Free Event / Doors at 5:30pm
Light Refreshments Provided
About the program:
Black bodies have been hyper-politicized symbols across institutions of Western civilization since Europe's earliest contact with various West African cultures in the late 15th century. Since then, Black bodies have been framed as everything from asexual to sexually promiscuous--both child-like and dangerous.
Delma Jackson's lecture will highlight the way plantation stereotypes became pop-culture and how often pop-culture becomes policy. We’ll also explore some of the ways Black people have responded–from visual arts, to respectability politics, to various aesthetics of sexual liberation.
The workshop that follows will invite collective breathing, embodying, analysis, and meaning-making. Regina Laurie and Canisha Norris will guide participants to leverage their collective experience of the lecture and make meaning while considering their individual and collective well-being.
CONTENT WARNING: Strong language, Mentions of sex, violence, racism. DISCRETION ADVISED
MW Gallery is located at
815 S. Saginaw St.
Flint, MI 48502
Entrance to the gallery is located on E. Court St.
Free parking is available in lot off E. Court St. next to MW Gallery.
Paid street parking on S. Saginaw St.
Free overflow parking is available 1 block east of MW Gallery in the surface lot accessible via Harrison St. or Wallenberg St.
Please note many roads are one-ways and that due to on-going construction 4th St. north of MW Gallery is closed between Saginaw St. and Harrison St.