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What's in a Name: Troubling Colonial Archives of BIPOC Lives and Loves Beyond the Binary

Event Type
Other
Sponsor
Diversity Committees of the University of Illinois Library and the School of Information Sciences
Date
Oct 15, 2020   7:00 pm  
Speaker
Lazarus Letcher
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Moderated by Jessica Ballard, University Archives. Registration required; all are welcome. Register here. (Registration closes Tuesday, October 13)

Lazarus Letcher (they/them) is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at the University of New Mexico on Tiwa Pueblo Land. Their research focuses on Black and Indigenous solidarity, 2SLGBTQIA+ history and organizing, and white supremacy within the queer and trans community. Laz works at UNM's LGBTQ+ Resource Center providing LGBTQ 101s across the state. Lazarus is also a musician, playing around the country and in a zoom room near you as a solo artist and with anti-nuclear folk group Eileen & the In-Betweens.

This event is part of the Becoming A Trans Inclusive Library project. Funding for this event comes from a Strategic Programs Initiative Fund grant from the Executive Committee of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University Library.

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