Events By Quarter
Race Matters Series
Mothering is Radical: A Coalitional Feminist Approach to Anti-Imperialism, Abolition, and Immigrant Justice
Nadine Naber
Online
This talk is based upon ethnographic activist-research with mother-survivors of the Muslim-ban, policing/prisons, and anti-immigrant violence. Dr. Naber will address how those responsible for the labor of mothering among communities of color are the lightning-rods through which the ripple effects of state violence can be seen. In this sense, radical mothering, as Dr. Naber argues, is constituted by the radical potential for abolition and solidarity. Dr. Nadine Naber is an award winning author, public speaker, and activist. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is the faculty founder of the first center on a college campus serving the needs of Arab American students in the United States.
Race Matters Series
Black Panther Party Community Survival Programs
Ericka Huggins
Online
Ericka Huggins is a human rights activist, poet, educator, Black Panther leader, and former political prisoner. For the past FORTY years, she has lectured throughout the United States and internationally. Her extraordinary life experiences have enabled her to speak personally and eloquently on issues relating to the physical and emotional well-being of women, children and youth; whole being education; over incarceration; and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change.
Race and Religion Series
Chicanx Indigeneity: Decolonization and Religious Refusal
Dr. Natalie Avalos
Online
Indigenous religious traditions continue to shape the identities and realities of Chicanx peoples in the U.S. This talk discusses the ways Indigenous religious resurgence now serves as a means to Chicanx cultural sovereignty under continued settler colonial relations north and south of the U.S./Mexico border. Natalie Avalos is an Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies department at University of Colorado Boulder and is currently working on her manuscript titled The Metaphysics of Decoloniality: Transnational Indigeneities and Religious Refusal, which explores urban Indian and Tibetan refugee religious life as decolonial praxis. She is a Chicana of Apache descent, born and raised in the Bay Area.
The Day After
The MCC and Academic Affairs
Online
Four years ago students, staff, faculty, and community members gathered in Corwin Pavilion to discuss Donald Trump’s election as 45th President of the United States. Four years later the United States is on the brink of civil insurrection, as Covid-19, systemic racism, particularly anti-Black racism, and crippling climate change have devastated the country. In his last book before he was assassinated Dr. King asked “Where do go from here – chaos or community?” What will happen after Election Day? Will the country continue to slide toward racial hostility and authoritarianism or will movements like Black Lives Matter, the Me Too movement, and other social justice movements push for much needed social change? Regardless of who wins, much work will be left to be done after November 3.
Come and share your views about the 2020 election and where we as a nation go from here.
This space welcomes domestic and international community members of UC Santa Barbara.
Speakers:
Lisa Park (Asian American Studies Department Chair), Ingrid Banks (Black Studies Department Chair), Laury Oaks (Feminist Studies Department Chair), and Ralph Armbruster Sandoval (Chicana and Chicano Studies Department Chair).
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