Pride month panel discussion: "Pride and Protest"
Wednesday 26 June 2024
5:00 pm
Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College, CB2 3BU
Free
Please book in advance

Image credit:
Diana Davies / New York Public Library
Since its inception Pride has been a protest – a demonstration of solidarity and disobedience, in the face of injustice and oppression.
The first ever Pride was a march, not a parade. It was called the Christopher Street Liberation March, and it marked a year since the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York.
But as part of our panel discussion we want to discuss the role that protest has, can and should play in the LGBTQ+ movement in 2024, and what form should that protest take?
The discussion will start at 6pm, and will be followed by a drinks reception at 7pm.
Our panellists are:
Dr Rachell Sánchez-Rivera (they/them) is a Research Fellow in the Study of Race and Anti-Racism in Gonville & Caius College and an Affiliate Lecturer inSociology at the University of Cambridge. In 2020, they were an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Cambridge after they completed their Ph.D. in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. Their areas of expertise are in the sociology of health and illness and historical sociology with a focus on scientific racism, critical eugenics studies, and reproductive justice in the Americas.
Dr Diarmuid Hester (he/him) is a radical cultural historian, activist, and author of Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories. He is the co-founder and host of Club Urania, Cambridge's premier music and performance night for queer people and their friends. He teaches at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and is a research associate of Emmanuel College.
Syeda Ali (she/her) is a third year PhD researcher in the History Department at the University of Cambridge, looking at the impact of Section 28 inschools. With a background in education, she is currently working with a theatre company to produce educational resources for a musical about Section 28.