Events

Join us for a conversation on La Piñata Colaborativa [The Collaborative Piñata] and a piñata workshop with Dignicraft, and Purepecha master artisans Raúl Guzmán and Eduviges Solorio.

The Collaborative Piñata is an ongoing project with the community of Purepecha artisans who have emigrated from their ancestral land on the island of Janitzio, Michoacan to Rosarito, Baja California. Many Purepecha families living near the US-Mexico have become expert piñata makers for a US-based market, as a source of livelihood. Read more

Opening Remarks begin at 10:30AM

Student Panel #1: 11AM-12:15PM

Student Panel #2: 2-3:15PM

Keynote Address:

“Mutual Aid for Survival and Mobilization”

with author, lawyer, and activist Dean Spade, 4PM-6PM

Dean Spade is a lawyer, author, activist, and filmmaker working at the intersection of queer and trans-liberation and economic and racial justice. Author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), https://www.versobooks.com/products/2722-mutual-aid, Spade will be speaking on mutual aid and solidarity across social justice movements in the time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter.

This event is co-sponsored with Queer Studies and funded through the CSUN Diversity and Equity Innovation Grant. Read more