Envisioning Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty
Villard Room and Virtual (Livestream information below)
Reception to follow.
Please RSVP to confirm your attendance.
All are welcome to attend the radical, dynamic, and engaging conversation about Black and Native solidarity and kinship as Black, Native, and Afro-Indigenous kin move from survivance to thrivance and futurity.
Sponsored by: Jeh Vincent Johnson ALANA Cultural Center, Advancement, American Studies, Anthropology, Engaged Pluralism, Hispanic Studies, Office of Community-Engaged Learning, Student Growth and Engagement, the Education Department, and The President’s Office.
Bio: Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke) is an Afro-Indigenous (African-American and Native American) advocate, organizer, cultural critic, decolonial theorist, and budding abolitionist. She is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is also of Shawnee, Yuchi, Quapaw, and Cherokee descent. Her passion is the intersection of Black and Native American identity. Her activism seeks to normalize, affirm, and uplift the multidimensional identities of Black and Native peoples through discourse and advocacy around anti-Blackness, abolishing blood quantum, Black liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty.
Campus community only, please.
