April 2018 shows

April 5th: Sexual Policing of Migrant Women
Bristol Cave-LaCoste studies prostitution and sexual policing within immigration policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is a Ph.D. candidate in History, with a Designated Emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is one of four student presenters at an April 26, 2018 public campus-sponsored event to discuss her research. We spoke about her archival research on the sexual policing of migrant women.


April 12th: Migrant Families in Santa Cruz County
Dr. Ann Lopez is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Farmworker Families in Watsonville, CA and an emerita professor of San Jose City College where she taught courses in biology, environmental science, ecology and botany in the biology department. She talked about the work of the Center for Farmworker Families, the health
challenges facing farmworkers as a result of pesticides used in our county, and how provide stability for these families who make an important contribution to our local community.


April 19th: Emerging Visions, Freedom, Justice
Dr. Mary Thomas worked with 12 artists and independent presses for a new art exhibit titled “Emerging Visions: Creative Practice at the Nexus of Freedom and Justice” (open from April 19, 2018-June 19, 2018).  Dr. Mary Thomas is the Research Associate for the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery (Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz) and Associate Director of Development for the U.S. Latinx Art Forum.


April 26th: The Politics of Curated Stories
How can activists or advocates engage in storytelling as a political tool without compromising the complexity of the narrative? Dr. Sujatha Fernandes, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, discusses her latest book Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford University Press, 2017) about how the power of storytelling can sometimes undermine structural
changes in society.