Radical Kinship Series

"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.”...