All Events
Book Reading
Indigenous Women in the Food Sovereignty Movement: Lessons from the South Central Farm
Online
The goal is to create a space to read and unpack articles, PDFs, e-books, etc written by and for communities at the margins. There will be a specific focus on race/racism; colonialism and capitalism, (eco) feminisms from below, environmental justice, and coalition building/solidarity networks.
Participants will be asked to read the texts beforehand, and will be given a couple guiding questions; however, you can still join even if you have not read the material or answered the questions! Please email Abire Sabbagh, asabbagh@ucsb.edu, if you need access to the readings.
Conscious Conversations Series
International Student Experiences During Covid-19
Office of International Students and Scholars
Online
The Office of International Students and Scholars is thrilled to partner with the MultiCultural Center for a candid conversation as we reflect back to December 2019 when Covid-19 began to spread around the world. Together we will look at the global and local response to the pandemic and the impacts felt by UCSB’s international community. Where were you as the pandemic crossed cultures and geopolitical borders? Come share your story and listen to others. This event is open to domestic and international students, staff and scholars with a special welcome to those who are far from home during the pandemic.
Race & Literature
Intimacies to Apocalypso: Decolonial Feminism & Archipelagic Relationalities
Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vasquez
Online
How do we map relations across the Afro-Atlantic? How do the diasporic cultural productions of the sole Spanish-speaking nation in Subsaharan Africa connect with works emerging from Afro-Cuban, Afro-Puerto Rico, and Afro-Dominican diasporas? What insights do we gain by reading these contemporary works alongside each other? This lecture will examine the long history of Atlantic crossings between Equatorial Guinea and the Latinx Caribbean and engage in a robust discussion about colonialism, diaspora, and decolonial feminisms and relationality. We will trace how themes of intimacy, witnessing, dispossession, reparations, and futurities are remapped in a series of works and will consider how Black diasporic histories are impacted by interlocking structures of oppression. By centering often-peripheralized Afro-Atlantic peoples through a set of diasporic texts we can come to understand how they not only reveal violence but also forms of resistance and the radical potential of archipelagic thought.
IS EVERYBODY STUPID?
MCC Lounge
Hilarious and daring, this timely multimedia performance-lecture is a detailed look into American apathy, disengagement, and the commoditization of death and incarceration in rap culture. Ise Lyfe is an award-winning spoken word & recording artist, justice advocate, and author. His core teaching focuses on social literacy and is grounded in a pedagogy that fosters an environment for students to explore the root causes of poverty and apathy, deconstructing popular narratives charged by prejudice and fear.
