Queer Ethics & Activism Dinner with Michael Roberson, House | Ballroom Historian, Theologian, and LGBTQ Community Leader

Thursday, September 14, 6-8 pm

Candler School of Theology, RARB447 

Join us for a conversation and shared meal with artist, activist, and scholar Michael Roberson. This talk will explore the history of the House | Ballroom community as a Black Trans-Womanist theological discourse, a freedom movement, and a spiritual formation responding to race, class, sexuality, and gender oppression. It also examines the community's use of the art of performance as a hermeneutics of the body, situating its history of resistance in conversation with other historical struggles.

Michael Roberson is a public health practitioner, advocate, activist, artist, curator, scholar, educator, and LGBTQ community leader based in New York City. He has written and lectured widely on the history, significance and meaning of the Black/Latinx House | Ballroom community, and he served as a cultural consultant for the Pose FX television show. He is an Adjunct Professor at the New School University/Lang College, and Union Theological Seminary in NYC.