CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF STRENGTH IN SOLIDARITY |
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CCSRE eNEWSLETTER | JUNE 1, 2022 |
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CSRE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
CLASS OF 2020, 2021 & 2022
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Lomita Mall South Green
Luncheon 12:30-2p | Diploma Ceremony 2-3:30p
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CCSRE NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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White is the Color of the Rainbow Flag: Pedro Lemebel's Loca Performance
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BY ALBERTO QUINTERO | May 31, 2022
In 1986, mounted on high heels, a flaming loca barged into the Mapocho railway station in Santiago, Chile, captivating the gaze of every leftist dissident present that day. They had gathered to denounce the brutality of Augusto Pinochet’s illegitimate military regime, but the dark-skinned hallucination appeared unannounced, and without hesitation began reading the battle-hardened words of her manifesto entitled “I Speak For My Difference.” ...Twenty-one years after that first appearance in the Mapucho station, the same loca read her manifesto at an event at Stanford University...
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CSRE HONORS THESIS PRESENTATIONS PHOTOS
May 26, 2022
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CAMPUS NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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IDA FELLOWS 2022 SHOWCASE
Thursday, June 2
4-5p Harmony House
Featuring Dija Manly, Harry Fowler, Ty Blackwater, Michelle Ibarra, and Alicia Evan
6-7p Casa Zapata
Featuring Diana Khong, Linda Denson, Ashley Toribio Hernandez, and Kevin Calderon
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The Universal Race:
Garveyism and the Practices of Pan-Africanism
Thursday, June 2 | 4-6p | Levinthal & Online
"The Universal Race," also the title of Getachew's current book project, is concerned with interwar pan-Africanism, especially through the lens of Garveyism. Drawing on the idea "Universal Negro” of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the lecture is concerned with the constitution of blackness as a geopolitical category and political agent.
Presented by the Stanford Humanities Center. Reception to follow. LEARN MORE
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Anti-hate website offers education and assistance
BY MARGARET STEEN | May 27, 2022
Stanford Against Hate offers resources for people who have experienced hate: how they can report it, be connected to resources, and support each other. It defines key terms so people have a shared language to discuss these issues. And it links to pages that discuss different types of oppression and prejudice. READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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Reducing gun violence: Stanford scholars, including CCSRE Faculty Affiliates, tackle the issue
BY MELISSA DE WITTE | May 25, 2022
After 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, many Americans are asking, yet again, how to prevent future acts of senseless violence from occurring. What gun laws need to be changed? Why is it so difficult to pass regulations? How can Second Amendment rights be balanced with firearm safety?
Stanford scholars have been studying these issues from a range of perspectives, including law, politics, economics, and medicine. Here are some of their findings. READ THE FULL STORY HERE.
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June 18 | 3P | Hummingbird Farm
Nurture the Land Not the Empire: Stories from a Liberated Future
Hummingbird Farm | 1669 Geneva Ave | San Francisco, CA 94112
Creating a portal into decolonial imagination, this event seeks to celebrate how queerness acknowledges the wounds of the world around us, and offers a path of reverence that heals them. Come and celebrate nature through poetry and visual arts as spells.
Artist Bios:
Orion Camero is a Filipinx artist/cultural organizer who focuses on intersectional justice. Their arts advocacy ranges locally to globally, protecting California waterways to international solidarity at the U.N.
Victoria Montano is a Two-Spirit, Yoeme, Mexikah, interdisciplinary artist from Oakland. They are a Land Steward. Their creative practice emphasizes Indigenous Solidarity across seas & false borders, and reawakening ancestral knowledge.
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