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Cripping the Apocalypse, a Public Conversation
January 21, 2020
Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip and Nirmala Erevelles, author of Disability and Difference in Global Contexts will explore what a transnational feminist disability perspective offers in the face of regimes of austerity and the global rise of far-right movements. They will examine human values beyond current terms of productivity, self-sufficiency and capacity to work and how disability theory bears on climate equity and justice movements. Featuring Nirmala Erevelles,professor of social and cultural studies in education, University of Alabama and Alison Kafer, associate professor of English and women’s and gender studies, University of Texas; moderated by Jina Kim assistant professor of English and the study of women and gender.  
Graham Hall, Brown Fine Arts Center
7:00 pm

A Winter Concert: Incantations for the Times We're Livin' in!
January 24, 2020
with Pan Morigan vocals/songwriter, Steve Gores Piano/composer, and Andrea Hairston/Spoken Word! Experience in-the-wild songs and incantations improvised on the spot (Never before heard, never to be heard again). Also folk-jazz-roots music in multiple tongues. And performances by Andrea Hairston from her forthcoming novel Master of Poisons (Tor.com, fall 2020). We want to sing, play and read for you in this specific moment - to share our energy, radiance, defiance, and creativity in a surreal winter! All welcome. By donation.
Hallie Flanagan Studio Theater, Mendenhall Ctr. for the Performing Arts: 122 Green St., Northampton, MA
7:30 pm