A Conversation between Crunk, Trap and Hip Hop Feminists Replay Event - Click Here Join us for a panel discussion on the unapologetically fierce hip hop feminist work of Sesali Bowen, Dr. Brittney Cooper, Dr. Susana Morris, and CBVC’s own, Dr. Joan Morgan. For the first time ever, Sesali Bowen will give an academic talk on her trap feminist framework including its origins, inspirations, and possibilities for liberation. Bowen's Bad, Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist lays out a contemporary framework that interrogates where feminism meets today's hip-hop and offers a new, inclusive feminism for the modern world. Dr. Brittney Cooper and Dr. Susana Morris' Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood (co-authored with Chanel Craft Tanner) uses the insights of feminism to address issues relevant to today’s young womxn. Cooper and Morris are also founding members of the Crunk Feminist Collective, a space of support and camaraderie for hip...

An Emotional Justice presentation by CBVC Spring 2022 Distinguished Activist/Critic-in-Residence and CEO of The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice, Esther Armah Register for Event - Click Here Home is about inside. Healing is about inside worlds – our emotional, spiritual insides where lockdown triggered triggers and home was restless and bubbling traumas and trouble for millions. It was an undoing we didn’t see coming, and we didn’t know how not to be undone. This is an Emotional Justice presentation. It explores home, shelter, Blackness, humanity and emotional labor to make peace within our Black bodies, in the absence of shelter in nations like the US and UK and Brazil – all places that politicized and weaponized a virus turning it into a death-seeking missile that claimed millions. It is a dual exploration that asks: what does it mean to make home within yourself when an industry of busyness shapes our relationship to...

Radical Justice and Community Engagement with Accra Shepp and Dread Scott Register for Event - Click Here Two artists whose work engages in current community with abundant echoes of the United States’ long historical arch in order to suggest where we’ll find ourselves in the years to come: in celebration of Accra Shepp’s first monograph, Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice, we are pleased to have him in conversation with Dread Scott. Shepp’s Radical Justice brings together two bodies of socially-engaged photographic portraiture documented during New York City’s Occupy Wall Street movement starting in 2011 and its racial justice/BLM protests since 2020. His empathetic depictions of fellow citizens standing up for the fair protection of the Constitution provide a prophetic mirror of current events, reflecting back centuries to where the American experiment began, to suggest where we’ll find ourselves in the future. Scott, no stranger to the power and change possible when art...