UNC Story Archive recording with Dr. Robert F. Reid-Pharr: The Story of Us3 items
Date Deposited: 2021-05-21
Collection: UNC Story Archive (70096)
Archival Collection ID: 70096
Finding Aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/70096/
During a remote recording session, Robert Reid-Pharr (Class of 1987), a Pogue scholar, describes the incredible lessons he learned both in and out of the classroom, as well as growing into his abilities as a leader “to bring people into conversation with each other”. Reid-Pharr “had a very, very clear sense of myself as a person who stood inside... Read more
During a remote recording session, Robert Reid-Pharr (Class of 1987), a Pogue scholar, describes the incredible lessons he learned both in and out of the classroom, as well as growing into his abilities as a leader “to bring people into conversation with each other”. Reid-Pharr “had a very, very clear sense of myself as a person who stood inside the political life of LGBTQ organizing on campus” and did not “want to be a normative gay” in spaces representing “only men [where] just maybe there’d be another Black person there”. He reflects on how he moved the Carolina Gay Association to the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, the “uneasy interrelation” of Black and white students, the COVID pandemic and the AIDS crisis, and how visiting campus thirty years later gave him hope. Reid-Pharr is “deeply, deeply, proud” of the people who came after him and he is “so grateful to the young people who are there now”.Read less