Brooks highlights the role of families, healthcare, educational settings, and religious spaces as both sites of the perpetuation of violence, and spaces of transformation. Siobhan Brooks is a sociologist and Professor of African American Studies at Cal State Fullerton, whose work focuses on the intersections of race, identity, gender, and sexuality. Brooks is born and raised in San Francisco and in 2008 received her Ph.D. from the New School in Sociology. She is the author of Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry (SUNY Press, 2010), which was inspired by her work as a union organization at the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco and explores racial discrimination against Black and Latina exotic dancers. It won the SUNY Press Queer Studies Prize. Her recent book, Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities (Lexington Books, 2020), uses the 2016 Pulse shooting as a launching point to examine the intersections of ideology, and institutions, which promote violence against Black and Latinx LGBT people. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
