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REIMAGINING EQUALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Join artist and activist Jerri Allyn, National Women’s Law Center Justice Sarah David Heydemann, UCSB Associate Dean Aida Hurtado, executive director of The Gathering for Justice and activist Carmen Perez-Jordan, Woke Vote creator DeJuana Thompson, Equis Labs co-founder and president Stephanie Valencia, Georgia State Senator Nikema Williams, and writer, editor, and transgender rights activist Raquel Willis for the virtual National Women’s Rights Convention, a full day of conversations “about the interplay of voter suppression, unequal employment and economic opportunities, and womanhood intersections.”*

Presented by LACMA, the event will also include the performance Kristina Wong for Public Office: Live from her Home!  (Wong will reprise this performance on Friday, October 23 for USC‘s Visions and Voices program.)

See link below to r.s.v.p. to Wednesday’s convention.

NATIONAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS CONVENTION—REIMAGINING EQUALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY*

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Wednesday, October 14.

9:30 am to 5 pm on the West Coast; 12:30 pm to 8 pm East Coast.

From top: Kristina Wong, Kristina Wong for Public Office, photograph courtesy and © the artist; Nikema Williams, image courtesy and © the Georgia State Senator; DeJuana Thompson, photograph courtesy and © Thompson; Aida Hurtado, photograph courtesy and © Hurtado; Raquel Willis, photograph courtesy and © Willis; Jerri Allyn, photograph courtesy and © Allyn; Stephanie Valencia, photograph courtesy and © Valencia; Carmen Perez-Jordan in January 2017, photograph courtesy and © Perez-Jordan.

FEMINISTA JONES

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Feminista Jones will be among the panelists this week at TALKING RACESOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL JUSTICE at USC.

Join Meredith Clark, Karen Grigsby BatesFélix Gutiérrez, and Jones to “explore how new ways of creating and sharing news, from the hyper-local to the global, intersect with communities of color and issues that matter.”*

 

TALKING RACESOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, Tuesday, March 27, at 7 pm.

DOHENY MEMORIAL LIBRARY, room 230, USC, 3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles.

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Feminista Jones. Photograph by Colin Lenton.

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WHEN WOMEN DISRUPT

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WHEN WOMEN DISRUPT—“a collaborative featuring artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, muralist Jessica Sabogal, and filmmaker Melinda James—will discuss how their outdoor public art installations challenge racism, sexism, and xenophobia.”

 

WHEN WOMEN DISRUPT, Wednesday, March 21, at 5:30 pm.

WALTER ANNENBERG HALL, USC, 3630 Watt Way, Los Angeles.

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Image credit: When Women Disrupt.

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RUBBERBANDANCE

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RUBBERBANDance, from Montréal, will perform this week at USC.

Artistic director Victor Quijada—who founded the troupe “to reconcile the opposing aesthetics of street styles and classical dance”—will participate in a post-performance Q & A.

 

RUBBERBANDANCEVIC’S MIX, Tuesday, March 20, at 7:30 pm.

BOVARD AUDITORIUM, USC, 3551 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles.

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RUBBERBANDance performing Vic’s Mix. Image credit above: Milk Images. Photograph below by Bill Hebert.

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