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<p>Dear Philosophy Students and Faculty,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Dr. Andrea Pitts (Buffalo) is visiting us next <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Friday, February 23rd</span></strong> from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in COB1 320 to discuss:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“We’re All on the Line”: U.S. Women of Color Coalition Building through the Digital Turn</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="elementtoproof">Andrea J. Pitts is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo. Andrea is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator whose publications and pedagogy focus on Latin American and U.S. Latina/x feminisms,
prison and police abolition, critical transgender politics, and disability justice. Andrea is author of
<i>Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance </i>(2021) and co-editor of
<i>Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson</i> (2019),
<i>Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance</i> (2020), and a forthcoming edited volume titled
<i>Trans Philosophy</i>, which will be available with the Univ. of Minnesota Press in Fall 2024. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Talk Abstract:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="elementtoproof">This presentation highlights moments of reflection within the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa and several of her peers in which she and her fellow writers and activists describe their experiences through the digital turn from the 1980s
to the early 2000s. Turning to examples and descriptions of the emerging technologies of the 1980s and 1990s, this presentation highlights how Chicanas and other women of color writers and activists during turn-of-the-century technological and political transitions
in the United States negotiated worlds of sense-making and coalition building at the time. Such an analysis, I propose, demonstrates how such writers and activists continue to provide guidance for those of us navigating new technologies and political strategizing
under conditions of injustice today.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">All are welcome to attend.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092F44;text-transform:uppercase;mso-ligatures:none">CAROLYN DICEY JENNINGS</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://philosophy.ucmerced.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Department of PHILOSOPHY</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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