Location:
Yale University Art Gallery see map
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description:
“Rebirth of the Flesh”: David Bowie & Prince’s (Dis)identifications—On Race, Gender, & Sexuality
Speakers:
Jack Halberstam, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Columbia University, “Trans*Bowie”
Ann Powers, author, critic, and correspondent for NPR Music, “I Am Something You’ll Never Understand: Facing the Strange with Bowie and Prince”
Daphne A. Brooks, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Theater Studies, and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Yale University, “Blackstar, Bright Star, Not a Gangstar: Revolutionary Black Feminisms through Bowie & Prince”
Moderator: Hazel V. Carby, Professor of African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University