D.C. Queer Studies
Each year the department hosts a lecture or symposium to stimulate important conversations among the LGBTQ studies community in greater Washington, D.C.
In conjunction with the official start of the LGBTQ Studies Program at the University of Maryland in 2003 it began hosting an LGBT Studies Speaker Series. In 2006 a group of faculty from schools in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area formed to discuss new works in the field and to exchange, support, and cultivate new ways of engaging with LGBT/Queer/Sexuality Studies across the disciplines and across institutions. That group, the DC Queer Studies Consortium, was integral to the inception of the first DC Queer Studies Symposium in 2008. Although the original DC Queer Studies Consortium has since dissolved, the Harriet Tubman Department of Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies has taken on the organization of an annual lecture or symposium also referred to as DC Queer Studies or sometimes DCQS.
October 25, 2023 "The Queer Limit of Black Memory, 10 Years Later: A Celebration of the Scholarship of Matt Richardson"
DC Queer Studies returns October 25th for "The Queer Limit of Black Memory, Ten Years Later: A Celebration of the Scholarship of Matt Richardson". In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the publication of Dr. Richardson's book, The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution, scholars, authors, and artists come together for a day of panels and performances. This is a hybrid event, but lunch will be offered to in-person participants with RSVP.
View a slideshow of posters from previous events:
