All Events
Race Matters Series
Cages Are the New Plantations: Policing, Prisons and Abolition Sights for a New Millennium Paula Ioanide
MCC Lounge
Prisons and jails depend on confining and exploiting the poor, particularly poor people of color. They require divesting from life sustaining economies like education, affordable housing, health care, and environmental protection in order to invest in economies that denigrate and dehumanize. This talk will focus on how to stop the new Jim Crow in your town and the urgency to create new freedom dreaming sights and sites. Paula Ioanide is Assistant Professor for the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at Ithaca College.
Cup of Culture
Jasad and the Queen of Contradictions
MCC Theater
Lebanese poet and writer Joumana Haddad has stirred controversy in the Middle East for having founded Jasad (the Body), an erotic quarterly Arabic-language magazine. Dedicated to the body’s art, science and literature, Jasad is one of the first of its kind in the Arab world and has caused a big debate not only for its explicit images, erotic articles and essays on sex in Arabic, but also for the fact that an Arab woman is behind it all.
Amanda Homsi-Ottosson, 40 min., Arabic with English Subtitles, 2011, UK/Lebanon.
The UCSB MultiCultural Center in Santa Barbara
An Evening of Spoken Word with Anis Mojgani
Granada Books -1224 State St., Santa Barbara
UCSBs MultiCultural Center is headed back to Santa Barbara, this time hitting the heart of downtown with two time National Poetry Slam Champion and winner of the World Cup Poetry Slam, Anis Mojgani. A TEDx Speaker, Anis has performed for audiences as varied as the House of Blues and the United Nations. Anis has three poetry collections, all published by Write Bloody Publishing: Over the Anvil We Stretch, The Feather Room, and Songs From Under the River.
Race Matters Series
The Erotic Life of Racism, Explained Sharon Holland
MCC Lounge
Sharon Holland will introduce students to the work behind the book, The Erotic Life of Racism (ELR). If racism has an everyday life, how does it remain so powerful and yet mask its very presence? To answer this question, ELR moves into the territory of the erotic, understanding racism's practice as constitutive to the practice of racial being and erotic choice. Starting with the everyday scene that inspired the book, Professor Holland will trace the everyday life of racist practice by way of popular culture. Sharon Holland is Associate Professor in African & African American Studies at Duke University and author of The Erotic Life of Racism. Books will be sold following the presentation.
