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P.S. Milwaukee campus students can take College of General Studies classes -- there's a permissions process, so feel free to contact me if you're interested!
Hope to see y'all in April at Pride Prom!
Join Michelle Caswell for talks on community archives on March 5 and 6!
March 5 | 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
UWM Libraries 4th floor conference center
Urgent Archives: Communities, Representation, and the Fight Against (Symbolic) Annihilation, Michelle Caswell
In the 1970s, feminist communication scholars first proposed the term “symbolic annihilation” to describe the ways in which women are absent, underrepresented, or misrepresented in mainstream media. Taking this concept as a starting point, the first part of this talk will examine the ways in which mainstream archival practice has symbolically annihilated communities of color and LGBTQ communities through absence, underrepresentation, and misrepresentation. In the face of such symbolic annihilation, marginalized communities have formed their own independent community-based archives that empower them to establish, enact, and reflect on their presence in ways that are complex, meaningful, and substantive. In the second part, this talk will examine the relationship between symbolic and actual annihilation. Symbolic annihilation both precedes and succeeds symbolic annihilation in that communities are rendered nonexistent, invisible, or expendable before they are subject to violence, and then, after violence, such acts are often rendered invisible or expunged from the record, magnifying and mimicking the violence itself. In the wake of such archival silences and misrepresentations, communities often conjure up imaginary records, that is, records that do not actually exist but are collectively imagined to fill affective voids left by existing bureaucratic and legalistic records. This talk will end with an examination of such impossible archival imaginaries and a proposition for all of us to “imagine otherwise,” that is, to conceive of and build a world in which communities that have historically been and are currently being oppressed are fully empowered to represent their past, construct their present, and envision their futures as forms of liberation.
March 6 | 9:30 a.m.
UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab
Bagel Hour discussion with Michelle Caswell
Join us for an informal discussion over bagels and coffee with Michelle Caswell.
---> 41st Annual Latin American Film Series UWM ---> WISCONSIN premiere ---> UWM LGBT Resource Center
features rarely seen lives of the Latin American majority:
young, nonwhite, lower-class, few opportunities, hardworking, struggling. filmed in Guatemala
33rd festival premiere: Asia, Europe, South America, Caribbean, Central America, Pacific, Middle East, USA
11-April
Info:
http://tinyurl.com/y29l3sf3
has a depth of feeling, strong sense of frustration, and hunger for growth and change
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
4 stars - a must see, astute look at male sexuality, startling intimacy..
Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
Jose (2018): leading universalizing film of the year on love, family, struggle, change, hope - with simple dialogue and strong visuals it's transcending language and resonating in leading festivals around the world
trailer -
https://youtu.be/Uj_dMnZVNa4
Jose (2018) cinephile awards:
Q***r Lion at 75th Venice Film Festival - Giornate degli Autori
Special Jury prize Bratislava International Film Festival
Special Jury prize Festival des 3 Continents
Is just the pre-show "family friendly" or is the whole 1st half of the show appropriate for children? I believe in past years the whole half before intermission was intended to be family friendly.
Come out on November 10th and join us for a concert fundraising event featuring local musicians, Caribbean inspired food, cash bar, silent auction AND raffle. So much to do and ALL for a great cause! CHOAIDS works to care for HIV+ orphaned children in Haiti providing basic necessities, education, medical care and so much more. We hope to see you there!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1852317878185000/
THIS IS AN EVENT THAT HAS BEEN IN THE MAKING FOR 2 YEARS!
Please join us on March 16th, 2018 as Stephanie Schultz dba SILVERSARK CLOTHIER exhibits her latest collection "REVENANTS, LEGENDS NEVER DIE" Fashion Show.
Her high fashion OOAK Couture Clothing has been featured together throughout Milwaukee, WI editorials, a participant in Milwaukee Fashion Week, Racine Art Museum, TMJ4 Live Morning News, and now chosen as a Finalist for THE PFISTER HOTEL Artist in Residence.
