Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies graduate student, fabian romero, is leading a private workshop for Henry Art Gallery on Wednesday, August 24. Guided by fabian's poetry scholarship practice, this workshop will give Indigenous peoples and people of color the opportunity to write in conversation with Donna Huanca and ektor garcia’s multidisciplinary arts practices.
Ancestral Embodied Knowing speaks to the tension between the art canon and the femme, indigenous, and racialized body, as well as acknowledges the labor associated with these groups. Building off of this context, the workshop invites Indigenous and people of color participants to write about embodied experience and histories carried, and to think of storytelling as self-making. Themes that may be explored include the coloniality of gender and sexuality, and the racialized violence within hidden histories.
All levels of writing experience are invited to participate, and each participant will have the option to submit a completed piece of writing to be included in a chapbook publication that will be printed and made available to the public. Admission is free and open to the public. Register here.