Black Boundlessness Intensive: In Memory of Gloria Naylor
The Black Boundlessness Intensive: Monday Oct 24-Tuesday Oct 25 3pm-6pm Eastern Drawing primarily on Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day and Bailey’s Cafe, this online intensive activates land memory and time travel as crucial resources for contemporary Black life and operationalizes Naylor’s magical realist, speculative historical work as a basis to inquire about how we remember, how we time travel, we we […]
Revolutionary Class Suicide Seminar: After Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills
Revolutionary Class Suicide: Linden Hills Monday Oct 17, 12pm-2pm Eastern In 1985, just as the beneficiaries of the first Affirmative Action generation were having children (Sista Docta Lex is one of those children) Gloria Naylor had the nerve to write about Black surburbia, and the hard-won homes and gardens of a new Black professional class, as […]
West End Poetry Festival, Carborro NC
Friday, October 14 | 6:30 to 8:30 pm | Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill Opening Celebration | 6:30 to 8:30 pm The opening celebration will include a reception with hors d’oeuvres and wine, readings by poets, and time for book signing and socializing. Click the names for the poets’ bios and photos.) Kevin Boyle Stuart […]
Place: A Homegoing Ritual for Gloria Naylor
Place: A Homegoing Ritual for Gloria Naylor Thursday Oct. 13th 6pm-8pm Eastern Online Best known for creating interconnected ecologies of Black life including the intersectional urban community of Brewster Place, the surburban sacrificial scene of Linden Hills, the time travel enabled landscapes of Mama Day’s sea islands and Bailey’s timeless Cafe, Gloria Naylor has now taken […]
Confronting the Silence of the Archive: Black Women’s Labor: Economics, Culture and Politics
Thu, Oct 6, 12:00 to 1:45pm, Richmond Marriott Hotel, Richmond Marriott Hotel Salon H-AV Room Richmond Marriott 500 East Broad Street Richmond, VA – 23219 USA This roundtable brings together two of the co-editors and four contributors to the 2016 special issue of Souls, Black Women’s Labor: Economics, Culture and Politics, to discuss questions regarding […]
Queer Black Sunday School Choir Practice
Wednesday October 6th 6pm to 8pm LGBTQ Center of Durham 114 Hunt St, Durham, North Carolina 27701 https://www.facebook.com/events/1039633702758156/ At Queer Black Sunday School: Choir Practice we engage the possibility of Black Feminist collective singing using Black Feminist texts as source material and sacred text. We also engage gospel and congregational songs and think […]