Save the Date! Lex speaking @ Rutgers

Hey loved ones in the Tri-State Area…

Save the date. I would love to see your faces in the audience when I speak at Rutgers-Newark later this month. I’ll be talking specifically about the radical queer anti-imperialist black lovefest between Joseph Beam and Audre Lorde and how we can act like we know!

theirs and yours,

lex

UPDATE:

QUEERING AMERICAN STUDIES: A CONFERENCE AT RUTGERS-NEWARK

Essex Room, Robeson Student Center, 350 Martin Luther King Blvd., Newark, NJ

Friday Oct. 23, 2009

9:30 A.M. Welcomes

10 A.M. Session

Queering American Studies

“ ‘Wounded Attachments’ and Redress: Undoing Filipina Victimhood Under Colonial Rule”

Robert Diaz, Wayne State University;

“Queer Relative: Audre Lorde, Joseph Beam and Diasporic Solidarity”

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Duke University;

“The Diva Ends/The Diva’s Ends”

Licia Fiol-Matta, Lehman College, City University of New York;

“The Queer and the Cosmopolitan”

Hiram Perez,Vassar College.

Moderator: Laura Lomas, Acting Director of Women and Gender Studies

and Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Rutgers-Newark

1:30 P.M. Session

Standing in a Ditch: Queer Encounters with the Public

Questions, answers and discussion with all four guest speakers.

Moderators: Aimee Cox, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies,

Rutgers-Newark, and Taylor Black, graduate student, Graduate Program in American Studies, Rutgers-Newark

3 P.M. Comments: Carlos A. Ball, Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law (Newark)

3:10 P.M.: Closing Remarks, Beryl Satter, Chair and Associate Professor of History, Rutgers-Newark

3:30 P.M. Reception, Robeson Gallery

Co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in American Studies, the Women and Gender Studies Program, and the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience. Supported by a grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education at Rutgers University.