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Chicana/x  Latina/x  Working Group

An affinity group. A SPACE where we come together to discuss Chicana Feminist thought, create camaraderie, research, write, & much more.

The “x” in Chicana/x reflects the non- binary gender identity to honor multiple socio-political identities and encompasses both Chicano and Chicana perspectives within the working group. 

This group is open to all.

Libraries Research Hub 121 or online / 12:00-1:30 PM

Virtual Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88064407100?pwd=dURQWHhyenBRZ3diNW1sWW4wQ0tQZz09#success

 

 

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TLDC: "Wise Paths and Rash Pitfalls" with Dr. James Wages

Dr. James Wages, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Arkansas Sometimes it is difficult to view persistent personal and social problems–such as achievement gaps, intergroup conflict, and poor health/wellness–as unchangeable without structural policy intervention. While changing structures can be ideal, structural change can take a lifetime, never materialize, or even have unintended consequences. In the meantime, we can leverage the psychological power of subjective meaning-making to help people flourish in their current situations. In this talk, I will discuss the potential utility and limits of evidence-based “wise” interventions that reshape how people make meaning of their lives in a way that promotes growth, resilience, and connection. Such interventions include affirming cherished personal values to reduce the experience of psychological threat and defensiveness (self-affirmation), reconceptualizing intelligence and success as achievable through personal effort and support rather than fixed traits (growth mindset) and rethinking an uncertain sense of belonging as a normal and temporary component of adjustment (social belonging). I will conclude the talk with practical advice on how psychologically wise interventions could be cautiously implemented in university settings, such as the classroom.  You can read more about Dr. Wages' work on his website: https://jameswages.owlstown.net/

TLPDC 151 or online / 2:00-3:00 PM

Register at https://ttu.elementlms.com/wellness/

 

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Spring 2023 Book Club: Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King

Join us for this engaging event! The theme of this event is centered around: Racism, Sexism, Wellness.

Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement. As a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music, determined to pursue her own career as a concert singer, she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But, in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals, she married Dr. King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard-bearer, and so much more.

As a widow and single mother of four, she worked tirelessly to found and develop the King Center as a citadel for world peace; lobbied for fifteen years for a U.S. national holiday in honor of her husband; championed women's, workers', and gay rights; and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom, and human dignity.

Virtual / 5:30-7:00 PM 

Register at : https://texastech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsceuvrzoiEtyYGT_UvkzvYNKOsBXcIAtD

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Chicana/x  Latina/x  Working Group

An affinity group. A SPACE where we come together to discuss Chicana Feminist thought, create camaraderie, research, write, & much more.

The “x” in Chicana/x reflects the non- binary gender identity to honor multiple socio-political identities and encompasses both Chicano and Chicana perspectives within the working group. 

This group is open to all.

Hybrid TBD / 2:00-5:00 PM

Virtual Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86763940402?pwd=N3hxWkE4a2x4R0wwLy9qbm1COVEzQT09

 

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The Great Book Reads Club: Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid

A searing and revelatory account of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis.  Journalist Jessica McDiarmid investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have created a climate where Indigenous women and girls are over-policed, yet under-protected. Through interviews with those closest to the victims—mothers and fathers, siblings and friends—McDiarmid offers an intimate, first-hand account of their loss and relentless fight for justice. Examining the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settlers and Indigenous peoples in the region, McDiarmid links these cases to others across Canada—now estimated to number up to 4,000—contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in this country.

 Highway of Tears is a powerful story about our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and a testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it. -Penguin Random House

First 10 people who come will receive a free book!

TTU Urban Tech or virtual / 5:30-7:00 PM

 

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Spring 2023 Book Club: Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King

Join us for this engaging event! The theme of this event is centered around: Racism, Sexism, Wellness.

Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement. As a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music, determined to pursue her own career as a concert singer, she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But, in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals, she married Dr. King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard-bearer, and so much more.

As a widow and single mother of four, she worked tirelessly to found and develop the King Center as a citadel for world peace; lobbied for fifteen years for a U.S. national holiday in honor of her husband; championed women's, workers', and gay rights; and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom, and human dignity.

Virtual / 5:30-7:00 PM 

Register at : https://texastech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsceuvrzoiEtyYGT_UvkzvYNKOsBXcIAtD

 

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Digital Humanities Working Group Speaker: Dr. Roopika Risam

"Building Institutional Capacity for Digital Humanities at Small and Large Scales"

How can incremental efforts to increase institutional capacity for digital humanities add up to sums greater than the whole of their parts? Roopika Risam will discuss her experience building institutional capacity for digital humanities at institutional, regional, and national levels. Risam will offer insight on the ethos of minimal computing that has guided her work and share strategies from building digital humanities capacity from the ground up.

