The Summersell Center recently hosted a Queer History Reading Group for graduate students in history.

Organized by Margaret Montgomery, Isabella Garrison, and Dr. John Giggie, Summersell Director, the conversation centered on Charles Blow’s recent memoir, Fire Shut up in My Bones, in which the New York Times journalists talks about growing as a bisexual Black man in the Deep South.

The goal for the group, as put by Isabella, is to “create new spaces for graduate students to look at queer history” and think about how it can “inform their own research and teaching.”

The group will meet next again next month to look at new works in transgender scholarship.