BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 RDATE:20160313T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 RDATE:20161106T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160222T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160222T200000 LOCATION:Templeton Campus Center\, Council Chamber GEO:45.44918;-122.670969 SUMMARY:Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Move ments. Reading & presentation with Walidah Imarisha DESCRIPTION:Join co-editor Walidah Imarisha for a reading and presentatio n about radical science fiction and social change.Sponsored by Ethnic Stu dies\, Office of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement\, Gender Studies\ , English\, L&\;C Law School ACLU and L&\;C Law School National Law yers Guild About Octavia's Brood (http://octaviasbrood.com/): Whenever we envision a world without war\, without prisons\, without injustice\, w e are engaging in speculative fiction. Radicals and activists devote thei r lives to envisioning such worlds\, and then go about trying to create t hem. What better vehicle for them to explore their work and its possibili ties than through writing original science fiction stories? Walidah Imar isha and adrienne maree brown brought together 20 radical writers to do j ust that. The result is Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Soc ial Justice Movements\, an engaging and enlightening collection that unco vers truths buried in the fantastic\, and injects a healthy dose of imagi nation and innovation into our search for truth. It is the first book to explore the connections between radical science fiction and movements for social change\, using visionary prose to weave strands of real-life expe rience—inequality and exploitation\, struggle and solidarity—to gener ate innovative ways of understanding the world around us\, paint visions of new worlds that could be\, and teach us new ways of interacting with o ne another. This is visionary fiction to engage our imaginations and guid e our hands in struggle. \;Walidah Imarisha (http://www.walidah.com/) \;is a writer\, organizer\, educator and performance poet. She is on e half of the poetic duo Good Sista/Bad Sista. She has shared the stage w ith Angela Davis\, Cornel West\, Amiri Baraka\, Nikki Giovanni\, Kenny Mu hammad of the Roots\, Chuck D\, Michael Franti and Spearhead\, Umar bin H assan from The Last Poets\, Boots Riley\, Saul Williams\, Ani DiFranco\, John Irving\, dead prez and Kochiyama. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications\, including the hip hop anthology Total Chaos. Walidah has facilitated poetry and journalism workshops third grade to twelfth\, in s chools\, community centers\, youth detention facilities\, and women's pri sons. She directed and co-produced the Katrina documentary Finding Common Ground in New Orleans. She has taught in the Portland State University's Black Studies Department\, Oregon State University's Women's Studies Dep artment and Southern New Hampshire University's English Department. \ ; \;Seating in the Council Chamber will be limited to the first 208 people who arrive due to capacity. \;Please plan accordingly. We wi ll be live streaming this event in Stamm (3rd floor) for overflow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Sponsored by Ethnic Studies\, Office of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement\, Gend er Studies\, English\, L&\;C Law School ACLU and L&\;C Law School N ational Lawyers Guild
About Octavia's Broo d:
Whenever we envisio n a world without war\, without prisons\, without injustice\, we are enga ging in speculative fiction. Radicals and activists devote their lives to envisioning such worlds\, and then go about trying to create them. What better vehicle for them to explore their work and its possibilities than through writing original science fiction stories?
Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown brought together 20 radical writers to do just that. The result is Octavia's Bro od: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements\, an engaging a nd enlightening collection that uncovers truths buried in the fantastic\, and injects a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our search for truth. It is the first book to explore the connections between radic al science fiction and movements for social change\, using visionary pros e to weave strands of real-life experience—inequality and exploitation\ , struggle and solidarity—to generate innovative ways of understanding the world around us\, paint visions of new worlds that could be\, and tea ch us new ways of interacting with one another. This is visionary fiction to engage our imaginations and guide our hands in struggle.
& #160\;Walidah Imarisha \;is a writer\, organizer\, educator and p erformance poet. She is one half of the poetic duo Good Sista/Bad Sista. She has shared the stage with Angela Davis\, Cornel West\, Amiri Baraka\, Nikki Giovanni\, Kenny Muhammad of the Roots\, Chuck D\, Michael Franti and Spearhead\, Umar bin Hassan from The Last Poets\, Boots Riley\, Saul Williams\, Ani DiFranco\, John Irving\, dead prez and Kochiyama. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications\, including the hip hop anthology Total Chaos. Walidah has facilitated poetry and journalism workshops thi rd grade to twelfth\, in schools\, community centers\, youth detention fa cilities\, and women's prisons. She directed and co-produced the Katrina documentary Finding Common Ground in New Orleans. She has taught in the P ortland State University's Black Studies Department\, Oregon State Univer sity's Women's Studies Department and Southern New Hampshire University's English Department. \;
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