Event

Join Public Trust on Friday, January 31, 2025 from 5:30-7pm for Learn Your History: Ballroom, Femme Queen Performance and Appropriation Today, an intergenerational discussion about house ball culture and femme queen lineages. The event will feature a brief screening and a public conversation with performance icon and ballroom historian Niambi Stanley and scholar and performer Eva Pensis. This event is presented by Public Trust in partnership with the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, with support from Africana Studies, the Center for Experimental Ethnography, Penn Women’s Center, CAMRA, Gen/Sex, and the Black Cultural Studies Collective, as well as Councilmember C. M. Robinson.