It Was All A Dream: A Celebration of Undocumented Student Anthology Reading
10.17.2014 | 6:00 PM | Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex D-37
Join us for a celebration of a beautiful, multimedia anthology of undocumented student writing. The anthology will include essays, poetry, findings from a research report on the campus climate for undocumented students, and beautiful visual art
Presented by the Center for Race & Gender, the Center for Latino Policy Research, and the Multicultural Community Center....
Join us for a special evening with a live reading and interview on poetic practice and healing with Ariana Brown.
Speaker Bio:
Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet from the Southside of San Antonio, Texas. Ariana holds a B.A. in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies from UT Austin as well as an MFA in Poetry from the...
Over the summer, I asked abuela Belem to tell me a story about my mother. Although my grandmother and mother only lived together for twelve years before my mother became a perpetual migrant, my grandmother decided that the story I needed was not a story about my mother, but a story of shape-shifting people and rituals in our community.
This is a story I won’t repeat, but what I will share is that ever since being offered this story, I have re-oriented my relationship to my entire family and to an understanding of stories as theory, transgression, and archives.
On October 17, 2014, the Center for Race Gender, the Multicultural Resource Center, and the Center for Latino Policy Research celebrated the launch of the student-produced multimedia anthology,It Was All A Dream: Writings by Undocumented Youth at UC Berkeley. The culmination of a long-term research and arts project, the anthology includes essays, poetry, visualart, and findings from a research report on the campus climate for undocumented students. We convened student authors for a reading of their work and curated a gallery exhibit of visual art published in the...
