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Digest entry: 02/23/2023 @ 04:47 PM

Feb. 27th: "Black Feminist Pedagogy and Organizing as (Emotional) Intellectual Praxis", a talk by Dr. Bianca Williams (Jen Conner)

Monday, February 27th, 5:30 PM, VAC Beam Classroom

In this talk, Williams discusses some of the lessons learned during her organizing within the Movement for Black Lives and career as a Black feminist cultural anthropologist. Exploring the critical role emotional knowledges play in organizing and teaching as resistance, Williams argues that Black feminist pedagogy and organizing should be viewed as intellectual praxis.

Bianca C. Williams is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center. Most recently, she was a Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society fellow in residence at Well-Read Black Girl, a Black feminist literary advocacy organization. Williams is the author of the award-winning book The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism (Duke U 2018), and co-editor of the book Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education (SUNY 2021).