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Dean Spade & Mia Birdsong: "Sticking Together in Tough Times"
"Sticking Together in Tough Times" Dean Spade, Activist and Professor of Law, Seattle University
Mia Birdsong, Activist and Author of "How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community"
As we confront increased targeting of immigrants, trans people, poor people and so many other vulnerable groups, heightening political repression, worsening ecological crisis, rising rent and food prices, an ongoing pandemic, and so much more, how do we stick together? How do we care for each other and build resistance even under severe conditions? How do we focus on what we can do in our own communities rather than hoping that answers will come from politicians, courts, billionaires, or big non-profits? Dean Spade and Mia Birdsong discuss Dean's new book "Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell, Together" and the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now, and what it takes for us to show up for each other in this moment.
Sponsored by: ISSI's Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Co-sponsored by: Gender Equity Resource Center, Center for Research on Social Change
Becoming Ungovernable: Trans Life Against the State, Eric Stanley in conversation with Jemma DeCristo
While surveillance technologies proliferate, Tourmaline’s 2017 film “The Personal Things” explores Miss Major’s escape from the lockdown of state recognition. Along with Major’s theorization, this paper thinks with the double bind of trans/queer youth of color that the state deems “ungovernable”. This structuring antagonism might find these young people captured by the totalizing violence that is youth jail, while it also names a tactic of getting free. Following them, it is the collectivizing of these practices that grows an alternative to democracy and its mandates of legibility. These commitments to an errant life—gender fugitives on the run from classical recognition by way of provoking an encounter with unintelligibility—illustrates the fierce strategies necessary for becoming, as Denise Ferreira da Silva suggests, a “nobody against the state."
Eric A. Stanley is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. They are the author of Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable (forthcoming Duke UP) and the coeditor of Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility and Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex.
Jemma DeCristo is an assistant professor in American Studies at University of California, Davis. Her current book project, Blackness and the Writing of Sound in Modernity, tracks and imagines a legacy of black sonic experimentation, in artists ranging from Bessie Smith to Roscoe Mitchell, that emerges out of black music’s refusal and dissemblance of technological modernity’s legacies of embodiment and capture.
June 23, 2021
Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Anticipatory Nostalgia: Queering the Hong Kong Handover - Carlos Rojas
November 30, 2020
Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
#MeTooBehindBars: Trans/Queer Rebellion Across Prison Walls-Alisa Bierria and Rojas in Conversation
Rojas is a gender nonconforming, formerly imprisoned, survivor of violence. They organized against gender discrimination while serving a 15-year sentence at CCWF in California. They now organize with the Young Women’s Freedom Center, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, and #MeTooBehindBars, a campaign to end gender-based and sexual violence inside all women’s prisons in California.
Alisa Bierria is an assistant professor of African American Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is also a co-founder of Survived & Punished, a national organization that challenges the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
https://www.davisvanguard.org/2019/10...https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...https://wscadv.org/news/moment-of-tru...https://womenprisoners.org/https://Survivedandpunished.org
Oct 30, 2020
Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Cosponsored by: Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Opening Comments - Ev'ryBody This Time CSSC conference
Sept 29, 2020
Opening comments by Mel Chen at Ev'ryBody This Time Conference
Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Devi Peacock - Ev'ryBody This Time Conference
Sept 29, 2020
Devi Peacock speaks at the Ev'ryBody This Time conference
Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at UC Berkeley.
Ajuan Mance - Ev'ry Body This Time Conference
Sept 29, 2020
Ajuan Mance speaks at Ev'ryBody This Time Conference
Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
