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REBECCA WALKER
Thursday, February 22, 4 PM
Reading / MultiCultural Center Lounge
Rebecca Walker, the best-selling author, acclaimed speaker, teacher, award-winning visionary and activist will be sharing from her memoir, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self. Walker is well known as an influential voice in the fields of intergenerational feminism, multi-cultural identity, enlightened masculinity, and transformational human awareness.
BLACK WOMEN AND BEAUTY
Tuesday, February 27th, 6 PM
Panel Discussion / MultiCultural Center Theater
Join us for a panel discussion on the influences of beauty within the black community.
Panelists will include Mireille Miller-Young, Women’s Studies Program and Cedric Robinson, Department of Black Studies. The panel will be moderated by Silvia Curtis.
Writing Haiti / Writing Home
LENELLE MOISE / MYRIAM J. A. CHANCY
February 27 • 6 – 8 pm
Literary Reading & Signing / Faulkner Gallery
Join us for an evening of performance poetry and fiction by acclaimed performance artist Lenelle Moise and author Myriam J. A. Chancy at the Faulkner Gallery (40 E. Anapamu Street) in downtown Santa Barbara. The reading will be followed by a book sale and signing and beautiful scarves from the women’s collective of Matenwa from Haiti will be available for purchase.
Lenelle Moise is a self-identified “culturally hyphenated pomosexual poet” who creates personal political texts about the spirits in sexuality, masculinities, being bicultural (Haitian-American), and the intersection of race, class, gender & resistance. She recites from scrolls, from memory and with movement. Lenelle induced standing ovations at both the 2000 & 2001 National Poetry Slams, is New WORLD Theater’s 2003 Poetry Slam champion and was named a 2005-06 recipient of the Astraea Loving Lesbians Award for Poetry
Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph. D., is a Canadian writer of Haitian origin born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, currently a Visiting Associate Professor with the Center for Black Studies and Department of Black Studies at UCSB. She is the author of The Scorpion’s Claw (2005), and her first novel, Spirit of Haiti (2003), was a finalist in the Best First Book Category, Canada/Caribbean region, of the Commonwealth Prize 2004. She will read from her newest novel, The Loneliness of Angels.
Race Matters Series:
Middle East “In Focus”
ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Tuesday, March 6, 6:30 PM
Discussion / MultiCultural Center Lounge
Stereotypical images of the Middle East abound. Some are overtly racist, others borne of a lack of knowledge or even laziness. Elizabeth Robinson will look at some of the images that have been presented throughout time and also some alternatives to them.
