CSJ Keynote Lecture: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Lecture and Reception for Critical Social Justice: Home
Location
University Center : Ballroom
Date & Time
October 25, 2016, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Description
The Women's Center with Student Life's Mosaic Center present the Critical Social Justice 2016 Keynote Lecture with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: “Body/ Land/ Home: Disability Justice, Healing Justice and Femme of Color Brilliance.”
Doors open at 5:30pm. A meet-and-greet reception and book-signing will follow the keynote.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a disabled femme of color writer and performance artist whose award-winning work on disability, survivorhood, and transformative justice speaks to the many complexities inherent in navigating our way home.
A community resource fair during the reception will include representatives from Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Hollaback Bmore, UMBC University Archives, Student Life's Mosaic Center, and the Women's Center.
This event is free and open to the public. If you have questions or need accommodations, please contact the Women’s Center at womens.center@umbc.edu.
See the full calendar of Critical Social Justice: Home events!
Critical Social Justice co-sponsors: Residential Life || College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences || Office of Institutional Advancement || Honors College || Women Involved in Learning and Leadership || Student Disability Services || Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration and Policy || Department of Media and Communication Studies || LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association || Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication || Off-Campus Student Services || Language, Literacy, and Culture
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