Upcoming Teach-In: "It's All in the Reveal...": Valerie Maynard, Revelation, and Black (Dis) Belonging by Alexis De Veaux
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Join us for an upcoming teach-in, “It’s All in the Reveal: Valerie Maynard, Revelation, and Black (Dis) Belonging” by Alexis De Veaux for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
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On Tuesday, November 12th at 6:30 PM EST, join us for an upcoming teach-in, “It’s All in the Reveal: Valerie Maynard, Revelation, and Black (Dis) Belonging” by Alexis De Veaux for The School for Black Feminist Politics, the political education hub of Black Women Radicals.
You can register for the teach-in here: https://bit.ly/ValerieMaynard.
ASL interpretation will be provided. The event will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube.
About the teach-in: In this teach-in, Alexis De Veaux will talk about the life and work of the late Black visual artist Valerie Mayard, as she was undersign as a cultural revolutionary; and how her identities as black and female and her "unvoiced" identity as queer shaped being "at home" in a culture within which black people are always "homeless" by virtue of being both black and not human and therefore members of a "(dis) belonged" class.
About Alexis De Veaux: ALEXIS DE VEAUX, PhD, is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose work in multiple genres is internationally known. Born and raised in Harlem, New York City, she is published in five languages-English, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian. Over the past five decades her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications, most recently in Mouths of Rain, An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought (ed. Briona Simone Jones, 2021). The author of children's books and works for the stage, De Veaux is the author of the memoir Spirits In The Street (1973); the biography-in-prose, Don’t Explain, A Song of Billie Holiday (1980); Blue Heat: A Portfolio of Poems and Drawings (1985, reprinted 2023, Sinister Wisdom). De Veaux also authored Warrior Poet, A Biography of Audre Lorde (2004). The first biography of the pioneering lesbian poet, Warrior Poet won several prestigious awards including the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award, Nonfiction (2005), the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award (2004), and the Lambda Literary Foundation Award for Biography (2004). Her novel, Yabo, was published by Redbone Press (2014) and was awarded the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. Her latest work, JesusDevil, The Parables was published by AK Press in the spring of 2023.
