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\n\n \n February 12th: THH 420 4:00 – 5:30 pm<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structural predicaments facing Blackness in the present. Douglass contends that the sexual violability of slaves is often misappropriated by frameworks on sexual violence that privilege its occurrences as a question of ethics, sexual agency, and feminine orders of gendering. Rather, this book foregrounds Blackness as engendered by sexual violence, which forcefully (re)produces Blackness, corporeally and conceptually, as a condition that lacks the capacity to ontologically distinguish its suffering from what it means to be human. <\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

Patrice D. Douglass is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women\u2019s Studies at UC Berkeley. Her current book project, Race and Abortion Ethics: Antiblackness and the Opacity of Liberty, interrogates the (im)permissibility of abortion in US law and politics. Her research on Blackness, gender, afro-pessimism, reproductive justice, and Black philosophies appear in or forthcoming from Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies of Media and Culture, Political Theology, Journal of Legal Anthropology, Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, PRISM: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, Souls, Journal of Visual Culture, Theory and Event, Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture (ZAA), and The Black Scholar. She holds a PhD and MA in Culture and Theory from the University of California, Irvine, a MA in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Riverside, and a BA in Feminist Studies and Legal Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. <\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

This event is hosted by USC\u2019s Center for Feminist Research, the Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and Black Visual Cultures Collective (BVCC), which is co-founded by Naima Adams (American Studies), Corrine Collins (English), and Mlondolozi Zondi (Comparative Literature).
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Join us for a discussion on citizen journalism featuring Javier Cabral, the editor in chief of L.A. TACO! Javier will be joined by Karen Tongson to explore the role of citizen reporting, which is taught in Javier\u2019s class at Annenberg and practiced at L.A. TACO. They will also discuss moving between food and culture coverage and political reporting, and ways those topics overlap.<\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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An evening of lightning talks, film screenings, and performances exploring the entanglements of queer desire, erotic labor, and radical care. Assembling artists, scholars, and organizers who work at the intersections of performance, visual culture, gender, sexuality, race, and labor, this event reimagines what it means to think, feel, and create together after dark. Our evening will include a mixture of presentations and performances that explore kink (bondage, shibari), sex work, labor, disability advocacy, sensuality, and cruising.<\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Podcasts and Audio Storytelling<\/p>\n

Join USC alum Paola Mardo, from Proximity Media and Long Distance Radio, for a workshop and conversation with Consortium director Karen Tongson. They will explore the elements of good audio storytelling, provide an inside\u2019s takes on the podcast industry, and discuss entry points for scholars and students interested in podcasting.<\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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Join Elaine Hsieh Chou in conversation with Dr. Dorinne Kondo, celebrating her recently published short story collection Where Are You Really From (Penguin Random House, 2025).<\/p>\n

Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Her debut novel Disorientation (Penguin Press \/ Picador) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, NYPL Young Lions Finalist and Thurber Prize for American Humor Finalist. The novel was optioned by AppleTV+ with Elaine set to adapt.<\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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RESCHEDULED to April 1st: Tarot for the Apocalypse: Collective Care in Times of Unwellness (i.e. All the Fucking Time)<\/p>\n

What do we need in times of unwellness? What kinds of care can we imagine and build for ourselves if we engage our unwellness in new ways? Facilitated by Dr. Mimi Kh\u00fac, this interactive workshop will use the Asian American Tarot to explore mental health and the social, cultural, and structural forces that shape it, engaging critical arts approaches that provide new vocabularies for both what hurts and how we might care for what hurts, together.<\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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RESCHEDULED to March 31st: Touring the Abyss with dear elia: Unwellness and Care in the University
\nJoin Dr. Mimi Kh\u00fac as she shares her work on unwellness and the university from her new book, dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. Applying her framework of a \u201cpedagogy of unwellness,\u201d Dr. Kh\u00fac explores the contours of student and faculty unwellness and locates it within the racialized ableism of meritocracy that undergirds university life (and beyond). <\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Queering Science Communication with Dr. Alice Motion
\nTo thrive as students, researchers and STEMM professionals, the LGBTQIA+ community needs greater representation in science and more inclusive environments in which to work. Similarly, efforts to communicate science need to be more representative and inclusive of queer people and embrace opportunities to challenge traditional formats for sharing science.<\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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Live From The Lab: Sharing Science Through Music and Sound with Dr. Alice Motion
\nSound and music are powerful forces for human connection, emotional exploration, communication and artistic expression. Over the past five years, our interdisciplinary team has investigated some of the ways in which sound and music can be used in public contexts to build connection with, and understanding of, science.<\/small><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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