What are the representations of nonbinary identity that you've seen? How is the Black assumed-male body positioned in current discussion around gender expansiveness? This talk will center the transgressive and transformative potential of asserted Black identity politics beyond the gender binary, the liberatory praxis of being Black and genderqueer on your own terms. Francisco-Luis White is an Afro-Latinx writer, speaker, and consultant. White has presented at OutWrite, Fire & Ink: Witness, the Carolina Conference on Queer Youth, and the United States Conference on AIDS. They have been a keynote speaker at the 2017 Northeast Queer and Trans People of Color Conference as well as the 2017 Latinx Convocation keynote at Wesleyan University. In 2013, they were endorsed by Jill Stein and the Massachusetts Green Party as a candidate for Boston City Council. As a poet, White has been featured at Pete's Big Salmon Poetry Series, Busboys & Poets, the You Can't Kill A Poet Reading Series, among other events and venues. They have work published with Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Vetch Journal, and Lambda Literary Review. White was featured in conversation with other gender non-conforming writers for Winter Tangerine. A fierce HIV and trans health equity advocate, White contributes to TheBody.com and HIV Equal. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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