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SUMMARY:Lynch Lecture by Keguro Macharia: Suture: Notes on Method
DESCRIPTION:A recording of the event is now available on the Bonham Centre'
 s Youtube Channel.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf-JTdfvuhg\n\n&nbsp
 \;\n\nJoin The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the Universit
 y of Toronto for our annual Lynch Distinguished Lecturer Series with guest
  speaker Keguro Macharia in conversation with Deb Cowen and Nikoli Attai.\
 n\n"Suture: Notes On Method" will take place on Zoom on October 21\, 4:30P
 M-6PM EST. Register on Zoom here. This event will be held as a 500-person 
 Zoom webinar and live captioning will be available.\n\nkeywords: repair\, 
 invention\, Black Diaspora\n\nSuture names a strategy to work across diffe
 rence. To hold two or more things and to deliberately craft relation. Not 
 presuming that relation should exist or that there is even one way relatio
 n should work. But to invent the strategies needed to craft ongoing relati
 on. To see the work and the craft and the seam and the scar. Suture sits i
 n my mouth as quotidian repair. I want to think about repair not as the ef
 fect of devastation\, though we cannot escape devastation\, but as what su
 stains a quotidian we want to make and inhabit. Suture sits in my mouth as
  a technology that I am moving into metaphor\, even as I want to hold on t
 o flesh. Suture might name what is held through acts of invention. In this
  meditation\, I sit with Audre Lorde's practice of working across differen
 ce and ask how suture\, as invention and repair\, maps Black women's aesth
 etic practices.\n\nBios:\n\nKeguro Macharia is an independent scholar from
  Nairobi\, Kenya. Macharia's scholarship explores the relation between dif
 ference and freedom across the Black Diaspora\, focusing specifically on t
 he seam between Africa and the Black Diaspora. Macharia is the author of F
 rottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (NYU Press\, 2019
 ).\n\nDeb Cowen is Professor in the Department of Geography &amp\; Plannin
 g at the University of Toronto. Her work explores how the spaces of everyd
 ay life are assembled\, reproduced\, contested\, and transformed. She focu
 ses on questions of circulation and infrastructure\, attending to the co-p
 roduction of race and space\, sexuality and social ordering\, and the inti
 mate life of war in ostensibly civilian spaces. She is the author of Milit
 ary Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada. (University of
  Toronto Press\, 2008)\; The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in
  Global Trade. (University of Minnesota Press\, 2014)\; co-editor of War\,
  Citizenship\, Territory. Routledge (2008)\; and co-author of ) Reassembli
 ng the Infrastructures of Citizenship: Digital Life in the Global City. (U
 BC Press\, 2020). Her current research\, entitled\, Spineless: Infrastruct
 ure for the Apocalypse\, explores the key role of socio-technical systems 
 in the colonization of North America\, and unearths alternative visions an
 d forms of infrastructure to reorient us on a path to survival\, justice a
 nd flourishing.\n\nNikoli Attai completed a collaborative PhD in Women and
  Gender Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto 
 in 2019. From 2020-2021\, he served as the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow
 . He is currently working on his first book manuscript titled Queer Libera
 tion? Interrogating Human Rights Activism and the Queer Caribbean\, which 
 interrogates the work being done by activists and non-governmental organiz
 ations in the Anglophone Caribbean and Toronto\, Canada\, and theorizes th
 at current queer human rights interventions fail to adequately address the
  deeply complicated ways that queer people negotiate and resist homophobia
 \, transphobia\, and discrimination in the region. His research and teachi
 ng focus on Black queer studies\, transnational feminism\, transgender stu
 dies\, and transnational sexuality studies\, with a particular focus on th
 e Global South.
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