This event has been postponed.

Where: Kaufman Hall Room 200
When: May 13, 5:30 – 6:30 PM

To hear them tell it, studs are bad dancers. They’re awkward, self- conscious, and stand on the wall. They don’t know the right steps, can’t distribute their weight, never know what to do with their hands.
They knock knees, can’t hold twerkers up, aren’t smooth enough. This talk takes black queer people seriously as self described “bad” dancers in order to rethink how dance is presumed to consolidate queer community.

Kemi Adeyemi is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Her practice
uses performance as a site and methodology for theorizing the contours of contemporary black queer life.

This talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Associate Professor of Choreography, Will Rawls.

Co-sponsored by:

Black Feminist Initiative at the CSW Barbara Streisand
Center, and by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies.