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Cup of Culture
STEP
MCC Theater
STEP is the true-life story of a girls’ high-school step team in Baltimore. These young women love and thrive – on and off the stage – even when the world seems to work against them. They chase their ultimate dreams: to win a step championship and to be accepted into college. Deeply insightful and emotionally inspiring, STEP embodies the true meaning of sisterhood through a story of courageous young women worth cheering for. 83 min.
Race Matters Series
Intersectionality and Incommensurability: Third World Feminism and Asian Decolonization with Grace Hong
MCC Lounge
The Third World Women’s Alliance is an organization that brought together women of color in socialist anti-imperialist solidarity projects. In examining the role of Asian women within this early women’s organization, Dr. Hong will discuss how the TWWA grew out of and was a part of a Black radical internationalist tradition. She will use feminist analysis to demand a complex and contradictory definition of solidarity that might be helpful for us to remember today. This lecture examines activist engagements with Asian American communities, and highlights the importance of the figure of the Asian woman freedom fighter. Grace Kyungwon Hong is Professor of Gender Studies and American Studies at UCLA.
DIVERSITY LECTURE
Xicana Indigenous Perspectives on Art Practice: Cuento, Codex y Cuerpo
MCC Theater
Artivists Cherríe Moraga (Professor of English at UCSB) and Celia Herrera Rodríguez (Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley), explore indigenous conceptualizations of art and literary expression from the point of view of Xicanas. The Indigenous codex is highlighted in their presentation, the medium par excellence through which word and image is artistically and beautifully rendered to communicate with the world around them and beyond.
DIVERSITY LECTURE
Xicana Indigenous Perspectives on Art Practice: Cuento, Codex y Cuerpo
MCC Theater
Artivists Cherríe Moraga (Professor of English at UCSB) and Celia Herrera Rodríguez (Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley), explore indigenous conceptualizations of art and literary expression from the point of view of Xicanas. The Indigenous codex is highlighted in their presentation, the medium par excellence through which word and image is artistically and beautifully rendered to communicate with the world around them and beyond.
