As a part of the Frederick Douglass Institute Work-in-Progress Seminar Series, predoctoral fellow Ayana Weekley will present a talk examining the discursive representations of African-American women, gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS. In this lecture, "Why Can't We Flip the Script: The Politics of Respectability and Silence in Black Women HIV/AIDS Fiction," Weekley will argue that both marriage and the politics of respectability continue to be important literary conventions for black women writers. She also questions their continued importance in discussions of black female sexualities.
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