Event overview
Join us for a special edition of our Research Cafe as we celebrate LGBT+ History Month!
To celebrate LGBT+ History Month, we're taking a whirlwind tour of some of the LGBT+ research taking place across Goldsmiths.
For this edition of the Research Cafe, we are joined by:
Justin Bengry (History) - 'England's LGBTQ Heritage'
Queer heritage is everywhere. It is in the streets and buildings that make up our cities, and the open spaces and landscapes that connect them. Working with Historic England, Pride of Place records, shares, and celebrates England's LGBTQ heritage through a crowdsourced map; teaching, research, and policy resources; an online exhibition; and statutory listings to protect and preserve the places of our queer past. Explore 2000 years of LGBTQ history and heritage at http://historypin.org/en/prideofplace
Carlie Pendleton (History) - 'Fattening Queer, Queering Fat: Lesbian Identities at The National Fat Women’s Conference of 1989'
On March 18, 1989, the London Fat Women’s Group (LFWG) held the first National Fat Women’s Conference (NFWC) in central London. Over the course of the day, 170 women attended various workshops, including three fat lesbians, exploring how fatphobia manifested itself in British lives. Carlie will talk about the lesbian workshops offered at the conference and how fat lesbians constructed and negotiated their identities as fat and queer. They will also briefly explore the ways in which fat operates as queer and how it disrupts heteronormative notions surrounding sexuality, gender, and health.
Chloe Turner (MCCS) - 'Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: Queer birthing on dance floors'
"There's not a problem that I can't fix
'Cause I can do it in the mix"
InDeep - Last Night a DJ Saved my Life
Chloe's ongoing research considers how transgender communities are developing new understandings of genealogy, reproduction and bloodline. This PhD project puts forward how these terms are being radically unmade and the otherwise(s) that queer and transgender aesthetics gift to us as alternatives. In an era of care emergency, poverty politics and environmental decline centring queer creativity and abundance has never felt more needed. Thinking with Black feminist theory, remix cultures and queer kinship - how can we theorise a form of queer birthing that happens on fabulous dance floors? Lets think in the mix.
Each researcher will each give a 10-minute talk followed by the opportunity for questions and discussion. Grab a cuppa or some lunch and join us!
This Research Cafe will take place on Microsoft Teams. All registered attendees will receive an email containing the Teams link and instructions for joining on the day of the event.
If you have any questions about this event, please email academicsupport (@gold.ac.uk).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Feb 2021 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
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