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Race Matters Series
Mothering is Radical: A Coalitional Feminist Approach to Anti-Imperialism, Abolition, and Immigrant Justice
Nadine Naber
Online
This talk is based upon ethnographic activist-research with mother-survivors of the Muslim-ban, policing/prisons, and anti-immigrant violence. Dr. Naber will address how those responsible for the labor of mothering among communities of color are the lightning-rods through which the ripple effects of state violence can be seen. In this sense, radical mothering, as Dr. Naber argues, is constituted by the radical potential for abolition and solidarity. Dr. Nadine Naber is an award winning author, public speaker, and activist. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is the faculty founder of the first center on a college campus serving the needs of Arab American students in the United States.
Race Matters Series
Mouths of Rain: Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Briona Jones
Online
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought opens with, "Uses of the Erotic," to honor Audre Lorde's description of the erotic as an empowering creative energy and knowledge that creates space for our work, our loving, our language, and our dancing to breathe. We will explore erotic resonances through the voice of the Blues Woman, poet, and essayist, to map the various ways in which Black lesbian writings have constructed capacious hermeneutics of love.
Cup of Culture
Mulan
Director: Niki Caro
Film Screening/Online
When the Emperor mobilizes his troops to fight the onslaught of invaders from the North, a young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to take the place of her ailing father under the name Hua Jun, setting her on an adventure that will transform her into a legendary warrior. 2020. 115 min.
Student led post film discussion to follow.
* NOTE: this event is open to UCSB students for educational purposes only.
Race Matters Series
Ongoing Nakba: Lessons from Palestine
Dr. Sherene Seikaly
In-person: MCC Theater
This talk traces the experience of catastrophe in Palestine as an ongoing condition of dispossession and the denial of political rights. It explores the lessons Palestinians teach us about resistance, survival, and holding ground.
