About the Author:

Mila Natasha Mendez (they/them) is a queer Black Chinese cultural worker, parent, and doctoral candidate in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies. Mila is interested in transformative spaces and ideas, and they find grounding in the capaciousness of Black Feminisms to show us how and why care is central. Their current research is curious about what propels liberatory Black culture production and creative practices by emerging and mid-career Black queer and trans feminist artists in so-called Canada, within, against and beyond intersecting systems of oppression, including anti-Black racism, racial capitalism, and cistheteropatriarchy. Outside of academia, you can find Mila working and drumming with RAW Taiko (@rawtaiko) and training to support new parents with feeding their babies.

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Blaq Collective presents you a workshop: A Black Feminist Perspective on How Art Changes the World facilitated by Mila Mendez.

When: March 31st, 12.00-2.00pm

Where: LGBTQ+ Resource Center North (E140)

A light lunch will be provided.

About the event:

Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter offers us this perspective — human life came into being through culture, not the other way around. That being the case, then art, and how we decipher it, can both sustain the status quo of our species or be a method for making new forms of human life, forms that aren’t governed by the logics of anti-Black racism, capitalism, or cisheteropatriarchy.

How can we be made and remade as we engage with Black culture? How might we gauge when art is bringing us closer to or farther away from our collective freedom?

About the Author:

Mila Natasha Mendez (they/them) is a queer Black Chinese cultural worker, parent, and doctoral candidate in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies. Mila is interested in transformative spaces and ideas, and they find grounding in the capaciousness of Black Feminisms to show us how and why care is central. Their curren

A Black Feminist Perspective on How Art Changes the World

A Black Feminist Perspective on How Art Changes the World

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Humber LGBTQ+ Resource Centre

Humber LGBTQ+ Resource Centre

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