2021 - 2022 Radical Kinship Series
Bios reflect speakers' status at the time of their presentation at the Center for Race and Gender.
Citizenship, Illegalization, and Insularity
03.10.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
Citizenship, Illegalization, and Insularity
with Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton) and Joel Sati (Yale – UC Berkeley)
“Illegalization”: What it is, and why an understanding of it is important.
In this presentation, Joel Sati draws from personal experiences as an illegalized person and a philosopher of immigration and criminal law to present the concept of “illegalization.” Sati defines “illegalization” as “the dynamic, ongoing social and legal processes that make and remake those who lack status as illegal aliens.” Sati’s talk will focus on the similarities and differences between the criminal law and immigration enforcement while examining the way immigration reform has been impeded by its engagement with notions of criminality.
Citizenship & Insularity
Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta will expand on their 2019 article “Citizenship’s Insular Cases, from Ancient Greece and Rome to Puerto Rico” to help scholars better understand the geo-specific aspects of citizenship and its relationship to displacement. By drawing from postcolonial literary critics and political theorists, this presentation will troubleshoot the notion of “citizenship” and “insularity.”
Series co-sponsored by the On the Same Page Program, the Multicultural Community Center, the Undocumented Student Program, and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative at UC Berkeley.
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"On Trains: To All Migrants Past, Present, And Future" with Angel & Keish, and special guest, poet, danilo machado
02.10.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
Angel and Keish’s podcast, A Revolutionary Love Letter: to All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future, is organized around words and phrases that shape im/migrant narratives. They center the experiences of queer im/migrant artists, poets, troublemakers, and organizers whose works and organizing principles have inspired and sparked radical imaginations for what could be a world where we are all free. This talk presents the word trains to think about the history of labor, dispossession, displacement, and fugitivity. The podcasters ask: what sights, sounds, smells are evoked when you think of trains? Were you taught about whose bodies and lands were violated/crossed in the building of railroads? What might trains signify to migrants who are deemed “undocumented” or “unauthorized” by this settler-colonial government known colloquially as the United States of America? Listen to previous episodes of the podcast here.
Series co-sponsored by the On the Same Page Program, the Multicultural Community Center, the Undocumented Student Program, and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative at UC Berkeley.
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The Space Between Body, Spirit and Migration: A Poetry Reading and Drag Performance
10.28.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
“The Space Between Body, Spirit, and Migration” considers how poetry and drag performance can inform us about the quotidian experiences of racialized migrants in the United States. Writer Gladys Wangeci Gitau-Damaskos will read and talk about her second book, I’m Not Allowed to Explain (Only Foreshadow & Reminisce), which serves as an attempt to recollect the space between body and spirit when one gives in to life’s journey as a queer Black migrant femme. Drag performer Wo Chan (a.k.a Pearl Harbor) will blend sound art, performance art, and aesthetics of excess to explore a migrant experience through the lens of affect.
Series co-sponsored by the On the Same Page Program, the Multicultural Community Center, the Undocumented Student Program, and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative at UC Berkeley.
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Due to the graphic nature of this program viewer discretion is advised.
The Radical Capacities Of Ghosts, Auto-Deportation, And Art
10.11.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
In “The Radical Capacities of Ghosts, Auto-Deportation, and Art,” scholar Dillon Sung (USC) will present “Sounds of Silence,” an essay that meditates on the potential capacities of dwelling, madness, and dwelling in madness as the conditions and methods that have emerged under the threat of state violence for undocumented peoples in the US. Public scholar and artist César Miguel Rivera Vega Magallón will present an art talk titled, “ Laudes Guadalaxarensis Civitatis,” which explores the moment when the uncertainty and tedium of irregular migration status becomes an existential anguish or a more concrete threat to health and safety, which makes some illegalized migrants turn to taboo fantasies of return as a way to reclaim agency and survive in climates that attempt to crush that agency.
Series co-sponsored by the On the Same Page Program, the Multicultural Community Center, the Undocumented Student Program, and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative at UC Berkeley.
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