Annual José Muñoz Award: Angela Y. Davis

Angela Y. Davis, professor emerita of history of consciousness and feminist studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, will be honored with the 9th Annual José Muñoz Award. Davis has been at the forefront of 20th- and 21st-century liberation movements, including the Civil Rights Movement, prison abolition, and gender and sexual equality. A prolific writer, scholar, teacher, and political activist, Davis is best known for leading the revolutionary and international struggle to dismantle interconnected structures of oppression for over five decades. Given by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, this award honors an LGBTQ community leader or activist for their advocacy. It is named for the late José Esteban Muñoz, whose work grappled with issues of race, gender, and sexuality.

Presented with CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies.