Spelman College will be the first historically black college or university to fund a chair in queer studies, school announces. - NBCOUT
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, the founding director of Spelman’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, said she hopes Spelman’s unique offerings of courses in black feminism and LGBTQ studies can be a model for a more inclusive curriculum at other HBCUs.
“[The Queer Studies Chair] captures in very visible ways our ongoing commitment to intellectual and political projects around social justice issues in the curriculum related to race, gender and sexuality, especially as they impact women of African descent,” Guy-Sheftall wrote in a message to NBC News.Audre Lorde’s previous contributions to Spelman College and her commitment to issues of race and sexuality led Stryker to name the chair for Queer Studies in her honor.
“We are honored to name the chair after the literary luminary and fierce activist, Audre Lorde,” Campbell said.started her advocacy work at a young age and never shied away from difficult subjects. She was a critic of second-wave feminism, helmed by white, middle-class women, and wrote that gender oppression was not inseparable from other oppressive systems such as racism, classism and homophobia.
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified,
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