#NWSA2019's first plenary: Centering Resistance, Animating Movements. Join Moya Bailey, Michelle Téllez, Lateefah Simon, and Noura Erakat as they discuss the feminist, queer, trans, economic, disability and racial justice warriors who have been at the forefront of movements for social change and how feminist engagements have animated and informed movements for transformation in local and transnational spaces. Find this on the conference schedule through here: http://bit.ly/nwsaconferenceprogram
From the award-winning writer of Your Healing is Killing Me, blu, The Panza Monologues and Barrio Stories, Virginia Grise returns to Tucson with a new play about the destruction and displacement of a Mexican-American community, roaming dogs, quarantines, earthmovers and ancient voladores: Their Dogs Came with Them. Adapted from the novel by Helena María Viramontes, the play ascribes new meanings to gang life dramas, gender queer identities, and Chicana/o/x coming of age barrio tales. Much like the structure of a freeway, the lives of four youth intersect and intertwine, unearthing stories about the effects and aftereffects of the Vietnam War, displacement, and state violence. Tucson, where the most diverse and densely populated neighborhoods were destroyed to create the Convention Center in the late 1960s, is an ideal site for a play that asks its community to consider how decisions around city planning and urban development impact everyone. Borderlands Theater, in collaboration with a todo dar productions, is producing this site-specific performance October 18-20, directed by Kendra Ware and aptly staged underneath the I-19 freeway in South Tucson.
Dr. Michelle Téllez will be playing Tranquilina and Grandmother Zumaya, read more about creative team here.
This transdisciplinary symposium, organized by the Center for Human Growth and Development (CHGD) and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), will focus on the growing tensions between mothers’ well-being and the increasing demands of child-rearing.
This event will further the scientific understanding of these tensions, recognize and explore how they appear in differential and discriminatory ways, and identify key knowledge gaps and opportunities in research that could inform practice, policy, and advocacy to promote the well-being of mothers, children and families.
More details see here.
Local authors and activists Naomi Ortiz (author of Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice) and Michelle Téllez (co-editor of The Chicana Motherwork Anthology: Porque sin madres no hay revolución) discuss how staying rooted in your culture helps women of color thrive and build resilience in activism, self-care and motherhood.
Moderator: Dominique Calza
Sunday, March 3 1-2pm (followed by book signing)
