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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