Making Sense of Representation: Rural Queer Life

Past event
Jul 12, 2023, 12 to 1 PM

Henry Sheldon Museum presents a series of six lunchtime gallery talks, held every other Wednesday, highlighting its current exhibition, ARTISTS IN THE ARCHIVES: UNSEEN NEIGHBORS.

CARLY THOMSEN, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Middlebury College, will speak, drawing on her book, Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming (2021). Thomsen is also the producer of a related documentary film, In Plain Sight. Thomsen will discuss rural queerness past and present, as well as the relationships among cultural representation, activists' calls for "visibility," and the archive. 

For more information, see: https://www.henrysheldonmuseum.org/events.

FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION. ALWAYS FREE FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS AND STUDENTS.

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