Panel Discussion: “Creating Evidence: Art and LGBTQ Rights”
Thursday, August 6, 2015
7 pm
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor
Artists and activists discuss the current state of LGBTQ rights across the globe, and how art-making and storytelling can effect social change for this community. Panelists include Malika Zouhali-Worrall, director of Call Me Kuchu, a film that documents the LGBTQ struggle in Uganda; André St. Clair, a Jamaican born interdisciplinary artist; and Steven G. Fullwood, founder of the Black Gay and Lesbian Archive. Speakers share experiences from international and New York contexts, drawing strategies for the ongoing struggle for LGBTQ rights worldwide. Curator and journalist Souleo moderates.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence.