featuring Mandy Carter, Hooper Schultz, and Mab Segrest
People have always told the story of the queer South. Still, both silenced and emerging stories remain to be told. In a region (and nation) where ideological battles over family life, gender, and sexual politics continue to unfold, the South is crucial terrain for doing meaning-making work, as well as critically examining the ever-changing context of queerness.
At the launch of our special issue on The Queer South, guest edited by Hooper Schultz and Jaime Harker, Schultz will talk with long-time activists Mandy Carter and Mab Segrest about “queer futurity.”
Drinks & Conversation
Thursday, April 10
5:30–7:30 PM
*please RSVP
The Love House
410 E. Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC
*This event is free and open to the public! Copies of the Spring 2025 issue will be available for purchase.
Mandy Carter is a southern Black lesbian activist with a 50-year movement history of social, racial, and LGBTQ justice organizing. She is a co-founder of Southerners On New Ground and the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), a national civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and same-gender loving people.
Hooper Schultz is an oral historian and PhD candidate in History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his MA in southern studies and MFA in documentary expressions at the University of Mississippi. His research interests include the queer South, gay liberation and lesbian feminism, student activism, and queer oral history.
Mab Segrest is an American lesbian feminist, writer, scholar, and activist associated with the American South. Segrest is best known for her 1994 autobiographical work Memoir of a Race Traitor, which won the Editor’s Choice Lambda Literary Award. Segrest is the former Fuller-Matthai Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Connecticut College.
Header image: Raft of Medusa, by Jimmy Wright, 2003–2004. Oil on canvas, 58 x 65 in. Courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey gallery.
Cover art: A Dinner for Lovers, by RF. Alvarez, 2024. Acrylic on raw linen, 60 x 72 in. Courtesy of the studio of RF. Alvarez and Martha’s Contemporary.
