Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Randy P. Conner, M.A.

Author of
Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions:
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation
in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas

with David Hatfield Sparks, MM, MLIS

Monday, April 18
7:00-9:00pm
CIIS Minna Street Center
695 Minna Street @ 8th Street, San Francisco
Directions

Admission is free of charge.
For information, call 415.575.6181

Presented by Laurance S. Rockefeller Library, Diversity Action Team,
and Queer@CIIS Student Group

Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions offers clear insight into the complex dynamics of gender and sexual orientation, humans and deities, and race and ethnicity within these richly nuanced spiritual practices, and explores the ways in which gender complexity and same-sex intimacy are integral to the primary beliefs and practices of these faiths.

The Lambda Literary Awards recognize and honor the best in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature.

Randy Conner is a Ph.D. student in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at California Institute of Integral Studies. Born in Texas, he has taught literature, humanities, comparative religion, and a graduate seminar in the Queer Spirit, Public Intellectuals Program at Florida Atlantic University. He is author of Blossom of Bone: Reclaiming the Connections between Homoeroticism and the Sacred and co-author of Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit.