Oct
15
Welcomes
dr. reelaviolette botts-ward
with
Home/Girl Healin': The Sacred Geographies of Everyday Black Feminist Healing Arts in Oakland, CA
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.
Tuesday, October, 15, 2024
4:00-5:30pm
Humanities Gateway 1010
4:00-5:30pm
Humanities Gateway 1010
Please RSVP here by Thursday, October 10th
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.
1010 Humanities Gateway