Florida State University and Florida A&M University Present Dr. E. Patrick Johnson
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Dr. Johnson will read from and answer questions about his new book, Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women. Duke University Press describes Honey Pot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women as “Combining oral history with magical realism and poetry, Honeypot is an engaging and moving book that reveals the complexity of identity while offering a creative method for scholarship to represent the lives of other people in a rich and dynamic way.
Dr. Johnson is the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies and the Curator for Black Arts in the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing Arts at Northwestern University. Johnson performs nationally and internationally and has published widely in the areas of race, gender, sexuality, and performance. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of several award-winning books, including his two most recent: Black. Queer. Southern. Women-An Oral History(University of North Carolina Press, 2018) and, Honey Pot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women(Duke University Press, 2019).
Florida A&M University’s Department of English & Modern Languages, and Florida State University’s Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program, Honors Program, and Department of Art Education will co-present this event. Attendees can purchase copies of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women at the event.
Admission to the reading and Q&A is free and open to the public.