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Learn MoreThursday, October 9, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Artist Edie Fake will explore the visual “codes” that exist within queer and trans life and art, examining how these function as tools of visibility and resistance. Drawing from his own artistic practice, Fake will discuss the way in which queer communities have historically created and maintained cultural continuity through visual language—particularly as a means of space-making and survival during periods of political oppression. Fake’s artwork is currently on view in the exhibition Kitsch, Craft, Critique.
Registration is encouraged but not required to attend.
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This event will be held in a wheelchair- and rolling walker-accessible building. The lecture space is wheelchair accessible, with moveable seating. Restrooms are gender-specific and wheelchair-accessible. Listening devices will be available for use during the presentation, but ASL interpretation is currently not scheduled for this event. Most talks will be recorded and available with closed captions on the museum’s YouTube page after the event. Please email access questions to Jill Greenwood, jgreenwo@oberlin.edu.
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