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4 pm Lecture—Seeing Red: A History of Queer, Trans, and AIDS Symbology 

From pink triangles to watermelon triangles. From “the US government has blood on its hands” to red ribbon remembrances. From rainbow flags to pink, blue, and white flags. Queer, trans, and AIDS histories have forged practices of visibility and solidarity which bypass state censorship and violence by re-coding popular images and flipping symbols of persecution on their heads. 

5 pm Screening—This year’s theme for Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art, Red Reminds Me…, asks us to think, feel, and recall–personally, politically, and collectively–how queerness, transness, and HIV/AIDS have always influenced, and been influenced by, world events. 

Join us at the Benton Museum of Art at ɫ��ɫ in a presentation, film screening, and discussion of how queer, trans, and AIDS symbology continue to underscore coalition-building movements and visions of liberation. 

Jih-Fei Cheng (he/they) is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Scripps College. 

Image: https://visualaids.org/projects/red-reminds-me 

Co-sponsored by the Asian American Resource Center, Chicano Latino Student Affairs, the Office of Black Student Affairs, and Health Education Outreach at the Claremont Colleges, Queer Resource Center, Strive to Thrive at Pitzer College, and the Benton Museum of Art at ɫ��ɫ.