Radical Kinship Series

Transcript - "Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures"

Transcript - "Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures": Book Talk with the Editors

April 14, 2023 -- Radical Kinship Series

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LETI VOLPP: Good afternoon and welcome to today's Center for Race and Gender event the Radical Kinship Series event...

Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL & IRL Spheres

February 21, 2021

Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL & IRL Spheres

02.18.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Garifuna journalist and founder of award-winning platform, “Ain’t I Latina?,” Janel Martinez, will join Dominican visual artist and sociocultural critic, Zahira Kelly, in a roundtable discussion on Afro-Latinx feminist practices as they play out in online and offline spaces. Centering their digital reporting and criticism, this roundtable asks: How has social media expanded the ways Black Latinxs see themselves...

"Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures": Book Talk with the Editors

April 13, 2023

"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...

Black Trans Intimacies: On Building Futures in the Present

October 29, 2020

Black Trans Intimacies: On Building Futures in the Present

10.29.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

In this roundtable, trans and nonbinary artists and scholars came together to discuss the ways in which intimacy is rendered and re-imagined in our contemporary moment, and how intimacy serves as a world-building tool. Dora Santana of John Jay College, SA Smythe of UCLA and Micky Bradford of the Transgender Law Center will share their craft(s) and speak of their work as a form of intimacy with the...

"Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico"

October 6, 2022

"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...

"black god mother this body" - Book Release and Author Interview

September 8, 2022

"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...

“#BLACKLIVESMATTER and Indigenous Resistance: Thinking Through Intersectional Movements

September 17, 2020

“#BLACKLIVESMATTER and Indigenous Resistance: Thinking Through Intersectional Movements

09.17.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

We invite you to join us for the first installment of “Radical Kinship,” a new series curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alan Pelaez Lopez.

In this first installment, Amber Starks...

Rituals For Grief & Love: A Reading with poets Sade LaNay And Sasha Banks

January 28, 2021

Rituals For Grief & Love: A Reading with poets Sade LaNay And Sasha Banks

01.28.2021| 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Join us in celebrating two new poetry collections, I love you and I’m not dead by Sade LaNayand america, MINE by Sasha Banks. Released at the beginning of COVID-19, both poets’ work cannot be any more timely. LaNay and Banks’ collections each take the approach of archival resurrection to name and imagine Black life outside conditions of social death. In I love you and I’m...

The Radical Capacities Of Ghosts, Auto-Deportation, And Art

October 11, 2021

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...

"On Trains: To All Migrants Past, Present, And Future"

February 10, 2022

"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...