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Brown Bag Series: Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko: "Queer Intimacies: Audre Lorde's Livable Geographies and Indigenous Survival in the Eurasian Borderlands"
January 23, 2025, 12:30-2:00pm
CMC 202T
Hybrid Event - RSVP for Teams Link
This talk explores Audre Lorde鈥檚 journey to Soviet Eurasia in 1976. Dr. Shchurko focuses on Lorde鈥檚 bond with Soviet Chukchee writer Antonina Kymytval鈥�, highlighting moments of reciprocity and togetherness that transcend the traditional East/West binary. Rather than centering on state-driven diplomacy, Lorde鈥檚 reflections reveal a different realm of political alliance鈥攐ne rooted in the shared struggles of marginalized communities impacted by imperial violence. The encounter between Lorde and Kymytval鈥� sparked transgressive forms of sociality and intimacy, challenging the rigid norms of Soviet and Western political economies and the logics of settler colonialism.
About Dr. Shchurko: My research is rooted in anti-colonial feminist theorizing, focusing on the complexities of multiple imperialisms within and between Europe, Eurasia, and the United States. In 2023, I was honored to receive an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to work on my book project. My current research project delves into the critical genealogies of transnational feminism, emphasizing the connections between U.S. Black women鈥檚 transnational activism and Eurasian knowledge production. My book project, in particular, explores Black feminist solidarities in Eurasia, examining how these interactions resonate with and contribute to contemporary anti-imperialist feminist movements.
Care & Joy in Precarious Times Conference
February 21, 2025
TECO Hall
For conference information, including the Call for Submissions, visit the conference page.
Brown Bag Series: Dr. Dana Ahern
March 6, 2024
CMC 202T
Hybrid Event - RSVP for Teams Link
Details TBA.
The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary during the 2022-2023 academic year. Visit our 50th Anniversary page, to view more information about the 50th Anniversary Events.