Day 2 - PYNK POSSIBILITIES: THE LONG 1980s – BLACK TRANS AND QUEER SOUNDSCAPES OF UNBELONGING

Day 2 of 2-day event -

Art Exhibit: Shades of Black & Pynk: A Celebration of Black Trans+Queer Art, Love, and Writing

Interested in the haunting sound of the 1980s? The event closes with a conversation at the MCC between Matt Richardson and special guest Jafari Allen, Director of Africana Studies and Inaugural Co-Director of the University of Miami Center for Global Black Studies. The three will discuss the enduring impact of 1980s Black popular music and culture and its queer/trans resonances in Matt Richardson’s novel Black Canvas: A Campus Haunting. Christopher McAuley, Co-Chair of Black Studies, will moderate the conversation.