OPEEP’s Liberation at the Margins Collective (LAM) learning community recently welcomed fifteen new members to our group! Dr. Shavagne Scott, Assistant Professor in the Department of African American & African studies, and English PhD candidate Sam Risak joined LAM alongside thirteen new incarcerated members. Existing LAM members met with each new member in small breakout groups to listen and share their experiences with one another, discussing poetry, geography, and their knowledge of black feminist ideas and practices. LAM members reflected on their goals for the upcoming spring semester and shared their excitement (and fears) about joining a collaborative, feminist learning community at ORW.
LAM is set to discuss Audre Lorde’s essays and poetry, the Combahee River Collective Statement, Sara Ahmed’s Feminist Killjoy Handbook and bell hooks’ All About Love (to name a few). We are also very excited to welcome documentary filmmaker and civil rights activist Judy Richardson. LAM will read the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) & Grassroots Organizing Discussion Series in preparation for her visit. We are so excited to welcome our new LAM members and continue to build our learning community cohort!
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