C. Riley Snorton–“Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity” — Dec. 5 at 4:30 p.m.

C. Riley Snorton

“Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity”

Tuesday,December 5, 2017 4:30 PM in Russell House

In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Snorton is associate professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Cornell University, and the author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (Minnesota, 2014).