On March 22, 2023, the American Cultures Center and the Multicultural Community Center at UC Berkeley hosted this virtual discussion featuring, Dean Spade, Patricia Wismer Professor for Gender and Diversity Studies and Professor of Law at Seattle University, and Eric Stanley, Professor and Vice Chair for Pedagogy, Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley, moderated by antmen mendoza, Interim Co-Director of the Multicultural Community Center at UC Berkeley.
In a decade of the Black Lives Matter movement, grassroots organizing, and the COVID pandemic, many people have begun to realize (again) the power of mutual aid, collectivity, and community care in ‘surviving crises and organizing resistance.’ This discussion centers on the long and unfolding traditions of trans/queer action, reflecting on how collective liberation organizes against the conditions that constitute structures of violence and provides possibilities for radical social transformation, love, joy, and laughter.
The event is part of the Staff as Students of Social Justice (SSSJ) Program’s public discussion series, ‘Aspirations of Material Anti-Racism: What’s Next?.’ The SSSJ Program, now in its third year, is supporting the growth of a staff-student community engaging in antiracist pedagogies through enrollment in AC courses and a specially designed weekly discussion seminar. The series continues to support this unique community of learning among UC Berkeley staff by centering a set of conversations between UC Berkeley faculty and affiliated contemporaries of their work beyond UC Berkeley.
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