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PAST EVENTS

 

May 3, 2024

The Holle Center: First Friday Reception

Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

[Response Panel Presentation|Discussion]

Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center

Downtown Tuscaloosa, AL

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April 5-May 24, 2024

The Holle Center: Art Exhibit 

Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center

Downtown Tuscaloosa, AL

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April 5, 2024

The Holle Center: Art Exhibit Opening Reception

Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

(with Brittney C. Cooper and Cathy Ann Johnson)

Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center

Downtown Tuscaloosa, AL

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March 7, 2024

First Thursday Seminar Series Speaker, Edinburg University

Autoethnography: A Reading and Conversation with Dr. Robin Boylorn

(Virtual Presentation)

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March 3, 2024

International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN), sponsored by the International Association for Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry (IAANI) 

Spotlight Panel: Dr. Christopher Poulos

Virtual Event

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July 18-20, 2023

Holle Center Advisory Board Retreat

Chicago, IL

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March 29, 2023

The Poster House, Women's History Month, Co-Keynote Speaker (with Eesha Pandit)

We Act As If It Is Possible: Black Feminist Aesthetic in the Movement for Black Power

New York, NY (Virtual Presentation)

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February 27, 2023

Spelman College

The Art of Writing, Guest Lecture

Tuscaloosa, AL

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February 10, 2023

Manderson Spark, Featuered Guest Lecturer

Manderson Graduate School of Business, University of Alabama

The Business of Diversity: Tips for Inclusive Communication About (& Across) Difference

Tuscaloosa, AL

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February 1, 2023

Hermes Rising Statue Celebration

Tuscaloosa, AL

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January 19, 2023

Poetry Out Loud Workshop

Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center

Tuscaloosa, AL

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December 10, 2022

BBC Radio, Soul Music Podcast

Killing Me Softly 

[Interview begins at 15:51]

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November 3, 2022

National Communication Association

Advancing the Discipline Grant Program

Finding Your Academic Voice, Part One (Virtual Panel)

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October 28, 2022

Tracing the Stream: The Geographies of Black Feminist Literacies, Rhetorics, and Pedagogies

Keynote Presenter|Panelist (Virtual Symposium)

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August 31, 2022

National Communication Association

Activism and Social Justice Division

Graduate Student Committee Speaker Series 

"Centering Black Women in Research and Activism" (Virtual)

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April 14, 2022

University of Florida, College of Education

Distinguished Researcher in Residence Lecture/Workshop

Talking (Back) to Myself: Autoethnography and the Role of Reflexivity in Critical Qualitative Research

Gainesville, Florida (Virtual)

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March 30, 2022

Wel-COMM Y'all: A Workshop for Communications Pros

"Diversity 101: Communicating to Diverse Audiences"

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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March 18, 2022

Southern Illinois University's The Conference on Women

"Advocates and Allies"

Keynote Panel, with Eesha Pandit: "Why You Shouldn't Be An Ally"

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January 4, 2022

International Symposium of Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN)

Scholar Spotlight Panel:  Robin Boylorn (in conversation with Dr. Mary Weems)

(Virtual Conference)

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November 19, 2021

National Women's Studies Association (NWSA)

Poetics, Politics, and Prose: A Crunk Feminist Collective Roundtable

(Virtual Conference)

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November 15, 2021

Real Hot Girl S#!T: Black Womanhood in Blaxploitation & Beyond

Poster House, NYC 

(Virtual Lecture)

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November 5, 2021

Overcoming the Resistance to DEI

#Includetheirstories: Rethinking, Reimagining, and Reshaping

Legal Education

Lee E. Teitelbaum Utah Law Review Symposium

S.J. Quinney College of Law

Salt Lake City, UT

(Virtual Panel)

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August 25, 2021

The Crunk Feminist Collective Presents

Summer Peach Reads Book Club

"The Coldest Winter Ever" Edition

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June 10, 2021

Alabama | Black

A Virtual Performance Panel

 

April 2, 2021

HERstory: Women of Color Redefining Research

Invited Panlist and Workshop Facilitator

San Diego State University

[Virtual Event]

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March 26, 2021

The Language and Languish of Lived Experience, Conference Talk

Central States Communication Association,

Carolyn Calloway-Thomas Speaker Series,

[Virtual Conference]

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March 10, 2021

Memorializing the Black South

Humanities Scholar Lecture

Kentuck Art Center

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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February 26, 2021

Regina Bradley and Robin Boylorn in Conversation

(discussing Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip Hop South), Department of Gender and Race Studies Speaker Series

University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

 

January 2, 2021

The Critical in Critical Autoethnography, Author Spotlight Session

International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN), [Virtual Conference] 

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March 3, 2020

Re-Imagining Ratchet Respectability: Black Women in the Public Imagination, Public Talk

Bradley University

Peoria, Illinois

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March 3, 2020

BitterSweet(water): A Discussion of Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience

Gender Scholars Lecture Series

Bradley University

Peoria, Illinois

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January 3, 2020

Re-Imagining Autoethnography

Keynote, Doing Autoethnography Conference

St. Petersburg, Florida

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October 24-26, 2019

Teaching Tropes: How Stories, Stereotypes and Media Inform How We Communicate (About) Race

