Black Palestinian Solidarity: Struggling for Joint Liberation
ReInterpreting Liberation, Translenguadxs & CCBLA present:
Black Palestinian Solidarity: Struggling for Joint Liberation
With a focus on the genocide in Gaza, Nada Elia (Palestinian Feminist Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies) and Jesse Hagopian via Zoom (Rethinking Schools, Black Lives Matter at Schools) will discuss how global struggles for liberation intersect, and how this informs their work as activists and educators. Moderated by Jen Marlowe (Donkeysaddle Projects, author, filmmaker)
When: 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, January 26
Where: Purce Hall 1
Jesse Hagopian has been an educator for over twenty years and taught for over a decade at Seattle’s Garfield High School–the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test. Jesse is an editor for the social justice periodical Rethinking Schools and the book, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing. Jesse is also co-editor of Black Lives Matter at School, Teaching for Black Lives, Teacher Unions and Social Justice, and an organizer with the Black Lives Matter at School movement. In 2011, Jesse participated in the Interfaith Peace Builder’s historic first African Heritage delegation that brought 14 African Americans to Israel and Palestine to meet with civil society organizations, human rights groups, and grassroots activists to better understand the conflict. Jesse will join the panel over Zoom.
Nada Elia teaches Arab American Studies and Cultural Studies at Fairhaven College, WWU, where she is affiliated with the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. A scholar-activist, Nada is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, and regularly publishes editorials about gender, activism, and transnational struggles. She is the author of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. She has co-edited the Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Activist Toolkit, as well as the award-winning The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, and has contributed chapters to numerous anthologies, including, most recently, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
Jen Marlowe is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects. Jen’s films include There Is A Field, Witness Bahrain, Remembering the Gaza War, Rebuilding Hope: Sudan’s Lost Boys Return Home and Darfur Diaries: Message From Home. Her books include I Am Troy Davis, The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker and Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival. Jen identifies first and foremost as a social justice/human rights activist and considers her filming and writing to be tools of her activism. Jen goes by she/her pronouns and lives and works on unceded Duwamish territory in what is now known as Seattle.
