SepulvedaUU Speaker Series w/ Dr. Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki (04/23)
Join us for this guest speaker series as we host local community leaders every 4th Thursday,. During our time together, each speaker will give a presentation, engage in conversation and assist us in organizing next steps in promoting and securing justice, equity and inclusion in our community.
In this talk, Dr. Tahani-Bidmeshki discusses current events across the region of West Asia, offering a deeply grounding discussion in history, culture, and the influence of Black freedom fighters in the global struggle for liberation.
About Our Speaker: Dr. Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki
Dr. Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki is a 1.75 generation diasporic Iranian who teaches literature with an emphasis on Black and African American Literary and Cultural Studies and Iranian/American Literary and Cultural Studies. Her teaching and research interests include Frantz Fanon, Afro-Pessimism, whiteness ideology, literary theory, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, nationalism, the literatures of revolutionary movements, and resistance literature. Her work focuses on the intersections of race, antiBlackness, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic class, whiteness ideology, and patriarchy in the U.S. and in transnational contexts. Her research, pedagogy, and curriculum heavily focus on the far-reach of Black diasporic thought with a specific focus on the long history of Black and brown resistance towards whiteness ideology. She also volunteers her time and expertise with various grassroots social justice organizations with an emphasis on ending antiBlackness and whiteness ideology.
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