Name: Forum Lectures #31: Marquis Bey
Start: 2024-09-24T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-24T19:00:00+02:00
Location: South Campus, Karen Blixens Vej 1, 2300 Copenhagen S, Building 21, Room: 21.3.19

The Story of a Theory: Black Trans Feminism and Beyond
This lecture will provide, in a sense, the story or narrative surrounding the writing and thinking of Black Trans Feminism. It will detail where the thoughts and ideas came from, how they were arrived at, and what happened in their aftermath. After this, the lecture will discuss where the author’s work is going in light of the publication of Black Trans Feminism—namely, to the nonbinary. In order to discuss this, the author will detail how the social and how community has fed these thoughts, in particular a more expansive, robust understanding of the social and community.
About Marquis Bey
Marquis Bey (they/them, or any pronouns) is Professor of Black Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. Their work concerns trans and nonbinary studies, black feminist theory, abolition, and critical theory. They are the author of Black Trans Feminism and Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (both pushed with Duke University Press, 2022). They are currently at work on a project entitled A Nonbinary Life.
Forum Lectures
Forum Lectures is a series of lectures by Danish and international thinkers and cultural workers reflecting on how art co-forms commonality. Forum Lectures bring thinking and shared study back to the university and invite public lectures on the last Tuesday of every month from 17:00 – 19:00.
The initiative is hosted by the research group of the New Carlsberg Foundation research centre Art as Forum. Our researchers are occupied by a.o. the infrastructures of the arts, collective modes of production, the entanglement of political theory and aesthetic theory, assembling curation strategies, dematerialized art, acts of strategic separatism and temporality in digital art.
The lecture is free and open to everyone interested.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

South Campus, Karen Blixens Vej 1, 2300 Copenhagen S, Building 21, Room: 21.3.19, Karen Blixens Vej 1, 2300 København S, Danmark,Copenhagen, Copenhagen , Denmark