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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.
Cup of Culture
Young Lakota
MCC Theater
A young Lakota woman, Sunny Clifford, returns to the Pine Ridge Reservation and is inspired by her tribe’s first female president, Cecelia Fire Thunder. Cecelia defies a South Dakota law banning abortion by threatening to build a women’s clinic on the reservation. Embroiled in a controversial political season that hinges on reproductive rights and tribal sovereignty, Sunny and others are drawn into a political firestorm that changes the course of their lives. Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt, 82 min., English, 2012, USA. Co-sponsored by the EOP-American Indian Cultural Resource Center.
