Antiracist activist and writer Mab Segrest to give a talk at Flyleaf Books on October 10 from 7-8pm. Back in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction and afterword by the author. In 1994, Mab Segrest first explained how she “had …

 The ‘challenge of the century’: transnational LGBTQ activism and the birth of Britain’s radical HIV/AIDS movement, from Thatcher to the 1990s. The Triangle Global British History Seminar of the Carolina Seminars presents: George Severs, U. Cambridge, and U California, Riverside Oct. 11, 4-6pm, National Humanities Center From Mr. Severs: This paper examines the history of Section …

LGBTIQA+ Advocacy Award Committee is ideally comprised of two (2) each of staff members, faculty members, undergraduate students, graduate/professional students, and alums.   Our goal is to create a committee that represents as much diversity of experience as possible. To that end, we have included questions about your personal identities. Responses to these questions are …

On October 21st the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will kick off a year of events reflecting LGBTQ+ lives and experiences with a conversation between Literary Critic, Poet, and Professor Stephanie Burt (English, Harvard University) and Dr. Jacob Lau (Women's and Gender Studies, UNC at Chapel Hill). Burt …

On March 24th at 7:30pm Indo-Carribean Poet Rajiv Mohabir will give a reading and discuss his book I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (Kaya Press, 2019), Mohabir’s translation of Lalbihari Sharma’s 1916 book of poems. The only known literary work by an indentured servant in the Anglophone Caribbean, this book captures the hardships of life as …

On March 31st at 5pm the Department of English and Comparative Literature (in partnership with American Studies and Sexuality Studies) will host "Two Wings Take Flight" a roundtable and veritable who's who of writers, poets, scholars and artists engaging with the legacy of Randall Kenan's work and Black Southern literary traditions. See the attached flyer …

Carolina’s sixteenth annual Lavender Graduation celebrating LGBTQIA+ and allied student contributions will be held on Sunday, May 9th, 2021 at 4:00 PM. This program is co-sponsored by the Program in Sexuality Studies, the Provost Committee for LGBTQ Life, and Student Life and Leadership. Participation Details  The ceremony will be held live via Zoom. Registered participants …

Call for Proposals Due Immediately!  Art Contest for next year’s symposiums honoring Randall Kenan   The Sexuality Studies Program supported by the Provost’s Committee on LGBTQ Life  is offering three UNC students  $333 Awards  Deadline Extended: Tuesday, May 18th by 5p.m.     In the spring of 2021, the English and Comparative Literature Department hosted the first of …