DC Queer Studies Symposium October 25th

Save the Date - October 25th "The Queer Limit of Black Memory, Ten Years Later: A Celebration of the Scholarship of Matt Richardson"

The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is excited to announce that DC Queer Studies Symposium returns with a hybrid event this year on October 25th. We hope that you will join us for "The Queer Limit of Black Memory, Ten Years Later: A Celebration of the Scholarship of Matt Richardson." In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the publication of Dr. Richardson's book, The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution, scholars, authors, and artists come together for a day of panels and performances.

As the first monograph to explore Black lesbian literature, The Queer Limit of Black Memory's interventions have reverberations across  lesbian studies, performance studies, social justice, issues of racial equity, and trans studies. Ten years later, we return to The Queer Limit in a political climate where queer sexuality, gender expression, and trans bodies - in bathrooms, in entertainment, in our schools - are targeted as objects of American fear and right-wing legislation.

Tickets for the in-person event held in Stamp Student Union and the event webinar are now available. For more information on the event and to purchase tickets, check out the DC Queer Studies Symposium Homepage.