Academic and Scholarly Events

  • 4/22 Decolonizing LGBTQ+ Identities

     Human Rights Symposium and Ninaivu: Memory Archive present "Decolonizing LGBTQ+ Identities: the Ilankai/Eelam/Sri Lankan Tamil Experience" This panel discusses the effects of colonialism on the ways that racialized LGBTQ+ people experience their identities. The four panelists are all LGBTQ+ Ilankai/Eelam/Sri Lankan Tamil people and will discuss their experience, Queer expression, and understanding their identities within the cross roads of colonial implications. The panel consists of North American Tamil speakers D’Lo, YaliniDream, Sunthar Vykunthanathan, and Thiviya Navaratnam.

     

    https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/onstage/g.php?MTID=e2feaa8e8e6ccc4d436ef3496567e88bd

     

    For more information, contact: Aanjali Allegakoen at Sarah.allegakoen@uconn.edu