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Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume Three Book Launch

Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume Three Book Launch

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 from 6-8pm on Zoom
Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume Three Book Launch
Transnational Solidarities, Diplomatic Endeavors, and International History

Transnational Solidarities, Diplomatic Endeavors, and International History

A Roundtable on Researching and Writing Histories that Cross Borders
Transnational Solidarities, Diplomatic Endeavors, and International History
A Conversation with Jennifer Doyle and K. Wayne Yang

A Conversation with Jennifer Doyle and K. Wayne Yang

On AT BERKELEY and public higher education in California and beyond
A Conversation with Jennifer Doyle and K. Wayne Yang
At Berkeley: A Timeline

At Berkeley: A Timeline

What happened before, during, and after Frederick Wiseman's documentary about UC Berkeley
At Berkeley: A Timeline
A Conversation with Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee

A Conversation with Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee

On extractive industries and higher education
A Conversation with Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee
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Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts

We are investigating and assembling work on underrepresented histories of how Black people, institutions, and ideas have existed outside of, pushed against, or reshaped from within the ideas and institutions of the liberal arts.

Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts
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Events
Thursday, March 23, 2023, 6 – 8pm 

Queer & Trans Artists of Color, Volume Three Book Launch

A night of art and interviews featuring the following artists:



Anthony James Williams is a Black queer abolitionist writer and sociologist. Their work on Blackness, gender identity, sexuality, and disability has been published in Hazlitt, California Magazine, Electric Lit, and The Outline. antjwilliams.com.

Joamette Gil is an Afro-Cuban cartoonist, editor, and letterer for hire. She’s the publisher of such award-winning titles as Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology and Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of of Sylvan Fantasy.

Kamal Al-Solaylee is an award-winning author of three nonfiction books: Intolerable, Brown, and Return. He is the director of the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Osa Atoe is an artist, teacher, and ceramicist operating Pottery by Osa, producing small-batch handmade ceramics. Osa wrote Shotgun Seamstress and performed in numerous bands, including VHS, New Bloods, and Firebrand.

Venus Kii Thomas is a Black trans femme multidimensional artist & sex worker based in Baltimore, Maryland. Support Venus at bit.ly/venuskiithomas.

Nia King and Maliha Ahmed are the co-hosts of this event and the co-editors of Queer & Trans Artists of Color, Volume 3. Buy the book at bit.ly/buyQTAOC3.

Sponsored by the Aydelotte Foundation, Black Studies, Film & Media Studies. ASL INTERPRETATION PROVIDED by the Libraries at Swarthmore College.

 

This is a ZOOM event. Register here.

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