A conversation about queer Black women’s relationships, identities, and community-building in the early twentieth century, featuring historian Dr. Cookie Woolner (University of Memphis), author of The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall and Dr. Monet Lewis-Timmons (Duke University, Public Humanities Fellow), a recent UD English Ph.D. who is an expert on the Black poet and activist Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Part of the American Identity / Queer Community event series.
Look also for the September 11, 2024, Scholar in the Library event Friends and Lovers: Queer Women in the Archives
Hosted by the Department of History and co-sponsored by the University of Delaware Library, Musuesm and Press, Department of Africana Studies, Department of English and Department of Women and Gender Studies.