The Making of \u201cCitizen\u201d<\/strong> Claudia Rankine\u2019s critically acclaimed book, \u201cCitizen: An American Lyric,\u201d uses poetry, essay, cultural criticism, and visual images to explore what it means to be a U.S. citizen in a \u201cpost-racial\u201d society. This collection examines everyday encounters with racism in the second person, forcing the reader \u2014 regardless of identity \u2014 to engage a narrative haunted by the deaths of Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin among many others. A defining text for our time, \u201cCitizen\u201d won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.<\/p>\n We often only think of TV shows, YouTube videos, and magazine covers as media representations, but words play a critical role in how gender, race, queer, and immigration issues are portrayed \u2014 and policed. Words also offer us a powerful vehicle for imagining a different future as evidenced most recently by #blacklivesmatter. Daisy Hern\u00e1ndez will discuss reporting and writing at the intersection of race, gender, and queer issues, and how we can turn social media into social education. This documentary from Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering details sexual assault on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together observational footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they pursue their education while fighting for justice. Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. He is the author of \u201cJust Mercy,\u201d a moving portrait of those he defended on death row and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2015\u201316 WILL*\/WGSS Speaker Series The Making of \u201cCitizen\u201d Claudia Rankine Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. Jepson Alumni Center Part of the 2015\u201316 Writers Series Claudia Rankine\u2019s critically acclaimed book, \u201cCitizen: An American Lyric,\u201d uses poetry, essay, cultural criticism, and visual images to explore what it means to be a U.S. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2176,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nClaudia Rankine
\nSept. 16 at 7 p.m.
\nJepson Alumni Center
\nPart of the 2015\u201316 Writers Series<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>\u201cFeminism, Beyonc\u00e9, and Writing Queer Cuentos: A Talk on Media Representations\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>
\nDaisy Hern\u00e1ndez
\nOct. 5 at 7 p.m.
\nWeinstein Hall, Brown-Alley Room
\nPart of UR Comes Out! and Latino-Hispanic Heritage Month<\/p>\n
\nViewing and Discussion of \u201cThe Hunting Ground\u201d<\/strong>
\nJan. 26, 2016 at 6 p.m.
\nTyler Haynes Commons, Alice Haynes Room
\nIn partnership with Westhampton College and Richmond College<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAmerican Injustice: Mercy, Humanity, and Making a Difference\u201d<\/strong>
\nBryan Stevenson
\nFeb. 29, 2016 at 6 p.m.
\nCamp Concert Hall with reception to follow in Booth Lobby
\nOne Book, One Richmond event<\/p>\n