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The Queer Souths Initiative is one of the newest IHGC ventures. Queer Souths, led by Associate Professor Katelyn Hale Wood (Department of Drama), seeks to bring queer artists and performers working in the South into conversation with scholars, staff, and students at the University of Virginia. The initiative celebrates aesthetic and critical practices that challenge normative structures, intimacies, and ways of knowing. Queer Souths explores this work across Appalachia, the Southern United States, and the multiple transgeographic and transglobal Souths, connecting diasporic and migrant networks from Virginia to Philadelphia to El Paso to Cape Town.
For more information, email Anne Gilliam (alg2u@virginia.edu) or Jack Chen (jwc8v@virginia.edu)
Spring 2026:
- "April 9, 2026, 3pm. Wilson 142: Artist Residency Talk — "Theatrical Jazz and Staging in Queer South(s)," featuring Sharon Bridgeforth and Omi Osun Joni L. Jones"
- April 14, 2026, 7pm, Ruth Caplin Theatre: Performance — "Sittin' in a Saucer," with Omi Osun Joni L. Jones & Company
- April 15, 2026, 7pm, Drama Education Building: Performance — "before you go: an Offering" with Sharon Bridgeforth
Past Events:
Spring 2025
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Allison de Groot Playing Banjo for "The Thrill" April 17, 2025, 9pm, Ruth Caplin Theatre: Performance – "The Thrill"
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Allison de Groot Speaking to Attendees of "Expressing The Thrill" Talk
Fall 2023