Date: Tuesday, Oct. 15
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Common Grounds, EMU University Commons, 1307 Park Road, Harrisonburg
Cost: Free (RSVP needed to attend)
Annabeth Roeschley, executive director of the Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBTQ Interests, will serve as keynote speaker for the third annual Queer History Month address. The free event will be held at Common Grounds in EMU’s University Commons at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
Roeschley, who uses they/she pronouns, is a longtime activist and adviser for queer intersectional justice within and beyond Mennonite Church USA. They embody this role as a queer abolitionist theologian, spiritual care curator, and politicized chaplain who dwells at the intersections of individual and collective healing.
Roeschley graduated from Bluffton University and holds a Master of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary with a concentration in LGBTQ+ Religious Studies.
EMU alumnus Christian Parks ’16 will facilitate a conversation with Roeschley during the event.
Last year, Tori Cooper, a Black transgender woman who serves as director of community engagement for the Human Rights Campaign’s Transgender Justice Initiative, spoke at the annual keynote address.
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