Oct
15
Welcomes

dr. reelaviolette botts-ward
with 
Home/Girl Healin':  The Sacred Geographies of Everyday Black Feminist Healing Arts in Oakland, CA
 
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.
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Tuesday, October, 15, 2024
4:00-5:30pm
Humanities Gateway 1010
Please RSVP here by Thursday, October 10th 
 
 
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About the Speaker:  reelaviolette botts-ward, PhD, is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSF. 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 blackwomxnhealing - an intergenerational wellness collective that supports the holistic well-being of Black women.