‘Y’all Better Quiet Down: Trans Advocacy, Justice & Safety’

The Speed Art Museum is currently exhibiting “Breaking the Mold: Investigating Gender.” As part of its programming, it is presenting “Dialogues on Gender.” The three talks will be led by the hosts of WFPL’s “Strange Fruit” podcast — Kaila Story, associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at UofL, and Jaison Gardner. The first presentation is “Y’all Better Quiet Down: Trans Advocacy, Justice & Safety.” The title is a statement LGBTQ activist Sylvia Rivera said at the Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally in New York City in 1973. It will feature Louisville Metro Human Relations Commissioner Dawn Wilson and DJ Victoria Syimone Taylor. July’s talk is “Living a Feminist Life Through Art, Education, & the Media,” with “It Do Take Nerve: Drag as a Subversive Tool of Resistance” in August.

SUNDAY, JUNE 24

Speed Art Museum
3-4 p.m. | Free
2035 S. Third St.
http://speedmuseum.org

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‘Y’all Better Quiet Down: Trans Advocacy, Justice & Safety’

Jo Anne Triplett is the contributing visual arts editor at LEO Weekly. She’s a past member of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Public Art, was the content advisor on the Glassworks Building video, and has written for Louisville Magazine, Kentucky Homes and Gardens and the national publication Glass Craftsman. Jo Anne came to Louisville from Washington, D.C. where she worked as a researcher and writer for the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

 

 

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