Queer Un/Belonging. The New Black As a Site of Academic Interrogation

• In Event: The New Black: Re-Examining the Line between Women’s Studies and LGBT Studies

Abstract

Disciplinary intertextuality often invokes attendant conversations about ideas of belonging, modes of inside/outsider status and multi-sited dis/comforts. I will engage the documentary to examine the ways in which it presents opportunities to think about issues of belonging and citizenship. In conversation with Richens, I will interrogate the politics of queer belonging in the layered contexts of fields, academy, and nation.

Presenter

• Jeannette Soon-Ludes, University of Maryland, College Park