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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.
Race Matters Series
S**t Girls Say Identity Politics and Social Media
MCC Lounge
The S**t Girls Say YouTube meme has become a viral success. (Or a viral problem?) Join us in an interactive discussion on new media and popular culture. Are S**t ___ Say sketches produced by, or actively producing our cultural perceptions? Are these videos just light-hearted, or are they damaging political and social platforms for lived racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality inequalities? Panelists include Sara Hinojos, Chicana/Chicano Studies; Professor Mireille Miller-Young, Feminist Studies; Diana Pozo, Film Studies; and Carly Thomsen, Feminist Studies.
Cup of Culture
AOKI
MCC Theater
AOKI chronicles the life of Richard Aoki, a third-generation Japanese American who became one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party, and explores previously unknown facts about the formation of the party. Discussion with Douglas H. Daniels, Professor Emeritus, Black Studies and Diane Fujino, Professor and Chair, Asian American Studies. Mike Cheng and Ben Wang, 94 min., English, 2009, USA. Co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Department.
