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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.
Let's Talk Microaggressions
Phuong Nguyen and Annika Sanchez
MCC Lounge
Join the CAPS Mental Health Peers in tackling the topic of microaggressions during a workshop where attendees will learn the different types of microaggressions and the implications they have on mental health, especially as they intersect with other identities. This shared space will empower students and those with marginalized identities in navigating uncomfortable and harmful situations that involve microaggressions.
Presenters:
Phuong Nguyen, Mental Health Peer. UCSB Counseling and Psychological Services
Annika Sanchez, Mental Health Peer, UCSB Counseling and Psychological Services
For more information or assistance in accommodating people of varying abilities, contact the MultiCultural Center at 805-893-8411. Wheelchair access for in-person attendees.
Cup of Culture
Letters2Maybe
Ana Maria Fabian Lomeli, Activist
MCC Theater
By embracing a kaleidoscopic style of storytelling to highlight the poetics and precarity that follow the craving for freedom, Letters2Maybe is an unfinished letter, articulating the ever-growing yet unflinching demand for justice and tenderness in our world today.
Speaker Bio: Yehuda Sharim is a writer, filmmaker, and poet. His work focuses on the relationship between the quotidian and poetic. Sharim’s films have appeared in film festivals, artistic venues, and universities across the world. His work offers an intimate portrayal of those who refuse to surrender amidst daily devastation and culminating strife, offering a vision for equality and a renewed solidarity in a divisive world. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Program of Global Art Studies, University of California, Merced.
Ana Maria Fabian Lomeli is a local activist from Merced. Ana advocates for undocumented communities and uses her voice to speak up for those who fear deportation. Through fierce vision and the longtime collaboration with Yehuda Sharim, she artistically encapsulates the experience of living in the Central Valley as a woman of color.
Post film Q&A with the Director Yehuda Sharim
