#HerDreamDeferred: Ending Violence Against Black Women: The Movement to Combat Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence

View this email in your browser   MYTH In order to combat racial injustice, we must remain silent about the vulnerability of Black women to interpersonal violence. FACT Black Women’s Blueprint reports that 60% of Black girls will experience sexual assault by the time they turn 18. Homicide in the course of domestic violence is a leading cause of death for Black women ages 15-35, and in 93 percent of cases where Black women are killed by a man the killings were intra-racial. Black women are killed and abused everyday by people they love and silence will not set us free. Racial justice includes justice for them too.  Join us Tuesday, March 31 at 3:00pm for the Next Event in #HerDreamDeferred, an Online Series on  the Status of Black Women:  Ending Violence Against Black Women: The Movement to Combat Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence In Our Communities Despite the widespread violence perpetrated against Black women within their own communities, and the centrality of their well being to the overall health of Black people, social justice advocates and stakeholders are often silent in acknowledging and addressing this issue. Our inability to talk about this issue reinforces a narrative that the violence perpetrated against Black women and girls is largely unremarkable and warrants no collective demands that it be ended. Join us as we break the silence around private violence in our communities, and call for Black women's experiences to be centered, alongside those of men, in our collective vision for racial justice. Following the panel, we will host a Twitter Chat with our speakers and other special guests. Join the conversation online, using the hashtag #HerDreamDeferred. Please continue to check our website for updates. We will release more research, stories, infographics and calls to action to center private violence within racial justice platforms. FEATURED SPEAKERS:  Terry O'Neill, National Organization for Women Farah Tanis, Black Women's Blueprint Aleta Alston Toure, Free Marissa Now!  Nona Jones, PACE Center for Girls Moderated by Janine Jackson, FAIR REGISTER HERE Please stay tuned for more information about each event in our series and ways to get involved in the movement to elevate the lives of Black women. For more information on #HerDreamDeferred, and to register for the remaining events in our series, please visit: www.aapf.org Facebook Twitter Website Instagram YouTube About the African American Policy Forum Founded in 1996, AAPF was developed as part of an ongoing effort to promote women’s rights in the context of struggles for racial equality. It serves as an information clearinghouse that works to bridge the gap between scholarly research and public debates on questions of inequality, discrimination and injustice. Website: www.aapf.org  Email Address: afampolicyforum@gmail.com Phone Number: (212) 854-8041 Mailing Address: African American Policy Forum, Inc. 435 West 116th Street, Rm. 827 New York, NY 10025

