“While the technologies of estrangement have produced a long history of violence to personhood, relationality, and intimacy [for queer and trans people of color], they have never been totalizing. Estrangement has also inspired strategies of survival, coping, and belonging.”
--Nayan Shah
Gender variant and sexually non-normative people of color have historically been forcefully marginalized and estranged from what we call “normative” society. “For those [queer] people marked by non-white racialization,” writes Professor Nayan Shah, “estrangement has long been aggravated, persistent and intensified.” But Shah argues this is not the end of story. Join us in conversation as Professor Shah guides us through his historical inquiry of discovery where the most disenfranchised of our society have transformed oppression into power and estrangement into belonging. Every body is welcome!