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Race Matters Series
Killing the Black Body
Dr. Dorothy Roberts
Online
Published in 1997, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, remains a best-selling book on race, gender, and reproductive freedom more than twenty years later. It documents a long history of regulation of Black women’s bodies in the United States, beginning with the legal status of enslaved women as property, and explains its crucial importance to both reproductive and racial politics in America. Today, these devaluing ideologies, laws, and policies have expanded in new guises that help to perpetuate race and gender injustice in the health care, law enforcement, welfare, and foster care systems. At the same time, the rise of an exciting reproductive justice movement has provided a new framework for envisioning a more humane and equitable society. In an era where reproductive freedom is increasingly under assault, understanding and advocating for reproductive justice is more urgent than ever.
Co-sponsors: Center for Black Studies Research, Dept of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies, Hull Chair of Feminist Studies, AS Black Women’s Health Collaborative
Photo credit: Chris Crisman
Cup of Culture
Kumu Hina
MCC Theater
Kumu Hina is a powerful film about the struggle to maintain Pacific Islander culture and values within the Westernized society of modern day Hawai?i. It is told through the lens of an extraordinary Native Hawaiian who is both a proud and confident m?h? (transgender woman) and an honored and respected kumu (teacher, cultural practitioner, and community leader). A Skype Q&A session with Hinaleimoona, the film’s main character, will follow the screening. (80 min, English, 2014)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDaAoYZUlUA
La Loba Loca
Online
Loba’ s core philosophy is based on (re)claiming and (re)membering Abuelita Knowledge as well as learning how to use our roots as tool for liberation and transformation. Their work focuses on uplifting and centering migrant communities of color, Queer and Trans people of color and trainings to allies. Loba is a University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles graduate. Loba's undergraduate thesis focused on the forced sterilization of Quechua women. Loba decided to create trainings and talks that touch on healing justice + autonomous health + radical politics.
Resilient Love Series
Latinx Generational Trauma
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
Online
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez is unapologetic, angry, and uncompromising about protecting and upholding the stories of brown folks. The bulk of her work is around making accessible, through storytelling and curating content, the theories and heavy material that is oftentimes only taught in the racist/classist institutions known as academia. She started the social media platform Latina Rebels in 2013 which now currently boasts over 200k organic followers online, and has been featured in Telemundo, Univision, Mitú, Huffington Post Latino Voices, Guerrilla Feminism, Latina Mag, Cosmopolitan, and Everyday Feminism. In this talk, she tells stories about her own experiences with therapy, the stigmas around therapy, being 1st- generation, and being from a war-torn country. She also discusses how colonialism has impacted the ways that machismo functions within her context. Finally, she explores how she has reclaimed cooking and other tasks that she distanced herself from in order to illustrate how we can also carry our ancestors’ good name with us, while healing from generational trauma.
