Distinguished author Ana Castillo will read from her poetry and prose collections tracing her writing as acts of resistance. Castillo penned the novels So Far From God and Sapogonia, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her novel Give It to Me won a 2014 LAMBDA Literary Award. Castillo’s latest work, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me , examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and…

The Critical Ethnic Studies Collective is a new initiative to convene faculty engaged in research that focuses on intersectional thought and social justice in diverse communities. This research has been transformative for both institutions and individuals in the global community. At Carolina, we hope we can bring this perspective to the work of the South by providing our own infrastructure. We envision a different kind of “south,” where students and faculty can engage issues of reparation and sovereignty, (im)migration and…

How do queer natives in Brazil face the challenges of settler-colonial policies implemented by Jair Bolsonaro’s administration? That is, how do queer natives respond to the government’s racism and homophobia, and the threats to the environment? The answer to these questions will be explored through a critical discussion of oral testimonies, and archival records that show queer native activists’ struggles against authoritarianism in Brazil. Estevão Fernandes teaches in the Social Sciences Department at the Federal University of Rondônia in Brazil,…

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center Writer's Discussion Series presents Tiffany Lethabo King, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. In The Black Shoals, Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. King conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black…