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Black Feminism 101: A Teach-In

Date

Monday March 27, 2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

Ban Righ Centre, 32 Bader Lane

A Teach-In and Conversation with Bianca Beauchemin & Katherine McKittrick

 

 

 

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Space is limited, please register here.

This is an informal conversation that will introduce black feminist thought and black feminism. We will introduce key concepts, key thinkers, and key debates, drawing attention to some of the ways black women, black queers, black creatives, and black activists help us better understand practices of liberation in the black diaspora. This will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a collective dialogue about black feminist thought.

Light drinks and snacks will be available.

  • In the first portion of the conversation, we will highlight some key concepts and narratives that inform black feminist thought and black feminism: the living memory of slavery; controlling images; queer of colour critique; diaspora; identity; interdisciplinarity and citation practices; erotic.
  • In the second portion of the conversation, we will talk a little about our favourite thinkers: bell hooks; Toni Morrison; Carole Boyce Davies; Françoise Vergès; Angela Davis; Audre Lorde.
  • In the third portion of the conversation, we will invite a collective discussion about key terms, key thinkers, and black feminist futures.

This event is sponsored by Gender Studies, the CRC in Black Studies, and the Ban Righ Centre.

Gender Matters Speaker Series: Poetry Reading

Date

Wednesday March 22, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location

Robert Sutherland Hall, room 202

March 2023 Gender Matters Speaker Series

Gender Matters March 2023 Poetry Reading

Poetry Reading from Chloé Savoie-Bernard and Juliane Okot Bitek

Registration not required.
 
Dr. Chloé Savoie-Bernard is a writer who works various forms: poetry, short story, literary criticism, and translation. As an editor she works at L’Hexagone, a publishing house in Montréal. She is also developing a practice in performance. She has published several books, most notably Des femmes savantes, (Triptyque, 2016) and most recently Sainte Chloé de l’amour (Hexagone, 2021). Since September 2022, she is a professor in the Department of French Studies at Queen’s University.
 
Juliane Okot Bitek is a poet. Her collection of poetry, 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016) was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 BC Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Her most recent publication A is for Acholi (Wolsak and Wynn 2022) is a poetry collection that reflects on life as a Black diasporan person in Canada. Juliane lives in Kingston, Canada, to on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe people. She is an assistant professor of Black Studies at Queen's University, in Kingston, where she is joint appointed in Gender Studies and English.

Details to follow.

 

International Women's Day 2023

This year for International Women’s Day (IWD), Gender Studies and Black Studies are looking to the city—and thinking about how feminist and anti-racist organizers, creatives, and researchers have challenged us to re-imagine the city, rebuild the city, redefine the city, and better understand the global, transnational, and diasporic contours of the urban.

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2023 SXGD Speaker: A talk from Amber Jamilla Musser on Black Femininity and the Uncanny in Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Date

Wednesday February 15, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location

Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202

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This link will take you to the Queen’s University Library Page. Once on this page, under ‘View Online,’ click on the ‘Audio Cine,’ hyperlink. This link will take you directly to a page to view the film. This link will only work for people who have valid NetIDs for Queen’s.

There will be a reception after the talk from 1:30-2:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.

About this talk:

Unlike Get Out, whose plot twists provided some of the film’s shock, the trailers for Us foreground the film’s conceit: a family comes home from a day at the beach to find murderous doubles in their home. While the film complicates this reveal, the sense of dread that the film activates—comes not from suspense but from its mobilization of the uncanny. Even before the doppelgangers are introduced, the film—especially upon repeat viewing—percolates with the sense that something is amiss. Bringing the unruly sensations of the uncanny to bear on the shadows and noise in Us unearths the racialized dialectics that undergird formations of liberal subjectivity, desire, and the domestic. This talk will explore these complex dynamics and put them in conversation with black feminism.

About the speaker:

Amber Jamilla Musser is professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, sexuality, queer theory, and aesthetics. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) and Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press, 2018). She co-edited with Kadji Amin and Roy Pérez, ASAP's special issue on Queer Form (2017) and with Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Aren Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Mishuana Goeman, and Karma Chavez of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (NYU Press, 2021), and with Linda Bloom and Martha Fineman, "Care and its Complexities" Signs (forthcoming, Fall 2023). She also serves as a member of the Social Text Collective and president of ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present). She writes art criticism for Brooklyn Rail. She is currently finishing a project entitled "Between Shadows and Noise" on race, representation, and the possibilities of fleshy knowledge.

This talk counts towards the Sexual & Gender Diversity Certificate. To find out more about this Certificate program, which is available to all undergraduate students at Queen's University, visit the SXGD page.

 

The Sixties: A Conversation

Date

Thursday February 9, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location

Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 421

The Sixties: A Conversation about Books, Designs, and Beauty with Milka Njoroge, Yaniya Lee, and Katherine McKittrick

Join us in a conversation about the incomplete and urgent worlds initiated during what Sylvia Wynter calls “The Sixties”; to discuss literary production and design during The Sixties; to work out how bibliographies are made, book designs are effaced, and ideas are reimagined and reissued; to think about the connections between unspeakable beauty and freedom-making. 

Thursday February 9th | Room 421, Robert Sutherland Hall, 4th floor 2:00-3.30pm

Refreshments & food provided.

The exhibit of individual book covers will be on display at Stauffer Library and Novel Idea from Feb 6- 28

For a list of all Black Histories and Black Futures Events for 2023, please click here.

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Black History Month Watch Party - Dear Jackie

Date

Monday February 27, 2023
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Location

The Screening Room 120 Princess Street Kingston, ON K7L 5M6

The School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's is hosting a free watch party for undergraduate & graduate students, faculty, staff and their family, friends and community members at The Screening Room for Black History Month. Join us as we screen Dear Jackie, a cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first African American player in Major League Baseball and a civil rights activist who broke the colour barrier when he joined the minor-league Montreal Royals in 1946. For a short time, the impossible seemed possible in a segregated North America. But did Montrealers use this historic moment to perpetuate a myth of a post-racial society?

Through eloquent interviews, archival footage, and powerful vérité moments shot in lustrous black and white, director Henri Pardo masterfully threads together fragments of the past with the present-day realities of Little Burgundy, once known as the “Harlem of the North”. DEAR JACKIE unfolds as an intimate correspondence with Robinson that unravels the myth of a post-racial society, and is a testament to the triumphs and resilience of a community whose stories reveal the insidious racial inequalities in Montreal and Quebec as a whole.

Please reserve tickets in advance. Cash donations for Kingston's Roots and Wings will be collected at the door.

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