University Of Alaska Anchorage: Nov. 3: Gender Is A Colonial Construct

Press release from the University of Alaska Anchorage:

November 1, 2021

Conversation Café is a facilitated workshop and dialogue space where members of the
UAA community can unpack how race, gender and sexuality show up in our current society.
This month we will be thinking about how gender and the gender binary is constructed
through a Western Colonial lens. Guest speaker Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth will share
how non-binary and gender non-conforming people have always existed and how we can
and should challenge our current understanding of gender.

This Conversation Cafe is connected to Queer History Month (October), Filipino History
Month (October), and Indigenous and Alaskan Native Heritage Month (November). While
we want to celebrate and uplift these important months, we also want to recognize,
celebrate and uplift these incredible communities all the time.

Register here

Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth is a Queer/Two-Spirit multiracial scholar-activist with
Laotian and Diné (Navajo) heritages. Their concentrated area of research is on Indigenous
urban experience, Two-Spirit wellbeing, Relocation Act of 1950, Native and Queer urbanization,
BIPOC Masculinities, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit
in urban areas.

This press release was produced by the University of Alaska Anchorage. The views expressed here are the author’s own.