Events By Quarter
Religious Literacy Series
Second Class Feminists?: The Changing Role of Women in Faith Communities
MCC Theater
Feminism and religion...an oxymoron? These women don't think so. While conversations about feminism are all the rage in pop culture, more and more women and men today are bringing their feminist ideologies into their faith communities to work for positive social change. This panel will explore why feminism is important in both mainstream and religious communities and will discuss why the feminist movement remains critical in the 21st century.
Panelists include contributors to the Faithfully Feminist book: Dr. Gina Messina-Dysert (Dean of the School of Graduate and Professional Studies at Ursuline College), Nia Malika Dixon (author, filmmaker, and founder of Audaz Entertainment, an independent production company), and Rabbi Tamara Cohen (Director of Innovation at Moving Traditions). A reception with panelists will follow in the lounge.
Cup of Culture
Tangerine
MCC Theater
“Gritty and groundbreaking.” – The Rolling Stone
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee Rella, a transgender sex worker, is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, Sin-Dee and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Shot with an iPhone camera, their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles. Dr. Mireille Miller-Young, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, will lead a post-film discussion. (88 min, English, 2015)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALSwWTb88ZU
Race Matters Series
Black Citymakers: “How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America”
MCC Lounge
Black Citymakers revisits the Seventh Ward immortalized in W.E.B. DuBois’s The Philadelphia Negro. In his book, Dr. Marcus Hunter follows the transformation of the neighborhood from predominately black at the beginning of the 20th Century into the largely white upper middle class and commercial neighborhood it exists as today. Dr. Hunter is Assistant Professor in UCLA’s Department of Sociology, and a faculty affiliate at Yale University.
Race Matters Series
Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance
MCC Lounge
Farm workers, usually viewed by their corporate counterparts as backwards and primitive, have actually been in the forefront of visionary thinking about the future. Dr. Curtis Marez looks at how the appropriation of photography, film, video, and other technologies expressed a “farm worker futurism,” a set of farm worker social formations that faced off against corporate capitalism and government policies. He shows how working-class people of color have often been early adopters and imaginative users of new media. In doing so, he presents an analysis of speculative fiction’s engagements with the farm worker movement in ways that illuminate both. Dr. Marez is Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego.
