The Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies is excited to announce this year’s Anne L. Harper Annual Lecture: “Femme-inist is to Feminist as PYNK is to Pynk: A Black Femme Aesthetics of Resistance” presented by award-winning author and Professor of Black Studies, Dr. Omise'eke Tinsley, UC Santa Barbara. This will be a virtual event held on Monday, February 28, 2022, at 4:30 PM EST via Zoom.
Registration Link: tinyurl.com/WGSSGSU
What is a black femme-inist? This talk offers preliminary discussion of black femme-inism’s gender-specific, race-specific, and desire-specific contributions to the ongoing project of getting free. Meditating on what makes "black femme" a very smart, very black, and very queer gender, the talk outlines why black femme perspectives prove important to dismantling white supremacist heteropatriarchy in the Trump era and beyond.
Omise’eke Tinsley is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Motivated by love for boundless black femme creativity, her research focuses on queer and feminist, Caribbean and African American performance and literature. Click here to read more about Professor Tinsley.
We look forward to hearing Dr. Tinsley speak on her work surrounding black femme-inism and the importance of black femme perspectives in our current political climate.
This event is co-sponsored by The Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, The Department of Africana Studies, The Department of English, and The Department of Sociology.
About the Anne L. Harper Lecture Series:
The Anne L. Harper annual lecture series brings leading scholars and professionals who focus on women and politics or feminist political theory to Georgia State University each Spring.
Anne L. Harper has dedicated her academic, political, and professional careers to efforts focusing on women and education. During her academic career, she has taught American Politics, Political Philosophy, and Women’s Studies. In 1998, Anne taught the first women and political philosophy course ever offered at Emory university. Anne was a founding member of the Vote Choice Political Action Committee; she is a former board member of the Feminist Women’s Health Center, and she was a member of the National Organization for Women (Now) Lega Defense and Education Fund. Anne currently leads an independent consulting practice, Harper Consulting, which performs strategic planning and communications consulting for public, private and non-profit organizations.