The Big Gay Read | The Wild West—Decolonized and Uncensored, with Nadine Hubbs
When
Wednesday July 9, 2025: 6:30pm to 7:30pm Add to Calendar / Add to Google Calendar
Where
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room
Description
In Sarah Gailey’s futuristic novella Upright Women Wanted, a band of queer antifascist women and nonbinary outlaws roams the post-apocalyptic West. Gailey’s wild West is far from familiar Hollywood depictions but connects, as Nadine Hubbs shows, to real-life stories of queer cowfolx and the Mexican and Indigenous origins of the cowboy and the American Southwest.
Nadine Hubbs is a historian, musicologist, and professor at the University of Michigan. She writes and speaks on a wide range of musical subjects and has published two books, The Queer Composition of America’s Sound and Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, and an edited collection, Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies. Her media work features in the New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, BBC, the Dolly Parton’s America podcast, and many other outlets. She is currently writing a book titled Border Country: Mexico, America, and Country Music.
This event is part of the 2025 Big Gay Read. To see all of this year's events, visit aadl.org/thebiggayread.
