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Saul Williams and Shana L. Redmond
Poet, musician, filmmaker, actor and intellectual Saul Williams discusses the relationships between aesthetic forms and political education in conversation with Dr. Shana Redmond, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference. Reflecting on practices of Black experimentation—in language, music, and film—this dialogue explores the various sites of enclosure and foreclosure, from the nation state to the university, that bear upon the present and what practices are necessary to enact more just futures.
Darlène Dubuisson, Prisca Gayles, Amelia Simone Herbert, and Maricarmen Hernandez
Join us for an engaging joint-book discussion with Professors Darlène Dubuisson (University of California - Berkeley) and Prisca Gayles (University of Nevada - Reno) as they explore the intersecting themes of their recent books, Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures and Pain into Purpose.
Milisuthando Bongela and Amelia Herbert
MILISUTHANDO is a deeply intimate portrait of filmmaker, writer and poet Milisuthando Bongela’s youth in South Africa. The self-titled documentary explores love, friendship and belonging in a South Africa stratified by racism, proving that only if we understand its tentacles, can we begin to extricate ourselves from its clutches.
The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back in conversation with Aaron Scott & Ciara Taylor
Drawing from personal experience, history, religion, political strategy, and more, Theoharis and Sandweiss-Back argue that American poverty will through a mass movement open to all and led by the poor.
Banu Subramaniam (Wellesley College), Rebecca Jordan-Young (Barnard College), and Natali Valdez (Fordham University)
Banu Subramanian, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Natali Valdez will discuss how botany’s foundational theories and practices were shaped and fortified in the aid of colonial rule and its extractive ambitions.
Gale L. Kenny
Exploring the origins of a new world order in Christian imperial feminism.
Dean Spade (author) and Thảo Nguyễn (Thao and the Get Down Stay Down)
Explore how we can challenge harmful cultural norms around sex, dating, romance and friendship while building relationships rooted in freedom and healing.
Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel
How can humor be feminist? How can humor help us tell the hard truths?
Margo Okazawa-Rey, Elif Sarican, Gwyn Kirk, Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen
Launching the Scholar and Feminist issue 20.1 with guest editors Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican and contributors Gwyn Kirk and Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen.
Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) and Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) will be joined by Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) to discuss her new book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2023), a powerful critique of capitalist care relations and the economic profit extracted from care.