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World on Fire: Guest Critic Panel with Elizabeth Bishop & Friends

Weekly conversations with activists, social justice practitioners, and changemakers.

Thursday, December 10, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Bishop, Regina Anderson, Damaris Dunn, Nicole Hamilton, and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz on the Brooklyn Rail’s September Guest Critics Page, “World on Fire.” This discussion will be led by Rail Special Projects Editor Nick Bennett, and will conclude with a poetry reading.

In this Talk

Please join us for a conversation emerging out of the Brooklyn Rail's September Guest Critics Page "World on Fire."

This collection of writing and art is a defense against the violence in our lives, an affirmation of life under the constant threat of erasure. Radical empathy. Stomp traces of fascism with precise intent. Culture jamming. Disruptors on the side of reimagined justice. The orchestration of crashing bricks. How it feels to survive being human in the midst of neverbeforeseen crisis such as we are living through right now. These pages bear witness as they break open words and images to make space for our bodies and lives. Kintsugi, golden joinery. What does it mean to repair? Compassionate urgency. Unlearning. Distance and perception. To be still in the still of the crisis. Biopower recaptured. The politics of survival is insufficient for the moment. — Dr. Elizabeth Bishop

Read the full Editor's Message here: https://brooklynrail.org/2020/09/editorsmessage/World-on-Fire

Elizabeth Bishop

Writer, researcher, professor, youth advocate, Nietzschean, and surf monk, Dr. Elizabeth Bishop is the author of two books, Becoming Activist (2015) and Embodying Theory (2018). She lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Messy.

Regina Anderson

is a Hybrid Socialist dedicated to helping the community and the Executive Director of Food Recovery Network. Regina believes deeply that we all have a part to play in helping our communities thrive and would love to collaborate for action.

Damaris Dunn

Native New Yorker and educator, Damaris Dunn is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Georgia’s Mary Frances Early College of Education. Her research interests are educational equity and Black girl joy.

Nicole Hamilton

is a radical educator, trainer, curriculum designer, youth worker, circle keeper, and community builder currently working for Girls for Gender Equity as the Director of Community Partnerships.

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

Award-winning associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz published her first full-length collection of poetry Love from the Vortex & Other Poems (Kaleidoscope Vibrations) in 2020.

Nick Bennett

Writer Nick Bennett was the Special Projects Editor of the Brooklyn Rail. As Curatorial Assistant at the Rail, he helped to organize the ongoing exhibition Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, which has been exhibited at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Colby Museum in Waterville, ME (2019), and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ (2017).

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