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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Tengo Sed by Yndia Lorick-Wilmot & Natasha Gordon-Chipembere with Natasha Johnson
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nABOUT THE BOOK: \nSince 2015\, the Tengo Sed (“I am thirsty”) Writers’ Retreats have brought together African-descended people of diverse backgrounds and across disciplines to create works in an emancipatory space of knowledge and community. For editors Yndia Lorick-Wilmot and Natasha Gordon-Chipembere\, Tengo Sed is the manifestation of the bonds created within the context of global community-making\, allowing for these perspectives to come to life. \nA blend of text and visuals in genre fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, memoir\, art\, and music\, Tengo Sed engages in the expansive and nuanced meanings of Blackness across the diaspora\, traversing linguistic\, geographic\, material\, and formal boundaries. The collection interrogates how African-descended individuals theorize and articulate their racial\, gender\, ethnic\, and national identities in relation to dominant discourse. Underscored by a transnational feminist cultural studies approach\, the collection builds upon the legacy of The Sisterhood—an activist-literary collective founded by Alice Walker and June Jordan—by providing a contemporary platform for Black creatives to amplify their voices. \nSingular and inspirational\, Tengo Sed centers storytelling\, self-making\, and artistic practice\, and contributes to ongoing dialogues on Black identity\, liberation\, and creative sovereignty. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS: \nDr. Yndia Lorick-Wilmot\, PhD\, is a sociologist and creator of the award-winning podcast Belonging to Blackness. She is the author of Creating Black Caribbean Identity and Stories of Identity Among Black Middle Class Second-Generation Caribbeans. \nDr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere\, PhD\, is a professor of African Diasporic literature and is the author of Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman and the novel Finding La Negrita. She is the founder and host of Tengo Sed Writing Retreats in Costa Rica. \nABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER: \nDr. Natasha Johnson\, JD\, has been a professor and a director of academic programs at multiple colleges and universities\, including Metropolitan College\, St. Joseph’s College\, Adelphi University\, and Medgar Evers College. She is skilled at creating arts-based programming that integrates human rights and social justice awareness in elementary through graduate school environments. She has also taught courses in law\, ethics\, policy\, civic engagement\, education\, nonprofit leadership\, business development\, and more. \nAs a nonprofit leader\, Natasha has founded and led several organizations and brings expertise in stewarding professional development\, strategic planning\, community outreach\, and programmatic capacity building to facilitate equity. She excels at developing innovative infrastructural blueprints that advance justice through strengths-based ideologies and re-imagined nonprofit structures and management. \nTickets
URL:https://yndialorickwilmot.com/event/book-launch-tengo-sed-by-yndia-lorick-wilmot-natasha-gordon-chipembere-with-natasha-johnson/
LOCATION:Cafe con Libros\, 724 Prospect Pl\, Brooklyn\, NY 11216\, USA
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