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 …

Please join us on Friday, September 24th from 1-3 pm for the Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form Roundtable sponsored by UNCG. The event will be led by Dr. Mark Rifkin, a Linda Arnold Carlisle Distinguished Excellence Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The roundtable will address the complexities of family, intimacy, affection, and interdependence as those relationships …

The Department of Women's and Gender Studies and the Sexuality Studies Program will be hosting a Meet and Greet on Friday, October 7th from 1-2 pm. Meet us in the tent outside of the Smith Building to get to know the other students and faculty in our wonderful programs.

Join the QTPOC on Wednesday (11/10) at 6:30 pm to welcome the legendary Janet Mock!  Janet Mock is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, and executive producer for the FX drama series POSE and the Netflix limited series HOLLYWOOD and MONSTER. She’s also the New York Times bestselling author of two memoirs, Redefining Realness (2014) and Surpassing Certainty (2017) about …