{"id":1930,"date":"2020-08-19T06:33:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T11:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/cultures-communities\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2020-09-15T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:58:09","slug":"ronak-kapadia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/cultures-communities\/ronak-kapadia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronak Kapadia: \u201cReimagine Everything: How Insurgent Aesthetics and Queer Collective Care are Transforming Our Worlds\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, October 2nd, 2020
\n3:30 – 4:30
\nFree<\/em><\/h3>\n

C21 Event Page<\/a>
\nEvent Online\u2014Watch at C21’s YouTube page<\/a>.
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Join us for a conversation with Ronak K. Kapadia (UIC) as he explores how the Black and brown Midwest has become the epicenter of a twenty-first century insurgent rebellion against the dominant militarized policing order in the United States. From abolition to healing justice and transformative justice and mutual aid, a new generation of visionary artists and activists from queer and trans Black Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC) communities are offering a crucial wellspring for ideas about survival, healing, and justice in the waning years of twenty-first century US empire. These strategies and tactics circulate widely within contemporary social movements that are working to turn the tide against prisons, policing, and American warfare. At a time when the proliferating calamities of global fascism, neoliberal austerity, carceral governance, climate chaos, and endless warfare appear to be ascendant across the planet, how do minoritarian cultural workers living and laboring in the heart of empire make sense of this dying world order while dreaming up new worlds through their art-making and organizing? The ecology of minoritarian art and activism emerging from today\u2019s overlapping protest movements offer a powerful roadmap for understanding the dystopian here and now <\/em>of US imperial decline and imagining rebellious futures that can move us from despair and isolation to coalition and transformation.<\/p>\n