Nasira Watts, MFA Student, recently guest lectured at multiple institutions. On February 23, Watts presented Radical Black Queer Feminism Unmoor's History: As it Should! at a "Slavery and Its Afterlives" course at Barnard College. On March 4, Watts presented The Role of Narrative in Depicting Medical Atrocities faced by Black Women at an "Intersectionality in Bioethics" course at Harvard University.
Furthermore, Watts will be attending the Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference in Boston from March 7 to 10 to participate in a "Teaching Postmillennial African Novels" roundtable with a presentation titled From Omelas to Um-Helat: Teaching AfroFuturisms to Center the Bottom and a "Reclamations of Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary American Literature" panel with a presentation titled Promiscuous Pariah: How Toni Morrison Critically Fabulates Wayward Black Women in Sula.
Additionally, during April 9 to 11, Watts will be interviewing author, academic, and activist Joy James on her new book at Yale University's Yale Divinity School Lecture.