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the uic writing
centers presents
Writing
Day Spring 2008
Women (Re) Writing Color Symposium
What
Will We Discover Today?
Thursday, March 20, 2008
105 Grant Hall
Directions to UIC Writing Center
Directed by
Aneeka Ayanna Henderson
Sponsored by the UIC Writing Center
8:30
am Art, Poetry, and Dance Exhibition
Art by Sandra Santiago-Posados
Poetry by Lydia
Saravia
Blondine Jones
offers lessons on popular Afro-Cuban and Latin dances.
9:30
Film screening of The stories of
Maxine Hong Kingston (1994) Maxine Hong Kingston talks about
her writing, her published works, and the interaction of East Asian and
American consciousness.
10:30
am Inequity, Activism, and Power (Re)Negotiation
Darlene Nava Munoz--“Ella’s Daughters: A Holistic Approach to
Building a Social Justice Movement.”
Kimberly Alecia
Singletary--“Missing a Stitch: Fashion’s Impact on the Black Middle Class’
Decreasing Cultural Currency.”
11am
Migration, (Re)Vision &
Performativity
Dr. Irma Olmedo
performs “Amigos,” a story of Puerto Rican migration to New York City.
11:30
am A (Re)conceptualization of Sex, Health, and Storytelling
Sheila Richardson
presents “The No Name AIDS Girl,” an interactive theatrical performance
centering on the journey of AIDS.
12pm
Theorizing (Re)presentations of Music, Gender, & Race
Dr. Frances
Aparicio discusses her book, Listening
to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures
(1998), and the way Latino popular music represents women, gender wars, the
role of the body, and of sexuality in cultural identities.
12:30pm
On Writing & (Re)membering
Film screening of
Toni Morrison (1987).
Morrison discusses slavery, its legacy, and the
difficulties of writing about the painful subjects that occur in her novel Beloved. 1 hour
1:30pm
A (Re)conceptualization of Capital, Culture, and Race
Ash Kini--"'Cultural
bastards, dat is what we is': Cultures of Diaspora & the Politics of
Authenticity in the work of Shani Mootoo."
Whitney Paige Green--“All
Men are Rich, Some Women are Poor: A New Look at Gender, Class, and Race Inequities.”
2:00pm
A Critical (Re)sponse: Women of Color
Authors in the Classroom
Cindy Bailey--What’s
Black about Feminist Criticism?
Gissel Escobedo and
Arlen Hernandez--A Critique of Multicultural Education for Young Girls.
2:30pm (Re)writing as Students, Mothers,
Poets, and Leaders
Literature For
All of Us literacy program members present their writing and talk about
their award-winning program.
3pm
On Righting Women in the MeDiA
Film screening of
Killing Us Softly 3 (2000), which discusses how women are
portrayed by advertising and the effects this has on self-image. 1 hour
4pm .
. .Enter (Re)hearsal
Discussion and
performance by writer, poet, and artist Sandra Santiago-Posados, co-author
of “Brown Girls Singing:’ The Struggle for Identity of a Second Generation
Puerto Rican Woman Revealed as an Auto-ethnographic Counter-Story
Performance.”
5pm
Writing Center (Re)Citing
Open mic hosted
by Damien Miller.
UIC Writing Center
publication release for Writer’s
Reader, Poet’s Reader, & Empty Headed.
March is Women's History Month!
Graphic design by Vicky Lim.
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