Guest Scholar|Speaker|Panelist

"Communication Pedagogy as Communication" Symposium

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona

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July 8-12, 2019

World Communication Association

Wellington, New Zealand

 

March 5-6, 2019

Sojourner Truth Panel Speaker, George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia

 

February 20, 2019

Black History Month with the CFC

University of Mississippi

Starkville, Mississippi

 

February 7, 2019

The Feminist Press Hip Hop Feminism Celebration

Brooklyn, New York

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January 4-5, 2019

Ellis & Bochner Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative

St. Petersburg, Florida

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October 5-7, 2018

The Storyteller Project: Digital Storytelling for Women of Color (Workshop)

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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September 1-3, 2018

Crunk Feminist Collective Retreat

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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March 23, 2018

"Blackgirl: A Bridge (Word) to Crunk Feminism"

#SayHerName Conference

(Crunk Feminist Collective Roundtable and TED Talks)

University of Houston-Downtown

Houston, Texas

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March 8, 2018

Discerning Diverse Voices Symposium, University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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February 19, 2018

University of Tampa Colloquia Series

"Ratchet Respectability: Understanding Representations of Black Women in Media"

Tampa, Florida

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February 8-9, 2018

National Communication Association Leadership Retreat

Washington, D. C.

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January 31, 2018

South Puget Sound Higher Education Diversity Partnership Institute (SPSHEDPI) Conference

(Crunk Feminist Collective Plenary Lecture and Workshop)

Pacific Lutheran University 

Tacoma, Washington

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March 30, 2017

An Evening with The Crunk Feminist Collective

Armstrong State University

Savannah, GA

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March 1, 2017

CFC Book Signing

Barnes & Noble

Tuscaloosa, AL

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January 27, 2017

CFC Book Launch

Book Celebration Event

hosted by Charis Books and More

Atlanta, GA

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January 11, 2017

"Between the Lines: The CFC at Schomburg"

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY Public Library

moderated by: Shani Jamila

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January 10, 2017

"This Is What A Crunk Feminist Looks Like"

The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC)

Manhattan, New York

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January 10, 2017

The Crunk Feminist Collection Book Launch

Greenlight Bookstore

Brooklyn, New York

moderated by: Jamilah Lemieux

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November 9, 2016

Teach In/Justice Out, Ethnography Division Preconference Event, National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA

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March 11, 2016

Writing Where It Hurts: Critical Autoethnography as Cartharsis (Workshop), Doing Autoethnography Conference

San Angelo State University,San Angelo, Texas

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October 15, 2015

Ratchet Respectability:  On the Representation of Black Women On Reality TV, Misissippi State University, Gender Studies Lecture Series

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September 24, 2015

Transformative Digital Black Feminisms: A Crunk Feminist Collective Roundtable, ASALH Centennial Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

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February 26, 2015

Bitter Sweet(water): Autoethnography, Relational Ethics, and the Possible Perpetuation of Stereotypes, Preconference Lecture, Doing Autoethnography Conference

                                         

February 27, 2015

Critical Autoethnography:  Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life, Workshop, Doing Autoethnography Conference

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November 14, 2014

Creating the World We Want to See:  A Crunk Feminist Collective Roundtable, National Women's Studies Association, San Juan,

Puerto Rico

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May 29, 2014

Featured in Tuscaloosa News

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April 16, 2014

Overcoming (In)Difference:  Reflections on Empathy, Apathy and DiversityLast Lecture, University of Alabama 

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February 11, 2014

Featured in UA's Research Magazine

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January 24, 2014

"Percussive Pedagogies: Teaching Feminism in Digital Spaces," Feminist Digital Pedagogies Symposium, Women's and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University

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December 6, 2013

"Hip-Hop, Digital Media and Politics of Intersectional Queer Hyper/In/Visibility in Between Women," Gender, Sexuality, and Hip-Hop Mini-Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana                               

November 23, 2013

Sweetwater Along the Potomac:  A Performative, Intersectional Response to Sweetwater, Panel, National Communiation Association

 

November 21, 2013

Left Coast Press, NCA Book Signing Event

 

October 31, 2013

Radio Interview, 90.1 KPFT (Houston, TX)

 

August 28, 2013

Special Guest on Ladies Night TV (Atlanta, GA)

 

July 29, 2013

Featured in UNCG Alumni Magazine (p 8)

 

June 28, 2013

Sweetwater Book Celebration, Charis Books & More, Atlanta, Georgia, (Event co-sponsored by Charis & the CFC)

 

June 5, 2013

Sweetwater Workshop and Book Signing, NC

 

April 15, 2013

A Digital Conversation with the Crunk Feminist Collective, Princeton University

 

March 19, 2013

Guest Speaker "Sweetwater," Autoethnography Class, Department of Communication Studies, University of South Florida

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February 15, 2013

Sweetwater Book Reading, Southerners on New Ground Event, Right To Stay Screening Party, Birmingham, AL

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