Join us for a lecture by Joshua Chambers-Letson, Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.
A meditation on the work of Keijaun Thomas and the labor of hospitality in “My Last American Dollar.” A fragmented fragment on the racialized and gendered divisions of labor affecting black trans and black femme life. A reverse genealogy of a family caught in the tide of slavery’s undoings. A story about a performance with a weak and strong power to remake everything. 2019, 1971, 1931, 1911, 1888, 1850, before, a slave ship, before
Doors open at 5:30pm.