{"670353":{"#nid":"670353","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECookie Woolner, associate professor of history at the University of Memphis, will talk about her new book\u003Cem\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/uncpress.org\/book\/9781469675480\/the-famous-lady-lovers\/\u0022\u003EThe Famous Lady Lovers Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/uncpress.org\/book\/9781469675480\/the-famous-lady-lovers\/\u0022\u003E(UNC PRESS).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECo-sponsored by the\u0026nbsp;Black Feminist Think Tank.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EAbout the Book\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBlack queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black \u0022lady lovers\u0022\u2014as women who loved women were then called\u2014crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black lady lovers grew, and queer flirtations flourished. Cookie Woolner here uncovers the intimate lives of performers, writers, and educators such as Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Gladys Bentley, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Lucy Diggs Slowe, along with the many everyday women she encountered in the archives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExamining blues songs, Black newspapers, vice reports, memoirs, sexology case studies, and more, Woolner illuminates the unconventional lives Black lady lovers formed to suit their desires. In the urban North, as the Great Migration gave rise to increasingly racially mixed cities, Black lady lovers fashioned and participated in emerging sexual subcultures. During this time, Black queer women came to represent anxieties about the deterioration of the heteronormative family. Negotiating shifting notions of sexuality and respectability, Black lady lovers strategically established queer networks, built careers, created families, and were vital cultural contributors to the US interwar era.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFeaturing Cookie Woolner, associate professor of history at the University of Memphis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring Cookie Woolner, associate professor of history at the University of Memphis."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2023-10-11 20:03:07","changed_gmt":"2023-10-13 19:33:38","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-10-20T15:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-10-20T16:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-10-20T16:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-10-20 19:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-10-20 20:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-10-20 20:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Old Civil Engineering Building, Room 104","extras":[],"hg_media":{"672045":{"id":"672045","type":"image","title":"Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall.png","body":null,"created":"1697225595","gmt_created":"2023-10-13 19:33:15","changed":"1697225595","gmt_changed":"2023-10-13 19:33:15","alt":"Event flyer featuring the event title, location, date, time, and headshot of the speaker.","file":{"fid":"255225","name":"Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/13\/Black%20Women%20and%20Queer%20Desire%20Before%20Stonewall.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/13\/Black%20Women%20and%20Queer%20Desire%20Before%20Stonewall.png","mime":"image\/png","size":957174,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/10\/13\/Black%20Women%20and%20Queer%20Desire%20Before%20Stonewall.png?itok=6HgSxOeu"}}},"media_ids":["672045"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"185598","name":"Black female founders"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESherie Randolph\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nsrandolph30@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}