Black Histories and Futures Month
Five Fun Black History Month Highlights—Come Thru!
We want to start you off with a celebration of Black authors, poets, musicians and writers this month! Below is our collection of electrifying content, followed by a list of events you can attend to deepen your connection to Black Studies and black worlds this month.
Books and Songs:
Katherine McKittrick and Kendall Witaszek asked Bianca Beauchemin, Channon Oyeniran, Leeza James, Timothy Yanick Hunter, and Nataleah Hunter-Young what they are reading, listening to, moving to, and moved by this month.
Check out the 2023 Reading List and Playlist.
Looking for more events for Black History and Futures Month?
Events
Black History Month Watch Party - Dear Jackie
Feb 27, 2023 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Join Queen's University School of Kinesiology and Health Studies for a screening of Dear Jackie by Henri Pardo
2023 SXGD Speaker: A talk from Amber Jamilla Musser on Black Femininity and the Uncanny in Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Feb 15, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Amber Jamilla Musser is a professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Bringing the unruly sensations of the uncanny to bear on the shadows and noise, the film "Us" unearths the racialized dialectics that undergird formations of liberal subjectivity, desire, & the domestic.
Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
Feb 14, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Mary Anne Shadd Cary global transcribe-a-thon
Book Launch and Poetry Reading - A is for Acholi
Feb 13, 2023 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Juliane Okot Bitek will launch her latest poetry collection along with poetry readings by authors Kaie Kellough and Canisia Lubrin
The Sixties: A Conversation
Feb 09, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Join Milka Njoroge, Yaniya Lee, and Katherine McKittrick for a conversation about the incomplete and urgent worlds initiated during what Sylvia Wynter calls “The Sixties.” We will be thinking about books, designs, stories, and the connections between unspeakable beauty and freedo