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Events & Notices Spring 2015 Envision, Engage, Transform... "Envisioning the academy as a site of critical engagement for social transformation.." IRAAS is an intellectual community that bridges scholarship, teaching and public life. Faculty Participant Event Please come and join in for "The Conversation - Young Women, Empowerment, & Leadership" on Tuesday, March 31, at 7:15 PM in the Milbank Chapel of Teachers College, Columbia University.  It will be featuring a stellar panel including: Dr Michelle Knight-Manuel, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University Professor Kathryn Kolbert, J.D. - Constance Hess Williams Director of the Athena Center For Leadership Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University Professor Dorothy Roberts, J.D.  - George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and The Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights At the University of Pennsylvania Law School Dr. Farah Griffin, Ph.D. - William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University Dr. Debra Minkoff, Ph.D. - Professor and Chair of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University For all inquiries please email: TheConversationTC@gmail.com Follow us on --   Twitter: @ConversationTc Instagram @TheConversationTC ___________________________________________________________________ The Conversation" is a panel series in a talk show format that strives to educate and initiate conversations with people on topics and issues that mainstream media sometimes overlooks. Previous panel discussions featured topics such as School to Prison Pipeline, Homophobia in Youth Culture, Undocumented Youth in the U.S., and the State of African American Males in Urban Education with Brennan DuBose, PhD student, creator and host of the series." -- Scholar in Residence Public Lecture "ANCHORING AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE"  with  GINA DENT  Associate Professor of Feminist Studies-University of California, Santa Cruz Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 6:00pm Columbia University Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive at 116th Street  (between Amsterdam Avenue & Morningside Drive) Free & Open to the Public presented in co-sponsorship with http://centerforjustice.columbia.edu/ SPEAKER BIO Gina Dent  (Ph.D., English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz.  She served previously as Director of the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research and as Principal Investigator for the UC Multicampus Research Group on Transnationalizing Justice.  She is the editor of Black Popular Culture ([1993] New York: The New Press, 1998) and author of articles on race, feminism, popular culture, and visual art. Her forthcoming book Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology (Duke University Press) is a study of the consequences-both disabling and productive-of social science's role in translating black writers into American literature.  Her current project grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition-Prison as a Border and Other Essays, on popular culture and the conditions of knowledge.  She has offered courses in critical race studies and black feminisms in Brazil (Universidade Federal da Bahia), Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), and Sweden (Linköping University) and lectures widely on these and other subjects. In June 2011, she was a member of a delegation of indigenous and women of color feminists to Palestine and speaks often from that experience. Directions to Faculty House http://facultyhouse.columbia.edu/files/facultyhouse/web/Faculty_House_Directions_0.pdf                             Cosponsored Event Caribbean Queer Visualities Symposium -Columbia University  ***seating is limited*** Please RSVP to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caribbean-queer-visualities-tickets-16323486989 Thursday, 2 April 2015 - Room 754 Schermerhorn Extension 5:00pm          Opening        David Scott 5:15pm          Session I       Richard Fung and Terri Francis 6:15pm          Reception                   Friday, 3 April 2015 - Room 963 Schermerhorn Extension 9:45am          Introduction   Nijah Cunningham  10:00am        Session II      Nadia Huggins and Angelique V. Nixon 11:00am        Session III     Jorge Pineda and Maja Horn 12:00pm        Lunch 2:00pm          Session IV    Charl Landvreugd and Rosamund S. King 3:00pm          Session V     Jean-Ulrick Désert and Jerry Philogene                              4:30pm         Closing remarks  Kellie Jones, Associate Professor, Columbia University             Sponsored by Department of Anthropology, Columbia University * Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS), Columbia University * Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (IRWGS), Columbia University * The Digital Black Atlantic Project (DBAP), Columbia University * Small Axe * The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Questions please email : DAS133@COLUMBIA.EDU OR NNC 2109@COLUMBIA.EDU Affiliated Event The Center for Ethnomusicology invites you to the second screening of our    Ethnographic Film Series:   Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 701C Dodge Hall Thursday, April 2, at 8:00pm   Refreshments will be served.Free and Open to the Public! Affiliate Center Event The 20th Century American Politics and Society Workshop, co-hosted with the Center on African-American Politics, will be holding its next meeting on Thursday, April 2.  Richard Brooks (Columbia Law School) will join the workshop to present "Saving the Neighborhood: Race, Covenants and Segregation in the Twentieth Century."  The discussants will be Kimberly Johnson (Political Science, Barnard) and Rajiv Sethi (Economics, Barnard).  The reading material is available on the event's web page:  http://iserp.columbia.edu/sites/all/modules/filemanager/files/BrooksReading.pdf As usual, the workshop will be held at 4:10 p.m. Please note this year the workshop will be meeting in the Lehman Center, Room 406 IAB, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027. Questions please email smk2175@columbia.edu   Cosponsored Event Please visit the  event page for RSVP to each of the events RSVP necessary http://arts.columbia.edu/coe/events/2015/yojb/giovannis-room OFFICE OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION | CONVERSATION  Russell Banks and Caryl Phillips  In Conversation: Giovanni's Room Tues, Apr 7, 7 pm The James Room, Barnard College 418 Barnard Hall ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] RSVP Necessary http://arts.columbia.edu/coe/events/2015/yojb/notes-of-a-native-son    OFFICE OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION | CONVERSATION  Phillip Lopate and Kiese Laymon In Conversation: Notes of a Native Son Thurs, Apr 23, 6:30 pm Milbank Chapel, Teachers College, Columbia University 125 Zankel Building 525 West 120th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam) ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] RSVP Necessary http://arts.columbia.edu/coe/events/2015/yojb/the-devil-finds-work OFFICE OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION | CONVERSATION  Joe Morton and Margo Jefferson In Conversation: The Devil Finds Work Thurs, Apr 30, 7:30 pm 417 Altschul Auditorium, Columbia University 420 West 118th Street between Amsterdam and Morningside Avenues Join Our Mailing List! Contact Information Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, 758 Schermerhorn Ext - MC5512 New York, NY 10027 Email: iraas@columbia.edu

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4/18/15 - Ministry in Action College and Career Day Brooklyn, NY

PREPARATION FOR THE JOURNEY MINISTRY IN ACTION COLLEGE AND CAREER DAY 2015

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IRAAS Conversations Lecture – “Feeling Arab and Black: Conversations about Race and Disability in Literature

IRAAS Conversations Lecture  Thursday March 26th, 2015 6:15pm -8:15pm Columbia School of Social Work – Room C03 “Feeling Arab and Black: Conversations about Race and Disability in Literature” with   Theri Pickens, Assistant Professor of English – Bates College  In her first book, New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States, Therí Pickens begins with following premise: In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. What can the experience of corporeality offer social and political discourse? And, how does that discourse change when those bodies belong to Arab Americans and African Americans? By way of answer, she argues that Arab American and African American narratives rely on the body’s fragility, rather than its exceptional strength or emotion, to create urgent social and political critiques. Suturing critical race studies, and disability studies, Pickens turns to Du Bois’s question “how does it feel to be a problem?” since it hovers over her book project. She zeroes in on the verb “to feel,” accepting the invitation for phenomenological inquiry. In this talk, she examines Du Bois’s question as a framework that opens up new possibilities in analyzing Arab American author Rabih Alameddine. Alameddine’s fiction not only lingers on what it means to ‘feel’ like a problem but also proffers the space of the hospital as a way to orient a critique. Side-stepping the erasure of “Arab as the new Black,” Pickens proffers the conversation between Du Bois and Alameddine as a way to answer the exigencies of feeling, and being now. Speaker Bio Her research focuses on Arab American and African American literatures and cultures, Disability Studies, philosophy, and literary theory. She authored New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States, which asks: How does a story about embodied experience transform from mere anecdote to social and political critique? Her critical work has appeared in MELUS, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Women & Performance, Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, Al-Jadid, Journal of Canadian Literature, Al-Raida, the ground-breaking collection, Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions, and the critical volume, Defying the Global Language: Perspectives in Ethnic Studies (Teneo Ltd). She also has more upcoming critical work in the journal, Hypatia. She is also a creative writer. Her poetry has appeared in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Save the Date, and Disability Studies Quarterly. Her drama has been performed at the NJ State Theater. Join Our Mailing List! Contact Information Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, 758 Schermerhorn Ext – MC5512 New York, NY 10027 Email: iraas@columbia.edu

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