Jennifer Lisa Vest to explore ‘post-racial present’ at Women’s and Gender Studies SymposiumPosted in Articles, Arts, Gay & Lesbian, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Social Justice, United States, Women on 2015-04-16 23:09Z by Steven |
Jennifer Lisa Vest to explore ‘post-racial present’ at Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium
Report: Faculty/Staff Newsletter
Illinois State University
2015-04-02
Rachel Hatch, Editor
Performing artist and scholar Jennifer Lisa Vest will be the keynote speaker for the 20th annual Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) Symposium.
Vest will present Black Lives Matter: [Trans]Gender Violence, Disability, and Women in a ‘Post-racial,’ ‘Post-Sexist’ Present at 1 p.m. Friday, April 17, in the Bone Student Center. The talk is free and open to the public.
In celebration of the event, there will be a poetry reading at 7 p.m. Thursday April 16, at the University Galleries, 11 Uptown Circle, Normal.
Vest is a self-described “mixed-race queer feminist philosopher, poet, and artivist whose philopoetic works combine philosophy, poetry and feminist theories to provide intersectional analyses of social justice issues by explicating raced, gendered, and sexualized components of privilege, ablelism, and oppression.”…
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