<div dir="ltr">Please see below for a talk of potential interest!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Anthony Jerry</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:anthonyj@ucr.edu">anthonyj@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM<br>Subject: ree botts-ward PPF - Home/Girl Healin'<br>To: Anthro Faculty (<a href="mailto:anthfac@lists.ucr.edu">anthfac@lists.ucr.edu</a>) <<a href="mailto:anthfac@lists.ucr.edu">anthfac@lists.ucr.edu</a>>, Grad Students <<a href="mailto:anthgrad@lists.ucr.edu">anthgrad@lists.ucr.edu</a>>, Yolanda Moses <<a href="mailto:yolanda.moses@ucr.edu">yolanda.moses@ucr.edu</a>>, Jennifer Syvertsen <<a href="mailto:jsyverts@ucr.edu">jsyverts@ucr.edu</a>>, João Costa Vargas <<a href="mailto:joao.vargas@ucr.edu">joao.vargas@ucr.edu</a>>, Dylan Rodriguez <<a href="mailto:dylan.rodriguez@ucr.edu">dylan.rodriguez@ucr.edu</a>>, Elyse Ambrose <<a href="mailto:elysea@ucr.edu">elysea@ucr.edu</a>>, Sage Whitson <<a href="mailto:sage.whitson@ucr.edu">sage.whitson@ucr.edu</a>>, Desiree Melonas <<a href="mailto:Dmelonas@ucr.edu">Dmelonas@ucr.edu</a>>, Vorris Nunley <<a href="mailto:vorrisn@ucr.edu">vorrisn@ucr.edu</a>>, Imani Johnson <<a href="mailto:imanij@ucr.edu">imanij@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello All,</div><div><br></div><div>Please join us on 3/12 <a class="gmail_plusreply" id="m_7860490955259676619plusReplyChip-0">@</a> 3pm in INTN 2027 for a talk presented by UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif">reelaviolette botts-ward.  You can find information below.  Please let me know if you have any questions.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-family:georgia,serif">TITLE</b><br></div><div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:georgia,serif"><i>Home/Girl Healin': The Sacred Geographies of Everyday Black Feminist Healing Arts in Oakland, California</i></div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:georgia,serif"><div style="direction:ltr"><b>ABSTRACT</b></div><div style="direction:ltr">reelaviolette b<font color="#000000">otts-ward, PhD, is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSF and with UC Davis.</font> Across projects, her work explores how Black women use art and ritual to heal from structural violence. She is a Contributor-in-Residence with Columbia University's Health Humanities Journal, and founder of <a href="https://www.blackwomxnhealing.com/" id="m_7860490955259676619m_-565405843643232224m_7742667243576944567m_2998439101545809947m_-4634830457840693037m_-599358611730195207m_-1227736520180561866m_-1792143055698824220OWA4e3bc29f-7706-9337-47fb-ed7776284d7d" target="_blank">blackwomxnhealing</a> - an intergenerational wellness collective that supports the holistic well-being of Black women. </div><div style="direction:ltr"><br></div><div style="direction:ltr">This presentation will focus on <span>ree</span>'s current book project, <i>Home/Girl Healin': The Sacred Geographies of Everyday Black Feminist Healing Arts in Oakland, California. Home/Girl Healin' </i>is an urban ethnography that centers unhoused and housing-insecure Black women as curators of healthcare and healing. Drawing on eight years of research, it illuminates how everyday feminists use diasporic art praxis to curate sites of care in the wake of displacement. </div><div style="direction:ltr"><br></div><div style="direction:ltr"><i>Home/Girl Healin' </i>contributes to debates on health, housing, and healing. This project merges Medical Anthropology, Medical Humanities, Black Geographies, and the arts to show how Black women's artistic and autonomous communal care solutions foster decolonial repair beyond the clinical space. As Black women’s contentious relationship to the medical industrial complex garners increasing national attention, this work provides insight into reparative art-based healthcare interventions for displaced Black women. It also offers timely insight into new theoretical and methodological tools for researching wellness among marginalized communities. </div></div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:georgia,serif"><b>BIO </b></div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:georgia,serif"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">reelaviolette botts-ward (she/her) is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow with the Reparations and Anti-Institutional Racism (</span><a href="https://repair.ucsf.edu/home" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:unde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</div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jennifer Syvertsen, PhD, MPH</div><div>Associate Professor & Chair</div><div>Department of Anthropology</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div>900 University Ave, 1320B Watkins Hall</div><div>Riverside, CA 92521</div><div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:jsyverts@ucr.edu" target="_blank">jsyverts@ucr.edu</a></div></div><div>Book an appointment <a href="https://calendly.com/office-hours-fall24/office-hours-winter-2025" target="_blank">here</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>