Black Trans Feminist Writers Event Moderated by Dr. Moore
Join the virtual roundtable on April 18th 5-6:15pm, moderated by Dr. Nathan Alexander Moore, will consist of four Black trans feminist writers who will each share their experiences on how they came to their writing practice, what projects they are working on, inspiration for their writing, and their goals for their literary offerings, followed by an audience Q&A session.
fatima jamal is black trans* study enfleshed finding breath where there is asphyxiation and dooming forces that heavies the air. what she does, with words and images, is prayer and hope towards freedom—on the shores of nonhumanness and fugitivity—from this dying world. she/spirit is writing to die and live (again).
K Anderson (she/they) is a writer-artist, porn archivist, and doctoral student in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Rutgers University. They are interested in the epistemological and physiological function of memory as a troubled mechanism of historicizing and remembering black sexual cultures, economies, and geographies.
Dr. LaVelle Ridley is a queer black transsexual writer and mentor whose interests emerge from the intersection of transgender studies, black feminist theory, and life writing studies. Dr. Ridley’s research focuses on the radical cultural politics of black transgender women in the U.S. and advances an anti-capitalist, prison abolitionist agenda.
