In the Future of Blackness: A Conversation with Alexis De Veaux
Thursday October 22, 2015 @ 6:30pm
Duke UniversityJohn Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies
2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708Alexis De Veaux is the 2015 Lambda Award Winner for Lesbian for fiction for her novel
Yabo. A former contributing editor at Essence Magazine and Chair of Women’s Studies at the University of Buffalo, De Veaux is also the author of an award winning biography of Audre Lorde,
Warrior Poet. De Veaux has also published several children’s books including The Enchanted Hair Tale.
Sponsored by the Center for Arts, Digital Culture + Entrepreneurship (CADCE) in collaboartion with the Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE) + the Duke Program in Women’s Studies + the Department of African and African-American Studies + the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies.
Published on October 16, 2015 13:20