"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).
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