Featuring WGS faculty authors Omise’eke Tinsley, Keridwen Luis, and Annabel Kim

Please join us as our faculty discuss their new books, followed by refreshments and a raffle of copies of the three new books for students.

Friday, November 9, 2018
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Office of BGLTQ Student Life
Grays Hall, Lower Level
Rear entrance, facing Wigglesworth
Free and open to the public!

Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

An incisive, spiraling celebration of Southern black women.
— Publishers Weekly

Sure to appeal to scholars and pop-culture enthusiasts alike, this provocative book works to blur the lines between straight and gay black feminism. . . Lively and intelligent reading.
— Kirkus Reviews
 

Keridwen Luis
Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States

Herlands is an accessible and sympathetic ethnography of the lesbian back-to-the-land movement. Going well beyond caricatures of landdykes, Keridwen N. Luis shows the promise of feminist intentional communities—their enactment of utopic ideals of collectivity, feminist embodiment, and ecofeminism—without sidelining how the animating logic of women’s nature/nature-as-woman also reproduces transphobia, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. What emerges is a complex reading of gender, race, and nature in a rural lesbian culture.

— Margot Weiss, author of Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
 

Annabel Kim
Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions

What would ‘French theory’ or ‘French feminism’ look like if it is based on the trio Sarraute, Wittig, and Garréta? Kim raises this paradigm-shifting question through a nuanced engagement with the authors’ ‘unbecoming’ literary experiments, challenging us to overhaul the more familiar categories of feminist and queer identity politics.
—Rey Chow, author of Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience