"Towards a Game-Changing Resistance" with Mia McKenzie

Black feminist author Mia McKenzie.
October 5, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theater

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2017-10-05 19:00:00 2017-10-05 21:00:00 "Towards a Game-Changing Resistance" with Mia McKenzie Mia McKenzie is an award-winning writer and a smart, scrappy Philadelphian with a deep love of fake fur collars and Black people. A “black feminist and a freaking queer,” Mia writes about “race, queerness, class and gender in a concise, compelling voice filled at different times with humor, grief, rage, and joy.”She is the author of The Summer We Got Free (2012), Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, and Gender (2014), and is the creator of the the Black Girl Dangerous blog. The website, created in 2012, has grown to publish work from over 300 queer and trans writers of color and reach millions of readers around the world. McKenzie will be visiting OSU as a keynote speaker for LGBTQ History Month in October. Her talk is titled "Towards a Game-Changing Resistance."Please join us in welcoming her to campus!This event is sponsored by the Student Life Multicultural Center, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Kaleidoscope Youth Center. Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theater America/New_York public

Mia McKenzie is an award-winning writer and a smart, scrappy Philadelphian with a deep love of fake fur collars and Black people. A “black feminist and a freaking queer,” Mia writes about “race, queerness, class and gender in a concise, compelling voice filled at different times with humor, grief, rage, and joy.”

She is the author of The Summer We Got Free (2012), Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, and Gender (2014), and is the creator of the the Black Girl Dangerous blog. The website, created in 2012, has grown to publish work from over 300 queer and trans writers of color and reach millions of readers around the world. McKenzie will be visiting OSU as a keynote speaker for LGBTQ History Month in October. Her talk is titled "Towards a Game-Changing Resistance."

Please join us in welcoming her to campus!

This event is sponsored by the Student Life Multicultural Center, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Kaleidoscope Youth Center.