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Virtual/ Online Event with Professional Live Captions in English)

About the speaker:

indee mitchell is a Louisiana-based performance artist, Queer Black feminist, and cultural worker interested in experimental and community centered work rooted in collective liberation and healing. They are part of the Last Call New Orleans collective. indee has performed with various dance and theater companies, and has recently found themselves working in arts administration and organizing roles more. They understand this shift as a critical response to injustice faced by Black TGNC (so, transgender and non-conforming people) in the US, and will continue to fight for our liberation, especially through the lens of art making and performance, until we win. indee is a co-director of Last Call, an oral history and arts collective and is on the Cultural Organizing team at Alternate Roots, is the co-director of LOUD youth theater, and organizes with the Black Mutual Aid project in New Orleans.

About the Last Call New Orleans Collective: Last Call is a collective of trans and queer artists and archivists. There are four interwoven components to Last Call: (1) a digital archive of full-length interviews; (2) a podcast series to cull these interviews into curated stories; (3) live performance that honors these stories; and (4) community events that bring together queer people across lines of race, class, gender-identity and generational difference.

This event is part of the , organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.

Our series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), the DIGS Lab, Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, MILA, Dean of Arts Grant, ReQEF, and more (see our website!)

There is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide professional captions in English.