Hannah Arendt Center presents:
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Documenting Trans Family Life
Featuring Krys Belc
Monday, March 6, 2023
Olin Language Center, Room 115
5:00 pm
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Mon. March 6, 5 pm
An Autonomies Series Event
This lecture will focus on the nature of the family archive and its relation to queer and trans liberation and creativity. Parenting is, in the contemporary era, inherently documentary. Parents and other family members tell stories, take pictures, and, increasingly, tell their family story publicly. How can queer and trans artists reckon with archives their families have left behind, and what might ethical documentation of family life look like with queerness at the forefront of the documenter’s mind?
Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit and the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child, which was a New York Times New and Noteworthy title and an NPR Best Book of the Year. His essays have been published in Granta, Guernica, The Rumpus, Brevity, and elsewhere. Krys received his BA from Swarthmore College, his M.Ed in Special Education from Arcadia University, and his MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Michigan University. Krys is the memoir editor of Split Lip Magazine. He lives in Philadelphia with his partner and their four young children.
Read more about Autonomies here
An Autonomies Series Event
This lecture will focus on the nature of the family archive and its relation to queer and trans liberation and creativity. Parenting is, in the contemporary era, inherently documentary. Parents and other family members tell stories, take pictures, and, increasingly, tell their family story publicly. How can queer and trans artists reckon with archives their families have left behind, and what might ethical documentation of family life look like with queerness at the forefront of the documenter’s mind?
Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit and the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child, which was a New York Times New and Noteworthy title and an NPR Best Book of the Year. His essays have been published in Granta, Guernica, The Rumpus, Brevity, and elsewhere. Krys received his BA from Swarthmore College, his M.Ed in Special Education from Arcadia University, and his MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Michigan University. Krys is the memoir editor of Split Lip Magazine. He lives in Philadelphia with his partner and their four young children.
Read more about Autonomies here