At the Edge of Each Other’s Battles: Puerto Rican, Palestinian, Black & Indigenous Futures
Cost: Free
April 12 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm EDT
Join us for a virtual symposium “At the edge of each other’s battles”: Puerto Rican, Palestinian, Black, & Indigenous Futures which convenes scholars and writers to examine the legacies of colonialism, dispossession, and solidarity practices across a series of overlapping experiences. Using the word of Audre Lorde as a point of departure, this day of panels asks us to imagine possibilities of developing relations across differences in pursuit of collective liberation.
Panels
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Beyond Borders: Traversing Settler Colonial Logics
Moderator: Dr. Eman Ghanayem (Washington University in St. Louis)
Panelists: Dr. Sarah Ihmoud (The College of the Holy Cross), Dr. Sara Awartani (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Leslie Priscilla (Latinx Parenting), and Dr. Melanie Yazzie (The Red Nation)
This panel examines the overlapping experiences of formal and settler colonialism and their afterlives. From Puerto Rico to Palestine and beyond, we will examine the shared experiences of displacement, dispossession, and resistance that define settler colonialism and its ongoing manifestations.
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM Collective Liberation: Imagining Decolonial Possibilities
Moderator: Dr. Eman Ghanayem (Washington University in St. Louis)
Panelists: Dr. Loubna Qutami (Brown University), Charlene Carruthers (Black for Palestine), Bianca Graulau (Independent Journalist), and Erica Violet Lee (Poet)
This panel gathers scholars and activists committed to reimagining land stewardship, racial justice, Indigenous knowledge, and sovereignty. Together, we will envision community-driven futures rooted in justice, dignity, and self-determination for all peoples.
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM Letters for Palestine: Storytelling as Praxis
Moderator: Dr. Tiffany King (Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute), and Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Vásquez (CENTRO – The Center for Puerto Rican Studies)
We will end the day by holding space to center the profound emotional impacts of our contemporary political moment. Together, we will wield the power of storytelling as a political practice which offers a shared ground through which to enact solidarity, agency, and collaboration.
This event is made possible with the collaboration of the Diasporic Solidarities Lab (DSL), the Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute (BIFFI), the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA), The Latinx Project at NYU, & the Palestinian Feminist Collective.