The purpose of this Symposium is to showcase student work centered across racial, queer, transgender, and/or non-binary perspectives and issues across a variety of academic and creative disciplines. Any current USM student is encouraged to submit any work they have created during their time at the University to one of the following four categories: History & Liberation, Identity & Culture, Activism & Politics, and Healing & Empowerment.
Dr. Tahtzee Nico is the symposium's keynote speaker. Dr. Nico's bio is available at the following link: Dr. Tahtzee Nico - Bio
Activism and Politics
Foreign Students Struggle at USM during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Maegan Williams
I Am Not A Virus, Lauren Wages
Healing and Empowerment
Cento for Black Boys, Jaylin Jones
Ch*nks Don’t Need Trigger Warnings, Sarah Butt
Contextual Issues in Therapy for LGBT Individuals, Alana Malone
mon coeur veut éclater, Maggie Kelly
Notes From the Chrysalis: Feminine Beauty, Gender Transition, and My Attempts at Untangling the Two, Eden Duley
History and Liberation
Impenetrable Interiority, Ilima Lewis
Mobility and Resistance: Reading Delany’s Blake as an Early Green Book, Jack Hoda
Pigs and Capital, Lawson Bridges
Identity and Culture
Excuse Me, Sarah Burse
Grendel’s Mother: Defying the Feminine Gender Norms, Haley Beasley
Isolated Together, Katie Milligan
Love, sin, Jenna McClain
Void Painting 2, Calais Bates