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Date(s) - March 27, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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Poster with text: Distinguished Lecture Series C. Riley Snorton "Swamp Tales, Trans Ghosts, and Nonbinary Magical Realism" Thursday, March 27 4-5:30 p.m., LSC 386 Talk open to the public This talk focuses on how abolition and decolonial praxes produce alternative frameworks for reading matters of gender and the environment among Black and Indigenous queer, trans and nonbinary artists and activists. C. Riley Snorton is the Mary R. Morton professor of English, Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know. Black Sexuality on the Down Low (University of Minnesota Press) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press), and the co-editor of Saturation: Race, Art and the Circulation of Value (New Museum/MIT Press) and The Flesh of the Matter. A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University Press). JENNIFER C. NASH Jennifer C. Nash "Picturing Loss" Monday, April 21 4-5:30 p.m., LSC 386 Talk open to the public This talk studies the prominent place of the photograph in contemporary Black feminist writing and how beautiful Black feminist writing has performed its work through the creation of a black feminist grammar that is always both discursive and visual. Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of four books (all published on Duke University Press): The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography; Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality; Birthing Black Mothers; and How We Write Now. Living With Black Feminist Theory.We warmly invite you to our next speaker in the Mellon-funded Distinguished Lecture Series in Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies, Spring 2025! 

C. Riley Snorton
“Swamp Tales, Trans Ghosts, and Nonbinary Magical Realism”

Thursday, March 27
4-5:30 p.m., LSC 386
Talk open to the public

This talk focuses on how abolition and decolonial praxes produce alternative frameworks for reading matters of gender and the environment among Black and Indigenous queer, trans and nonbinary artists and activists.

C. Riley Snorton is the Mary R. Morton professor of English, Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know. Black Sexuality on the Down Low (University of Minnesota Press) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press), and the co-editor of Saturation: Race, Art and the Circulation of Value (New Museum/MIT Press) and The Flesh of the Matter. A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University Press).