OUTober Series presents
Envisioning Queer Futures with Jamal T. Lewis
Through their works, including the upcoming documentary film "No Fats, No Femmes," Jamal complicates Black history by sharing the stories of trans, gender non-conforming, fat and disabled communities, and locators language cannot contain and hold. Join them in an exploration of identity formation, loneliness, ugliness and desire(ability).
About Jamal T. Lewis
Jamal is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural worker and writer living in New York, hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. Their work interrogates and explores identity formation, loneliness, ugliness, desire(ability), race, class, gender, and sexuality. Their work has been featured in The LA Times, BuzzFeed, TriBeCa, AFROPUNK, and various other distinguished media publications. They are currently in pre-production for their debut documentary film, No Fats, No Femmes. In their free time, Jamal enjoys sleeping, dancing, and laughing with friends.
Jamal is deeply invested in creating and archiving stories that expands and complicates Black history, specifically those of marginalized communities: trans, gender non-conforming, fat, disabled, and locators language cannot contain and hold.
Dinner will be provided. Please RSVP by Friday, October 14.
Hosted by LGBTQ Student Life. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
Date: October 18, 2016
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Date: October 18, 2016
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM