Hey, just wanted to invite you all to a sweet talk I'll be attending at my institution of higher learning.
Title: Subversive spaces and resistant Black Women
Abstract: Working collectively as an interpretive community of cultural producers, critics/scholars, and cultural consumers, Black women function as social agents fully capable of erasing repressive historical images. Provocative examples surface in those moments and spaces of subversion that burst forth when Black female audience members spontaneously and collectively participate in art that has not been orchestrated by mainstream culture. Agency, self-determination, recognition of systemic forces of oppression, and transformation of self and culture are goals and possibilities in the confluence of Black women as cultural activists.
I'll probably have to sit in the back because a person of my skin color who sits too close to the front would create an atmosphere of ambient hostility and oppression. Plus, it's co-sponsored by the Gender and Women's Studies department, so I might be forcibly removed if I make eye contact with too many females, so I'll mostly be staring at the floor the whole time. But, I'm still going, so let me know if you want to come along.
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I'll come, the dude. When is it? I'm a little worried, though, because I pretty much didn't understand a single sentence of the abstract. I understood pretty much all the words, even though some of them aren't in my regular vernacular. But the combination in which they were used to make sentences made pretty much no sense to me. Perhaps the lecture will alleviate my confusion.
At the very least I hope to meet some cute black chicks. And they'll probably be smart too, if they understood the abstract they must be.
I love cute black chicks! Take pictures for me.
Gender and Women's Studies programs are as useless as, well, a BA in sociology.
But don't tell the fine women there that; tell em that they can stick it to the man by stealing you from the white girls.
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