“For the Texas Bama Femme: A Black Fem(me)inist Reading of Beyonce’s ‘Sorry’”

OMISE’EKE NATASHA TINSLEY
Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Respondent:
SHANA REDMOND, MUSICOLOGY, UCLA

We, at The Undercommons, see ourselves as a freedom school and seek to foster learning and activist initiatives to create possibilities for liberation. “Imagining Reparations” prompts us to conceptualize what does a future where black peoples are thriving look like? Audre Lorde reminds us that “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we don’t live single-issue lives,” highlighting the ways in which imagining reparations from the horrors of enslavement and imperialism also implies a fight against sexism, homophobia, transphobia, settler colonialism, racism, and xenophobia. We look forward to discussing further ideas of collective liberation through this interactive session. Leaning on afrofuturism and black feminist praxis as guiding principles, we also invite you to help us formulate a freedom manifesto through various creative outlets.

www.undercommons.org

MC: Sean Metzger, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television

Discussion facilitators: Lyra Kim, Ariel Mengistu, Bernardette Pinetta, Dou’jae Rice, Social Justice Advocates, UCLA

Films:

Anushka Jasraj, Women’s and Gender Studies, UT Austin
“Desire Lines”

Amanda Kay Mannshahia, Women and Gender Studies, San Francisco State University
“On Salivating Wings”

Jewel Pereyra, English, Georgetown University
“Dismantling Empire”

Troyese Robinson, Fine Arts, UCLA
“Not performed By Human Hands”
Presented with Annakai Hayakawa Geshlider, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA

Posters:

Ipsita Dey, Anthropology, UCLA
“Domestic Violence in South Asian Immigrant Populations”

Linda Esquivel, History, UCLA
“We’ll Kick Your Ass: The Deadliest Police Force and its Role in Kern County’s Undocumented Communities”

Chiao-Wen Lan, Community Health Sciences, UCLA
“Changing Stigma through Photo-voice by People Living with HIV/AIDS”

Haoran Li, Sociology, UCLA
“Qualitative Research on US and China’s LGBTQ Students and their Romantic Relationships”

THE REVIVAL: WOMEN AND THE WORD
http://www.therevivalmovie.com/

Organized and Sponsored by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

REFRAMING VIOLENCE AND CAPTIVITY
Hacienda Room

Moderator: Sherene Razack, Gender Studies, UCLA

Nanar Khamo, French and Francophone Studies, UCLA
“Genocide, Slavery and Violence: Imagining Reparations in the Francophone Indian Ocean, 1715-1835”

Dee Mauricio, Gender Studies, UCLA
“Tracing a Settler-Colonial Grammar of Place in Detention, Captivity, and Confinement”

Stephanie Lumsden, Gender Studies, UCLA
“The Spatial Logics of Modernity and Gendered Racial Terror in Santa Clarita”

PROJECTING CLIMATE, CITIZENSHIP, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Sierra Room

Moderator: Rachel Vaughn, Gender Studies and CSW, UCLA

Akemi Inamoto, Latin American Studies, University of Florida
“’Poniéndose las Botas’: Women’s Roles in Rice Farming in Colombia”

Maja Jeranko, Latin American Studies, University of Florida
“’Pero el sistema también maltrata a las mujeres’: Responses to gender-based violence in Ecuador”

Malia Womack, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University
“The United States’ Engagement with International Law: An Analysis of the Economic Complexities that Crystallized the Nation’s Stance on Racial and Gender Rights

“Re-Writing the World”

NALO HOPKINSON
Professor of Creative Writing, UC Riverside
Author of “Brown Girl in the Ring” and other novels

REVOLUTIONIZING CARE
Hacienda Room

Moderator: Christine Gottlieb, English, UCLA

Jonathan Magat, Performance Studies, Northwestern University
“The Poetics of Prognosis in Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals”

Kelsey Kim, Anthropology, UCLA
“Women of Bronze: Memorialization as an alternative reparation for comfort women survivors”

Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Medical Sociology, UC San Francisco
“Group Medical Visits: Reducing the Power Imbalance, Moving towards Equity in Health Care”

RETOOLING FEMINISM, WORK, AND LABOR
Sierra Room

Moderator: Grace Hong, Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, UCLA

Kwanda Ford, Critical Media Studies, UCLA
“Biting B(l)ack: The Ritualized Consumption of the Black Female Body in ‘The Help’”

Sungmin Jung, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA
“Till All Comes Back Home”

RECONSTRUCTING REPRESENTATION
Hacienda Room

Moderator: Caroline Streeter, English, UCLA

Bree’ya Brown, California State University, Long Beach
“Turning the Pages to Freedom: A Study of Black Women in US Southern Libraries, 1920-1970″

Kimber Chewning, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University
“Material Girl: Queered Vision, Temporal Dissonance and Haptic Repair in the Vernacular Photo-Album, Martina Kubelk: Kleider—Unterwasche”

Amaris Brown, Africana Studies, Cornell University
“The Only Truth That Told a Good Story: Pain and Pleasurable Membranes in Marci Blackman’s Po Man’s Child”

LEGISLATING CARE, REPAIR, AND PERSONHOOD
Sierra Room

Moderator: Susan Ettner, Health Policy and Management, UCLA

Skye O’Dwyer, School of Law, Griffith University
“Sex (Re-)Assignment of Intersex Children in Australia”

Christy Serrano, History, California State University, Long Beach
“Better Breeding in the West: Sterilization Laws and Eugenic Theory in California”

Amy Zhou, Sociology, UCLA
“Un-developing Institutions: The Impact of Global HIV Treatment Policies on Women’s Health in Malawi”