2014 Spring Feminisms and the Radical Imagination

January 28, 2014

Entre Mujeres (Between Women): Embodied Knowledges

Scholars, musicians, writers, and artists Alma Martinez, Helena MarÃa Viramontes, Martha Gonzalez, and CÃ¡ndida JÃ¡quez join to create an evening peÃ±a. A peÃ±a is most broadly conceived as a community […]

J. Kehaulani Kauanui

This lecture focuses on the gendered dimensions of decolonization in relation to the contemporary movement to restore the Hawaiian Kingdom to independent nationhood. Kauanui will draw from her book-in-progress, Thy […]

Deborah R. Vargas, Ph.D.

Vargas will discuss the ways in which Chicana singers push the heteronormative limits of what she refers to as the sonic imaginaries of borderlands (or Mexican-descended) music. Based on critical […]

Naomi AndrÃ©

Scholarship on Porgy and Bess has tended to focus on issues of genre (whether it is an opera or musical), the definitive version of the work (whether or not to […]

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

In 1970, Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver traveled with a delegation of American antiwar activists to visit Socialist Asia. Seven of the 11 travelers were women, most notably Elaine […]

Rayna Green

Rose shows how she performs justice, speaks truth to power, plays the gender card anytime she can, and writes it just like she sees it. Rose can make you think […]

Gerry Rogers

This is a film screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. Filmmaker Gerry Rogers wasn’t sure if this was going to be her last film, so she brought a […]

Aishah Shahidah Simmons

What is the necessary work each one of us must do to co-create a society and by extension a world without violence? How does a “one size fits all” violence […]

Salamishah Tillet

Ten years after her death, Nina Simone is more popular today than when she was alive. In 2013, Beyonce name-dropped Simone as her sole predecessor in her documentary, Life is but […]

Teri Skillman

Hawaiian hula dancers have been subjected to the Western gaze and commodified through visual mediums since Captain Cook’s penetration into the Hawaiian Islands in 1778. The subsequent “scientific documentation” of […]