Author La Shonda Mims will discuss her book, "Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South," on August 18 at the Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City. The event is co-sponsored by J. Murrey Atkins Library, the UNC Charlotte Department of History and Graduate History Association, and Charlotte Pride.

La Shonda Mims is an Associate Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. Concerned with the intersections of gender, race, region, and queer identity, her book, Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists, published by the University of North Carolina Press, examines lesbian life in Atlanta, Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Her 2019 article published in the Journal of Women’s History, "Drastic Dykes: The New South and Lesbian Life," explored lesbian-feminist action in the urban New South.