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A Conversation with the Artist Rio Yañez
MCC Loung
Rio Yañez is a curator, photographer, and graphic artist that has exhibited from Tokyo to his hometown of San Francisco. His work takes Chicano politics and visual iconography and challenges them with a style informed by comic books, pro-wrestling, hip-hop, and Godzilla movies. He will be exhibiting artwork in a variety of mediums including graphic art portraits, Japanese purikura photobooth prints, and 3D anaglyph prints.
Cup of Culture
TLC Presents OFF THE REZ
MCC Theater
A coming-of-age story that follows Shoni Schimmel, a Umatilla Indian, who is a rising basketball star that dreams of being the first from her tribe to get a college scholarship. Jonathan Hock, 90 min., English, 2011, USA. Co-sponsored by the American Indian Cultural Resource Center; American Indian Graduate Student Alliance; American Indian Students Association; and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.
Dreamscape By Rickerby Hinds
MCC Theater (FREE)
Ever have one of those dreams where nothing comes out when you try to scream?
In 1998 a 19-year-old African American young woman was shot to death by four police officers in Riverside, California - while passed out in her car. Through poetry, dance, and beat boxing, actors Rhaechyl Walker and John 'Faahz' Merchant explore the life of Myeisha Mills (Tyisha Miller) and re-frame her death by following the trajectory and impact of the 12 bullets that struck her - each one triggering its own unique memory. Co-sponsored by the Black Performance Series; the Black Studies Department; the Center for Black Studies Research; and the Department of Theater and Dance.
DIVERSITY LECTURE
The Crip's Speech in an Age of Austerity Composing Disability Transnationally Robert McRuer
MCC Theater
Dr. Robert McRuer, Professor of English at George Washington University, is known for being the catalyst behind bringing queer studies and disability studies into productive conversation. In this presentation, McRuer examines the complex and contradictory ways that disability materializes in our moment through queer readings of both disability rights activism and the film The King's Speech. In short, he analyzes the neo-liberal politics of affect in circulation around disability as well as the affective politics that crip and queer activists have generated in resistance to neo-liberalism.
Co-sponsored by the A.S. Queer Commission; the Department of Feminist Studies; the Hull Chair in Women’s Studies; the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; the New Sexualities Research Focus Group; the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance; the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity; and the Sociology Department.
