On November 16th at 6:30CT, we started our lead up speakers series, to our first annual “State of Black Life and The Law Symposium,” with a panel “The State of Black Life and the Law: A BlaQueer Lens” featuring a selection of interdisciplinary BlaQueer, trans and nonbinary scholars of democracy, race, political theory, gender/sexuality, Black Indigenous imagination, lgtbq+ studies, undocumented movements, higher education, public law, racial threats and trauma, and Black and Latin American Studies. Please watch the video below:
The roundtable was attended by over 180 people and the panelists we by asking each of the scholars to reflect and expound, for five minutes, on the question “What is the state of Black life and the law?” The panelists, listed below, each answered the open ended question, before we engaged in an open ended roundtable discussion between these esteemed guests, and finally, our MHSL community and those joining us from around the nation.
