Seminar

“I may be too thin, but I can still dance.”—Audre Lorde As we gather, we honor and acknowledge that the University of Colorado’s four campuses are on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute, Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Lakota, Pueblo and Shoshone Nations. Further, we acknowledge the...

On Reparative Decoloniality Spring 2023 Seminar As we gather, we honor and acknowledge that the University of Colorado’s four campuses are on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute, Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Lakota, Pueblo and Shoshone Nations. Further, we acknowledge the 48 contemporary tribal nations historically...

Repair, Abolish, Hope Fall 2022 Seminar There are words and concepts that suffer from a precariousness of meaning. They sound right but they lost their edge, their symbolic efficiency, and their revolutionary potential. Words like Freedom, Repair, Abolition, Hope, Resistance, Resilience, Debt, and Love are dangerously trendy, victims of a...

Spring 2022 Seminar Let’s face it, the roof is on fire, but our hoses boast only trickles of water. We didn’t have to wait for the crisis of today, or the crisis of last year, or that of ten years ago to feel the alarm in our veins, to realize...