African Diasporic Literature, Film, and Art; Philosophy; Critical Theory; Science and Biomedicine Agent: Leslie Shipman @ The Shipman Agency
Los Angeles, CA
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Zakiyyah Iman Jackson retweeted
The contributors to "Crip Genealogies" reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship & activism. Read the free intro now! #AmericanStudies #DisabilityStudies ow.ly/XIuW50MC468
ALT Color detail of Sandie Chun-shan Yi and Rahnee Patrick's Skinny. A white background with a close-up of two sacs made with silk organza, containing pieces of human skin, with dark red and ivory embroidery stitches. Between them is the title Crip Genealogies. Above that is the co-editors' names, Mel Y. Chen, Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, and Julie Avril Minich. with a foreword by therí a. pickens appears at the bottom.
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:CANCELED:
In consultation with our current and former graduate students as well as event speakers, our department realizes that the only way to show full solidarity with the UAW workers is to cancel this anniversary celebration.
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New location: To honor the UAW strike, we have moved this event off-campus. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/feminism-on…
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i’ve done it again!
the second annual edition of 28 black films to stream for the 28 days of black history month is here. 💌 blackfilmarchive.substack.co…
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Our programming resumes at the end of the month thanks to @ZIJackson’s at @USC_CFR. Melanie Yazzie joins us on Thursday, 1/27 via Zoom for a presentation on abolition and indigenous feminisms. Register here: usc.zoom.us/webinar/register…
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Everyone save the date-Im talking with the brilliant @ProfJLMorgan next Wed 9/15 6:30 EST for the Conversations series @IRAASColumbiaU. She will be discussing her incredible new work Reckoning With Slavery. Please come thru & forward widely. Register here: bit.ly/3mw5wwm
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in a moment where black films are being deeply associated with trauma, i hope you use this resource to learn more about black films’ past.
in celebration of the launch, i wrote a manifesto on this and how i define a black film on black film archive: blackfilmarchive.substack.co…
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Join us on June 15th for a conversation + celebration of HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND w/ liberation theologian J. Kameron Carter; performance philosopher Sarah J. Cervenak; critical race theorist Patricia J. Williams; and poet Phillip B. Williams.crowdcast.io/e/lqtichxg/regi…
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Afropessimism and Its Others | May 17, 2021 4:00 - 5:30 PM PDT | Free | Register at soka.edu/spillers-talk
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On June 7, join @booksmithtweets for a virtual event with @moyazb in conversation with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein about Moya's new book #MisogynoirTransformed bit.ly/3u0lxLN
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One month from today @ChallengeIneq will host the closing event of the academic year: Freedom and Fugitivity, feat. Saidiya Hartman in conversation w/Aisha Finch @sahaley @LethaboKing @mays_kyle. Join us for reflections on flight, refusal & rebellion RSVP>>challengeinequality.luskin.u…
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'Sometime before 1585 in Bologna, Italy the woman on the cover of this book sat for a portrait... The legality of African enslavability had circulated around the Mediterranean for almost 150 years. Art historians don’t know who this woman is. They can’t.'
dukeupress.edu/reckoning-wit…
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The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at the New School for Social Research presents
AFROPESSIMISM AND ITS OTHERS
A Lecture by Hortense Spillers
Followed by a Response from Patricia J. Williams
June 9, 2021
event.newschool.edu/ICSIHort…
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Professor @ZIJackson's book, 'Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World,' brings together Black literature, art & history to rewrite the relationship between blackness & animality in Western science & philosophy
RSVP and tune in 5/6 at 5pm:
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Enjoy our recording of Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World - Zakiyyah Iman Jackson in conversation with J. Kameron Carter @jkameroncarter @ZIJackson @HLuceFdn crh.indiana.edu/news-events/…
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The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration & Influence festival continues to be available through April 30! Buy and stream today at bit.ly/31XBgzm
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Learn more about the new book BECOMING HUMAN in an online event with author @ZIJackson bit.ly/37t3WmC
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One of many exciting events this #BHM at Wesleyan U. Big up my colleague, @Garry_Bertholf for organizing. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!
@ujamaa_wesu @wesleyan_u #ABWHtruth
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