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Hispanic & Latinx Heritage and LGBTQ+ History Keynote

Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month and LGBTQ+ History Month Keynote featuring Gabby Rivera


Join us in celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month and LGBTQ+ History Month on Monday, September 27, at 6:30pm for the keynote address: Inspiring Radical Creativity: Empowering Young, Diverse, Voices to Tell Their Own Stories. Our guest speaker, Gabby Rivera, is a queer, Puerto Rican author and writer. 

The keynote will take place in the Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union in Auditorium 124. All students, faculty, staff, and community members are welcome to attend.

We would like to thank our sponsors for making this event possible: The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, Student-Athlete Enhancement, Fraternity & Sorority Life, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, the Department of Modern Languages, and the Department of Art and Art History. 

The University Mississippi is committed to full inclusion and access for all. If you have a disability and require an accommodation to fully participate in and enjoy this event, please contact the CICCE at (662) 915-1689 or inclusion@olemiss.edu.  Some accommodations may take longer to arrange, so you are encouraged to contact us at least 48 hours in advance.