Mireille Miller-Young is an in-demand speaker on topics of feminism, race, and sexuality in the U.S. context.

Please contact her if you are interested in a potential speaking event.

The SRC Presents Mireille Miller-Young: The Black Erotic Archive

November 25, 2019, 4:30 - 6:30pm

Join the Sexual Representation Collection at the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies for its annual speaker series, featuring Mireille Miller-Young for a public lecture on The Black Erotic Archive.

The Black Erotic Archive is an image-based project that explores black erotic photography, film, and ephemera from the late nineteenth to late twentieth centuries. Over nearly two decades, Dr. Miller-Young has uncovered a wealth of images that will finally be brought to light. From 8mm stag films made by small time pornographers in Harlem during the Depression to amateur-photographers in the 1970s, these images form an archive-not-yet-made, exposing how, even as sexuality remains a site of expropriation and trauma, black people also use sexual images to present themselves in ways that displayed complex subjectivities, desires, and labors. Because no central repository of black sexual cultural production exists, we must ask: What does it mean to archive and curate black sex?

Keynotes

Dr. Miller-Young has given keynote presentations at several conferences and events, including:

• “The Black Erotic Archive”

  FilmForum 2021, XIX MAGIS International Film and Media Studies Spring School

  Università degli studi di Udine, Italy

• “A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography”
  Black Feminist Speaker Series
  University of Oregon

• “Telling Our Stories: Black Women’s Sex Work and the Ethics of Oral History”
  Scandal in Real Time: A National Conference on Black Women, Politics, and Oral History
  UC Irvine

• “The Politics of Pleasure: Black Women Beyond Respectability”
  Vassar College

• “The Politics of Pleasure: Black Women Pornography Filmmakers and Erotic Activism”
  At the Limit: Pornography and the Humanities, SUNY Buffalo

Previous Events

Miller-Young has also spoken at events hosted by various centers and universities including:

• Harvard University

• University of Toronto

• Institute for Network Cultures, Amsterdam

• University of Paris-Diderot

• University of London

• Universidad National de Educación a Distancia

• Washington University School of Law

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• University of Oregon

• Denison University

• UC San Diego

• Boston University

• Cal Poly

• Vanderbilt University

• Vassar College

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• University of Oregon

• California College of the Arts, San Francisco

• UC Berkeley

• UC Los Angeles School of Law

• University of Illinois, Chicago

• SUNY Buffalo

• UC Riverside

• The Pennsylvania State University

• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

• UC Santa Cruz

• The Ohio State University

• UC Irvine

• CatalystCon

• CineKink

• Desiree Alliance

• The Sex Workers Film and Art Festival

• Good Vibrations Se Summit