All Events
Student Series
Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen
MCC THEATER
Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen is brought to life by the stories of six thoughtful, eloquent, and diverse transmen. Preachers, teachers, students, and activists educate us simply by making their presence known. Discussion with members of the Black Student Union following the screening. Kortney Ryan Ziegler, 78 min., English, 2008, USA. Co-sponsored by the Black Student Union and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
Student Series
La Maricolectiva
MCC THEATER
In a mix of spoken word, slam poetry, cabaret and stand up, spanish, english y espanglish with a kick of jotaslang, la Jotísima trinidad de la Maricolectiva reclaims the jota/o experience and seeks to 'build a stage on top of the world' para las colored jotitas who speak softly y fiercely. The work of la Yosi, la Neza y la Xuanis started out of the necessity for queer Latino gender non-conforming immigrant voices across the southwest to be heard. This collective of jotas aims at giving priority to those voices that come from displacement, documenting the undocumented and creating a homeland using palabra, teatro, drag y jotería. Co-sponsored by De Colores and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
Race Matters Series
Zombie Orientals Ate My Brain: Anti-Arab & Anti-Asian Themes in Zombie Film & Fiction Eric Hamako
MCC LOUNGE
Since 2001, zombies have become more popular than ever. Why? Zombies tap into historical narratives about Arabs, Muslims, and East Asians. Symbolizing the racial and socioeconomic “Other,' zombies are infused with Orientalist qualities such as an insatiable yet asexual hunger for the flesh, unintelligibility, implacability, and a horde-like social structure that threatens to pollute heteronormative White family structures and racial purity. But, some zombie stories play with and resist these Orientalist ideas -- and so can we.
Cup of Culture
Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School
MCC THEATER
A Native American perspective on Indian Boarding Schools, this film uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from their homes, forced them into boarding schools, and enacted a policy of educating them in the ways of Western Society. It gives a voice to the countless Indian children forced through a system designed to strip them of their Native American culture, heritage and traditions. Chip Richie, 80 min., 2008, English, USA. Co-sponsored by the American Indian Cultural Resource Center, the American Indian Graduate Student Alliance, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and the American Indian Student Association.
