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Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Cherríe Moraga
Celebrated writer and activist Cherríe Moraga will speak to the issue of cultural amnesia in the United States and the recuperation of ancestral memory toward the radicalization of political consciousness and activism for the future.
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Meredith Talusan and Lewis Wallace
Transgender journalists will address the problems of "objectivity" for trans journalists and trans subjects, and discuss how to chart a path of rigor, conscious subjectivity, and community accountability in the worlds of journalism and non-fiction storytelling.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037
Asha Futterman and Mariame Kaba
Learn about radical Black women who contributed to making Harlem a center of cultural innovation, radical politics and sustained activism throughout the twentieth century.
The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Jeannette Ehlers, Ellen Nyman, and La Vaughn Belle
Join Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark/West Indies), Ellen Nyman (Sweden), and La Vaughn Belle (St. Croix) for a conversation on the aesthetics of decolonization.
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi
Join award-winning writers Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness Like Water, and Akwaeke Emezi, author of Freshwater, in a conversation on literary approaches to history, archives, and memory, moderated by Yvette Christiansë.
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
La Vaughn Belle, Vanessa Valdes, and Dixa Ramirez, moderated by Tina Campt
This panel challenges the overproduction of certain images of Caribbean men, women, and children that have allowed for dominant, often nationalist, narratives from the region, highlighting inconvenient histories previously ignored, erased, silenced, ghosted.