About this Event
A BODY MADE HOME: They Black Trans Love. Dr. Kai Marshall Green @ Chicago Freedom School
Come celebrate PRIDE month through an intersectional lens at CFS. This intergenerational space is open to co-strugglers and those working on intersectional solidarity building.
12PM - Communal lunch (optional)
12:30PM - Welcome
12:45PM - Memoir reading - followed by writing workshop
2:45PM - Closing
A memoir and mythography of a Black trans man’s journey from Baby Girl to Black Boi, through gender, race, and trans theory made personal.
In a country built on the daily oppression and incarceration of Black people, on the rejection of queer and trans rights, how does a Black trans man become himself or find home? “Home is commonly understood as a place of bodily safety, a place where one can find themselves a resting place, but for me and for many Black queer folk, our bodies most often preclude any home-making with those kinds of securities.” It is this reality that spurred Kai Marshall Green's investigation into bodies—and the love between them—discounted by the mainstream as deviant, deficient, and defective.
In his powerful debut memoir, Green recounts his lifelong transition from “Baby Girl" to “Black Boi,” his current and future self. Laced through his accounts of traversing discrimination, misunderstanding, and abuse from family, society, and academia are experiments in letter writing and biomythography, continuing in the literary tradition of Audre Lorde. Through A Body Made Home, Green explores the long, stuttering arc of transition as a Black queer person in America, recasting visions of home, narratives of metamorphosis, and dreams of freedom.
Dr. Kai Marshall Green is a shape-shifting Black Queer Feminist nerd; an Afro-Future, freedom-dreaming, rhyme slinging dragon slayer in search of a new world; a scholar, poet, facilitator, filmmaker; and an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at The University of Delaware. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity with specializations in Gender Studies and Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California. His debut memoir, A Body Made Home: They Black Trans Love (The Feminist Press), came out in February 2026. He is a proud founding member of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), where he sat on the healing and safety council.
Instagram and Twitter: @drDrummerBoiG
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Chicago Freedom School, 1727 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, United States
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