Teaching to Transgress Speaker Series: Liberatory Pedagogies and Imaginaries

With Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek, in Black Studies with joint appointment in English & Gender Studies; & Dr. Vanessa Thompson, Black Studies

Dr. Okot Bitek is a poet and scholar. She teaches in Black Studies & Gender Studies & holds a joint appointment in English. She is the author of A is for Acholi (2022), a poetry collection, by Wolsak and Wynn. Her 100 Days, a collection of poetry on how to remember the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, won the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry & the INDIEFAB Book of the Year (Poetry) Award. It was also nominated for several writing prizes. She is an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Program at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s 카지노게임사이트, joint appointed in Gender Studies & English.
 
Dr. Thompson is an interdisciplinary social scientist cross appointed to Black Studies & Gender Studies at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s 카지노게임사이트. Her scholarship & teaching explore the relation between state violence, racial capitalism, politics of (un-) breathing, black transnational resistances & abolitionist feminist worldmaking. Grounded in traditions of activist scholarship, anti-colonial theories & black feminist methodologies, she engages with black social movements in & beyond Europe, transnational connections, and relations as well as the many forms of alternatives developed & rehearsed by activist collectives and movements. She is Assistant Professor and Distinguished Professor in Black Studies & Social Justice.