Maynooth University Department of Geography

Maynooth University Department of Geography invites you to attend an Athena Swan Seminar presented by Prof Gerry Kearns.

“Making Space for AIDS: Imagining Black Queer Survival”

 
The geographical imaginary of AIDS epidemiology deployed popular spatial conceptions of contagion and providence. Black gay men were twice marginalised; by the homophobia of contagion and by the racism of providence. In this talk I will show how Marlon Riggs drew upon Black history, contemporary Black poets, and his own personal mythography to queer metaphors towards Black survival.
 

Marlon Riggs and Essex Hemphill, promotional still for Riggs, dir., Tongues Untied, USA, 1989
 

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  Geography Seminar - Prof Gerry Kearns Making Space for AIDS: Imagining Black Queer Survival