Event Description
Join us for a Lunch & Learn session with Sapphire Woods (they/them), a community-based researcher, cultural worker, and non-binary trans person of Trinidadian heritage.
Sapphire will share research highlighting African and Afro-diasporic expressions of gender diversity found in written histories and folklore, as well as explore how gender expression has been recorded and celebrated across East, South, and West Asia.
For centuries, colonization and globalization have contributed to the misconception that gender diversity and transgender identities are modern or Western concepts. In reality, gender variety has long been part of cultures and communities around the world.
Join us for lunch as we reclaim these stories, challenge misconceptions, and explore the many ways people have expressed gender throughout history.
This event is in collaboration with the CNCSU as part of International Education Week.