CRG Events

Hacking Gender Performance: Fat Queer Bodies Negotiating the Politics of Marginality On/Offline

February 13, 2014

Hacking Gender Performance: Fat Queer Bodies Negotiating the Politics of Marginality On/Offline

03.13.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Constructing Performing the ‘Fat Bitch’: Irreverence as Queer Cultural Production Virgie Tovar, Independent Scholar

In Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity scholar Jose Munoz posits that “queer cultural production is both an acknowledgement of the lack that is endemic to any heteronormative rendering of the world and a building, a ‘...

Bodies of Difference and Desire

December 5, 2013

Bodies of Difference and Desire

12.05.2013 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Meditations on Mammy: Asexuality and Blackness
Ianna Hawkins Owen, African Diaspora Studies

The Asexual Visibility and Education Network functions simultaneously as a message board based community and as an advocacy organization advancing the claim that asexuals are “just like everybody else.” In this context, black asexuals on AVEN have created threads/posts seeking out other black asexual users. Non-POC responses...

Race and Social Movements: What Reproductive Justice Teaches Us

November 14, 2013

Race and Social Movements: What Reproductive Justice Teaches Us

11.14.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Panelists will discuss race, gender and social movements based on their practical experience and research with the reproductive justice movement.

Impossible Conversations: The Bottleneck of Race in the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice and Movement Building
Dr. Sujatha Jesudason, CoreAlign, UCSF

In every conversation that CoreAlign (a national sexual and reproductive justice...

Remixing Black Pasts and Futures: Representation Belonging

November 21, 2013

Remixing Black Pasts and Futures: Representation Belonging

11.21.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Cotton Framed Revolutionaries: T-Shirt Culture and Black Power Iconography
Kimberly McNair, African American Studies Over the past four decades Black Power iconography has been evoked within advertisements, posters, and apparel that appeals to consumers of political paraphernalia. I explore the histories of these images mediated across genres in American popular culture from the late 1960s and early...

Hearing and Queering Convergence Across Sound and Text

September 26, 2013

Hearing and Queering Convergence Across Sound and Text

09.26.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

This panel explores the ways in which sound articulates race, nation, culture, and sexuality. Examining the work of several artists, we illustrate the varied aesthetic strategies they have used to pose alternative possibilities for the expression of marginalized identities in the sonic realm and beyond.

Sounding Unity: Paul Robeson’s Afro Asian Interruption
Prof. Tamara Roberts, Music

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Performing Justice: Guatemalan Women Reconfiguring Resistance through Activism and Performance

October 24, 2013

Performing Justice: Guatemalan Women Reconfiguring Resistance through Activism and Performance

10.24.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Tejiendo La Memoria: Guatemalan Women Contesting Violence during La Guerra Civil and its aftermath”
Carolyn Vera, Ethnic Studies, Chicano/a Studies

In this paper, I interrogate the performance art of two Guatemalan performance artists, Regina Jose Galindo and Maria Adela Diaz, emphasizing the ways they use performance art to intervene in Guatemala’s...

Catalyzing Race Revolution: The Black Panthers and the Brown Berets

October 10, 2013

Catalyzing Race Revolution: The Black Panthers and the Brown Berets

10.10.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Presenters share findings from their recent publications on 1960s revolutionary US social movements for racial justice.

Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Prof. Waldo Martin, History

Black against...

Genocide, Memory, and Testimony: Challenges in Guatemala and Commemorations in Chile

September 12, 2013

Genocide, Memory, and Testimony: Challenges in Guatemala and Commemorations in Chile

09.12.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Prof. Beatriz Manz, Ethnic Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies
Respondent: Prof. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Ethnic Studies, Gender Women’s Studies

This year marked a history-making trial when former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans by his own country’s judicial system. Prof. Beatriz Manz testified at the...

Beautiful Sisters: Eyelid Surgery and Asian/Asian American Women

February 11, 2010

Beautiful Sisters: Eyelid Surgery and Asian/Asian American Women

02.11.2010| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Beautiful Sisters
Connie Chung, Peace & Conflict Studies & Public Policy

Intersecting race, gender and beauty, Beautiful Sisters examines blepharoplasty, known as eyelid surgery, and prominent amongst Asians and Asian American women. The film aims to untangle a web of controversy involving Western influences, societal beauty standards, preservation of culture, and choices of...

Embodied Epistemologies: Performing Spirituality, Queering Latinidad

May 2, 2013

Embodied Epistemologies: Performing Spirituality, Queering Latinidad

05.02.2013 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Movement Methodologies: Embodied Conocimiento, Memory & Remembrance
Elisa Diana Huerta, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center

This paper explores the nuanced tensions and poetics of ethnographic research praxis. Drawing upon my dissertation research, I explore the ways in which I, as the ethnographer/researcher/inside-outsider, navigate disciplinary and...