Construyendo Latinidades: Continuing on Our Ancestors’ Legacies

Caribbean Feminist Workshop: Being When the Body is Foreign

This two-day in-person workshop is a partnership with the Black Feminist Eco Lab at the University of Utah, the Women Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Wake Forest University, and the Black Women and Girls Symposium.  The partnership brings together 11 Caribbean feminist scholars conducting research and teaching at U.S academic institutions, providing an opportunity […]

Putting Drag to Werk

When Colin Baker (they/them) started at Utah Valley University as a musical theater student in 2020, they had their sights set on stage productions and Broadway shows, unaware of the glitzy and glamorous drag scene. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns the following summer, they fell down a veritable rabbit hole of drag. “Drag was always […]

A Celebration of Life

The Celebrate Community Mural is the fruit of the Black Feminist Eco Lab, a collective of scholars, change agents, artists, learners, and practitioners who have come together to build a new paradigm of what a thriving, inclusive ecosystem operating on the evolving theoretical frameworks embodied by Black feminism. The Lab centers an ethics of care […]

Working at Aliveness

The Black Feminist Eco Lab is a collective of University of Utah faculty, staff and graduate students focused on ecological integrity using a Black feminist lens to work toward ways in which all living beings (particularly those most susceptible to oppression and death in these times of pandemics and environmental destruction) can exist in relationships […]

Research at the Intersections: Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Ethnicity

What does it mean to do genuinely intersectional research on disability, race, Indigeneity and ethnicity? Five scholars – Dr. Maile Arvin, Dr. Anna LaQuawn Hinton, Dr. Jina B. Kim, Dr. Julie Minich, and Dr. Lezlie Frye – explain their current projects and discuss their intersectional topics and methods in this panel discussion.–This event was hosted […]

U to expand Pacific Islands Studies with momentous $1M Mellon Grant

The University of Utah’s School for Cultural and Social Transformation (Transform) has been awarded a $1,000,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support growth and outreach in its Pacific Islands (PI) Studies program. It was a three-year, $600,000 Mellon Foundation grant which allowed Transform to greatly accelerate its PI Studies initiative in 2018. This additional funding will expand current programming to […]

Dr. Nirmala Erevelles – TRIC Pedagogy Workshop

Dr. Nirmala Erevelles is Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Alabama. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of disability studies, critical race theory, transnational feminism, sociology of education, and postcolonial studies. Specifically, her research focuses on the unruly, messy, unpredictable, and taboo body—a habitual outcast in […]

Intersectionality Here & Now

Hosted by the School for Cultural & Social Transformation, University of Utah, Intersectionality Here & Now webinar is part of a 3-year focus on Intersectionality funded by the Mellon Foundation. The webinar is a virtual conversation with Dr. Andrea Baldwin, Dr. Christy Glass, and Dr. Mecca Sullivan moderated by Dr. Wanda S. Pillow.–It has been 33 years since […]

Pedagogies for Indigeneity and Diaspora

What does it mean to teach Pacific Studies in the current moment? What are the pedagogies, both old and new, that Pacific Islander scholars, activists, teachers, and performers are drawing on to educate and foster knowledge relevant to Pacific Islander people? With a host of guests, Pacific Islands Studies explored these questions in a two-part […]