Event #1: 9.30am PDT/12.30pm EDT/5.30pm UK
“Africanizing Queerness”: In today’s first event, our brilliant editorial board member, Nathalie Etoke, will be in conversation with S.N. Nyeck and S.M. Rodriguez on a topic of great complexity and sensitivity. For several years now, western media has fashioned a homophobic identity specific to people of African descent, while overlooking the fact that many of these punitive, homophobic measures are financially and/or ideologically supported by Western, and especially American, right-wing evangelical organisations. Because the West ignores the repressive interventions made by its own evangelicals, a complicated story about agency, resistance, negotiation, and imperialism is absent from its mainstream narrative about Queerness in sub-Saharan Africa. Against such a background, this conversation will provide an insightful analysis that problematizes tensions between local and global power dynamics in the day-to-day existence of Queer people in Sub-Saharan Africa. You can register for the event here.
Event #2: 11am PDT/2pm EDT/7pm UK
“Latina Feminist Philosophy”: While thinkers like Gloria Anzaldúa and María Lugones are finally emerging as important figures within certain fields of philosophy, in many ways they and other Latina feminist thinkers remain rather liminal figures in the philosophical world, seemingly more at home in fields like cultural theory, literary theory, and queer theory. However, thinkers like Anzaldúa and Lugones have explored diverse political, epistemological, ethical, historiographical, and aesthetic themes in their writings, as a result of which philosophy is beginning to take notice. Join Latina feminist scholars Mariana Ortega, Andrea Pitts, and Cynthia Paccacerqua to find out more about the remarkable thinkers and ideas that have emerged within this tradition. Full details and registration here.