LGBTQIAA++ in the African Diaspora

In this two-hour session, we will analyze primary and secondary sources, as well as teaching strategies for including queer Black voices into your World History and World Literature classes, advisory, and Gender/Diversity clubs. Together, we will explore contemporary media, short stories, autobiographical writing, and legislation. This workshop asks how Black diasporic contexts challenge Western or Global North conventional conceptualizations of gender and sexualities. More empirically, we will explore key aspects of personhood in Black global societies, including the consideration of the impact of the colonial legacy, conceptions and practices of reproduction, and women’s rights. By the end of the workshop, participants will create a 40 – 50 min lesson plan to use for introducing their students to LGBTQIAA++ voices in the African Diaspora. All workshop materials will be available online: https://www.rainbowisenuf.com

Facilitator:
ROSIE JAYDE UYOLA is a K-12 teacher, independent scholar, documentary filmmaker, and researcher of memory, commemoration, colonialism/imperialism, and Black Life and Culture. Rosie’s publications include “Memory and the Long Civil Rights Movement,” in The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America (University of Florida Press, 2018), “The Digital City: Memory, History, and Public Commemoration,” Ácoma International Journal of North-American Studies, Italia (2015), “Home Sweet Home – Race, Housing, and the Foreclosure Crisis,” in The War on Poverty: A Retrospective (Lexington Books, 2014), “Race, Empire, and the Rise of the Mortgage Industrial Complex,” The Newark Experience Digital Archive (Rutgers University Libraries, 2013), and “Women in the Black Freedom Movement,” School Series Production of Harriet Tubman, New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC, 2008). Their expertise and research interests include urban culture, 20th Century migration/immigration, race and public art, and oral history.