Be sure to submit your works of art, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by our deadline of December 1st for the chance to be published in Vol.43 of our wonderful creative arts journal!
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Acting Director of Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion, and Belonging (i3b) Ciara Christian, M.A. '18, Ph.D. '22, discussed the impact of Your Story Belongs Here, a collaborative program withUMBC's theatre department, for an upcoming print issue of UMBC Magazine. Program co-founder Eve Muson, associate professor of theatre and department chair, undergraduates Jaya Marshall and Mashaal Awan, and Kiirstn Pagan '11, theatre, are also interviewed.
Your Story Belongs Here, a required in-person program during Welcome Week, helps incoming students explore how to put the "I" in inclusion. The program features an original theatrical presentation in which paid undergraduate student interns write, rehearse, and film personal monologues about how they find belonging at UMBC and cultivate a sense of belonging for others. Through storytelling, audience engagement, and reflection opportunities, incoming students then reflect on their role in ensuring an inclusive environment as they begin their UMBC journey.
Read the article, "Your Story Belongs Here," on the magazine website.
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Please join us this Wednesday, November 29th
at 4pm in the Library Gallery for a fascinating talk!  Juno Salazar Parrenas Associate Professor White Supremacy, Animal Advocacy, and the Longue Duree of Misanthropy Inspired by Aisha M. Belisa-de Jesus and Jemima Pierre's challenge to pursue an anthropology of white supremacy and Lesley Green's decolonial ecopolitics in South Africa, this talk engages the racialized and gendered dynamics of animal advocacy in South Africa and on Borneo in present-day Malaysia as a way to consider how animals are instrumentalized in projects of white innocence and white supremacy. In South Africa, ex-circus lions from Latin America, Middle East, and Eastern Europe have been repatriated to white-owned properties. In Malaysia, wildlife centers harbor displaced orangutans and their operations depend on both commercialized volunteering efforts and local low-wage labor. Comparing these two sites offers a way to think about race and racism by thinking about animals. Organized by the Human Context of Science and Technology program. Cosponsored by the Departments of Philosophy; Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health; Geography & Environmental Systems; Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies; and the Center for Social Science Scholarship. |