Radical Kinship Series

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.”...

Radical Kinship Series

Since 2020, CRG’s Arts & Humanities Initiative has curated and hosted the Radical Kinship Series.

The Radical Kinship Series brings together scholars and artists working in various media (visual arts, literature) into conversations to discuss how their art imagines decolonial futures in multiple contexts, including safety and anti-Asian violence, Black trans futures, African identity in Mexico, and abolition from indigenous, queer Black migrant, and trans perspectives.

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

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

February 10, 2022 -- Radical Kinship Series

Listen to "On Trains: To All Migrants Past, Present, And Future" with Angel & Keish, and special guest, poet, danilo machado.

LETI VOLPP: Good afternoon, and welcome to our event," On Trains: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and...

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

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

October 6, 2022 -- Radical Kinship Series

Listen to "Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico" with Ebony Bailey.

LETI VOLPP: Good afternoon and welcome to Today's Center for Race and Gender event: The Radical Kinship Series: Screening of Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the heart...

2021 - 2022 CRG Forum Series

2021 - 2022 CRG Forum Series

Bios reflect speakers' status at the time of their presentation at the Center for Race and Gender.

Transcript - "#BLACKLIVESMATTER and Indigenous Resistance: Thinking through Intersectional Movements"

Transcript - "#BLACKLIVESMATTER and Indigenous Resistance: Thinking through Intersectional Movements"

September 17, 2020 -- Radical Kinship Series

Listen to "#BLACKLIVESMATTER and Indigenous Resistance: Thinking through Intersectional Movements".

LETI VOLPP: Good afternoon, and welcome to our event. “#...

Transcript - "Black Trans Intimacies: On Building Futures in the Present"

Transcript - "Black Trans Intimacies: On Building Futures in the Present"

October 29, 2020 -- Radical Kinship Series

Listen to "Black Trans Intimacies: On Building Futures in the Present".

LETI VOLPP: Good afternoon, and welcome to our event, “Black Trans Intimacies, on Building Futures in The Present”....

Transcript - "Rituals for Grief & Love: A Reading with Poets Sade LaNay & Sasha Banks"

Transcript - "Rituals for Grief & Love: A Reading with Poets Sade LaNay & Sasha Banks"

January 28, 2021 -- Radical Kinship Series

Listen to "Rituals for Grief & Love: A Reading with Poets Sade LaNay & Sasha Banks".

LETI VOLPP: Okay Everybody. Good afternoon welcome to our first event of the spring semester at the Center for Race and Gender, “Rituals for Grief and...