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Resilient Love in a Time of Hate Series + Diversity Lecture
Out of Our Constrictions: Love, Justice, and Imagination for a Broken World
Corwin Pavilion
Tricia Rose, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, will touch upon the current climate of the US and how love, justice, and imagination all play a part of the current times. Author of, The Hip Hop Wars, Longing to Tell, and Black Noise, Rose has brought to life much needed conversations around race, gender, sexuality, and culture. Hip hop, a foundation in Rose’s work, allows for dialogue to be grounded in culture and identity. Tricia Rose received a BA in Sociology from Yale University and PhD in American Studies from Brown University.
Co-sponsored by: Division of Student Affairs
Resilient Love in a Time of Hate Series
Teach-In: Current Issues & Events
MCC Lounge
UCSB faculty will have a series of teach-ins to raise consciousness, learn together. , and support each other at a time when divisions are spreading. It will be a space to look at imaginative and radical ways to combat racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia and oppression. It will also be a space that would address building a community that is just and equal, ensuring dignity for all.
Upcoming Teach-In
Current Events & Issues with Dr. Felice Blake
Mon, Jan 23, 12 pm, MCC Lounge
More Teach-Ins to be scheduled set during the quarter. Please check the MCC website or call us at 805-893-8411.
Resilient Love in a Time of Hate Series + Art Exhibition
Meet the Artist: Favianna Rodriguez/The Radical Imagination
MCC Lounge
Favianna Rodriguez’s art and collaborative projects address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. She aims to critique and reinterpret the larger discursive immigration narratives that are shaping people’s lives around the globe, but especially here in the United States. Her practice serves as a tool for education, agitation, and social critique. Favianna has self-identified as queer and Latina with Afro-Peruvian roots. Rodriguez began as a political poster designer in the 1990s in the struggle for racial justice in Oakland, California.
SPECIAL LECTURE: Favianna’s lecture will be an opportunity for the UCSB community to interact with her on current social issues and how art can inform our Radical Imagination on Tue, Jan 24 at 6 pm in the MCC Theater.
ART OPENING RECEPTION: Stay after Favianna's lecture for a reception on Tuesday, January 24th at 8 pm in the MCC Lounge. Get to talk to the artist and be around community. Small bites and refreshments will be provided.
Co-sponsored by: Undocumented Student Services
Cup of Culture
Love & Solidarity: James Lawson and Non-Violence in the Search of Workers’ Rights
MCC Theater
What can people do to change a world full of violence and hate? Is non-violent revolution possible? The film addresses these questions through the life and thought of Rev. James Lawson. This African American Methodist minister worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., to initiate civil rights struggles in the South in the 1960s. In recent years, he taught non-violence organizing to coalitions of poor Black and Latino workers who have remade the labor movement in Los Angeles. Q&A to follow the film with Director Michael Honey. (English, 2016, 38 min)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tXvpsTV33c
