Black History Month Lecture by Black Male Feminist Gary Lemons

The Black Student Union (BSU) will be closing out its black history month celebration with a presentation by black male feminist Gary Lemons. Lemons will be speaking on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library. His lecture, titled "Cooking with Marlon Riggs: Gumbo as the Cultural Signifier of Radical Blackness," will address issues of black masculinity, sexuality and feminism in the context of the complexity of identity politics in black communities.

Gary Lemons earned his Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. He is the director of Race, Ethnicity, and Post Colonial Studies at Eugene Lang College at the New School University, where he teaches courses on antiracism, feminism, and African-American literature. The founding director of the Memoirs of Race Project, he has authored a number of essays on black feminism and its implications for black men's views on manhood and masculinity. Lemons has recently finished a book on the pro-feminist writings of Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois. He is currently working on a book about what it means to teach as a black male feminist.