After Pulse


L.63 October 1, 2016 4:45 pm - 6:30 pm

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Presenter biographies will be linked below as they become available. Final program subject to change.

Angela Jones, Co-Organizer
Steven Thrasher
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
Greggor Mattson
Terry Roethlein
Jennicet Gutiérrez
Paulina Helm-Hernández

In this session we reflect on the massacre at the Pulse nightclub. In this roundtable discussion we will discuss will reflect on issues raised by the Pulse shootings of June 2016. Events such as this painfully demonstrate the urgency of the ongoing fight for LGBTQ justice. Rather than a traditional panel of presentations, the session will stage a conversation among 4-5 activists and academics from diverse institutional locations to help facilitate as open and critical a dialogue as possible. These are links to panelists’ contributions to this public discussion: