Queer Nightlife, a conversation with Kemi Adeyemi and Kareem Khubchandani

Описание: CLAGS Fellowship winners Kemi Adeyemi and Kareem Khubchandani in conversation with Margot Weiss about Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2021).

In the stretch between sunset and sunrise, whole worlds come into being... in this conversation, we explore house parties, nightclubs, and bars as improvisatory spaces of queer and trans of color performance and theorize aesthetics, art, sound, and dance as world-making projects.

Kemi Adeyemi is the 2020 CLAGS Fellowship winner for her book Feels Right: Black Queer Women’s Choreographies of Belonging (Duke University Press, forthcoming). She is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and Director of The Black Embodiments Studio at the University of Washington. Kemi's writing uses performance as a site and methodology for theorizing the contours of contemporary black queer life.

Kareem Khubchandani is the 2019 CLAGS Fellowship winner for his book Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020), which also won the 2021 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book award. Kareem is the Mellon Bridge assistant professor in theater, dance, and performance studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Tufts University, and is also curator of criticalauntystudies.com.

Margot Weiss is Associate Professor of American Studies, Anthropology, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, where she directs the cluster in Queer Studies. Margot is on the Board of Directors of CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies.

Sponsored by Wesleyan University Departments of American Studies; Dance; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Theater and CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies