2019 InQueery Symposium

Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Gender Identity Expression and Sexual Orientation Resource Center (GIESORC), and the Women’s Center are pleased to announce the 2019 InQueery Symposium will be held on Monday, October 21, from 4 to 7:30 p.m., in the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center.  Dinner will be provided.  While online registration has closed, interested individuals may still register at the event.

The keynote will be delivered by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a queer disabled femme writer, organizer, performance artist and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent.  The author of Tonguebreaker, Bridge of Flowers, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (ALA Above the Rainbow List, short-listed for the Lambda and Publishing Triangle Awards). Bodymap (short-listed for the Publishing Triangle Award), Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner), and Consensual Genocide, with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani, she co-edited The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities.

All are invited and encouraged to attend.

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