<div dir="ltr">Should be great!<br><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Dylan Rodríguez</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:dylanrodriguez73.cis@gmail.com">dylanrodriguez73.cis@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 11:18 AM<br>Subject: invitation to (online) event with Joy James and Kalonji Changa, April 6, 3-5 pm PST<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:dylan.rodriguez@ucr.edu">dylan.rodriguez@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg8350014976912291028"><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_1211502212695400875WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hi everyone:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Check this out, consider attending and sending your (grad and undergrad) students to this online event with Joy James and Kalonji Changa, in dynamic conversation with three UCR Ph.D. students doing work in the field of Black Study: Othandwayo Mgqoboka (Anthropology), Brianna Simmons (Anthropology), and Laysi Zacarias (Anthropology).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Flyer and information below, please circulate widely and feel free to extend invitations to people beyond the UCR campus!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ingat/peace.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">dylan<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></span></u></b></p><p style="margin:0in"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">April 6, 3-5 pm PST (online)<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p><p style="margin:0in"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></span></u></b></p><p style="margin:0in"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Registration (free):</span></u></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bit.ly/MLK_Hutton" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">https://bit.ly/MLK_Hutton</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img style="width:6.1527in;height:7.7083in" id="m_1211502212695400875Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:18733c7ef204ce8e91" alt="A picture containing text, book

Description automatically generated" width="591" height="740" border="0"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“On the Anniversary of the Assassinations of MLK and Lil' Bobby Hutton —A Discussion on Captive Maternals and War Resistance, with <u>Joy James & Kalonji Changa</u>”<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please join us for this (online) panel discussion with <b>Joy James</b> (Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities, Williams College, author of <i>In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love</i> (IPORL) and "Maternal (In)Coherence") and <b>Kalonji Changa</b> (Co-Founder of Black Power Media, Co-Chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute, Co-Founder of FTP Movement)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society, and the Departments of History, English and Black Study<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Registration (free):</span></u></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bit.ly/MLK_Hutton" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">https://bit.ly/MLK_Hutton</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Featuring:<u></u><u></u></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_1211502212695400875MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Joy James</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (Africana Studies, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College, author of <i>In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love</i>)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_1211502212695400875MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kalonji Changa</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (Co-Founder of Black Power Media, Co-Chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute, Co-Founder of FTP Movement)<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In conversation with:<u></u><u></u></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_1211502212695400875MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Othandwayo Mgqoboka</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (Ph.D. student, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Riverside)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_1211502212695400875MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Brianna Simmons</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (Ph.D. student, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Riverside)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_1211502212695400875MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Laysi Zacarias </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(Ph.D. student, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Riverside)<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Facilitated by:<u></u><u></u></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_1211502212695400875MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dylan Rodríguez</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (Professor, Dept. of Black Study and Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies, Co-Director of Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside)<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Links to recent writing and conversations with Joy James and Kalonji Changa:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Joy James, <i>In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(attached PDF of Preface and Afterword to <i>In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love</i> to be provided upon registration for event)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Liberalism is counter-revolutionary”: An Interview with Kalonji Jama Changa (Black Agenda Report)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/liberalism-counter-revolutionary-interview-kalonji-jama-changa" target="_blank">https://www.blackagendareport.com/liberalism-counter-revolutionary-interview-kalonji-jama-changa</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Joy James and Kalonji Changa on “Guerrilla Love”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/v8pwqAjbAlY?feature=share" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/live/v8pwqAjbAlY?feature=share</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"Guerrilla Intellectuals, Academics and Grifters" w/ Joy James, Dylan Rodríguez and Kalonji Changa”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/G0Oy697haRc?feature=share" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/live/G0Oy697haRc?feature=share</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Black Power Media YouTube channel<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BlackPowerMedia" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@BlackPowerMedia</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">(please send Center for Ideas and Society related emails here: </span><a href="mailto:dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Dylan Rodríguez<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Co-Director, </span><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Center for Ideas and Society</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><br></span><a href="https://caseygrants.org/freedom-scholars/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070c0">2020 Freedom Scholar</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Past President, American Studies Association (2020-2021)<br>Professor, Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies<br>University of California, Riverside<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dylanrodriguez" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:blue">@dylanrodriguez</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Instagram: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dylanrodriguez73/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:blue">@dylanrodriguez73</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">“If one were forced for the sake of clarity to define [fascism] in a word simple enough for all to understand, that word would be ‘reform.’”<br>-George Jackson<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">organizations i support:<br></span><a href="http://www.socallib.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070c0">http://www.socallib.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070c0"><br></span><a href="https://www.umedics.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:blue">https://www.umedics.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.criticalresistance.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:blue">www.criticalresistance.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070c0"><br></span><a href="http://scholarsforsocialjustice.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070c0">http://scholarsforsocialjustice.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>