The Sunday Experience
4:30pm PT – Welcome and Hospitality
5:00pm PT – Sunday Service with Dr. Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki
6:00pm PT – Social Hour

Dr. Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki is a 1.5 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, literary theory, anti-colonialism, psychoanalysis, nationalism, the literatures of revolutionary movements, and resistance literature. Her work focuses on the intersections of race, antiBlackness, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic class in the U.S. and in transnational contexts. Presently, she is working on the far-reach of Black diasporic thought in Southwest Asia and North Africa. Further, she looks at Black masculinity in the United States and the long history of Black fatherhood as a challenge towards Lacan’s theory of the Law of the Father. She also volunteers her time and expertise with various grassroots social justice organizations focusing on ending antiBlackness.

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