john langellier. join me in a round of supplies -- round of applause as we welcome him to the podium. [applause] john: i feel like a telemarketer. [laughter] i will send you every month a book that i have written that no now.ants if you sign up thank you for allowing me to be here. it is a wonderful opportunity to come back to what we at kansas .tate call western kansas some of you call it colorado. it has been a pleasure. this is a magnificent facility. we certainly want you, if you are not members, before you leave, the doors will not be join.ed until you there is no such thing as a free lunch. i will attempt to make 21st-century technology work for a fellow that still lives in the 19th century. my topic is the buffalo soldiers . the emphasis is on the buffalo soldier experience in colorado. "do you think i will make a soldier?" was an opening line from a spiritual during enslavement in the odious institution, slavery. first issong had its unknown, but the lyrics raised a long-standing question. alt

john langellier new vitality to a subject emphasizing the role of the buffalo soldiers in opening the west. we are fortunate to have him here from arizona. his ba in history and historical archaeology, his ma in history with a concentration on the american west and spanish borderlands with the second emphasis on film history from the university of san diego.

john langellier: gender is about society -- akim reinhardt: gender is about society and culture. are you born male or female or trans? that is biological. you first come out, ok. for biological. gender is how society interprets the male and the female and the ideas and assumptions that it makes about as humanity and femininity -- about masculinity and femininity. let's say you have a friend who is having a baby. you are maybe a little young for that, but use your imagination. your friend is having a baby, and you decided as a gift, a shower, he will bring a onesie, the little things babies where, you putthem in -- wear, them in. the boy, what color onesie? i am just saying. if the kid is a girl, what color? if they are doing old-style, did not want to find out, what color? yellow, green, things that are supposedly gender-neutral. what does that have to do with biology? absolutely nothing. zero. there is nothing inherent about men or women pink or blue. these are ideas society has used to interpret masculinity and femininity. i almost more my pink shirt to make a point, but it did