About Writing Club Event

Join MoMA for a special Pride Month edition of Writing Club, a collaboration between CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) and MoMA. This Writing Club is an opportunity to build community among people invested in queer and trans perspectives, art, methods, and liberation. There are two sessions set in place, once in MoMA’s galleries and once online via Zoom.

Amber Jamilla Musser facilitates this special Pride Month edition of Writing Club, on the theme of queer intimacies, making connections with artworks by Kerry James Marshall and Nari Ward that are currently on view in the exhibition History into Being. Inspired by themes drawn from Musser’s most recent book, Between Shadows and Noise (2024), we’ll explore the queerness of submerged histories, sensory exploration, and intimacies. This collaboration between CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) and MoMA is intended to open ways of building queer communities and celebrating Pride Month.

Amber Jamilla Musser is professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on queer studies, Black feminisms, and visual culture. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (2024). In addition to her academic writing, she has essays in various exhibition catalogues and writes art criticism for the Brooklyn Rail.

Event Dates:

RSVP HERE: Monday, June 10, 2024 | 6:00-7:30 pm ET | In-person at MoMA, Cullman Education Center, 4 West 54th Street, NY, NY, 10019 

RSVP HERE: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 | 6:00-7:15 pm ET | Online via Zoom