From slavery to the present, Black women healers have confronted the commodification and devaluation of Black life. Their work and thought thus transcended matters of individual health and addressed a wider array of social ills. Examining Black women's healing practices across time reveals a politics of survival and reclamation meant to counter the hostile climate of slavery and its many afterlives.
Lecture is free and open to the public. Reception to follow at 5:30pm in the AGC 2nd floor rotunda.
Dr. Lori Kletzer is a Professor of Economics at Colby College and the University of California Santa Cruz, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California Berkeley, and Senior Research Fellow at the Global Network for Advanced Management.
Fania Davis is a leading national voice on restorative justice, a quickly emerging field which invites a fundamental shift in the way we think about and do justice. She is a long-time social justice activist, Civil Rights trial attorney, restorative justice practitioner, writer, and scholar with a Ph.D. in Indigenous Knowledge. A founder and currently Director of Restorative Justice of Oakland Youth (RJOY), Fania served as counsel to the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.
The event is free; tickets are available through Eventbrite.
Rater’s goal in sharing her family’s experience – which inspired a key character in “Doubt,” the 2017 CBS legal series she and husband Tony Phelan created – is to help educate people on transgender identity as well as discuss her struggles for more transgender visibility on TV.