Add to Calendar
When:
February 21, 2017 @ 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm
2017-02-21T16:45:00-05:00
2017-02-21T18:15:00-05:00
Where:
Franklin & Marshall College
415 Harrisburg Ave
Lancaster, PA 17603
USA
415 Harrisburg Ave
Lancaster, PA 17603
USA
Contact:
The Feminist Racial Justice Project of “Queer Brown Voices” with Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
FEBRUARY 21 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM
Stager 102 Stahr Auditorium
Professor Salvador Vidal-Ortiz will give a talk outlining the feminist, feminist of color, queer and queer of color roots and influences of the project behind the book Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism, as well as the political need for the documentation of these histories. The personal narratives of the activists—conforming a microcosm of a social movement web so rarely discussed in Latino history, or in LGBT history books—document their volunteering, employment, activism, and consulting in various groups, and their forming their own organizations. Dr. Vidal-Ortiz will also discuss the relationship of feminist projects, and of first person narratives, to that of queer brown oral histories.
Dr. Vidal-Ortiz is associate professor in the sociology department at American University (AU), in Washington, DC, and also teaches in the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. He coedited The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men (New York University Press, 2009) and Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism (University of Texas Press, 2015). Currently, he is working on various projects on LGBT displacement (in Colombia), transgendering education (in Argentina), and among others, a book on race and sexuality.
Sponsored by the Department of American Studies and the North Lecture Fund
Contact: alison.kibler@fandm.edu