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Spoken Word
More Than Organs: A Night of Poetry
Kay Ulanday Barrett
Online
Paying homage to audre lorde: “I do not believe in single-issue politics, because we do not live single-issue lives,” avenues of critical intersections as brown, poor, trans, im/migrant, Disabled, and “other” are explored. How do competition and respectability politics impose oppression in our actions, our lives? How do we embrace a politic that doesn’t isolate or accommodate, but engages everyday movements to show up for those who are affected & not talked about? How can we come to a place of honoring ourselves fully? You are invited to embrace a sexy, complicated, sacred, powerful, and amazing lineage. To Sick & Disabled Queer/Transgender Indigenous or People of Color (SDQTIPOC) daily survival!
Kay Ulanday Barrett (@brownroundboi) is a poet, performer, and cultural strategist; their collection More Than Organs received a 2021 Stonewall Book Honor Award and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Barrett has featured at NYU, Lincoln Center, the United Nations, Princeton, Harvard, and the Brooklyn Museum. Their contributions are found in The New York Times, them., NYLON, Vogue, Buzzfeed, The Advocate, The Rumpus, RaceForward, and more. Currently, they remix their mama's recipes in Jersey City with their jowly dog. www.kaybarrett.net.
[Description: A flyer with purple background and large organ photo overlayed by large yellow type "more than organs", including a photograph of Kay Ulanday Barrett, a brown round boi wearing glasses with short hair. They wear a gray tweed blazer. They perform on stage with one hand out while the other holds a microphone, in front of a rainbow & Transgender flag.]
ASL Interpretation provided
Cup of Culture
Most Likely to Succeed
MCC Theater
The current educational system in the U.S., once the envy of the world, was developed during the rise of the industrial age. Since then, the world economy has changed profoundly, while our educational system has not. Schools are attempting to teach and test skills that, even when mastered, leave graduates woefully unprepared for the 21st century. This documentary film focuses on a school in San Diego that is completely rethinking what the experience of going to school looks like and accomplishes. (90 min, English, 2016)
Watch the trailer: https://vimeo.com/122502930
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.
