This event—equal parts lecture and dance party—will explore the iridescence of queer nightlife, weaving together oral history and intergenerational family narrative, alongside the legacies and possibilities of queer nightlife to tell a story about queerness and opulence. Free and open to all.

madison moore is an artist-scholar, DJ, and assistant professor of Critical Studies at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. madison holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and has previously held positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, The New School, the University of Richmond, and King’s College London, and has also been a visiting guest artist at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. They are broadly invested in the aesthetic, sonic, and spatial strategies queer and trans people of color use to both survive and thrive in the face of rolling catastrophe. His first book Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), offers a cultural analysis of fabulousness as a practice of resistance.