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Race Matters Series
Reading between the lines: Identifying and interrogating the white supremacy within campus sexual assault policy
Dr. Carrie Samuels
Online Discussion
REGISTRATION ON SHORELINE IS REQUIRED
In this talk, Dr. Samuels will discuss her research on white middle class cultural norms as they relate to campus sexual misconduct and assault policies. With their historic emphasis on response actions like contacting law enforcement, these policies have presented, and continue to present, various binds for Black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) students. Dr. Samuels argues a race-conscious approach to campus sexual assault prevention and response, particularly within predominantly white institutions (PWIs), is vital for the creation of policies that adequately account for the needs and concerns of all students.
BIO:
Dr. Carrie Samuels is an award-winning scholar and author on campus sexual violence. Her expertise is specifically located in the application of feminist critical discourse theory, queer theory, and critical race theory to the epidemic of rape and sexual assault occurring on campuses across the U.S. Dr. Samuels received her PhD in educational leadership and research from Louisiana State University. She lives in Portland, OR with her family, and currently serves as Deputy Director of Mission & Culture for the Cascade AIDS Project.
Co-sponsor: Women’s Center
Spoken Word
Reclamation And Resistance
An Evening of Poetry with Denice Frohman
Online
Denice Frohman is a poet, performer, and educator from New York City. A CantoMundo Fellow, she’s received residencies and awards from the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures, Leeway Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, and Millay Colony. Her work has appeared in Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump, ESPNW, and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she’s performed on national and international stages from The White House to The Apollo, and over 200 colleges and universities. She co-organizes #PoetsforPuertoRico and lives in Philadelphia.
Cup of Culture
REFUGEE
MCC Theater
Mike Siv has a plan: go to Cambodia with his buddies Paul and David, see the sights, have fun and reunite with his father and younger brother, whom he hasn’t seen in 22 years. Harsh reality sets in before the journey even begins, however, as Mike, Paul and David have never been out of the U.S., and are the first in their families to visit Cambodia since fleeing the bloody regime of Pol Pot in the late 1970s.
REFUGEE, director Spencer Nakasako (AKA DON BONUS, KELLY LOVES TONY) follows these young men from San Francisco’s Tenderloin to Battambang where they reunited with long-separated family members in Cambodia. Mike, the most emotionally invested of the three, supplies the film’s narration and main focus.
For Mike, the reunion is filled with happy, strange moments: calling someone “Dad” for the first time, or seeing a smile of recognition on his brother’s face. He relishes time with his family, yet can’t help doggedly pursuing an impossible question – “Why did I grow up without a father?” – as he struggles to understand his family’s past. A simple reunion becomes a journey of self-discovery, maturation and acceptance, against a backdrop of war, broken families and long separation.
Remembering Violence and the Violence of Remembering
MCC Lounge
Khatharya Um, author of the recently published book From the Land of Shadows, will examine the conditions that produced the 1975-79 Cambodian genocide as well as the struggle of Cambodians, both in their homeland and in the diaspora, to live with and transcend this historic trauma. Khatharya Um is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.
