April 14, 2019
Honored to announce that I’ll be a guest teaching artist indefinitely at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College of New York/CCNY, visiting classes that are teaching various aspects of my work and methodologies – in particular the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative. My projects SONDERBAUTEN and FIELDWORK will be the focus of my engagement and lectures, as well as new work from THE SLAUGHTER PARTIES, a body of work surrounding gender and those who inhabit conflict zones.
A gallery exhibition including several photograph-and-text series and video installations from my body of work is offered in Lower Manhattan – details to follow.
It is a deep honor to collaborate with CCNY vision launchers founding Professor Nimmi Gowrinathan and Guernica founding editor, board president and Professor Michael Archer in this vital initiative.
The Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative, The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Engagement, and The President’s office collaborate on this campus-wide initiative. The program trains young women of color from both immigrant and U.S.-based minority communities in identity-driven research, allowing them to draw on lived experiences of discrimination to inform unique research agendas.
A central component of the program is the ability to articulate lived experiences, and disseminate findings and opinions. This involves policy presentations, movement-building programs, and writing workshops to craft nonfiction narratives into compelling forms of political communication. Without the personal in the political, the stories of these young women remain footnotes in the often exploitative narrative that captures their lives.
While many of these young women’s experiences feature gender and violence, issue-based political work will be determined by individual women and touches on everything from conflict (over 1,000 students at City College are from conflict “hotspots”) to the contemporary immigration crisis, with a strong grounding in individual understandings of intersections between gender and violence.“