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\"\"“Who is A Queer Ancestor?<\/p>\n

with<\/p>\n

Professor Tavia Nyong’o<\/p>\n

was held on:<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 24, 2024<\/p>\n

This lecture explored the idea of queer ancestry and the prospects of being a \u201cgood ancestor.\u201d Professor Nyong’o reflected upon the process of memorializing the dead and the risks of secular sainthood. Re-staging a famous encounter between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin, he suggested that ancestor reverence might obscure the productive aspects of conflict in shaping queer history. Drawing on the irreverent stance of the late Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, the lecture proposed a model for decolonizing the ancestral, particularly relevant in the digital era.<\/p>\n

A video of this lecture is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Boston University Center for the Humanities,\u00a0The Eve Kosofsky\u00a0Sedgwick\u00a0Foundation and H. A.\u00a0Sedgwick,\u00a0The Departments of English, History, Religion, Romance Studies, Sociology, and World Languages & Literature, and the Programs in African American Studies and Women\u2019s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, The LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff<\/p>\n

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