Dr. Marquis Bey, "Trans Insurgency, Black Radicality: Abolitionist Endeavors"

Thursday, March 30, 2023
Hall Center Conference Hall

Introduction from Dr. Abraham Weil, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Kansas and the general editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly published by Duke University Press

Dr. Marquis Bey is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, advisory board faculty member of Critical Theory, and faculty affiliate and advisory board member of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. Bey is the author of multiple books: Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism (2019), Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism (2020), and The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender (2020).

This talk was hosted by the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies’ Verne Wagner Visiting Scholar Fund, which brings a leading scholar to campus for one to four weeks to engage with graduate and undergraduate students and give a public talk or other activity open to the community. Additional co-sponsors include the Hall Center for the Humanities, the African and African American Studies Department, the Department of Sociology, the English Department, the CLAS Dean’s Office, the American Studies Department, and the Director for the Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity.