{"id":2193,"date":"2021-03-22T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/?post_type=mec-events&p=2193"},"modified":"2021-03-22T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:12:30","slug":"afrofuturism-janelle-monae","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/events\/afrofuturism-janelle-monae\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrofuturism Lecture Series: Unbought and Unbossed: Janelle Monae’s Productive Performances at the Intersections of Black Political Consciousness, Black Materiality, and Afro-Futurism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presented by Dr. Andrea L. Mays, Ph.D.,
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Moderated by Dr. Finnie Coleman,
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This talk examines Janelle Mon\u00e1e\u2019s \u2018Emotion Picture\u2019 Dirty Computer (2018) with an eye towards situating her cultural and political significance as an artist, activist, and performer enacting Aspirational Futures in the Black Diaspora.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Andrea L. Mays<\/strong>\u00a0holds a PhD in American Studies focusing on 20th and 21st Century African American Culture and Politics, Visual Culture, and Gender Studies. She also has a M.A. in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, and a B.A. in Communications from George Mason University. Dr. Mays is a Mellon Fellow, UNM Provost\u2019s Race and Social Justice Teaching Fellow, and an Award-Winning Lecturer in UNM\u2019s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and UNM\u2019s Department of American Studies. She teaches courses in Feminist Studies, Film, Literature, and\u00a0 Race, Class, and Gender Studies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presented by Dr. Andrea L. Mays, Ph.D., University of New Mexico Moderated by Dr. Finnie Coleman, University of New Mexico This talk examines Janelle Mon\u00e1e\u2019s \u2018Emotion Picture\u2019 Dirty Computer (2018) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[13],"class_list":["post-2193","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry","mec_category-new-mexico-black-leadership-council"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}