Contents:
- TONI MORRISON, ETHICS, AND SOCIAL JTICE: A ROBERT M. GAY MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- ROXANE GAY ON MASTERCLASS, WHERE TO BEG READG TONI MORRISON, AND MORE
TONI MORRISON, ETHICS, AND SOCIAL JTICE: A ROBERT M. GAY MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
She had probably seen this tenncy a number of the women wrers she nurtured over the years, and some of the gay black male artists, such as Bill Gunn, whom she had loved, too.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Gay Memorial Lectur event is hosted by the Simmons Universy Department of English, the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humani, and the Office of Unrgraduate Rearch and Fellowships.
ROXANE GAY ON MASTERCLASS, WHERE TO BEG READG TONI MORRISON, AND MORE
” The pneerg gay novelist Gore Vidal rells how the publitn of his novel “The Cy and the Pillar” 1948 was met wh “shock and disbelief. Movg beyond Morrison's reprentatn of ghosts as the fotten or occlud past, Juda Bent unvers how Morrison imag the spectral sphere as always already queer, a provotn and challenge to heteronormativy—wh the ghost appearg as an active participant disptns of pulsory heterosexualy, as a figure embodyg closet sir, or as a disembodied emanatn that unterpots homophobia.
From The Blut Eye to Home, Morrison's novels have clud many queer ghosts that challenge our most cherished nceptns of love and speak to cultural anxieti about black sexuali, gay marriage, AIDS, lbian visibily, and transgenr inti. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThere is a blossomg of black women wrers who are followg her footsteps and makg their own Greenfield-SanrsRoxane GayMs. Gay is a ntributg Opn Morrison was unparalleled.