Diversity Affairs at Evergreen

Alice Hom

Making the Connections on Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Sponsored by Evergreen Queer Alliance

Alice Hom will explore the limits and possibilities of identity politics, discusses the intersections of oppressions, and present examples of coalition building. She will use the lens of personal narrative and history.

Wednesday, October 25
She will be hosting a workshop on community organizing at 3pm in B1107. Her lecture entitled Making the Connections on Race, Gender and Sexuality will be in Lecture Hall 3 and starts at 8pm.

Alice Y. Hom is a community activist, educator, and writer. She is completing her dissertation on organizing and community building by lesbians of color from the 1970s to the 1990s in the History Department of Claremont Graduate University. From 2001-2006, she served as the founding director of the Intercultural Community Center at Occidental College. Alice serves on the boards of Visual Communications, an Asian American media arts organization, and Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, the only lesbian foundation in the world that makes grants nationally and internationally. She has published in Amerasia Journal, The Journal of Asian American Studies, and The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women, among others. Alice also co-edited an award-winning anthology entitled, Q & A: Queer in Asian America.