All Events
Tomorrow is Now! Afro-Asian Music and the Revolutionary Imagination • Fred Ho
MCC THEATER
Composer, baritone saxophonist, author, scholar, revolutionary matriarchal socialist and aspiring luddite activist Fred Ho will give a unique talk and solo baritone sax recital inter-connecting music and activism for social-political and cultural transformation to combat the plasticity and toxicity of industrial capitalist existence and to replace it with a new social life that is ecological and matriarchal. Fred Ho is the 16th Harvard Arts Medalist in the nearly 400 years of Harvard University.
Co-sponsored by Asian American Studies, Center for Black Studies Research, and the Department of Black Studies.
Art Exhibit
Double Vision: A Opening Reception • Shizue Seigel
MCC Lounge
Japanese American artist Shizue Seigel blurs the boundaries between photography, painting, found objects, and poetry to explore the shifting planes of multicultural identity. In today's evolving world, where minorities are the majority, the complexity of our stories is our American story. Seigel is also a poet and the author of In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Interment (AACP, Inc. 2006).
“Buscando a Frida”: Transnational Media Images in the Creation of Relational White Sexualities through the Consumption of Women of Color Aída Hurtado
MCC LOUNGE
Professor Aída Hurtado, new Chair of the department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, will present her recent work analyzing the transnational images of women of Color in fashion magazines. The focus of her work is the relational construction of white femininities in comparison to femininities of Color as part of maintaining the current racial order. She concludes by applying her analysis to the current political climate as it reacts to perceived threats to white privilege.
Student Series Cup of Culture – Meet the Filmmaker
Two Spirits
MCC THEATER
Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he 'bug-smashed a fag.' But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition – the 'nadleeh', or 'two-spirit,' who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits—a special gift according to his traditional Navajo culture. Through telling Fred's story, Nibley reminds us of the values that America's indigenous peoples have long embraced. Discussion with producer Russell Martin following the screening. Lydia Nibely, 65 min., English/Navajo, 2009, USA.
Presented by the American Indian Cultural Resource Center, the American Indian Graduate Student Alliance, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the American Indian Student Association, and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
