Intersections of Struggle with Walidah Imarisha
When: Wednesday,
March 7, 2018
4:00 PM
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6:00 PM
Where: > See description for location
Description: Intersections of Struggle with Walidah Imarisha
4 - 6pm, Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
Claire T. Carney Library Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Grand Reading Room, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
On the overlapping of Women's History Month and Black History 4 Seasons join us for an inter-disciplinary performance and presentation by multidisciplinary educator, historian, writer, activist scholar and cutting-edge poet, Walidah Imarisha. Learn about the ways Walidah Imarisha has used different forms of writing, research and spoken word to challenge racism, mass incarceration, economic exploitation, and gender injustice.
Discuss how we can use all our creativity to fight for social justice.
Imarisha will share from her wide range of works, including her history workshop 'Why aren't there more Black people in Oregon?', segments from her fiction/ non-fiction/ science fiction, and poetry: Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, Another World is Possible and Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption.
Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Labor Education Center, Black History 4 Seasons, Frederick Douglas Unity House, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality, and History Department.
For a more information go to the Labor Education Center webpage: https://www.umassd.edu/labored/
4 - 6pm, Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
Claire T. Carney Library Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Grand Reading Room, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
On the overlapping of Women's History Month and Black History 4 Seasons join us for an inter-disciplinary performance and presentation by multidisciplinary educator, historian, writer, activist scholar and cutting-edge poet, Walidah Imarisha. Learn about the ways Walidah Imarisha has used different forms of writing, research and spoken word to challenge racism, mass incarceration, economic exploitation, and gender injustice.
Discuss how we can use all our creativity to fight for social justice.
Imarisha will share from her wide range of works, including her history workshop 'Why aren't there more Black people in Oregon?', segments from her fiction/ non-fiction/ science fiction, and poetry: Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, Another World is Possible and Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption.
Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Labor Education Center, Black History 4 Seasons, Frederick Douglas Unity House, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality, and History Department.
For a more information go to the Labor Education Center webpage: https://www.umassd.edu/labored/
Contact: > See Description for contact information
Topical Areas: General Public, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, Black Studies, History, Women and Gender Studies, Black History 4 Seasons, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Labor Education Center, Labor Studies