OUT In Front Conference
This year’s OUT in Front conference will be Saturday, February 18.
The mission of OUT in Front is to engage students, faculty, and staff from across the south/southeast region in issues and topics relevant to the LGBTQQIA+ community and society at large. Each year, the conference strives to connect both individuals and communities with resources that will help to enrich lives across state boundaries and into campuses in the south/southeast. OUT in Front also strives to enhance leadership development for LGBTQQIA+ and Allied students.
The theme of the 2017 OIF Conference is sh(OUT): resistance through existence. Our goal is to explore the ways in which survival and solidarity among intersectional queer+ communities remains vital. Our existence is a powerful presence against the oppressive forces that surround us everyday. We want to boldly shout that we are ready to not only survive, but thrive, and demand that our voices be recognized and centered.
We are so excited to announce our keynote performer, Kit Yan, for our annual OUT In Front conference!
Kit Yan is a New York based spoken word artist from Hawaii and performs theatrical slam poetry pieces about his life as a queer, transgender, and Asian American through stories about family, love, and social justice. Kit has been seen on television programs such as HBO’s Asian Aloud and PBS’ Asian America, and his poetry has been reviewed in New York, Bitch, Curve, and Hyphen magazines and he has toured internationally with Sister Spit, The Tranny Roadshow, and Good Asian Drivers. Kit’s work has recently
been featured in Flicker and Spark and Troubling the Line- two new
queer and transgender poetry anthologies and has a forthcoming
book with Transgenre Press.
Kit will be facilitating a slam poetry workshop and close the conference by performing his slam poetry piece Queer Heartache.
Interested in volunteering at OUT in Front? Check out the various volunteer roles for the day of the conference and sign up here. Volunteers receive a free conference t-shirt and free lunch provided by LGBTQI Life.
Register for OUT in Front here.
Please feel free to contact Liv Parks (they/them) at liv.parks@vanderbilt.edu with any questions or concerns throughout this process.
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