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SUMMARY:McGill Queer History Month 2026 Keynote event | Knowing with francesca ekwuyasi (hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning author francesca ekwuyasi for the 2026 Queer 
 History Month Keynote\, Knowing—mapping a personal queer and creative 
 history through the lens of Audre Lorde's essay Uses of the Erotic: The 
 Erotic as Power. The keynote lecture will be followed by a dialogue between 
 the author and Amber Rose Johnson\, Assistant Professor in the Department 
 of English\, McGill Faculty of Arts. This event will take place in 
 English.\n\nDate: Thursday\, October 15\, 2026\n\nTime: 4:30-7:30 PM ET 
 (catered reception 4:30-5:30 / keynote event 5:30-7:30)\n\nLocation: Tanna 
 Schulich Hall\, located in the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building (527 
 Sherbrooke Street West) OR livestream option (YouTube link sent with 
 registration)\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n	This event will provide ASL-English 
 interpretation and live captioning.\n	The venue is accessible to wheelchair 
 users.\n	Wheelchair accessible and gender-inclusive washrooms are located 
 on the second floor\, via both elevator and stairs.\n	Please email 
 (shannon.wood@mcgill.ca) with questions or accessibility 
 requirements.\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nfrancesca ekwuyasi is the author of 
 Butter Honey Pig Bread and co-author of Curious Sounds: A Dialogue in Three 
 Movements. She won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQIA2S  
 writers\, and has been short and Longlisted for the Lambda Literary Award\, 
 the Governor General Award\, the Amazon First Novel Prize\, the Giller 
 Prize\, and the Dublin International Literary Award and others. She lives 
 between Montreal and Halifax. \n\nAbout the Discussant\n\nAmber Rose 
 Johnson is a writer\, artist\, and cultural worker from Providence\, Rhode 
 Island (USA). She is an assistant professor in the Department of English at 
 McGill's Faculty of Arts. She holds a M.A.\, Ph.D.\, English and Africana 
 Studies (University of Pennsylvania) and was a McGill Third Century 
 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English. She is a scholar and 
 practitioner dedicated to Black Study and her primary research foci are 
 contemporary experimental poetry and performance.  \n\nPartners\n\nQueer 
 History Month is organized by McGill's Equity Team in the Office of the 
 Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic). The 2026 QHM partner is 
 McGill Libraries\, with support from McGill Communications and 
 Institutional Relations. The McGill Equity Team and the McGill Libraries 
 recognize the support of Linda Leith\, OC\, PhD.
LOCATION:Tanna Schulich Hall - Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, Downtown Campus
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