Check It Out!

Date: Apr 17, 2007
Time: 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: McKinley Foundation, 809 S. Fifth St., Champaign
Sponsor: IPRH Women of Color Feminism Reading Group, IPRH, Gender & Women's Studies, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society


The IPRH Women of Color Feminism (WOCF) Reading Group will host a one-day event of programming, which will include a symposium, film screening, reception, and a co-sponsored concert with Brooklyn-based funk band Antibalas on April 17, 2007. The symposium, titled, "Las Krudas: Women, Power & Resistance," will feature interdisciplinary scholarship by UIUC faculty and graduate students conducting research about Black women's activism, the African Diaspora and women-centered Caribbean creative productions that specifically speak to the critically-acclaimed artistry of the internationally renown lesbian feminist Cuban hip-hop trio, Las Krudas. A confirmed concert featuring Las Krudas and Antibalas not only will bring together the campus and larger Champaign-Urbana community, but the daylong programming ultimately will fulfill the primary goal of the WOCF: to heighten community awareness about transnational women-centered intellectual-cultural intervention, which promote a feminist poetics and praxis that engages with diasporic social justice movements.

Please join us for the following events at the McKinley Foundation (809 S. 5th St., Champaign):

1-2pm Film Screening of "T con T: Lesbian Lives in Contemporary Havana"

2-3pm Panel discussing the work of Las Krudas, a Cuban, hip hop trio that address issues such as female liberation, lesbian rights, female solidarity, and racism.
Panelists:
Celiany Rivera-Velazquez, ChairInstitute of Communications Research, UIUC
Marc Perry, PhDAnthropology and African American Studies, UIUC
Erik McDuffie, PhDGender and Women's Studies and History, UIUC
Tanya Saunders, PhD CandidateSociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3:30-4:30pm Reception with food and music
8pm Concert: Antibalas with special guests Krudas Cubensi, Canopy Club, $13 at the door

doesnt get much better than that!

(http://www.krudas.org/)
(http://www.antibalas.com/)

Alanis Morissette does 'my humps'

Saw this on AOL news...had to give props to the lady who constituted the better part of my 4th-6th grade musical indentity. classic.