Sexualities and Liminal Spaces

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

Scholars offer different lenses articulating racial entanglements and sexuality, with a particular eye towards the liminal or overlapping spaces, locations, and/or identities that individuals or groups occupy in connection with sexuality. Topics explored include an intersectional history of prisons and prison experiences; the erotica of social difference and the ways identities are expressed through sexualities; liminal spaces in underground economies as sites for the development of community among Black queer women in the mid-twentieth century; and global and transnational thinking about the intersection of sexuality, race, and empire. When taken together, the conversations generated will point to ways interrelated histories can reshape our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Presider

• Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College

Panelists

• Joss Taylor Greene, University of California-Davis

• Tey Meadow, Columbia University

• Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College

• Estela B. Diaz, Princeton University

• Vrushali Patil, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

Session Organizer

• Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College