Graduate students Lucas Belury, PhD student in Geography at the University of Arizona; Gervais Marsh, PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University; and Cait N. Parker, PhD candidate in American Studies with a concentration in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Purdue University, were notified that they each received a grant to complete or advance LGBT-related writing and other creative projects.
Lucas Belury’s project, titled “Queer Survival in 20th Century South Texas,” will chronicle the queer history of San Antonio, TX in the 1970s and early 1980s, and reveal how LGBTQ+ life was shaped by a politics of respectability that reconstituted explicitly queer spaces, palatable to heteronormative society.
Gervais Marsh’s project, titled “Intimate Notes: Patric McCoy's Archive of Black Gay Life in Chicago,” will focus on artist Patric McCoy’s photographic archive as a meditation on histories of Black queer life and intimacy in Chicago from the 1970s to 1980s, while also grappling with the impact of HIV/AIDS on Black communities and artistic expression.
Cait N. Parker’s project, titled “Don’t Let Them Bury Us: Lesbian Revolutionaries in the Prison Abolition Movement,” will analyze the intersections between lesbian activists and the prison abolition movement in the 1980s–2000s.
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