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Walidah Imarisha
March 5, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
FreeWalidah Imarisha is an educator, writer, public scholar, and spoken word artist. She has edited two anthologies, Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements and Another World is Possible. Imarisha’s nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption won a 2017 Oregon Book Award. She is also the author of the poetry collection Scars/Stars, and in 2015, she received a Tiptree Fellowship for her science fiction writing. Imarisha has taught at Stanford University, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Oregon State University; she recently joined the faculty of PSU’s Black Studies Program. For six years she presented statewide as a public scholar with Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project on topics such as Oregon Black history, alternatives to incarceration, and the history of hip hop. She was one of the founders and first editor of the political hip hop magazine AWOL.
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This event is co-hosted with the Black Studies Program at Portland State University. An ASL interpreter will be present.
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