28280: Fwd: McAlister: Gina Ulysse performs at Wesleyan U (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

> > Elizabeth McAlister <emcalister@wesleyan.edu> Writes:
> >
> > I want to announce a public performance of spokenword poetry by
> > Professor Gina Ulysse, at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
> > The performance is on Wed, April 26th, 7:00 pm, in the Memorial
> > Chapel.  All are invited, a reception will follow.
> >
> > > Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, Me, & the World" is an alter(ed)native
> > > ethno-performance of spokenword that explores issues of racism, classism and
> > > sexism through anti-Haitianism.  It exposes what it means to
> > > confront and speak
> > > truth to power and, in a black feminist tradition, achieve peace
> > > through spirituality
> > > and revolutionary self-definition. This work ultimately demands of
> > > the audience
> > > that they interrogate our complicity in the brutality of
> > > anti-Haitianism. -Gina
> > > Athena Ulysse
> >
> > --

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Elizabeth McAlister, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Religion
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT  06459-0029, USA

Tel:  (860) 685-2289
Fax:  (860) 685-2821
Internet home page: http://www.wesleyan.edu/religion/mcalister.htm
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