CRG Events

“#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...

The Space Between Body, Spirit and Migration: A Poetry Reading and Drag Performance

October 28, 2021

The Space Between Body, Spirit and Migration: A Poetry Reading and Drag Performance

10.28.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

“The Space Between Body, Spirit, and Migration” considers how poetry and drag performance can inform us about the quotidian experiences of racialized migrants in the United States. Writer Gladys Wangeci Gitau-Damaskos will read and talk about her second book, I’m Not Allowed to Explain (Only Foreshadow & Reminisce), which serves as an attempt to recollect the space between body and...

Citizenship, Illegalization, and Insularity

March 10, 2022

Citizenship, Illegalization, and Insularity

03.10.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Citizenship, Illegalization, and Insularity
with Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton) and Joel Sati (Yale – UC Berkeley)

“Illegalization”: What it is, and why an understanding of it is important.
In this presentation, Joel Sati draws from personal experiences as an illegalized person and a philosopher of immigration and criminal law to present the concept of “illegalization.” Sati defines “...

Queer Visual Resistance

March 16, 2023

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.”...