PYNK: Black Femme in Slavery's Archive

Description

What are black womanhood, black femme, and black queer and trans* labors in the context of slavery, empire, and colonialism? How does slavery studies investigate race, gender, and sexuality while attending to the ways the feminine operates with and beyond the body, over time and space? PYNK explores black femme and African diaspora femininity in slavery's archive. In these discussions, the black feminine is the lens of investigation.

Featured speakers include:

• Dr. Jessica Millward, an associate professor of History at the University of California, Irvine
• Dr. Derrais Carter, an assistant professor of Black Studies at Portland State College
• Dr. Vanessa Holden, an assistant professor of History at the University of Kentucky
• Dr. Omise'eke Tinsley, an associate professor of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

View the schedule online as well as the Sex and Slavery Lab members.

PYNK: Black Femme in Slavery's Archive is the Sex and Slavery Lab's closing event. This event is sponsored by the Department of History, the Center for Africana Studies, the Program in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion.