2022 - 2023 Radical Kinship Series
Bios reflect speakers' status at the time of their presentation at the Center for Race and Gender.
"Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures": Book Talk with the Editors
04.13.2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
with Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner (Marshall Islander poet, performance artist, educator), Leora Kava (Hafekasi poet of mixed Tongan and pālangi descent, Assistant Professor of Critical Pacific Islands and Oceania Studies, San Francisco State University), and Craig Santos Perez (Chamoru (Chamorro)(Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam)) poet, scholar, editor, publisher, essayist, critic, book reviewer, artist, environmentalist, and political activist).
Join editors Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, and Craig Santos Perez in a conversation about the work of bringing poets together from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. Each writer will select a poem from the anthology and speak to how the poem reorients our understanding of gender, Indigeneity, or queerness in Pacific Islander studies.
The Radical Kinship Series is curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alán Pelaez Lopez. This series is sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, the Multicultural Community Center, the Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq), the LGBTQ Citizenship Cluster - Othering & Belonging Institute, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
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"Queer Visual Resistance"
03.16.2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
with Demian DinéYazhi' (Diné Transdisciplinary artist, writer, curator) and Jess X. Snow(writer/director, multi-disciplinary artist, and poet of the Jiangxi Chinese diaspora).
In We Left Them Nothing (2021), queer Indigenous (Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá & Tódích'íí'nii) artist, Demian DinéYazhi´writes, “witness how a new world emerges in the decaying flesh of colonizer manipulation, illusions of supremacy, & deceptive justice.” In this event, Demian DinéYazhi´ will present an artist talk that explores Indigenous queer and trans resistance through art: How does Indigenous art teach us to witness Indigenous futures, denounce supremacy, and depart from deceptive justice? Joining DinéYazhi' is non-binary Chinese Canadian filmmaker, and visual artist, Jess X. Snow who will share about bringing the intimacy of queer life and inter-generational migrant experiences into public space. They will present on how murals, ad-take overs and storytelling can help us process racialized violence, build coalitions and kinships across cultures and imagine shared abolitionist futures. A Q&A with the two artists will follow.
The Radical Kinship Series is curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alán Pelaez Lopez. This series is sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, the Multicultural Community Center, the Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq), the LGBTQ Citizenship Cluster - Othering & Belonging Institute, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
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"Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico" - Film Screening and Q&A with director, Ebony Bailey
10.06.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
Join the Center for Race and Gender for a Zoom screening of "Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico" (21 mins), and Q&A with director, Ebony Bailey. The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. In Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico, we meet five people to explore African heritage in Mexico City, an identity that goes beyond the color of one's skin. Join us for a special screening and conversation about race, migration, gender, and colonialism in Mexico.
This series installment is sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, the Multicultural Community Center, Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq), UC Berkeley's People & Culture - Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB), and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. The Radical Kinship Series is curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alan Pelaez Lopez.
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"black god mother this body" - Book Release and Author Interview
09.08.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
Join the Center for Race and Gender for a reading and celebration of Dr. Raina J. León’s poetry collection, black god mother this body (Black Freighter Press, 2022). Dr. León’s collection integrates biomimicry, technology, afrofuturist practices and afrosurrealist revelations, and generational engagement across human and nonhuman worlds to boldly encounter the horrors of (digital) lynchings in the murders of black and brown peoples in spirit and in body while also uplifting new radical dreams. In this zoom gathering, the poet will read from her work, share words on the evolution of the collection and engage in a live interview with poet-scholar Alán Pelaez Lopez.
The Radical Kinship Series is curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alán Pelaez Lopez. This series is sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, the Multicultural Community Center, and the Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq).
LISTEN - Click to hear "black god mother this body" - Book Release and Author Interview.
