13
Oct
21
Head-to-Head: A Meeting of Inspired Minds
America’s Black Queer History
In the 1880s, a formerly enslaved Black American, William Dorsey Swann, became the earliest-known self-described “drag queen” and the earliest-known queer activist in the United States....
11
Nov
21
ONLINE: Holtzbrinck Lecture
William Dorsey Swann, Queen of Drag: Uncovering America’s Black Queer History
Channing Joseph tells the story of William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved Black man who became the earliest-known self-described drag queen....
29
Nov
21
ONLINE: John P. Birkelund Lecture
Seeing, Sensing, Feeling: Sexual Subjects, Precarious Lives
Juana María Rodríguez asks: How do representational forms shape the subjective experiences of the life stories we are consuming?...