JFA is an attempt to not only address the topic of social justice as a field of study but also encourage collaboration and community across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Begun in 2020 as Race to Justice following the George Floyd murder and extended to embrace a larger agenda in 2021 as Creating Hope, the effort arrives in 2022 as Justice for All (JFA). They come to us as part of the Justice for All series, continuing two initiatives targeting the most challenging divisions in contemporary society.
Over the next five weeks, A&L will present four speakers who exemplify the turn toward inclusion. At UCSB Arts & Lectures, where the so-called “pivot” has been particularly persistent and unpredictable, the biggest lesson learned is one that we’ve known all along, but which has never been more important - we are all in this together. | Courtesy of UCSB Arts & LecturesĪs the second anniversary of the March 2020 COVID shutdown approaches, it’s time to take a deep breath and give thanks for the good things that have come out of the havoc the pandemic has caused in our public life.
Then, in 2017, she stepped into the Marvel comic book universe by writing the series Black Panther: World of Wakanda. STILL SHE RISES: Author Roxane Gay was an influential cultural critic online even before her 2014 book Bad Feminist made the N.Y.