Events By Quarter
Conscious Conversations Series
The Movement for Black Lives, Fighting for Black Futures
Panelists Simone Ruskamp, Jasmine LInnea Kelkay, and Chelsea Alexandra Lancaster, facilitated by Dr. Terrance Wooten
Online
Through the work and envisioning of Black leaders, especially Black queer women, the past several years have ushered in an era of mass protest and worldwide demands for a reality where Black Lives Matter. This panel engages with Black organizers, community leaders, and scholars to discuss the radical possibilities of a future where all Black lives matter and explores the role of community in the fight for Black lives. Join the MCC for a dynamic conversation facilitated by MCC Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Terrance Wooten with panelists, including Simone Ruskamp, Jasmine LInnea Kelkay, and Chelsea Alexandra Lancaster.
Art Exhibit
A Conversation with the Artists – Abstractions of Black Citizenship: African American Art from Saint Louis
Dominic Chambers, Jen Everett and Katherine Simóne Reynolds
Online
Black art is political. Black art is liberating. Black art is transformative. Black art is revolutionary.
Come join this dynamic panel of artists as they discuss their online art exhibit, Abstractions of Black Citizenship, currently featured in partnership with the MultiCultural Center. Opening remarks by exhibit curator, Dr. Jasmine Mahmoud.
Register for the Conversation with Artists:
The online exhibit is available until Feb. 28, 2021. Find the exhibition below or at the following link:
https://mcc.sa.ucsb.edu/node/2435
All images, sounds, and videos of the work are courtesy of each artist. All quotes from artists, unless otherwise noted, are from interviews conducted by the curator in 2020. You can find more about this exhibition – including the research guide (with sources cited through the exhibition), studio visit videos with each artist, and education guides – on the exhibition website.
Cup of Culture
Mulan
Director: Niki Caro
Film Screening/Online
When the Emperor mobilizes his troops to fight the onslaught of invaders from the North, a young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to take the place of her ailing father under the name Hua Jun, setting her on an adventure that will transform her into a legendary warrior. 2020. 115 min.
Student led post film discussion to follow.
* NOTE: this event is open to UCSB students for educational purposes only.
Race Matters Series
Joy Through Radical Sex Positivity
Ericka Hart
Online
Sexual health and wellness are intrinsic to any movement toward social justice and pleasure for all bodies at the intersections of their identity. You simply cannot talk about sex without talking about race and gender and the immense impact our identities have on our access to pleasure. This conversation will explore sexual health and wellness from a queer, anti-racist lens. It will center those who navigate society from its margins and help participants identify their own complicities in racialized systems of unjust, foster practical ways to make spaces safer for marginalized groups and apply a pleasure and consent based inclusive approach to their professional and personal lives.
Ericka Hart (pronouns: she/they) is a black queer femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker and award-winning sexuality educator with a Master’s of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University. Ericka’s work broke ground when she went topless showing her double mastectomy scars in public in 2016. Since then, she has been in demand at colleges and universities across the country, featured in countless digital and print publications including Buzzfeed, Washington Post, Allure, Huffington Post, BBC News, Cosmopolitan, LA Weekly, Vanity Fair, W Magazine, Glamour, Elle, Essence, Fader, Refinery 29, and is the face of three running PSAs on the television channel VICELAND. Ericka’s voice is rooted in leading edge thought around human sexual expression as inextricable to overall human health and its intersections with race, gender, chronic illness and disability. Both radical and relatable, she continues to push well beyond the threshold of sex positivity. Ericka is currently an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University’s School of Social Work and the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, a bratty switchy Sagittarius service bottom and misses Whitney more than you.
Social Media: Twitter, Instagram - @ihartericka
Co-sponsored by the UCSB Women's Center and the UCSB A.S. Black Women's Health Collaborative.
