Remembering Resilience: Embodying the Queer legacies in uncertain times
As the world spirals into increasing authoritarian, social collapse, and moral panic over queer and trans existence, it is more important than ever that queer communities draw from our revolutionary past to shape a more hopeful future. Yet, it is also essential that we recognize that queer icons of history were also just people living their own fears and fragilities. In doing so, we open the possibility of finding strength in vulnerability, making a space for us to be human in our activism.
In this presentation, cultural worker, somatic practitioner, and 9I制作厂免费 graduate 2013, Kai Cheng Thom invites us to reimagine resilience as human connection in the midst of class struggle and social collapse and illuminates the ways that pleasure, joy, forgiveness, and militancy all belong together as integral aspects of the fight to save the world we love.
Date: October 22, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Armstrong building, Room 365/370
Keynote speaker:
Kai Cheng Thom, author
