dr. C. Riley Snorton of the University of Chicago and Dr. Aliyyah Abdur-Raman of Brown University, will discuss how black queers survive and thrive despite the "perpetual state of emergency" engendered by politics and prejudice. Snorton's talk is called "Blackness, Historicity, and the Temporality of Invention" and is based on his book Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, while Abdur-Rahman's "Black Presentism and the Practice of Ecstasy" draws on her new project Millennial style.