Western Reads and Justice Speaks! Collaborate to Explore Intergenerational Movement-Building Feb. 8

Alexis De Veaux, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and the creators of the Minneapolis art co-op Free Black Dirt - Erin Sharkey and Junauda Petrus - will speak on Western’s campus at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Fraser Hall 201, in an event co-sponsored by Western Reads and the Justice Speaks! series.

De Vaux is the author of “Yabo”, which won the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian fiction in 2015 and Gumbs is the author of “Revolutionary Mothering."

The guests will explore the contours of intergenerational movement-building and its relationship to art and protest. Centering the work of these four writer-artist-activists who bring together their brilliant visions on Black feminism, art and literature with their commitment to a global vision of justice.

This event creates the space to explore questions of intergenerational activism, art, anti-racism, sexuality and politics in an exciting format. Rather than a traditional keynote, the guests will participate in an “in conversation” model, meant to give the speakers a chance to explore together the contours of their thinking. 

For more information on Western Reads and Justice Speaks!, visit www.wp.wwu.edu/westernreads/.