C. Riley Snorton’s public talk titled “Swamp Tales, Trans Ghosts, and Nonbinary Magical Realism” focuses on how nonbinary, as an analytic, becomes a portal for rethinking dominant conceptions of temporality, territory, and form within and across social difference. This talk pose questions about how abolition and decolonial praxes produce alternative frameworks for reading matters of gender and the environment among Black and Indigenous queer, trans and nonbinary artists and activists. 

The Distinguished Lecture series in the Department of Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies is funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.