Events
WGST EVENTS 2012-2013
March 13, 2013 Annual Domna Stanton Lecture:
Dean Spade: "Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law"
4:30pm, Science Center 277, Wellesley College
Dean Spade will be presenting selections from his recent book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. In Normal Life, Dean uses Critical Race Theory, women of color feminism, and other intellectual traditions to analyze the role of law reform in contemporary queer and trans politics. He examines the poverty, violence, criminalization and immigration enforcement facing trans populations, and questions the utility of anti-discrimination law and hate crimes laws for addressing these harms. He proposes that a critical trans politics is emerging that rejects law reform as a goal and engages tactically with legal work as it attempts to dismantle apparatuses of racialized-gendered violence like prisons and borders and build alternative structures that meaningfully address contemporary conditions of poverty and violence.
For More Information: www.deanspade.net
Past Events 2012
October 24, 2012 Linda Garcia Merchant Film Screening
5:30pm Collins Cinema, Wellesley College
Linda Garcia Merchant
Born and raised on Chicago's West Side, Linda Garcia Merchant's experience growing up during the 1960s and 70s with a mother active in both the Feminist and Chicano movements was pivotal in shaping her views today. Influential activists that included many of her mother’s friends surrounded her and, absorbing all the discussions on politics, history and world events and standing by her mother's side at protests or political conventions, she began to cultivate her own voice at quite a young age. She developed a strong conviction for activism and civic responsibility. And, having experienced some of the most exciting social and political events, Linda was inspired to capture on camera the Latino influence of those times.
In June 2006, Linda created Voces Primeras, LLC, a production company dedicated to creating and distributing documentary-style features of pioneering Latinas to the educational, political and retail markets. Her goal is to provide resources that expand the understanding of the 60s and 70s in our collective American history—research not available through traditional channels and in danger of becoming extinct because of the lack of documentation. While working on her directorial debut, Linda also works full-time in the graphic and Web site design field, during which she provided her design services for Chicago community organizations such as the Partnership to End Homelessness, Latino Council on the Media and Spanish Coalition for Jobs.
Linda received a Bachelor of Science, with honors, in advertising/design/photography at Western Illinois University. She was voted Volunteer of the Year by the Partnership to End Homelessness in 2005. She is a current member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Amigas Latinas, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (Women Active in Letters and Social Change) and the National Women’s Studies Association.
October 31, 2012 Performance Artist Dan Kwong
6pm Jewett Auditorium, Wellesley College
