The School of Social Transformation and the Queer X Humanities Initiative at the ASU Humanities Institute are co-hosting a public plenary for the symposium, “Black Trans Futurities: Political Imaginaries in the Academy & the Arts.” Join Che Gossett, K. Marshall Green, LaVelle Ridley and SA Smythe – the four visionary keynote scholars for "Black Trans Futurities" — on Thursday, March 20 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm for a series of short-form presentations of their work in the emerging subfield of Black Trans Studies, and a subsequent roundtable about new directions in this important scholarly inquiry that are relevant to Women & Gender Studies, Transgender Studies, Black Studies, Queer Studies, Latinx Studies and beyond. The roundtable will be moderated by Assistant Professor, Sa Whitley, who is the Co-Director of the Queer X Humanities Initiative and a Women and Gender Studies faculty member in the School of Social Transformation.

 The Black Trans Futurities symposium, a 2-day convening with both public and insular sessions, will be co-convened by ASU faculty members, Sa Whitley and Aaron Mallory, and two ASU Gender Studies Ph.D. students, Sarah Keeton and Aja St. Germaine, serve on the planning committee for the symposium.

 This symposium is co-sponsored by ASU Humanities Institute, the Queer X Humanities Initiative and the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences.