2017-2018 Lecture Series
“Run with the Race”: SCLC/ W.O.M.E.N. Inc. and Ambivalent Approaches to HIV/AIDS, 1986-1993
Jennifer D. Jones, University of Michigan
The talk examines the efforts of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s female auxiliary to promote HIV/AIDS education in black communities. W.O.M.E.N. Inc. combined a profound interest in propagating accurate information about HIV/AIDS with an ambivalent attitude toward the sexual dimensions of transmission. Jones places the activism of W.O.M.E.N. Inc. in a longer history in which black liberals offered divergent responses to the exclusion of sexual minorities in American life & law.
Jennifer Dominique Jones is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. Her current book project is titled Queering an American Dilemma: Sexuality and Gender in African American Political Organizing, 1945-1993.
Thursday, November 2, 5 pm
Public Disclosures of Private Realities: HIV/AIDS, Healthcare, and the Domestic Archive
Stephen Vider, Bryn Mawr College
Thursday, February 22, 5 pm
Bye Bye Binary: Writing Histories of Non-Normative Gender
Sarah Haley, UCLA
Allison Miller, American Historical Association
Susan Stryker, University of Arizona