Events & Calendars Manifesting Black Queer Futures: Art and Performance

Please join us for the fourth and final event in our Manifesting Black Queer Futures Symposium! This event will focus on the question art and performance in relation to Black queer and trans futures. We will be joined by Ani Ganzala, a visual artist from Salvador, Brazil; Christian A'Xavier Lovehall, a poet, musician, and founder of the Philadelphia Trans March, Dora Santana, artist and assistant professor of Gender Studies at John Jay College CUNY; Entidade Maré, an interdisciplinary performance artist group from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Jumatatu Poe, a dance artist and choreographer from North Carolina. The event will be moderated by Anaiis Cisco, a filmmaker, assistant professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith College, and Visiting CHI Fellow at Amherst College.

This series emerges from a CHI Research Seminar which explores Black queer life and futures and will showcase research, activism and art in the Black queer diaspora studies. It considers the possibilities of Blackness and queerness amidst our "reemergence" from COVID-19 and our ongoing navigation of cultures of turbulence and inequalities. The Manifesting Black Queer Futures Symposium keenly asks the question: What speculative futures are possible where Black queer and trans life and happiness is central to the project of society, and what do we need in the present to make these futures possible?