WGSS Speaker Series--Visionary Words: Love, Justice, and Freedom, with M. Nicole Horsley
Join the CLA WGSS Program as we celebrate Women's History Month, March 8--International Women's Day, and bell hooks' visionary legacy of love, justice, and freedom with guest speaker M. Nicole Horsley, from the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (Ithaca College) and additional reflections and stories from members of the RIT community.
March 25, 1:00 - 2:30p.m.
M. NICOLE HORSLEY, Ithaca College
“Aftertaste: Whose throat Is This?
to the afterlife of gloria, a meditation on taste, pleasure, and pedagogy”
Dr. M. NICOLE HORSLEY is assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity and affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies and in Screen Cultures at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. A Black sexual economies scholar, her scholarly and creative works explore questions of freedom, alterity, power, pleasure, refusal, and selfhood throughout visual and sonic cultural landscapes challenging racialized and gendered iconographies, constructed upon sexual mythologies of Black bodies and the subjectivity from which they originate. Her areas of interest, research, and teaching include African American and African Diaspora Studies, Black Feminism, Black Queer Theory, Black Music Videos, Black Female Sexuality, Visual and Sonic Culture, Taste Culture, Film and Media Studies.
Registration required.
The event is organized by the CLA Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in collaboration with AdvanceRIT, the Center for Engaged Storycraft, the Title IX Office, the Women and Gender Office, and the Q Center.
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