Writers & Artists Grant Recipients
2023 Recipients
Cait Parker (she/her) is a Ph.D. Student in American Studies with a concentration in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Purdue University, and she works to introduce a new generation to their queer past through her teaching and research. Her project is titled “‘Don’t Let Them Bury Us’: Lesbian Revolutionaries in the Prison Abolition Movement” and focuses on revolutionary lesbian activists and their work within the prison abolition movement in the 1980s-2000s. Her proposal description can be found below and her article for The G&LR, “Lesbians Against Incarceration,” can be found here.
Proposal Description 2023 – Parker.pdf
Gervais Marsh (they/them) is writer, scholar and curator raised in Kingston, Jamaica, whose work is rooted in Black Feminism and
deeply invested in Black life, concepts of relationality, and care. They are a PhD Student in Performance Studies at Northwestern University, and their project is titled “Intimate Notes: Patric McCoy’s Archive of Black Gay Life in Chicago.” Their focus is on artist Patric McCoy’s photographic archive as a meditation on the histories of Black queer life and intimacy in Chicago from the 1970’s to 1980’s, while also grappling with the impacts HIV/AIDS had on Black communities and the contemporary Black artistic landscape. Their proposal description and bio can be found below and their article for The G&LR will be published in the Jan-Feb issue.
Proposal Description & Bio 2023 – Marsh.pdf
Lucas Belury (he/him/él) is a PhD Student in Geography at the University of Arizona interested in centering the lived experience of communities on the margins. His project is titled “Queer Survival in 20th Century South Texas” and chronicles the queer history of San Antonio, TX in the 1970s and early 1980s, and reveals how LGBTQ+ life was shaped by a politics of respectability that reconstituted explicitly queer spaces, palatable to heteronormative society. He hopes to “honor the legacy of queer advocates—namely trans folks of color—who paved the way for [gay] liberation.” His proposal description and bio can be found below and his article for The G&LR will be published in an upcoming issue.
Proposal Description & Bio 2023 – Belury.pdf
2024 Recipients
Taylor E. Hartson (they/them), a Sociology PhD Student at the University of Notre Dame and a goat-wrangler farmer, and Patricia Mathu (she/her), an Anthropology MA Student at the University of Alabama and a founding member of a queer- and youth-led farm,
are building on dissertation research through their multimedia publication titled Playing in The Dirt. Their project focuses on queer Midwestern farmers/growers and their unique experiences navigating agricultural networks, resources, and communities. They share the stories they collected through 70+ interviews in a book of art and writing by and for queer farmers. This publication will provide much needed queer-created and queer-centric resources for growers and elevate the voices of LGBTQ+ people in rural areas. Recently published by Combos Press, their book, Playing in The Dirt, can be purchased here. Their proposal description and bios can be found below and their article for The G&LR will be published in a future issue.
Proposal Description & Bios 2024 – Hartson & Mathu.pdf
Hugo Ljungbäck (he/him) is a filmmaker, archivist, and media scholar. His research examines the intersections of experimental film and video, queer cinema, and media preservation. He is a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, and his project is titled “Private Visions: Amateur Films, Home Movies, and Queer Self-Representation.” His project explores queer amateur film production and home moviemaking between the late 1930s and 1960s and demonstrates that reconsidering queer amateur films is not only important for the history of queer cinema, especially when so much else has been lost, they are also crucial visual archives of mid-century queer life that articulate an alternative vision of queer visibility. His proposal description and bio can be found below and his article for The G&LR will be published in a future issue.
Proposal Description & Bio 2024 – Ljungbäck.pdf
2025 Recipients
To be announced in Spring of 2025!