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Professor Ernesto Martínez delivers keynote address at WGSS student research colloquium, PSU

Professor Martínez will give the keynote address at the 9th annual WGSS student research colloquium tomorrow, April 3 at Portland State University.

Talk details:

“On the Queer Practice and Racial Politics of Intelligibility”

How do queers of color develop reliable knowledge about their lives despite being subject to the ideological violence of racist and homophobic societies?

What importance do we attribute to the strategies queer people of color employ to resist such violence and to negotiate levels of intelligibility, and what are the implications of such interventions for social theory?