Virtual Event / 5:30 PM 

https://texastech.zoom.us/j/96108760904?pwd=aElYSHJaVWRWdDkwKzNXTlh1ejEwUT09#success

 

 

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HEALTH Movie Series: Safe (Todd Haynes,1995)

"Safe" has been described as a horror movie of the soul, a description that director Todd Haynes relishes. California housewife Carol White seems to have it all in life: a wealthy husband, a beautiful house, servants, beauty, and a lot of friends. The only thing she lacks is a strong personality: Carol seems timid and empty during all of her interactions with the world around her. At the beginning of the film, one would consider her to be more safe in life than just about anyone. That doesn't turn out to be the case. Starting with headaches and leading to a grandmal seizure, Carol becomes more and more sick, claiming that she's become sensitive to the common toxins in today's world: exhaust, fumes, aerosol spray, etc. She pulls back from the sexual advances of her husband and spends her nights alone by the TV or wandering around the outside of her well-protected home like an animal in a cage. Her physician examines her and can find nothing wrong. An allergist finds that she has an allergic reaction to milk but explains that there is no treatment for that sort of allergy. She sees a psychiatrist who does nothing but make her nervous. In the hospital, Carol sees an infomercial for Wrenwood, a new-age retreat for those who are "environmentally ill," and leaves her husband and stepson to try and find salvation at this retreat: headed by a phony, grandstanding, "sensitive" individual named Peter Dunning. (IMDB)

Alamo Drafthouse / 7:30PM

ticket link coming soon.

 

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Chicana/x  Latina/x  Working Group

An affinity group. A SPACE where we come together to discuss Chicana Feminist thought, create camaraderie, research, write, & much more.

The “x” in Chicana/x reflects the non- binary gender identity to honor multiple socio-political identities and encompasses both Chicano and Chicana perspectives within the working group. 

This group is open to all.

Hybrid TBD / 2:00-5:00 PM

Virtual Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82457043043?pwd=ZkRkRm9yYndvUG1FZFJjQkNaMkRMUT09

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HEALTH Movie Series: How to Survive a Plague (David France, 2012)

In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, the disease was considered a death sentence affecting communities, like the LGBT ones, whom many in power felt deserved it. This film tells the story of how militant activists like ACT-UP and TAG pushed for a meaningful response to this serious public health problem. As the activists struggled against political indifference, religious hostility, corporate greed and apparently skewed scientific research priorities with determination and sheer audacity, they produced a political wave that would lead to not only an effective treatment regime, but would advance LGBT rights beyond anyone's expectations. (IMDB)

Alamo Drafthouse / 7:30PM

ticket link coming soon.

 

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Chicana/x  Latina/x  Working Group

An affinity group. A SPACE where we come together to discuss Chicana Feminist thought, create camaraderie, research, write, & much more.

The “x” in Chicana/x reflects the non- binary gender identity to honor multiple socio-political identities and encompasses both Chicano and Chicana perspectives within the working group. 

This group is open to all.

Hybrid TBD / 2:00-5:00 PM

Virtual Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82457043043?pwd=ZkRkRm9yYndvUG1FZFJjQkNaMkRMUT09

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Post-Grad Fellow Talk: Dr. Criseida Santos-Guevara

"Erasures/Cross Outs: Overwriting Indigeneity in the US-Mexico Border"

The indigenous nations of Texas (in the United States) and Coahuila, Tamaulipas and Nuevo León (in Mexico) have historically been excluded from national and border identity narratives on both sides. From the beginning, the indigenous groups of northeastern Mexico were outside the prototype of a nation.

The project "Erasures/Cross-Outs: Overwriting Indigeneity in the Mexico-US Borderlands" seeks to interrogate how literature and creative writing establish dialogues with the environment and its surroundings to contribute to a broad understanding of environmental humanities, race, ethnicity and migration in Latin America and the United States. Likewise, to understand the relationship between identity processes and environmental disasters in geographical areas marked by dispossession, violence, trade and migration, as is the case of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas.

Weeks Hall - 2nd Floor Meeting Space / 5 PM

 

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HEALTH Movie Series: The Girl With all the Gifts (Colm McCarthy, 2016)

In a dystopian near future, humanity has been ravaged by a mysterious fungal disease. The afflicted are robbed of all free will and turned into flesh-eating "hungries". Humankind's only hope is a small group of hybrid children who crave human flesh but retain the ability to think and feel. The children go to school at an army base in rural Britain where they're subjected to cruel experiments by Dr. Caroline Caldwell (Glenn Close). School teacher Helen Justineau (Gemma Arterton) grows particularly close to an exceptional girl named Melanie (Sennia Nanua), thus forming a special bond. But when the base is invaded, the trio escapes with the assistance of Sgt. Eddie Parks (Paddy Considine) and they embark on a perilous journey of survival, during which Melanie must come to terms with who she is. (IMDB)

Alamo Drafthouse / 7:30PM

Ticket link coming soon. 

 

 

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Chicana/x  Latina/x  Working Group

An affinity group. A SPACE where we come together to discuss Chicana Feminist thought, create camaraderie, research, write, & much more.

The “x” in Chicana/x reflects the non- binary gender identity to honor multiple socio-political identities and encompasses both Chicano and Chicana perspectives within the working group. 

This group is open to all.

Hybrid TBD / 2:00-5:00 PM

Virtual Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82457043043?pwd=ZkRkRm9yYndvUG1FZFJjQkNaMkRMUT09